and coffee-houses banished.

The right hand-now missing from above the wrist-probably held a book, resting it on the knee; it was also supported by an iron stay of which only the socket below the girdle remains. The thumb of the left hand is missing, but the position of the other fingers and the inner surface of the forefinger suggest that this hand held aloft a short sword as an emblem of Justice. These symbols would adequately represent King Alfred as the first lawgiver of his people.

The patriarchal beard, moustache, and hair is intended to be typical of a Saxon king, but it is too patriarchal.

James Wyatt from Purbeck, and the exposed surfaces was the first architect employed, but subse- polished, then painted. There is evidence of quently Sir John Soane carried out the this remaining, and the right knee slightly desired improvements. They seem to have advanced, therefore exposed to the weather, concurred in thinking that the removal of the has the upper surface so corroded as to buildings hiding the porch was essential, and show the texture of the stone. This posiso it came about that the niches and their tion of the knee provides problematical statues were rediscovered. The contem- explanations for much that has been lost. porary drawing referred to illustrates three figures that may be identified as Edward I., Queen Philippa, Edward II. The removal of an obtruding hand and arm noticeable in two of the statues is due to the circumstance of the back wall of the houses having been built flat against these niches and statuary. This discovery, although attributed to. James Wyatt the architect, was probably due to his Clerk of Works, Thomas Gayfere, who held a similar position at Westminster Abbey. Exactly how he disposed of these statues is not known, possibly they were broken up before their interest was realized; but when, in 1825, a further discovery So here is the re-discovery of a fourteenthof statues was made at least one century statue, mutilated but still preserved, was sold or presented, and so came to in a South London square. By all means be preserved to this day. Those who seek let it be identified so that those who read it must make their way to Trinity Square, may know who is represented and its origin ; Borough, and there, in an enclosure fronting and if removal is thought necessary I the Ionic Church, will find an old statue, suggest the Royal Courts of Justice as offering without name, erected on a pedestal largely a suitable place in which to erect it, sadly made of cement. Why this statue came to wanting as they are in some memorial of the migrate to this square is explained by the antiquity of English law. fact that about the date of its discovery at ALECK ABRAHAMS. Westminster and eviction from the niche, it had occupied for over 400 years, the square was being completed and ornament was required for the centre grass plot. Local tradition has identified it as a Biblical hero, preferably Aaron, but officially it is believed to represent Alfred-and this is correct, as some consideration of detail will prove.

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RICHARD PARKER AND MASONIC
EMBLEMS.

ALTHOUGH, as I have said (12 S. ix. 8), many East Londoners retain a sentimental interest in all that relates to Richard Parker, of the Nore Mutiny, I have never been able to range among those who indiscriminately attach occult or sinister importance to the use of the supposed Freemason emblems and furniture in connexion with funerals and graves; for I am old enough to recollect that these prides, pomps, and heraldries were frequently included in the advertised stockin-trade of undertakers in town and country. In the cases where these relics were genuine lodge, guild, or society furniture, their use was often due to the complaisance, courtesy, or "profiteering" of the custodians of the a child the The statue, probably seven feet high, paraphernalia. When I was has been much repaired with cement and sometime jobbing carpenters who undertook across the back are two iron clamps to funerals were quite commonly in possession prevent a flaw extending. Originally it of a miscellany of shields, &c., some appawas carved from a block of marble, possibly rently Masonic, some of the Trinity Corpora

Obviously the statue in design is of the late fourteenth century, the crown or wide banded coronet resembling that shown on the contemporary portrait of Richard II. at Westminster Abbey. Here also is a toga held in at the waist by a girdle having a design of conventional waves; the mantle, held together under the chin by a large brooch, has a border of diamond-shaped squares surrounding Lombardic crosses and half circles with pellets.

