ed with dark expressions, and a list of names written in a
kind of cypher;" omitting, it will be observed, any reference to Llewelyn's
coronet. That monarch's crown was probably obtained and transmitted to
Edward I. on the capture, June 21, 1283, or shortly after, of his brother
David ap Griffith, Lord of Denbigh, who had assumed the Welsh throne on the
demise of Llewelyn; the Princess Catherine, the daughter and heir of the
latter, and _de jure_ sovereign Princess of Wales, being then an infant.
Warrington states (vol. ii. p. 285.) that when David was taken, a relic,
highly venerated by the Princes of Wales, was found upon him, called
_Crosseneych_, supposed to be a part of the real cross brought by St. Neots
into Wales from the Holy Land; and he adds that, besides the above relic,
which was voluntarily delivered up to Edward by a secretary of the late
Prince of Wales, "the crown of the celebrated King Arthur, with many
precious jewels, was about this time presented to Edward," citing as his
authorities _Annales Waverleienses_, p. 238.; Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. ii.
p. 247.

There are some particulars of these relics in the _Archaeologia Cambrensis_;
but neither that periodical, nor the authorities referred to by Warrington,
are at the moment accessible to me.

CAMBRO-BRITON.

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Minor Queries.

_Monumental Brass at Wanlip, Co. Leicester, and Sepulchral Inscriptions in
English._--In the church of Wanlip, near this town, is a fine brass of a
knight and his lady, and round the margin the following inscription,
divided at the corners of the slab by the Evangelistic symbols:

"Here lyes Thomas Walssh, Knyght, lorde of Anlep, and dame Kat'ine his
Wyfe, whiche in yer tyme made the Kirke of Anlep, and halud the
Kirkyerd first, in Wirchip of God, and of oure lady, and seynt
Nicholas, that God haue yer soules and mercy, Anno Dni mill[=m]o
CCC^{mo} nonagesimo tercio."

Mr. Bloom states, in his _Mon. Arch. of Great Britain_, p. 210., that--

"There are, perhaps, no sepulchral inscriptions in that tongue
(English) _prior to the fifteenth century_; yet at almost the beginning
of it, some are to be met with, and they became more common as the
century drew to a close."

Is there any monumental inscription in English, earlier than the above
curious one, known to any of your correspondents?

WILLIAM KELLY.

Leicester.

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