[98] “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” Proverbs xxviii. ver. 20.
[99] Dr. Jucks.
[100] Mr. Edward Mason.—MS. 1625.
[101] “The 25th of April, 1603, being Thursday, his highnesse (James the First) tooke his way towards New-warke upon Trent, where that night he lodged in the Castle, being his owne house, where the aldermen of New-warke presented his Majestie with a faire gilt cup, manifesting their duties and loving hearts to him; which was kindly received.”
“The true Narration of his Majesty’s Journey from Edenbrough, &c.” 1603.
[102] Leister forrest.
[103] Bosworth field. Edit. 1648.
[104] From this passage we learn that Richard Burbage, the alter Roscius of Camden, was the original representative of Shakespeare’s Richard the Third.
He was buried in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, as Mr. Chalmers discovered, on the 16th of March, 1618-19.
[105] The clerical profligate thus gibbeted for the example of posterity was John Bust, inducted the 8th of April, 1611. He seems to have been a worthy prototype of the Natta of antiquity: