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' * The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.' Psalm 112, v. 6.

" This monument was erected A.D. 1843 as a tribute of pious respect to the memory of the Afartyr'd Bishop of this Diocese."

In the churchyard to the south-east of the church an upright stone contains the follow- ing extraordinary inscription :

" Here lieth the body of Ferrar Howell, the son of Robert Howell of Trenewyddin, Pembroke- shire, Gent, (lineally descended from Dr. Robert Forrar, Bp. of St. David's, who was of the family of the Ld. Ferrars of Rutlandshire, and in the reign of Q n Mary died at the stake in this town of Carmarthen), ag: 5, 1722. For the comfort of Parents our Holy Mother declares in her Rubric, 'tis certain by God's Word that children baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are un- doubtedly saved."

It may be recorded that the stone which supported the stake to which the Bishop was bound was in 1843 removed from its site near the old market cross, and now forms the apex of the spire of Abergwili Church.

(Much of the foregoing information is obtained from the late Mr. William Spur- reK's book, ' Carmarthen and its Neighbour- hood,' 1879.)

BISHOP PATTESON.

Alfington, Devon. Soon after the mur- der of Bishop Patteson, the late Lord Chief Justice Coleridge placed a wayside cross to his memory here. The present Lord Cole- ridge informs me that it was designed by W. Butterfield, and erected by Thos. Selway, a local stonemason. It stands at lour cross-roads where, tradition says, some of the victims of Judge Jeffreys at the Bloody Assize were executed. It bears the
 * ollowing inscription :

In Memory of John Coleridge Patteson, D.D., Missionary Bishop,

Born in London, 1 April 1827, Killed at Nukapu, near the Island of Santa Cruz,

20 September 1871,

together with two fellow-workers for our Lord, the Reverend Joseph Atkin, and Stephen Taroa-

niara (in vengeance for wrongs suffered at the hands of

Europeans),

by savage men whom he loved, and for whose sake he gave up

home and country, and friends dearer than his life.

Lord Jesus,

grant that we may live to Thee like him, and stand in our lot with him

before Thy Throne at the end of the days. Amen.

A kinsman desires

thus to keep alive for aftertime

the memory of a wise, a holy,


 * i n < I a humble man.

In 1911 Lord Coleridge had the inscrip- tion recut and the memorial enclosed within a railing to preserve it from mutilation.

London. A stained - glass window is placed to the Bishop's memory in the church of St. Giles-in-the -Fields. It is the first gallery window on the south side, and the subjects represented are : (a) St. Peter baptizing Cornelius, and (b) the martyrdom of St. Stephen. At the foot is inscribed :

In memory of

John Coleridge Patteson, D.D.

Born in this Parish A.D. 1827.

Called to Missionary Work in New Zealand, 1855.

Consecrated First Bishop of Melanesia, 1861.

Murdered by Natives of Nukapu, 1871.

SIB THOMAS MORE.

London. MB. JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT draws my attention to the statue of Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord Chancellor of England and author of ' Utopia,' on the house 51, Carey Street, Chancery Lane. My infor- mant locates it as placed " above the passage- way leading from Carey Street (opposite the northern entrance to the Royal Courts of Justice) to New Square, Lincoln's Inn." Below the statue a tablet is thus inscribed : Sir Thomas More, KA,

some time Lord High Chancellor

of England. Martyred July 6, 1535. The faithful servant both of God and the King.

Why is this memorial not recorded in the London County Council Return of Outdoor Memorials' ? (See 8 S. vii. 468.)

The actual burial-place of Sir Thomas More's decapitated body is apparently a matter of conjecture, but there seems to be no doubt as to the depositing of his head in Canterbury Cathedral. I have consulted several likely sources in order to obtain a copy of the inscription (written by himself)

g laced to More's memory in St. Luke's hurch, Chelsea, but all my authors carefully avoid recording it. Will some kind cor- respondent of ' N. & Q.' provide me with a copy ? (See 7 S. ix. 188 ; x. 46, 178 ; 8 S. viii. 208, 254, 433.)

CABDINAL FISHEB.

Chatham. I am informed also by MB. WAINEWBIGHT that there is a statue of Cardinal John Fisher, sometime Bishop of Rochester, in the Catholic Church at Chatham. I shall be glad if some corres- pondent will supply particulars and a copy of the inscription.