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Akolo-Saxon- Mstoey As N^Lustrated By ' ...
betized , vvould be % > foundation for historical labourers more valuable than any single work wM mission , or even of that noble series now under issue by the Master of the Rolls , the Rerum Brtiawwca / rvm Avork would be a grand contribution to the ethnology , philology and
history of the Iberians , Welsh , Cornish , Irish , Erse and Manx , the A ^ arious tribes of English and the Nor ^ The index to Ireland would be the soundest record yet published of tt ^ At present the progress of inquiries ^ based on these names , depends on the isolated efforts of archseologists , of partial , and therefore im perfect notes or treatises in county his
tjfoe contributions in the ( xeidMemc ^ Mj ^ tentipn having an English history ^ ^ the data * available for that daric and ^ between the alleged settlement of the Eng ^ the effectual conquest and ^^ ^^ island , wHcb had been
accomplished in the eighth century , L of places and of persons ^ pur ^ gagedih a prior portion of the subgect----the ethnological relations the Germanic ra . ee . Finding the inadequate ) I resbrt minutely- ^ tow ^
dually acquired more extended views , I began to collect notes on a small scale , Avhich I afterwards increased , ^ I have been able to carry out my analysis to smaller subdivisions of the subject . In these inquiries I have exanained between 100 , 000 and 200 , 000 names , and made perhaps 40 , 000 or 50 , 000 notes on the Anglo-Saxon names ; but the subject is so vast , that at each stage of progress I find that 1 have left imperfect much of what is behind me , and the prosecution
of the whole inquiry to any degree of completeness is beyond my means , and beyond the scope ofthe purposes for which I engaged in it . I am therefore led to publish a few notes , in the hope that they may be useful in enlisting more attention to what I cannot but consider a most valuable and essential part of the instruments by which much of our national or local history is to be discovered or determined .
Of course , under the circumstances here related , it is rash for any inquirer to assume that he can pledge himself definitely to every detail , when elements may yet be discovered which Avill materially affect the ultimate decision , but it may be useful to point out some of the leading results , which are to be deduced from such investigations ; and these we shall proceed to consider in a future article .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Akolo-Saxon- Mstoey As N^Lustrated By ' ...
betized , vvould be % > foundation for historical labourers more valuable than any single work wM mission , or even of that noble series now under issue by the Master of the Rolls , the Rerum Brtiawwca / rvm Avork would be a grand contribution to the ethnology , philology and
history of the Iberians , Welsh , Cornish , Irish , Erse and Manx , the A ^ arious tribes of English and the Nor ^ The index to Ireland would be the soundest record yet published of tt ^ At present the progress of inquiries ^ based on these names , depends on the isolated efforts of archseologists , of partial , and therefore im perfect notes or treatises in county his
tjfoe contributions in the ( xeidMemc ^ Mj ^ tentipn having an English history ^ ^ the data * available for that daric and ^ between the alleged settlement of the Eng ^ the effectual conquest and ^^ ^^ island , wHcb had been
accomplished in the eighth century , L of places and of persons ^ pur ^ gagedih a prior portion of the subgect----the ethnological relations the Germanic ra . ee . Finding the inadequate ) I resbrt minutely- ^ tow ^
dually acquired more extended views , I began to collect notes on a small scale , Avhich I afterwards increased , ^ I have been able to carry out my analysis to smaller subdivisions of the subject . In these inquiries I have exanained between 100 , 000 and 200 , 000 names , and made perhaps 40 , 000 or 50 , 000 notes on the Anglo-Saxon names ; but the subject is so vast , that at each stage of progress I find that 1 have left imperfect much of what is behind me , and the prosecution
of the whole inquiry to any degree of completeness is beyond my means , and beyond the scope ofthe purposes for which I engaged in it . I am therefore led to publish a few notes , in the hope that they may be useful in enlisting more attention to what I cannot but consider a most valuable and essential part of the instruments by which much of our national or local history is to be discovered or determined .
Of course , under the circumstances here related , it is rash for any inquirer to assume that he can pledge himself definitely to every detail , when elements may yet be discovered which Avill materially affect the ultimate decision , but it may be useful to point out some of the leading results , which are to be deduced from such investigations ; and these we shall proceed to consider in a future article .