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Thread #55554   Message #2182720
Posted By: theleveller
30-Oct-07 - 01:01 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Odd pub names
Subject: RE: Folklore: Odd pub names
There are several pubs I know called The Case Is Altered. This comes from a trial during the reign of Elizabeth I…." while defending a gentleman charged with hearing Mass, he (Edmund Plowden) worked out that the service had been performed by a layman for the sole purpose of informing against those present, and exclaimed, "The case is altered; no priest, no Mass", and thus secured an acquittal. This incident has given rise to a common legal proverb: "The case is altered, quoth Plowden".

There's a piub in St Martin's Lane, London with two names: The Green Man and French Horn. And there's The Sun In Splendour in Notting Hill.