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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. V. Nov., 1919.

THE STATE COACH. I infer that in every work on carriage building and the history of horse-drawn vehicles this chariot is fully described. Amongst a certain class of the curious it is always sought, and a visit to the royal mews ranks next to an hour at the waxworks as essentials of sightseeing. This popular interest has apparently per- fisted for many years. Before me is a broadside not dated, but about 1838, describing very fully " Her Majesty's State Coach." Evidently it was written and printed for the Boyal servants to rell,asthe last line invites the reader to " Enquire for . . . ." if he desire to see " The most superb carriage Ever Built." Sir Henry Ellis copied from a " MS. note in K. G. III. copy of Fleetwood's ' Chron. Preciosum ' a note of its cost. I transcribe from his commonplace book:

ACCOUNT OF THE EXPENSES OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY'S STATE COACH MADE IN THE YEAR 1762.*

Coach maker

Carver

Gilder

Painter

Laceman

Chaser

Harness maker

Mercer

Bit maker

Milliner

Sadler

Woollen Draper

Cover maker

s.

d

1673 15

2500

933 14

315

737 10

7

665 4

6

385 15

202 5

10

99 6

6

31 3

4

10 16

4 3

6

3 9

6

7,562 3

9

This total is 99 13s. 8d. less than the cost detailed in 'The Mirror,' March 7, 1835. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

A THREATENED RIVER BED. The follow- ing extract from a recent issue of The Daily Chronicle may interest readers of * N. & Q.':

" A pleasant old-world bit of the West-end will probably disappear if Devonshire House is replaced by a big hotel or blocks of flats that brick wall on the west side of Berkeley-street, enclosing the garden of Devonshire House.

" At the bottom of the garden is Lansdowne- passage, the curious little sunken passageway which runs from Berkeley-street to Curzon-street, and divides the garden of Devonshire House from that of Lansdowne House. Its history as a boundary dates from the time when the old Aye Brook or Tyburn divided the two properties, before winding its way through the meadows of Mayfair towards the Thames. When the stream was covered in as the King's Scholars' Pond sewer, the right-of-way of the footpath beside it was preserved in Lans- downe-pasage.' '

C. J. HERSEY.

JENNER STATUE AT BOULOGNE. I re- cently copied the inscriptions from 1 he statue of Edward Jenner at Boulogne-sur-Mer. The ; statue is of bronze, signed '" E. Paul, 1858,"" and was cast by A. Brochon, of Paris. It stands on a pedestal of stone. The inscrip- tions are as follows :

Front] Ce monument

a 6te eleve" de concert par la villej de

Boulogne-sur-Mer et la Soeiele des Sciences Industrielles Arts efc Belles-Lettres;

de Paris

en 1'honnenr de

EDWARD JENNER,

auteur de la de"couverte de la vaccine-

II a e'te' inaugure' sonellement le '

11 Septembre, 1865.

M. le D r Livois, <tant Maire de Boulogne,

et M. le D r M i8 du Planty, President de la*

Socie^e" des Sciences industrielles.

Back] A

EDWARD JENNER, La France Reconnaissance. Right] William Woodville,

M6decin de 1'Hopital des Varioleux

de Londres apporta au peuple Francais malgre" l'6tat de guerre la d&5ouverte de Jenner et pratiqua

les premieres inoculations h, Boulogne-sur-Mer le 27 Prairial

An VIII. (19 Juin, 1800).

Le vaccin recueilli par le D r

Nowel fut envoye" k Paris ou

Woodville 1'inocula de nouveau enr

Therm idor suivant. The left side of the pedestal is blank.

F. H. CHEETHAM.

Louis XVIII. : MONUMENT AT CALAIS. The monument at Calais, which marks the- spot where the French monarch landed iou 1814, bears the following inscription on, a bronze tablet. At the bottom of the inscrip- tion are the royal arms :

Le 24 Avril 1814.

S. M. LOUIS XVIII.

D6barqua vis-a-vis de cette Colonne

et fut enfin rendue

k 1 'am our des Francais.

Pour perpe'tuer le pouvenir

la ville de Calais

a e"leve" ce monument.

[Arms.]

The column is surmounted by a ball. Originally it bore a fleur-de-lys, but this was- removed in 1830. F H. CHEETHAM

EPIGRAM : "A LITTLE GARDEN LITTLE JOWETT MADE." This has been variously attributed to William Lort Mansel ; to Archdeacon Wrangham ; and to Mr. Horry, an American (9 S. vii. 405 ; viii. 69 ; 10 S. vi. 46) ; the ' D.N.B.' stating, sub nom. Joseph Jowett, that Wrangham " is believed?.