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over the pulpit side and impulsively exclaimed, usual sententious tone, came the reply, ' His own.'"
 * Drat you ; shut up ! ' Immediately, in the clerk's

WM. JAGGARD.

"A SHOULDER OF MUTTON BROUGHT HOME JFROM FRANCE" (10 th S. ii. 48, 158, 236, 292). I remember the corkcutter's shop in East- cheap and the model referred to by GNOMON, but at a more recent period it must have been in the late fifties and I am able to supply a copy of the song, which is to be found in the Vocal Magazine for April, 1815. It is entitled 'A Man ran away with the Monument,' and is described as "Sung by Mr. Grimaldi with great applause, in London, or Harlequin and Time ; at Sadler's Wells 'Theatre 1 ': A story I 've heard in my youth,

You '11 judge if it 's serious or funny meant ; J don't mean to vouch for its truth

Once a man ran away with the Monument ; Away like a colt scamper'd he,

The watchmen they saw him and follow'd it !
 * So, lest he detected should be,

He made but one gulp and he swallowed it !

Ri ! tol ! 'The watchmen, while searching him at

One 's credence it almost would shock it, sir ! They found Aldgate Pump in his hat,

Gog and Magog were in his coat pocket, sir. For this thief never, sure, was a match :

In his fob he had put without scruple-a The clock of St. Paul's for a watch,

To which for a seal hung the cupola ! Ri ! tol !

They took him before the Lord Mayor,

Who ask'd him what he 'd got to say to it ; But facts were so glaring and fair,

He hadn't the face to say nay to it ; So resolv'd to gain freedom no doubt,

'Scape Justice and all those she call'd her men, He just spit the Monument out,

Which knock'd down the mayor and the aldermen ! Ri! tol!

WM. DOUGLAS. 125, Helix Road, Brixton Hill.

With reference to the model of the man running away with the Monument, mentioned by GNOMON as having been on view about 1830-40 in a shop in Eastcheap, I have in my nursery an old coloured print published in 1778 by N. C. Goodnight, engraver, No. 14, Great Warner Street, Coldbath Fields, Lon- don. It is marked No. 45, and is one of a series, of which I have others. It represents the musical cat and dancing cow, and six other subjects. The centre one occupies the whole length of the print, and shows a red, eight-arched bridge with "London Bridge" above it, towards which a man, with a look of pain face turned towards pursuers is running, carrying on his right shoulder a representation of the Monument, over which

" The man running away with the Monu- ment." Closely following is a watchman with scroll from mouth, in which " I am out of breath, I can run no more." He is followed by a second watchman, saying, "Let him run ever so fast I'll be up with him." A third man is evidently some one of importance. He remarks," There he goes ! Run hard, man !" The last figure is a watchman, holding a lantern like his fellows. His expression appears to be the key to the riddle, and to refer to some person, or act, evidently well known, " Why the Monument is but a fea- ther to him." I think from this plate the idea of the Eastcheap model was taken.

What is the origin of the man running away with the Monument ?

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

GRIEVANCE OFFICE : JOHN LE KEUX (10 th S. ii. 207). In the 'Calendar of Treasury Papers,' under date October, 1715, there is mention of a report of the Commissioners of Customs to the Lords of the Treasury con- cerning the running of French silks which have not paid duty. The practice is to be stopped in the interest of English weavers, and the proposal is to nominate certain members of the Weavers' Company for the purpose of seizing such goods. A certain Mr. Le Keux, of the said company, is con- sulted as to the best method of preventing this running of foreign silks. However, his report is not agreed to by the Commissioners, inasmuch as the giving of extraordinary commissions to persons, not officers of Cus- toms, for such seizure may be detrimental to the revenue and injurious to trade.

In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1733, in the list of bankrupts, appears the name of John Lekeux, " of London, merchant."

In my search I have met with very few notices of this name. The following may be worth recording in * N, & Q.' :

Gentleman's Magazine. -1713. Deaths. June 26th. Peter Lekeux, of Spittle fields, Esq.

Ditto, 1788. Marriages. Oct. 28th. Keane Fitz- gerald, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Miss Le Keux, of Sydenham.

' Musgrave's Obituary.' Mary Lekeux, relict of Peter Lekeux, Spital-fields. May, 1788. (European Mag., 384.)

Ditto, Peter Lekeux, Justice of Peace for the Tower Hamlets. 2 April, 1723. ('Pol. State of Grt. Brit.,' xxv. 464. ' Hist. Register, Chron.,' 16.)

In the 'D.N.B.' lives of the engravers John Le Keux (1783-1846) and his brother Henry Le Keux (1787-1863) are given. They are said to be the sons of Peter Le Keux by Anne Dyer his wife. This man was a pewter manufacturer, and is called "the represen- tative of a large and flourishing Huguenot