his finger very much swelled, and looked as if he wore the thumb of a glove upon it: towards the evening his whole hand was swelled up to his very wrist; and next day, being Tuesday, the swelling was come up to his very elbow, so that he was then forced to tell his father of it, and confess how it came. For remedy of which, physicians being called, they bound a string very strait above the swelling, and scarified his hand and arm, applying other antidotes and remedies thereunto: notwithstanding which, and all the care they could use, the boy was very near death; and though at length he recovered, yet it was four months afterwards before he could take a pen in his hand to write. And thus, as the temper of Carvajal was virulent and malicious in his life time, so was his flesh noxious after his death, and gives us an experiment in what manner the Indians empoisoned their arrows."-GARCILASSo. [The Poet Chapman.] "Tis true that Chapman's reverend ashes must Lie rudely mingled with the vulgar dust, Stand petrefied in the wall, with laurel boughs Collections FOR THE HISTORY OF MANNERS AND "Il n'y a point de chemin trop long à qui marche lentement, et sans se presser. Il n'y a point d'avantages trop éloignés à qui s'y prépare par la patience."-LA Bruyere. "I AM reading the Saxon Chronicle. The Poems incorporated in it are much more difficult than the prose; but I must have more insight into the language before I can explain the cause. When I shall have finished this, I mean to begin upon the Gothic Gospels, and then to the Edda—I shall then be able to see what there is on the Mennesingers, and the old German Metrical Romances—and then I shall need no further preparation for beginning the History of English Manners and Literature: subjects which I think may well be combined, because it is chiefly in the latter that the former are preserved."-MS. Letter from SOUTHEY to RICKMAN, 9th September, 1823. "For more than twenty years I have marked every passage in my reading which related to the History of Manners in this Country—with a distant view of composing a Work on this subjectand doubting whether it had better be blended with, or distinct from a History of English Literature. The Notes which I have made for this purpose are very numerous-in all the old Poetry and Plays' which I have had, not a passage has escaped me; probably so large a Collection has never before been made with this view."-MS. Letter from SOUTHEY to RICKMAN, 21st June, 1835. 1 This extraordinary Collection is supposed to be lost. Possibly it was destroyed with some other MSS. by fire. The Editor has seen it more than once, many years ago. It was in a 4to volume. Numerous Extracts from Old Poetry and Old Plays will be found in this Collection, but the one alluded to was from the Drama only. Perhaps what related to Manners and Literature was engrafted in the present Collection. JW W. U WHITAKER says upon this subject, "great deposits of coin are never found in or near the Roman stations: but almost always near some line of march, where sudden surprizes might be expected. On the contrary; within the precincts of the greater stations, small brass is found scattered in such profusion, that it can scarcely be conceived not to have been sown TURNER (3d edit. vol. 1, p. 40)—" the Kimmerians dwelt in subterraneous habitations, com-like seed, by that provident and vain glorious municating by trenches. These dwellings they called Argillas, according to Ephorus, and Argal in Welsh still means a covert, a place covered over." But T. has not noticed that the Britons had "covered ways or lines of communication from one town to another, some of which are still visible on the Wiltshire Downs."-SIR R. HOARE'S Ancient Wiltshire, p. 19. See, also, G. DYER of Exeter's Comm. upon Richard of Cirencester, for an account of the excavations of Black Down, p. 161. BRITAIN. Loegria, at least, seems to have been thoroughly Romanized by Agricola. "Jam vero principum filios liberalibus artibus erudire, et ingenia Britannorum studiis Gallorum anteferre, ut qui modo linguam Romanam abnuebant, eloquentiam concupiscerent. Inde etiam habitus nostri honor, et frequens toga; paullatimque discessum ad delinimenta vitiorum, porticus et balnea, et conviviorum elegantiam, idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset."