CONTENTS. 1 FIL THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. By the Rev. WILLIAM HINCES, FL.S., Professer of NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. Ey the Rev. JOH IV. CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY By the REV. DR. SCADDING, Hon. Librarian to the Canadian Institute PROCEEDINGS OF CANADIAN INSTITUTE: Annual Report of the Council for the year 1867-68.. METEOROLOGY: 140 177 67 The Annual Subscription, due in January, Country Members, $3; in Toronto, $4. The CANADIAN JOURNAL is printed exclusively for gratuitous distribution among the Members of the Canadian Institute, and such Institutions and Societies as the Council may determine; but Members may purchase extra copies at 50c. per number, and Provincial Literary and Scientific Societies may obtain the Journal at the same rate, by an annual payment in advance **Communications for the Journal to be addressed to the General Editor, REV. DR. SCADDING, 10 Trinity Square, Toronto. Communications on general business of the Institute to be addressed to W. MORTIMER CLARK, Esq., Corresponding Secretary, or to Mr. JAMES JOHNSON, Assistant Secretary, Canadian Institute, Toronto. MR. EDWARD ALLEN, 12 Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, London, W., has been appointed the English Agent for the Institute. All European communications are requested to be forwarded through him. THE CANADIAN JOURNAL. NEW SERIES. No. LXIX.-JULY, 1869. RICARDUS CORINENSIS : A LITERARY MASKING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. BY DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., Professor of History and English Literature, University College, Toronto. Mr. Richard Gough, in his introduction to the "Archæologia," which was destined to be the enduring repertory of English Antiquities, labours to establish a becoming age for the Society of Antiquaries itself. According to him, that brotherhood of antiquarian devotees had its origin in the great era of religious and intellectual revolution to which Queen Elizabeth's name is fitly applied, when men of the highest intellect, possessed by the new ideas of the age, were struggling for the world's emancipation from the thraldom of antiquity. In the year 1572, a few eminent English scholars, under the auspices of Archbishop Parker and Sir Robert Cotton, assembled at the house of the latter, and formed themselves into a society for the preservation of the ancient monuments of their country. The British Museum Library is the enduring memorial of the labours of one of those conservators of national antiquities, in an age of revolution. But it is to a far different age, and to a very diverse reign, we must turn, for the actual foundation of the Society of Antiquaries. Not in the earnest, progressive era of Queen Elizabeth, but in that most unearnest of centuries with which Queen Anne's name is fitly associated: a body of gentlemen, not less zealous, though of far inferior note to their precursors of the sixteenth |