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NOTES TO THE ENGLISH SLAVE.
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( 7) Then sign this parchment with thy mark and seal. . p. 70.
" Seals were used for the purpose of impressing the wax,
which closed the epistles of the Anglo-Saxons. The seal of
Ethelward, Bishop of Dunwich, (830-70) has lately been discovered,
about two hundred yards from the gate of the Monas-
tery of Eye, by a labourer who it
5 gave to the child of a workman
employed on a neighbouring farm : the child threw it on
the fire, from which its mother rescued it. It was afterwards
purchased by Mr. Hudson Gurney, and presented to the British
Museum." Archceologia, ii. p. 480.
38 And ( ) feel 'tis honest noble to destroy
All of thy lineage who my rights usurp. . . p. 7 I.
" In those times (the Anglo-Saxon) too many, who by their
rank and wealth were entitled to be members of the supreme
council of the nation, were notorious thieves and robbers."
Dr. Henry.
Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History, describes the implacable
hatred of the Britons against the English nation and the
Catholic church.
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( 9) / marked his shoulders with a burning arrow. . .
p. 72.
" When Basil Zuski, of the ancient family of Rurick, the
first sovereign of Russia, ascended the throne in 1606, the
Czarina, wife of Demetrius, (said to have been the son of the
murdered Iwan, and deposed by Zuski,) with her father were
sent to prison. The child was privately conveyed to the
Ukraine, under the care of a faithful cossack, and the priest
who baptized him marked on his shoulders, in aquafortis, 'This
is Demetrius, the son of the Czar Demetrius.' This being
discovered as he grew up, while bathing in a public bath, and
the news of the discovery reaching the ears of Stanislaus,
King of Poland, he invited him to his court, and treated him
as the heir to the throne of Russia. After the death of this
prince, he was obliged to withdraw to Holstein, where he lived
some time in obscurity but at ; length the Duke, in consideration
of the acquittal of a debt due to Zuski, for a sum of
money lent to the Holstein ambassador, sent the young prince
bound to Moscow, in which city he was publicly beheaded in
the year 1625."
Ruric was prince of the Waregi, who obtained the dominion
of Russia about the period of King Alfred's youth, and fixing
his seat at Novogardia, adorned it with many noble buildings.