_Meaning of "Pallace_".--The term "Pallace" (No. 13. p. 202.) is applied in Totnes to denote a landing-place inclosed by walls, but not roofed in. Many of these "pallaces" have been converted into coal-cellars. Perhaps _pales_ may have been used originally to form these inclosures in lieu of walls;--and hence the word "pallace" would mean a place paled in. I find repeated mention made of "pallaces" in a schedule attached to a deed of the Corporation of Totnes, bearing date September 18th, 1719, a copy of which is now before me, and from it the following extracts are taken:-- "One linney and two _pallaces_ or yards." "All those houses, rooms, cellars, and _pallaces_." "All that great cellar lately rebuilt, and _the plott of ground or pallace_ thereto belonging lately converted into a cellar." "All that little cellar and _pallace_ lately rebuilt, and the kay or landing place thereto belonging, and near adjoyning unto and upon the river Dart." "And the little _pallace_ or _landing-place_." _Apropos_ of _landing-places_, it may interest some of your readers to learn that the _very stone_ upon which Brutus, the nephew of Æneas, landed at Totnes, still remains! It is inserted in the foot-way nearly opposite the Mayoralty-house in the Fore Street. From Totnes, the neighbouring shore was heretofore called _Totonese_: and the _British History_ tells us, that _Brutus_, the founder of the British nation, arrived here; and _Havillanus_ [John de _Alvilla_ or _Hauteville_, according to Mr. Wright] as a poet, following the same authority, writes thus:-- "Inde dato cursu, _Brutus_ comitatus Achate Gallorum spoliis cumulatis navibus aequor Exarat, et superis auraque faventibus usus, _Littora felices intrat Totonesia portus_." "From hence great Brute with his Achates steer'd, Full fraught with Gallic spoils their ships appear'd; The Winds and Gods were all at their command, _And happy Totnes shew'd them grateful land_." _Gibson's Camden_. Totnes is made mention of the _Lais de Marie_:-- "Il tient sun chemin tut avant. A la mer vient, si est passer, En _Toteneis_ est arriver."--_Lai d'Elidne_. J. MILNER BARRY, M.D. Totnes, Devon, Jan. 30. 1850. {234} _Litany Version of the Psalms_.--The doubts produced by Beloe's self-contradicting statements on the subject of the Bishops' Bible, which are referred to by "X.X." (No. 13. p. 203.), may thus be settled. The first edition of this Bible, printed in 1568, contains a new translation of the Psalms by Becon. In the second folio edition, 1572, are inserted, in opposite columns, "the translation according to the Ebrewe," which differs but little from the former, in Roman letter, and "the translation used in common prayer," or that of the Great Bible, printed by Whitchurch, 1553, in black letter.