-TACITUS Agric. GILDAS also says "that Britain might have been more properly called a Roman than a British island, so much did the Latin language and manners prevail." people, as an evidence to future ages of their presence and power in the remoter provinces. Should the sites of our great towns, in the revolutions of ages, be turned up by the plough, how few in comparison would be the coins of England scattered beneath the surface. Design, I think, there must have been in these dispersions. The practise of scattering the Missalia in their games, will not account for a fact so general in their greater stations."-Notes to Musaum Thorebyanum, p. 1. THE Welsh, like the Runic remains, are extremely difficult, even to their own antiquarians. Proof of their genuine antiquity, in both cases, I think. But the cause of this difficulty appears to be extreme rudeness in the Runic, and extreme refinement in the Welsh. MUCH as the Britons suffered from the Rowhat the latter suffered from the Danes, and mans and Saxons, it was nothing compared to more especially from the Normans. Theirs was truly an iron conquest. SPENCE in his Inquiry (p. 260) thinks that after the Anglo Saxons had established themselves, there was a considerable in- or rather re-flux of Britons. The laws imply something which supports this opinion. "He built a Palace of the finest oak, "BRITANNICI belli exitus expectatur; constat "THE Stone of Faith is an octagonal stone enim aditus insulæ esse munitos mirificis moli- perforated, of a size fitted to the reception of bus etiam illud jam cognitum est, neque ar- the hands and cubits of those who were sworn genti scrupulum esse ullum in illâ insulâ, neque at the altar on covenants of all sorts, among the ullam spem prædæ nisi ex mancipiis; ex quibus ancient Gaels and Scots, a custom coeval with nullos puto te literis aut musicis eruditos ex- the Druidical rites."-LORD BUCHAN. "He pectare."-CICERO, Ep. ad Atticum, Ep. 16. found one with the date of 1000 in the reign of King Grüm."-NICHOLS's Illust. p. 506-7. A CLEAR inference drawn from Cæsar, that the people knew the use of letters,-else why should the Druids have forbidden their doctrines to be written, but because they were like their worthy successors the Romish priests desirous of concealing the records which might be examined to their prejudice.-Script. REV. HIBERN. p. 1, Proleg. xxx. BELATUCADER, Vitires, and Magon, are British local Gods, who are commemorated on sevral altars found in Cumberland and Northumberland. A Nymph Goddess, Briganta, was also worshipped in these parts. A figure found in Annandale, represents her with a mural crown, and attributes somewhat resembling those of Minerva.-SURTEES' History of Durham, vol. 1. THE Saxons were two hundred years before they could separate the North Britons from those of Wales, by the conquest of Lancashire. -Ibid. vol. 2. ALTARS to Vitires are very common in the North. Was he supposed (see Horsley in loco) to clear the country of boars and toads? an odd conjunction of business. The toad, however, was magical from the days of Camdia to Ben Jonson's witches, and frequently appears on Altars.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 299. Ar Lanchester the bust of a strange idol was found with a round face, half owl, half human, and ears like the strix olus.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 307. An inscription Jovi Serapi, dug up at Kirkby Thor in Westmoreland.-Gent. Magazine, vol. 8, referred to. THE REV. E. A. Bray having in 1810 ascended Vixen Tor at Dartmoor, through a natural fissure of the rock, discovered on the top three basins cut in the granite.-MRS. BRAY, Note to Fitz of Fitz-Ford, vol. 1, p. 37. MARCUS ANTONINUS obliged the Quadi and Marcomanni to supply him with a large body of troops, whom he immediately sent into Britain. -GIBBON, vol. 1, p. 24. Note Ibid. p. 381. "THEY worshipped Devils, whose pictures remained in the days of Gildas, within and without the decayed walls of their cities, drawn with deformed faces (no doubt done to the life, according to their terrible apparitions), so that such ugly shapes did not woo, but fright people into adoration of them."-FULLER'S Church History, b. 1, c. 1. THE measures of our Druidical temples are observed to fall easily and naturally into the scale of the ancient Phenician or Hebrew cubit. But they will not admit of the standard measure of Greece, Rome, or any western nation, without being divided and broken into infinite and trifling fractions.-Enquiry into the Patriarchal and Druidical Rel. by WILLIAM COOKE, Rector of Oldbury and Dedmarton. M. Review, August 1754, vol. 11, p. 86. British Baskets. FOR Rome he tells us in right pompous tone, COLE'S Pitts, near Little Coxvill, Berks, two hundred and seventy-three in number, and lying pretty close to each other. James Barrington supposes this to have been a considerable city of the Britons, containing at five souls in each pit, nearly fourteen hundred inhabitants.