FOOTNOTES:

FOOTNOTES:[DN]Mr. Steevens, in a note to Othello, explains a jennet to be a Spanish horse; but from the passage just given, I confess it appears to me to mean somewhat more. Perhaps a jennet was a horse kept solely for pleasure, whose mane was suffered to grow to a considerable length, and was then ornamented with platting, &c.—A hobby might answer to what we now term ahoggedponey.[DO]The Canariesis the name of an old dance, freqnently alluded to in our early English plays. Shakspeare uses it inAll's well that ends well———"I have seen a medicine,That's able to breathe life into a stone;Quicken a rock, and make youdance canaryWith spritely fire and motion;"Sir John Hawkins, in hisHistory of Musick, iv. 391. says that it occurs in the opera ofDioclesian, set to music by Purcell, and explains it to be "a very sprightly movement of two reprises, or strains, with eight bars in each: the time three quarters in a bar, the first pointed." I take this opportunity of mentioning, that among Dr. Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian, [Poet.108.] is a volume which contains a variety of figures of old dances, written, as I conjecture, between the years 1566 and 1580. Besides several others are thepavyan;my Lord of Essex measures;tyntermell;the old allmayne;the longe pavian;quanto dyspayne;the nyne muses, &c. As the pavian is mentioned by Shakspeare, in theMerry Wives of Windsor, and as the directions for dancing the figure have not been before discovered, I shall make no apology for offering them in the present note."THE LONGE PAVIAN,ij singles, a duble forward; ij singles syde, a duble forward; repīnce backe once, ij singles syde, a duble forward, one single backe twyse, ij singles, a duble forward, ij singles syde, prerince backe once; ij singles syde, a duble forward, reprince backe twyse."

[DN]Mr. Steevens, in a note to Othello, explains a jennet to be a Spanish horse; but from the passage just given, I confess it appears to me to mean somewhat more. Perhaps a jennet was a horse kept solely for pleasure, whose mane was suffered to grow to a considerable length, and was then ornamented with platting, &c.—A hobby might answer to what we now term ahoggedponey.

[DO]The Canariesis the name of an old dance, freqnently alluded to in our early English plays. Shakspeare uses it inAll's well that ends well———"I have seen a medicine,That's able to breathe life into a stone;Quicken a rock, and make youdance canaryWith spritely fire and motion;"Sir John Hawkins, in hisHistory of Musick, iv. 391. says that it occurs in the opera ofDioclesian, set to music by Purcell, and explains it to be "a very sprightly movement of two reprises, or strains, with eight bars in each: the time three quarters in a bar, the first pointed." I take this opportunity of mentioning, that among Dr. Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian, [Poet.108.] is a volume which contains a variety of figures of old dances, written, as I conjecture, between the years 1566 and 1580. Besides several others are thepavyan;my Lord of Essex measures;tyntermell;the old allmayne;the longe pavian;quanto dyspayne;the nyne muses, &c. As the pavian is mentioned by Shakspeare, in theMerry Wives of Windsor, and as the directions for dancing the figure have not been before discovered, I shall make no apology for offering them in the present note."THE LONGE PAVIAN,ij singles, a duble forward; ij singles syde, a duble forward; repīnce backe once, ij singles syde, a duble forward, one single backe twyse, ij singles, a duble forward, ij singles syde, prerince backe once; ij singles syde, a duble forward, reprince backe twyse."

[DO]The Canariesis the name of an old dance, freqnently alluded to in our early English plays. Shakspeare uses it inAll's well that ends well—

——"I have seen a medicine,That's able to breathe life into a stone;Quicken a rock, and make youdance canaryWith spritely fire and motion;"

Sir John Hawkins, in hisHistory of Musick, iv. 391. says that it occurs in the opera ofDioclesian, set to music by Purcell, and explains it to be "a very sprightly movement of two reprises, or strains, with eight bars in each: the time three quarters in a bar, the first pointed." I take this opportunity of mentioning, that among Dr. Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian, [Poet.108.] is a volume which contains a variety of figures of old dances, written, as I conjecture, between the years 1566 and 1580. Besides several others are thepavyan;my Lord of Essex measures;tyntermell;the old allmayne;the longe pavian;quanto dyspayne;the nyne muses, &c. As the pavian is mentioned by Shakspeare, in theMerry Wives of Windsor, and as the directions for dancing the figure have not been before discovered, I shall make no apology for offering them in the present note.

