ecause no image of Him ought to be
worshipped, but that which is the same thing that He is, nor yet that for
Him but with Him."--See what is further cited from Augustine by Ussher in
his _Answer_.]
_Mounds, Munts, Mount_ (Vol. iii., p. 187.).--If R. W. B. will refer to Mr.
Lower's paper on the "Iron Works of the County of Sussex" in the second
volume of the _Sussex Archaelogical Collections_, he will find that iron
works were carried on in the parish of Maresfield in 1724, and probably
much later. It is therefore probable that the lands which he mentions have
derived their names from the pit-mounts round the mouths of the pits
through which the iron ore was raised to the surface. In Staffordshire and
Shropshire the term _munt_ is used to denote fire-clay of an inferior kind,
which makes a large part of every coal-pit mount in those counties. If the
same kind of fire-clay was found in the iron mines of Sussex, it is not
necessary to suggest the derivation of the word _munt_.
I take this opportunity of suggesting to MR. ALBERT WAY that the utensil
figured in page 179. of the above-mentioned work is not an ancient
mustard-mill, but the upper part of an iron mould in which cannon-shot were
cast. The iron tongs, of which a drawing is given in page 179., were
probably useful for the purpose of drawing along a floor recently cast shot
while they were too hot to be handled.
V. X. Y.
_San Graal_ (Vol. iii., pp 224. 281.).--Roquefort's article of nine columns
in his _Glos. de la L. Rom._, is decisive of the word being derived from
_Sancta Cratera;_ of _Graal, Greal_, always having meant a vessel or dish
and of all the old romancers having understood the expression in the same
meaning, namely, _Sancta Cratera, le Saint Graal, the Holy Cup or Vessel_,
because, according to the legend, Christ used it at the Paschal Supper; and
Joseph of Arimathea afterwards employed it to catch the blood flowing from
his wounds. Many cities formerly claimed the honour of possessing this
fabulous relic. Of course, as Price shows, it was an old Oriental
magic-dish legend, imitated in the West.
GEORGE STEPHENS.
Stockholm.
_Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke_ (Vol. iii., pp 262. 307.).--It has
been asserted that the second part of this epitaph was written by Lady
Pembroke's son; among whose poems, which were published in 1660, the whole
piece was included. (Park's _Walpole_, ii. 203. _note_; Gifford's _Ben
Jonson_, viii. 337.) But it is
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