[74] Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, by Dr. Giles, pp. 95, 96.
[75] Arles, 314 A.D.; Sardiæ 347; Ariminum 363.
[76] The Editor has learnt at the last moment that this Jeu d’Esprit is to be found in a work by Miss L. Hawkins. It came to the Editor’s hands in MS., in a private note-book formerly belonging to a member of the family of Wynn, of Wynnstay.
[77] See Antiquarian Magazine, vol. i. p. 78.
[78] See the frontispiece to the present number.
[79] These pyramids are minutely described by William of Malmesbury.
[80] Speed. I have followed Speed’s description taken from Giraldus, save where Speed, in defiance of all chronology, makes the finding of Arthur to have been during Henry II.’s reign, under Abbot Henry of Blois. The dates show that it was during Richard I.’s reign, under Henry de Soliaco.
[81] Almost certainly Henry de Soliaco, in whose abbey the remains were discovered. Henry of Blois was buried at Winchester.
[82] Journal of the Archæological Institute, vol. xx. p. 395.
[83] See vol. iii. p. 144.