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Joshua . * Edward lived in Fetter-lane , Fleet-street . This Aubrey assures us , and his information is confirmed by those curious MS . papers called " The Eire of London Papers , " now happily preserved in the British Museum . There I read as follows : — "Edward Marshall , Mason , a parcel of ground with

several tenements aud yards thereunto belonging , lying on the east to Eetter-lane , on the north to the passage called Bond Stables , on the south adjoining to the buildings of one John Bawling , gent ., and on the west butting on the garden of the Master of the Soils . "—Addit . M . S . Brit . Mm . 5068 , fol . 182 . ,

This Edward Marshall made the bust in Westminster Abbey of Michael Drayton the poet , f erected at the expense ofthe famous Anne Clifford , daughter of an Earl of Cumberland , and wife first of Saetville Earl of Dorset , and secondly of Philip Herbert Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery , aud who consequently

, throughout a long final widowhood , was obliged liy the rules of the Heralds' College to divide her titles as she had done her heart , between two dear defunct husbands , by signing herself " Anne Pembroke , Dorset and Montgomery , " according to the peerage

creations of her two lords ; a case without parallel , I believe , in the history or romance of the English peerage . Edward had , it would seem , a taste for poetry . He " wrought curiousl y in plaster" the bust of his " great friend , " Francis Quarles , " and "valued it for

Quarles ' s sake . " " 'Tis pity it should be lost , " Aubrey writes to old Antony Wood . Is its whereabouts at all known ? By Edward Marshall there are two white marble and Avell-executed monumental busts in Tottenham ChurchMiddlesexrepresenting Sir Eobert and Lady

, , Barkham , of Wainfleet , in the county of Lincoln , Sir Eobert died in 16-14 . Their eig ht children kneel near to the busts . This monument should be seen by all who are curious in identifying the works of our early sculptors . The editors of Walpole ' s " Anecdotes" Mr .

Dal-, laway in 1826 , aud Mr . Wornum in 18-1-9 , have wholly overlooked a printed notice of Edward Marshall . I shall , therefore , transcribe it entire for insertion by all Avho are curious in perfecting and illustrating that delightful work : —

" Barn-elms House in Surrey , with orchards , gardens , coach-houses , stable , grazing for a couple of geldings or cows , spring-water brought to the house in leaden p ipes , pleasant walks by the Thames side , and other accommodations , is to be let , or otherwise may be divided into two convenient dwellings , with

garden , orchard , and water to each of them . Inquire farther of Mr . Edward Marshall , a stone-cutter , living in Fetter-lane . "—Mcreuriiis Polilicus , Sth Mm / , 1659 . Among Edward Marshall ' s other works— " Marshall of Eetter-lane "—Walpole ' s editors should

, include the monument to Sir [ Richard Verney at Comptou , and of the Earl of Totness at Stratfordupon-Avon . Sir William Dugclale , in his Pocketbook for 1653 , records that thev came from the chisel of " Marshall of Eetter-lane . " ' II . Joshua ( whose best works are to be seen at

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Campden , in Gloucestershire , and Swansea , in Cambridgeshire ) was employed on a well-known work in Westminster Abbey , as the following fragment ( now first published ) will convince my readers : — " To the executors of Joshua Marshall , deceased , for making a monument at Westminster , for the

bones of a prince found in the Tower of London . " — Works Accounts ofthe Grown for 1678-9 . The monument to the princes , King Edward V aud his brother , is a sarcophagus , neatly wrought in white marble . Sir Christopher Wren gave the design . And here I may ask , would my friend , the

distinguished scvrlptor , Mr . William Calder Marshall , E . A ., make a like sarcophagus for a like amount ? I wish Mr . Marshall would look at his namesake ' s work , and let the readers of the Builder know what a like work would cost at the present true . A practical opinion of what a duplicate would cost would give us

a further clue to the value of marble and labour in the years 1678 aud 1863 . III . Of William Marshall I can give no further account than that he was born on the 7 th of October , 1606 , and that the star—the figure of his nativity ascendant in the skies that day—is preserved among

vUhmole ' s MSS . at Oxford . This I have never seen . A sculptor ' s nativity cast by Ashmole might fitly find a p lace in a column of the Builder . My last new material relating to the Marshalls is from the MS . vestry minutes of St . Martin ' s-in-the-Eifilds : — -

" 1658 , September 24—Ordered that Mr . Marshall , stone-cutter , do pay twenty shillings per annum for the privilege he hath in laying stones in Hedgelane : to which Mr . Marshall being present consented ; the twenty shillings per annum to be paid from Michaelmas now next ensuinrr . "

Hedge-lane is a narrow but much frequented thoroughfare leading from Pall-mall East to Coventrystreet . Let us contrast it in 1658 , when Mr . Marshall Avas suffered to make a marble-yard of it , with the crowded and equally narrow Hedge-lane of 1863 . PETER CTJITH ' INGIIAM , in the Builder .

Knighthood.

KNIGHTHOOD .

The celebration of the marriage of the heir to the throne with all the heraldic magnificence— -with fane / fare of silver clarions , with processions of yeomen of the guard in their scarlet doublets barred with gold , gentlemen-at-arms with their whifco plumes , state drummers ancl trumpeters in coats of cloth of gold , heralds in their tabards , and pursuivants , kings-at-avms , and garter

kingat-arms with collar , badge , tabard , and scarlet satin mantle—has awakened a national interest in all the insignia of chivalry which has long reposed in the minds of a few antiquaries . All England has just seized heraldry as a voice with which to speak welcome to the beautiful daughter of sea-kings whom the Prince of Wales has chosen for his bride . Seldom have quartering . ?

been so assiduously studied , never have the heraldic emblems of a foreign nation been so multitudinously displayed in ' our streets , as in the decorations of our houses , bridges , and public buildings , not only along the line of route through which the procession was expected to pass , but in every town in the United Kingdomnorth , south , east , and west . Heraldic Latin and heraldic colouring have been diligently searched to find full and faultless expression of the public gratification . England has been one broad-spanned rainbow—one vast pageant .