"Where one might look to find a legitimate national pride in the monuments of our forefathers there seems to be a perverse conspiracy to give the credit to anyone rather than to the Briton, and preferably to the Roman interloper. If any evidence at all be asked for, the chance finding of a coin or two, or of a handful of shivered pottery, is deemed enough. Such evidence is emphatically not enough."--A. HADRIAN ALLCROFT. The owld White Harse wants zettin to rights, And the Squire hev promised good cheer, Zo we'll gee un a scrape to kip un in zhape, And a'll last for many a year. --Berkshire Ballad. According to Gaelic mythology Brigit was the daughter of the supreme head of the Irish gods of Day, Life, and Light--whose name Dagda Mor, the authorities translate into _Great Good Fire_. Some accounts state there were three Brigits, but these three, like the three Gweneveres or Ginevras who were sometimes assigned to King Arthur, are evidently three aspects of the one and only Queen Vera, Queen Ever, or Queen Fair. Brigit's husband was the celebrated Bress, after whom we are told every fair and beautiful thing in Ireland was entitled a "bress". Brigit and Bress were the parents of three gods entitled Brian, Iuchar, and Uar, and it looks as though these three were equivalent to the Persian trinity of Good Thought, Good Deed, and Good Word. The term _word_ is derived by Skeat from a root _wer_, meaning to speak, whence _Uar_ was seemingly _werde_ or _Good Word_. _Brian_, I have already connoted with _brain_, whence Good Brian was probably equivalent to Good Thought, and Iuchar, the third of Bride's brats, looks curiously like _eu coeur_, _eu cor_, or _eu cardia_, _i.e._, soft, gentle, pleasing, and propitious _heart_, otherwise Kind Action or Good Deed. [Illustration: FIGS. 224 to 231.--British. From Evans.] These three mythic sons constitute the gods of Irish Literature and Art, and are said to have had in common an only son entitled Ecne,[400] whose name, according to De Jubainville, meant "knowledge or poetry".[401] The legend CUNO which appears so frequently in British coins in connection with Pegasus--the steed of the Muses--or the Hackney, varies into ECEN, _vide_ the examples herewith, and the palm branch or fern leaf constituting the mane points to the probability that the animal portrayed corresponds to "Splendid Mane," the magic steed of three-legged Mona.