and Thraves* yearely Sixteene pounds, paid out more to the Commonwealth as a ffee ffarm Rent Two pounds and thirteene shillings, all these Tythes belong to the Rectorye of Swyne."

This is a true copy of the Survey in the aforesaid Volume of Parliamentary Surveys, preserved in the Library at Lambeth Palace.

GEORGE D'OYLY, D. D.

Keeper of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Records.

LAMBETH LIbrary,

February 2, 1824.

A full and fair account of the proceedings of Cromwell's commissioners, founded on the records which have long been hidden in the public offices and large libraries of the kingdom, would be a great and valuable addition to public history. But the publication of the records themselves verbatim, in the manner of Rymer's Foedera, would be a still greater acquisition, as a guard against the misrepresentation of facts by ignorance or prejudice.

*Thraves, or Threaves of Corn, each thrave two dozen, or twenty-four sheaves ;-but in some parts of the country fewer sheaves make a thrave.

King Athelstan in the year 923, granted to the church of St. John of Beverley, four thraves of corn from every ploughland in the East-Riding of Yorkshire.

"Ya fou threve be heven kinge,

Of ilka plough of Est-riding."

Vide Cowel

When it was debated in Parliament before the death of Charles, whether the members for every county should bring in the names of nine persons, who should be ecclesiastical commissioners, upon whom the government of the church should devolve, or the church should remain under archbishops and bishops, it was observed that the house usually sat long and late, and was very thin of church members, which led lord Falkland to observe," They who hated the bishops, hated them worse than the d; and they who loved them, did not love them so well as their dinners."

The eloquence of many members of parliament during the Usurpation was much superior to that of any former age in England; and the force and compass of the English language were extended by several eminent men of that period, far beyond all former example.

Waller, who was lively and energetic, and had opposed the exaction of ship-money, after the example of his celebrated uncle, Hampden, was the delight of the house of commons; and Cromwell did all in his power to retain in his favour, Usher, Milton, Marvell, and others among the men of the greatest talents in the nation.

ROMAN ENCAMPMENT AT SWINE.

The Roman camps varied in form and dimensions, according to the difference of situation and other circumstances: some of them were square, others round, triangular, or oblong.*

Some of the fortifications of the Romans in Britain, as well as in other parts of the world, were enclosed by a single rampart and ditch, while others were surrounded with two, three, or more distinct entrenchments. "Castrorum autem diversa triplexque munitio est." Julius Cæsar, in the second book of his War in Gaul, section 5, says that he ordered one of his camps to be secured with a rampart twelve feet high, and a ditch eighteen feet deep.

It was considered dangerous for an army to halt for the night, without throwing up some kind of fortifications to prevent surprise by the enemy;† which may account for the numerous remains of encampments to be found in those countries which have been occupied by the

Romans.

In the north-west part of the township of Swine, at the distance of about a mile from the church, are various marks of the site of a Roman encampment.

* Vegetius, de Re Militari, 1, 3, c. 8. + Ibid.

DD