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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. OCT. 10, iocs.

I described this fully at 8 S. xi. 304. It is correctly known as the Sherbrooke Porch.

The west porch may be as correctly deno- minated the Farrar porch, for it was built while Dr. Farrar was rector by funds pro- vided through his advocacy, and now contains the memorial placed there by his assistant curates. The porch was opened without any public ceremony on Sunday, 12 April, 1891. The memorial is on the south wall of the porch, and was unveiled on Monday, 21 Nov., 1904, by Viscount Peel. It consists of a bronze medallion set in a stone frame, and bears the following inscription :

"Frederick William Farrar, D.D., F.R.S., I 1831-1903, | Head master of Marlborough, 1871. | Rector of St. Margaret's, 1876. | Dean of Canter- bury, 1895. | Love gave him light to know his Lord, his Assistant Curates."
 * To teach and serve his fellow-men. | Erected by

As both these porches are only screened by slight open-work iron gates, they may, I think, be considered as public memorials, and treated as such. An illustration of the unveiling ceremony appeared in The Daily Graphic of the following day.

In Rochester Row, in a space between St. Stephen's Church and a portion of the school buildings, is a drinking fountain of polished grey granite, in the Gothic style, upon which, on a ribbon scroll, is the following inscription : " The Gift | of the Baroness j Burdett Coutts | to St. Stephen's i Schools. | 1882." This, like some other drinking fountains, is often without a supply of water, and is in a dilapidated state at the present time.

In the grounds in front of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum in Asylum Road, Old Kent Road, is a marble statue of the Prince Consort, designed and executed by the late Thomas Earle, of Vincent Street, Brompton, the cost being between 600Z. and 700/. On the front of the pedestal appear the Prince's arms only. On the left-hand side the inscription is : " H.R.H. | Albert Francis Augustus | Charles Emanuel j The | Prince Consort | Patron of the Institution | Born 26th ? August, 1819 | Died 14th December, 1861." In the back panel the inscription reads : " Erected | A.D. 1863 | as | a Lasting Tribute of Respect |" To | the Memory of | Albert the Good." On the right-hand side : " Inaugurated | By | H.R.H. | the | Prince of Wales | Patron of the Institution I Aueust 9th | 1864."

At Greenwich Hospital, on the terrace, in front of the gates, is a granite obelisk erected as a " memorial to the gallant young Frenchman Joseph Rene Bellot, who perished

in the search for Sir John Franklin, August, 1853." In the north-west corner of the ground is another obelisk, put up in memory of several officers who fell during the Indian Mutiny. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

ADDISON' s MATERNAL ANCESTRY (10 S. x. 201 ). Dr. Nathaniel Gulston held the rectory of Lyndon, Rutland, as well as the rectory of Wymondham, Leicestershire, until his death. The former living is described as " void by death of Nath. Gulson " at the appointment of his Puritan successor, 5 Feb., 1647/8 (Shaw, 'History of the English Church during the Civil Wars,' &c., vol. ii. p. 351).

The REV. A. H. LEE has kindly sent the following entries in Wymondham parish register of the marriages of two of Dr. Nathaniel Gulston' s sisters :

" Robert Hill and Dorothy Gulston were married eighth day of December, 1603."

"Joseph Stubbs and Mary Gulston were married December, 1604."

The will of Dr. William Gulston, Bishop of Bristol, dated 22 March, 1683/4, proved P.C.C. (160 Lloyd) 2 Dec., 1686, in which he desires burial " near the altar " at Symonds- bury, confirms a grant made in trust by deed of the advowson of Symondsbury, and leaves 10Z. to the poor of that parish, mentions his daughter Anne Gulston (under twenty- one), his son Seamer Gulston, his sister Eliza- beth, his cousin Jane Stephens, and his sister-in-law Mrs. Frances Gulston. Anthony Addison is one of the witnesses. ' D.N.B.' (sub Eustace Budgell) seems to be mis- informed in making the wife of Dr. Gilbert Budgell, and mother of Eustace Budgell, " Mary," the " only daughter " of Bishop Gulston.

Harwood, 'History of Lichfield,' 1806, gives (p. 78) two monumental inscriptions of Lancelot Addison : one on a gravestone close to the west door of the cathedral, the other on a large mural marble on the north side of the west door. The latter contains the following words : "in primis nuptiis duxit Janam Nathan. Gulston armig. filiam et Gulielmi Gulston episcopi Bristoliensis sororem." In another place (p. 186) Har- wood describes Lancelot Addison as " father of the elegant Addison, by whom the two inscriptions to his memory were written." Miss Aikin in her ' Life of Joseph Addison ' (vol. i. p. 16) gives a monumental inscription of Lancelot Addison which differs in several details from the second inscription in Har- wood, and_says (p. 15) that this is " the com-