[P. 8, l. 23], plash.]—pool.
[P. 10, l. 15], blee.]—complexion, countenance.
[P. 10, l. 27], hey de gay.]—See [note, p. 26].
[P. 11, l. 25], the Lord Chiefe Justice.]—Sir John Popham: he was appointed Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in 1592.
[P. 12, l. 13], Sir Edwin Rich.]—Third son of Robert Lord Rich, was knighted at Cadiz in June 1596: see Account of the expedition to Cadiz in Hakluyt’s Voyages, I. 617. ed. 1599 (where, by mistake, he is called Sir Edmund), and Stow’s Annales, p. 775. ed. 1631. About three years after, he purchased the manor of Mulbarton in Norfolk from William Gresham, Esq. In 1604, when Sir Anthony Shirley went as ambassador from the Emperor of Germany to the King of Morocco, in his suite was Sir Edwin Rich, “whose behauiour was good, and well spoken of in euery place where he came,” &c. He married Honora, daughter of Charles Worlick, Esq.; and died, and was buried (I know not in what year) at Hartlepool. A monument is erected to his memory, and to that of his sons, Robert and Sir Edwin, in Mulbarton church. Collins’s Baron. III. P. ii. 592. ed. 1741; Le Neve’s Mon. Angl. Suppl. 113; Purchas’s Pilgrimes, Sec. Part. p. 863. ed. 1625; Blomefield’s Hist. of Norf. III. 52.
[P. 13, l. 5], began withall this, blessing, &c.]—Old ed. “began with. All this: blessing,” &c.
[P. 13, l. 26], He was a man, &c.]—Warton thinks that this description of the Innkeeper at Rockland, “which could not be written by Kemp, was most probably a contribution from his friend and fellow player Shakespeare [?]. He may vie with our Host of the Tabard.” Hist. of Eng. Poet. IV. 63, ed. 4to.
[P. 13, l. 28], Welcome.]—“coming,” apud Warton (ubi supra, 64,) by mistake.
[P. 13, l. 31], What wonders once in Bullayne fell.]—At the siege of Boulogne: on the 14th of Sept. 1544, it surrendered to Henry the Eighth, who entered it in triumph on the 18th of the month.
[P. 14, l. 1], Turwin and Turneys siedge were hot.]—After the Battle of the Spurs, which took place August 16th, 1513, Terouenne surrendered to Henry the Eighth on the 22nd of that month, and on the 27th its defences were razed to the ground: Tournay surrendered to the English monarch on the 29th of the ensuing September. Historians differ somewhat as to the dates of these events: I have followed Lingard.