[1] "Britannia after the Romans," 62, 4to.
[2] It is a singular circumstance that our neighbours have preserved
the name of our country more perfectly than we have done by our
mutilated term of _England_, for they write it with antiquarian
precision, _Angle-terre_--the land of the Angles. Our counties bear
the vestiges of these Saxons expelling or exterminating the native
Britons, as our pious Camden ejaculates, "by God's wonderful
providence."
[3] The diligent investigator of the history of our Anglo-Saxons
concludes that this unauthorised tale of the coronation and the
decree of Egbert is unworthy of credence.
Camden, in his first edition, had fixed the date of the change of the
name as occurring in the year 810; in his second edition he corrected
it to 800. Holinshed says _about_ 800. Speed gives a much later date,
819. It is evident that these disagreeing dates are all hazarded
conjectures.
[4] Mitford's "Harmony of Language," 429. I might have placed this
possible circumstance in the article "A History of Events which have
not happened," in "Curiosities of Literature."
[5] Sir GARDNER WILKINSON, in the curious volume of his recondite
discoveries in the land of the Pyramids.
[6] "History of the World," 167, fol. 1666. We have also a curious
account of the ancient manner of naming persons and places among our
own nation in venerable Lambarde's "Perambulations of Kent," 349,
453.