^{page 436 note 1} As these pages were passing through the press we have also received a valuahle article on the same subject by M. Barth (Journal des Savants, Février, 1897).

^{page 438 note 1} [Professor Edward Müller also published in his “Ceylon Inscriptions” facsimiles, text and translation, of an elaborate account, found in a long inscription of the twelfth century, of the organization of the villages in possession of the Mibintale Vihāra. The right to mortgage the lands is expressly denied to the tenants, and they hold on a service tenure, analogous to our copyholds.—Ed.]