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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
Before I begin to read this paper I must apologise to the Society of Antiquaries for its mode of composition.
In the controversies respecting the origin of the Homeric poems, which have raised so much attention of late in connection with Dr. Schliemann's discoveries, there was a theory started amongst scholars that Homer was not the author of the Iliad and Odyssey, but, as the word might imply in the original, “the man who joined or weaved together” the various poems supplied to him by other persons, which, from this stitching or joining process, were called Rhapsodies. This theory has of late years in England—partly under the influence of a celebrated political personage—fallen into discredit. But the present paper is an exact example of the process in question. I am on this occasion but the “Homerus,” the compiler, who has woven together the fragments communicated to him.
page 282 note a Dart, i. 45.
page 282 note b Ibid. i 63.
page 283 note a See Will of Henry V. (Rymer, ix. 289).
page 283 note b Sandford, p. 285.
page 283 note c Memorials of Westminster, by Dean Stanley (1869), p. 600.
page 284 note a Dart, ii. 39.
page 284 note b Henry VII. died 21 April, 1509.
page 285 note a “You have witchcraft on your lips, Kate: there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French Council.”—Henry V. act 5, scene 2.
page 285 note b Henry VIII.
page 286 note a Query “entrance.” See Ashby's deposition, ante, p. 283.
page 286 note b Keepe, p. 155.
page 286 note c Dart, ii. 39.
page 286 note d Gough, ii. 115.
page 286 note e George II.'s vault was then the royal vault.
page 287 note a This dampness was occasioned by the insufficient ventilation of the Villiers' vault. The vaults in the Abbey are usually remarkable for their dryness and good construction.
page 288 note a This differs from Nealo, ii. 89, who gives the date 1776. 1778 is correct, as it is the date when the Percy vault was completed.
page 289 note a This strip of lead had never formed part of a complete inclosure of lead; it is and has always been a flat sheet of lead; its edges are cut jaggedly and irregularly, and there is a seam which runs longitudinally down the middle of it. This soldered seam throughout the full length of the sheet, 7½ feet in length, may have been an original seam in the old lead, or it may have been made by joining together two strips of the old lead.
page 290 note a The only piece of any size that could bo lifted up was taken out and presented to her Majesty the Queen.
page 291 note a The absence of the names of any of the higher officials of the Abbey upon the leaden coffin-plate seems to indicate that Benjamin Fidoe, the clerk of the works, undertook the removal without any of them being present.