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NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.iv.F EB ..i9i8.

In Davenport Adams's ' Dictionary of English Literature ' it is stated that the name Pickwick is said to have been taken from the cluster of houses which formed, we are told, the last resting stage for coaches going to Bath.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

Mr. Justice Darling was quite right. The remarks of Sam Weller in chap. xxxv. of ' Pickwick ' leave little room for doubt that Dickens took the name from the coach proprietor, and this opinion is confirmed by the fact that the route taken by Moses Pickwick's coach, " The Regulator," was by way of Devizes, and did not pass through the village of Pickwick, which is on the Chippenham road. It is most unlikely that the coaches ruraiing on the latter road changed horses at Pickwick, and no inn at that village is mentioned in Gary's ' Itin- erary.'

Mr. C. G. Harper in his ' Bath Road '

says :

" Moses Pickwick (the coach proprietor) was the great-grandson of one Eleazer Pickwick, who, many years before, had risen by degrees from the humble position of post-boy at the Old Bear at Bath to be landlord of the once famous White Hart Inn. Eleazer Pickwick was a foundling, discovered as an infant on the road to Pickwick. He was named by the guardians, in accordance with old custom, after the place."

The ' Bath Directory ' for 1833 mentions three Pickwicks : Eleazer, an alderman and magistrate ; Capt. Pickwick, who lived in Queen Square, two doors from the residence of Angelo Cyrus Bantam, M.C. ; and Moses, the coach proprietor and landlord of the White Hart. T. W. TYKREIX.

MEMBERS OF THE LONG

PARLIAMENT. (12 S. iii. 299, 366; iv. 21.)

3. John Moore (or More), M.P. for Liver- pool, 1640, till decease in 1650. Of Bank Hall, Lancashire. First son of Edward Moore of the same place, by Katherine, first dau. of John Hockenhuli of Prenton, Cheshire (by Margaret, daughter of Peter Hockenhuli of Hockenhuli). Edward Moore who was Sheriff of Lancashire in 1617-18, and M.P. for Liverpool in 1625, had been committed to the Tower for four days in April, 1626, for stating in his place in the House, " We are born free, and must con- tinue free if the King would keep his king- dom." He died Nov. 28, 1633, when his son

John inherited the Bank Hall estate. He* lad served the office of Bailiff of Liverpoo in 1630, and that of Mayor in 1633. Was admitted to Lincoln's Inn Aug. 17, 1638. Was a Puritan and republican, and from the Beginning of the Civil War troxibles took an active part in most of the stormy events of hat turbulent period, being, it is said, the only Protestant J.P. in the county for a
 * onsiderable distance around. In 1641 he

was one of four Commissioners of Parlia- ment sent down to Lancashire to put the county in a state of defence, being then styled " Colonel." Took the Protestation, May 3, 1641, and was one of the Lancashire ! ommissioners named in the Scandalous Ministers Act in the following year. Ap- pointed by Parliament D.L. of Lancashire,. Mar. 24, 1642, and on Apr. 9 following subscribed 600Z. jointly with William Thomas towards the fund "for the speedy reducing of the Irish rebels." Took the Parliamentary Vow and Covenant, June 6, 1643, and in the same year was appointed Governor of Liverpool for the Parliament, a Commissioner to organize the County Militia, and a member of both the Assess- ment and Sequestration Committees for Lancashire. Raised at his own expense a regiment of foot and troop of horse, of which he became colonel, and on July 22, 1643, was appointed Vice-Admiral of the Coast between Holyhead and Whitehaven. On June 18, 1644, was on the Committee for the General Assessment of the East and West, and in May, 1645, on that for the relief of Ireland, being also in the same year added to the Committees for Pembroke- shire and North Wales. Was present at the siege of Lathom House. Subscribed to the League and Covenant as M.P., May 28, 1645. When on June 3, 1645, the House voted 41. per week to those of its members whose estates were in the hands of Royalists,. Col. John Moore was one of those who received that gratuity until the annulment of the order, Aug. 20 in the same year. He vacated the Governorship of Liverpool in May, 1645, upon the cessation of the Civil War in England, and for a few months, contented himself with his Parliamentary duties. On Aug. 18, 1647, he was ordered to be paid 1,0002. in part of his arrears by the Committee of Affairs of Ireland. In 1646-7 he served in a company in Ireland. Returning to England, he sided with Crom- well in the " Purge " of December, 1648, by which the House lost immediately by expulsion 143 of its members, and a large number in addition by abstention. " Enter-