19 SEPTEMBER 1947, Page 4

* * * * A pallant, it seems, is not

precisely what I thought it—a kind of a lane or street. It was first represented to me as a thoroughfare in Chichester. I am now told (and I hereby express thanks for the information) that "The Pallant " is a district of Chichester, con- sisting not of one street but of four. The statement that it is "the palatinate, or Archbishop's peculiar" seems to throw light on the

derivation, though there is, I believe, an alternative hypothesis.