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volves other considerations, namely, the techni- 
calities by which copyright is established and pro- 
tected. “These constitute the legal copyright — a 
term not properly applicable to any work till pub- | 
lished under the conditions of the copyright 
statutes. I have read of some author who was 
also a printer, and who transferred his work at 
once from his brain to his printing-press. Such 
an impression would surely be as much his pro- 
perty as a manuscript. ; C. 
Lord Fairfax (1* S. ix. 10, 156. 379. 572.) — 
In Appendix No. d. to the Travels through the 
Middle Settlements in North America in the Years 
1759 and 1760; with Observations on the State of 
the Colonies. By the Rev. Andrew Barnaby, 
D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester, and Vicar of 
Greenwich. Edition the Third; revised, cor- 
rected, and greatly enlarged by the Author. 
Printed for J. Payne at the Mews-Gate, 1798, 
will be found an account of the family of the 
Fairfaxes from about the year 1691 to the date of 
the above-mentioned edition. Unepa. 
Philadelphia. 
Inscriptions in Cardigan Bay (1* 8. xii. 494.) 
— Your querist may be interested to know, with 
respect to the “ Cantref y Gwaelod,” if ignorant 
of it, that there are two triads which refer to the 
submersion, and some historical notices of the 
names of a town or two that stood thereon, as 
“ Caer-Wyddno,” or Gwyddno’s City, who was 
the Prince of the Cantrev, as well as of Cardigan 
(then “ Ceredigiawn”) ; and also some poems or 
laments on its loss, of rather a touching nature, 
from the pen of Gwyddno himself, who was a poet, 
like Hoel the ‘High Born,” and many other 
British princes. I can transmit copies of the two 
triads and of the poems, if acceptable; but a 
curious doubt has occurred to me, namely, as 
there are the same stumps of trees to be seen at 
spring tides on the coast from St. David’s Head in 
Carmarthen Bay, and as the land there has evi- 
dently sunk, and not the sea risen, were not the 
natives of the Cantrev, the remnant of whom fled 
to North Wales, mistaken as to the cause of the 
catastrophe? Land sinks and rises daily in some 
parts of the earth, and no note is taken of it. 
There is no “ Captain Cuttle” at hand. 
I trust the inscriptions will be looked after by 
some Welsh archeologist, of whom we have many 
and good. 
I had supposed that “ the Lost Hundred” was 
inhabited by the Dimetz, and not by the Silures ; 
but even if Anon be in the right about this, their 
“coming from Spain,” is it more than a guess of 
Tacitus? Is there anything in proof of it? 
& Qr 
that the tombstone and epitaph of Dolly Pentreath 
was never to be found in the churchyard of the 
parish of Paul, near Penzance, but still very many 
of the inhabitants of that neighbourhood havea very 
strong opinion that the tradition that such a tomb- 
stone was at one time in existence, was founded in 
truth; and perhaps it would be interesting to 
some of your readers if the epitaph which is eur- 
rent amongst the inhabitants, be inserted in “ N. 
I believe its author was a resident of 
Truro, who circulated several copies amongst his 
friends, and this most probably is the origin of the 
story of the tombstone. The epitaph which I 
give was extracted from an old work on Cornwall, 
whilst I was residing at Marazion about twenty 
years ago. It is as follows: 
Cornish. 
«“ Coth Doll Pentreath cans ha Deau ; 
Marow ha kledyz ed Paul pléa; 
Na ed an Egloz, gan pobel bras, 
Bes ed Egloz-hay coth Dolly es.” 
English. 
« Old Doll Pentreath, one hundred aged and two, 
Deceased and buried in Paul parish too: 
Not in the church, with people great and high, 
But in the churchyard doth old Dolly lie.” 
T can assert, from personal knowledge, that most 
of the lower orders in the villages of Newlyn and 
Mousehole believe in the existence of the epitaph 
to this day, though it would puzzle any one to 
explain from whence he received the information, 
Epwin Duna, F.R.A.S. 
14, Cottage Place, Greenwich. 
Equestrian Lord Mayors (1* S. xii. 363. 495. 
501.)—I am sorry that Mr. Curupert Bepz should 
take so seriously what I wrote in perfect inno- 
cence and good humour ; especially as I expressly 
acquitted him of any purposed intention of doing 
injustice to the metropolitan dignitaries. I am 
afraid, however, that I must now retract that 
acquittal; for I cannot help thinking that his 
somewhat irreverent allusion to the “ Jerusalem 
pony” betrays a lurking sarcasm on the eques- 
trian abilities of the civic functionary. Or per- 
haps, in this mixture of the breed, he refers to 
more ancient times, when the Lord Mayors might 
have paraded on mules, according to the practice 
of the Judges, up to the time of Queen Mary; 
Mr. Justice Whiddon, in that queen’s reign, being 
the first who began the custom of riding to West- 
minster Hall on a “horse, or gelding.” When 
the more easy and dignified conveyance at present 
used was adopted, is a question which I may, per- 
haps, apply with success to Mr. Curnerrt Breve 
to solve. But there isa tradition that a venerable 
DiMerIensis. | oynament of the Bench (I cannot just now recall 
Dolly Pentreath (1 S. xii. 407. 500.) — Your | his name), in proceeding to the Court, one day 
correspondent Mr. Frestine is correct in stating | 
lost his equilibrium, and was prostrated in the 