tion, and other societies (varying with the There were other magistrates and clerics neighbourhood of the workshop); and all present who testified similarly, and one said these could be hired. Indeed, I have he had seen what purported to be the Trinity "played at buryings" with the "Masonic" pall in the hands of a New York dealer in insignia and tools, when "Mr. Mould " (our curios who tried to induce Washington Irving next-door neighbour) and his subordinate to buy. And the then rector of Whiteemployees were away on "business." The chapel (the Rev. W. W. Champneys, M.A.) many duds among the coffin-nails were said he had been reliably informed that our buttons. Moreover, I have ever held in some of the furniture in the offices and mind the reveries of Price, the old Stepney museum of the East India Company in parish clerk and factotum of the Rev. Leadenhall Street bore some of these Richard Lee, rector of Stepney, when I, symbolic markings, although they were of a musing boy, accompanied him in his medi- Oriental manufacture; and he had always tations among the tombs of the reputed understood from the old officials that, in the sea parish.' He was full of tales of what vaults of Whitechapel Church and in the Freemasons, or reputed Freemasons, old and structure of the old edifice there were these new, had done to the church and churchyard mystic signs to be found, as had been ornaments in the days of grave civil and stated by the Rev. Daniel Mathias "-a religious disorders; and over these memories predecessor in his rectorate. my father and Price had, years before, often wrestled and wrangled when they ought to have been heeding their rector's very dull, if very learned, sermons.

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Nevertheless, the ever-cautious, if idealistic, grand secretary of the Freemasons reunited-Laurence Dermott-nearly sixty years before (when he dwelt in Mile End and The Rev. Richard Lee, M.A., who became in Leyton near by) does not appear to have Rector of Stepney in June, 1847, "testified" accepted the popular implication with any at a conference of clerics and magistrates in enthusiasm. Indeed, he expressly pointed his rectory parlour (a troop of the Guards out that in the old days in the North and being posted in sight at the narrow gut of in Ireland, Masonic emblems were apparently Stepney High Street) on the rather anxious used by working guildsmen as a sign of day of the 10th April, 1848, when the professional handicraft and ornamentation, Chartists proposed to hold a meeting of or simply in pride of their craft, without 200,000 men on Kennington Common, to reference to the personality of the interred; march thence in procession to Westminster and that as a fact these emblems were someto present a petition to Parliament, à la times clumsily removed by church authoriLord George Gordon. It was to the effect ties, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Disthat in the times of his predecessors, the senting, on the pretext that they were Rev. Ralph Cawley, M.A., the Rev. merely trade advertisements. In short, Giles Fairclough Haddon, D.D., and almost Laurence Dermott's personal knowledge all the others who had officiated in person of the loose practices of many of those who up to the Rev. Daniel Vaudrey, M.A., the held charge of Freemasonic, "Trinity,” belief of the Church officials was that the and other guild regalia in the Port of association of "Antient " Freemasonry with London accentuated his desire not to accept the old Stepney Vestry, and, consequently, Masonic occultism as necessarily involved with the Trinity Guild and Corporation, was in the use of the brotherhood's insignia. lengthened and most intimate; also that the Laurence Dermott's reminder, of course, belief was general among the educated in met the occasion of a moment when the Stepney that the original Spert family occultism of Freemasonry was being widely memorial bore mystic Masonic signs similar aspersed; but it by no means disposed of to those once subsequently found in the the evidence that there was a time, in respect churches and churchyards of Whitechapel, of symbolism and ornamentation, when, Spitalfields, Wapping, Shadwell, and even the Queen Anne church of Limehouse. Mellish, a prominent local magistrate and Freemason, said there were persons in his nily who had seen Masonic signs worked at each corner of the Trinity pall, and pon the reputed furniture of the court om of the Trinity House at Ratcliffe.

as Ruskin always insisted, the guildsmenmasters, craftsmen, and apprentices of the "mistery "-enjoyed work for work's sake without a thought of self-advertisement-without a notion that the title of " working man was, as some degenerate Sam Tappertits latterly spout, "a badge of serfdom imposed upon one particular

section of human society which labours recesses of some great cathedral, and there, with its hands.' Every equipped anti- perhaps in a remote gallery hid away from quary knows this to be false false even sight, he will find the same exquisite finish, of the so-callea Dark Age which followed the same loving care, the same striving for the downfall of Roman civilization. There beauty, where the eye of man would seldom is something in the genuine monuments of penetrate and where labour would seem the great medieval builders and workers to be the least profitable." in many renascent arts which convinces Richard Parker II., I remember, adorned the student that they strove for excellence his little house in Mile End Road with and spared nothing to attain it. The simple Masonic and other escutcheons, for he had truth is admirably stated in the recent a profitable side-line in funerals; and his observation of The Times that:-"To-day relations with mid-century Freemasonry the traveller may penetrate into the inmost were certainly intimate.

