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 ii s. m. j.. ii, j9ii.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Beneath this couplet is inscribed as follows :

" Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness the Prince Consort visited this well and drank of its refreshing waters, the 20th of Septem- ber, 1860. The Year of Her Majesty's Great Sorrow."

Balmoral Palace. Over the entrance door to the great tower is a richly carved panel. The globose centre is thus inscribed :

This Castle of Balmoral

was erected by R.R.H. Prince Albert

Consort of

H.M. Queen Victoria

Begun Sept. 28th 1853

Completed Sept. Istll856

Tenby. On the Castle Hill stands the Welsh Memorial of Prince Albert. It was designed and executed by Mr. John Evan Thomas at a cost of 2,2501. The Prince is represented in the attire of a field-marshal, and wearing the regalia of the Order of the Garter. The statue was unveiled by Prince Arthur (Duke of Connaught) in 1865. The inscription is in Welsh.

Wolverhampton. In the centre of Queen's Square is a bronze equestrian statue of Prince Albert. It was unveiled by Queen Victoria on 30 November, 1866.

Liverpool. A bronze equestrian statue of Prince Albert is in St. George's Place. On the front of the granite pedestal is in- scribed :

Albert, Prince Consort Born 1819, Died 1861.

And on the back :

" This statue of a wise and good Prince was erected by the Corporation of Liverpool, October, 1800."

It was modelled by Thos. Thornycroft, and cost 6,000?.

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. A replica of the statue of Prince Albert formerly in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, and now placed near the entrance to the Royal Albert Hall, London, commemorates the visit of the Queen and Prince to the island in August, 1846. It is erected near the spot where they landed, and represents the Prince in the robes of the Order of the Garter. It was cast in copper at a cost of 1,200?.

St. Anne, Alderney. A gateway leading into the churchyard was " Erected by the people of Alderney " to commemorate the visit of the Queen and Prince Albert in 1846. It is inscribed : " Albert, 1846."

Aberdeen. In Union Street, near Union Bridge, is Marochetti's statue of Prince

Albert. It was unveiled by Queen Victoria on 13 October, 1863.

The following relate to. other royal', personages :

Lichfield. On 30 September, 1908, the Earl of Dartmouth unveiled a statue of King Edward VII. which had been presented to the city by Mr. Robert Bridgman, the sculptor, in commemoration of his year of office as Sheriff.

Medallion portraits of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, affixed to the front of the Lichfield Guildhall, were unveiled on 17 September, 1910.

Hickleton, Yorkshire. In the proximity of Hickleton Hall, the seat of Viscount Hali- fax, a King Edward memorial cross has recently been erected. The cross, which stands about 20 feet high, is constructed of Portland stone, with local stone forming the base. In the centre of the cross itself is carved on the front a figure of the B. V. Mary bearing our Lord in her arms, and at the back are the three lions of England. The following is inscribed at the base :

" To Edward the Seventh, King of England. This Cross is erected in memory of the past by Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax, his faithful subject and servant, May 6th, 1910.

" Grant him, O Lord, eternal rest, and let light perpetual shine upon him."

Alnwick, Northumberland. In the neigh- bourhood of Alnwick Castle is a pillar in- scribed as follows :

"William the Lion King of Scotland

besieging Alnwick Castle

was here

taken Prisoner

MCLXXIV.

Two or three hundred yards north of the chapel dedicated to St. Leonard is a cross - bearing the following inscriptions :

Malcolm III. King of Scotland

besieging

Alnwick Castle

was slain here,

Nov. 13, An. MXCIII.

K. Malcolm's Cross

decayed by time

was restored by

his descendant

Elizabeth Duchess of Northumberland

TMDCCLXXIV.

Chislehurst. On Chislehurst Common,. hard by Camden Place, for some years the residence of the family of the third Napoleon, ex-Emperor of the French, is a granite