gist and Horsa, being their leaders, acknow- | the country."-Jones in Hearne's Collecledged none other ensigns' but "pullum tion. equinum atrum, quæ fuerunt vetustissima Saxoniæ arma;" not without a manifest allusion unto their name of Westphali, valen or phalen, or (as we in English have made it) foal, signifying a colt, and west, importing those who dwelt on the west side of the river Visurgis or Weser; which arms their kindred that remained in Germany changed into contrary colours, and their posterity, which encreased in England forsook for other different arms upon their first reducing unto Christianity. For I find that "in bello3 apud Beorford in vexillo Æthelbaldi erat aureus draco," which is not unlikely to have been borrowed by imitation or challenged by conquest from the Britons."HEARNE'S Collection of Curious Discourses, from a paper by Mr. James Ley, on the antiquity of arms in England. This dragon was used by Edward III., when was it laid aside? Three Ranks of Poets. "THERE were three kinds of poets, the one was Prududd, the other was Teuluror, the third was Klerwr. All these three kinds had three several matters to treat of. The Prududd was to treat of lands, and praise of princes, nobles, and gentlemen, and had his circuit amongst them. And the Teuluror did treat of merry jests, and domestical pastimes and affairs, and had his circuit amongst the countrymen, and his reward according to his calling. And the Klerwr did treat of invective and rustical poetry, differing from the Prududd and Teuluror, and his circuit was amongst the yeomen of I VERSTEGAN says that Hengistus was o "Angria in Westphalia, vulgarly of old time called Westfielding," and that his "wapen or armes was a leaping white horse, or Hengst, in a red field."-Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, p. 120.-J. W. W. 2 Albertus Crantzius de Saxonia. Mat. West. p. 273. Royal Mode of Burial. "We must not forget the auncyent manner of the sepulture of kings in this realme, and how they have ben honored and adorned. The corps preciously embalmed hath been apparelled in royal robes or estate, a crowne and diadeame of pure gould put uppon his head, having gloves on his hands, howlding a septer and ball, with rings on his fingers, a coller of gould and precious stones round his neck, and the body girt with a sword, with sandalles on his leggs, and with spurrs of gould. All his atchevements of honor and arms caryed up and offered, and theyre tombe adorned therewith."-SIR WILLIAM DETHICK, Garter, in HEARNE's Collection. Noble Mode of Burial. "Ir doth appeare by the white booke in Guildhall, that before the tyme of K. Edward III. at the buriall of barons, one armed in the armour of the defunct, and mounted uppon a trapped horse, should carrye the banner, shield, and helmet of the defunct. About that tyme begane the use of Herses, composed all of wax candles,* which they by a Latin name called Castra Doloris."-LEY, in H. By Sir W. Dethick's paper, the custom appears to have continued much later :"In the tyme of King Henry VIII. and in the third year of his reigne, I find that the Lord William Courteny had his majestys gracious letters patents to be Earle of Devon; but he was not created. Neverthelesse the K. would that he should be enterred as an 4"HERCE. Tigilla fibulata. Piéces de bois qui sont dans les Eglises où l'on pose des chandeliers ou des cierges, quand on y veut mettre beaucoup de luminaires." RICHELET in v. Du CANGE explains it by " Candelabrum Ecclesiasti cum ;" and "Castrum Doloris " by "Feretrum." I think that under the words "Herse" and "Hearse" there is some confusion in Todd's Johnson, Nares, and Richardson.-J. W. W. earle, which was prepared in all sorts accustomed; and further, that Sir Edmund Carrewe, knt. was in compleat armor, and coming ryding into the church, alighted at the quier, and was conducted by two knights, having his axe in his hand, with the poynt downward, and the heralds going before him. In that sort he was delivered to the bishop, to whom he offered the axe, and then he was conveyed to the revestrie, &c." A plague upon their &c.s, unless a man had Coke's talent at interpreting them. Epitaphs on Richard I. "To the glorie of K. Richard Cœur de Lion I have founde these: On Henry II. FOR King Henry IInd. I find this: "Rex Henricus eram, mihi plurima regna subegi, Multipliciq; modo Duxq; Comesq; fui, Cum satis ad votum non essent omnia terræ Climata, terra modo sufficit