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Title
William III (1650–1702)
Date
18th C
Medium
lead & Portland stone
Accession number
GU3_PD_S001
Acquisition method
bequeathed by Sir William Jolliffe
Work type
Equestrian
Owner
East Hampshire District Council
Custodian
East Hampshire District Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade I (England and Wales)
Listing date
29/07/49
Access
at all times
Inscription description
the inscription reads incised in Latin on the plinth and translated into English on a plaque: ‘TO THE MOST HIGH / AND MIGHTY PRINCE / WILLIAM THE THIRD / WHO BY HIS MANY AND EXCELLENT / SERVICES DESERVED WELL OF THE NATION: / WHEN THE STATE WAS TOTTERING / HE HELD IT FIRM: IN GOOD TIME HE / MADE SAFE THE PURE AND SIMPLE / WORSHIP OF GOD; HE RESTORED / AND CONFIRMED TO LAW ITS / POWER AND PARLIAMENT / ITS DIGNITY. / SIR WILLIAM JOLLIFFE, / WISHING TO LEAVE SOME MEMORIAL / OF THE LOVING ZEAL WHICH HE / HIMSELF HAD DEOTED TO THE / CAUSE AT ONCE OF LIBERTY AND / OF LIBERTY’S ROYAL CHAMPION / PROVIDED IN HIS WILL FOR THIS / STATUE TO BE ERECTED IN THE / TOWN. / EXECUTORS / SAMUEL TUFNEL / EDWARD NORTHEY / JOHN JOLLIFFE; incised into plinth: THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED IN 1757 / REMOVED TO ITS PRESENT POSITION IN 1812 / BOUGHT BY THE TOWN IN 1911 / AND RESTORED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN 1913; incised into plinth: WILLIAM III