FOOTNOTES:
[1] Left blank in the original.
[2] Or rather 27.
[3] Householders.
[4] Lose.
[5] Whereas.
[6] Bishop Gardiner.
[7] Sir Robert Rochester, Comptroller; Sir William Peter, Secretary of State; Sir Francis Inglefield, Master of the Wards; and another.
[8] Cardinal Pole.
[9] Dieppe.
[10] Polling, i.e. shearing or extortionate.
[11] Coarse woollen cloth.
[12] Common, i.e. public.
[13] The Rood, on the Roodloft.
[14] Regimen, government.
[15] In the primitive Church.
[16] From πρεσβυτερὁς (elder), both presbyter and priest are derived.
[17] Pretended.
[18] Persuade the people.
[19] Public.
[20] At cess—i.e., quartered on the inhabitants.
[21] Thomas Fitzgerald’s rebellion took place in 1534-5. This reference to it dates the present document as being of 1571 or 1572.
[22] Deceived.
[23] I.e., Cecil.
[24] I.e., Mary Queen of Scots.
[25] Surety.
[26] Paused.
[27] Christopher.
[28] Banner.
[29] Barnard Castle, of which he was Steward.
[30] Outermost.
[31] Lief, dear.
[32] “Francis” in the original text—a slip of the pen.
[33] Men of property among the rebels were attainted, and their lands confiscated; the author appears to threaten that even when their money is gone they remain men and may yet be to be feared.
[34] Sir Thomas Plomtrie—i.e., Thomas Plumptre, priest—chaplain to the rebels, was hanged at Durham for having celebrated Mass in the cathedral there.
[35] Kentish saint, to whose shrine pilgrimage was made; he became the proverb for pre-Reformation superstition.
[36] I.e., his people.
[37] See.
[38] Really 25 of February.
[39] 1569-1570.
[40] Ure—i.e., use.
[41] Babington’s conspiracy.
[42] Precedent.
[43] I.e., “Either supplicate or strike home.”
[44] I.e., Mr. O——’s house.
[45] Orig. ‘unamity.’
[46] In command of the Spanish land forces in the Netherlands.
[47] The Duke of Medina and Sidonia, in command of the Armada. On the 25th of July Drake, writing to Walsingham, says: “God hathe geven us so good a daye in forcying the enemey so far to leeward, as I hope in God the prince of Parma and the Duke of Sedonya shall not shake hands this fewe dayes.”
[48] Gravelines.
[49] The Duke of Parma.
[50] Probably brother=brother-in-law here, as often, or father of his son-or daughter-in-law.
[51] This and some of the other totals are incorrect; they are given as they stand.
[52] Encumbered.
[53] Except.
[54] Awaited.
[55] Chase = the guns in the bows.
[56] Result.
[57] Experienced.
[58] Champaign.
[59] Thoroughly healed.
[60] I.e., Suppose my intent were evil.
[61] Another version is given in Sir Symonds D’Ewes’ Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
[62] Their—i.e., the Commons.
[63] They had been kneeling.
[64] Conspiracies.
[65] Faults.
[66] These were pasteboard figures eight feet high.
[67] Orig. seemed.
[68] Richard Mulcaster, first headmaster of Merchant Taylors’ School, whose Positions is the most important English educational book of the century.
[69] George Gascoigne, the poet.
[70] I.e., Elizabeth.
[71] Polished.
[72] It was the latter.
[73] Getting rid of.
[74] Slipper.
[75] Adulteries.
[76] Fault, make mistakes.
[77] See p. 97 for Lady Jane Grey, whom Ascham gives as an example of this rule.
[78] Dip.
[79] Antwerp (spelt backwards).
[80] Ill-used.
[81] Crushed.
[82] Arrested.
[83] Probably Burbage.
[84] I.e., Oxford?
[85] Break, flaw.
[86] Speeches.
[87] Sharpest.
[88] I.e., London?
[89] Pointed beard.
| Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: |
|---|
| xxviii. Item whether=> xxxviii. Item whether {pg 31} |
| They are superstititious=> They are superstitious {pg 42} |
| which is Knockphargus=> which is Knockfargus {pg 45} |