-M. Review, vol. 74, p. 268. Archæol. vol. 7. Saxons. OSWALD, King of Northumbria, having become a Christian during his abode as a fugitive in Scotland, sent thither for a Priest to instruct his people after his return, and established Saint Ardan, who came at his desire, as Bishop in Lindesfarn. "Ubi pulcherrimo sæpe spectaculo contigit, ut evangelizante Antistite, qui Anglorum linguam perfecte non noverat, ipse Rex suis Ducibus ac ministris interpres verbi existeret cælestis; quia nimirum tam longo exilii sui tempore linguam Scotorum jam plenè didicerat." The Northumbrians then were instructed by a Gaelic Missionary.-BEDE, lib. 3, cap. 3. Acta et Latinâ peritus et expeditus erat.”—Ibid. SS. Feb. tom. 3, p. 22. SHEEP milked. BEDE in the life of Saint Easterwin, Acta SS. March, tom. 1, p. 653. This Saint used to lay aside his rank, when minister of King Egfred, and work with the other Monks in the most menial services of the Monastery at Weremouth,-" ventilare cum eis et triturare, oves vitulasque mulgere, in pistrino, in horto, in coquinâ, in cunctis monasterii operibus jucundus et obediens gauderet exerceri." The grinding must have been by a hand mill. Acta SS. March, tom. 1, 764. An Angel used to help the Irish Saint Senan, while he worked at the mill by night, doing every thing by the light of his own phosphorescent fingers. SAINT CONSTANTINE, a King of Cornwall in the sixth Century, upon the death of his wife gives up his kingdom to his son, sails to Ireland, enters a Monastery, and serves it for seven years, carrying grain to the mill and acting as miller. A mill certainly is meant here, not grinding by hand. When he is discovered by being overheard in a soliloquy, the Monks take him into the house litteras docent, and make him a Priest, after which he becomes a Martyr.-Acta SS. March, tom 2, p. 64. A CERTAIN King Mark of Cornwall (ut opinor) in the sixth Century, ruled over people who spake four languages,-" cujus imperii dominatus leges dabat quatuor gentibus linguarum famine dissidentibus." This was in the days of Saint Paul de Leon. What could these languages have been? Cornish. Some Gallic dialect of the Keltic perhaps spoken in the Scillies? Latin, among some descendants of the Romans. Hebrew? Did the Jews settle at Marazion as early as this?—Irish Gaelic, spoken by some colonists from Ireland? Or some Teutonic speech, the language of borderers who were for a time subject to Cornwall ?—Ibid. p. 114. OF Saint Patrick it is said "in quatuor linguis Britannicâ videlicet, Hibernicâ, Gallicâ 1 "Famen, páris, Bátis. Onomast. id est, Sermo, id quod famur." MARTINII LEXICON in v.-J. W. W. p. 577. SAINT GUTHLAC (Goodluck?). "Non puerorum lascivias, non, garrula matronarum dclramenta, non vanas vulgi fabulas, non ruricolarum bardigiosos vagitus, non falsidica parasitorum frivola, non variarum volucrum diversos crocitus, ut adsolet illa ætas, imitabatur."-Ib. April, tom. 2, p. 39. "ALII, sæculari ambitione depositâ, cingulum solvunt, atque sub ejus disciplina, vitam simul et habitum mutaturi, accedunt."-OSBURN, Vita Saint Elphegi. Ibid. p. 632. DESCRIPTION of Dunstan, and his authority.— Ibid. p. 633. REGULAR beggars in his time; he lived from 954 to 1012. He exhorts Christians to learn charity to their brethren from the Jew and the Pagan.-Ibid. p. 634. WHEN the Danes murdered Saint Elphege. Archbishop of Canterbury, it was by stoning and boning him,-"lapidibus, ossibus, bovinis capitibus obruunt," according to Hoveden, Florence of Worcester, Simeon of Durham and Gervese; -"lapidibus et ossibus bovinis," according to Brompton and Dicetus. Ibid. p. 641. It seems scarcely possible that the South Saxons should not have known how to catch any other fish than eels, till Saint Wilfred taught them, circiter A. D. 700.—Ibid. tom. 3, p. 305. FIRST Nunnery founded in the seventh Century by Saint Erkonwald, Bishop of London, a descendant of Offa, at Berking, for his sister Saint Ethelberga.—Ibid. p. 781. SAINT JOHN of Beverley,-subduxit primo manum ferulæ Theodori Archipræsulis Cantæ, cujus doctrinis ac curâ erat institutus.—Ibid. May, tom. 2, p. 169. FOLCARD, the Monk of Canterbury, who wrote this life, is supposed to have lived in the reign of Edward the Confessor. MEDICAL notions concerning the influence of the Moon and the Tide in diseases.-Ibid. p. 170. "NON istum verberibus, quia rudis adhuc est, |