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alleged at 9 th S. xi. 233, provoked PROF. SKEATS'S still, I think, unanswered query, "Where is the name 'sloth' given to the glutton?" Certainly the term is rather inappropriate if applied to so cute and enterprising a " critter " as trappers say the wolverine is ; nor does the passage from Keats which elicited the allegation appear to need any further gloss than the "sleuth- hound " supplied by the above-named veteran philologist. J. DORMER.

Mr. Dennett, in the paper in Folk-lore referred to, describes the xinbanda as a "lemur" (see p. 388, note 1). The word " sloth " was probably used carelessly.

ERNEST B. SAVAGE.

S. Thomas', Douglas.

KYNAN (10 th S. v. 169, 215). The following pedigree will, I think, answer MR. ACKER- LEY'S question :

Rodri Mawr=pAngharad.

Anarawd ap Rhodri, King of North=f= Wales, d. 913.

I Edwal Voel, King of North=pAvandreg v dau. of Mer-

Wates, slain 940.

vyn ap Rhodri, King of Powis.

Meuric ap Idwal=f=

Idwal ap Meuric, slain 993=p I

lago ap Idwal, King of North Wales=j= restored 1021, slain 1037-

Cynan (or Conan)=pRanyllt, dau. of Awloedd, King ap lago. 1 of Dublin, apSytrick,ap Harold

Harfagr.

Griffith ap Cynan, re-=pAngharad, dau. of Owen ap stored 1079, d. 1126. I Edwin, Lord of Tegaingl.

Owen Gwynnedd.

ALDENHAM.

COPYRIGHT IN LETTERS (10 th S. y. 128, 176, 217). The answer at p. 217 requires serious modification. It is necessary to say, to make the following extract clear, that Smith, Elder & Co. were co- plain tiffs. Kekewich, J., in closing his judgment in favour of the plain- tiffs as assignees from Mr. and Mrs. Steeds of the copyright in the letters, said :

" Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. were the assigns of the author's manuscript, and in my view they till that position. The result is, it seems to me, that I must come to the conclusion that the Legislature in- tended that Mr. and Mrs. Steeds, having these letters rightfully in their possession, were entitled

to publish them themselves or to hand them over to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. for publication, and to give them the right of publication ; and that, that having been done, nothing remained in Mr. and Mrs. Steeds which they could pass to any one, except of course ^ the right to the Utters themselves. Those they retained, and those they could part with. The right of publication) it seems to me, was gone"

The italics are mine.

MISTLETOE.

ARCHDEACONS' MARKS (10 th S. v. 209).=The crosses to which Q. W. V. alludes are no doubt what are commonlj 7 called consecration crosses. At the consecration of a church they were supposed to be cut by the arch- deacon or his agent for that purpose, and were anointed by the bishop with the con- secrated chrism or cream.

OSWALD J. REICIIEL.

A la Ronde, Lympstone, Devon.

CROSS-LEGGED KNIGHTS (10 th S. v. 130, 175, 257). In 'The Temple Church,' by C. J. Addison, 1843, p. 87, it is stated :

side by side on the pavement of ' the Round 3 of the Temple Church, have been supposed to be monu- ments of Knights Templars, but this is not the case. The Templars were always buried in the habit of their order, and are represented in it on their tombs. This habit was a long white mantle, as before mentioned, with a red cross over the left breast ; it had a short cape and a hood behind, and
 * ' The mail - clad monumental effigies reposing

fell down to the feet unconfined by any girdle

Although not monuments of Knights Templars, yet these interesting cross-legged effigies have strong claims to our attention upon other grounds. They appear to have been placed in the church to the memory of a class of men termed ' Associates of the Temple,' who, though not actually admitted to the holy vows and habits of the order, were yet received into a species of spiritual connexion with the Templars."

And at p. 94:

k< The most interesting, and one of the most ancient of these monuments, represents Geoffrey de Magnaville, Earl of Essex. It displays an armed knight with his legs crossed, in token that he had assumed the cross, and taken a vow to tight ill defence of the Christian faith."

A foot-note adds :

"Some surprise has been expressed that the effigies of women should be found in this curious position. It must be recollected that women fre- quently fought in the field during the Crusades, and were highly applauded for so doing."

R. J. FYNMORE.

I have recently met with two examples of a figure standing cross-legged among the sentry saints which are ranged in the portals of many French cathedrals. I thought the effigy might be intended for St. Louis ; from which it will be perceived that I am behind- hand in not having yet wholly freed myself of the Crusading theory. ST. SWITHIN.