"The Pioneer Metropolitan Association for Promoting the Practice of Decomposing the Dead by the Agency of Fire. W. H. Newman, Hon. Sec., to whom all communications are to be addressed, post paid, at the City of London Mechanics' Institute, Gould Square, Crutched Friars, or at 7. Cleveland Street, Mile End Road.
"January, 1850.
"Arthur Trevelyan,
"Associate."
Anon.
Map of Dublin (Vol. ix., p. 171.).—Your querist C. H. will be shown with pleasure, at my house, a very ancient map of Dublin, styled "An Exact Copy of a Map of the City and Harbour of Dublin, from a Survey by John Rocque." There is no date to it, but I observe that the street I live in was called "Fleet Alley."
John H. Powell.
15. Westmoreland Street, Dublin.
Pettifogger (Vol. vii., p. 354.).—One who "would cast a mist before," and around, his clients. He makes it his constant practice to raise a "petty-fog."
"And thus much for this cloud, I cannot say rather than petty-fog of witnesses, with which Episcopal men would cast a mist before us, to deduce their exalted Episcopacy from Apostolick Times."—Milton, of Prelatical Episcopacy, Ed. Col. Amst., 1698, vol. i. p. 245.
Is not this a more probable origin of the word than the pettivogueur of our etymologists? And Mr. Keightley will, I am sure, permit me to suggest that it is a derivation at least as obvious and expressive as pettyfolker.
William Beal.
Brooke Vicarage, Norfolk.