[312] Melincourt, II, 10. Cf. some other clerical cognomens, Gaster, Grovelgrub; and the way in which they were lived up to.

[313] The Misfortunes of Elphin, 65. There is a similar hit through Friar Tuck, in Maid Marian, 30.

[314] Book of Snobs, 232.

[315] Framley Parsonage, 23. On another occasion we are told that “Mrs. Proudie’s manner might have showed to a very close observer that she knew the difference between a bishop and an archdeacon.”

[316] Ibid., 86.

[317] The Warden, 50.

[318] The Bertrams, 114.

[319] Ibid., 303.

[320] Sir Harry Hotspur, 93.

[321] Barchester Towers, 77.