^{page 467 note a} A recent fracture in one of the mirrors fully displays its metallic splendour. The colour is a reddish white. Its rapid oxydation by exposure to nitrous acid, shews that it has been largely amalgamated with copper.

^{page 468 note b} Hist. of Manchester, vol. i. p. 130.

^{page 469 note c} Gwydd, trees, shrubs; also wild, untilled, woody land. The word is still used in Caernarvonshire. Richards. Owen says, that Gwythel, the adjective from the same root, signifies ‘of the woods, sylvan, savage;’ that the term is synonymous with Celt and Ysgotiad, one who led a wandering life in the covert of the forest, in contradistinction to Gal or one who dwelt in the open cultivated fields; that Gwythel is the general term in Welsh for a native of Ireland; and that there is a tradition that the first inhabitants of Wales were called Gwythelians. This approximates the etymology of Whitaker very closely with that which I have adduced.

^{page 470 note d} Whitaker's Hist. of Manchester, vol. ii. p. 142.

^{page 470 note e} Loudiniana, No IV. Gentleman's Magazine, April 1836, p. 369.

^{page 473 note a} 2 Chron. chap. xi. ver. 17, 18, 19.

^{page 475 note a} July 21, Herbert's Life of Henry VIII. p. 37, fol. 1649.

^{page 475 note b} Sir Rice ap Thomas, K.G.

^{page 475 note c} Theroüenne.

^{page 477 note d} George the 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, K.G. 1488, Steward of the King's Household, commanded the van of the army in this expedition; he died in 1541.

^{page 478 note e} quick set.

^{page 478 note f} Henry Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon.

^{page 481 note a} Nero, D. IV.

^{page 481 note b} Illuminated Ornaments, by Shaw and Sir Frederick Madden, No. 2.

^{page 481 note c} Muratorij Nov. Thesaur. Vet. Inscript. iv. vol. pp. 1821, 1826, 1871, 1891, 1900, 1904, 1909, 1915, 1918,1938.

^{page 481 note d} Ibid. 1904,1907.

^{page 481 note e} Bed. Lib. iv. c. xj.

^{page 482 note f} Bede, L. iii. 24.