The prince also especially wanted an adel.

In the second place the thrusting down of the old thegnhood by the Norman Conquest (to which I have already alluded) checked the growth of a noblesse or adel of the continental type,a nobility raised above the common people like a separate caste.

Der Adel steigt von seinen alten Burgen, Und schwört den Städten seinen Bürger-Eid, said the prophetic old Attinghausen, in his dying moments.

The author makes here an abrupt transition to the eastern coast of Africa, and calls it the country of the Zinges; congeneric with the country of Zanguebar, and including Azania, Ajen, and Adel, on the north; and Inhambane, Sabia, Sofala, Mocaranga, Mozambique, and Querimba, to the south; all known to, and frequented by the Arabs.

Adde, probably is Adel or Aden in Arabia.

They put their trust in God, who is a prop to sustain even those who are feebler than our gentle Adel held.

Excellent, too, were Mrs. Freeman's Alister, and Sir Claud Alexander's Young Rosebery, Olden Times, Abbess, and Wee Mac of Adel, Mrs. Wilmer's Jean, and Mr. Millar's Prince Donard.