FOOTNOTES:

[[1]] Promus: edited by Mrs. H. Pott, p. 475.

[[3]] Calendar of State Papers (domestic), March 24, 1621.

[[4]] Commons' Journals, March 17, April 27; iii. 560, 594-6.

[[5]] Commons' Journals, iii. 578. In his copy of the Novum Organum, received ex dono auctoris, Coke wrote the same words.

"Auctori consilium.

Instaurare paras veterum documenta sophorum:

Instaura leges justitiamque prius."

He added, with allusion to the ship in the frontispiece of the Novum Organum,

"It deserveth not to be read in schools,

But to be freighted in the ship of Fools."