April 9. 1853.] 



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about sixteen years, leaving six cbildren (two sons 

 and four daughters), none of whom however, as 

 Cambkensis surmises, succeeded him as landlord. 

 His widow shortly afterwards married Edward 

 Griffiths, a man many years her junior, and who, 

 at the period Camdrbnsis alludes to, and for a 

 long time previous, was "mine host" of the "Log- 

 gerheads." Griffiths died about three years ago, 

 after amassing a large property by mining specu- 

 lations in the neighbourhood. There are, I be- 

 lieve, several fine paintings by Wilson in the new 

 liall of Colomendy, now tlie residence of the relict 

 of Col. Garnons. The old house, where Wilson 

 lived, was taken down about thirty years ago, to 

 make way for the present structure. T. Hughes. 

 Chester. 



Grafts and the Parent Tree (Vol. vii., p. 261.). — 

 In reply to J. P. of this town, I beg to say that 

 the belief, that " the graft perishes when the parent 

 tree decays," is merely one among a host of super- 

 stitions reverently cherished by florists. The fact 

 is, that grafts, after some fifteen years, wear them- 

 selves out. Of course there cannot be wanting 

 many examples of the almost synchronous demise 

 of parent and graft. From such cases, no doubt, 

 the myth in question took its rise. 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



The Lisle Family (Vol. vii., pp. 236. 269.). — 

 Mb. Garland's Query has induced me to inquire, 

 through the same channel, whether anything is 

 known about a family of this name, some of whom 

 are buried at Thruxton in Hampshire. There are 

 four monuments in the church, two of which are 

 certainly, the others probably, erected to mem- 

 bers of the family. The first is a very fine brass 

 (described in the Oxford Catalogue of Brasses), 

 inscribed to Sir John Lisle, Lord of Boddington 

 in the Isle of Wight, who died a.d. 1407. The 

 next in date, and I suppose of much the same 

 period, is an altar-tomb under an arch, which 

 seems to have led into a small chantry. On this 

 there are no arms, and no inscription. The tomb 

 h now surmounted by the figure of a Crusader, 

 which once lay outside the church, and is thought 

 to be one of the Lisles, and the founder of the 

 original church. On the north side of the chancel 

 two arches looked into what was once a chantry 

 chapel. In the eastern arch is an altar-tomb, once 

 adorned with shields, which are now torn off. 

 This chantry stood within the memory of " the 

 oldest inhabitant;" but it was pulled down by the 

 owner of the land appertaining to the chantry, 

 and of its materials was built the church tower. 

 Qne of its windows forms the tower window, and 

 its battlements and pinnacles serve their old pur- 

 pose in their new position. A modern vestry oc- 

 cupies part of the site of the chantry, and shows 



one side the altar-tomb I have last mentioned. 

 This side has been refaced in Jacobian style, and 

 the arms of Lisle and Courtenay, and one other 

 coat (the same which occur on the brass), form 

 part of the decoration. Two figures belonging to 

 this later work lie now on the altar- tomb, and 

 many more are remembered to have existed in- 

 side the chantry. The mixture of this late Ja- 

 cobian work with the old work of the chantry is 

 very curious, and can be traced all over what 

 remains of it. The initials T. L. appear on shields 

 under the tower battlements. 



I should be glad to find that these Lisles would 

 throw any light on the subject of Mb. Gabland's 

 inquiry ; and if they do not, perhaps some of your 

 readers can give some information about them. 



The coat of arms of this family is — Or, on a 

 chief gules, three lioncels rampant of the first. 



R.H.C. 



The Dodo in Ceylon (Vol. vii., p. 188.). — The 

 bird which Sir J. Emerson Tennent identifies 

 with the dodo is common on Ceylonese sculpture. 

 The natives say it is now extinct, and call it the 

 Hangsiya, or sacred goose; but whether deemed 

 sacred for the same reason as the Capitoline goose, 

 or otherwise, I must leave the author of J£leven 

 Years in Ceylon to explain, he being the person 

 in this country most conversant with Ceylonese 

 mythology. 



I now wish to call Sir Emerson's attention to a 

 coincidence that may be worthy his notice In con- 

 nexion with his forthcoming work on Ceylon. 



If he will take the trouble to examine the model 

 of the Parthenon^ in the Elgin Marble room of 

 the British Museum, he cannot fail to be struck 

 with its resemblance to the beautiful building he 

 visited at Polonaroowa, called the Jaitoowanarama. 

 The dimensions of the respective buildings I can- 

 not at present ascertain; but the ground-plans are 

 precisely similar, and each was roofless. But the 

 most striking resemblance is in the position and 

 altitude of the statues : that of the gigantic 

 Bhoodho is precisely similar, even in the posture 

 of the right arm and hand, to that of Minerva, the 

 masterpiece of Phidias. On consulting his notes, 

 he may find the height of the statues to correspond. 

 That of Phidias was thirty-nine feet. 



Ol. Mem. Ju. 



Glen Tulchan. 



Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David: s, 1687-99 

 (Vol. vii., p. 234.). — This harshly-treated prelate 

 died at Great Wilbraham, near Cambridge, on 

 June 3, 1717, aet. eighty years ; and, from a private 

 letter written at the time, seems to have been 

 burled In haste in the chancel of that church, " but 

 without any service," which may perhaps imply 

 that there was not a funeral sermon, and the ordi- 

 nary ceremony at a prelate's burial. It is, how- 



