Footnotes
[1] A "tuck" was a pinch, given with finger and thumb under the lip, and sometimes drawing blood.
[2] This Richard Chalfont was expelled in the year 1648. He was minister to the company of English Merchants in Rotterdam.
[3] The tradition was that the house would fall when a more learned man than the Friar should pass beneath it.
[4] Paul Hood held the Rectorship of Lincoln College from 1620 to 1668, and therefore outlasted the change from King to Parliament, and from Parliament again to King. No other head of a house was equally compliant or equally long lived.
[5] The last of the Psalms appointed for morning service on the fifteenth day of the month.
[6] The parable of the Judge, the sheep, and the goats.
[7] Perhaps this common soldier was John Bunyan, who was probably in Leicester at this time.
[8] "The Lord is my Light."
[9] What would Philip Dashwood have said of the three hundred thousand volumes of which the Library now consists?—A. C.
[10] Still a tradition of the Library.—A. C.
[11] "Reckon for gain whatever days Fate shall give thee."