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Croy. The Due presented Lacy to Peter the Great, who was then in alliance with Poland, and the Czar took him into his own service, in which he obtained a majority in 1705, and a lieutenant-colonelcy in 1706. On 1 January, 1709, Col. Lacy was brigadier at the great battle of Pultowa ; after Queen Catherine's accession we find him a general-in-chief ; in 1729 governor of Livonia ; and after a long and active military life he died on 11 May, 1751. According to Ferrer's ' History of Limerick,' p. 347, Peter Lacy was the general who " taught the Russians to beat the army of the King of Sweden, arid to become from the worst some of the best soldiers of Europe." I may add that Field-Marshal Count Peter Lacy's father (who was a captain of a com-

Eany in the Irish Guards of King James II.), is uncle Col. John Lacy, and his two bro- thers were killed in the service of France ; the younger brother, when aide-major in the regiment of Dorrington, fell at Malplaquet. When the Field-Marshal died he left upwards of 60,000^. personal property as well as ex- tensive estates. He is described as tall and well made, vivacious yet cool, of sound judg- ment, and prompt in action.

HENRY GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham, B.W.

CORONATION SERMONS (9 th S.ix. 501 ; x. 198). At the last reference it is stated, on the authority of the Very Rev. Cameron Lees, that Charles I. was crowned in the Chapel Royal, Holyrood, Edinburgh, on 18 June, 1633, by " Laud and Spotswood." Mr. John Rankin, Keeper of the Chapel Royal, in his ' Guide to the Palace and Abbey of Holyrood,' does not mention Archbishop Laud as havin taken any part in this second coronation, an says :

' The ceremonial of the coronation was conducted by Archbishop Spottiswoode, assisted by Bishop Bellenden of Dunblane, Bishop Alexander Lindsay of Dunkeld, Bishop Lindsay of Brechin, Bishop Guthrie of Moray, and Dr. Maxwell, Bishop-eled of Ross, in their episcopal robes. After severa preliminaries and devotional exercises, the Arch bishop crowned the King, the oath of allegiance was administered, and the usual homage was ren dered by the nobility."

RONALD DIXON. 46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

DANES IN PEMBROKESHIRE (9 th S. x. 89, 132) The boundaries of Kemeys are laid down in the 'Baronia de Kemeys-Bronwydd ' docu ments (Carnb. Arch. Association, ff. 134-5) and again in Dr. H. Owen's 'History o Pembroke,' vol. ii. ; and as Fishguard anc Good wick are included in the district, i cannot well be doubted that a Norse colon

xisted there. See also Vogt's ' Dublin Som tforsk By,' 1896, fo. 177, where reference is made to the importance of the Scandinavian jolonies in South Wales from Milford up to Cardiff.

This question of Scandinavian settlements n South Wales has not in England had that ! ull investigation and treatment it merits, and I venture to think that when Prof. Bugge stated in his 'Home of the Eddie Poems'

'Grimm Library," 1899, fo. 376), "It was

i the Scandinavian settlements in the British Isles, among Anglo-Saxons and

elts, that the Scandinavian mythical poetry waxed strong," it did not occur to him how well this might apply to South Wales. See J. Rogers Rees on ' Norse Element in Celtic Myth ' (Arch. Camb., Fifth Series, xv., . lx.). Even Dr. G. Vigfusson did not fully recognize these Scandinavian settle- ments in South Wales " among Celts." The fusion of Norsemen and Welshmen accounts for a good deal otherwise obscure in the

Mabinogion ' and in the history of South Wales. Canon W. L. Bevan recognized the Norse factor in his 'Diocesan History of St. Davids ' (1888, ff. 52-3).

The following extract from the ' Baronia de Kemeys,' fo. 23, seems to me to be worth quoting :

" It appeweth by the old rentroll of Newporte made temp. Regis E., anno '25, that at that tyme the same place (Knock y krogwith) was called the Warren Tree, which is the proper name of a gallowes amonge the Englishmen of Pembrokeshire ; and the lake (stream) next the same tree at Newporte, is called Warren Tree Lake, as appeareth by the said ould rentroll.. Also in many places there is men- tioned Terr' juxta Furcas et juxta Fontem Furcas ; this also sheweth that it had Jura Regalia in old tyme, and that felons were executed there."

Warren Tree is nothing but the O. Icelandic Vargtrd; see Vigfusson, 'Corp. Poet. Boreale,' and Stratmann, 'Old English Dictionary,' third edition, fo. 623, under heading 'Vari.' The Warren Tree and Lake are all part of a Scandinavian " ceremony." W. R. P. refers to the ' Jomsvikingar Saga,' and names more particularly Bjorn hin Bretzki ; but the life of Palnatoki, the central figure of this Saga, and his relations with South Wales are most interesting, and worth study "by those who are concerned about an early Scandinavian settlement of South Wales. The -subject is one that has occupied me for some years. I read a paper on Palnatoki to the members of the Viking Club last year, and would remark that, contrary to W. R. P.'s opinion, I found a good many Scandinavian place- names in South Carmarthenshire. The Danes as well as Norsemen settled in South Wales,