ents, _inhabitants of this parish_, caused this
tomb to be erected to an only son, lost to them and the world, in his
twentieth year, as a monument of his virtues and their affections."

At page 53. of the same volume is a copperplate representing the tomb. On
one side appears a soldier leaning on his musket. On his cap is inscribed
"3rd Regt.;" his right hand points to the tomb; and a label proceeding from
his mouth represents him saying, "I have obtained a pension of a shilling a
day only for putting an end to thy days." At the foot of the tomb is
represented a large thistle, from the centre of which proceeds the words,
"Murder screened and rewarded."

Accompanying this print are, among other remarks, the following:--

"It was generally believed that he was m----d by one Maclane, a
Scottish soldier of the 3d Regt. The father prosecuted, Ad----n
undertook the defence of the soldier. The solicitor of the Treasury,
Mr. Nuthall, the deputy-solicitor, Mr. Francis, and Mr. Barlow of the
Crown Office, attended the trial, and it is said, paid the whole
expence for the prisoner out of the Treasury, to the amount of a very
considerable sum. The defence set up was, that young Allen was not
killed by Maclane, but by another Scottish soldier of the same
regiment, one McLaughlin, who confessed it at the time to the justice,
as the justice says, though he owns he took no one step against a
person who declared himself a murderer in the most express terms....
The perfect innocence of the young man as to the charge of being
concerned in any riot or tumult, is universally acknowledged, and a
more general good character is nowhere to be found. This McLaughlin
soon made his escape, therefore was a deserter as well as a murtherer,
yet he has had a discharge sent him with an allowance of a shilling a
day."

Maclane was most probably the "Mac" alluded to by SENEX; but his account
differs in so many respects from cotemporaneous records that I have
ventured to trespass somewhat largely upon your space. I may add, that I by
no means agree in the propriety of erasing a monumental inscription of more
than eighty years' existence without some much stronger proof of its
falsehood; for I quite coincide with the remarks of Rev. D. Lysons, in his
allusion to this monument (_Surrey_, p. 393.), that

"Allen was illegally killed, whether he was concerned in the riots or