ILLUSTRATIVE OF

EARLY ENGLISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE,

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"They are Mucrones Verborum, pointed speeches. Cicero prettily calls them Salinas, salt
pits, that you may extract salt out of and sprinkle it where you will. They serve to be inter-
laced in continued speech: they serve to be recited, upon occasion, of themselves: they serve,
if you take out the kernel of them, and make them your own."-LORD BACON.

BY JOHN BOWYER NICHOLS AND SON, PARLIAMENT STREET.

M.DCCC.XXXIX.

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Ang Kit 720

Br 73.4.39

BOLIND 26 APR 1912

COUNCIL

OF

THE CAMDEN SOCIETY,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 1st, 1839.

President, THE RIGHT HON. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P.

THOMAS AMYOT, ESQ. F.R.S. Treas. S.A.
JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. F.S.A. Treasurer.
JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A.
CHARLES PURTON COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A.
T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. F.S.A., M.R.I.A.
THE REV. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A.
SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A.
SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS, BART., F.R.S., F.S.A.
THOMAS STAPLETON, ESQ. F.S.A.
EDGAR TAYLOR, ESQ. F.S.A.
WILLIAM J. THOMS, ESQ. F.SA. Secretary.
THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A. F.S.A.