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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. OCT. 1-2, 1912.

STATITES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi. 441 ; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401 ; US. i. 282 ; ii. 42, 381 ; iii. 22, 222, 421 ; iv. 181, 361 ; v. 62, 143, 481 ; vi. 4.)

SOLDIERS.

Exeter. Near the entrance to Bury Meadow is an equestrian statue of General Buller. It is the work of Capt. Adrian Jones, and is of bronze on a granite base. It was unveiled during the General's life- time by Lord Fortescue on 6 Sept., 1905. The following inscriptions are placed on the sides and front of the pedestal :

Redvers Buller V.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G.

of Dowries

Erected, by his fellow countrymen at home and beyond the seas.

1005.

1859-1900.

India, China,

Canada, Ashanti,

Egypt, Soudan,

South Africa. He saved Natal.

Birmingham. In 1885 Sir Charles Beres- ford unveiled a memorial obelisk to Col. Fred Burnaby. It was erected " mainly by subscriptions from working men," and is placed within the precincts of the Cathedral Yard, just opposite the Conservative Club. The base of the memorial contains on the front a medallion bust, surmounted by a trophy of arms. At the back is inscribed " Burnaby," and on the sides, " Khiva 1875. Abu Klea 1885."

Colchester. Close under the Castle walls .a granite obelisk marks the spot where Lucas and Lisle were shot in 1648. It is tli us inscribed on the base :

This Stone

marks the spot

where on August 28, 1648,

after the surrender

of the Town, the two Royalist Captains

Sir Charles Lucas,

and Sir George Lisle,

were shot by order of

Sir Thomas Fairfax,

the Parliamentarian

General.

Erected

on the opening of the Park Oct. 20th, 1892,

by Henry Laver, F.S.A.

The remains of these two brave soldiers repose in the Lucas famity vault in St. Giles's

Church. A slab in the floor of the nave is thus inscribed :

" Vnder this j marble ly the | bodies of the I two most vali | ant Captains | Sr Charles j Lvcas and Sr | George Lisle | Knights who | for their emi | nent loyalty | to their sove | rain were on I the 28th day of Av | gust 1648 by the command of Sr | Thomas Fair | fax then Gene | ral of the Par | liament Army in | cold blovtl barba | rovsly mvrdered."

Bodmin. On the beacon hill south of the town is a granite obelisk 144 ft. high. It was set up in 1856-7 at a cost of 1,5501. On a tablet is inscribed as follows :

" To the memory of Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Lieutenant-General in the Bengal Army ; who, after having served as a subaltern in the campaigns of 1803 and 1804 \inder Lord Lake, greatly distin- guished himself in 1845 and 1846 as Major- General commanding the second division of the army in the battles of Moodkee, Ferozshah, Sobraon on the Sutleje ; and subsequently in 1849 in those of Chillianwalla and Goojerat in the Punjab. And having eventually compelled the Sikh Chiefs to surrender themselves to him at Rawul Pindee with their whole force of 16,000 men and 41 guns, drove their Afghan allies across the Indus at Attock, and thus brought the war to a triumphant conclusion. For which distinguished services the Queen conferred on him the dignity of a Baronet, and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath : the Houses of Parlia- ment twice voted him thanks : the Court of Directors appointed him to the Supreme Council in India, and the Monument, raised on this spot at the earnest request of his fellow-townsmen of Bodmin, has been Erected by Companioris- in-Arms and private friends in testimony of their admiration of his eminent public services as a soldier, and of their regard and respect for his estimable personal qualities. Born March 18, 1785. Died May 10, 1853."

There are memorials of Lord Chesham at Aylesbury, Brixworth, Stratton Audley, and Wellington Barracks.

Aylesbury. On 14 July, 1910, Lord Roberts unveiled a statue of Lord Chesham in the Market Square, Aylesbury. It is of bronze, the work of Mr. John Tweed, and represents the gallant officer standing bareheaded, and attired in the uniform of the Imperial Yeomanry. In his right hand he grasps a crop and coiled lash. With the pedestal of Portland stone the statue is 20 ft. high. It was erected by contribu- tions from friends of the late peer.

Brixworth. On 9 Oct., 1908, a memorial to Lord Chesham was unveiled at Brix- worth, Northamptonshire, by Lord Aniialy. It consists of a Decorated wayside cross and drinking-trough, and is placed at the foot of the long hill leading up into the village from Boughton. The cross is a monolith of Ketton stone 21 ft. high, standing on a base of three steps, and its