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irgrave and built himself a house beside > Thames, where he entertained Lady sketh, and would have entertained her isin if that cousin could have been iuced to stir from Olney. Sill died on April 28, 1811, at his London ise in New Burlington Street, and was ried in Wargrave Church. A memorial >let ornamented by Nollekens was placed

the chancel bearing the following in- iption. composed by his friend Joseph qrll :

To the memory of Joseph Hill, Esqr., of War- ve Hill, who died 28 April, 1811, aged 77, great hew of Sir Joseph Jekyll, Kt., Master of the Us. His long practice in the profession of the v was marked with integrity and talent, his vate life with every social and domestic virtue. w his remains are deposited those of Sarah, his low, \vho closed a life of piety and benevolence October the llth, 1824, aged 82 years." .happily the memorial was destroyed in ) fire which wrecked the church in 1914. By this his only wife Sarah (b. 1742, the aghter of John Mathews of Wargrave), whom he was married in August, 1771, il had no issue. Unknown to Cowper,
 * ept by correspondence, Mrs. Hill, like

husband, was assiduous in attention to s poet's wants and comforts, including his il-known taste for fish. Fhe friend and confidant of Lady Hesketh 1 Theodora, Mrs. Hill was the lady en- sted with the packet of Cowper' s early >ms by her whose love had inspired and served them:

fer through tedious years of doubt and pain, ixed in her choice and faithful but in vain. )n the death of Theodora and of Mrs. 1, within a short time of one another, the
 * ms were handed to James Croft, one of

former's executors, who published them the following year, 1825. "he Wargrave property, together with the S. letters from Cowper to Hill, passed >r Mrs. Hill's death to Joseph Jekyll, the I -known wit, whose cousin, the Rev. eph Jekyll Rye, was an occasional -espondent of the poet's. The letters subsequently given by Jekyll's grandson the late Canon Cowper Johnson, Rector

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have not seen any portrait of Hill. We n from Lady Hesketh that he was a .e man and from his friend that, like yers in general, he escaped corpulency. lived for some years with his mother and ers at Cook's Court, Carey Street, where rper first addressed him. In 1780 he was ag in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Ids, whence he removed about 1793 to

Saville Row. From there he moved shortly before his death to New Burlington Street adjoining.

For the inscription on the memorial tablet I have to thank Sir Herbert Jekyll, who has also most kindly given me much valuable information concerning Hill's pedi- gree. WILFRID HOOPER. Redhill.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii ; 12 S. i.-iv. passim ; v. 89. 145.)

FOR many years I had the pleasure of assisting MR. PAGE with this series ; the following notes are supplementary to those published by my friend :

ROYAL PERSONAGES.

Alfred. Church of St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey (11 S. iv. 184). There were also in the gardens of old Carlton House statues by Rysbrach of Alfred and the Black Prince ; another statue of Alfred, by Rossi, in the Inner Temple Hall is now stored away.

William I. St. Leonards, in enclosure opposite American Palace Pier, oblong Flab with inscription : " Tradition says that William the Conqueror landed at Bulver- hythe and dined on this stone."

Henry III. and Edward III. Statues on exterior of Public Record Office, London.

Edward I. and Edward III. Inner Temple Hall, by Rossi, now stored away ; statues by Richard Garbe, on exterior of National Provincial Bank, High Holborn.

Edward III. and Philippa. People's Palace, Mile End Road. Marble statues by Edward Wyon, circa 1870, formerly in Drapers' Hall.

Henry VI. Eton College Ante Chapel, white marble statue by Bacon, erected 1786, a fellow of the college, the Rev. E. Betham, having in 1783 bequeathed 600Z. for this purpose.

Henry VIII. St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in niche over west gateway, culptor unknown, erected 1702.

Edward VI. In the old Guildhall Chapel, in canopied niches on the west front were stone statues of Edward VI., Charles I., and Henrietta Maria ; they are now in the Guildhall Museum. The statue of Edward, formerly in niche in Newgate Street, facing the door of the counting-house of Christ's Hospital, is now at the south end of one of the school buildings at West Horsham,