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 230 NOTES AND QUERIES. i9fs.rv.SKrT.i6.rn as wild duck shooting." There are various references to and extracts about Muschamp in John George MacCarthy'a 'History of Cork,' as well as in several smaller ones, but no mention is made of the particular point of information which I require, namely, the circumstances of his death at Cork in 1648, and the date of birth of his daughter Anne. T. J. COAKLEY. EPITAPH. — Can any reader tell me the author of the following most appropriate lines, taken from a tombstone in Oyster- mouth Churchyard t— Earthly cavern, to thy keeping We commit our parents' dust; Keep it safely, softly sleeping, Till our Lord demands thy trust. ALFRED HALL. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— Oh, good painter, tell me true, Has your hand the cunning to draw Shapes of things that you never saw ? Aye—well, then, here is an order for you. These lines are from a poem entitled ' An Order for a Picture.' GEORGE HARVEY. When the world was young, And every lad a king And every lass a queen. I think the author is Bryant. H. BOUGHTON. SWANSEA: ITS DERIVATION. (9th S. i. 43, 98, 148, 194, 370, 433, 496; iii. 470; iv. 37, 110.) THE opening paragraphs of COL. MORGAN'S note are partly assumptions. The first can hardly be considered complimentary to his critics, but, if correct, is due to his theory not having, in the minds of those who have given the subject consideration, any foundation. The second is. perhaps, more a statement, the correctness or which he assumes readers are satisfied with. The whole fabric of his note must tumble to pieces unless he can bring into line Caradoc's references, and explair away all I now call attention to. I stari by directing special attention to the fact thai the Colonel's earliest date is 1217. In 1090 Sengennyth was a petty lordship of Gla morgan. In 1093-4 the hill stronghold o Sainghenydd " was Einion's share; and Cara doc tells us that in 1093 the Normans whc inhabited the country of Glamorgan "fel upon and destroyed the countries of Gwyr Kidwely, and Ystrad Tywy," and, further "they left them bare of any people to inhabit. Now when Caradoc writes that Sengennyth was in Glamorgan and Gower was a separate ountry, the reasonable, if not onlv conclu- ion to be drawn therefrom is that Sen- gennyth was not in Gower. How does iaradoc agree with the Colonel's statement hat PROF. SKEAT " can hardly have remem- jered howfew were thepure Normans who had Dart in the so-called Norman conquest of Wales " ? Caradoc states that in 1113 Prince Gruflydh was at Abertawy Castle, which, he tells us, was built by Henry Beaumont. How does it come that the Castle Sein Henydd, which, the Colonel says, occupied so promi- nent a position in Bruts, should, if his theory s correct, be in 1093 named Sain Henydd? ind when the same author is recounting events which happened nine or ten years ater, he calls the castle Abertawy, specially mentioning the latter as being built by a certain person, thereby drawing an unmis- akable distinction between the two. In jrought to do homage to the king was Morgan ap Caradoc ap Jestyn, of Glamorgan, and Gruffydh ap Isor ap Meiric, of Sengennyth. We have in 1208 King John's charter to the town of Sweinesey. In 1215 Swansea, in Breos's charter, is Sweynesh, and this was from the family who, we are told, had their borne in Swansea Castle. In 1217 Llewelyn s;ave to his son-in-law, De Breos, the castle of Sein Henyd. which was destroyed the same year by Marshall. In 1221 John De Breos, who also married a daughter of Llewelyn, repaired the castle of Seng Henyd. In 1270, for the first time, this castle is called Caer- philly. Thus from 1090 to 1270 we have a clearly defined Sein Henyd; covering the same period, we have an Abertawy Castle, the latter, as already mentioned, specially referred to and apart from the former ; and we have Swansea and its variants. And the Colonel wishes us to understand these three are one. If this is the case, then I may be allowed to ask the question, Given the Colonel's theory to be correct that Sein Henyd was the dis- trict or castle of Swansea, where was, or is, Sein Henyd, which in 1270 was first called Caerphilly? The Colonel says Sein Henyd coulof not have entirely disappeared and left no trace, which is the case if the theory that its situation was Llangennith is correct. Is this the basis upon which the Colonel founds the assertion that Sein Henyd could not be Llangennith t If so, then many castles and towns, nay cities, which are known to have existed must now be erased from our records. As an illustration from the locality I suppose the Colonel is familiar with, take LJandimor; no church now exists there. It is, I believe, not mentioned in the 'Valor Ecclesiasticus'
 * 174, among the lords of South Wales Rhys