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 10 S. XL JLNE 5, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUXE ',, 1909.

CONTENTS. No. 284.

NOTES : Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 441 Corpus Christi Day ' Englands Parnassus,' 443 Byron's ' Bride of Abydos ' Children's Games in Orkney, 445 Counting - out Rimes in Orkney Wreckers in Brittany The Black Guard, 446.

QUERIES : The Bank-Note Sandwich Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Last Words Pan-Germanic Press William the Conqueror and Barking Peter Faddy Orme's ' Battle of the Nile 'John Paul or Paul Jones, 447 Admiral Vernon and South London Dante on Old Men Carlyle Family C&pt. MacCarthy " Rhombus " - Holbeck : its Derivation Henry Emblin and Theodosius Keen R. Lovell Edgeworth The White Hen St. Peter's at Rome " Overfed Mephistopheles " Girdlestone, 448 Stevenson on "N.B." Stevenson and the Housemaid T. Brett Gainsborough. Architect, c. 1300' The Star, 1789 Twins : Which is the Elder ? Rowen Family Chinese Puzzle, 449.

REPLIES : " Bourne " in Place-Names, 449 " Mary- lebone," 451 Harbours " Disgruntled" Yellowhammer Superstitions, 452 "Tudor" spelt "Tidder" Oliver Cromwell's Head Farmers of Aylesbury " Under a Cloud," 453 "Une S3vign6 "Books on Place-Names Names terrible to Children Beaconsfield's First Schpol- inaster Capt Rutherfurd at Trafalgar Ships' Period- icals, 454 Mysterious Naval Foe" Hawser " Richard Steward London Shop Fronts : " Chapzugar cheese " Tuesday Night's Club New Causes of Disease, 455 Abdul the Damned " Storm in a Teacup" Fig Trees: Maturing Meat Shylock Tract Roast Pigs crying "Who'll eat me?" The Griffin, 456 "Kats and Kittlings "Mrs. Charlotte Atkyns " Watchet," 457 Hare and Fire Sir T. Warner's Tombstone English Queen as Jezebel Greek Christians ' Diaboliad 'Jews in Fiction. 458.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Archaeologia .Bliana.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

IN accordance with the intimation made at 10 S. x. 387, I now venture to start my list. First of all I should like to thank those friends who have given me their valued help. Unfortunately, their number is, so far, exceedingly small, and apparently I need have had no fear of being overwhelmed with MSS. Possibly those interested in the subject would prefer to communicate with ' N. & Q.' direct. I hope that in this way many particulars may be forthcoming respecting a large number of statues and memorials of which I am at present unable to do more than record their existence. Addi- tions to the list or corrections would be cordially welcomed, whether printed under this heading or forwarded to myself.

Some battlefield memorials concerning which I desire information are Sweno's Stone, near Forres, N.B. ; Percy's Cross, Wooller, Northumberland ; and King Alfred's Pillar, Swanage.

A meeting of Border gentlemen was held on 8 Oct., 1908, at which it was resolved to erect a column, cross, or obelisk on Flodden

Field (9 Sept., 1513), on or near the site where the Scottish king fell. A suitable piece of ground has since been secured near the centre of the battlefield at Branxton, and a strong committee has been formed for the furtherance of the object.

MEMORIALS ON OR NEAR BATTLEFIELDS.

Naseby, Northamptonshire (14 June, 1645) Obelisk. Erected by John and Mary Frances Fitzgerald, Lord and Lady of the Manor of Naseby, in 1823. (See 5 S. xii. 81 ; 9 S. xi. 461 ; 10 S. xi. 304, 344, 433.)

Newbury, Berks (20 Sept., 1643). - Obelisk. Erected by subscription on the initiative of Mr. Walter Money. Unveiled by Lord Carnarvon 9 Sept., 1878. At the base of the octagonal shaft are gablets with sunk panels filled with a cross and the ciphers of the Lords Falkland, Carnarvon, and Sunderland who fell at Newbury. The four sides of the pedestal contain inscriptions : East, a Greek sentence from Thucydides (ii. 43). West, a Latin sentence from Livy (ix. 1). South, an English sentence from Burke. The north side is thus in- scribed :

In memory of those who, on the 20th September, 1643, fell fighting in the Army of King Charles I., on the field of Newbury, and especially of

Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland,

who died here in the 32d year of his age,

this monument is set up by those to whom

the majesty of the crown and the liberties of their country are dear.

(See Itttis. Lond. News, 21 Sept., 1878 ; Tim&s, 10 Sept., 1878.)

Barnet, Herts (14 April, 1471). Obelisk. Erected by Sir Jeremy Sambrook, Bt., of Gobians, 1740, at the point where the London road divides to St. Albans and Hatfield. On the shaft is the following inscription :

Here was

fought the

Famous Battle

between Edward

the 4th and the

Earl of Warwick,

April the 14th.

Anno 1471,

in which the Earl

was defeated

and slain.

(See Book XI. chap, vi., ' The Last of the Barons,' Lytton.)

Lansdown Hill, near Bath, Somerset (5 July, 1643). Monument erected in 1720 by George, Lord Lansdowne, to commemo- rate his lordship's ancestor Sir Bevil Grenville, who was killed on the spot while engaged in a fight against the Parliamentarian