5^(5 ^ The O^mral Hi/lory 
fuch ways at Kirkl'ington^ and kindly beftowed on me by my wor- 
thy Friend Mr. Barry^ amongft fome other matters of like nature, 
though not fo fit to be mentioned here. 
109. And that the Danes 2X^0 made the fame Experiment of the 
innocency of their people,and of univerfal peace & freedom from 
rapine, is as manifefbout of Saxo Grammaticm^ who fays exprefly 
of F rot ho the Greats Vt uniufcujufque rem familiar em afurum incurfit 
itttam pr^efiaret^ Armillam unam in Rupe, isrd^ . i. e, that he might 
prefer ve every mans Goods from the fpoils of thieves znd robbers^ 
hung up a bracelet of goldon the rock, called after his own name, 
Frothonisfetram ^ and another in the Province of Wig^ threatning 
great feverity to the Prefidents of thofe Countries^ if they fhould 
be taken away. They ufed them alfo (like the Romans^ as re- 
wards of valour^ as appears from the proffer of King Roricu^^ of 
his fixbracelets to any man that would undertake the Champion of 
the Sclavi (his Enemies) challenging any man in his Army ^ ; and 
fomtimes too as rewards of Wit^ as the fame Author informs us, 
Wiggo being honor'd with a great Armilla by Rolvo Krage^ for a 
Jeil ^; 2nd Refo^ by GotoKingof Norway, ideo tantum quod eum 
cultim iyfamiliariu^ habuijfet 
no. Tht(e Armill<e, the Danes znd other Nonhern Nations 
accounted fo facred, that as Bartholin informs us out of Arngri- 
mu^^ the I/landers ufually fwore upon them, Cuji^s religionis fuit 
ritu6, ut juramentum prd^ftituri^ adhibitk teftibu6 Annulum in Ara De- 
orum ajfervari folitum^ isrinforo Judiciali ajudice fupremo in bra- 
chio geftatum^ hojiiarumque fanguine illinitum^ attreSiarent i. e, 
that the manner of people to htfworn was, that before witnej^they 
Hiould lay their hands on a certain Ring^ ufually kept upon the 
altar of their ^Wj, worn upon the arm of the Chiefjufiice (whence 
'tis plain it was an Armilla^ and fmeared over with the blood of 
their Sacrifices, KxidEthelwerdws and Ajferim both acquaint us, 
that King Rlfred having gotten confiderable advantage over the 
Danes^ made them fwear (befide on his own Reliques) in eorum 
Armilla facra^ quod cMrarum Regionum Regibus fecere nunquam 
/'. e. upon their holy bracelet^ which they had never done before 
to the Kings of any other Nation, 
A Saxon. Gram. Hifl. Dan, lib. '^.p.i\.6Ed}t.0peritt. ^ jdemlib.'^.pag.l^. D. * Idem Hh . 2. . pag.\6 C . 
e Idefn lib.^.pag.^i-C- ^ Tho-Bartholini Schedion de z^rmillis 'veterum, §• 98- * Chronicorum £- 
thehwerdi-^lib.^. m An. 876. vid- etiam AJlerium Me?ievenf. in eodem An- 
III. Which 
