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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1910.

CONTENTS. No. 6.

NOTES : Catharine Macaulay, 101 Crowe of Kiplin Yorks, 103 Inscriptions in the Trafalgar Cemetery, Gibraltar, 104 "The Holy Ziaret" "Shabrack" Hol- bein's ' Duchess of Milan ' : a " Spencer" Burns's ' Death and Dr. Hornbook,' 105 Oldest Postmaster in England John Murray and Medical Books Flying Man : Early Instance "Sake," to Kill Printers of the Statutes, 106 Municipal Swords" Incidis in Scyllam," 107.

QUERIES : -Chaucer and Boccaccio J. H. Swale, Mathe- matician Solly Collection of Pictures Most Expensive Election, 107 First Nonconformist Minister in Parlia- ment "Hem of a noise" Cisterns in Kensington Gardens Bokeby House, West Ham Rochechouart Ducetoy: Castleden Family Portraits by Flick, 108 Authors Wanted Verse quoted by Burns " Ganion Coheriga" "Unrejoicing" in Wordsworth De Quincey and Swedenborg Armstrong=Fawcett Cosnahan Family Abbott Family, 109 Sphinx Wanted John Hunter's Club -Sea Songs, 110.

REPLIES : Ben Jonson in Westminster Abbey, 110 Children with the same Christian^ Name, 112 Widow Twankay Authors Wanted, 113 Buckle's ' History of Civilization,' 115 "A Mutation of Throstles " Apssen Counter Sussex Ironworks : Obsolete Terms 'N. & Q.' : Lost Reference" Earth goeth upon earth," 116 Bakers' Servants " Adoxography " Godfrey Sykes, 117 " Shalgham-zai "Chaucer : ' Squire's Tale ' " Com- poste"la " Robinson Crusoe's Literary Descendants Thomas de Coningsby Sir C. W. Strickland and Tom Brown, 118" Sucket," 119.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Iliad ' translated by Blakeney ^Eschylus translated by Headlam ' Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes' 'Fortnightly Review '-' Cornhill.'

Notices to Correspondents.

CATHARINE MACAULAY.

(See 5 S. vi. 428, 545 ; vii. 77 ; 8 S. ii. 527 ; iii. 113 ; 9 S. iv. 200, 238 ; vi. 128, 215.)

THERE are stone errors in ' N. & Q.' as well as in the k Dictionary of National Biography ' concerning Mrs. Macaulay. In an editorial notice it is stated (9 S. iv. 200) that a statue of her by Bacon is in existence. At the next reference the REV. JAMES J. G. GRAHAM asks : " Where is her statue by Bacon to be seen ? " He then refers to " a beautiful marble statue erected by Dr. Wilson, Rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and placed in his church during her lifetime, but removed thence by order of the vestry. 1 ' An editorial note (ibid.) states that " the statue by Bacon came into the possession of the Right Hon. J. Wilson Patten, sub- sequently Lord Winmarleigh.' 1 This note is apparently taken from the ' Dictionary of National Biography.'

The authority for the attribution to Bacon appears to be G. Monkland's ' The

Literature and Literati of Bath,* 1854. The author, p. 33, says that Dr. Thomas Wilson " actually placed her statue, adorned as the Goddess of Liberty, within the altar railing of the church of St. Stephen's, Walbrook.' 2 Having said here that the statue was " adorned as the Goddess of Liberty, 1 ' he says in the Supplement, 1855, p. 85 :

" The statue of Mrs. Macauley [sic] (as the personification of History) which he [Dr. Wilson] placed in the Church, now stands in Bank Hall, the seat of John Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P. for North Lancashire. It is from the chisel of Bacon, and is esteemed a work of art."

A foot-note refers to an estate in the hundred of " Wheral n (meaning Wirral), Cheshire, which belonged to Dr. Wilson, and " under his will became vested in the late Thomas Patten Wilson, now (1855) his son's estate, J. W. Patten, M.P. n

There may or may not have been a statue by Bacon, but that the St. Stephen's statue was not by him is evident. I do not think that there is, or ever was, any such statue by Bacon.

Bank Hall is now the Town Hall of Warrington, having been sold by Col. the Right Hon. John Wilson Patten (afterwards Lord Winmarleigh) to the Corporation or town in 1872. In the entrance hall stands a marble statue inscribed " History I. F. Moore Delin fc et Sculp fc . u This statue was presented to the Corporation by Col. Wilson Patten. In the proceedings of the General Purposes Committee (23 Oct., 1872) is the following :

" The Right Hon. Col. Wilson Patten having presented to the Corporation a life size Statue of the late Mrs. Macauley the Historian which is now in the entrance hall of Bank Hall. Resolved, That the same be accepted," &c.

A little later Col. Patten expressed a desire that the statue should be accepted as a statue of History. It is presumably over life size, being nearly six feet high.

In ' Nollekens and his Times, 1 by John Thomas Smith, 1828, ii. 204-5, J. F. Moore is mentioned as the sculptor of the Beckford monument in Guildhall, and of the statue of " Mrs. Macauley " in St. Stephen's, Walbrook, put up by " her doting admirer Dr. Thomas Wilson ; which it is said the same divine had pulled down when that lady offended him by marrying a brother of Graham, the Quack Doctor." Smith con- tinues : "I believe the Bishop insisted upon its removal.'* He adds that Dr. Wilson " employed Moore to execute a monument in memory of his wife, leaving