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[No. 145. 



have been as a counter-charm, being the form of a 

 cross (although how three roads could form a cross 

 is not easily discovered). Those on tombs might 

 be supposed to have a similar effect, since the 

 church or churchyard were consecrated ground. 



The quotation from the "First Gospel of the 

 Infant Jesus " has the same meaning. The pos- 

 sessing spirit urged his victim to deeds of mischief 

 and violence when in the neighbourhood of the 

 cross, represented by the cross-roads. E. G. B. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Soon after the publication of the first two volumes of 

 Mr. Kemble's invaluable collection of Anglo-Saxon 

 Charters, Professor Leo, of Halle, who bad paid great 

 attention to tracing private life (whether social or 

 family) in Germanic communities as far back as pos- 

 sible, and consequently to the mode of life and stamp 

 of thought of the Anglo-Saxons, as shown in their laws ; 

 finding in these charters much elucidation of what was 

 before obscure to him, republished the Rectitudines 

 Singvlarum Personarum from Mr, Thorpe's admirable 

 edition of Anglo-Saxon Laws and Institutes, and pre- 

 fixed to it some most valuable preliminary dissertations. 

 Of these the one dedicated to the names of places among 

 the Anglo-Saxons is of peculiar interest to the English 

 reader, who must therefore be under great obligations 

 to Mr. Benjamin Williams for undertaking, with the 

 concurrence of Professor Leo, to prepare an English 

 translation of it. This has just been issued under the 

 title of a Treatise on the Local Nomenclature of the An- 

 glo- Saxons, as exhibited in the Codex Diplomaticus JEvi 

 Saxonici, translated from the German of Professor H. 

 Leo, of Halle, with additional Examples and Explanatory 

 Notes ; and all who are interested in the local history 

 of their respective neighbourhoods will find much to 

 amuse and instruct them in this unpretending little 

 volume. 



Messrs. Rivington have completed their valuable, 

 handsome, and complete edition of The Works and Cor- 

 respondence of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, by 

 the publication of the seventh and eighth volumes, 

 which contain the articles of charge against Warren 

 Hastings, and Burke's speeches on his impeachment. 

 The last volume has in addition, what is too much ne- 

 glected in the present day, a very complete index to 

 the collection. The work, as we have before observed, 

 is peculiarly well timed, and we should be glad to see 

 proof in the coming parliament that the writings of 

 this great man have been read and re-read by many 

 Honorable Members. 



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H. Does our Correspondent mean " Schabod " or " \chnbod?" 

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" Prescot for mugs, Heyton for ploydes," 

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 "inward" read "rounded;" and 1.5., for "Dam" read 

 "Lane." 



