[40] i. e. rabbits.
[41] My cosen, shee, MS.
[42] The "Hide" here mentioned was probably the future Sir Lawrence, elder brother of Sir Nicholas the future Lord Chief Justice, and uncle to Lord Chancellor Clarendon. (Foss's Judges, vi. 335.) Tanfield was the future Lord Chief Baron, whose only daughter was mother to Lucius Lord Falkland. (Ibid. 365.)
[43] Dugdale remarks that the first Paget who "arrived to the dignity of Peerage" was son to "—— Paget, one of the Serjeants at Mace in the City of London." (Bar. ii. 390.) Sir Thomas White was of course the founder of St. John's college, Oxford.
[44] Richard Tarlton, the celebrated low comedian and Joe Miller of his day.
[45] We have retained these trifling entries solely on account of the name appended to them. The unfortunate Sir Thomas Overbury, who was son of a gentleman of Gloucestershire, having taken his B.A. degree at Queen's College, Oxford, removed in 1598 to the Middle Temple.
[46] Herbert Westfaling, Bishop of Hereford (1585-1602) had a daughter Margaret who may have been the lady here alluded to, although at this time married to Dr. Richard Eedes, Dean of Worcester. (Wood's Athenæ, i. 720, 750.) Like many of these trifles, it will be observed that the anagrammatic reading is incomplete.
[47] It seems from remarks of Mr. Hunter, in his Illustrations of Shakspeare, i. 391, that the Italian play here alluded to was not one of those termed the Inganni, of which there are several, but the Ingannati, which, like the Taming of the Shrew, is a play preceded by a dramatic prologue or induction, entitled Comedia del Sacrificio di gli Intronati. There is no separate title-page to the Ingannati, but there are several editions of the Sacrificio di gli Intronati, in which the Ingannati is introduced, printed at Venice in 1537, 1550, and several subsequent years.
[48] Thomas Ratcliffe, third Earl of Sussex (1556—1583.) The reader of Kenilworth will need no further illustration than a reference to those attractive pages.
[49] Bishop, afterwards Archbishop, Bancroft.