2 gist and Horsa, being their leaders, acknowledged none other ensigns' but "pullum 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 bello 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 the country."-JONES in HEARNE'S Collection. www Royal Mode of Burial. "WE must not forget the auncyent manand how they have ben honored and adorned. ner of the sepulture of kings in this realme, 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,1 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 "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: Hic Richarde jaces, sed Mors si cederit 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, Non uno jaceat gloria tanta loco." CAMDEN in H. 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 Roan, 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. The weak and sick, to entertain the poor, And bade us imitate; not look for lovers Wales, from the Polycronicon. "ENGLYSHED 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, Be moche lesse than Englonde, "Of the commodytees of the londe of Wales: "Though that londe be luyte, Of beestes tame and wylde, Of horse, sheep, and oxen mylde; Good londe for all seedes, For corn, gras, and herbes that spredes. There ben woodes and medes, Herbes and floures there spredes. There ben ryvers and welles, Cool groweth under londe, As though God fyrst of all 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: 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."-Cumbria Descriptio.-J. W. W. In this clothynge they be bolde Theron they spende daye and nyght; They goo fyght, pleye and lepe, Without surcot, gown, cote and kyrtell, They take wood and mareis for socour. And that maketh them drynke well. Ever the reder is the wyne They holde it the more fyne. Whan they drynke at the ale At mete and after eke He kepeth to his owne use. Her houses ben lowe with all 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; They lyve so easely in a route And hath a crak at the nether ende, Make theyr wardroppe at the dore. Harpe, tabour and pipe for mynstralcie. |