[105] These initials, inserted by a later hand, indicate "Samuel Rowlands," the author of this very popular little volume. The first edition bears
a date in 1602, and had probably just been published when it attracted the attention of our diarist.
[106] This anecdote derives some little vraisemblance from the circumstance that Sir John Doderidge, who was a justice of the King's Bench from 1612 to 1628, was looked upon as a man of a philosophical character of mind, and of very large acquirements. Fuller remarks that it was hard to say whether "he was better artist, divine, civil or common lawyer" (Worthies, i. 282), and Croke, that he was "a man of great knowledge as well in common law as in other human sciences and divinity." (Reports, Car. 127, cited in Foss's Judges, vi. 309.)
[107] These initials are by a more recent hand. The lines do not appear in the published works of Ben Jonson.
[108] The lady alluded to was Anne Carew, daughter of a merchant of Bristol and widow of a person named Ball. She had a considerable fortune.
[109] Dr. John King, styled by King James the King of Preachers. Queen Elizabeth presented him in 1597 to the rectory of St. Andrew's in Holborn, and to a prebend in St. Paul's in 1599. He was Bishop of London from 1611 to 1621. (Newcourt's
Repert, i. 211, 275; Hardy's Le Neve, ii. 303.)
[110] Afterwards Sir John Croke, Recorder of London from 1595 to 1603, Speaker of the House of Commons in 1601, and a Judge of the King's Bench under James I. (Foss's Judges, vi. 130.)
[111] Sir John Garrett or Garrard.
[112] Thomas Sackville, poet and statesman; Lord Buckhurst, 1567-1604, Earl of Dorset, 1604-1608, and Lord Treasurer, 1599-1608.