FOOTNOTES:
[106] Hall’s “Chronicle,” p. 730.
[107] A MS. Brit. Mus. (MS. Reg. 2, A. xviii A) gives a calendar of special events, and under 29th October 1537 it is stated: “This day dysseasyd Elizabethe Lukar, dowghter of Paul Withypoll.” A note to this adds that a Sarum Missal, in possession of Mr. Douce, contained that and other entries, e.g. “XII Kl. Feb., 1509. This day was Pol Withypol, married to me Anne Cursonne his wife.” The above-mentioned Elizabeth was born in 1510, her brother Edward in 1512 (Brit. Mus. 5524, f. 94).
[108] Buchanan had been at one time her tutor and dedicated to her his Latin Psalms, though he turned against her afterwards.
[109] These lines are sometimes supposed to be written by Browne, on the strength of an inferior second verse by him.
[110] In the Preface to his works he said he had met some who understood the mathematical side of his philosophy, and others who understood the metaphysical side; but he had met but one who understood both sides, and that was she whose intellect he therefore reckoned the incomparable.