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districts of Glamorganshire. Commissions were 

 also issued for Usk and Abergavenny and the ad- 

 joining territories of Monmouthshire. (Rot. Pat. 

 20 Edward II. M. 7.) 



On October 28, another writ is tested by the 

 King at Cardiff, ordering the levy of 400 foot 

 soldiers of the land of Glamorgan. From Cardiff 

 the King removed to Caerphilly, whence on Oc- 

 tober 29 and 30 he issued commissions giving ex- 

 tensive powers for raising forces in Pembrokeshire, 

 Glamorganshire, and Monmouthshire. On Nov. 

 4, he arrived at Margam, granted or confirmed the 

 manor of Kenton to the abbot, and issued a writ 

 directing the guarding of the coast and sea-ports 

 against his enemies and rebels. The following 

 day, November 5, the King was at Neath, and 

 tested at that place a writ for raising all the 

 forces of Gower, both horse and foot. (Rot. Pat. 

 20 Edward II., R. 7.) On Nov. 10, the King issued 

 at Neath a safe-conduct for the A.bbot of Neath, 

 Rees ap Griffith, Edward de Bohun, Oliver of 

 Bourdeaux, and John de Harsik, as envoys to 

 Isabella. This document is given in the Patent 

 Rolls in the Tower. {Foedera, p. 647. vol. ii. part 

 1. edit. 1818.) The seizure of the unfortunate 

 King took place on Sunday, November 16, and he 

 was yielded up to the charge of Henry of Lan- 

 caster. Edward was then removed to Monmouth, 

 and there, on Nov. 20, delivered up the Great 

 Seal to Sir Wm. le Blount, who gave it up to the 

 Queen at Marlley, in Worcestershire, on Nov. 26, 

 1326. On the 30th- of that month, Edward II. 

 was at Ledbury, and not at Kenilworth. 



In tracing the retreat of Edward after the 

 landing of Isabella, the Public Records are un- 

 answerable evidence, and I would briefly contrast 

 the facts of the case with Lord Campbell's state- 

 ments. Edward's flight was into Glamorganshire, 

 not to Ireland; Edward gave up the Great Seal at 

 Monmouth, not at Kenilworth ; and Sir Wm. le 

 Blount delivered it up to the Queen and her son 

 on the 26th, not on November 30. 



For the information contained in the preceding 

 remarks I am indebted to a valuable paper read 

 to the Neath Institution In 1849, by the Rev. 

 H. H. Knight, B.D., Rector of Newton Nottage, 

 Glamorganshire, " On the Retreat of Edward II. 

 into Glamorganshire, a.d. 1326." 



I offer no apology for the length of my com- 

 munication, as it could not properly be curtailed. 

 Historic errors should be promptly corrected ; the 

 erroneous statement of one historian is copied by 

 his successor, and errors are thus permanently 

 ingrafted on the historic records of a country. 

 History should realise Plato's description of the 

 Supreme Being, " truth is his body, and light his 

 shadow." R. 



Cae Wern, Glamorganshire. 



BACON AND SHAKSPEARE. 



Advancement of Learning : 



" Poetry is nothing else but feigned history." 



Twelfth Night, Act I. Sc. 2. : 



" Viola. 'Tis poetical. 

 Olivia. It is the more likely to be feigned." 



As You Like It, Act IIL Sc. 7. : 



" The truest poetry is the most feigning." 



O/t Buildings : 



" He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat commit- 

 teth himself to prison ; neither do I reckon that an ill 

 seat only, where the air is unwholesome, but likewise 

 where it is unequal." 



Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 6. : 



" This castle hath a pleasant seat — the air 

 Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself 

 Unto our gentle senses." 



Advancement of Learning : 



" Behaviour seemeth to me a garment of the mind, and 

 to have the conditions of a garment. For it ought to be 

 made in fashion, it ought not to be too curious." 



Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 3. : 



" Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 

 But not exprest in fancy." 



Advancement of Learning : 



" In the third place I set down reputation, because of 

 the peremptory tides and currents it hath, which, if they 

 be not taken in due time, are seldom recovered, it being 

 extreme hard to play an after game of reputation." 



Julius Caesar, Act IV. Sc. 3. : 



" There is a tide in the affairs of men 

 Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune : 

 Omitted, all the voyage of their life 

 Is bound in shallows and in miseries." 



Advancement of Learning : 



" Is not the opinion of Aristotle worthy to be regarded, 

 where he saith that young 'men are not fit auditors of 

 moral philosophy, because they are not settled from the 

 boiling heat of their affections, nor attempered by time 

 and experience." 



Troilus and Cressida, Act II. Sc. 3. : 



" Not much 

 Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought 

 Unfit to hear moral philosophy." 



Aristotle quoted incorrectly in both these pas- 

 sages. He says political, not moral, philosophy. 



Apophthegms : 



Bacon relates that a fellow named Hog impor- 



