[11]. Fuller’s Worthies of Leicestershire.
[12]. Sanderson’s Lives of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her Son, p. 467.
[13]. An officer appointed to serve up a feast.
[14]. It is situated nine miles from Leicester, and six from Melton Mowbray.
[15]. Nichols’s History of Leicestershire, vol. iii., p. 189.
[16]. In 1591. Nichols’s History of Leicestershire.
[17]. Collins’s Peerage. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. Art., Jersey.
[18]. Roger Coke’s Detection of the Court of James I., vol. i., p. 81. See, also, note in the Secret History of the Court of King James I., vol. i., p. 444, edited by Sir Walter Scott.
[19]. Sir Anthony Weldon, speaking of the Duke of Buckingham, observes, that his “father was of an ancient family, his mother of a mean, and a waiting gentlewoman, with whom the old man (Sir George Villiers) fell in love.” Secret History, vol. i., p. 442, edited by Sir Walter Scott.
[20]. Secret History, vol. i., edited by Sir Walter Scott.