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On April 27, 33 Edward I. (1305), Inquisi- tion post mortem was taken on the estate of Reginald Le Moyle alias Moel of Bodmalgan (parish of St. Winnow, Cornwall). William, aged 18, his son, is his next heir. In the year 1387 John Moyle, Esq., of Bodmalgan and Ennora, his wife, are licensed by the Bishop to have a chapel for the celebration of Mass at this place. John Moyle of Bodmalgan, junior, and Joanna, his wife, occur in Pedes Finium 5 Richard II. (1382) ; and in a deed dated at Bodmin, Friday next after the feast of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, 17 Henry VI. (1439), Alice, the daughter of John Moyle of Bodmalgan, occurs. It is not improbable that the Bodmin Moyles (afterwards of Eastwell) and the family at Bake were of this family, resident in early times at Bodmalgan. There is ample material for verifying the pedigree from the marriage with the heiress of Bake down to present times, but the earlier part of it seems rather hopeless, and any sugges- tions in elucidating this portion would be indeed welcome. The arms assigned to Bake, viz. : Arg., a chevron gules between three pines gules, appear to belong to the Pyne family. A. STEPHENS DYER.

207 Kingston Road, Teddington.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii., passim; 12 S. i. 65.)

PIONEERS AND PHILANTHROPISTS

(continued}. WILLIAM PENN.

London. On July 13, 1911, a bronze tablet which had been placed on the wall of the Church of All Hallows, Barking-by-the- Tower, was unveiled by Col. Robert Thomp- son, President of the Pennsylvania Society, in the presence of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and a distinguished gathering. It bears the following inscription : In Memory of William Perm

Baptised in this Church October 23rd, A.D. 1644. Proprietary Founder and Governor of

Pennsylvania, Exemplar of Brotherhood and Peace,

Lawgiver. . . .Lover of Mankind. " I shall not usurp the right of any or oppress his person God has furnished me with a better resolution, and has given me his Grace to keep

This Tablet is erected by

The Pennsylvania Society of New York

A.D. 1911.

Jordans, Bucks. William Penn, his' first and second wives, and seven of his children were buried in the oblong plot of ground in front of the Friends' Meet ing-House. Stones placed here in comparatively modern times mark the supposed sites of their graves, and those of a few others. The stone farthest from the entrance gate in the front row, commemorating Penn and his second wife, is inscribed :

WILLIAM PENN 1718

AND

HANNAH PENN 1726

Next to it is the stone of his first wife :

GULIELMA

MARIA PENN 1689.

Philadelphia, U.S.A. A colossal statue of William Penn, 37 ft. high, crowns the magnificent City Hall. It is the work of a notable transatlantic sculptor, Mr. Alexander Milne Calder, a native of Aberdeen.

GEORGE PEABODY.

London and Westminster. His statue was erected in 1869 at the back of the Royal Exchange, opposite the north-east corner of the building. It is the work of Wm. Wetmore Story, an American sculptor, and represents George Peabody seated in an armchair. The attitude is natural, but by no means striking, and the tall buildings which crowd around the statue tend to lessen the dignity of the figure. On the pedestal is inscribed :

George Peabody

MDCCCLXIX.

After the great philanthropist's death on Nov. 4, 1869, his body reposed for a month in a temporary grave in the nave of West- minster Abbey. It was eventually conveyed to America in an English warship, and interred beside that of his mother in his native village of South Danvers (now Peabody), Mass. An inscribed slab in the pavement on the north side of the nave of the Abbey marks the site of the temporary resting- place. On it is the following sentence, selected by Dean Stanley from Peabody's ' Diary ' :

" I have prayed my Heavenly Father, day by day, that I might be enabled before I died to show my gratitude for the blessings which He has bestowed upon me, by doing|some great good to my fellow-men."

(See also 11 S. ii. 247, 310.)

There is a statue of George Peabody at. Baltimore, U.S.A.