"THE LONGE PAVIAN,

ij singles, a duble forward; ij singles syde, a duble forward; repīnce backe once, ij singles syde, a duble forward, one single backe twyse, ij singles, a duble forward, ij singles syde, prerince backe once; ij singles syde, a duble forward, reprince backe twyse."

xvi.The true Character of an untrue Bishop; with a Recipe at the end how to recover a Bishop if hee were lost. London, printed in the yeare 1641[DP].

[4to. pp. 10, besides title.]

FOOTNOTES:[DP]I have a faint recollection of a single character in a rare volume, entitled "A Boulster Lecture," &c. Lond. 1640.

[DP]I have a faint recollection of a single character in a rare volume, entitled "A Boulster Lecture," &c. Lond. 1640.

xvii.Character of a Projector, by —— Hogg. 4to. 1642.

xviii.Character of an Oxford Incendiary. Printed for Robert White in 1643.4to.

[Reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, V. 469. edit. 1744.]

xix.The Reformado precisely charactered (with a frontispiece.)

[See the Sale Catalogue of George Steevens, Esq. 8vo. Lond. 1800. page 66. No. 1110.]

xx. "A new Anatomie, or Character of a Christian or Round-head. Expressing his Description, Excellencie, Happiness and Innocencie. Wherein may appear how far this blind world is mistaken in their unjust Censures of him. Virtus in Arduis. Proverbs xii. 26; and Jude 10, quoted.)Imprimatur John Downame. London, Printed for Robert Leybourne, and are to be sold at the Star, under Peter's Church in Corn-hill, 1645.8vo. pp. 13.

[In Ashmole's Museum.]

xxi. In Lord North'sForest of Varieties, London, Printed by Richard Cotes, 1645, are severalCharacters, as lord Orford informs us, "in the manner of sir Thomas Overbury."Royal and Noble Authors, iii. 82. Of this volume a second edition appeared in 1659, neither of these, however, I have been able to meet with. For some account of the work, with extracts, see Brydges'Memoirs of the Peers of England, 8vo.London.1802. page 343.

xxii.Characters and Elegies[DQ]. By Francis Wortley, Knight and Baronet. Printed in the yeere 1646." 4to.

The characters are as follow:

1. The character of his royall majestie; 2. The character of the queene's majestie; 3. The hopeful prince; 4. A true character of the illustrious James Duke of York; 5. The character of a noble general; 6. A true English protestant; 7. An antinomian, or anabaptisticall independent; 8. A jesuite; 9. The true character of a northerne lady, as she is wife, mother, and sister; 10. The politique neuter; 11. The citie paragon; 12. A sharking committee-man; 13. Britanicus his pedigree—a fatall prediction of his end; 14. The Phœnix of the Court.

Britanicus his Pedigree—a fatall Prediction of his End.

I dare affirme him a Jew by descent, and of the tribe of Benjamin, lineally descended from the first King of the Jewes, even Saul, or at best he ownes him and his tribe, in most we reade of them. First, of our English tribes, I conceive his father's the lowest, and the meanest of that tribe, stocke, or generation, and the worst, how bad soever they be; melancholy he is, as appeares by his sullen and dogged wit; malicious as Saul to David, as is evident in his writings; he wants but Saul's javelin to cast at him; he as little spares the king's friends with his pen, as Saul did Jonathan his sonne in his reproach; and would be as free of his javelin as his pen, were his power sutable to his will, as Ziba did to Mephibosheth,so does he by the king, he belies him as much to the world, as he his master to David, and in the day of adversitie is as free of his tongue as Shimei was to his soveraigne, and would be as humble as he, and as forward to meet the king as he was David, should the king returne in peace. Abithaes there cannot want to cut off the dog's head, but David is more mercifull then Shimei can be wicked; may he first consult with the witch of Endor, but not worthy of so noble a death as his own sword, die the death of Achitophel for feare of David, then may he be hang'd up as the sonnes of Saul were against the sunne, or rather as the Amelekites who slew Isbosheth, and brought tidings and the tokens of the treason to David; may his hands and his feet be as sacrifices cut off, and so pay for the treasons of his pen and tongue; may all heads that plot treasons, all tongues that speake them, all pens that write them, be so punisht. If Sheba paid his head for his tongue's fault, what deserves Britannicus to pay for his pen and trumpet? Is there never a wise woman in London? we have Abishaes.

