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character. The last maypole in the Strand was re-erected in Wanstead Park. Mr. Wheatley in his note on Pepys, iii. 143, and " a compilation respecting ' London and Middlesex,' " referred to in Hone's ' Every- Day Book ' under 1 May, speak as though this was the same pole as that set up soon after the Restoration. But, accord- ing to Knight's * Hist, of London,' vol. ii. p. 117, quoted in Elwin and Courthope's Pope on ' Dunciad,' book ii. 1. 28,

" in 1713 it became necessary to have a new one, which was accordingly set up on the 4th of July. . . .This was removed about the time of the erection of the new church, and presented by the parish to Sir Isaac Newton, who sent it to the Rector of Wanstead. That gentleman caused it to be raised in Wanstead Park to support the then largest telescope in Europe."

The church of St. Mary-le-Strand was begun in 1714 and completed in 1717.

It is a coincidence that in Hone's ' Year- Book,' 1 May, is an account of a rural masque or May-game performed at Wanstead in honour ot Queen Elizabeth, among the additions to Sidney's ' Arcadia.'

The other association is of a darker kind. It was at Wanstead in 1605 that Laud, when chaplain to Charles Blount, Lord Mount joy, then Earl o: Devonshire, married his patron to the divorced wife of Lord Rich, Sidney's " Stella," who had been Mountjoy's mistress for many years. Laud's ' Diary ' shows how bitterly he regretted having been induced to do his patron this service. Laud was again at Wanstead in 1621 after he had been nominated to the Bishopric of St. David's. See Heylin, ' Cyprianus Anglicus ' (1671), p. 80: " On Sunday the nineteenth of that Month [June] he preached before the King at Wansteed, that being the first of those Sermons, which are now in Print." Mr. A. C. Benson, in his ' William Laud,' p. 35, quotes the words by which the preacher," in the very chapel where he had celebrated this fatal marriage," did penance before the congregation for his fault : "So too many of our Priests are guilty of other as great sins as Sacrilege." EDWARD BENSLY.

This probably means Wanstead Manor, Rom ford, Essex. Sir Henry Mildmay, Keeper of the Jewel Office to King Charles I., bought this manor in 1619 from George, Duke of Buckingham. It was then valued at 1,OOOZ. a year, and Sir Henry settled it on his wife, as it was bought with her money. Sir Henry afterwards sat on the trial of Charles I., and at the Restoration was himself tried, when the Wanstead manor was forfeited to the Crown and granted to

James, Duke of York, who, in 1673, sold it to Sir Josiah Child. Pepys says of the Mildmay house there : " A fine seat, but an old-fashioned house, and being not full of people looks flatly." This house was pulled down in 1715, and a very grand one built near the site, and this again was dismantled in 1824. According to Lysons, old Wanstead House is introduced in the background of a picture of Queen Elizabeth at Wanstead. A very small print of this house was published by Steiit in 1649 ; and there is a large print of the 1715 house by Barron, published in 1775, when the house was the seat of the Earl of Tilney.

H. A. ST. J. M.

Full particulars of W^anstead and its former owners are given in vol. i. of Walford's ' Greater London.'

WlKLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

WATERLOO (11 S. xii. 1, 21, 71, 107). I offer two excerpts from the Private Journal of Sir John Malcolm, transcribed from the original MS. now in the possession of a friend. Re- ferring to a conversation he had with the Duke of Wellington after a banquet, " Paris, 24 July, 1815," he writes :

" ' People ask me for an account of the action/ he said. 'I tell them it was hard pounding on. both sides, and we pounded the hardest.'

" Allan and myself expressed our gratification at seeing the state of the hospitals at Brussels, and told him how delighted we were to find that., through the discipline he had established and the good conduct of the troops, the English character stood so high that the name was a passport to the houses of those they had conquered. He said he had done everything he could to effect this object- The Prussians, he observed, behaved horribly and had not lost character, but their object, for more was- destroyed than taker), and in such scenes where in- discriminate pillage and harshness [prevailed] those who deserved to suffer often escaped, and the benefit, when there was any, generally fell to those who deserved it least. ' My doctrine has always been the same,' he said. ' Let us go to work systemati- cally. Play light with individuals, but grind the State.' "

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

MEMORIAL TO CAPT. COOK (11 S. iii. 165). At this reference allusion was made to a memorial erected to Capt. Cook by Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser at the Vache, Chalfont St. Giles. I have been unable up to the present to obtain further particulars of this interesting building. A friend has, however, now forwarded me a photograph, from which I find that it is erected on a pretentious mound or knoll, and consists of a solid-looking low circular arch. The battlemented structure rises to nearly double