Mc.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

(See 12 S. ii., iii., vi., vii. passim; viii. 6, 46, 82, 185, 327, 405, 445; ix. 45.) THE last regiment of this list (p. 79) was raised in Ireland by Colonel Richard Coote, under a warrant dated February 13, 1702. In due course it became the 39th Regiment of Foot, and in 1754 proceeded to India, being the first King's Regiment to serve in that country.* Hence it bears upon its Colours the motto, "Primus in Indis." In 1782 a territorial title was given to the regiment and it was styled "39th (or The East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot," which was changed to "39th (or the Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot" in 1807. Since 1881 it has been designated "The Dorsetshire Regiment," which title it still retains. Colonel Dallway's Regiment of Foot.

Dates of their first commissions.

Dates of their present commissions.

Robert Dallway (1)

Theo. Dury

1720

Jos. McNoe

David Hepburn (4)
Adam Speed

Row. Lewis (5)
John Clopton
James Cope
Thomas Buck

Henry Fox (6)

Verny Lovett

John Semphill

(1) Appointed to Colonelcy of the 13th Dragoons, May 12, 1740. Was succeeded by Colonel Samuel Warter Whitsed on Dec. 28, 1740.

(2) Name should be Courtier.

(3) Captain, April 15, 1749.

(4) Captain, Aug. 7, 1746.

(5) Rowland Lewis. Captain, June 3, 1752.

(6) Captain, July 19, 1740.

As a fact, the first so-called King's troops which served in India belonged to The Royal Regiment of Artillery, one company of which, commanded by Captain John Goodyear, was sent there in 1747 with Admiral Boscawen's expedition, returning to England in 1750.

The following additional names are entered in ink on the interleaf :

WILL. YONGE.

This is the end of An English Army List of 1740,' the first instalment of which appeared in N. & Q.' on July 1, 1916.

Major-General Astley Terry sent a most interesting note upon other old Army Lists, which appeared in N. & Q.' of Aug. 12, 1916, but made no mention of Millan's lists of The succession of Colonels to all his Majesty's Land Forces, &c.,' published in 1742, 1744, 1745, and probably in other years.

These lists were printed from engraved plates; they contain some curious remarks against the names of officers, such as :-

Broke for not relieving Derry." April 13, 1689.

"Cashiered for extortion in his regiment." Mar. 4, 1695.

"Removed for refusing to introduce the Pope's Nuncio." July 23, 1687. "Broke for cowardice at Londonderry." April 13, 1689.

"Beheaded." July 15, 1685, and Jan. 28, 1697.

There is also the printed list of the Parliamentary Army, which was published in 1642 and reprinted in Peacock's Army List of the Roundheads and Cavaliers.' There is a copy of this in the library of the Royal United Service Institution.

J. H. LESLIE, Lieut.-Colonel.

'SWEET LAVENDER (see 10 S. x. 146; depressed in spirit as well as in song, perxii. 176; 11 S. ii. 144; iv. 66; 12 S. chance through lack of business. Indeed, vii. 107).-Vendors of fragrant bunches of his appeal for custom was so feebly rendered sweet lavender," from the "fields" of as to be scarcely intelligible, which was sad Mitcham and elsewhere, were seen much for those who love to hear the old familiar earlier than usual in our London streets chant softly warbled. The days have this summer. The writer heard the melo- passed when barrow-loads were wont to find dious cry in a northern suburb at the end a ready market where now a basketful of June, though the merchant seemed suffices to meet the demand. Is the process

of production on the wane, or have the A JOHN RAPHAEL SMITH DISCOVERY.lilac sprigs lost favour with the careful The rare and finely-engraved mezzotint housewife? It would be a pity if a once numbered 155 in Chaloner Smith's catalogue fertile industry were threatened with ex- is thus described :tinction. The touch of war's cruel hand may still be heavy thereon. Let us hope it will soon be lifted. CECIL CLARKE.

