[17] Camd. Brit. in Kent.

[18] See Wood, ut supra.

[19] See his “Life,” prefixed to the last edition folio.

[20] Viz. 16th October 1586.

[21] The title of the Oxford verses published upon the death of our author.

[22] We cannot fix the date, nor on what occasion this great appearance of nobility was then at Oxford, only that the Earl of Leicester was high chancellor of that University.

[23] In opposition to Philip of Spain.

BOOK I NOTES

[1] running at Base] The old game of prisoner’s-base, then a common rustic pastime.

[2] recklessness] i.e. Carelessness. See Spencer.