[88] In Leicestershire.
[89] A note in Tanner’s Bibliotheca Brit.-Hibernica thus relates the indignity offered to the remains of this parent of the Reformation, after he had been ‘quietly inurned’ during the space of forty-one years: “Magister Johannes Wicliff Anglicus per D. Thomam Arundel. archiepiscopum Cantuar. fuit post mortem suam excommunicatus, et postea fuit exhumatus, et ossa ejus combusta, et cineres in aquam juxta Lutterworth projecti fuerunt, ex mandato P. Martini V.”
[90] Parson of Heathcot, Edit. 1672. It has been observed in the Introduction that there is no village of this name in this situation: the copy 1648 says Parson Heathcote, which was probably the name of the parson of Ayleston, who was their conductor.
[91] Students of Christ-Church College, Oxford, which, as well as Whitehall, the “palace” before mentioned, was founded by Wolsey.
[92] The figure in these lines is taken from the fine church of St. Mary’s, Nottingham, in which the long chancel and nave with the tower in the midst resemble the object of the bishop’s metaphor. The castle mentioned in the succeeding lines has “perished ’mid the wreck of things that were.”
[93] Guy and Colebrand.
[94] Where David king of the Scots was kept prisoner.
[95] Which is within the Castle.
[96] Every part of Corbet’s account of Nottingham Castle corresponds so closely with the relation of Leyland, in his Itinerary, vol. iii. p. 105, &c., that it would be superfluous to transcribe it. See also Speed’s Chronicle, p. 540; and Holinshed’s Chronicle, p. 349.
[97] In Nottinghame.