With regard to the present publication (as intimated in the preface to the first edition) he conceived that a subject from our own national annals would not be altogether unacceptable; and from the approbation with which it has been viewed, it appears he was not mistaken. He did not follow the general custom of attaching notes, because he conceived the history too generally known to need it. N 0 character except that of Estrilda is entirely ideal; and the examination of Alban is given, as far as poetry, and a slight amplification would admit, in the words of the Venerable Bede.

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