[49] Ludus dicebatur “Ignoramus,” qui durabat per spatium sex horarum.
[50] Idem quod Bocardo apud Oxon.
[51] Insigniss. stultus.
[52] Paulus Tompsonus, qui nuper laesæ majest. reus ob aurum decurtat.
[53] Decorum quia Coll. est puritanorum plenum: scil. Emanuel.
[54] The former is Taylor, the celebrated water-poet: the latter, William Fenner, a puritanical poet and pamphleteer of that period, was educated at Pembroke-hall, Oxford. He was preferred to the rectory of Rochford, in Essex, by the earl of Warwick. He died about 1640.
Archbishop Laud in his annual account to the king 1636, page 37, mentions one Fenner, a principal ringleader of the Separatists, with their conventicles, at and about Ashford in Kent.
[55] See Lodge’s Illustrations of British History, 4to. vol. iii. p. 178; Brydges’s Peers of the Reign of James the First, vol. i.; and Winwood’s Memorials.
[56] For this vehement attack upon the weakness of an infatuated woman, the author must be screened under the example of Horace, Ep. 8 and 12.
[57] Henry Garnet, provincial of the order of Jesuits in England, who was arraigned and executed at the west end of St. Paul’s, for his connivance at, rather than for any active participation in, the Gunpowder Plot, May 3, 1605. See State Trials.