58. The forenoon … Geneva. The speaker was Fuller, but the quotation is not quite textual.
70. and behold God's blessings. Cf. p. 33.
71. corps, endowment. "When the corps of the profit or benefice is but one the title can be but one man's" (Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity, v. lxxx, § 11).
94. Judicious Hooker. This is the first application to Hooker of this time-honoured epithet. Sir W. Cowper was the grandfather of William, first Earl Cowper. The monument was erected in 1635.
97. one of his elder daughters. I.e. Cicely.
97. both died before they were marriageable. Alice died unmarried in 1649; but Jane (or Jone) married Edward Nethersole at Bishopsbourne, 23rd March 1600.
99. dead in her bed. In March 1601.
108, regiment, regimen, regulation, management. Cf. Bacon's essay "Of Regiment of Health."
121. in devise, in contemplation.