[174]. Walpole, p. 149, passim.

[175]. Walpole, p. 166.

[176]. There were five dials at Whitehall; a Mr. Gunter drew the lines, and wrote a pamphlet on the use of them, in 1624. “One, too,” says Horace Walpole, “may still be extant.” Vertue saw them at Buckingham House, from whence they were sold.

[177]. Note in Hartley Coleridge’s Introduction to Massinger’s Plays, p. 32.

[178]. Hartley Coleridge, p. 9.

[179]. Massinger’s Works, edited by Hartley Coleridge, p. 74.

[180]. Joanna, Lady Abergavenny, Mary Arundel, Catherine Grey, Mary Duchess of Norfolk. See “Royal and Noble Authors.”

[181]. Horace Walpole’s “Royal and Noble Authors,” vol. ii., p. 308.

[182]. No. 7.

[183]. Ibid.