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 502 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vn. June 28, wis. The chronology is appropriate. Hengist, Ohta, and Geiuiis invade the Britannias during the reign of Vortigern, the son-in- law of the Emperor Maximus, "f"388. The ' Exordium ' of the ' Annales Cambriae ' synchronizes the invasion with the consuls of 428. Now Cerdic was son of Elesa, the son of Esla, the son of Giwis (also " Gewis "), and he came into contact with the Britons of Hampshire before a.d. 496—that is to say, within seventy years of his great- grandfather's appearance along with Heng- ist. We must remember that the ' Historia Brittonum ' does not place the Saxons on the "Litus Saxonicum." It says of Vorti- gern : " Invitavit Ochtam et Ebissam, et venerunt et occupaverunt regiones plurimum . .. .usque ad confinium Pictorum."* The expulsion of the Jutes from the North occurred in 466, and the thirty years between that date and Cerdic's appearance near Portus Adurni were, no doubt, spent by the Geuuissse in the company of the Jutes, and in the conquest of Kent and Surrey. Elesa, Cerdic's father, fell at Camlan in 492, and Esla (e ; esla < *osila < Goth, ansila), whom the Britons called Osla Gyllellvawr (cuMelli magni), we find opposed to Arthur at the Battle of Aconbury, i.e., " Mynydd (H)agned," Mons Hagonicus (the MSS. of Gildas have Badonicus, with b : : h and d : : g), in 470. The syllable -is is identical with that in Sig-is-mund, Thor-is-mund, Jar-is-kar, &c. It occurs in the most ancient forms only, and is well known in Gothic names. Bishop Asser reported that King Alfred's maternal grandfather, Oslac, " Gothus erat natione ortus, enim erat de Gothis et Iutis, de semine scilicet Stiif et Wihtgar." The Jutes were not Goths, so we must assume that Asser's informants supposed that the descendants of Bseld-, the son of Woden, 8C. the Balbungs, were Goths. The sug- gestion that the Geuu-issae were the Visi- Ooths, eo nomine, is uncritical. I identify Geuu-issas and *Glw-as, or to both " eowum " and " ytum " in ' Wid- sitli.' This yields :—■ Oniuine weold Qeowum ond Qytum Gefwulf, i.e.. " Oswine ruled the Yeewas, and Gefwulf the Yyte or Yewtas (Jutes)." Alfred Anscombe. 30, Albany Road, Stroud Green, N. ehester, the Roman Vinovia, the 'Oviwovlov of Ptolemy, and the Castellum Guinuion of early Welsh writers. THE FORGED 'SPEECHES AND PRAYERS' OF THE REGICIDES. (See ante, pp. 301, 341, 383, 442.) V.—Harrison's Speech and Behaviour. In August, 1660, Arise Evans, a loyal tradesman who had passed the greater part of the Interregnum in prison, published a, tract entitled an ' Epistle ' to King Charles II. (E 2118 [2]), in which he asked for the death of Harrison on the ground of the murders committed by him at Basing House, with the remark, " Harrison glorieth in all his wicked- ness, and shall he live?" This glorying, of course, arose from Harrison's "fifth- monarchy " fanaticism, and at, or before, his execution his fanaticism betrayed itself in the announcement that he (Harrison) would rise again from the dead in three days and come to judge his judges. As the forged ' Speeches and Prayers ' Were fifth-monarchy productions, we are treated in them to the following romance- about Harrison :— " [Harrison] was carried away in the sledge having a sweet smiling countenance (I) with his eyes and hands lifted up to heaven... .He called several times in the way and spoke aloud ' I go to suffer upon the account of the most glorious Cause that ever was in the world.' As he was going to suffer one in a derision called to him and said ' Where is your good old Cause ? ' ne with a cheerful countenance clapt his hand on his brest [sic] and said ' Here it is, and I am going to seal it with ruy blood.' And when he came to the sight of the gallows he was transported with joy " (1). Of Harrison's actual behaviour, and of his assertion that he would rise again in three days, we have several unimpeachable wit- nesses. Andrew Newport, writing on 13 Oct., 1660 (Hist. MSS. Commission. 5th Report, Appendix, p. 157), said Harrison "was hanged drawn and quartered to-day at Charing Cross. He trembled much when he first came upon the ladder, but excused it by the ill usage he had in Newgate since his condemna- tion, and said he thanked God he came with as much content to die there as he did to commit the act for which he suffered. He was going, he said, to sit at the right hand of Jesus to judge us all." William Smith, writing about the same time (ibid., p. 174), said :— " Harrison is now hanged and quartered, not vouchsafing any expression of repentance, but blasphemously said he should rise again within three dayes and at the right hand of God be judge of his judges."
 * Geow-as, and I restore the palatal spirant
 * The actual seat of the Jutes at first was Bin-