In another charter, somewhat earlier in date and relating to the same district, viz. the neighbourhood of Winchelsea, Hamo de Crevecour speaks of lands in La more in Ideun, which the monks of Robertsbridge, with consent of his father Hamo, "a mari incluserunt." I have always supposed that the "terra Flandrensis" of my charter signified land of the same description as the Dutch polders; the art of thus redeeming land being probably introduced from the Low Countries. It is not unlikely that, in that day, lands so brought into cultivation were designated as "terre Flandrenses," and the term afterwards anglicised into "Holland Land." L.B.L. _Swearing by Swans_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--Symbology of the swan. "Tunc allati sunt in pompatica gloria duo cygni, vel olores, ante regem, &c. &c.,--vindicaturus."[12]--_Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis_. Dr. Lingard states that "the vows of chivalry were not taken on the gospels, but, ridiculous as it may appear, in the presence of a peacock, or {71} pheasant, or other bird of beautiful plumage."--_History of England_, Edward I. "Nec dissimili ingenio Heraldi antiquiores, musicos et cantatores cygnis[13] donarunt. Ejusque haud ignarus perspicax noster Franciscanus cum hos a non cantoribus latos observasset, rationem se ait a rege heraldorum petiisse, eumque duplicem assignasse: hanc quia viri essent pulcherrimi, illam quia haberent longa colla. Sane candorem animi per cygni effigiem antiquitus praedicabant, nec insulse igitur corporis. Sed gloriae studium ex eodem hoc symbolo indicari multi asserunt. "Cum Edwardus primus," &c. &c.--Spelmanni _Aspilogia_, p. 132. The Spaniards found that the swan had been employed emblematically in Mexico, supporting the theory of Hornius that that part of America was colonised by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, inasmuch as, according to Bryant, "where the Canaanites or their descendants may have settled, there will a story be found in reference to swans." The mythological history of the Cygnus will be found in the latter author's _Analysis_, and in Hill's _Urania, or a Complete View of the Heavens, containing the Ancient and Modern Astronomy, in Form of a Dictionary_, which will perhaps meet the wants of G.I.C. (Vol. iii. p. 24.). It will not, perhaps, be irrelevant to this subject to advert to the story of Albertus Aquensis (in _Gesta Dei per Francos_, p. 196.), regarding a _Goose and a Goat_, which in the second crusade were considered as "divino spiritu afflati," and made "duces viae in Jerusalem." Well may it be mentioned by the histoian as "scelus omnibus fidelibus incredibile;" but the imputation serves to show that the Christians of that age forgot what a heathen poet could have taught them,-- [Greek: "Eis oionos aristos amynesthai peri patres."] T.J.