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(1) the Battle of Chalgrove Field. 18 June, 1643 ; and (2) the Burial of John Hampden, 25 June, 1643. The inscriptions are :

(Front :)

In commemoration of t he- Coronation of their Majesties King George V. & Queen Mary

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.

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John Hanipden Born 1591 Died 16 13 Member of Parliament for Wendover 1025-1629

for Bucks 1640-1643.

1J<- took part in the battle of Aylfsbury 1st | November, 1642, and was mortally wounded on j Chalgrove Field 18th June, 1643. lie died at the | Grey Hound Inn at Thame 24th June, and was laid I to rest in Great Hanipden Church 27th -Turn-, 1643.

" Mr. John Hamoden was one that friends and I enemies acknowledged to be most eminent j for prudence, piety and peaceable counsels ] having the most universal praise of any | gentle- man that I remember of that age."

Richard Baxter, 1615-100.1. Against my King I do not fight, !>ut for my King and Kingdom's right. Inscription on Hanipden Jewel.

On 4 Oct,. 1911. a stained-glass window to the memory of Hampden was unveiled by the Mayor in the Town Hall, High Wycombe, Bucks. (vSee also 10 S. xi. 442.)

Devonport. In 1866 a statue was erected here of Lord Seaton. The pedestal is thus inscribed :

(Front:) John Colborne,

Baron Seaton Born 1778. Died 1863. (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 stir- mounted by a statue of General Gillespie was unveiled here on 24 June, 1845. It is 55ft. high. On the vest side of the base is the following inscription :

Robert Rollo Gillespie, Major-General, and Knight Commander of the Most Honourable the Military- Order of the Bath, born at Comber A.T). 1766, and after a brief but glorious career fell in battle before the fortress of Kalunga on the 31st of October, 1814. His last words were: " One shot more for the 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 the 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, the 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. Paul's 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 Regiment.

He commanded a Brigade of the British Army in the Crimea

and fell in the battle of

Inkcrmann Nov. 5th MDCCCLIV.

in the 47th year of his age.

Post funera virtus.

Close by the 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 Unpublished Letters of Sir Walter Scott.' In Letter III. occurs the following quotation :

What (mutale ?) devil's taen the whigs, I think they 've a' gaen daft, sirs. It occurs to me that " mutale " 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-GRAY.

Kilmany, t'it'e.