[A.] Archbishops Parker, Laud, Usher, Bishop Stillingfleet, the present Bishops of Worcester, Bath and Wells, Carlisle, St. Asaph, St. Davids, Lincoln, Rochester, with many other Divines of the first Rank.
[B.] The Lord Chief Justice Cook, Mr. Lombard, Selden, Whitlock, Lord Chief Justice Hales, and Parker, Mr. Fortescue of the Temple, and others.
[C.] Leland, who writes in a Latin Style in Prose and Verse, as polite and accurate as can be boasted of by any of our-modern Wits. Jocelin, Spelman, both Father and Son, Cambden, Whelock, Gibson, and many more of all Ranks and Qualities, whose Names deserve well to be mention’d with Respect, were there room for it in this place.
[D.] Of this the Greeks give as a fair Example, when they express the Original and Author of all Things, their ?at?? ??d???te ?e??te, by their Monosyllable ?e??. As the Hebrews do by ??, the Goths the Ancestors of our Saxon Progenitors by the Word ??????, the Saxons, old Germans, Teutons, Francick, and English, in the Monosyllable Go?, the Germans Gott, and the French Dieu. [Page image]
[E.] Besides the Purpose for which these Verses are here cited, it may not be amiss to observe from some Instances of Words contain’d in them, how necessary, at least useful, the Knowledge of the Saxon Tongue is, to the right understanding our Old English Poets, and other Writers. For example, leuest, this is the same with the Saxon leo?o??, most beloved, or desirable. Goddes folke, not God his Folk, this has plainly the Remains of the Saxon Genitive Case. Sande, this is a pure Saxon word, signifying Mission, or being sent. See the Saxon Homily on the Birth Day of St. Gregory, p. 2. He ðu?h hi? ?æ?e ? ?an?e u? ??am ðeo?le? bi??en?um æ?b?æ?. He through his Counsel and Commission rescued us from the Worship of the Devil.
[F.] See the Epistle to the Reader in the Essay towards a Real Character, p. 3.