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the Sheriffs for Caermarthen town in 1673, Mayor of Caermarthen in 1G82 married thrice. His first wife was Jane, second daughter of Sir William Vaugban, Knt., D.C.L., colonizer of Newfoundland and poet, of Tor-y-coed in Llangendeirne, co. Caer- marthen (.second brother of, and in his issue heir to. John, Earl of Carbery, of Golden Grove). By her he had issue William Brig- stocke, his son and heir, and a daughter Anne, married to Owen Bowen, of Gurrey, in Llandilo-Vawr. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of David Lloyd, of Forth wred and Castle-Howel, co. Cardigan. She died at Llechdwny 3 February, and was buried at Llandebie 6 February, 1607/8, where there is a mural tablet to her memory. By her he had further issue Thomas Brigstocke, barrister-at-law Middle Temple, ob. sp. 1691, buried in the Temple Church ; Francis Brig- stocke, who seems to have been a scapegrace, and probably left issue represented at the present day ; and John Brigstocke, ob. s p. 1665, buried in Gloucester Cathedral ; and also two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, who both married and left issue. His third wife was Elizabeth (twice a widow, first of John Gwyn, of Piode, in Llandebie, co. Caer- marthen, and secondly of William Lloyd, of Allt-y-cadno), daughter of Arthur and Dorothy Wogan, of Pengwern and Hencastle, co. Pembroke (a cadet of the Wogans of Wiston), and co-heir to her brother Thomas Wogan (? the regicide). By her he had no further issue. Died a widower in the winter of 1689-90. Will proved at Caermarthen.

The other particulars shall follow later. G. 11. BRIGSTOCKE.

Ryde, I.W.

SOUTHWOLD CHURCH : FIGURES AND EM- BLEMS (10 th S. iii. 329, 369). The "apron or sheet in which are small figures " should pro- bably be taken to represent "Abraham's bosom," or, under some other name, the place wherein the souls of the righteous repose when released from the body. Images bear- ing before them such treasure, thus enveloped, are to be seen among the sculptured mysteries of many French churches. Should I ever have the happiness of returning to Bourges, I shall reproach my memory if I do not find one of them on the grand facade of the cathedral. It is of this that M*. Huysmans speaks when he refers to "un porche prece- dant uii edicule ou le vieil Abraham, assis, tend sur ses genoux un tablier plein de petites tetes qui jubilent, d'ames sauves" ('La Cathedrale,' p. 460). It may be re- membered that in an old carol, 'Dives and Lazarus,' two serpents are sent from hell to

fetch the soul of the defunct rich man, and that one of them reveals its fate :

Rise up, rise up, brother Dives,

And come along with me, For you've a place provided in hell

To sit upon a serpent's knee.

In the 'Biblia Pauperum' it was Christ who was figured bearing the souls of the blessed in His mantle (Didron's 'Christian Iconography,' Margaret Stokes's edition, Ap- pendix iii. p. 428). ST. SWITHIN.

"ENGLAND," "ENGLISH": THEIR PRONUN- CIATION (10 th S. iii. 322, 393). I regret that difference of view separates me so widely from PROF. SKEAT, and it is also somewhat disappointing to me to find that the newness of my arguments renders the consideration of them inadmissible. The reason PROF. SKEAT has given for rejecting them is not one, it is true, that could be accepted by a> linguist who had mastered the elementary fact that Triibunri, or darkening of a into o, is no criterion of the quantity of that vowel. But the majority of the readers of 'N. & Q.' cannot be supposed to possess that know- ledge ; so when they see that PROF. SKEAT'S argument runs, ''For we know that in Ongle the o is short, as in lond, land, ttc.," they will naturally conclude, though erroneously, that PROF. SKEAT maintains that it is only short a that wavers in the manner exem- plified, and they may suppose that that is the right thing to believe. It is the only argument that PROF. SKEAT has advanced, and the application of the examples he gives- in the second paragraph of his reply, on the ground, I presume, that they are parallel and relevant, depends upon it. Triibiiny of d, however, is found quite as frequently, perhaps, as that of a, consequently PROF. SKEAT'S argument is contingent, and is worth no more than its converse, namely, we know that in Onyie (for Angle) o may be long, as in on(l>/), an ; bon, ban (bone) ; holic y hdlic (holy) ; yost, ydst (ghost), &c. I have marked a in Angle long for reasons given ; PROF. SKEAT marks it short and gives no reason for doing so. Moreover, the linguistic and orthographical difficulties collectively presented by the pronunciation Inylish, and the Greek "AyyeiAoi, the Old High German Anyil(berht), the Mercian Anyel(theoio], the- West Saxon Anyel(cyn\ Enyle, ^Enyle, and the Old Welsh Einmjl are not susceptible of being explained from his point of view.

A. ANSCOMBE.

DICKENSIAN LONDON (10 th S. ii. 49). Although in the magazines mentioned below there is no illustration of either Xo. 3*