Francis Wortley, was the son of Sir Richard Wortley, of Wortley, in Yorkshire, knight. At the age of seventeen he became a commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford; in 1610 he was knighted, and on the 29th of June in the following year, was created a baronet; being then, as Wood says, esteemed an ingenious gentleman. During the civil wars he assisted the royal cause, by raising a troop of horse in the king's service; but at their conclusion he was taken prisoner, and confined in the tower of London, where it seems he composed the volume just noticed. In theCatalogue of Compoundershis name appears as "of Carleton, Yorkshire,"and from thence we learn that he paid 500l.for his remaining property. In theAthenæ Oxoniensesmay be found a list of his works, but I have been unable to trace the date of his decease. Mr. Granger says that "Anne, his daughter, married the second son of the first Earl of Sandwich, who took the name of Wortley," and adds that the late Countess of Bute was descended from him.Biographical History, ii. 310.

FOOTNOTES:[DQ]The Elegies, according to Wood, are upon the loyalists who lost their lives in the king's service, at the end of which are epitaphs.

[DQ]The Elegies, according to Wood, are upon the loyalists who lost their lives in the king's service, at the end of which are epitaphs.

xxiii.The Times anatomiz'd, in severall Characters. By T. F[ord, seruant to Mr. Sam. Man[DR].]Difficile est Satyram non scribere. Juv. Sat. 1. London, Printed for W. L. Anno 1647."

[12mo. in the British Museum.]

The Contents of the severall Characters.1. A good king.15. Time.2. Rebelion.16. A newter.3. An honest subject.17. A turn-coat.4. An hypocritical convert of the times.18. A moderate man.19. A corrupt committee-man.5. A souldier of fortune.20. A sectary.6. A discontented person.21. Warre.7. An ambitious man.22. Peace.8. The vulgar.23. A drunkard.9. Errour.24. A novice-preacher.10. Truth.25. A scandalous preacher.11. A selfe-seeker.26. A grave divine.12. Pamphlets.27. A selfe-conceited man.13. An envious man.29. Religion.14. True valour.30. Death.

"PAMPHLETS

Are the weekly almanacks, shewing what weather is in the state, which, like the doves of Aleppo, carry news to every part of the kingdom. They are the silent traytors that affront majesty, and abuse all authority, under the colour of anImprimatur. Ubiquitary flies that have of late so blistered the eares of all men, that they cannot endure any solid truth. The ecchoes, whereby what is done in part of the kingdome, is heard all over. They are like the mushromes, sprung up in a night, and dead in a day; and such is the greedinesse of men's natures (in these Athenian dayes) of new, that they will rather feigne then want it."

FOOTNOTES:[DR](MS. interlineation in a copy among the King's pamphlets.)

[DR](MS. interlineation in a copy among the King's pamphlets.)

xxiv.Character of a London Diurnal, 4to. 1647. [This was written by Cleveland, and has been printed in the various editions of his poems.]

xxv.Character of an Agitator. Printed in the Yeare 1647. 4to. pp. 7.

This concludes with the following epitome—"Hee was begotten of Lilburne (with Overton's helpe) in Newgate, nursed up by Cromwell, at first by the army, tutored by Mr. Peters, counselled by Mr. Walwin and Musgarve, patronised by Mr. Martin, (who sometimes sits in counsell with them, though a member) and is like to dye no where but at Tyburne, and that speedily, if hee repent not and reforme his erronious judgement, and his seditious treasonable practises against king, parliament, and martiall discipline itselfe. Finis."

xxvi. In Mr. Brand's Sale Catalogue, No. 1754, we haveThe Surfeit to A.B.C.8vo. Lond. 1656, which is there represented to consist ofCharacters.

xxvii.Characters of a Temporizer and an Antiquary.[In "Naps upon Parnassus," 8vo. 1658. See the Censura Literaria, vol. vi. p. 225; vol. vii. p. 341.]

xxviii.Satyrical Characters, and handsom Descriptions, in Letters, 8vo. 1658. [Catalogue of Thomas Britton the Small Coal Man, 4to, p. 19. No. 102.]

xxix.A Character of England, as it was lately presented in a Letter to a Noble-man of France. With Reflections upon Gallus Castratus. The third Edition. London. Printed for John Crooke, and are to be sold at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1659.

