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After this allusion to John Aubrey, I think I cannot better evince my sympathy with your exertions than by requesting the insertion of a Query respecting one of his manuscripts. I allude to his Monumenta Brittanica, in four folio volumes a dissertation on Avebury, Stonehenge, and other stone circles, barrows, and similar Druidical monuments which has disappeared within the last thirty years.
A little may be gleaned from biographies such as that of Guthlac of Crowland; but the letters of Boniface and Alcwine, which have been edited by Jaffé in his series of "Monumenta Germanica," form the most valuable contemporary materials for this period. From the rise of Wessex our history rests mainly on the English Chronicle.
Saves a deal of trouble. Well, he begins 'Tout est dit' 'everything has been said; and I say that, in your business, 'Tout est fait' 'everything has been done. Every move has been tried before you existed, and the result of all is that to bet against the bank, wildly or systematically, is to gamble against a rock. Si monumenta quoeris, circumspice. Use your eyes, man.
De Viginianis Martyr, Dec. De Guahutemallis, Dec. Habemus Matec Zungam et Mat Ingam, qui cur Madoc Camber esse nequeat quem in eos partes delatum domestica evincunt Monumenta, ratio nulla reddi potest. Lib. As Madog directed his course Westward, it cannot be doubted but that he fell in with Virginia or New England, and there settled.
It stands at length in Pertz's admirable 'Monumenta Historica, among many another like biography, and if I tell it here somewhat at length, readers must forgive me.
Other monastic chronicles of the thirteenth century, of small importance, enumerated by Dr. Extracts from many are given in PERTZ'S Monumenta Germaniæ Hist. Scriptores, vols. xxvii. and xxviii. JOHN OF OXNEAD, a monk of St. Some thirteenth and early fourteenth century Bury chronicles are also in Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey, ed. H.C. Hamilton, 2 vols., Engl. Hist.
PRESSUTI has published one volume of the Registers of Honorius III . From the Vatican archives also comes THEINER'S Vetera Monumenta Hib. et Scot. Historiam illustrantia , beginning in 1216.
Herausgegeben von Friedrick Kunstmann, Karl von Sprusser, Georg M. Thomas. Zu den Monumenta Saecularia der K.B. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 28 Maers, 1859. The particular parts of this coast discovered by the Normands and Bretons with the time of their discovery, and by the Portuguese, are described in the discourse of the French captain of Dieppe, which is found in the collection of Ramusio.
In 1570 a second edition was printed in two volumes folio, and Convocation decreed that the book, designated by the canon as Monumenta Martyrum, should be placed in cathedral churches, and in the houses of the great ecclesiastical dignitaries.
Uppon his shield hee bare a ball striken downe with a mans hand that it might mount The worde, Ferior vt efferar, I suffer my selfe to bee contemned because I will climbe. In middest of this his snowie curled top, rounde wrapped together, on the ascending of his creast sate a solitarie nightingale close encaged with a thorne at her breast, hauing this mot in her mouth, Luctus monumenta manebunt.