[22] See Dr. Lupton's "Life of Colet," 1887.
[23] When I was living in the parish of Kensington, St. Paul's School was, as I believe it still is, facile princeps.
[24] Assuming that the date of the meeting from Hall's Chronicle is correctly printed in Milman, November 7, 1530.
[25] "Chapters in the History," p. 169. Milman (p. 202) adds that the hearers pulled the doll to pieces. The dean is made to say "Ridley, now bishop of Rochester"; but Ridley was bishop 1547-1550, as Milman elsewhere implies (p. 211).
[26] Milman, p. 216.
[27] My authorities for this well-nigh incredible story are in "St. Paul's and Old City Life," p. 234.
[28] "Plot" I must continue to call it, with all due deference to certain modern apologists.
[29] Horace Walpole (quoted in Longman, p. 69) says that Inigo Jones renewed the sides with "very bad Gothic." Assuming the accuracy of the prints in Dugdale, it is difficult to see where the Gothic comes in.
[30] Carlyle's "Cromwell," vol i., chap. iv.
[31] There is some confusion as to receipts and expenditure. I take Dugdale to mean that under the Charles commission £101,000 was raised, and £35,000 spent; but it seems uncertain whether we are to include Sir Paul Pindar's liberality in this sum. Dean Milman estimates that only £17,000 was confiscated. The enormous cost of the army caused a chronic deficit.