IN the private collections of this County, many Diaries of the Worthies of past ages, who have done our Country honour by their lives and their works, are still carefully preserved. In no more appropriate manner can such works be given to the world, than in the pages of our own 'Archaeologia.' We shall thus enlist the wise and great of other days to contribute their papers among those of our living supporters. Though dead, their lips shall still teach wisdom.
   We will begin with the diary of the pious, learned, patriotic, and loyal Sir Roger Twysden. It details the persecutions which he suffered at the hands of the Parliament, between the years 1641 and 1648.
   We can promise our readers much gratification in the perusal. It will let them behind the scenes in the getting up the celebrated Kent petition which alarmed the Parliament and drew down their vengeance upon the sturdy loyalists of Kent. It will reveal many interesting events that occurred in the county during the Rebellion; exhibiting a sad picture of the state of society generated by Civil Convulsions.
   It is a plain statement of facts left to speak for themselves. There is no attempt at distortion or exaggeration; it is a simple journal of events as they actually