“_Postremum bellum Suevis intulit, regnumque eorum in jura gentis suæ mirâ celeritate transmisit. Hispania magna ex parte potitus, nam antea gens Gothorum angustis finibus arctabatur.—Fiscum quoque primus iste locupletavit, primusque ærarium de rapinis civium, hostiumque manubiis auxit. Primusque etiam inter suos regali veste opertus in solio resedit. Nam ante eum et habitus et consessus communis, ut populo, ita et regibus erat._”—S. Isidor. Hist. Goth.—Espana Sagrada, 6. 498-9. * * * * * _The Sueve._—XVIII. p. 166. As late as the age of the Philips, the Portugueze were called Sevosos by the Castillians, as an opprobrious name. Brito says, It was the old word Suevos continued and corrupted, and used contemptuously, because its origin was forgotten.—_Monarchia Lusitana_, 2. 6. 4. When the Sueves and Alans over-ran Spain they laid siege to Lisbon, and the Saints Maxima, Julia, and Verissimus (a most undoubted personage) being Lisbonians, were applied to by their town’s people to deliver them. Accordingly, a sickness broke out in the besieger’s camp, and they agreed to depart upon payment of a sum of money. Bernardo de Brito complains that Blondus and Sabellicus, in their account of this transaction, have been so careless as to mention the money and omit the invocation of the Saints.—_M. Lus._ 2. 5. 23. * * * * * _Lord God of Hosts, &c._—XVIII. p. 168. The substance of these prayers will be found in the forms of coronation observed by the Anglo-Saxons, and in the early ages of the French monarchy. I am indebted for them to Turner’s most valuable History of the Anglo-Saxons, and to Mr. Lingard’s Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, a work not more full of erudition than it is of Romish sophistry and misrepresentation. * * * * * _Roderick brought The buckler._—XVIII. p. 169. _Toman, diziendo aquesto, un ancho escudo El Duque y Conde y hombres principales, De pies encima el Principe membrudo Lo levantan assi del suelo iguales: Y alçarlo en peso, quanto alçar se pudo De alçarlo por su Rey fueron señales, Real, Real, Real, diziendo todos, Segun costumbre antigua de los Godos._ Ch. de Messa. Rastauracion de Espana, l. 4. ff. 34. * * * * * _Rejoice, O Leon, for thy banner is display’d._—XVIII. p. 170. “_La primera ciudad que gaño dizen fue Leon, y desde alli se llamo Rey de Leon, y tomo por armas un Leon roxo en campo blanco, dexando las antiguas armas de los Godos, que eran un Leon bermejo rampante, en campo azul, buelta la cara atras, sobre tres ondas blancas y azules._”—Fran. de Pisa. Desc. de Toledo, l. 3. c. 2. _Fue la del quinto globo roxa estrella rayo de su valor, voz de su fama, y Leon de su escudo y luzimiento, heredado blason, Signo sangriento._