Verstegan

*A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities, concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation. By the Study and Travel of Richard Verstegan.*—There is something so sonorous and stately in the very sound of the title of Master Richard Verstegan's etymological treatise, that any bibliographical notice of it, I am sure, will find a corner in "Notes and Queries." The following MS. note is on a fly-leaf of my copy, A.D. 1655:— "The first edition was printed at Antwerp, in 1605. A full account of this work is given in Oldys's *British Librarian*, pp. 299 312. It concludes with suggest…