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[South side] Under his Chairmanship the TJrampton Guardians secured, a supply of good "water for the town, and reformed its drainage, 1870-1876. The Cattle* Disease Executive Com- mittee also adopted the Cumberland system of stamping out disease, which commenced with the Cattle Hague 1866.

Plain, patient work fulfilled that length of days

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

(To be continued.)

STATUES AND MEMORIALS : DUKE or MABLBOROUGH. MR. J. T. PAGE'S carefully -compiled index of those whom contem- poraries or posterity have deemed lapide digni reveals an important absentee : John hurchill, first Duke of Marlborough, one of the greatest of British commanders. At the date of his death party passion ran so high that no minister would have had the courage to ask for a grant of public money to erect a lasting memorial to the victor of Blenheim, Ramillies, and Malplaquet. Suc- ceeding generations seem to have forgotten him. Marlborough House has survived, but its original occupant has no place of honour beside it. L. G. R.

[Although MR. PAGE had not been able to record any public statue of the Duke of Marl- foorough, he described at 11 S. vii. 144 the statue on a high column in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the palace and park having been pre- sented to the Duke by the nation as a token of its gratitude. At p. 65 of the same volume he printed the inscription in honour of the Duke which is carved on an obelisk at Castle Howard. A further instalment of ' Statues and Memorials ' was in type at the time of MB. PAGE'S death.]

THOMAS WAKEFIELD, HEBRAIST. "Thomas Waken" eld was the first Regius Pro- fessor of Hebrew at Cambridge, and died 1575. The information following, concern- ing himself and his family, is written on the fly-leaves and in the Kalendar of a fifteenth- century manuscript Book of Hours in my possession, and it adds some interesting details to the account given in the ' Dic- tionary of National Biography.' The con- tractions of the original are expanded. " Thomas Wakefelde."

" Agnes Tilney filia Thoma3 Tilney armigeri et Miargaretse uxoris suae, et jam uxor Thomae Wakefelde de Chesterton in comitatu Canta- 'brigise generosi, nata fuit apud manerium de ^chellay in comitatu Suftolchise decimo septimo die mensis februarii Anno regni regis benrici octavi septimo et anno Domini M.D. decimo quinto. Et foelicissime mortem obiit mulier

castissima et marito deditissima 19 dominico die augusti in plenilunio anno secundo Edwardi sexti, relinquens post se liberos duos, sepultaque jacet in ecclesia de Chesterton."

" Thomas Wakefelde films Gulielmi Wakefelde Armigeri et Johannae uxoris ejus, in artibus magister et publicus Lector Begiae Lectionis hebraicae apud cantabrigiam, nee non Justiciarius pacis hi comitatxi Cantabrigiae, natus fuit apud Pontemfractum in comitatu Eboraci, et mense septembris in vigilia nativitatis B. Marise Virginia in nocte, quarta scilicet vigilia, parum ante solis ortum. Anno regni regis Benrici septimi, dum pater ejus esset illius oppidi prsefectus, et anno Domini M.D."

" Anno quarto Edwardi sexti, ego idem Thomas Wakefelde de Chesterton custos pacis domini regis in comitatu Cantabrigise, duxi. in secundam uxorem Alysiam Jacob filiam Johannis Jacob de Suthberye in comitatu Suffolchise, die lunae ante pentecostem qui fuit decinonus dies Mail. Henricus Leyer fuit avus Alysiae uxoris meae ex parte matris."

" Nomina liberorum Thomae Wakef eldi manentis Chestertoni in comitatu Cantabrigiae, et Begii Professoris hebraicae linguae in alma Achademia Cantabrigiae, quos peperit sibi sua dilectissima conjux Agnes, filia Thomae Tilnei armigeri, qui Hadleghi in comitatu Suflolchiae habitat."

" Thomas Wakef eld filius meus natu maximus natus fuit apud Dalhamum in comitatu Suffol- chiae in aedibas Thomae Stutfelde armigeri, in die lunae qui dicatus est divo Bricio, in mense novembri die scilicet tertiodecimo ejusdem mensis intra horas septimam et octavam antemeridianas. Anno a Christi nativitatis quadragesimo secundo supra millesimum et quingentesimum. Et anno regni Illustrissimi regis nostri Henrici octavi tricesimo quarto ; cujus susceptores e'sacro fonte erant Thomas Hegham et Thomas Stutefelde armigeri et vidua Stutefelde illius Thomae mater, eumque apud episcopum tenuit, Dominus Johannes Soudelye, rector ecclesiae de Landebecne in comitatu Cantabrigiae."

" Alisia filia mea in lucem e matre Agnet< edita fuit in die veneris, qui erat decimus sextus dies mensis Januarii, intra horas sextam et septimam aut paulopost apud Chesterton in aedibus meis. Anno salutis nostrae M.D. quad- ragesimo quarto, et tricesimo sexto anno Begis Henrici octavi fidei defensoris, et in terris supremi capitis ecclesiarum Anglicanae et Hibermcae. Susceptores habuit Alisiam Coke uxorem Willelmi Coke armigeri, et legum nostrarum periti (ser- vientis),* et Annam Cheke viduam Cantabrigen- siem et Doctorem Wigan Begiuni professorem Sacrae Theologiae Cantab rigae."

In the Kalendar are the following entries J

16 Jan. " Hodie nata fuit Alysia Wakefelde filia Thomae Wakefelde Chestertoni."

19 Aug. " Hodie in nocte intra horas nonam et decimam felicissime in Domino moritur Anna Wakefelde uxor Thorn Wakefelde, mulier castissima et pudicissima. Sepiliturque in aede sacra Chestertoni."

13 Nov. " Iste die natus er&t Thomas Wake; feldus apud Dalehamum, filius Thomae Wakef eldi Chestertoniensis . "

A. J. V. RADFOBD.


 * This word has been written above periti.