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designed by Mr. W. Grant Stevenson, U.S.A. With the pedestal it stands 11 feet high, the figure being 6 feet high, and representing the Alderman standing bare- headed, and clad in his Mayoral robes. On the front of the pedestal a square tablet contains the following :

Alderman John Lucas.

Born December 7th 1837.

Died 2nd August 1900.

Erected by public

Subscription

1903.

FBANCIS BUTTANSHAW.

Cotterstock, Northamptonshire. On May 14, 1890, the churchyard cross, erected by the vicar, the Rev. F. Buttan- shaw, was dedicated. The only part ex- isting of the ancient fourteenth-century cross was incorporated ; it consists of a socket of Barnack rag containing the following remains of an inscription: "loh's leet et. . . ,uxor eius. . . .facerunt fieri." The present cross was designed by Mr. F. Stevens of Cotterstock. The ancient socket is mounted on a new inscribed base, and from it rises a tall shaft with a Latin cross and pinnacled head. The inscriptions on the base are as follows :

{West side)

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam

et in memoriam

Filii Primogeniti

+ hanc restitui curavit

F. B. huius Eccla. Vic.

Pascha, A.S. 1890. <East side)

Francis Buttanshaw Born at Fobbing, Essex,

Mar. 16, A.S. 1855,

Died at Graham's Town,

Cape Colony, Nov. 2, A.S. 1884.

By Thy Cross Good Lord deliver us.

SIB JAMES SHAW.

Kilmarnock. In the open space known as the Market Cross is a statue of Sir James Shaw, represented in the robes and costume of a Lord Mayor cf London, and holding in his right hand the Warrant of Precedence. It was inaugurated on Aug. 4, 1848, and was sculptured by James Fillans from a block of Ravaccione marble of about 12 tons weight. The pedestal is of marble, standing on a base of Aberdeen granite, the whole being 17 feet in height. I have been supplied with the following interesting account of this worthy :

" The statue is a memorial of Sir James Shaw, Bart., who was born at Mosshead in the neigh- bourhood of Kilmarnock in 1764, and died Oct. 22, 1843. He was educated at the Grammar School

in the town, where the family resided from about 1769. He became a partner of the commercial house of George & Samuel Douglass of London and New York, and attained great commercial success and social influence. In 1805 he was elected Lord Mayor of London, and signalized his term of office by successfully vindicating the right of the Lord Mayor, in virtue of his office, to take precedence in the City of all save the sovereign in all public processions. He established this claim, and made use of this privilege at the funeral of Lord Nelson in January, 1806. In the funeral procession he took precedence of the Prince of Wales and his brothers, but courteously gave way to his Royal Highness on entering St. Paul's Cathedral."

THE HON. MBS. WATSON.

Rockingham, Northamptonshire. In 1894 the late Mr. G. L. Watson of Rock- ingham Castle adapted the socket of the old market cross in the village as a me- morial to his wife. The lower part of the socket is square, and the upper part an octagon. This has been placed on two square steps. On one side is a large semi- circular basin into which flows a continuous stream of water. Into the old socket has been inserted an octagonal shaft, which half way up changes to a cylindrical form, round which on a gun-metal band is the following inscription in raised letters :

Rebuilt 1894, on the remains of the old market cross of the village she loved so well, in memory of Laura Maria Watson

who died March 21st 1893.

It also contains the following :

Motto : Mea gloria fides.

Crest : A griffin's head erased arg.,ducally gorged or.

Arms : Arg., on a chevron engrailed az., between three martlets sa., as many cres- cents or (Watson) ; impaling Az., a pair of wings conjoined in lure or ; on a canton arg. an anchor sa. (Seymour).

H. P. GATES.

Peterborough. In the Market - Place stands a handsome stone cross erected by Mrs. 'Gates to her late husband's memory. Mr. Gates was born in 1818 and died in 1893, having four times filled the civic chair of his native city. The lower part is an irregular octagon raised on three steps, and containing four basins and drinking foun- tains. In the arcading above are placed the brief inscription and heraldic devices. Over this a series of small shafts support a cornice, from the centre of which rises a