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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. IV Nov., 1918.

Compare Chart ley's speech in ' The Wise Woman of Hogsdon,' 289-90 :

. . . .we will have no more at our marriage, but myself, to say, I take thee, Luce ; thou to say, I, Luce, take thee, Robin the Vicar to put us to- gether, and your Father, to play the Clerk and cry Amen.

The correspondence is just worth noting, since in both cases the allusion is to the marriage service.

P. 72. Bowdler having made his exit, the Cripple exclaims : Adue, fond humourist, parenthesis of jests, Whose humour like a needless cipher fills a room.

Though, as we have seen, " parenthesis of words " is used by Hey wood elsewhere than in this play, I do not find " parenthesis of jests " again. But the cipher serving merely to "fill a room " will be found in ' The Golden Age,' 25 : Women, fair queen, are nothing without men, You are but ciphers, empty rooms to fill,

There still remains the possibility that ' The Fair Maid of the Exchange ' may be a recension by Heywood of an earlier work from another hand, but on the whole it seems more reasonable to account for its departure from " the style or ceconomy " of " the rest of his labours " by regarding it as a deliberate attempt 'to elevate the pitch of his verse. The pro- logue, with its promise of higher flights in the future, seems to me to lend strong support to this conclusion, and the fact that in this of all plays Heywood should claim indulgence for the " low plain song " of the author's muse to imply a conscious- ness that the playgoers of the day demanded a more inflated style of verse than he had been wont to give them.

H. DUGDALE SYKES.

Enfield, Middlesex.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi., xil. ; 11 S. i.-xii., passim; 12 S. i. 65, 243, 406 ; ii. 45, 168, 263, 345 ; iii. 125, 380, 468 ; iv. 69, 207.)

LOCAL WORTHIES (continued). COUNTESS SPENCER.

Harleston, Northamptonshire. - On Oct. 31, 1904, the first anniversary of the death of the Countess, the late Earl Spencer unveiled a cattle drinking - fountain to her memory. It stands just outside Harleston, beside the main road leading to Althorp,

and is eonstrvicted of Cornish granite- relieved at the back with some Harleston stonework. The troughs are 11 ft. long, and above them rises a granite tablet- containing a shield displaying the combined Spencer and Seymour arms, and the follow- ing Inscription :

In memory of Charlotte, Countess Spencer.

Born 28th Septr. 1835. Died Oct. 31st, 1903^ By her husband.

1904.

She that I loved, for God's dumb creatures cared,. Felt for their pain, and in their pleasures shared j This wayside fountain in the years to be Will quench their thirst and keep her memory.

W. E. D. A.

The initials are those of Sir \Vm. Rylancl D. Atkins, M.P. for the Micklleton Division of Lancashire.

On the slope behind the memorial a 1 grove of silver birch trees has been planted.

VISCOUNTESS ALTHORP.

Althorp, Northampton. In 1911 Earl Spencer catised to be erected in Althorp Park two memorials to his wife, the late Viscountess Althorp. The first stands on the rising ground south of the house, and' consists of an obelisk some 20 St. 1 igh- It is thus inscribed :

(Front) Viscountess Althorp,

14 Dec: 1868, 4 July, 1906. Sempre. -

(Back) Alma Beata

e Bella.

The second is placed at the commence- ment of the avenue leading to Brington Church, and marks the spot where the bearers changed over at the funeral. On a cairn of local stone 7 ft. high is the follow- ing:

Near this spot

rested the beloved remains of

Margaret, Viscountess Althorp,

9 July, 1906.

WALTER SCOTT.

KJlsby, Northamptonshire. The son of the contractor for the construction of the L. & N.W. Railway between Rugby and Northampton was killed in September, 1880, through the engine on which he was riding leaving the rails. Near the spot where the accident occurred a roughly hewn grey granite memorial has been placed. It stands on the north side, about 7 yards from the up line, and about 800 yards on the Rugby side of Kilsby and Crick station, in a plot of ground *>bout 6 ft. square, fenced with iron rails. The front