[18] Some say this was a Captain Portington, who afterwards told Cromwell that he aimed at his nose, when he hit his horse on the head. Life of Cromwell. See also Ludlow, Vicars, and Hume.
[19a] The road adjoining to Winceby field bears the name of Slash Lane, where it is traditionally related great numbers of the royal army were slaughtered, owing to their retreat being obstructed by a closed gate.
[19b] Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.
[19c] Ibid.
[20a] Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.
[20b] This anecdote the author has repeatedly heard from several of the old inhabitants of the town.
[20c] October 11, 1643.
[21] It is said accompanied by Sir William Widdrington. Rapin.
[22] Dr. Stukeley has incorrectly described this fortress as a complete parallelogram: Gough, too has erroneously stated it to have enclosed twenty acres.
[23] The Roman youth were first instructed in the game of Troy Town by Ascanius, called also Julus, the son of Æneas, and from him the maze in which it was performed took the name of Julian Bower. A very animated description of this game is given by Virgil in the fifth book of his Æneid. See also Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p, 91.