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and laborious workers in an important department of historical re- 

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It becomes a matter of interest then, to recover any information that 

 can now be obtained relative to this Charles Julius Bertram, Professor 

 of the English Language at the Royal Naval School of Copenhagen ; 

 and to this I am able to make a slight contribution. In the first edition 

 of the " Prehistoric Annals of Scotland/' published in 1851, 1 referred 

 to " the Monk of Westminster, whom antiquaries may be pardoned 

 suspecting to have assumed the cowl for the purpose of disguise, being 

 in truth a monk not of the fourteenth but of the eighteenth century." 

 This led to a correspondence with an Anglo-Roman antiquary who 

 was still a devout believer in Richard and his Itinerary : in conse- 

 quence of which I wrote to my late friend, Professor P. A. Munch, of 

 Christiania, the Norwegian historian, begging him to ascertain for me 

 anything that he could from literary friends at Copenhagen relative 

 to Bertram, or his manuscript. In his reply Professor Munch says : 

 " I have got an answer trom Mr. Werlauff about Ricliardus Corinensis, 

 containing everything that he knows of information as to this matter. 

 The MS. is nowhere to be found, that is sure enough. Yet Mr. 

 Werlauff is not at all inclined to think it a forgery : an opinion which 

 indeed surprises me very much. That Stukeley — says Mr, Werlauff, — 

 knew the Bertram MS. already ten years before the first edition was 

 made, appears from a letter, written by Dr. Stukeley to the celebrated 

 Hans Gramm at Copenhagen, (dated Sept. 1, 1747,) of which letter 

 an abridgement is given in the preface. In the original, however, the 

 passage runs much more complete, as follows : " Bertramo tuo me 

 commendatunl facias oro, quem felicem tuo patrocinio existimo. Feli- 

 cem me quoque reddidit, tuo in respectu, fragmentum suum M.SS. 

 Ricardi mon. Westmonasteriensis. Rarum est cimelium in bibliothecis 

 nostris ignotum. Ego non indignum censeo ut prelo committatur, opus 

 nostris antiquariis acceptissimum." " This " adds Professor Munch, 

 " certainly does not savour of anything like forgery or falsehood on the 

 part of Stukeley :" an idea which no one familiar with the character 

 of that amiable enthusiast would think of entertaining. 



Mr. Werlauff inferred, from a reference in one of Bertram's papers, 

 that he had come to Denmark some time before his father : having, 

 according to his interpretation of that notice, arrived in Copenhagen 

 ten years prior to 1748, " indirectly asked to come by King Christian." 

 But, according to Worm's Lexicon of Danish Authors, Bertram was 



