[1513] Dugdale, 191.
[1514] G. Garrard to Strafford (Strafford Letters, i. 507); Warton, iii. 321; Ward, iii. 173.
[1515] Dugdale, 285; Herbert, 333; R. J. Fletcher, Pension Book of Gray’s Inn (1901), xxviii, xxxix, xlix, 68 and passim.
[1516] His full title was ‘The High and Mighty Prince Henry, Prince of Purpoole, Arch-duke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke of High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles and Tottenham, Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, Great Lord of the Cantons of Islington, Kentish Town, Paddington and Knightsbridge, Knight of the most heroical Order of the Helmet, and Sovereign of the same.’
[1517] Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 122; Ward, ii. 27, 628; Sandys, 93; Spedding, Works of Bacon, viii. 235; S. Lee, Life of Shakespeare, 70; W. R. Douthwaite, Gray’s Inn, 227; Fletcher, 107. A full description of the proceedings is in the Gesta Grayorum (1688), reprinted in Nichols, Progresses of Elizabeth, iii. 262.
[1518] Douthwaite, op. cit. 234; Fletcher, 72, 299; Nichols, Progresses of James I, iii. 466. To this year belong the proceedings of ‘Henry the Second,’ Prince of Purpoole, printed by Nichols, Eliz. iii. 320, as the ‘Second Part’ of the Gesta Grayorum; cf. Hazlitt, Manual, 95, 161. ‘Henry the Second, Prince of Graya and Purpulia,’ was a subscriber to Minsheu’s Dictionary (1617). An earlier Prince of Purpoole is recorded in 1587 (Fletcher, 78).
[1519] Dugdale, 281, 286; Herbert, 334, 336.
[1520] Douthwaite, op. cit. 243, 245.
[1521] Percy, N. H. B. 344, 346.
[1522] Machyn, 125.