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 206 NOTES AND QUERIES. [Kaix.fto.io.mi. conveyed to him by the corporation in June, 1657 (Cat. of Charters in Possess, of York Corporation, p. 98). To his daughter Rebekah one hundred pounds when she should marry or come of age, and after the I death of his wife the Bishophill House. | Rebekah, however, died in 1680, aged twenty, j To his son Henry, the glass-painter, twenty | shillings, and to his married daughter and her husband, Samuel Smith and their two children, also to his own sister, Elizabeth Taylor, twenty shillings each. Edmund Gyles died the day after he made his will, | and was buried in St. Mar tin -cum- Gregory church or churchyard. Will proved Sept. j 11 of the same year. His wife survived him ; ten years and was buried on Sept. 9, 1686. JOHN A. KNOWLES. STATUES AND MEMORIALS IX THE BRITISH ISLES. (See 10 S. xi. ; xii. ; US. i.-xii. ; 12 S. i.-vii. ! passim; viii. 25.) ROYAL PERSONAGES. " Lucius." St. Peter's Church, Cornhill. Brass tablet, saved from the Great Fire, now over chimneypiece of vestry room, with inscription : Bee it knowne to all men that the yeare of our Lord God 179 Lucius, the first Christian King of ! this land, then called Britaine, Founded tehe first Church in London, that is to say, the Church of St. Peter upon Cornehill : and hee founded there j an Archbishop's See, and made that Church tehe j Metropolitane and chief Church of this Kingdome ; I and so it indured tehe space of 400 yeares and } more unto the coming of St. Austin, the Apostle of England, the which was sent into this land by St. Gregorie, tehe Doctor of tehe Church, in the ! time of King Ethelbert. And then was the Arch- bishop's See, and Pall removed from tehe fore- j said Church of St. Peter upn Cornehill unto | Dorobernia, that is now called Canterburie, & ; there it remaineth to this day. And Millet, a monke, which came into this land with St. Austin, he 3 was made the first Bishop of London, and his See was madS in Paul's Church, and this Lucius, King, was the first founder of St. Peter's Church, j upon Cornehill, & hee reigned King in this Land ; after Brute 1245 yeares. And in the yeare of our j Lord God 124 Lucius was crowned King, and the { yeares of his reign were 77 yeares, and hee was j buried (after some Chronicles) at London ; and j after some Chronicles hee was buried at Glocester j where tehe Order of St. Francis standeth now. HENRY VIII. St. Alfege Church, Green- | wich. Stained-glass window with inscription | to the memory of Isabella Elizabeth Hem- mant, and to commemorate the baptism of this King in the church. CHARLES I. Wallace Collection. Marble bust by Rysbrack. ANNE. Old Church of St. Andrew, Rich- mond, Staten Island. Bronze tablet, unveiled 1908. CABOLINE. Wallace Collection. Marble bust by Rysbrack. VICTORIA. St. Martin's - in - the - Fields, London. Stained-glass window in com- memoration of the Diamond Jubilee, given by Col. Probyn. People's Palace, Mile End. Statue in State robes. ALBERT. Statue, Albert Park, Abingdon. Portrait medallion by Marochetti, Newport Church, I.O.W. St. Saviour's, Southwark. Stained glass window. Leinster Lawn, Dublin. Bronze statue by Foley, unveiled 1872 (Irish Times, June 7, 1872). EDWARD VII. Hearts of Oak Building, Euston Road. Bronze statue with in- scription : Edward VII. | erected by the voluntary | contri- butions of members of the | Hearts of Oak Benefit Society | to commemorate the honour | conferred by his Majesty | upon the Friendly Societies | of Great Britain, | when on May" 26th, 1906, accompanied | by Queen Alexandra | he opened this building. | Bust, unveiled by Princess Alice, in niche above the gateway near Curfew Tower, Windsor Castle, giving access to the New Walk; gateway and bust given by Sir Jesse Boot. GEORGE V. East Farleigh, Kent. Drinking trough with inscription : H.M. George V. | Crowned June 22nd, 1911. ( Erected in commemoration | by voluntary sub- scription. | God Save the King.f PEOPLE'S PALACE, MILE END ROAD. Behind the low galleries in the hall are figures of Esther of Persia, Boadicea of Britain, Zenobia of Palmyra, Helena of Rome, Clotilda of France, Bertha of Kent, Osburga of England, Matilda of Germany, Margaret of Scotland, Maud of England, Elizabeth of Hungary, Blanche of Castile, Eleanor of England, Philippa of England, Margaret of Denmark, Margaret of England, Isabella of Castile, Anne of Brittany, Eliza- beth of England, Anne of England, Marie Theresa of Hungary, and Louise of Prussia, all by Verheyden. WESTMINSTER. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY MEMORIAL, Groat George Street. The angles are surmounted with eight bronze figures of our rulers from Caractacus to Victoria. WESTMINSTER SCHOLARS' MEMORIAL, Broad Sanctuary. Above the column are