624 
found in the monastery of St. Stephen at 
Caen. The fitth contains a list of seve- 
ral eminent Normans who had resided in 
England in the reign of Edward the Con- 
fessor. The sixth and seventh articles 
contain lists of the military othcers who 
accompanied the Conqueror. The eighth 
and ninth give the names of the Norman 
Jandholdersin England. The tenth and 
last piece in this collection is an account 
of the pedigrees of the kings, dukes, earls, 
and other noble persons, mentioned in 
the large volume of Duchesne’s Scriptores 
Normannie. The Baron’s own Notes, 
which are in English, throw considerable 
light upon the text of the different tracts. 
In one of them, at p. 165, it seems to be 
doubted whether our kings anterior to 
the conquest had an oath administered 
to them at their coronations. We be- 
lieve the exact form prescribed for it, 
even at an earlier period, will be found in 
Mr. Turner’s History of the Anglo- 
Saxons. 
Another work, and the last that we 
shall mention in this class, is Mr. Cuat- 
MERS’s “ Caledonia; or, an Account histo- 
vical and topographic of North Britain; 
JSromthe most ancient to the present Tunes; 
with a Dictionary of Places, chorogra- 
phical and philological ;” of which the 
first volume only is before us. It con- 
sists of four books; comprising all that 
relates to Scottish history: “ I have di- 
vided my work, (says Mr. Chalmers) 
without regarding fantastical conceits 
of fabulous epochs, into such periods, as 
were analogous to the genuine history of 
each successive people. The Roman pe- 
riod, extending from Agricola’s arrival, 
in North Britain, A.D. 80 to the abdi- 
cation of Roman authority, in A.D. 446, 
forms the first Book, from its priority in 
time, as well as precedence in import- 
ance. In discussing this interesting sub- 
jert, I was not content with previous au- 
thorities. I engaged intelligent persons 
to survey Roman roads, to inspect Ro- 
man stations, and to-ascertain doubtful 
points of Roman transactions. I have 
thus been enabled to correct the mistakes 
of former writers on those curious topics, 
Much perhaps cannot be added to what 
has been now ascertained, with respect 
to the engaging subject of the first book. 
Yet, since Caledonia was sent to the 
press, a discovery of some importance 
bas been made: a yery slight doubt re- 
mained, whether the Burghead of Moray 
had been a Roman station, as no Roman 
remains had there been found: but this 
doubt has been completely solved, by the 
- from Ireland. 
Retrospect of Domestic Literature—History. 
recent excavation, within its limits, of @ 
Roman bath. The firit chapter of the 
following work will be found to be as 
much the firft chapter of the annals of 
England and of Ireland, as it is of Scot- 
land. The Pictish Period naturally suc= 
ceeds the former book, as it extends, from 
the abdication of the Romans in A.D. 
446, to the overthrow of the Picts in 
A.D. 843. It will be found to compre- 
hend interesting events: the affairs of the 
Picts ; the fate of the Romanized Britons; 
the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons on the 
Tweed; the adventures of the Scandina- 
vians in the Orkney and Western Isles; 
the colonization of Argyle, by the Scots, 
It is the business of the 
Pictish period, to trace the singular his- 
tory of all those people, various as they 
were in their lineages, throughout the dif. 
ferent events of their obscure warfare, 
and the successive turns of their frequent 
changes: add to those topics of peculiar 
interest the introduction of christianity, 
which, in every age, and in every coun- 
try, has produced such memorable effects. 
The Scottish period, forming the third 
book, and extending from A.D. 843, to 
1097, will be found to comprehend his- 
toric topics of equal importance: the 
union of the Picts and Scots into one 
kingdom; the amalgamation of the an- 
cient Britons of Strathclyde with both; 
the colonization of Galloway by the Irish; 
the annexation of Lothian to the Scottish 
kingdom; the history, both civil and ec- 
clesiastical, of all those people of various 
races, with notices of their antiquities, their 
languages, their learning, their laws; all 
these form historical matters of singular in- 
terest to rational curiosity, if they be inves- 
tigated from facts,incontempt of fabulosity, 
The fourth book contains the Scoto-Sazxon 
period, which extends from A.D. 1097 
to 1806, and which details many notices 
of vaned importance. At the first, and 
at the second of those epochs, momen- 
tous revolutions took place, though they 
have passed unnoticed by the Scottish 
historians; and were unknown to the 
historiographer royal. With this period 
began a new dynasty ef kings, who in- 
troduced new people, new manners, new 
usages, and new establishments, In this 
period, saxon colonization of proper 
Scotland’ was begun. In this period, was 
the Sectica: church reformed. In it was 
introduced the municipal law of North 
Britain, in the place of Celtic customs, ~ 
In this period, originated her agr iculture, 
her commerce and shipping, and fishery, 
her manufactures, and her coins. The 
beginning 
