The Antiquary

IiV\-W-^mou\a^\iTHE ANTIQUARY: A MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF THE PAST Instructed theby Antiquary times, He he he cannotbut be wise.must, is, Troilus and Act ii. sc.Cressida, 3. VOL. XI. JANUARY JUNE. Row.London: ELLIOT Paternoster62,STOCK, New York : W. BOUTON.J. 1885.CENTERWE GETIY UBRARYLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE The Lagoons of Venice in the Middle Ages 2 The Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey 11 Residence in GoughJohnson's Square 14 The Birthplace of Evelyn 21John Essex StrandHouse, 49 Essex StrandGateway, Street, 51 Birthplace of Locke at WringtonJohn 58 Archery Finsbury FieldsButt, 105 Gainsborough's Reputed Birthplace .114 Cade's atCavern Blackheath .Jack 148 Plan of a Portion of Mediaeval Venice 157 Landor's WarwickBirthplace, 169 Leaden Cist found in London 193 Samian Ware found in 194 Courtyard of Fleet Prison 204 Birthplace of Cardinal Morton 219 The Bear or Hope TheatreGarden, 244 the FifteenthPortion of the Piazza of St. at the End ofMark's, Venice, Century 254 Linlithgow Palace 262THEVENICE BEFORE STONES. where two rivers of different tidal and other conditions meet the and the(like Ganges but there is no ; apparent physicalJumna) whichagency by any permanent peculiarities of the kind could have been atproducedThe Venice itself. Antiquary, It would be of course worth a deal togood be able to even for a few momentsrecall, it the and the(as were) city surrounding while of stillislands, primaeval types building JANUARY, 1885. to be enabled to withinabounded, approach of the domestic life and ofsight housing the remote forefathers and foremothers of that new tribal whichClenice 15efore atones. strange community,tfte in fifthitself thegathered together centuryBy W. Carew Hazlitt. on the accumulated and there uncon- silt, VEN the whotraveller, commenced awork of forintelligent sciously preparation disembarks at Venice and an inscrutable Both andfuture.to-day, body soul, with him a thatbrings mediaevalVenicehasknowledge ;disappeared foralthough the earliest of the standsfrom local the modernhistory Republic cityexigencies was one of humble severe on the lines of theendeavours, ancient,approximately andtrials, slow evolution from barbarism and it is not lessyet politically socially and into it ofinsignificance wealth, distinct from than the Londonsplendour, to-day and even such a as this is distinct from the on whichpower, person is to form a fallacious estimate ofapt the of the Norman first orrested,eyes what Venice and the Venetians Paris of differsthan theanciently Philip Augustus were : how far removed from the from the for which the same namepicture place which draws of inthem both theirfancy now current.passes of within in For a few valuable hints illustrative of theprime life, yet possessing already adolescence all the elements which made we are indebted to two of the well-subject them and all those which took written betweenstrong, known letters ofnearly Cassiodorus, that afterward and The as Prae-strength away. Minister, who,520 523. The has been described as a vast a ofLagoon fectus thePraetorio, occupied position of about a miles inmorass, hundred and incircuit, highest dignity authority, speaks, the sea five channels or one of these addresses to the Maritimeirrigated by through at the eastern a famine which had visited thePorts, namely, ofcommencing Tribunes, S. S. Nicolo. and which was averted theextremity, Tre-porti, Erasmo, locality, by and Each entrance inMalamocco, of his theChioggia. master,hberality allowing or Port its own and their nearhas, Temanza,says par- Venetians, perhaps neighbours, ticular which it alone waters and to to their own use the stores whichlagoon, apply and to the same the larderfeeds, had collected for oraccording author, they royal who is seldom so the current wardrobe. In the second Cassiodorusimaginative, which flows the channels indicates the trade in and thethrough respective salt, carrying has a colour or which it of industries ofspecial as two thetint, preserves business, staple with its own so as to be the sea-borderers. He refers to their dwell-individuality, easily for a considerable distance. aU built he reminds anddistinguishable alike, them,ings, Hence was known as the and there over the wideTre-porti scattered hereyellow, S. Erasmo as the S. Nicolo as the He theirazure, terraqueous expanse. specifies Malamocco as the and the incursions ofred, method of thegreen, Chioggia resisting as the Such are far ocean and fascines of interlacedpurple. phenomena dykesby from either where usunusual, fresh and salt vine-stems and he that the ; acquaints water come into as at the when the wind blewconfluence inlandcontact, navigation, of the with the or even was conducted means ofAdige Adriatic, by towage.heavily, vou XI.VENICE BEFORE THE STONES. But the Prefect of Theodoric does condition of the islands was at theunluckily general and commencement of the sixth Wenot do what he so admirablymight century. ha\e done. He omits to tell us realize with his aid a andgraphically sparse poor popula- in what fashion their habitations were con- tion on its fisheries and salterns,subsisting what ate and and what and its trade : a whenstructed, they drank, carrying society which, wore. Nor was it to be that he had not hadit,they expected roughly painted yet Cassiodorus should do of the sort. sufficient time from the the settle-birth ofanything The miracle and the fortune ment to from theis, too,good rally sensibly involuntary to as asflatter their maritime well brotherhood a common disaster :that, wrought by -c=r '-^---.Jrx "^ ilftia/jBiUifucif ^'^.f-ttttigirvbuccalI7urmne> ^l*'^:^^^nduf Mvliiana/ *^^i T^JVjEXM ToJla/viii iti/biuxxi/Jjama/ _ .'olvB veil '^^W -5^^'astiTmiQlivoli o'^ The Lagoons of Venice in the Middle Ages. his ownperhaps he said andliterary roofs of similar materialvanity, approximately thus that hemuch, drew these few elevation heads of men andthesharp sheltering and firm theoutlines, rest to us forleaving women in whose veins ran the utmost; of no other medieval can its formplace of blood : boats ofpeople diversity primitive to such a vividpoint monument. their and localfor traffic,only machinery Cassiodorus, casts some onhowever, their mediums forlight barter,productions only the of whichscene, he not unreason- and formay their substitute money.probably only be taken to haveably been an occasional We bor-undersee, designationsimposing and whicheyewitness, sopreceded rowed from the of Romeby many flourishing period that with which weages have familiar. of nationalgrown Romans in the lowestby stage His account us to what thehelps a of the feeblestjudge decadence, political organism