1 48 Mr. pl ant as Account of 
the French nobility who were the fubjeds of Charles; 
and that they, in their turn, entered into reciprocal en- 
gagements in their own language, which the fame author 
again declares to have been the Romance, and not the 
Teutonic ; although one would imagine that, had they 
at all underftood this latter tongue, they could not but 
have ufed it upon this occafion, in return for the conde- 
feenfion of lewis. 
As a companion between this language and the Ro- 
manfli of the Grifons cannot be coniidered as a mere ob- 
jed of curiofity; but may alfo ferve to corroborate the 
proofs I have above alledged of the antiquity of the lat- 
ter, I have annexed in the appendix (*), a tranflation of 
this oath into the language of Engadine, which ap- 
proaches neared to it ; although I muftobferve, that there 
are in the other dialed fome words which have a dill 
greater affinity with the language of the oath, as appears 
by another tranflation I have procured, in which both 
dialeds are indifferently ufed. To prevent any doubts 
concerning the veracity of thefe tranflations, I mud here 
declare, that I am indebted for them, and for feveral 
anecdotes concerning that language, to a man of letters, 
who is a native and hath long been an inhabitant of the 
Grifons, and is lately come to refide in London. I have 
added to this comparative view of thofe two languages 
the Latin words from which both feem to have been 
derived ; and, as a proof of the exidence of the Gallic 
Romance in France down to the twelfth century, 1 have 
(s) N° I. 
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