(12mo. pp. 66, title and preface 20 more.)

This very severe satire upon the English nation was replied to in the following publication.

xxx.A Character of France, to which is added Gallus Castratus, or an Answer to a late slanderous Pamphlet, called the Character of England. Si talia nefanda et facinora quis non Democritus? London, Printed for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1659.

xxxi.A perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland. London. Printed for J. S. 1659.

(12mo. pp. 21. besides the title.)

xxxii.A brief Character of the Low Countries under the States, being Three Weeks Observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants. Non seria semper. London, printed for H. S. and are to be sold by H. Lowndes, at the White Lion in St. Paul's Church Yard, neer the little North Door, 1659.

(12mo. pp. 500. title, &c. 6 more.)

Written by Owen Feltham, and appended to the several folio editions of hisResolves.

xxxiii.The Character of Italy: Or, The Italian Anatomiz'd by an English Chirurgion. Difficile est Satyram non scribere. London: Printed for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhil. 1660.

[12mo. pp. 93, title and preface 12 more.]

xxxiv.The Character of Spain: Or, An Epitome of Their Virtues and Vices.

——Adeo sunt multa, loquacemUt lassare queant Fabium.

London: Printed for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhil. 1660.

[12mo. pp. 93, title, &c. 12 more.]

xxxv.Essayes and Characters, by L. G.8vo. 1661.

[See Brand'sSale Catalogue, No. 1754.]

xxxvi.The Assembly-man. Written in the Year 1647. London: Printed for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop under St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-street, 1662-3[DS].

[4to. pp. 22.]

Sir John Birkenhead was the author of this character, which was printed again in 1681, and in 1704 with the following title, "The Assembly-man. Written in the Year 1647; but proves the true character of (Cerberus) the observator,mdcciv." It was also reprinted in theHarleian Miscellany, v. 93. For an account of the author, see theBiographia Britannica, edit. Kippis, ii. 324.

FOOTNOTES:[DS]With a very curious and rare frontispiece.

[DS]With a very curious and rare frontispiece.

xxxvii.Fifty-five[DT]Enigmatical Characters, all very exactly drawn to the Life, from several Persons, Humours, Dispositions. Pleasant and full of Delight. By R. F. Esq.; London: Printed for William Crook, at the sign of the Three Bibles on Fleet-bridge. 1665[DU]."

[8vo. pp. 135, title, index, &c. not numbered, 11 more.]

Richard Flecknoe, the author of these characters, is more known from having his name affixed to one of the severest satires ever written by Dryden, than from any excellence of his own as a poet or dramatic writer. Mr. Reed conceives him to have been a Jesuit, and Pope terms him an Irish priest. Langbaine says, that "his acquaintance with the nobility was more than with the muses, and he had a greater propensity to rhyming, than a genius to poetry." As a proof of the former assertion the Duke of Newcastle prefixed two copies of verses to his characters, in which he calls Flecknoe "his worthy friend," and says:

"Flecknoe, thy characters are so full of witAnd fancy, as each word is throng'd with it.Each line's a volume, and who reads would swearWhole libraries were in each character.Nor arrows in a quiver stuck, nor yetLights in the starry skies are thicker set,Nor quills upon the armed porcupine,Than wit and fancy in this work of thine.

W. Newcastle."

To confirm the latter, requires only the perusal of his verses, which were published in 1653, under the title ofMiscellania. Besides these, he wrote five[DV]dramatic pieces, the titles of which may be found in theBiographia Dramatica; a collection ofEpigrams, 8vo. 1670;Ten Years Travels inEurope.—A short Discourse of the English Stage, affixed toLove's Dominion, 8vo. 1654;The Idea of his Highness Oliver, late Lord Protector, &c.8vo. 1659. &c. &c.[DW]

"CHARACTER OF A VALIANT MAN."—(page 61.)

