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[2"dS. N<>49,,Dec. 6. '56. 



Fragments of Memorials of former Greatness 

 (2°'' S. i. 405.) — Add to your list the stone coffin 

 of Joan, the daughter of King John, who was 

 married to Prince Llewellyn ap Jorwith, Prince 

 of North Wales. It is preserved in the demesne 

 of the Bulkeley family, who are very courteous, 

 and give every facility to strangers and visitors to 

 see Barron Hill. I copied the following inscrip- 

 tion in 1849: — 



"This plain sarcophagus (once dignified as having con- 

 tained the remains of Joan, daughter of King John, and 

 consort of Llewellyn ap Jorwith, Prince of North Wales, 

 who died in the year 1237) having been conveyed from 

 the priory of Llanfres, and, alas ! used for many j'ears as a 

 horse watering-trough, was rescued from such indignity 

 and placed here for preservation, as well as to excite 

 serious meditations on the transitory nature of all sub- 

 lunary distinctions, by Thos. James Warren Bulkeley, 

 Visct. Bulkeley. Oct. 1808." 



On the othet side of the coffin are the following 

 lines : — 



" Blessed be the man whose chaste and classic mind 

 This unassuming monument designed. 

 Rescued from vulgar use the sculptured stone 

 To breathe a moral o'er thy ashes — Joan ; 

 To shew mankind how idle is the aim 

 To thirst for riches, or to strive for fame : 

 To teach them, too, to watch life's fleeting day, 

 Nor grasp at shadows which soon pass away ; 

 For Nature tells us in Angelic breath 

 There 's nothing certain in this world but death, 

 " August, 1823." 



Truly, " Csesar's dust, and Shakspeare's bung- 

 holes" could not halve a better commentary. 



Geo. Lloyd. 



In St. John's Church, Margate, there used to 

 be one or more helmets, with gauntlets, memorials, 

 it was said, of the Dandelion (Dent-de-Lion) fa- 

 mily. In the church at Coleshill, in Warwick- 

 shire, there was, in 1839, an immensely ponderous 

 iron helmet to be seen, on one of the window-sills. 



Henry T. Riley. 



Derivation of Pamphlet (2"'' S. ii. 408.) -- I 

 diffijr altogether from Mr. Singleton, and think 

 the derivation given in Johnson — par un filet — 

 is the very worst of all, — and that Mr. Singleton's 

 reason in favour of its being derived from three 

 French words, namely, that in French the thing is 

 called a brochure, tells just the other way : for if 

 it were French, would not the French have more 

 probably retained it? — but on the contrary the 

 Dictionnaire de TAcademie says " pamphlet, an 

 English word borrowed into our language for a 

 brochure." Brochure is from broche, stitched. 

 Minshew derives it from the Greek irdv irX-r^doD, all 

 full ; Skinner from pampire, Fr. from papyrus ; 

 Cole from pampier, paper ; all very improbable. It 

 is clear that we are not yet on the right scent. 



C. 



How to frighten Dogs (2"'^ S. ii. 278.) — Let 

 me refer H. E. W. to Mure's Journal of a Tour 



in Greece and the Ionian Isles, 1842, for a beauti- 

 ful illustration of Homer's account of Ulysses' 

 mode of escaping danger from the fierceness of the 

 dogs. At p. 99. vol. i., he relates that a benighted 

 traveller, approaching a shepherd's dwelling, was 

 surrounded by the dogs, and was in no small 

 danger till the old shepherd dispersed them. 

 This Eumalus told the traveller that he should 

 have sat down, and have laid aside his weapon of 

 defence, in which case the dogs would squat in a 

 circle round him, only stirring when he stirred, 

 and that the animals would withdraw at the call 

 of a person they knew. This was told without 

 any reference to the Odyssey. Threlkeld. 



Cambridge. 



Naked-Boy Court (2"* S. ii. 387.) — Threl- 

 keld's Query doubtless refers to Pannier Alley, 

 Newgate Street, so called from the stone relief 

 still, I believe, to be seen there, representing a 

 naked boy bestriding a pannier, with the doggrel 

 lines beneath (intended to commemorate the fact 

 of the place being the highest spot within the pre- 

 cincts of the city) : 



" When you have sought the city round. 

 Yet still this is the highest ground." 



Probably some of your correspondents more versed 

 in London antiquities can verify this. 



Henry W. S. Taylor, v 

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