Page:Notes and Queries - Series 9 - Volume 3.djvu/177

 9 th S. III. M

MAR.V99.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

171

unfathomable, bottomless." But what have these words to do with colours 1

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings.

THE SWALLOW'S SONG (9 th S. ii. 143, 471 ; iii. 93). Horace, who makes Procne the swallow, speaks of her as the mourner for the slaying of Itys ; and, as she was both his mother and his murderess, she had reason to mourn. If she sings a cheerful song, she must be keeping her spirits up in somewhat difficult circumstances. Philomela, in giving way to her grief, is more natural ; for both sisters were actresses in a very horrible tragedy, and the one had as much cause for grief as the other :

Nidum ponit Ityn flebiliter gemens, Infelix avis. Book iv. Ode 12.

Horace evidently is referring to the better- known form of the legend, and means the swallow in this place. I have read nothing of the poem to which C. C. B. refers except the lines quoted. But those lines remind me of the twelfth fable of Babrius. There the nightingale is mourning in the woods the fate of Itys, and is invited by the swallow to come amongst men. But the fable does not seem to tell us whether the nightingale is Philomela or Procne. Babrius says that the two birds recognized one another by their song. So perhaps he himself knew of the swallow's song. E. YARDLEY.

THE VILLAGE OF LOGGERHEADS (9 th S. iii. 68). I never heard of " the village of Logger- heads," but I knew the inn referred to. It is at the entrance to Colomendy Park (near Mold), where Wilson lived for some time, and died. He painted the sign at the inn. One of the faces is now very indistinct. Llan- ferras (to give the word as Archdeacon Thomas gives it in his ' History of St. Asaph') quite a different place from Llanberis is a neigh- bouring village, and, doubtless, the parish in which the " Loggerheads Inn " is situated.

E. W.

In this connexion note 'Baron Munchausen,' c. xxxiii., the kingdom of Loggerheads, "wilder than any part of Siberia," where occurred one of the most famous of the Baron's many combats. F. E. MANLEY.

Stoke Newington.

The " Loggerheads Inn " is not at Llanberis, but between Mold and the top of Moel Fam- mau, close to Colomendy, the picturesque residence of B. G. Davies Cooke, Esq., where Wilson lived for some time, and died. Cf. 'Gossiping Guide to Wales,' p. 171.

GEORGE T. KENYON.

JOHN VILETT (9 th S. ii. 468). He probably belongs to the family of Vilett of Swindon, GO. Wilts, Nicholas being the first mentioned, circa 1560-70. Henry Villett, alias Violet, is given in the 'Visitation of London,' 1568, but it states " now of Kent." A portion of the above seem to have migrated to Lynn, in Norfolk. The arms, crest, and Christian names are similar in the three families.

JOHN KADCLIFFE.

BRASS AT ST. ALBANS (9 th S. ii. 468, 535). In ' Gibbs's Handbook to St. Albans,' by F. B. Mason (1884), it is said that Sir Bertin Entwysel was buried, according to Leland, " under the plase of the Lectorium in the quyre, whereas a memorial of him ther yet remeyneth."' Mr. Mason speaks of this memorial in the past tense, as "the brass figure of a knight in armour."

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

PORTRAIT OF HUGH O'NEILL, EARL OF TYRONE (9 th S. iii. 89). There were two por- traits of this worthy at the Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1866, Nos. 375 and 378, both exhibited by Mr. C. de Gernon. The former was a half-length, and the other a bust done in his old age, and when blind, at Rome. W. ROBERTS.

In ' N. & Q.,' 8 th S. iv. 207, a query appears with the above heading. Inquiry then fol- lows for a biography of Hugh, published in the seventeenth century, entitled ' La Spada d'Orione, Stellata nel Campodi Marte,' written by Primo Daraaschino, in which work I pre- sume the portrait may be found.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

A CHURCH TRADITION (9 th S. i. 428 ; ii. 58, 150, 173, 256, 296, 393, 474 ; iii. 33, 94). The cathedral of Seez, begun and finished in the thirteenth century, was peculiarly unlucky in want of sufficient buttresses, and has had to be nearly rebuilt/.with plaster imitative vaults. Planat says of its present state, "Les deux tours de la fagade etaient egalement com- promises. Des restaurations ont ete habilement faites depuis par M. Ruprich-Robert." But no repairs to these steeples could affect their height, they being entirely of stone, and the plans identical, but each story of the northern exceeding the southern an inch or two. At the cathedrals of Tours and Angers there is about the same difference, but further south I know not of any. It seems a North French fancy only. The oldest example I take to be St. Remi, at Reims, earlier than 1200, and the latest St. Sulpice, at Paris, about 1650. As