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tion at the bottom. The following is an extract from the * Century Dictionary ' :

" Pancheon, panchin (an assibilated form of pan- kin, pannikin ; perhaps a simulation of puncheon). A coarse earthenware pan, used to contain milk and other liquids."

M. ELLEN POOLE.

Alsager, Cheshire.

FORLONG (9 th S. viii. 365) The author of excellent health and full of vigour. He was born in 1824, and is now actively engaged on another large work. N. R. FORLONG.
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11, Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh.

[Other replies acknowledged.]

THE 'MARSEILLAISE' (9 th S. viii. 61, 126, 187, 245, 287, 331, 372). As in a controversy the last word is for him who has first been attacked, I only claim to say still this : Every one is free to read, to understand, and to be convinced, or not, by what numerous French writers, who have given a mass of indisputable historical facts, have said against Rouget de 1'Isle's authorship of the music of the * Marseillaise.' Any one not convinced may declare his dissent ; but for him to use the pluralis majestatis " we," as if that whole French literature did not exist, and to assert that u no one has hitherto been

shire' gives the following measurements, which, however, differ slightly from those given in local newspapers at the time : length, 48ft. 6 in. ; width, 4ft. Sin. ; depth, 2 ft. 3 in. The boat is still preserved at Brigg in a building erected for the purpose.

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There are quite a number of ancient boats hollowed out of large trees which were formerly in the museum of the R.I.A., and are now in the antiquarian part of the National Museum in Dublin. Some could almost be used now, they are in such a perfect state. The trees must have been of most enormous size. None such is to be found in the present day.

FRANCIS ROBERT HARRIS, M.R.I.A.

See ' Notes on an Ancient Boat found at Brigg,' an illustrated paper in Archceologia, vol. 1. art. xx. pp. 361-70, by Mr. Alfred Atkinson. Notices of others are in the Illustrated London News, 16 Oct., 1847, p. 253 (Clyde); 12 July, 1851, p. 56 (Whittlesea Mere). W. C. B.

boat 48 ft. long, scooped in one mass out of a single oak tree, and found in the deep mud of the Ankholme, is preserved at Brigg in Lincolnshire. W. T.

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Mr. Banks from Edward

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with notes and texts. Kb'ckert also comes to the conclusion that " though we do not know as yet with absolute certainty the real author of the 'Marseillaise ' melody, there can yet, according to my conviction, be no doubt any more as to its being, at any rate, not from Rouget de Lisle."

As more may have to be said elsewhere, I conclude with these final lines.

KARL BLIND.

ANCIENT BOATS (9 th S. viii. 366). An ancient boat was dug up at Urigg in Lincoln- shire in 1886. It was found at a depth of about 3 ft. 6 in. in or near the bed of the river Ancholme. It had evidently been hewn out of the trunk of a single tree (believed to have been an oak). Kelly's ' Directory of Lincoln-

with the " Thomas Lay ton, a younger son to Layton of Feckenham in co. Wigorn.," in the pedigree of the Eures of Elvet, recorded in the Heraldic Visitation of Durham, 17 August, 1666, as having married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Sir William Eure, Knt., of B in Wolsingham parish. This lady is " in Mr. Joseph Foster's

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ntaters (Committee for Seques- tration ) it i s recorded that Elizabeth Leighton, widow, under date 25 December, 1650, begs allowance of her annuity of 30/. on the lands of her brother Thomas Eure, who had inherited a small estate in Bradley, fought for the king as a major of horse under his kinsman Colonel the Hon. William Eure, and was slain at the first battle