'Mrs. Smith,' half-length oval, frame facing right, hat and feathers, hair powdered, kerchief across bosom, dark cape thrown down from shoulder. Inscription painted and engraved J. R. Smith, 83, Oxford Street, London. Size by J. R. Smith, published Jan. 20, 1783, by 12 × 101.

Thus named on authority of Brandes's catalogue, p. 610. Query if she was the engraver's second wife.

SEALS OF MARRIED WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES.-Among the Additional Charters at the B.M. there is a deed (No. 53,588) of Joan, sister and heir of William Martin, who married as second wife Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, on whose decease she married Nicholas de Audley of Heley Castle, Mrs. Frankau, in her catalogue of J. R. 2 Staffordshire Baron. The deed (dated Smith's works, No. 198, Miss Johnstone,' 13 Edw. II.) carries a seal showing the arms says Chaloner Smith notes that he has twice of the Lacys, a lion rampant purpure, met the above portrait with Miss Johnimpaled with the Audley fret. The legend stone's name upon it in pencil, and he raises 66 Smith's shows that it is the lady's sigillum secretum. the question of Miss J. being But J. R. S. had only one She styles herself Countess of Lincoln and second wife." Lady of Heley. I take it that she used wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Croome.

the arms of her first husband as her own of right, but these are given on the dexter side, while those of her second husband, then also deceased, appear on the sinister side. I have evidence of a rather similar instance of a lady's seal (1 Edw. III.), which displays her father's arms on the dexter side. and her husband's, who was still living, on the sinister. Incidentally I may mention that this seal led to the discovery of the lady's maiden name, till then unknown, an example which shows how valuable Heraldry as the handmaid of History can sometimes be.

May I ask if any of your readers can give other examples where the femme takes precedence of the baron on seals of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?

CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

THE GREAT RAIN. In this time of drought, the following information regarding a period of continual wet weather is cooling and refreshing. It will be interesting to hear if constant rain was experienced in the period named in other parts of England, and if any special record exists of what must have been the cause of much distress.

The extract herewith I made when consulting the registers of Bicester last week. The entry is on the last leaf of the 5th vol. :— 1763. June ye 19th it began Raining and Continued Mostly Wet Wether till the begining of February 1764 and A Perpetual Flood In the Most part of Novembr December January and the begining of Februy 15 Capital Weeks.

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

An old and unique catalogue of J. R. Smith's publications from 1781 to 1798, given to me by Mr. J. P. Heseltine, clears up the mystery, as the print is numbered No. 44-and properly called 'Miss Johnstone,' the size and date of publication being absolutely identical. E. E. LEGGATT. 62, Cheapside.

"A NATIVE OF AMERICA."-In the Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Uplyme, Devon, there is a tablet on the north wall inscribed as follows:

In the aisle opposite to this monument are deposited the mortal remains of Mrs. Ann Stuart, a native of America, and wife of the Revd. James Stuart, formerly Rector of George Town, and All Saints, South Carolina, and Chaplain to the King's Rangers in N.A. She departed this life the 12th of July 1805. In the same grave is interred the body of the above named Revd. James Stuart, born in 1743 at Boyndie, near Banff, in North Britain, and died 1809, at Newbury,

Berks.

101, Piccadilly.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

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"WORD-PAINTING," "WORD-PAINTERS." -Apparently these expressions were novelty in the 'fifties of last century, as shown by the following extract from The Ceylon Times of Feb. 13, 1855:

Of late The Observer has used a new term. word-painter or word-painting, in reference to the description of the actions in the Crimea, and we find The Examiner of Saturday has the same expression. It is not, however, quite original, as it occurs in The Dublin Evening Mail.