descriptive of more modem manners. To be sensible of the difference between them,
let the reader compare in this volume No. iii. of book iii. with No. xi. of book ii.
Towards the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign (as is mentioned above) the
genuine old minstrelsy seems to have been extinct, and thenceforth the ballads that
were produced were wholly of the latter kind, and these came forth in such
abundance, that in the reign of James I. they began to be collected into little
miscellanies, under the name of Garlands, and at length to be written purposely for
such collections (FF 2).
P.S. By way of Postscript, should follow here the discussion of the question
whether the termMinstrelswas applied in English to Singers, and Composers of
Songs, &c., or confined to Musicians only. But it is reserved for the concluding note
(GG).
NOTES
- The larger notes and illustrations referred to by the letters (A) (B), &c., are to be
found in the following section "NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS". - Wedded to no hypothesis, the Author hath readily corrected any mistakes which
have beenprovedto be in this Essay; and considering the novelty of the subject, and
the time and place when and where he first took it up, many such had been
excusable.-- That the termminstrelwas not confined, as some contend, to a mere
musicianin this country, any more than on the Continent, will be considered more
fully in the last note (GG) in the following section "NOTES AND
ILLUSTRATIONS".. - Vide Pelloutier, Hist. des Celtes, tom. 1, l. 2, c. 6, 10.
- Tacit. de Mor. Germ. cap. 2.
- Vide Bartholin. De Causis contemptæ a Danis Mortis, lib. i. cap. 10.-- Wormij.
Literatura Runic, ad finem.-- See also "Northern Antiquities, or a Description of the
Manners, Customs, &c., of the ancient Danes and other Northern Nations: from the
French of M. Mallet." London, printed for T. Carnan, 1770, 2 vols. 8vo. - Torfæi, Præfat. ad Orcad. Hist.-- Pref. to "Five Pieces of Runic Poetry," &c.
- Vide Chronic. Saxon. à Gibson, pp. 12, 13, 4to. --Bed. Histat. Eccles. à Smith, lib.
i. c. xv. --"Ealdsexe [Regio antiq. Saxonum] in cervice Cimbricæ Chersonesi,
Holstiam propriæ dictam, Dithmasriam, Stormariam, et Wagriam, complectens."
Annot. in Bed. à Smith, p. 52. Et vide Camdeni Britann. - Anglia Vetus, hodie etiam Anglen, sita est inter Saxones et Giotes [Jutos], habens
oppidum capitale... Slesvic." -- Ethelwerd. lib i. - See Northern Antiquities, &c., vol. i. pp. 7, 8, 185, 259, 260, 261.
- Ibid. Preface, p. xxvi.
- See Rapin's Hist. (by Tindal, fol. 1732, vol. 1, p. 36), who places the incident here
related under the year 495. - By Bale and Spelman. -- See note (M).
- ibid.