[514] Knighted in 1634.
[515] Shipbuilders.
[516] The ten Lion's Whelps.
[517] Payments in advance.
[518] MS. 'Redcliff.'
[519] More usually spelt 'Compter': one of the debtors' prisons attached to the Sheriff's Court; the last was abolished in 1854.
[520] The prison on the east side of Farringdon Street, taking its name from the Fleet River; burnt down in 1666 and in 1780; it was abolished in 1842.
[521] Treasurer of the Army, with whom Buckingham was lodging.
[522] Apparently used in the sense of 'unemployed.'
[523] Colonel Sir Thomas Fryer. The circumstances are related in detail by Dr. S. R. Gardiner in his History of England from the Accession of James I., vol. vi. chap. lxv.