[6] In the notes to Drayton's Polyolbion, Song viii.
[7] There is a Lunden in Sweden, mentioned by Maitland, vol. i. ubi sup. It is the capital of the province of Schonen. Another town of the name is in Danish Holstein.
[8] "We have one word," says Dr. Pegge, "which has not a single letter of its original, for of the French peruke, we got periwig, now abbreviated to wig. Earwig comes from eruca, as Dr. Wallis observes, Anonymiana, p. 56. The French word jour (day) comes from dies, through diurnus, diurno, giorno; so giornale, journal. Uncle is from avus, through avunculus. For Inhimthorpe, and other impossibilities, see Cosmo the Third's Travels through England, in the reign of Charles II."
[9] Pennant's London, third edition, 4to., p. 3.
[10] Picture of London, p. 12.
[11] Picture of London, p. 14. For a larger account of this and other matters briefly touched upon in the present introduction, see Brayley's London and Middlesex, vol. i. The spirit of them, however, will appear in our work, together with particulars hitherto unnoticed.
[12] Id. p. 13.
[13] Since this paragraph was written, the wonderful events have taken place in France, which have so agitated the whole of Europe, and which promise to open a new epoch in human history. May all benefit from them, as we believe all may, without real injury to any one!
[14] Parentalia, p. 290, quoted in the work next mentioned.
[15] Brayley's London and Middlesex, vol. i. p. 87.