octo pedum. Qui legis hæc, pensa discrimina mortis, et in me Humanæ speculum conditionis habe.” "SUFFICIT hic tumulus cui non sufficerat orbis, Res brevis ampla mihi, cui fuit ampla brevis." "BUT this one verse uppon his death com 'Hic Richarde jaces, sed Mors si cederit prised as much matter as many long lynes to the glorye of himself and his successor, King Richard I. armis, Victa timore tui, cederet ipsa tuis.'" "ISTIUS in morte perimit formica Leonem. Pro dolor, in tanto funere mundus obit." "AN English poet, imitatinge the epitaphe made on Pompey and his children, whose bodyes were buried in diverse countreys, made these following of the glory of this one kinge divided in three places by his funerall.1 "Viscera Carceolum, corpus fons servat Ebraudi, Et cor Rothomagum, magne Richarde tuum! In tria dividitur unus qui plus fuit uno, The annexed extract from SPEED will explain the several names. "Commanding further that when he was dead his bowels should be buried at Charron, among the rebellious Poictonins, as those who had only deserved his worst parts; but his heart to be interred at Roun, as the city which for her constant loyalty had merited the same; and his corps in the church of the nunnerie at FontEverard in Gascoigne, at the feet of his father King Henry, to whom he had been some time disobedient."-Great Britaine, p. 529, folio. J. W. W. "Mira cano, sol occubuit, nox nulla sequuta.” CAMDEN in H. On Rhees ap Gyffydh. FOR Rhees ap Gruffith ар Rhees ap Theodor, Prince of South Wales, renowned in his time, these funerall verses were made amongst other.2 "Nobile Cambrensis cecidit diadema decoris, Hoc est, Rhesus obiit, Cambria tota gemit. Subtrahitur, sed non moritur, quia semper habetur Ipsius egregium nomen in orbe novum. Hic tegitur, sed detegitur, quia fama perennis Non sinit illustrem voce latere ducem : Excessit probitate modum, sensu probitatem, Eloquio sensum, moribus eloquium." CAMDEN. www On Richard I. "AT Font Everard, where Richard I. was enterred with a gilt image, were these six 2 They are quoted to " Madoc in Wales,” xii. p. 345.-J. W. W. excellent verses written in golden letters, containing his greatest and most glorious atchievements; as his victory against the Sicilians, his conquering of Cyprus, the sinking of the great galeasse of the Saracens, the taking of their convoy, which in the East parts is called a Carvana, and the defending of Joppe in the Holy Land against them : On Richard II. KING Richard II. had for his kingdom a tomb erected at Westminster by King Henry V., with this rude glosing epitaph: "Prudens et mundus Richardus jure secundus, Per fatum victus jacet hic sub marmore pictus; "Scribitur hoc tumulo, rex auree, laus tua, | Verax sermone fuit et plenus ratione: Corpore procerus, animo prudens ut Ho The weak and sick, to entertain the poor, And bade us imitate; not look for lovers Wales, from the Polycronicon. "ENGLISHED by one Trevisa, vycarye of Barklye, from the Latin of dan Ranulph, monk of Chestre, symply emprynted newe, and sette in forme by me, Wynkin de Woorde." "Wales now is called Wallia, Was prynce, and there dyde wone. And thou shalt fynde Wallia, "Of the commodytees of the londe of Wales: Cool groweth under londe, Made that londe so fele, A water that hete twy, North Wales from the southe And the other Venedocia. The fyrst shotheth and arowes beres; Were somtyme courters thre. In Pengwern that now is Shrowsbury1 And now ben foure even, Under Saxons all at the honde "Of maner and rytes of the Walshmen : They be cloteth wonder well A I See BLAKEWAY's History of Shrewsbury, vol. i. p. 5. He quotes Gir. Cambrensis, "Locus ubi nunc castrum Slopesburiæ situm est, olim Pengwern, i. e. caput alneti, vocabatur."-Cambria Descriptio.-J. W. W. In this clothynge they be bolde Though the weder by ryght colde. Without shetes alwaye Evermore in this araye They goo fyght, pleye and lepe, Without surcot, gown, cote and kyrtell, They take wood and mareis for socour. In peas and not stable. The men maye dure longe vil ete (?) Brode cakes rounde and thynne And that maketh them drynke well. Whan they drynke at the ale At mete and after eke To gyve a caudron with grewelle He kepeth to his owne use. But fer esonder and not to hyghe. Then to theyr neyghbours wyll they rome They lyfe is ydell that they ledes To weshe theyr gestes feet a nyght; And hath a crak at the nether ende, Make theyr wardroppe at the dore. Harpe, tabour and pipe for mynstralcie. |