ANTIQUARY'S PORTFOLIO, OR CABINET SELECTION OF HISTORICAL & LITERARY CURIOSITIES, ON SUBJECTS PRINCIPALLY CONNECTED WITH THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND MORALS; CIVIL, MILITARY, AND Br3506.8 8467057 HARVARD COLLEG AUG 1 1902 LIBRARY Lane fund.. W. WILSON, Printer, 57, Skinner-Street, London. PREFACE. In the following pages, it is presumed, the lover of antiquities will not only be gratified with some very curious and interesting particulars of the customs and manners of our ancestors, at different periods of English history; but the philosopher will meet with entertainment of a nobler kind, by being enabled to contrast the deplorable state of the human mind at remote periods, with the present happy triumph of unfettered reason, and of a religion that is comparatively pure 1 |