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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vi. JAN.,

Had some fam'd Hero of the Latin Blood Like Brutus Great or like Camillus good But thus preserv'd the Latian Liberty Aspiring Columns soon Had reach'd the skys Loud Joy the proud Capitol had shook The statues of the Guardian Gods had spoke.

This Bust and Pedestal ere repaired at the desire of Alderman King, Gov. in the year 1814.

Ferns Castle, Wexford. In 1864, beneath the eastern window of the chapel stood an equestrian statue of William III. In a niche at the upper end of the hall of the Bank of England is a statue with Latin inscription which may be rendered in English :

For restoring efficiency to the Laws ; Authority to the Courts of Justice, Dignity to the Parliament,

To all his subjects their Religion and Liberties, And confirming them to Posterity, By the succession of the Illustrious House of

Hanover

To the British Throne : To the best of Princes, William the Third, Pounder of the Bank,

This Corporation, from a sense of Gratitude, Has erected this statue, And dedicated it to his memory. In the year of our Lord MDCCXXXTV. And the first year of this Building.

Anne. It was intended to erect statues of this queen in Cavendish Square and in front of St. Mary-le-Strand. There is a statue on the exterior of Hotel Russell.

George I. Equestrian statue opposite north front of mansion, Stowe, Bucks.

George II. In niche on front of Weavers' Hall, Dublin, with inscription :

Georgius II. Rex

MDCCL

Grand Parade, Cork, equestrian statue of " one of the Georges" ; another equestrian statue of George II. on r the South Mall. Are these statues still there (Wright's ' Irelane Illustrated,' 1831) ?

In centre of St. Stephen's Green Park, Dublin, bronze equestrian statue, erected 1758, originally on pedestal some 20 ft. square (in Malton's view), in 1815 a smaller pedestal was substituted. In November, 1815, the Royal Dublin Society asked the Dublin Corporation for permission to remove the statue to Kildare Street, but their request was refused; this statue has been often attacked and mutilated. The present

Inscription (on front of pedestal) is as fol- lows :

Georgio Secundo Magna^Britania Francia et Hibernia

Regi Forti et Republica

Maxime fideli

Patriis yirtutibus

Patroni secuio

S. P. Q. D.

A.n. 1758.

Thomas Me&d, Pratore Urbano

Michael Bweny, vice comitibus

William Forbes.

(See also 12 S. ii. 29, 93, 155, 238.)

Berkeley Square, equestrian statue of George II. being represented as Marcus Aurelius. Executed by Beaupre under the direction of Wilton, erected by Princess Amelia in 1766, removed in 1827.

Stratford Place, column supporting a statue of George, commemorative of the naval vic- tories of Great Britain. Erected by General Strode, taken down in 1805 as unsafe.

Council Chamber, Guildhall, white marble statue by Chantrey, erected in old Council Chamber, 1815, afterwards removed to new chamber, cost 3,089Z.

At junction of Cockspur Street and Pall Mall (10 S. ix. 103), equestrian statue of varnished bronze, pedestal of Portland stone, by M. C. Wyatt. The king is represented in cocked hat and pig-tail on his favourite harger. The statue is mentioned in ' The Ingoldsby Legends,' 3rd series (' A Lay of St. Ronwold ' ) :

Like the statue that stands, cast in copper, a

Few yards south-east of the door of the Opera, Save that Alured's horse had not got such a big

tail, While Alured wanted the cock'd hat and pig-tail.

George III. Somerset House, in the quadrangle is a bronze statuary group upou- a stone pedestal, the upper part contains a. statue of the king in Pvoman costume, by John Bacon, erected 1780.

London Museum, bronze statuette ascribed to Joseph Nollekens and coloured plaster statuette published by F. Hardenberg, 1820.

There are busts in Goldsmith's Hall, Trinity House, by Tunerelli (80 copies of this were made), Trinity College Library, Dublin (Tunerelli), Society of Antiquaries Bacon), National Gallery of Ireland (Edward Smyth).

City Hall, Dublin, bronze statue in Roman- military costume on white marble pedestal, by Van Nost. This statue was presented to the merchants k by Hugh Percy, Earl o