"Ymsawdd yn llyn, heb naw."
"Sinking in the lake, without a ship."
The Britons consequently had a name for a ship, independent of Roman influence. Can A. N. produce any evidence that the Britons in pre-Roman times did not possess any vessels superior to the cwrygl? Is it probable that the warlike aid which the Britons constantly rendered the Gauls, was conveyed across the channel in mere "osier baskets?" Had the "water-dwellers" (Dwr-trig-wys) of Dorsetshire (Durotriges) attained no higher grade in navigation than that simple mode of water conveyance?
I am almost inclined to exclaim, "Mi dynaf y torch a thi" ("I will pull the torque with thee") in respect to the position claimed for the Latin longa; but passing this, I will advance the opinion that the Celtic naw is the root of the Latin navis.
—Is not 1510 a mistake for 1550? The figures 1 and 5 are often confounded in manuscripts of Spenser's age. The mistake was probably that of the sculptor.
D. X.
—The period over which these Registers extend is thus shown in the Accounts and Papers printed by order of Parliament in the year 1833, vol. xxxviii. p. 335:—
"County of Sussex.—Arundel Rape.
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The earlier register-book used by Heylin must have been removed from the proper custody before the year 1831. If still preserved in any public or private library it may perhaps reward some reader of "NOTES AND QUERIES" in the next century by turning up when unsought for. In the mean time, however, is there no official copy to be found in the Archbishop's courts at Canterbury?
LLEWELLYN.
—The symbol of three legs conjoined no doubt denotes the triangular shapes of the Isle of Man, and Sicily or Trinacria. The τρία ἄκρα from which the name of the latter is derived are the promontories of Lilybæum, Pachynus, and Pelorus, now Capes S. Vito, Passaro, and Faro (Virg. Æn. iii. 384.). It is somewhat curious that the earliest coinage of this island, A.D. 1709 (which by the bye is cast, and not struck in the usual way: Obv. The crest of the Earls of Derby, the Eagle and Child, SANS CHANGER; Rev. The three legs), has the motto QVOCVNQVE · GESSERIS · STABIT. The coinage of 1723 is exactly similar, but struck; whereas that of 1733 and all the succeeding coinages have QUOCUNQUE · JECERIS · STABIT, which is clearly the correct reading. I may add that I am engaged on a work on the Copper Coinage of Great Britain and her Colonies, and shall be thankful for any information on the subject respecting rare types, their history, &c.
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