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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?.
