A.D. 1215
COPIED BY EXPRESS PERMISSION, and the only correct drawing of the Great Charter ever taken. This important memorial of the liberties and rights of Englishmen is admirably adapted for framing, and would hang with propriety from the walls of every house in the country. As a guarantee to the purchaser that the facsimile is exact, the publisher need only state that Sir Frederick Madden has permitted copies to hang for public inspection upon the walls of the Manuscript Department in the British Museum. It was executed by Mr. Harrison, under whose auspices the splendid work on the Knights of the Garter was produced some years ago.
A LITERARY AND PHILOLOGICAL CURIOSITY.
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The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars, (Liber Vagatorum: Der Betler Orden), with a Vocabulary of their Language (Rotwelsche Sprach); edited, with Preface, by MARTIN LUTHER, in the year 1528. Now first Translated into English, with Notes, by JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN.
⁂ This very singular work is comparatively unknown in this country. The first edition appears to have been printed at Augsburg, by Erhard Öglin, or Ocellus, as early as 1514—a small quarto of twelve leaves. It was frequently reprinted at other places in Germany; and in 1528 there appeared an edition at Wittemberg, with a Preface by Martin Luther, from which the present translation has been made. The work is divided into three parts or sections; the first gives a special account of the several orders of the “Fraternity of Vagabonds;” the second, sundry notabilia relating to the different classes of beggars previously described; and the third consists of a Canting Dictionary. It is singular that more than three centuries ago Martin Luther should have declared that the cant language of beggars comes from the Hebrews, and that in our own time a similar statement should be made by Mayhew in his London Labour. Mayhew says that many of the most expressive street terms in every day use by London and provincial vagabonds are derived from the Jew Fences.
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Letters of the Marchioness Broglio Solari, one of the Maids of Honour to the Princess Lamballe, &c.