[95] Matthew Paris, Chron. Majora, ed. Luard, iv. 196; Gregory’s Chron., p. 65.
[96] Chron. Murimuth, ed. Thompson, pp. 36, 43.
[97] “Mémoires d’un Protestant condamné aux Galères de France,” ed. 1881, p. 432.
[98] Maillard (Firmin), “Le Gibet de Montfaucon,” 1863, pp. 16 and 17, and frontispiece.
[99] Harleian Misc., iii. 100-8.
[100] Martin Marprelate, “Pappe with an Hatchet,” 1589.
[101] Shakespeare Socy., 1844, p. 73. This has been repeatedly quoted (following Cunningham) as from “Tarlton’s Jests,” published in 1611, twenty-one years later.
[102] Act. IV. sc. 3. The play is allotted to the period 1590-4.
[103] I am indebted to Mr. Herbert Sieveking for knowledge of this map. He has described it in an article which has not appeared at the time when this is written.
[104] In Mr. Croker’s translation we find the following: “It really requires the concurrent testimony of all writers to make us believe that the queen of England was forced by ‘those meddling priests’ to walk in penance to Tyburn, and there on her knees, under the gibbet, glorify the blessed martyrs of the Gunpowder Plot” (pp. 3, 4). The passage contains several inaccuracies. In the first place, the testimony of all writers was not concurrent, as is shown in the text; next, it was not charged that the Queen “glorified” the martyrs, but that she prayed for their souls; finally, “the blessed martyrs of the Gunpowder Plot” do not come into the story, as not one of them was executed at Tyburn.