Bartholomew Monedero, more bold and unlucky than the rest, How, said he, dare not I? and with that ran and thrust his middle finger clear through the quarter; upon which we all ran from him, and cried, Oh the stinking rascal! oh the stinking rogue! Carvajal is coming to kill you for being so bold with him.' But the boy ran down to the water, and washed his finger very well, and rubbed it with dirt, and so returned home. The next day, being Monday, he came to the school with 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 scarrified 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, As to translate his reliques, and find room brows Stand petrefied in the wall, with laurel Yet girt about, and nigh wise Henry's herse HABINGTON. COLLECTIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF MANNERS AND LITERATURE IN ENGLAND. "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 subject,-and 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, *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. J. W. W. COLLECTIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF MANNERS AND LITERA TURE IN ENGLAND. Britons. CYTHED - CHARIOTS were used by the Persians in Alexander's time. Darius had two hundred at the battle of Arbela. I suppose the chariots of iron mentioned in the book of Judges were of the same kind. Egyptians uniformly in war chariots-in their temples-pursue horsemen.-CAPTAIN Mangles, p. 150. TURNER (3rd edit. vol. 1, p. 40)—" the Kimmerians dwelt in subterraneous habitations, communicating 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 habi tus 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." THE Romans "all along their own highways and open stations left much greater quantities of this hidden treasure than has been ever yet discovered. For it was not only accidently dropped, but industriously secured before they fought; and when at last they deserted the island, they buried their money in hopes of an opportunity to return and raise it up."—KENNETT's Parochial Antiquities, p. 14. Here he must be wrong. When they left the island they would surely take their money with them. 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 like seed, by that provident and vain glorious 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 practice 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 Romans and Saxons it was nothing compared to what the latter suffered from the Danes, and 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. ww "He built a Palace of the finest oak, A white Palace close by the road side, And then did the Lion of Berffordd rest." Elegy on Davydd ap Gruffydd, ap Davydd ap Llewelyn of Gresfordd by GYTHAM OWAIN. "BRITANNICI belli exitus expectatur; constat enim aditus insulæ esse munitos mirificis molibus: etiam illud jam cognitum est, neque argenti scrupulum esse ullum in illâ insulâ, neque ullam spem prædæ nisi |