"He is onely a man; your coward and rash being but tame and savage beasts. His courage is still the same, and drink cannot make him more valiant, nor danger lesse. His valour is enough to leaven whole armies, he is an army himself worth an army of other men. His sword is not alwayes out like children's daggers, but he is alwayes last in beginning quarrels, though first in ending them. He holds honour (though delicate as chrystall) yet not so slight and brittle to be broak and crackt with every touch; therefore (though most wary of it,) is not querilous nor punctilious. He is never troubled with passion, as knowing no degree beyond clear courage, and is alwayes valiant, but never furious. He is the more gentle i' th' chamber, more fierce he's in the field, holding boast (the coward's valour,) and cruelty (the beast's,) unworthy a valiant man. He is only coward in this, that he dares not do an unhandsome action. In fine, he can onely be evercome by discourtesie, and has but one deffect—he cannot talk much—to recompence which he dos the more."

FOOTNOTES:[DT]I omit to particularize these characters, as many of the titles are extremely long—"of a lady of excellent conversation. Of one that is the foyle of good conversation." &c. &c.[DU]Mr. Reed possessed a copy, dated in 1658. See hisCatalogue, No. 2098.[DV]Langbaine notices a prologue intended for a play, calledThe Physician against his Will, which he thinks was never published. A MS. note in my copy of theDramatic Poets, says it was printed in 1712.[DW]The Bodleian library contains "The Affections of a pious Soule, unto our Saviour-Christ. Expressed in a mixed treatise of verse and prose. By Richard Flecknoe." 8vo. 1640. This I can scarcely consent to give toMacFlecknoe, as in the address "To the Town Reader," the author informs us that, "ashamed of the many idle hours he has spent, and to avoid the expence of more, he has retired from the town"—and we are certain thatMacresided there long after.

[DT]I omit to particularize these characters, as many of the titles are extremely long—"of a lady of excellent conversation. Of one that is the foyle of good conversation." &c. &c.

[DU]Mr. Reed possessed a copy, dated in 1658. See hisCatalogue, No. 2098.

[DV]Langbaine notices a prologue intended for a play, calledThe Physician against his Will, which he thinks was never published. A MS. note in my copy of theDramatic Poets, says it was printed in 1712.

[DW]The Bodleian library contains "The Affections of a pious Soule, unto our Saviour-Christ. Expressed in a mixed treatise of verse and prose. By Richard Flecknoe." 8vo. 1640. This I can scarcely consent to give toMacFlecknoe, as in the address "To the Town Reader," the author informs us that, "ashamed of the many idle hours he has spent, and to avoid the expence of more, he has retired from the town"—and we are certain thatMacresided there long after.

xxxviii.The Character of a Coffee-house, with the symptoms of a Town-witt. With Allowance. April 11, 1673. London, Printed for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street, 1673.

[Folio, reprinted in theHarleian Miscellany, with an answer to it, vol. vi. 429-433.]

xxxix.Essays of Love and Marriage: Being Letters written by two Gentlemen, one dissuading from Love, the other an Answer thereunto. With some Characters, and other Passages of Wit.

——Si quando gravabere curis,Hæc lege, pro moestæ medicamine mentis habeto.

London, Printed for H. Brome, at the Gun in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1673.

[12mo. pp. 103, title, &c. 4 more.]

xl.The Character of a Fanatick. By a Person of Quality. London. 1675.

[4to. pp. 8. Reprinted in theHarleian Miscellany, vii. 596.]

xli.Characterof a Towne Gallant}1675.of a Towne Missof an honest drunken Currof a pilfering Taylorof an Exchange Wenchof a Sollicitorof a Scoldof an ill Husbandof a Dutchmanof a Pawnbrokerof a Tally Man

[4to. SeeSale Catalogueof George Steevens, Esq. 8vo. London, 1800, page 66, No. 1110.]

xlii.A Whip for a Jockey: or, a Character of an Horse-courser. 1677. London, Printed for R. H. 1677.

