y quaffed by our local sons of Vulcan. Digbeth
he makes out to be a "dug bath," or horsepond for the farriers;
Deritend, from _der_ (water).

"Took its name from the swamp where the hamlet was seated,
And imply'd 'twas the water-wet-end of the town."

_Cox_, David--On the 29th of April, 1783, this great painter--the man
whose works have made Birmingham famous in art--was born in a humble
dwelling in Heath Mill Lane, Deritend, where his father carried on the
trade of a smith. Some memorials of him we have--in the noble gift of a
number of his pictures in oil, presented to the town by the late Mr.
Joseph Nettlefold; in the portrait by Mr. J. Watson Gordon, and the bust
by Mr. Peter Hollins; in the two biographies of him--both of them
Birmingham works--the earlier by Mr. Neal Solly, and the more recent one
by the late Mr. William Hall; besides the memorial window put up by
loving friends in the Parish Church of Harborne, where the latter part
of the artist's life was passed, and in the churchyard of which his
remains were laid. He bade his pictures and the world good-bye on the
9th of June, 1859. A sale of some of "dear old David's" works, in
London, May, 1873, realised for the owners over L25,000, but what the
artist himself originally had for them may be gathered from the instance
of his "Lancaster Castle," otherwise known as "Peace and War," a
harvest-field scene, with troops marching by, only 24in. by 18in. in
size. This picture he gave to a friend at first, but bought it back for
L20, at a time when his friend wanted cash; he sold it for the same
amount, and it afterwards got into the possession of Joseph Gillot, the
pen maker, at the sale of whose collection "Lancaster Castle" was
knocked down for L3,601 10s. The highest price Cox ever received for a
picture, and that on one single occasion only, was L100; in another case
he had L95; his average prices for large pictures were rather under than
over L50 a piece in his best days. "The Sea Shore at Rhyl," for which he
received L100, has been since sold for L2,300; "The Vale of Clwyd," for
which he accepted L95, brought L2,500. Two pictures for which he
received L40 each in 1847, were sold in 1872 for L1,575 and L1,550
respectively. Two others at L40 each have sold since for L2,300 and
L2,315 5s. respectively. His church at "Bettws-y-Coed" one of the finest
of his paintings, fetched L2,500 at a sale in London, in March, 1884. In
the hall of the Royal Oak Inn, Bettw