"Near Cruikston Castle's stately tower, For many a year I stood; My shade was of the hallow'd bower; Where Scotland's queen was woo'd."
Another medal of Queen Mary's, of considerable size, of which I have seen a cast many years since, contained the following inscriptions:
"O God graunt patience in that I suffer vrang."
"Quho can compare with me in grief, I die and dar nocht seek relief."
"Hourt not the [heart symbol] quhais [heart whose] joy thou art."
"They all appear [says Mr. Pinkerton] to have been done in France by Mary's directions, who was fond of devices. Her cruel captivity could not debar her from intercourse with her friends in France; who must with pleasure have executed her orders as affording her a little consolation."
MR. FRASER'S supposed medal is a ryal (or possibly a ¾ ryal) of Mary and Henry, commonly known as a Cruickstown dollar; from the idea that the tree upon them is a representation of the famous yew-tree at Cruickstown Castle. It appears, however, from the ordinance for coining these pieces, that the tree is a "palm-tree crowned with a shell paddock (lizard) creeping up the stem of the same." The motto across the tree is "DAT GLORIA VIRES." (See Lindsay's _Scotch Coinage_, p. 51.)
EARLY USE OF TIN.--DERIVATION OF THE NAME OF BRITAIN.
The reply of Dr. Hincks appears to require the following. While seeking information upon the first of these matters, I took up one of my old school-books, and at the foot of a page found the following note: "Britannia is from _Barat-anac_, the land of tin." I do not recollect to have seen it elsewhere; but it appeared to me so apt and correct that I adopted it at once.
That the Shirutana of the Egyptian inscriptions, { 446} or Shairetana, will be found to be the same people as the Cirátas of the Hindu Puranas, I have little doubt.
Cirátas is there applied as a name to the people who were afterwards known to us as the Phoenicians; but that either the Shirutana or the Cirátas will be found to have discovered Britain, though they may have given it a name, I do not expect. The Cirátas were a people of a later age to that of the first inhabitants of Britain. The first inhabitants of Britain I call the Celtæ, as I know no other name for them; but there seems reason for thinking that this island was visited by an earlier tribe, though probably they were of the same race.
