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MISCELLANEOUS

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POSTHUMOUS

WORKS

OF

HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE

VOL. II.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
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V. 2

COMMON PLACE BOOK.

REESE LIBRARY

OF PE

UNIVERSITY

CALIFORNIA

I. ETYMOLOGY OF HUGHENOT.

"There have been several fanciful derivations of the word See also Hughenot. It is now supposed to have been originally Eidge- ART. 305. nossen,' or 'associated by oath,' the name assumed by the Calvinistic party in Geneva during their contest with the Catholics. From Geneva missionaries penetrated into the south of France, and took with them the appellation of Egnots or Hughenots" (Lingard's History of England, vol. v. chap. 11, p. 46).

"Castelneux informs us that the Reformers got the name of Hughenots in France from being generally of the lower orders, 'men not worth a hugenot or denier.' Many other etymologies have been proposed, but none more natural or probable" (Ranken's History of France, vol. vi. p. 45, 8vo, 1818). Villaret (Histoire de France, tome vi. p. 134, Paris, 1770, 4to) derives it from Hugues Aubriot. Robertson (Hist. of Charles V. vol. iii. p. 118, book vi. 8vo, 1806), gives the same etymology as Lingard. Pasquier, Recherches, livre viii. chap. 55, Œuvres, Amsterdam, 1723, tome i. fol. 857. The earliest mention I have seen of it is in a declaration by Elizabeth in 1562, where it is spelt "Huguenoss" (Forbes' State Papers, ii. 73). In the same year it is spelt" Huguenotz" and "Huguenoths" (pp. 136, 239).

Elizabeth, in a declaration in 1562, mentions "Hugenotz" as if it were a new expression; for she calls it "a word very strange and folyshe to many of the honest marchantes, and poor maryners" (Harleian Miscellany, edit. Park, vol. iii. p. 188).

2. SHORT-HAND INVENTED BY CICERO.

"The manuscript was in short-hand, of which mode of writing, as Bembo informs us on the authority of Plutarch, Cicero was the inventor among the Romans" (Mills' Travels of Theo

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