[29] Sir Giles Dawbney; he was not Earl of Bridgewater, not a Lord.
[34] This romantic inscription probably alluded to Philip II., who wooed the Queen after her sister’s death; and to the destruction of his Armada.
[36a] This probably alluded to the woollen manufacture; Stow mentions his riding through the Cloth Fair on the Eve of St. Bartholomew.
[36b] The collar of SS.
[46] He probably means rushes.
[49] Her father had been treated with the same deference. It is mentioned by Foxe in his “Acts and Monuments,” that when the Lord Chancellor went to apprehend Queen Catherine Parr, he spoke to the King on his knees. King James I. suffered his courtiers to omit it.
[53] Lord Treasurer Burleigh died August 4, 1598.
[56] She was the daughter, sister, and aunt, of Sir William, Henry, and Sir Philip Sidney.
[68] This was a strange blunder to be made so near the time, about so remarkable a person, unless he concluded that whoever displeased Henry VIII. was of course put to death.
[69] This is a mistake; it was the surcoat of Edward IV., enriched with rubies, and was preserved here till the civil war.