parish of Merthyr, near Truro, and has been placed in a niche in the east wall of the chancel of Merthyr church, on the north side of the Altar. The figure measures in height about one foot seven inches; it had been broken at the waist, and suffered other injuries; under the left arm appears to have passed a staff, and the pig, with a large bell attached to its neck, appears in front of the figure. This relic was disinterred in the immediate vicinity of an ancient well, known as the well of St. Cohan the martyr, a British saint, whose little church stood close beside it. There is a parish called St. Anthony, distant about eight miles from Merthyr; an interesting door of Norman date, and some portions of Early English character are to be noticed in the church at that place, from which, possibly, the figure of the saint had been removed. Mr. Haslam observed that he had found no other specimen of Early English construction in that part of Cornwall.
May 28.
Mr. Shirley exhibited a large stone hatchet, found on Stanton Moor, Derbyshire. It measured in length 8in., and the breadth of the sharp edge is 3in. Mr. Shirley exhibited also an earthen vessel shaped like a flask, which was discovered at Ipsley, Warwickshire, on the Icknield-street Road.
Mr. Charles Winston communicated an account of some painted glass in the north window of Mells church, Somerset, representing the following saints:—St. Sitha, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Agatha, St. Apollonia. St. Sitha is represented bearing in her left hand three loaves, and in her right two keys appended to a string, through which her finger passes. One of these keys appears to be a clyket, resembling precisely a modern latch-key. Her hair is long and dishevelled, as usual in the representation of virgin saints. Gough, in his description of the sepulchral brass at Tateshale, Lincolnshire, which represents Maud Willughby, who died 1497, says, that underneath one of the small figures of saints introduced in the tabernacle work at the sides of the figure, was inscribed the name S'ca Sytha; and that she was represented with a book and keys. (Sep. Mon., part ii. p. 330.)[1] St. Osith, daughter of Frewald, a Mercian prince, was born at Quarrendon, Bucks, and became the
- ↑ Sise Lane, at the east end of Watling- street, was formerly known as "St. Sithe's lane, so called of St. Sithe's Church, which standeth against the north end of that lane."—Stow.
