Settlement of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain. [Oct. 1, 



he knew nnttiin.'' of the author, and that 

 the clcigyniaii he mentions was only cn- 

 truliod wuh tlifc MS. of his tVicnJ. How- 

 cvei- tliis niiiy ho, 1 know tii.it, Mr. M;dbn 

 frcqueiulv nlliidoii to icvtral cxprelVions 

 in tlic lieroic Epiftlc before its appear- 

 wice, and that after his death tiie rude 

 tirauiiht was foiiiul ainous; his paper-.. 

 Should liis poftiiunious works be pubiilh- 

 cd, an evcu!. which is only retarded 

 thruiicii cinilidcratioiis of delicacy, fonic 

 further hcht may peihaiis he thrown up- 

 on the fubjeet. 'jMr. I'iiiliips would per- 

 fonn an acecptahlc fcrvice to tlic public 

 by printjiiff a yuc-lhiiilcai the MS. in his 

 poiVelVmn, ui the Monthly Macazlnc. 



h Mr. Ainion's arguments, however, 

 have failed to convince mc of the juftice 

 of his o" n opinion, they have prefented a 

 fuos;e.iiii>u to iriy mind, which, although 

 it may he liable to the late of other cou- 

 jeciuieh upon the lainc fubjeCt, i» at lead 

 iiinenoned by prohab.lity. Mr. Almon, 

 in the couife'of his reafoning on the fub- 

 jeCt, mentions the fiippohiion that the 

 JWarquib of ].anfdin>ne was Juniu> ; and, 

 ulthougli iio pays lildo credit to the con- 

 jecture, he reiutes many cncunifiances 

 which fupp<irt it. 'Ihe fuuie reallining 

 vhich induced Mr. -Mmon to fuppole 

 tliat Boyd was evcited by \iarfy-fpirit to 

 Jittack. ilie JNiinifiry, will apply much 

 more {u<)n{>ly to the Earl ot .'^lielburnc. 

 Jle was incited n )t only by political 

 view^, hut by private rel'entmcnt. When 

 qiieltioned upon the luhjeff, he was al- 

 vaj's cautious in his ani/crs; but faid 

 that he lh<Hitht the re.il author had not 

 •yet btei! mentioned. His lonunc, and 

 liisinthniuy with the ^ireat, enabled him 

 ti know tiie private characters and in- 

 trigues of the moll celebrated cliaracters 

 ot'the age. His legal knowledge niav be 

 eahly hippofed to luivc been a> cxtenlive 

 as thai, ot .fuiiius ; and, wlsat is more im- 

 portant thaji all, his liation rendered it 

 unnecelVary for him lo court fame or for- 

 tune by a dlfL-Iofure of liis name. It is 

 impofliblo to alhgu any reahjn v.liy Boyd, 

 if ho war. .Fimius, in the midll of dilhois 

 a'ld poverty, Ihould have prefei\ed a fc- 

 c;ct, the difololine of \\\)ii\\ \^ouhl have 

 »:evated him to fame and atiluence ; bni 

 if we afcrihc the Letter: of .lumusto the 

 Mirquis of Eanfdowne, every ditlkulty 

 vaniflies : ^^e may read thatA/s rank ami 

 Jm tunc placid huii ol'i'Vt a common bribe 

 ui bout woi'.der or d;ltruft : his acrhno- 

 iiy, his p:ide, hi.s kiRuvledge, and his 

 Louh.efs, are accoujite.l for : and we 

 may tonlider his couceiilment without 

 attonill.meiit. 



Any of vour Corrcfponrlents who dif- 

 fer fioni me, may jit-rhaps oblige the 

 world by their opinions ; and however 

 my conchifio:i;-. may oppofc thofc of -Mr. 

 Ahnon, my refpect f"i his memory com- 

 pels mc to pav :• juil tribute to his vari- 

 ety of remav!;, his unreMiittii>g mdultry, 

 and his reverence for truth. With that 

 candour which ought always to dilHnguilli 

 the man who l'u|->i)orts only a probable 

 opinion, he relates whatever may oppofe 

 his conjectures, as well as what n>ay fa- 

 vour them ; and I am lure that if he had 

 yet been living, lie would not have been 

 difpleafed lo read the prefent obferva- 

 tions. 1 am, i^c. B. B. 



Cambridge, June 7. 1806. 



For the Montf>lif Magazine. 



ACCOUNT of tlic SETTI.KMlCNT of till'. AK- 



CLO-SAXONs in BuiTAiN". From the 



DANISH O/'SUUM.* 



IX 177, Ella, a native of Saxony, n.i 

 doubt the (iril chief of that people in 

 Britain, came theie with h.is tlirec fons, 

 Cymeu, Pleting, and CilVa, in three fliips, 

 and landed .it a place afterwards called 

 Cyinenca-Cdr, a name that now is loft, 

 but it was certainly in the neighbour-i 

 hood of Vettering, in .*^ul1cx. Here he 

 killed a great intmher of the Britons, and 

 compelled the reft of them to fly to the 

 great foroll Andrrdea-Lcog, wliich hes 

 partly in Kent, partly in Sulfex, in the 

 latter of which counties Ella began to 

 cftablilh himfelf; yet he did not aU'umc 

 the name of king during the life-thnc of 

 Hencft. ^^'hat procured him this victory 

 was, tliat the Biilon.-i fought in a promif- 

 cnous crowd, v.ithont order and C(nicert; 

 ills Saxons,t on the <;i)ntrary, in a clofo 

 hodv, and in good order. Whether this 

 Ella was a chief of the .Saxons to the north, 

 or of thofc to the fouth of the Elbe, I 



fliall 



• The Setih-nient of the Anglo Saxons in 

 Britain, inletted in the Alontidy Magazine 

 for i\Jay, 1806, was extracted anj trand.ited 

 fioni Sulim's Hiftory of Denmark, ( Danmarkt 

 Uijio'ie, ie,i P. F. Suim.) vol. 1, p '--4.1-i;49, 

 and i.'!)7-V99. What was inierteil in the 

 Number !or Scptcn-ibtr, was taken from the 

 fame author and vol., p. 'i9y-o02. 



\ It has been obfcrved already, that the 

 name of Sjxcns is derived from fax a kind of 

 fwords ul'cd by thole people, i ihall here add, 

 that /fl.v is iVill a vvurd in the Danilh lan- 

 guage, figififyiiig a pair of fciifors, wliich at 

 once confirms the above etymology of the 

 word S.1X0BI, and alto proves the great inter- 

 courle and con^ exicn that has of old lublilted 

 between tiic DauLt and the Saxons. 'ihi& »n<l 



the 



