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likely to be " Thomas " and " Jane " Hoggins, the Countess Sarah's parents. This vault is at the south-west corner of the church, at the foot of the grave of one Susannah Da vies, who died in 1824, aged 77, and whose tombstone is plainly discernible. The old Rectory -house, where Thomas Hoggins lived, -the sexton described as being " a tumble- down old place " when it was taken down ^ixty years ago. The presont National School was built on its site about forty years ago.

G. E. C. in his ' Complete Peerage,' iii.
 * 301-2, says that Henry Cecil had three

children by his first wife Emma Vernon ; but the pedigree of Vernon in Nash's ' Wor- cestershire ' mentions only one son, and I believe that there is but one child recorded in the Hanbury Registers Henry Vernon ecil, baptized and buried in 1777. G. E. C. also states that Lord Exeter's will was proved in 1804. Where was it proved ? I cannot find it in the P.C.C. Calendar for that year. The pedigree of Cecil given in the V.C.H. genealogical volume for North- amptonshire states that " John Jones " made a settlement of his house and land at Bolas Magna on 10 April, 1790. A manu- script of the Rev. Edward Williams in the British Museum (Additional MSS. 21,236 and 21,237), ' Monuments, &c., in Shrop- shire Churches,' 1792-1807, might possibly give the inscriptions on tablots to " Henry Jones " or members of the Hoggins family, tif there ever were any in Bolas Church.

W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

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, 343, 385; vii. 64.)

SOLDIERS (continued).

Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire. Blenheim Palace and Park were erected and laid out in the reign of Queen Anne, and presented as an act of gratitude to the victorious Duke of Marlborough. In the centre of a fine 'lawn in the park is erected a fluted column 130ft. high, surmounted by a statue of Marlborough represented in the attitude and dress of a triumphant Roman general. On the pedestal facing the house is a long inscription, written by Bolingbroke. setting

fo-th the public services of the Duke. The th ee other sides are

" inscribed with Acts of Parliament, declaratory of the sense which the public entertained of Marl- borough's merits, together with an abstract of the entail of his estates and honours on the descend- ants of his daughters."

The main entrance to the park is through a triumphal arch erected by Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a year after her husband's death. It is of the Corinthian order, and bears a Latin inscription on the outer, and an English translation on the inner, face.

Sunderland. On an eminence in Mow- bray Park is a bronze statue of General Havelock. It was designed by Wm. Behnes, and cast from cannon taken from the Indian rebels. The figure is 10ft. high, and to- gether with the pedestal and base rises to a height of 25 ft. Havelock is represented with a sword in his right hand and cloak thrown back ; in his left hand he grasps a field telescope. Beside him are seen an exhausted shell and the stem of an Oriental tree, symbolical of the soldier's calling and the country in which he fought his battles. The statue was erected in 1861.

Hexham, Northumberland. On 9 March. 1904, Lord Methuen unveiled a statue here to the memory of Lieut. -Col. Benson. It is executed in bronze from the design of Mr. John Tweed. The pedestal is thus in- scribed :

To the memory of a gallant soldier George Elliott Benson

Lieut. Colonel

in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, who was born at Allerwash May 24, 1861,

entered the Army May 19, 1880,

and after serving with distinction

in the Soudan Campaigns of 1885, 1896, 1898,

in the Ashanti Expedition 1895, and in the South African War 1899-1901,

fell while commanding his column

at the Battle of Brakenlaagte, Oct. 30, 1901.

He is buried with those who fought

and died with him " The Unre turning Brave." Erected by public subscription. Aylesbury. On 27 June. 1912, Lord Rothschild unveiled a - statue of John Hampden. It stands in the Market-Place, opposite the " George Hotel. ' ' The figure is of bronze, 7ft. 6 in. high, the work of Mr. H, C. Fehr, and is placed on a pedestal 10 ft. high. Hampden is represented bare- headed, clad in armour, with right hand grasping a sword, and left hand outstretched and pointing forward in the direction of his home. On the front and back of tho pedestal are bronze inscribed plates, and on the two sides arc bronze bas-reliefs of