[95] Adam’s Roman Antiquities, 366, (Boyd’s edit.)
[96] Household Words, ix. 462.
[97] Family Friend, vol. ii. p. 132.
[98] Furnished to the author through the attention of Messrs. Marchand Aé. Gaime, Guillemot & Co., Jewellers, of New-York.
[99] Mineral Kingdom, p. 269.
[100] New-York Albion newspaper, 8th October, 1853.
[101] When the tomb of Childeric, father of Clovis, was opened, there were found, besides the skeletons of his horse and page, his arms, a crystal orb and more than three hundred little ornaments resembling bees of the purest gold, their wing part being inlaid with a red stone like cornelian. It has, however, been asserted that they were what are called fleurons, supposed to have been attached to the harness of the monarch’s war-horse. Napoleon, wishing to have some regal emblem more ancient than the fleur-de-lis, adopted the fleurons or bees, and the green ground as the original Merovingian color, (Notes and Queries, viii. 30.)
[102] London Gent.’s Mag. for January, 1765, p. 210.
[103] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xxxv. old series, p. 141.
[104] Article in the N. Y. Albion for 31st Dec. 1853, on Cod and Cod Fishing, 627.