Sir,

Allow me to thank you for your notice of my recent volume of ‘Cameos of English history.’ But let me observe that Freitag derives the word sometimes spelt Lanzknechts as ‘Landsknechts’—free men of the country.

Miss Strickland, in her Life of Anne of Denmark, states that, though Oslo as Upslo afterwards had a Cathedral and was known as Christiana, both James’s letters, and the contemporary chroniclers describe the place as a small dreary village. I have ... continue reading