FOOTNOTES:
[109] Works of B. and F., I, ii-iii.
[110] Hasted's History of Kent (1797), II, 433; III, 146, 154, 186.
[111] For Sundridge and the Isleys, see Hasted's Kent, II, 513-521; III, 128-132, 143-145; and Cal, S. P. (Dom.) Jan. 23, Feb. 24, 1554.
[112] Jonson's statement to Drummond "ere he was thirty years of age" is incorrect, or was misreported.
[113] Introduction to The Works of B. and F., ed. 1866, I, xviii.
[114] According to the Register of burials in Westminster Abbey, 1627; but some authorities say 1628. See Dyce, I, xxi; Chalmer's English Poets, VI, 3, and Grosart's edition of his poems.
[115] This is certainly not the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, as Grosart opines,—for the simple reason that the Master died thirteen years before Sir John.
[116] Nichols, Coll. Hist., Leic.,-Bibl. Top. Britt., VIII, 1329, 1341.
[117] A. B. Grosart, in D. N. B., art. Francis Beaumont.
[118] Preface to B. and F.'s Works, ed. 1711, p. 1.
[119] Dyce, Vol. I, p. 211, from MS., Vincent's Leicester, 1683.
[120] James Wills, Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen, 1841, Vol. III, Pt. ii, p. 244.