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ITINERARIES OF EDWARD I. AND
EDWARD II.

I beg leave, through the medium of your pages, to call attention to a glaring and fundamental defect which pervades the "Itineraries of Edward I. and Edward II.," compiled by the late Rev. C. H. Hartshorne, and printed in the Collectanea Archæologica of the British Archæological Association, vol. i. p. 113, and vol. ii. p. 115. A defect of the kind which I shall describe is fatal in the highest degree, because it not only works mischief within its own limits, but it also inspires one with doubt as to the general accuracy of a table of dates in which the simplest laws of chronology are broken. A royal itinerary is a most useful and interesting compilation, and it is quite possible to construct one which shall be perfectly consistent with truth; but in this Mr. H. has failed egregiously.

It is a well-established fact that the regnal years of King Edward II. began on July 8, and ended on the seventh; but if any of your readers will take up Mr. Hartshorne's tables, they will see that he makes the regnal years commence on July 1, thereby misplacing throughout the whole table the first seven days of July by a whole year. This error is inexcusable in these days of improved record knowledge and chronological ac

curacy; and I feel myself perfectly justified in warning your readers not to place implicit reliance on Mr. Hartshorne's Itineraries. The error speaks for itself, because the years of our Lord are given as well as the regnal years, and so the tables prove themselves to be self-contradictory, without appealing to external evidence. Take the first year of the Itinerary of Edward II.; the computation is correct down to June 30, 1308, in the first regnal year; but then Mr. Hartshorne makes the first seven days of July following to be in the second year, which is absurd. July 1, 1308, is not the first day of the second year of Edward II. according to Hartshorne, but it is one of the closing days of the first regnal year. This is the grave and unpardonable error which pervades the entire Itinerary, making it, as I maintain, almost worthless as a dependable authority. Why, in the name of common sense, should Mr. Hartshorne trouble to impress upon the reader, by means of a thus divide his regnal years, when he takes the note on the first page, the fact that Edward I. died on July 7? If he died, as we know he did, on July 7, how can his successor commence his reign on July 1? Surely the British Archæological Association is bound to offer some apology to its members for having been the means of promulgating a contradictory chronology.

The Itinerary for Edward I. is open to the same objection. That king commenced his reign on November 20, but with a curious perverseness Mr. Hartshorne makes him commence on November 1, thereby misplacing the greater part of that month.

These tables are disfigured by another defect, which might easily have been avoided; I mean with regard to the names of places which are sometimes modernized and sometimes not. No rule is followed. Why should we have Westminster, Berwick, or York in proper orthography, and then such a string of variations as these:Pontisseram, Pountese, Pounteyse, Puntose, Punteise, Pountoys, Pontisaram, Puntese, Pountissar; or why cannot Bokton subtus Le Bleen be translated into its proper and well-known English name, Boughton-under-Blean?

In these remarks I cannot help being hard upon Mr. Hartshorne, because he has gone out of his way to be incorrect. Any chronological work which is based upon a fallacy had much better never have been written. W. H. HART.

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In the same year, 1836, was begun a Catholic weekly paper, entitled The Mediator and British Catholic Advocate. But its politics were too undecided, and its management too feeble to secure

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any great patronage; so that it soon died a natural death.

In 1836 also, in the month of May, appeared the first number of The Dublin Review. This periodical was projected by the Rev. Dr. Wiseman (afterwards Cardinal), Mr. O'Connell, and Mr. Quin, the last editing the first two numbers. No. 3 was edited by the Rev. M. A. Tierney, and Nos. 4, 5, and 6 by Mr. James Smith of The Edinburgh Catholic Magazine. After this Mr. Bagshawe became the editor, and so continued till the commencement of a new series in 1863, under the editorship of Dr. Ward.

In 1837 a British and Irish Catholic Magazine was begun at Glasgow by Mr. Kennedy, but only a few numbers were published.

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Reed's Catholic Recorder began in 1841, but ceased in the year following.

Another weekly paper began July 30, 1842, called The Catholic: an Ecclesiastical and Literary Journal for the Catholics of the British Empire. It was edited by Mr. D. Ď. Keane. It came to an end, after seventeen numbers, on November 19. There was notice given of an intention to appear on December 30 as a monthly journal, but this was not carried into effect.

A very interesting, respectable, and ably-conducted periodical appeared June 15, 1844, The Catholic Weekly Instructor. It was conducted by the Rev. Thomas Sing, with the patronage and aid of Dr. Wiseman and other able contributors. It soon reached a circulation of 20,000 copies. It was published by Messrs. Richardson and Son at Derby. In August, 1846, it became a monthly publication, but was discontinued in December, 1847. The whole series makes four volumes of small quarto size.

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The Beacon, a Weekly Journal of Catholicity, Politics, and Literature, first appeared April 18, 1846; but after two or three numbers the Beacon was extinguished. It was edited by Mr. Doud. Of another paper, called The Catholic Weekly Miscellany, only about twenty numbers were published.

Duffy's Irish Catholic Magazine was published monthly. It began in January, 1847, and ceased in December, 1848.

A very respectable, learned, and ably-conducted periodical, The Weekly and Monthly Orthodox, appeared January 6, 1849, under the editorship of the Rev. Richard Boyle. The second volume commenced July 7 in the same year, but the publication was discontinued July 28, 1850.

The above periodical, as also Dolman's Magazine, were amalgamated with The Weekly Register, which began August 4, 1849, and ended January 26, 1850.

The Catholic Standard was commenced October 14, 1849, and published as a weekly newspaper. A few years afterwards its name was changed to The Weekly Register and Catholic Standard, and so it continues.

The Catholic Register and Magazine appeared monthly, commencing in March, 1850, as a continuation of The Weekly Register, of which mention was made above.

| The Lamp: a Catholic Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, &c., devoted to the Religious, Moral, Physical, and Domestic Improvement of the Industrious Classes. This well known and most useful publication was begun March 16, 1850, by the late Mr. T. E. Bradley, was afterwards edited by Mr. James Burke, and then passed under its present management.

Mr. Bradley also began a Catholic journal in Scotland called The Northern Times. It was published at Glasgow, but was unsuccessful and soon abandoned.

The Literary Cabinet appeared in London in 1858. It was first of 12mo size. Vol. ii. came out in an enlarged form in 1859. A new series commenced as vol. iii., but of this only a single number appeared. The discontinuance of The Literary Cabinet was much regretted, as it was a lively and well-written periodical, and contained an unusual quantity of good original poetry.

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