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volves other considerations, namely, the techni- calities by which copyright is established and pro- tected. These constitute the legal copyright a term not properly applicable to any work till pub- lished under the conditions of the copyright statutes. I have read of some author who was also a printer, and who transferred his work at once from his brain to his printing-press. Such an impression would surely be as much his pro- perty as a manuscript. C.

Lord Fairfax (1 st S. ix. 10. 156. 379. 572.) In Appendix No. 4. to the Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America in the Years 1759 and 1760; with Observations on the State of the Colonies. By the Rev. Andrew Barnaby, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester, and Vicar of Greenwich. Edition the Third ; revised, cor- rected, and greatly enlarged by the Author. Printed for J. Payne at the Mews-Gate, 1798, will be found an account of the family of the Fairfaxes from about the year 1691 to the date of the above-mentioned edition. UNEDA.

Philadelphia.

Inscriptions in Cardigan Bay (1 st S. xii. 494.) Your querist may be interested to know, with respect to the " Cantref y Gwaelod," if ignorant of it, that there are two triads which refer to the submersion, and some historical notices of the names of a town or two that stood thereon, as " Caer-Wyddno," or Gwyddno's City, who was the Prince of the Cantrev, as well as of Cardigan (then " Casredigiawn ") ; and also some poems or laments on its loss, of rather a touching nature, from the pen of Gwyddno himself, who was a poet,* like Hoel the " High Born," and many other British princes. I can transmit copies of the two triads and of the poems, if acceptable ; but a curious doubt has occurred to me, namely, as there are the same stumps of trees to be seen at spring tides on the coast from St. David's Head in Carmarthen Bay, and as the land there has evi- dently sunk, and not the sea risen, were not the natives of the Cantrev, the remnant of whom fled to North Wales, mistaken as to the cause of the catastrophe ? Land sinks and rises daily in some parts of the earth, and no note is taken of it. There is no " Captain Cuttle " at hand.

I trust the inscriptions will be looked after by some Welsh archaeologist, of whom we have many and good.

I had supposed that " the Lost Hundred " was inhabited by the Dimeta?, and not by the Silures ; but even if ANON be in the right about this, their " coining from Spain," is it more than a guess of Tacitus ? Is there anything in proof of it ?

DIMETIENSIS.

Dolly Pentreath (l rt S. xii. 407. 500.) Your correspondent MR. FESTING is correct in statin"

that the tombstone and epitaph of Dolly Pentreath was never to be found in the churchyard of the parish of Paul, near Penzance, but still very many of the inhabitants of that neighbourhood have a very strong opinion that the tradition that such a tomb- stone was at one time in existence, was founded in truth ; and perhaps it would be interesting to some of your readers if the epitaph which is cur- rent, amongst the inhabitants, be inserted in " N. & Q." I believe its author was a resident of Truro, who circulated several copies amongst his friends, and this most probably is the origin of the story of the tombstone. The epitaph which I give was extracted from an old work on Cornwall, whilst I was residing at Maraz^on about twenty years ago. It is as follows : Cornish.

" Coth Doll Pentreath cans ha Deau ; Marow ha kledyz ed Paul plea ; Na ed an Egloz, gan pobel bras, Bes ed Egloz-hay coth Dolly, es."

English.

" Old Doll Pentreath, one hundred aged and two, Deceased and buried in Paul parish too: Not in the church, with people great and high, But in the churchyard doth old Doll} 7 lie."

I can asser^, from personal knowledge, that most of the lower orders in the villages of Newlyn and Mousehole believe in the existence of the epitaph to this day, though it would puzzle any one to explain from whence he received the information. EDWIN DUNKIN, F.R.A.S.

14. Cottage Place, Greenwich.

Equestrian Lord Mayors (1 st S. xii. 363. 495. 501.) I am sorry that MR.CUTHBERT BEDE should take so seriously what I wrote in perfect inno- cence and good humour ; especially as I expressly acquitted him of any purposed intention of doing injustice to the metropolitan dignitaries. I am afraid, however, that I must now retract that acquittal; for I cannot help thinking that his somewhat irreverent allusion to the " Jerusalem pony " betrays a lurking sarcasm on the eques- trian abilities of the civic functionary. Or per- haps, in this mixture of the breed, he refers to more ancient times, when the Lord Mayors might have paraded on mules, according to the practice of the Judges, up to the time of Queen Mary ; Mr. Justice Whiddon, in that queen's reign, being the first who began the custom of riding to West- minster Hall on a " horse, or gelding." When the more easy and dignified conveyance at present used was adopted, is a question which I may, per- haps, apply with success to MR. CUTHBERT BEDE to solve. But there is a tradition that a venerable ornament of the Bench (I cannot just now recall his name), in proceeding to the Court, one day lost his equilibrium, and was prostrated in the