[31]. Fuller’s Worthies of Leicestershire.
[32]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, 171.
[33]. Henry IV. was stabbed by Ravaillac on the 14th of May, 1610.
[34]. The women, in some instances, refused to take food, by way of shewing their grief for the murder of Henry, and even the men gave way to despondency. “Plusieurs des meilleurs citoyens de la ville,” says Lacretelle; “se sont sentis frappés du coup de la mort, en apprenant cette nouvelle; d’autres, qui expirent plus lentement, se plaignent de survivre trop long temps[temps] a ce bon roi.”—Lacretelle “Histoire de France,” pendant les Guerres de Religion, tome iv., p. 385.
[35]. “Howell’s Familiar Letters,” p. 39.
[36]. It is as well to remind the reader that before the year 1752, the civil or legal year began on the 25th of March (Lady Day), while the historical year began on the 1st of January, for civilians called each day within that period one year earlier than historians. The alteration in the calendar took place by Act of Parliament, on the 2nd day of September, 1752, when it was enacted that the day following should be the 14th instead of the 3rd of September.—“Nicolas’s Notitia Historica.”
[37]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 209.
[38]. Sir Henry Wotton.—“Reliquiæ Wottonianæ,” p. 208.
[39]. Quotation from Birch’s work on the Colonies. See Brydges’ Peers of England in the Time of James I., p. 171.
[40]. Clarendon’s History of England, vol. i., p. 55.