154. Prebend of Layton Ecclesia. Grosart points out that Walton was wrong here. Herbert was not a Deacon. He held the prebendary of Layton (Leighton Bromswold) as a laic, as he did the sinecure rectorship of Whitford.
163. she died in the year 1627. In June. On July 1 Donne preached her Funeral Sermon. See ante, p. 139. When it was published (London, 1627, 12mo) Herbert appended to it the Greek and Latin poems to her memory, entitled Parentalia; these were the chief verses he published in his lifetime.
165. three months after this marriage. It took place at Edington on 5th March 1629.
167. canonical clothes. This, as Dr. Grosart says, shows that he "was still a layman."
167. Parsonage of Bemerton. In the presentation in the Record Office, which is dated 16th April 1630, ten days before his induction, it is styled "Rectory of the parish church of Fulston (Fuggleston) St. Peter's and Bemerton."
175. "The Country Parson." For further particulars see p. 212. Of the simplicity of this beautiful little book Canon Ainger has well said, "Not for the first or last time in our literature was it to be shown that the euphuistic tendency is killed when the writer begins to think more of his topic than himself" (Craik's English Prose, ii. (1894), 204).
190. being, seeing. Cf. also p. 258.
193. genteel, refined, well-bred.
201. "The Temple." See full title on p. 213.
205. passion, violent commotion of the mind, perturbation.