Robert Boyle

by Flora Masson

FOOTNOTES

[1] Lismore Papers, first series, vol. i.

[2] Philaretus. Robert Boyle left a fragment of Autobiography, An Account of Philaretus (i.e. Mr. R. Boyle) during his Minority. See Works, ed. Birch, 6 vols., 1774.

[3] For a delightful modern biography, see the Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork, by Dorothea Townshend (Duckworth).

[4] See the Lismore Papers (referred to throughout as L. P.), edited by the late Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, D.D., LL.D., from the original MSS. belonging to the Duke of Devonshire, and preserved in Lismore Castle (10 vols.).

[5] Corpus Christi.

[6] Froude’s History, vol. vii. (1562).

[7] Ibid.

[8] Edmund Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland.