[244]: The head of this company was Lord Popham, one of whose cuts is still called Popham's Eau. The last word reminds us that many of his settlers were exiled French Huguenots.
[247]: See my Roman Britain, p. 47.
[248]: Hughes' Geography of Cambs., p. 97, where there is an interesting photograph of this Woad Mill.
[251]: This work was published in 1583, to justify the execution of the seminary priests in England. Burghley's point is that quiet Papists were not put to death.
[252]: See Bridgett and Knox, Queen Elizabeth and the Catholic Hierarchy, p. 197 et seq. It may have been these highly specialised discourses which put so fine an edge on Wisbech Protestantism that, in the Civil War, the Parson here was ejected for no more heinous offence than that "he called a Godly Minister (Mr. Allison) Brother Redface."