IiV\-W-^mou\a^\iTHEANTIQUARY:A MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDYOF THE PASTInstructed 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 GETIYUBRARYLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.PAGEThe Lagoons of Venice in the Middle Ages 2The Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey 11Residence in GoughJohnson's Square 14The Birthplace of Evelyn 21JohnEssex StrandHouse, 49Essex StrandGateway, Street, 51Birthplace of Locke at WringtonJohn 58Archery Finsbury FieldsButt, 105Gainsborough's Reputed Birthplace .114Cade's atCavern Blackheath .Jack 148Plan of a Portion of Mediaeval Venice 157Landor's WarwickBirthplace, 169Leaden Cist found in London 193Samian Ware found in 194Courtyard of Fleet Prison 204Birthplace of Cardinal Morton 219The Bear or Hope TheatreGarden, 244the FifteenthPortion of the Piazza of St. at the End ofMark's, Venice,Century 254Linlithgow Palace 262THEVENICE BEFORE STONES.where two rivers of different tidal and otherconditions meet the and the(like Gangesbut there is no; apparent physicalJumna)whichagency by any permanent peculiaritiesof the kind could have been atproducedThe Venice itself.Antiquary, It would be of course worth a deal togoodbe able to even for a few momentsrecall,it the and the(as were) city surroundingwhile of stillislands, primaeval types buildingJANUARY, 1885. to be enabled to ...
IiV\-W-^mou\a^\iTHE
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
UBRARYLIST 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 262THEVENICE 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
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to as asflatter their maritime well brotherhood a common disaster :that, wrought by
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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