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nies of Moses and Giraldus Cambrensis, 
the “ Fascicuius Temporum,” and Isido- 
rus, are quoted forthe relation of the same_ 
chain of facts. Geoffrey of Monimouth 
also, and Sir John Mandeville, appear 
not to have been among the meanest of 
his authoriues, 
2 contemporary King with David; aod 
Leyll, who founded Carlisle, with Solo- 
_ Mon. 
Relations of this kind, however, ap- 
pear to have been as much the fault. of 
-Jearning and the times, as of: the listo- 
rians by whom they were adopted; and 
we may probably forgive Rous, as wel! 
as other chroniclers, for the confused, 
or even contradictory, statements of many 
facts, at an earlier period than the ninth 
century. f 
From the Conquest, onward to the 
reign of Lenry the Seventh, greater ac- 
curacy might be expected, theugh even 
im this interval it may be_proved, that 
Rous took but small pains to ascertain 
the correctness of his intormation. ; 
Leland’s compliments will probably be 
allowed to have been ill bestowed upon 
such anecdotes as are detailed-in the 
‘following quotations : 
Speaking of the Conqueror’s ‘Survey, 
edit. 1716, p. 108, he says, 
‘¢ Et redacta est dicta descriptio ia waum 
wolumen, ut seepius vidi, et posita est in archi- 
vis regiis. Nomen libri est DomEspay.” 
‘Yet, all who have seen this work are 
well aware, that itisin ¢wo volumes, of 
different sizes: the first, containing the 
description of thirty-one counties; the 
second, the smaller voiume, containing 
only those of Essex, Norfelk, and Suf- 
folk. 
A passage, almost immediately follow- 
ing, informs us— . 
«¢ Iste rex Jup#os a Rothomage in An- 
gliam transtulit moraturos.” 
But that the Jews were fixed here, and 
ina state of peculiar vassalage, at an 
earlier period, is evident from the Laws 
of the Confessor; one of which ex. 
pressly says, “ Sciendum quoque quod 
omnes Judzi, ubicunque in regno sunt, 
sub tutela & defensione Regis ligea de- 
bent esse, nec quilibet eorum alicur di- 
viti se potest subdere-sine Regis licentia, 
JUDZI ENIM & OMNIA SUA REGIS SUNT, 
Quod si quispiam detinuerit eos, vel-pecu- 
niam eorum, perguirat Rex, si vult tan- 
quam suum proprium.* 
* Lambard’s Archaignomia, 145-129, 
The Antigtary.—No. XVII. 
Brutus is mentioned as~ 
fOct. 1; 
Another passage states, 
‘¢ Jose etiam usum LONGORUM AREUUM 
et sagittarum in Angliam primus inducebat, 
cum eis Angliam conquestione vincens. Nam 
in exortatione sua ante bellum vocabat Ang- 
licos homines sagittis carentes.°—=** Et sic 
percussus est per oculum in cerebrum rex 
Anglorum Haroldus, & sic sagitte erant 
causa victoria Normannorum.” 
But it requires very little knowledge 
of history to understand, that, by Sa-_ 
gitte, the quarrels, or arrows, of the 
cRoss- Bows, are intended ; while no ab- 
solate traces of the long-bow, properly 
so named, can be ESar rie in the 
works of any of our historians, previous 
to the reign of Edward the First. 
At p. 121. The division of the king- 
dom into SHIRES is stated to-nave been 
the work of the Saxons, at their first ar- 
rival; while the subdivision into hun- 
dreds only is ascribed to ALFRED, 
<¢ Item Saxones in suo primo adventu in 
regnum, devictis Britonibus, secundum -Chro- 
nicas, diviserynt regnum in comitatus, quos 
Anglice vocamus SHIRES. Et diu post Rex 
Aluderus, aliter Alfredus, divisit comitatas 
‘In hundredas, & quelibet hundreda contine= 
bat centum villas, & a numero centenari¢é 
hundrede nominantur.” abi, 
On this subject compare the Laws of 
Alfred ; Brompton, p. 956; and Black- _ 
stone’s Commentaries. ° | 
In p. 138, of Rous’s History, we find 
a passage, whichappears to have led Sir’ 
William Dugdale into a gross error in his 
History of Warwickshire. Speaking of 
Henry the First, he says, . 
‘¢ Fecit iste Rex....+ eciam in Ang- 
lia parcum de Wodstok cum palacio infra 
predictum parcum, qui parcus erat primus par= 
cus, Anglia, et pro eo fiendo plures ville de- 
structz sunt, & continet in circuitu septem 
miliaria Anglicana. An erant ibi aliquz ec~ 
clesiz, vel capella, destructez, nescio. Et 
constructus erat circa annum xii. regni hujus 
regis vel parum post. Hujus rei exemplo 
ceterl domini iImparcaverunt certas terras 
Suas.”” 
The truth is, that parks are perpetu- 
ally mentioned in almost every county 
in the Domesday Survey; and proofs of 
their existence in.the Saxon times occur 
in more than-one or two -passages among 
the writings of the period. The right of 
making a park was of a very early date, 
and was, in fact, appurtenant to Free- 
‘warren, as appears by a Quo Warranto ~ 
Roll of Edward the Third. — Libertas 
liLere warrenne est authoritas’ faciend: 
parcum.” (Plac. de Quo Warranto et Co-_ 
-ronez. 7 Edw. 1. Rot. 35, Ebor.) _ he } 
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