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370 to find an earlier use of the word "bookseller," for the trade goes back far before that time. Have any earlier instances been unearthed?

—Can any one tell me where I can see the "Pedigree showing the connexion between the existing family of Inglis with the family of Robertson of Ladykirk. C. J. L. Inglis, 1880, Broadside"? It is mentioned in the 1903 edition of Marshall's 'Genealogist's Guide,' but does not appear to be in the British Museum, Heralds' College, or Advocates' Library.

I must thank for his very complimentary remarks concerning myself, which I fully appreciate. Secondly I must regret that I overlooked the fact that at the first reference given above alluded to the interesting memorial of John Wesley; had I not done so, I should not have mentioned the statue.

I have been taking a walk Westward, and the result thereof is now placed on record in furtherance of the object of making a complete list of London's memorials.

On Ebury Bridge, Pimlico, a few feet from Buckingham Palace Road, is a marble drinking-fountain, of no great size and of plain design. This is inscribed as "The Gift of | Henry Waldo Sibthorpe"; and round the basin is "Let your moderation be known unto all men." I believe the donor was well known in the parish of St. George Hanover Square.

A little further on at the corner of Pimlico Road and Avery Farm Road, outside the Vicarage of St. Michael's, Chester Square, is another drinking-fountain, in granite, with four mosaic panels. It is of grand design, but the panels sadly need renovation. The inscription is in these panels, and reads "In memory of | Richard | Second Marquis | of | Westminster | Died 1869." On the right side are the letters E. M. W.; on the left side is the single letter W; and on the back is the date 1795, the letter B being above, and W underneath; but in part the inscription is nearly unreadable.

Going along Queen's Road, we come to the Royal Military Hospital, popularly know as Chelsea College, where there are two or three memorials for inclusion in this list. In the centre of the quadrangle, otherwise known as the Centre Court, is a brass statue of Charles II. by Grinling Gibbons, the gift (so my friend Mr. Alfred Beaver, in 'Memorials of Old Chelsea,' informs us) of "Tobias Rustat, Page of the Back Staircase, whom Evelyn described as a very simple, ignorant, but honest and loyal creature." The statue, which cost over 500l., is draped in the usual Roman habit, and is on each 29th of May decorated with oak-leaves and oak-apples. There is no inscription, not even the King's name being there.

The grounds of Chelsea College were altered to their present form when the Chelsea Embankment was made in 1872-3, and not far from the river is a tall obelisk, inscribed with the names of all the officers and men who fell at the battle of Chillianwallah, where the British forces were nearly defeated by the Sikhs. The inscription is as follows:—

The large block of stone forming the base has the date 1849 cut on the back and front; while on the two sides the month and day, Jany. xiii., can be seen. The names of those who fell are on the four sides of the obelisk proper.

At some distance, nearer the building, is the Memorial Cross of the 8th Foot. On the front the inscription reads:—

On the right-hand side is inscribed "Lucknow Relieved"; on the left-hand side, "Agra Defended"; and on the back, "Delhi Captured"; and under the inscriptions will be found the names of those who perished in each of the actions mentioned. On alternate sides it states that this memorial was "Erected at Portsmouth, 1863," and "Removed to Chelsea, 1877."

With reference to the statue of Thomas Carlyle, Chelsea Embankment (94), Rossetti Memorial Fountain (95), and the statue of Sir Hans Sloane in the Chelsea Physic Garden (96), I have full inscriptions, &c., which I will send to if he desires them. An engraving of the statue of Sir