"The proposition, every animal is _either_ rational _or_ irrational, cannot be resolved into, _Either_ every animal is rational, _or_ every animal is irrational. The former belong to pure categoricals, to latter to hypotheticals [Query _disjunctives_]. In _singular_ propositions such conversions would seem to be allowable. This animal is _either_ rational _or_ irrational, is equivalent to, _Either_ this animal is rational, _or_ it is irrational. This peculiarity of _singular_ propositions would almost justify our ranking them, though truly universals, in a separate class, as Ramus and his followers did."--P. 59.
If Dr. Latham is a reader of "N. & Q.," I should be glad if he would give his reasons for adhering to his original doctrine in the face of such facts as those I have instanced.
THE CORONET [CROWN] OF LLEWELYN AP GRIFFITH, PRINCE OF WALES.
A notice, transferred to _The Times_ of the 5th instant from a recent number of _The Builder_, on the shrine of Edward the Confessor, after mentioning that "to this shrine Edward I. offered the Scottish regalia and the coronation chair, which is still preserved," adds, "Alphonso, about 1280, offered it the golden coronet of Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, and other jewels."
Who was Alphonso? And would the contributor of the notice favour the readers of "N. & Q." with the authority _in extenso_ for the offering of this coronet?
The period assigned for the offering is certainly too early; Llewelyn ap Griffith, "the last sovereign of one of the most ancient ruling families of Europe" (_Hist. of England_, by Sir James Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 254.), having been slain at Builth, Dec. 11, 1282. Warrington (_Hist. of. Wales_, vol. ii. p. 271.), on the authority of Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. ii. p. 224., says: "Upon stripping Llewelyn there were found his Privy Seal; a paper that was filled with dark expressions, and a list of names written in a kind of cypher;" omitting, it will be observed, any reference to Llewelyn's coronet. That monarch's crown was probably obtained and transmitted to Edward I. on the capture, June 21, 1283, or shortly after, of his brother David ap Griffith, Lord of Denbigh, who had assumed the Welsh throne on the demise of Llewelyn; the Princess Catherine, the daughter and heir of the latter, and _de jure_ sovereign Princess of Wales, being then an infant. Warrington states (vol. ii. p. 285.) that when David was taken, a relic, highly venerated by the Princes of Wales, was found upon him, called _Crosseneych_, supposed to be a part of the real cross brought by St. Neots into Wales from the Holy Land; and he adds that, besides the above relic, which was voluntarily delivered up to Edward by a secretary of the late Prince of Wales, "the crown of the celebrated King Arthur, with many precious jewels, was about this time presented to Edward," citing as his authorities _Annales Waverleienses_, p. 238.; Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. ii. p. 247.