[8vo. pp. 29.]

xliii.Four for a Penny, or Poor Robin's Character of an unconscionable Pawnbroker, and Ear-mark of an oppressing Tally-man; with a friendly Description of a Bum-bailey, and his merciless setting cur, or follower. With Allowance. London, Printed for L. C. 1678.

[4to. reprinted in theHarleian Miscellany, vol. iv. p. 141.]

xliv.Character of an ugly Woman: or, a Hue and Cry after Beauty, in prose, written (by the Duke of Buckingham) in 1678. See Lord Orford'sRoyal and Noble Authors, by Park, iii. 309.

xlv.Character of a disbanded Courtier. Ingenium Galbæ male habitat. 1681.

[Folio, pp. 2. Reprinted in theHarleian Miscellany, i. 356.]

xlvi.Character of a certain ugly old P——. London, Printed in the Year 1684.

[In Oldham'sWorks, 8vo. London, 1684.]

xlvii.Twelve ingenious Characters: or pleasant Descriptions of the Properties of sundry Persons and Things, viz.

An importunate dunn; a serjeant or bailiff; a paunbroker; a prison; a tavern; a scold; a bad husband; a town-fop; a bawd; a fair and happy milk-maid; the quack's directory; a young enamourist.

Licensed, June the 2d, 1681. R. P. London, printed for S. Norris, and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1686.

[12mo. pp. 48.]

xlviii.Character of a Trimmer. By Sir William Coventry. 1689.

[4to. SeeBibliotheca Harleiana, v. 4278.]

This was written long before publication, as is proved by the following.

xlix.Character of a Tory in 1659, in answer to that of a Trimmer (never published) both written in King Charles's reign.

[Reprinted in theWorks of George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham. 4to. Lond. 1721.]

l.Characters addressed to Ladies of Age.8vo.Lond.1689.

[Brand'sSale Catalogue, p. 66, No. 1747.]

li.The Ceremony-monger, his Character, in six Chapters, &c. &c. By E. Hickeringill, Rector of the Rectory of All-Saints, in Colchester. London, Printed and are to be sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans, without Bishopsgate. 1689.

[4to. pp. 66.]

lii.Character of a Jacobite. 1690.

[4to. SeeBibl. Harl.v. No. 4279.]

The following are without date, but were probably printed before 1700[DX].

FOOTNOTES:[DX]In Butler'sRemains, published by Thyer, 2 vols. 8vo. 1759, are severalCharactersby the author ofHudibras, and consequently written previously to this date, but as they do not appear to have been printed so early, they cannot, with propriety, be included in this list.

[DX]In Butler'sRemains, published by Thyer, 2 vols. 8vo. 1759, are severalCharactersby the author ofHudibras, and consequently written previously to this date, but as they do not appear to have been printed so early, they cannot, with propriety, be included in this list.

liii.Character of an Ill-court-favourite, translated from the French.

[4to. reprinted in theHarleian Miscellany, ii. 50.]

liv.Character of an honest and worthy Parliament-Man.

[Folio, reprinted in theHarleian Miscellany, ii. 336.]

lv.Characterism, or the Modern Age displayed.

[Brand'sSale Catalogue, No. 1757.]

Character of the Presbyterian Pastors and People of Scotland.

[Bibl. Harleiana, v. No. 4280.]

vii.Character of a compleat Physician or Naturalist[DY].

[Bibl. Harleiana, v. No. 4304.]

FOOTNOTES:[DY]In the extracts made from the foregoing series ofCharacters, the original orthography has been most scrupulously attended to, in order to assist in shewing the progress and variation of the English language.

[DY]In the extracts made from the foregoing series ofCharacters, the original orthography has been most scrupulously attended to, in order to assist in shewing the progress and variation of the English language.

Page2, line 18, forportsreadsports.

Page4, line 9, "table-book." The custom of writing in table-books, or, as it was then expressed, "in tables," is noticed, and instances given in Reed'sShakspeare, vi, 13. xii, 170. xviii, 88. Dr. Farmer adduces a passage very applicable to the text, from Hall's character of thehypocrite. "He will ever sit where he may be seene best, and in the midst of the sermon pulles out histablesin haste, as if he feared to loose that note," &c. Decker, in hisGuls Hornebooke, page 8, speaking to his readers, says, "out with yourtables," &c.

