Downing Inscribed Stone.-Afterwards an inspection was made of an inscribed stone which was brought from Caerwys, and is now erected in the garden, close to a small artificial lake below the house. It is a rude whinstone boulder, 3 ft. 9 in. high, by 3 ft. wide, by 1 ft. 6 in. thick, inscribed, in debased Latin capitals of the sixth or seventh century, HIC IACIT MVLI ER BONA NOBILI (Here lies a good and noble wife); or, according to Professor Rhys, "here lies the good wife of Nobilis". The м of MVLIER is the only letter of the minuscule form, indicating a transition from the Roman capitals to the Hiberno-Saxon minuscule. The Downing inscribed stone stood formerly a mile from Caerwys. It was used as the gate-post at the entrance of a field where many Roman coins were found. It was removed to its present position in the last century. (See Prof. Westwood's Lapidarium Wallie, pl. 89, No. 4; Camden's Britannia, Gough's edition, vol. iii, p. 223; and Pennant's Tours in Wales, Rhys' edition, vol. ii, p. 76.) Mostyn Hall.-From Downing the members went on to Mostyn Hall, where they were received by Lord Mostyn, the President of the Mecting, and conducted over the house and grounds, in batches of twenty, under His Lordship's able guidance. Afterwards they were most hospitably entertained to luncheon. The most interesting objects at Mostyn Hall are a splendid gold torque found at Harlech Castle in 1692; a Roman cake of copper, 11 ins. in diameter, and 2 ins. thick, weighing 42 lbs., inscribed SOCIO ROMAE and NATSOL The silver harp used at Welsh Eisteddfods, the commission for the Caerwys Eisteddfod in 1568, and a rude wooden vessel, of uncertain use, found in a bog near Dinas Mowddwy, Merionethshire, were shown. (See Prof. Westwood's Lapidarium Walliæ, p. 169.) Lord Mostyn also exhibited (under a glass case) a selection of his valuable collection of Welsh MSS. for the inspection of members. Mostyn Hall is built of stone, with mullioned windows and pointed gables. The oldest portions date from the time of Henry VI; but it has been remodelled and added to at various times, the most important changes having been effected by Sir Roger Mostyn in 1631. The large bay window, which is so striking a feature in the exterior, was erected at this date. The views from the grounds, across the estuary of the Dee, are very beautiful. Mostyn Hall was visited by the British Archæological Association during the Llangollen Congress in 1877. On that occasion Mr. W. de Gray Birch, F.S.A., of the British Museum, gave an 1 See Pennant's History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell. 2 See Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc., vol. xxxiv, p. 407. interesting account of the books and MSS. in the Library, amongst which are to be found the following: MSS.-Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. (English, fourteenth century.) Lydgate's "Fall of Princes." (English, fourteenth or fifteenth century, with illuminated initials.) Play written by Athony Munday, who died in 1636. Ovid, Suetonius, and other classical authors. (Italian, fifteenth century.) Three copies of Froissart's "Chronicle." century, with illuminated miniatures.) (French, fifteenth Service-Book. (French, fifteenth century, with illuminated miniatures and borders.) Dante. (Italian, fourteenth century.) Latin Bible. (Fourteenth century, with illuminations.) Giraldus Cambrensis. Several Welsh MSS. (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries), including History of England, Llyfr Coch Nannau by Ellis Griffith. Books.-Original Folio Shakespeare. Letters. Mostyn Correspondence, 1672-1740, 11 vols. (For Catalogue of MSS., see Hist. MSS. Commission, 4th Report.) Whitford Church.-After leaving Mostyn Hall, the next place visited was Whitford Church, a mile and a half to the southward. The only objects of interest here are some fragments of sepulchral slabs of the fourteenth century, and a sundial with a Welsh inscription, found whilst the church was undergoing restoration by Mr. Ewan Christian, and some monuments belonging to the Mostyn family. The flagon of the Communion plate is dated 1755, and the paten 1733. For further particulars see Pennant's History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell. The so-called Roman Pharos.-Before returning to Holywell, the members went to see the so-called Roman Pharos, situated in a wood called Coed y Gareg, on the top of a hill, a mile to the west of Whitford. The tower is a comparatively modern building, as is evident by the wooden lintels to the windows. The invention of the Roman Pharos theory is due to Pennant (see History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell.) EVENING MEETING, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22ND. A public meeting was held at the Town Hall at 8.30 P.M., at which papers were read by J. W. Willis-Bund, Esq., F.S.A., on "Monasticism in Wales", and by Edw. Owen, Esq., on "Caerwys.' These papers will be printed in a future Number of the Archæologia Cambrensis. NOTE ON PIG OF LEAD IN CHESTER MUSEUM. WE extract from The Western Mail the following correspondence, which arose out of a notice in that paper of the Association's visit to Chester, as containing a discussion of several important points not touched upon at Holywell, and as elucidating the topographical history of the district within which we recently met : "SIR,-In your issue of Friday, the 22nd instant, the statement of Archdeacon Thomas' discovery in the Chester Museum on Thursday the 21st instant, requires correction. It is there stated that 'the inscription upon a pig of lead found at Flint has hitherto been given as Deceango. The correct reading was found to be Deceangi.' The facts are that the reading has hitherto been Deceangi, which has been taken by some to stand for De Ceangis (from the Ceangi'), but that Archdeacon Thomas discovered that the letter hitherto read as i in the word on one of the pigs of lead in the Museum (for there are two) was unquestionably an l. Subsequently I examined the other identically inscribed pig, where the 7 of the word is still clearer than in the first. Moreover, it appeared to me that there was no trace whatever, in the last letter but one, on either of the pigs, of the vertical bar which distinguishes a g from a c, and that the word is to be read Deceancl. If this stands for the modern Tegeingl, as I presume it must do, we should, of course, expect a c, not a g, in the first century A.D.; but, unfortunately, the incrustation of the lead in both pigs makes this point less certain than it might be. 66 Finally, Tegeingl was not the Welsh name of the present county of Flint', but only of the northern portion thereof; the portion, however, in which lead is mostly found. "I am, etc., EGERTON PHILLIMORE. "P.S.-I have had squeezes taken of the word Deceancl from both pigs, which entirely confirm the reading now given of the last two letters." "SIR,-In regard to the letter of Mr. Egerton Phillimore in your issue of the 29th of August, correcting two words in the Report of the Association's visit to Chester, I beg to state that the errors are those of the telegraphist, and not of your Correspondent, as an examination of the 'copy' handed in will at once indicate. "Mr. Phillimore observes that there are two pigs of lead bearing the word Deceangl or Deceancl, and conveys the impression that he was the discoverer of the right reading of the stamp upon the |