prison. He was actually in the King's Bench prison
when he carved the bas-relief on the pediment of the
Monument, and went backwards and forwards daily
to do his work.

But the elder Cibber's name is best remembered by
a work of his other than these in perishable stone and
metal -- we know him best as the father of his famous
son, Colley.

Ten years before his statues were set above the
gates of Bedlam, Caius Gabriel had made a second
essay in matrimony and had taken unto himself a wife
by name Jane Colley, who claimed to be a descendant of
no less a personage than that illustrious and industrious
prelate, William of Wykeham. ¹

A year later Mrs. Cibber presented her lord with a son,
to whom was given his mother's surname. Colley
Cibber first saw the light of day in Southampton Street,
London, on November 6th, 1671. A fortnight later
there appeared in the baptismal register of St. Giles-in-
the-Fields the entry:

Nov: 29: 1671 Christnings.

Colley, sonne of Caius
Gabriell Sibber, ² and
Jane ux.

There were two other children, Lewis and Veronica.

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