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I want to send you these not their gums, but my pieces, and a "Grammont," of which I have printed only a hundred copies, and which will be extremely scarce, as twenty-five copies are gone to France. Tell me how I shall convey them safely. Masters's pamphlet, printed at the expense of the Antiquarian Society in the second volume of the "Archaeologia."

'More than once, says Edward Lhuyd, who in his Archaeologia Britannica, brought out by him in 1707, would gladly have given them to the world, 'more than once I had a promise from the owner, and the promise was afterwards retracted at the instigation of certain persons, pseudo-politicians, as I think, rather than men of letters. So Owen Jones went up, a young man of nineteen, to London, and got employment in a furrier's shop in Thames Street; for forty years, with a single object in view, he worked at his business; and at the end of that time his object was won.

The Governor of Bergen fired on our ships, and placed 100 pieces of ordnance and two regiments of foot on the rocks to attack them, but they got clear without the loss of a ship, only 500 men killed or wounded, five or six captains among them. It is printed in "Archaeologia," vol. xxii., p. 33. Sir John Denham, in his "Advice to a Painter," gives a long satirical account of the affair.

And this, too, was the opinion of Thucydides, whose ARCHAEOLOGIA as it is contains a most valuable disquisition on the early condition of Hellas, which it will be necessary to examine at some length.

Printed in the time of Henry VIII. by John Redman. 4to. A Breviate touching the Order and Government of the House of a Nobleman. 1605. Archaeologia, xiii. Orders made by Henry, Prince of Wales, respecting his Household. 1610. Archaeologia, xiv. The School of Good Manners. By William Phiston or Fiston. 8vo, 1609. The School of Virtue, the Second Part. By Richard West. 12mo, 1619.

An instance of it will be found in the figure of Bolingbroke, plate xvi. of the illustrations to Cretan's History of Richard the Second, Archaeologia, vol. xx.

For an interesting account of the early iron industry of Sussex see M. A. LOWER'S Contributions to Literature, Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical. London, 1854. Archaeologia, vol. x. 472. One of these, 6 1/2 feet long, and of 2 1/2 inches bore, manufactured in 1543, bears the cast inscription of Petrus Baude Gallus operis artifex. Mr.

Knapp, who has seen the "neat young pencilled notes" of Borrow in Edmund Lhuyd's 'Archaeologia Britannica' and the 'Danica Literatura Antiquissima' of Olaus Wormius, etc. He tells us himself that he passed entire nights in reading an old Danish book, till he was almost blind. In 1823 Borrow began to publish his translations.

The Londoners only began to reconcile themselves to the use of coal when the wood within reach of the metropolis had been nearly all burnt up, and no other fuel was to be had. Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd Series, No. 34, April, 1863. Art. "Sussex Ironmasters in Glamorganshire." DUDLEY's Metallum Martis, 1665.

In one of these we find Griffith, the son of Bledri, confirming his father's gift. Professor Lloyd, in an article in Archaeologia Cambrensis, July 1907, has examined these charters, and considers the grant to have been made between 1129 and 1134, the charter itself being of the reign of Henry I, 1101-1135.