[57] οἰ ἔχοντες τὰ πράγματα, III. 72. οἱ ὀλίγοι, III. 74.
[58] Cade’s speech to Lord Say, Henry VI. part ii. vol. iv. p. 7. The last sentence alludes to the law which gave to persons capitally convicted the benefit of clergy, that is, their lives were spared if they could read; it being presumed that none but clergy could do so.
[59] Holinshed, vol. ii. p. 746.
[60] Frenzy. The adjective wood, or wode, is of common occurrence in the Scottish language.
[61] Lord Berners’ Froissart, vol. i. chap. 182, 183.
[62] Ibid., vol. i. chap. 381.
[63] Decline and Fall, chap. xl.
[64] See ‘Ueber die Parteien der Rennbahn, vornehmlich im Byzantinischen Kaiserthum, von F. Wilken, in von Raumer’s Historisches Taschenbuch.’
[65] Gibbon, chap. xl.
[66] Procopius, Persic., vol. i. chap. 24.