Welsh Journals

distinctive name at all. Surely the reading should be holy stone instead of grey rock." Croes y mab (IV. No. 590) can scarcely be the cross of the Son [of God] for which there would be no sort of parallel. It is evidently 11 Croes y mab (sant) i.e. Patron Saint's Cross. A name for which we might adduce as illustrative parallels-Croes Oswallt (Oswestry), Croes Gwenllian (in Llanwenog parish, Cardiganshire) and the historic" Paul's Cross," London. Finally we think that there are too many omissions for a record of this kind The subject of Holy Wells is dismissed in rather an off-hand manner (IV. p. xix.). In the note on Chirk Church (IV. No. 110) no mention is made of the remarkable series of Renaissance monuments which form so striking a feature of the interior. In the description of Holt Church (IV. No. 239) there is no allusion to the curious irregularity in the E. bay of the S. arcade, owing to extra buttressing necessitated by the insertion of the very large perpendicular window at the E. end of the S. aisle. In the review of domestic structures of Machynlleth there is no mention of the picturesque 17th century timbered house in Maen- gwyn Street. Everyone who has occasion to consult these volumes will acknowledge the magnitude of the undertaking and the patient and careful research on the spot involved in it. Every antiquarian will also feel the enormous attraction of the work which has been here attempted we cannot therefore refrain from saying that, in our opinion, the attempt to excuse any omissions on the ground of the trying and tiresome nature of their task (IV. p. xx.) is scarcely worthy of the Royal Commissioners. The Church Plate of Cardiganshire, By the Rev. J. T. Evans, Rector of Stow, Glos. In this sumptuous and copiously illustrated quarto volume the Rev. J. T. Evans continues his survey of the Church Plate of the Diocese of St. Davids, volumes having already appeared on the church plate of the four counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen, Radnor and Brecon. The author has made this subject his own, and his books are likely to become the standard works of reference with regard to it. It would in no way have detracted from our estimate of the value of his work, however, or from the great credit due to his painstaking inventory, if he had given some sort of acknowledgment to the work of predecessors in the same field. Our member, the Rev. G. Eyre Evans, had already examined the Church Plate of this county, and in his book on Cardiganshire describes it accurately, and gives beautiful illustrations, from the skilled pencil of Mr. Weight Matthews, of some of its most choice examples. This fine work meets with no acknow- ledgement from Mr. J. T. Evans, though we gather that he availed