[627] Art. “Shakespeare,” Encycl. Britan.
[628] Wodderspoon’s Memorials of Ipswich, p. 285, p. 259.
[629] “Now first printed.” Exeter, 1765, p. 181.
[630] Poulett Scrope, op. cit. p. 333.
[631] D. Erasmi Epistolar. lib. XXX. London, 1642, Lib. xxii. Epist. 12 (without date).
[632] Richard of Devizes. Eng. Hist. Soc. p. 60: “Apud Bristolliam nemo est qui non sit vel fuerit saponarius; et omnis Francus saponarios amat ut stercorarios.”
[633] William Harrison’s Description of England (in Holinshed) gives proof enough that the filthy floors described by Erasmus had no existence two generations later, even among the poorer classes.
[634] The correspondence is in Remembrancia, under the head of “Plague.”
[635] From a memorandum of Lord Burghley’s, dated Hertford Castle, 21 Nov. 1582, it appears that a survey had shown 577 beds available for strangers in one parish of Hertford, and 451 in another, “so that there are lying two a bed above 2000 people.” Cal. State Papers. Domestic series, Elizabeth 1581-90, p. 75.
[636] Stow’s Survey.