666 Retrospect of Domestic Literature Miseellunies. 
MISCELLANIES. 
_ Anonymiana; or Ten Centurics of Ob- 
servations on curious Authors and Sub- 
jects, is the posthumous work of Dr. 
pee completed as long aco as 1778. 
That the merit of the anecdotes is vari-. 
ousrwill be readily imagined. We se- 
lect a few as specimens. yet 
: -. (CENPURTAS PRIMA, 
po ae ten - 
“The first- book “that ‘was published 
in England with an ‘appendix or collec- 
tiow of original papers, a practice which - 
bas since been often followed by our 
“aniiguaries aid historians very laudably, 
was ‘Mr. Sommner’s Antiquities of Canter- 
bury, which came oat in 1640, 4to.” 
“Tt is a common observation, that 
unless a man takes'a’delight in a: thing, 
he will never pursue it with pleasure or 
assiduity. 
diligo, to love”: °c. 9% 
ROW. TOR ERO NTEPE 
“The Romans had so- much concern 
with the vine, and its fruit, that’ there 
are mere terms-belotging to it, and-its 
pirts, its culture, products, and other 
appurtenances, than to any other tree: 
Vites, the tree} palmes, the branch; 
pampinus, the leat; racemus, a bunch 
of grapcs;_uva, the grape; capreolus, 
@ tendrils. vindemia,. the vintave; vinum, 
wine; acinus, the grape-stone.”. 
“ Joshua Barnes, the famous Greek 
Professor of Cambridge, was reinarkable | 
for a very extensive memory; but, his 
judgement was not so exact: and when 
he died, one wrote for him, ne 
Hic Jacet Joshua Barnes, , * 
felicissime memorize, 
expectans judicium.” 
\Imost the whole of the second and 
a part of the third century, are filled 
with notes on the Mirror for Macistrates. 
There are also in the subsequent cen- 
uries a variety of anecdotes cohcérning 
Hearne’s works. Rie, 
laipre6s,. Conte Vat. Lorre hx jil- 
fram of Wickham’s motto is ascribed to 
Bishop Kenn: and just before, “To. 
angle, is thought to be derived from the 
German angel. And _ this (adds Dr. 
Pegyc) may be thought to come from 
anguilla, an eel, a fish of most frequent 
use in the monasteries.” | ANGEL, how- 
ever, was the Saxon word fora hook: to 
ungle was, of course, to hook fish. 
With one or two more extracts fom_ 
the anecdotes, we shall closé cur ob-- 
servations on this work. 
Ditigentia, diligence, is from > 
Cent. VII. 
e AVIA,” 
“ The prince whom we commonly call 
Henry the Third, was properly Henry 
the Fourth, and all the later Henrys 
will be consequently removed one step 
higher.as.to, number, and. Wenry VIII. 
will be in. strictness Henry ,EX-i\ It is 
the observation of Henry de Knyghton, 
who writes, speaking of Henry the third, . 
“ [ste Henricus filius Jokannis vocatus 
est Henricus IIL. in-cronicis et cartis, 
et omnibus altis seriptis, non causé nominis, 
quia nowine quartus rex Henricus Suit, 
set causé dignitalis regalis et reznabitis, 
_et dominatione regnandi; nam si primus 
Tlenricus, filius autem Imperatricis, et 
"rex Henricus filius ejusdem regis Henrici 
qui vocutuscest Henricus rex junior gui 
coronatus est vivente patra [reputentur ; 
this, or some such. word, is missing | 
tune iste Henricus filius Johannis esseé 
quartus in numerc: ‘set quiaille Henricus 
rex junior moriebatur ante patrem suum, 
et non regnavit, ead de cuusd ‘respectu 
eorum gui regraverunt ita_ dictus est 
Henricus tertius.”. TW. Knyghton, inter 
X. Seript. col, 2499; and see the latést 
edition of Vitz-Stephen’s Description of 
London, p. 14. “ 
BE Li oR ER 
_ “ Dr. Stukeley, -reciting the works of 
Richard of Cirencestér, in his ‘Account of 
Richard of Cirencester,’ p. 9, speaks of an 
historical work of bis distributed into two 
parts, the first called Speculum Historiale; 
in four books; the other called Anglo- 
Saxonum Chronicon, L. v. Then he pro-= 
ceeds: to. say, AMS. of both parts is 
fouitd in the Public Library, Cambridge, 
among: the MS. folios, contains pages 
$16, and-four books.  End$ in 1066 
(248.) Inthe Catalogue of Manuscripts 
mentioned p. 168, No, '@804, (124) 
it begins: “ Britannia insulurum optima,” 
We. “In the end,” says Dr. James, 
librarian in 1600, “are these words: 
Keges vera Suronum Gulielme Malms- 
buriensi et Henrico Huntendoniensi per- 
mitto: quos de RegibusBritoaum tacere 
jubeo” — Recollecting “that this’ de- 
scription answered to Jeffery of Mon- 
iuouth’s history, which begins and ends 
thus, Isuspected that the doctor, by a 
blunder. ‘almost incredible, had given 
Jetrey’s work unto Richard of Cirene 
.cesters sand I accordingly got my re- 
spectable friend ‘Mr. George Ashby, 
' presideat of St. John’s College, Cam- 
bridge; to consult: the MS. in the Pub- 
he Labrary, which he did in 1772; and 
it actually proved tobe J eitrey’s History.” 
me ‘st ‘ ‘ . ‘In 
