[23]. [Castle-guard, etc.] A service imposed upon those to whom Castles and Estates adjoining were granted.
[24]. [Mary, etc.] Mary Queen of Scots was a prisoner in Tutbury Castle at the time of the Duke of Norfolk’s intrigues: she listened to his proposals of marriage, as the only means of obtaining her liberty, declaring herself otherwise averse to farther matrimonial connections.
[25]. [While minstrels, etc.] The minstrels formerly crowded to Tutbury Castle, then a place of festivity and hospitality, in such numbers, as to require regulations of order and precedence amongst them, the person appointed for this purpose was called King of the Minstrels.
[26]. [In the rude sport, etc.] The annual Bull-running.
[27]. [Yon hill, etc.] Hound-hill, the ancient seat of the Vernon’s.
[28]. [Beside me lies, etc.] The situation of Needwood is high, and its banks, descending from the plain of the forest to the country below, are in many places a mile deep; they consist of alternate cliffs and dingles, and are entirely covered with trees and rough copses.
[29]. [Yes, Eaton-Banks, etc.] Eaton-Wood, seen from the Forest, was the property of the late Godfry Bagnell Clarke, Esquire.
[30]. [Henry, etc.] The Hon. Henry Vernon.
[31]. [On breezy wings, etc.] A Deer when hunted runs against the Wind.
[32]. [No shrite-cock, etc.] The Shrite-cock or Missel Thrush.