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at No. 61. This " Antigallican " served
" coffee, chocolate, tea, soups, fermented
beverages, and artificial mineral waters
only. They dressed no dishes " (' Epicure's
Almanack ').
Leigh Hunt, in his ' Saunter through the West End,' 1861, says :
" Antigallican manners were inspired by the long series of Maryborough victories. They encouraged the same ill-manners in us up to the period of the revolutionary wars, when, after taunting the French for half a century with their wooden shoes [cf. the Golden Sabot in Hogarth's print], and their servility to the ' Grand Monarque,' and then trying our utmost to keep them confined to both, we discovered that to calumniate a great nation any longer was neither worthy of us nor very easy."
In the Creed Collection of Tavern Signs in the British Museum Library (vol. i. ) is a bill of invitation relating to the " Laud- able Association of Antigallicans," and in the mock-heroic coat of arms at the top the French shield bearing the three fleurs-de-lis represents the dragon, which is being over- come by St. George. The supporters are a lion and double-headed eagle.
After Dr. Johnson ceased to write for The Literary Magazine it gradually declined, though the popular epithet of Antigallican was added to it, and in July, 1758, it ex- pired (see Boswell's 'Johnson'). There was an Antigallican Passage on the north side of Fleet Street, by Temple Bar and Great Shire Lane (Lockie's 'London Topo- graphy,' 1810).
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. 26, Auriol Road, West Kensington.
Dr. Brewer's ' Historic Note-Book ' gives the following :
" Founded in 1757. ' To promote British manufactures, extend the commerce of England, and discourage the introduction of French modes and the importation of French commodities.' The headquarters of the Society were at Lebeck's Head, Strand. St. George's Day (23 April) was the day of their anniversary feast. It was at its best in 1771."
A. H. ARKLE.
References at 7 S. iv. 67, 151, 292, show this society as existing in 1749 and in 1771. The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xxiii. (1753), p. 199, contains an allusion to its " annual grand association " at Haberdashers' Hall, and at pp. 245, 251, 389, 490, 537, has notices of quarterly meetings, and of the award of prizes for needlework, and of medals embossed with the Society's arms one to a captain in the Greenland trade " for having caught the greatest number of whales last season," and one, of gold, to Capt. Cockburn
" for his gallant behaviour to the commander
of the French squadron on the coast of
Guinea." There is also an account of a
sermon preached before the Society.
Amongst the subscribers to " Social Har mony .... By Thomas Hale, of Darnhall, Cheshire," 1763, are five styled " Anti- gallican, Manchester." There is an eigh- teenth-century publication, The Anti-Galli- can, in (I think) three volumes.
W. B. H.
"PE..TT" (11 S. iv. 469). If only one letter is missing, it must, I think, be a. Peatt or peat was used (see 'N.E.D.') as a depreciatory epithet, or as a term of en- dearment, for a girl or woman. The mean- ing, in the present case, is that John Halle had a lady companion whose character was considered by the churchwardens as being unsatisfactory. WALTER W. SKEAT.
Is not it probable that the missing letter for which MR. F. S. HOCKADAY asks is the vowel t, and that John Davies was "pre- sented " by the churchwardens of Dym- mocke in the Forest of Dean to the local authority for harbouring John Halle and his petit (little one) ? The churchwarden who made the entry may have had a know- ledge of French, and used the word in its contracted form. In the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries many West - Country local authorities enforced communal regu- lations or by-laws prohibiting the harbour- ing of strangers, in order that the latter might not become a charge on the per- manent residents. Several examples of the operation of this restriction are given by Mr. Thomas Wainwright in his ' Reprint of the Barnstaple Records ' (pub. 1900).
T. H. BARROW.
WILLIAM ALABASTER (11 S. iv. 389). The dates of the degrees of William Ala- baster, sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, are as follows : A.B. 1587, A.M. 1591, D. D. 1614 (ex inform. Dr. J. N. Keynes, Registrary of the University of Cambridge).
The manuscript of his work ' Elisseis,' a Latin poem in hexameters, with a long dedication to Queen Elizabeth, folio, six- teenth century, formed lot 293 in Messrs. Sotheby's sale by auction of a portion of Sir Thomas Phillipps's library on 7 June, 1910. The poem contains a review of the principal events of the reign of Queen Eliza- beth, as well as of earlier reigns.
DANIEL HIPWELL.