Page6, note 6.—This is also mentioned inWhimzies, 8vo. 1631, p. 57. "Hee must now betake himself to prayer and devotion;remember the founder, benefactors, head, and members of that famous foundation: all which he performes with as much zeale as an actor after the end of a play, when hee prayes for his majestie, the lords of his most honourable privie councell, and all that love the king."

Page13, note 10.—From a subsequent edition, obligingly pointed out to me by the rev. Mr. arch-deacon Nares, I find that this also is a translation:Regimen Sanitatis Salerni. This booke teachyng all peopleto gouerne the in health, is translated out of the Latine tongue into Englishe, by Thomas Paynell, whiche booke is amended, augmented, and diligently imprinted. 1575.Colophon. ¶Jmprynted at London, by Wyllyam How, for Abraham Ueale.The preface says, that it was compiled for the use "of the moste noble and victorious kynge of England, and of Fraunce, by all the doctours in Phisicke of the Uniuersitie of Salerne."

Page17, line 17, "door-posts."—It was usual for public officers to have painted or gilded posts at their doors, on which proclamations, and other documents of that description, were placed, in order to be read by the populace. See various allusions to this custom, in Reed'sShakspeare, v. 267.Old Plays, iii. 303. Thereformationmeans that they were, in the language of our modern churchwardens, "repaired and beautified," during the reign of our alderman.

Page45, line 11, forGollobelgicusreadGallobelgicus.

Page47, line 15. "post and pair" was a game at cards, of which I can give no description. The author of theCompleat Gamesternotices it as "very much played in the West of England." See Dodsley'sOld Plays, 1780. vii. 296.

Page48, line 12—"guarded with more gold lace." The wordguardedis continually used by the writers of the sixteenth century forfringedoradorned. See Reed'sShakspeare, vii. 272.Old Plays, iv. 36.

Page59, line 15, "clout." Shakspeare (Cymbeline, act iv. scene 2.) uses the expression ofclouted brogues, which Mr. Steevens explains to be "shoes strengthened withcloutorhob-nails."

Page63, line 9, "dragon that pursued the woman." Evidently an allusion toRevelations, xii. 15.

Page91, note 8, line 15, forStylareadHylain both instances.

Page92, note 10, line 5, forLeidenreadLeyden.

Page117, line 3, "Their humanity is aleg to the residencer." Aleghere signifies abow. Decker says, "a jewe neuer weares his cap threedbare with putting it off; neuer bends i' th' hammes withcasting away a leg, &c."Guls Hornebooke.p. 11.

Page182, note 1, forspungereadsponge.

Page208, line 4, forsperareadspero.

ib. line 30, forconjestareadcongesta.

ib. line 31, forsusuperavitreadsuperavit.

Page231, line 11, forJudereadInde: forferucatreadferueat.

Page245, line 7, forwhoscreadwhose.

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TheInscription, No.x. of theAppendix, should have been entirely omitted. The following extract from Guillim'sHeraldry, shews that Bishop Earle could not have been connected with the Streglethorp family, since, if he had, there would have been no occasion for a new grant of armorial bearings.

"He bearethermine, on a chief indented sable, three eastern crowns or, by the name ofEarles. This coat was granted bySir Edward Walker, garter, the 1st of August, 1660, to the Reverend Dr.John Earles, son ofThomas Earles, gent, sometime Register of the Archbishop's Court at York. He was Dean ofWestminster, and Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty KingCharlesthe Second; and in the year 1663, made Bishop ofSalisbury."Guillim'sHeraldry, folio. Lond. 1724. p. 282.It is almost unnecessary to add that I was not aware of this grant, when I compiled the short account of Earle, at page186, and spoke of my inability to give any information relative to his parents.

Guillim'sHeraldry, folio. Lond. 1724. p. 282.

It is almost unnecessary to add that I was not aware of this grant, when I compiled the short account of Earle, at page186, and spoke of my inability to give any information relative to his parents.

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