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 ii s. vii. FtB. 22,1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 145 (1) the Battle of C'halgrove Field. 18 June, 1643 ; and (2) the Burial of John Hampden, 25 June, 1643. The inscriptions are :— (Front :) In commemoration of the Coronation of their Majestic- King George V. &; Queen Ma rv 22nd June 1911 this statue was presented to the. County of Buckingham by James Griffin of Folly Farm Long Marston, the representative of an old Bucks family. (Back :) John Hampden Born 1501 Died 1613 Member of Parliament for Wendovcr 1025-1629 for Bucks 1010-1643. Ho took part in the battle of Aylesbury 1st | November, 1642, and was mortally wounded on | Cbalgrovo Field 18th June, 1613. Ho died at the | Grey Hound Inn at Thame 24th June, and was laid I to rest in Great Hampden Church 27th June, 1643. " Mr. John Hamodcn was one that friends and I enemies acknowledged to be most eminent i for prudence, piety and peaceable counsels ] having the most universal praise of any | gentle- man that I remember of that age." Kichard Baxter, 1615-1001. Against my King I do not fight, But for my King and Kingdom's right. Inscription on Hampden Jewel. (Jn 4 Oct.. 1911, a stained-glass window- to the memory of Hampden was unveiled by the Mayor in the Town Hall, High Wycombe, Bucks. (See also 10 S. xi. 442.) Devonport. —In 1866 a statue was erected here of Lord Seaton. The pedestal is thus inscribed:— (Front:) John Colbornc, Baron Seaton Born 1778. Died 186:!. (West:) In memory of the distinguished career and stainless character of Field-Marshal Lord Seaton, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.H., this monument is erected by his friends and comrades. (North :) Canada and Ionian Islands (South :) Peninsula and Waterloo. Comber, co. Down.—A column sur- mounted by a statue of General Gillespie was unveiled here on 24 June, 1845. It is 55 ft. high. On the west side of the base is the following inscription :— Kobert Hollo Gillespie, Major-General, and Knight Commander of the Most Honourable the Military Order of the Bath, bora at Comber a.d. 1766, and after a brief but glorious career fell in battle before tho fortress of Kalunga on the 81st of October, 1814. His last words were: " One Bhot more for tho honour of Down." A monument at Mcerut in the East marks his grave, -where his ashes rest. A statue in the Cathedral of St. Paul in tho City of London, voted by the Houses of Parliament, attests the gratitude of the nation. His own countrymen, proud of the achievements which have shed lustre upon his native land, with a few of his old companions in arms, have raised this column in the county which claimed his latest remem- brances, to perpetuate his memory at the place of his birth. On the other sides are depicted Masonic devices, tho Gillespie arms with motto " Tria juncta in uno," the badge of the Order of the Bath, &c. The names of various places and battles appear upon the column. The statue at St. Pauls is in the South Transept. (See also 11 S. iii. 348, 397, 437, 472; vi. 16.) Braddan, Isle of Man.—In the Nunnery Grounds is an obelisk erected to the memory of Brigadier-General Goldie. which is thus inscribed :— Erected by public subscription in memory of Brigadier-General Thomas Leigh Goldie of the Nunnery, Lieutenant-Colonel of H.M. 57th Kegiment. He commanded a Brigade of the British Army in the Crimea and fell in tho battle of Inkerinann Nov. 5th MDCCCXIV. in the 47th year of his age. Post funera virtus. Close by tho memorial is placed a Russian gun. John T. Page. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. A Letter of Scott"s : " Mutale."— In the January number of The Antiquary, p. 16, will be found ' Some LTnpublished Letters of Sir Walter Scott.' In Letter HI. occurs the following quotation :— What (mutale t) devil's taen the whigs, I think they 've a' gaen daft, sirs. It occurs to me that " mutalo " should read "muckle," i.e., "great," "big." "The muckle deil flee awa' wi' ye " is not, perhaps, very common or very courteous, but it is excellent Scotch. I know of no other word beginning with m that will fit, and I have sought Jamieson's ' Scottish Dictionary ' in vain. Perhaps some of your readers who are acquainted with broad Scotch will be able to throw light on the subject, and give the rest of the old song referred to. In any case I submit that, if the word begins with mu, and ends with le, and contains six letters, it is less likely to be " mutale" (which is nonsense) than " muckle " (which is sense). W. Anstrtjther-Gkay. Kilnmny, Fife.