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OONTENTS.-No. 297.

NOTES : Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 181 Bourdon House Inscriptions at Petit Saconnex, 183 The Fourth Estate, 184 Jews in England Antonio Urceo quoted by FitzGerald Galileo and his Exclama- tion, 185 ' Cartularium Saxonicum ' Rev. William Blow Travelling Pontiffs Spite-Fence, 186.

QUERIES : Jeanne d' Arc's Armour Proving, Seine-et- Marne 'Browning as a Preacher" Carnac Scawton Church, Yorks Abbey Lantern-SlidesArms of Baroness de Ros Capt Mahan on Ireland's Strategic Position Virgin Mary's Nut, 187 -'Public Opinion' R. Barbour II. Vincent Canadian Diary Queries Rev. John Bonar Brunswick Society : Boyne Society Mrs. and Miss Vaneck Hursley Vicars Nicolas Audebert, 188 Penn of Kidderminster " Le " before Trades Pawlet of Paultoons "An old ewe dressed lamb fashion" Eliza- beth of Bohemia Villages : their Disappearance Spanish Priests in Abyssinia, 189.

REPLIES : London Taverns in the Seventeenth Century, 190 -"Bourne" in Place-Names, 191 ' A Sketch from Nature' Bagnigge House, 192 Louis XVIII.'s Queen and Westminster Abbey" Bosting," 193" Googlie " : Cricket Slang" Harka " " Plains "=Timber-denuded Lands " Protection for burning," 194 Balloons and Flying Machines "The Saracen's Head" 'The Sailor's Consolation,' 195 Meswinde the Fair John Bossom Twelve Surname, 196 First Elephant Exhibited Epworth Parsonage Ghost London Remains Samari- tan Society, London Thomas Paine's Remains, 197 Gotham and the Gothamites Windows from Trier- Etymology of "Coffee" Leaden Figures Goethe on "Ignorance in Motion "Drawbridges Eel-Pie Shop Maltese Beefeaters Welsh Judges, 198.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Condor's 'City of Jerusalem' ' L'IntermSdiaire. '

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE

BRITISH ISLES. (See 10 S. xi. 441 ; xii. 51, 114.)

MEMORIALS ON OB NEAR BATTLE-FIELDS.

I GIVE below the second instalment of my notes on battle-field memorials.

Wakefield, Yorks (30 Dec., 1460). This memorial was erected in 1897 in Cock and Bottle Lane, about half a mile north of Sandal Castle. It is enclosed by iron railings, and consists of an octagonal column with moulding round the centre, the upper half of the shaft being of smaller diameter than the lower. On the top are eight niches, three of which are vacant. The other five, facing the points indicated, contain : (E.) small statue of the Duke of York ; (S.E.) scroll with legend " Pur bon amour " ; (S.) royal arms ; (N.E.) scroll with legend " Bon spoir " ; (N.) white rose of York. The ornamentation throughout is based on the

white rose of York. The inscriptions, as follows, are on the shaft below the moulding

E. face.

Richard White Rose

Plantagenet fell on this

Duke of spot in the

York Battle of

Fighting Wakefield

for the December

cause of the 30 : 1460.

N.E. face.

This stone who wish to

is erected preserve the

in 1897 traditional

by some site.

The lines of the inscriptions are equalized by the insertion of rosettes.

" Alleluia Victory," Mold, co. Flint, A.D. 420. Obelisk erected on Maes Garmon to the north of the town of Mold, in 1736 by Nehemiah Griffith of Rhual, who is buried near the spot. It is thus inscribed :

Ad Annum

ccccxx

Saxones Pictiq. bellum adversus

Britones junctis viribus susceperunt

In hoc regione, hodieq. Maes Garmon

Appellata : cum in prffilium descenditur,

Apostolicis Britonum ducibus Germane

et Lupo, Christus militavit in Castris :

Alleluia tertid repetitum exclamabant ;

Hostile agmen terrore prosternitur ;

Triumphant Hostibus fusis sine sanguine ;

Palma Fide non Viribus obtenta.

M. P.

In Victoria? Alleluiaticae memoriam N. G.

MDCCXXXVI.

This bloodless victory formed the subject of one of the scenes in the Church Pageant held in the grounds of Fulham Palace in June last.

Blore Heath, Staffordshire (23 Sept. 1459). This memorial consists of an old stone cross in a field about half a mile from the church of Drayton-in-Hales. On it is the following inscription :

On this spot

was fought the Battle of Blore Heath

in 1459 :

Lord Audley

Who commanded for the side of Lancaster.

was defeated & slain

To perpetuate the memory

of the action & the place

This Ancient Monument

was repaired in

1765

at the charge of the Lord of the Manor Charles Boothby Scrymsher.

Mortimer's Cross, co. Hereford (2 Feb., 1460). This monument, in the shape of a Tuscan pedestal of white stone, stands