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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 20. 
as appears from Adam of Bremen, Helmold, and 
others, and the Sclavonic word liuti signified wild, 
Jierce, &e. Being a wild and contentious people, 
not easily brought under the gentle yoke of Chris- 
tianity, they figure in some of the old Russian sagas, 
much as the Jutes do in those of Scandinavia; and 
it is remarkable that the names of both should 
have signified giants or monsters. Notker, in his 
Teutonic paraphrase of Martianus Capella, speak- 
ing of other Anthropophagi, relates that the Wilti 
were not ashamed to say that they had more right 
to eat their parents than the worms.* Mone 
wrote a Dissertation upon the Weleti, which is 
printed in the Anzeigen fiir Kunde des Mittelalters, 
1834, but with very inconclusive and erroneous 
results ; some remarks on these Selavonic people, 
and a map, will be found in Count Ossolinski’s 
Vincent Kadlubek, Warsaw, 1822; and in Count 
Potocki’s Fragments Histor. sur la Scythie la Sar- 
matie, et les Slaves, Brunsw., 1796, &c. 4 vols. 4to.; 
who has also printed Wulfstan’s Voyage, with a 
French translation. The recent works of Zeuss, 
of Schaffarik, and above all the Geschichte der 
Deutschen Sprache, of Jacob Grimm, throw much 
light on the subject. 
On the names Horithi and Megtha Land Rask 
has a long note, in which he states the different 
opinions that have been advanced; his own con- 
clusions differ from Mr. Hampson’s suggestion. 
He assigns reasons for thinking that the initial H 
in Horithi should be P, and that we should read 
Porithi for Porizzi, the old name for Prussians. 
Some imagined that Megtha Land was identical 
with Cwen Land, with reference to the fabulous 
northern Amazons; but Alfred has placed Cwen- 
land in another locality; and Rask conjectures 
that Megth signifies here provincia, natio gens, 
and that it stood for Gardariki, of which it appears 
to be a direct translation. 
It appears to me that the Horiti of Alfred are 
undoubtedly the Croati, or Chrowati, of Pome- 
rania, who still pronounce their name Horuati, 
the H supplying, as in numerous other instances, 
the place of the aspirate Ch. Nor does it seem 
unreasonable to presume that the Harudes of 
Cesar (De Bell. Gall. b. i. 31. 37.51.) were also 
Croats ; for they must have been a numerous and 
widely spread race, and are also called Charudes, 
“Aooddec. The following passage from the Annales 
Fuldensis, A. 852., will strengthen this supposi- 
tion: —“ Inde transiens per Angros, Harudos, 
Suabos, et Hosingos . . . Thuringiam ingreditur.” 
Mr. Kemble}, with his wonted acumen, has not 
* « Aber Welitabi, die in Germania sizzent, tie wir 
Wilze heizen, die ni scAment sih nicht ze chedenne, 
daz sih iro parentes mit mérem réhte ézen silin danne 
die wurme.” Albinus, in his Meissnizche Chronicle, 
says they had their name from their wolfish nature. 
t The Saxons in England, vol. i. p.9. note. 
Re Se IE EO IAI 
failed to perceive that our Coritavi derived their 
name in the same manner; but his derivation of 
the word from Hor, dutum, Horiht, lutosus, is sin- 
gularly at issue with Herr Leo’s, who derives it 
from the Bohemian Hora, a mountain, Horet, a 
mountaineer; and he places the Horiti in the 
Ober Lansitz and part of the Silesian mountains. 
Schaffarik again, says that Megtha Land is, ac- 
cording to its proper signification, unknown; but 
that as Adam of Bremen places Amazons on the 
Baltic coast, probably from mistaking of the Ma- 
zovians ? it is possible that Megthaland has thus 
arisen. In 1822 Dahlmann (Forschungen aufdem 
Gebiete der Geschichte, t.i. 422.) gave a German 
version of King Alfred’s narration, where the 
passage is also correctly translated; but as regards 
the illustration of the names of the people of 
Sclavonic race, much yet remains to be done. 
It is to be hoped that some competent northern 
scholar among us may still remove, what I must 
consider to be a national reproach—the want of a 
correct and well illustrated edition of the Hor- 
mesta, or at any rate of this singularly interesting 
and valuable portion of it. S. W. Sincer. 
Feb, 21. 1850. 
THE FIRST COFFEE-HOUSES IN ENGLAND. 
As a Supplement to your “ Notes on Corres,” 
I send you the following extracts. 
Aubrey, in his account of Sir Henry Blount, 
(MS. in the Bodleian Library), says of this 
worthy knight, 
«“ When coffee first came in he was a great upholder 
of it, and hath ever since been a constant frequenter of 
coffee-houses, especially Mr. Farres at the Rainbowe, 
by Inner Temple Gate, and lately John’s Coffee-house, 
in Fuller’s Rents. The first coffee-house in London 
was in St. Michael’s Alley, in Cornhill, opposite to the 
church, which was set up by one Bowman (coach- 
man to Mr. Hodges, a Turkey merchant, who putt 
him upon it) in or about the yeare 1652. ’Twas about 
4 yeares before any other was sett up, and that was by 
Mr. Farr, Jonathan Paynter, over against to St. Mi- 
chael’s Church, was the first apprentice to the trade, 
viz. to Bowman. — Mem. The Bagneo, in Newgate 
Street, was built and first opened in Decemb. 1679: 
built by. . . . . Turkish merchants.” 
Of this James Farr, Edward Hatton in his New 
View of London, 1708, (vol. i. p. 30) says, 
“J find it recorded that one James Farr, a barber, 
who kept the coffee-house which is now the Rainbow, 
by the Inner Temple Gate, (one of the first in England), 
was in the year 1657, prosecuted by the inquest of 
St. Dunstan’s in the West, for making and selling a 
sort of liquor called coffee, as a great nuisance and 
prejudice to the neighbourhood, &c., and who would 
then have thought London would ever have had near 
three thousand such nuisances, and that coffee would 
have been, as now, so much drank by the best of qua- 
lity and physicians.” 
