The various opportunities which antiquity gives the genealogist to compliment greatness at the expence of veracity are so obvious, that particular instances to prove the assertion cannot be necessary. The genealogic tree seldom bears any fruit on its branches but such as are fair to the eye of Pride, and pleasant to the palate of Greatness. The arcana of remote times are not protruded upon the view, when they are calculated to give an humble lesson to the pride of ancestry; and, were this not the case, the researches of the antiquary would not in all instances be able, with certainty, to trace a pedigree up to the original founders of families, whose first emersion from obscurity to riches or renown lies hidden by the dust of antiquity, which has been collecting for ages; were it his intention, that truth should predominate, although at the expence of vanity.