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on the pedestal of the obelisk which stand before the central portal of St. Peter's a Rome. I shall be very grateful if some on of them will confirm, or if need be correc and complete, my own impressions. M. memory is that on the eastern face of th pedestal are these words : " Christus vivit Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus vin dicat suum populurn ab omni malo." To my surprise I seek this inscription in vain through Murray, Baedeker, and Gsel-Fels. The tex as I find it in Gorringe's volume on the pbe lisks is evidently corrupt. Where is it given correctly? Was it cut in the stone in 158( when the monument was transferred to its present site? or is it even more ancient' How stands the lettering in Fontana's book which the British Museum opens to many but shuts up from me? JAMES D. BUTLER. Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.

"PANSHON." (9 th S. viii. 243.) THESE were (and doubtless are) familiar objects in the Midlands, but I was under the impression, until I saw the note in ' N. & Q.,' that the usual spelling is pancheon, and not panshon, a form quite new to me. These large bowls, which in shape resemble truncated cones inverted, are of red unglazed clay outside, but glazed inside. Besides being used for dairy purposes, they were used in the laundry in washing clothes. A local rime in Nottinghamshire, referring to some church bells, says :

Colston's cracked pancheons, Screveton eggshells Bmgham's tro' rollers, and Whatton merry bells. ' The last named, it may be presumed, are the tunable bells of Whatton " to which Arch- bishop Cranmer is said to have listened when he lived at Aslackton.

W. P. W. PHILLIMORE. Panshon, or as it is, I think, more com- monly spelt, panskion or pansheon, is a good old word. Whether it be within the pale of 'proper English," regarded from the standpoint of the ordinary dictionary- makers and those who follow them, I do not know, and as I consider their opinions on such a point of little value, I do not propose to investigate. In an account- book of my great-grandfather Thomas Pea- cock, of Northorpe Hall, for the year 1782 there is an entry of a payment for "pots and panshions." In the late Bishop Trollone's Continually annoyed by her rattling her
 * Sleaford' (1872) the following passage occurs

milk pancheons," p. 368 ; and in Charles Kings- ley's ' Hereward the Wake ' it is told that the hero " bargained with her for a panshin against a lodging for his horse in the turf- house" (vol. ii. p. 172). I constantly meet with it in the sale-bills of auctioneers. Here is an example which I happen to have pre- served : " Wringer and Washing - machine combined, Box Churn, with Pancheons." Sale at Waddingham Carr, 19 March, 1900.

The panshion is a broad, shallow vessel, made in that manner for the purpose of exposing to the atmosphere a wide surface of milk. Formerly panshions were almost always made of earthenware, but zinc ones became fashionable some sixty years ago. Now they are not infrequently made of glass. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Kirton-in-Lindsey.

When I write this word, which I do perhaps three times in a century, I spell it pancheon, but why or wherefore I cannot tell. I do not think that shallowness is a distinctive attribute of the panshon. Those devoted to milk are not deep, because of some mystery connected with the rising of the cream ; but in Lincolnshire the bread panshon is anything but shallow. It is usually of red earthenware lined with a black or a yellow glaze. In Yorkshire I once heard the like article called a " mug." I suppose the word vanshon may be a diminutive of pan.

ST. SWITHIN.

Panshons are or were quite common in East Yorkshire, and were used for washing, steeping, and washing-up purposes, and for lolding such substances as lard or " same," as well as liquids. They were mostly of thick, lark red earthenware, with a dark glaze nside, and were of different sizes, the smallest much larger than ordinary basins, from which they differed by not being bowl- shaped or spherical in section. They were not usually shallow, but increased greatly in circumference from bottom to top. Our spelling was pancheon (compare puncheon); whether akin to pan or to paunch others will be able to determine. W. C. B.

A pancheon, as I have always known the to be spelt, is a thick glazed earthen- ware vessel, of which the following is one ize : height, 9 in. ; diameter inside, 18 in. at he top, and 7 in. at the bottom ; the sloping ides are straight, not curved. It is called a Kincheon in the Midland counties, a crock lear London, a jowl-mug in Staffordshire, a mn-mug in Cheshire, and a kneadina-pan in most cookery books. A milk-pan is shallower han the above, and I think wider in propor-