[174] Rosso’s Succesi.

[175] Quoted in Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 11.

[176] This fact, together with Sir Nicholas’s subsequent trial, seems to throw doubt upon the veracity of his versified account of the services he had rendered to Mary.

[177] Biog. Brit. Quoted in Lady Jane Grey’s Literary Remains.

[178] L’Istoria Ecclesiastica della Rivoluzione d’Inghilterra. Pollini, pp. 274, 275. Rosso’s Succesi, p. 20.

[179] M. A. Florio, Vita, pp. 58, 59.

[180] Dictionary of National Biography.

[181] Rosso, Succesi, p. 23.

[182] Chronicle of Queen Jane, etc., pp. 10, 11.

[183] Foxe, Acts and Monuments.