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came into the hands of Thomas Xeal about 1690 " neere St. Giles's, where 7 streets make a star from a Doric pillar plac'd in the middle of a circular area " (Evelyn's ' Diary,' 5 Oct., 1694). Thus the column was standing in 1694. The streets are set out on the plan (which is coloured) in the well- known radial form, but there are only six openings, the names being : Church Streete, Earle Streete (crosses the central space). Saint Andrews Streete (crosses the central space), and Little Monmouth Streete. What may be described as boundary streets are named Kings Streete, Castle Streete, White Lyon Streete, and Monmouth Streete, while Tower Streete is shown as the line of com- munication between the southern ends of Earle Streete and Saint Andrews Streete.

A church and a churchyard are shown on the north-eastern side of Kings Streete (the line of communication between the northern ends of Earle Streete and Saint Andrews Streete), now and since 1877 called Neal Street. The street leading to the church from the central space is named Church Streete on the plan, but when built it was called Queen Street, owing, pro- bably, to there being no church ; it is now the southern portion of Short's Gardens. Little Monmouth Streete is shown as leading only from the centre to Monmouth Streete, but when built it was a part of White Lypn Streete, and is now known as Great White Lion Street. Castle Streete and Tower Streete are shown in the position of to-day, as are also Saint Andrews Streete and Earle Streete, except that each of these two thoroughfares has "Little" and "Great" applied respectively to the parts on the opposite sides of the central space. The White Lyon Streete of the plan was never so called, but was built and exists as West Street; and Monmouth Streete was even- tually absorbed in the Shaftesbury Avenue of to-day.

Clearly it was the original intention to make six openings (streets), and the capital of the column was carved accordingly ; the seventh was an afterthought, and was made by continuing the street named Little Monmouth Streete on the plan across the central space, the whole thoroughfare being called White Lyon Streete, but now bearing the added appellation of " Little " and " Great " on the respective sides of the central space.

A too rapid reading by some modern writers of 'A New View of London,' 1708 wherein it is stated " Seven streets, so-called tho there be but 4, viz. White Lyon Str

St Andrews Str Queen Str Earl Str.,""

is responsible for the statement commonly seen that only four of the streets had been, Duilt up to 1708, the fact being over- ooked that White Lion Street, St. Andrew's Street, and Earl Street are continuous thoroughfares across the centre, where the dialled column stood, and so accounted for two openings (streets) each, the seventh opening being Queen Street, now Short's Gardens. W. A. TAYLOR.

Public Library, 198, High Holborn, W.C.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi. 441 ; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401 ,- 11 S. i. 282 ; ii. 42, 381 ; iii. 22, 222, 421 ; iv. 181, 361 ; v. 62, 143, 481 ; vi. 4, 284 y 343; vii. 64, 144, 175, 263, 343, 442; viii. 4, 82.)

SAILORS (continued).

KEPPEL.

Scholes, near Rotherham. A monument known as " Keppel's Pillar " was erected here by the second Marquis of Rockingham to commemorate the acquittal of his friend Admiral Keppel, after the court-martial respecting the engagement with the French fleet off Ushant on 27 July, 1778. It bears no inscription, except the date 1778, cut on the base. The pillar was repaired by Earl Fitzwilliam in 1910.

BLAKE.

Bridgwater, Somerset. Some three cen- turies after his birth a bronze statue of Admiral Robert Blake was unveiled in his native town by Lord Brassey on 4 Oct. r 1900. It is erected on Cornhill, and repre- sents the doughty sea-dog standing erect, bareheaded, and with right hand out- stretched. The statue, which cost some- thing like 1,200*., is the work of Mr. F. W. Pomeroy. It is 8 ft. high, and stands on a granite pedestal 9 ft. high. On the sides of the pedestal are inserted bronze panels representing the taking of Santa Cruz and the bringing home of Blake's body into Ply- mouth Sound.

London. Blake was interred, by order of Cromwell, " with all the solemnity possible ,' r in Henry VII.'s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. His body, by order of Charles II., was disin- terred after the restoration, and reburied in the churchyard of St. Margaret's, West- minster. In response to a suggestion by- Dean Farrar a Blake memorial window was, by public subscription, inserted in the