_Gillingham_ (Vol. iii., pp. 448. 505.).--As a means of furnishing your correspondent QUIDAM with some historical and local data that may tend to identify the place where that memorable council was convened, by which the succession to the English crown was transferred from the Danish to the Saxon line, I would refer him to Lambard's _Perambulation of Kent_, published in 1596, pp. 351, 352, 353., as adducing strong evidence in favour of the council alluded to having been held at Gillingham next Chatham. FRANCISCUS. _Nao, a Ship_ (Vol. iii., pp. 477. 509.).--I perfectly agree with GOMER that the early Britons must have possessed vessels more capacious than osier baskets or _cyry-glau_ before they were able to transport warlike assistance to their brethren the Armoricans of Gaul; but I can inform GOMER and A. N. in addition, that a much older term for a ship was made use of by the first inhabitants of Britain, namely _Naf_, from whence no doubt the Latin _Navis_ sprang; and from the same root the Welsh word _Nawf_, a swim (now used), was derived. This term _Naf_ is handed down to us in one of the oldest British triads, but which has been always, in my opinion, improperly interpreted. In speaking of the three master works of the island of Britain, is the ship of Nefydd Naf Neifion (or _Noah_); the translation is simply this-- Nefydd _i. e._ The ship constructor naf of the ship neifion. of ships. Here you have the hero personified by his avocation, and the _noun_ from which the proper name is derived, both in the singular and plural number; in the latter sense it is made use of by D. ab Gwilym in the following couplet: "Y nofiad a wnaeth _Neifion_ O Droia fawr draw i Fôn." "The swimming, that the ships performed From great Troy, afar, to Monâ." JOHN FENTON. Glyn y mêl, Fishguard, June 27, 1851. _John Perrot_ (Vol. iii., p. 336.).--I possess a neatly written MS., of 88 pp. small 8vo., entitled _A Primmer for Children, written by a suffering Servant of God, John Perrot; corrected, ammended, and made more easie: London, in the Yeare 1664_. The only notice of him after this date is in p. 290. of Sewel's _History of the Quakers_: "Perrot now walked in an erroneous path, grew worse from time to time; even to that degree that, being come into America, he fell into manifold sensualities and works of the flesh; for he not only wore gawdy apparel, but also a sword; and being got into some place in the government, he became a severe exacter of oaths." E. D.