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served, abound both in Dutch and in Cape Dutch. Those who have visited the country districts of the colony will be familiar with that noisome pest, the cattle tick, an elongated organism of shiny leaden hue considerably longer than the more circular bush tick which speedily attaches itself to the skins of horses and cattle when they run loose upon the veldt, and frequently ruins the udders of cows by eating away one or more of the teats. In size and general appearance it offers a certain resem- blance to the small threepenny bit, to which the lively imagination of the native Boe may, I can well believe, have compared it from the liability of the coin to get easil^ lost, and its being often hard to obtain a" change away from the larger towns wher coppers, by the by, are alone procurable This is, of course, only my conjecture ; bu perhaps some African correspondent o ' N. & Q.' will be able to throw furthe light upon a matter that is of more than loca interest. X. W. HILL.

Philadelphia.

BEV. R. GRANT (10 S. vii. 88). Some account of the Rev. Richard Grant will b found in Miss Mary G. Lupton's ' Historj of the Parish of Blackbourton,' printed bj the Oxfordshire Archaeological Society, 8vo Banbury, 1903, pp. 101-3.

W. D. MACBAY.

'THE HISTORY OF SELF-DEFENCE ' (10 S vi. 489). Might the author of this book have been Sir R. L'Estrange, who nourished at the same period, and was also a Carolist He too, in the first edition of ' An Accounl of the Growth of Knavery ' (London, 1678) p. 61, uses " President " in the sense oi precedent ; and this does not seem to have been a common mistake in English books at that period.

On p. 6 of the ' Account ' he speaks of " Transprosing the First Painter." On p. 63, he asks, " How many Reverend Divines were poyson'd in Peter-House ? " and says :

"I could give you the History of their Spiriting away several Persons of Honour for Slaves; their Sale of three, or four score Gentlemen to the Barbadoes."

Sir Roger, however, does not fill his book with so many theological arguments as one finds in ' The History of Self-Defence.'

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

STATUES OF THE GEORGES (10 S. vii. 66).

I do not think it can be said that all the

statues mentioned by MR. LYNN are ignored

by Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates.' My

edition (1889) refers to the statue of George III. in Cockspur Street, which I believe stands exactly at the junction of that street with Pall Mall.*

Haydn also mentions a statue of George I. in Grosvenor Square. This was much mutilated on 11 March. 1727. A contem- porary account records the following injuries " the left leg torn off, the sword and truncheon broken off, the neck hacked as if designed to cut off the head, and a libel left at the place." Apparently the statue was eventually taken away, for Timbs, writing in 1855 ('Curiosities of London'), says : " The stone pedestal in the centre [of the square] once bore an equestrian statue of George I." Haydn would appear, therefore, to be somewhat out of date in recording it amongst " the chief public statues of London " in 1889. His reference to a statue of George III. at Somerset House is, I believe, perfectly correct.

With respect to the statue of George IV. in Trafalgar Square, I may say that a trenchant and sarcastic notice thereon appeared in The Athenceum of 13 Jan., 1844 ; but in The Illustrated London News of 24 Feb., 1844, a favourable notice was given, accompanied by an engraving of the statue.

There is, I believe, a statue of George II. in Golden Square. Dickens refers to it in the second chapter of ' Nicholas Nickleby ' as " the mournful statue, the guardian genius of a little wilderness of shrubs, in the centre of the square." Another statue of this monarch is in the Grand Square at Greenwich Hospital. It represents the king in the garb of a Roman Emperor, and on the pedestal is a Latin inscription. In 1748 a statue of George I. was set up in the centre of Leicester Square. Having suffered badly in 1874) gave place to the statue of Shake- peare which now graces the site.
 * rom neglect and mutilation, it eventually

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, \Yarwickshire.

With reference to MR. LYNN'S observation hat " every statue should have a name,"

may relate that some time ago I was >assiiig (and of course inspecting) the very ne statue outside the Houses of Parliament, dien some strangers asked whose statue hat was. I said, " Richard I.," and passed n. Then I thought, Am I mistaken, or annot those people read ? So I returned,

s inauguration," appeared in The Mirror of 20 Aug.,
 * An engraving of this statue with an account of