WHO AND WHAT WERE THEY? AN INQUIRY Serving to elucidate the Traditional History of the Early Britons, by means of Recent Excavations, Etymology, Remnants of Religious Worship, Inscriptions, Craniology, and Fragmentary Collateral History. BY THE REV. SAMUEL LYSONS, M.A., F.S.A., 66 66 RECTOR OF RODMARTON AND PERPETUAL CURATE OF ST. LUKE'S, GLOUCESTER; AUTHOR OF CONJECTURES ON JOB;" THE ROMANS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE;" THE MODEL MERCHANT OF THE MIDDLE AGES;" "ÆSOp's fables chrISTIANIZED;" "GLOUCESTERSHIRE ACHIEVEMENTS, " &c.; MEMBER OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, AND THE COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS' SOCIETY. Oxford and London: 1865. "The one nedeth of the other ys helpe." "The lame whyche lacketh for to goo The layme to blynde dothe yeld his sight." Verses on the Panels at Place House, Fowey, Cornwall Buckingham.-"Upon record, my gracious Lord. Prince." But say, my Lord, it were not register'd, As 'twere retail'd to all posterity; Even to the general all-ending day." SHAKSPEARE, Richard III., Act iii. sc. I. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION OUR BRITISH ANCESTORS: WHO AND WHAT WERE THEY? CESTERSHIRE APPENDIX I.-The Identification of Local Names of Places Mountains in Britain with the Mythology of the Celto- PAGE i. 1 137 229 321 Names of the Sun Names of the Moon Hebræo-Celtic origin APPENDIX IV.-Terminals of Places in Britain having an APPENDIX V.-British Customs derived from the East, still, 332 334 338 341 349-537 APPENDIX VI.-A Glossary of English Words apparently 350 |