[2] Turnbull again misprints in line 3 'But' for 'Best,' once more making nonsense.
[3] Edition of 1834, p. 295; of 1839, vol. i. p. 301. Turnbull adds not one iota to our knowledge, and repeats all Willmott's erroneous dates, &c.
[4] The present eminent Head of 'Charterhouse,' Dr. Haig-Brown, strove to find earlier documents in vain for me.
[5] As before, vol. ii. p. 302.
[6] I feel disposed to think that it must have been some other Richard Crashaw, albeit attendance at both Universities was not uncommon. Wood's words are, that he was 'incorporated' in 1641 at Oxford; and his authority 'the private observation of a certain Master of Arts, that was this year living in the University;' and he adds, 'afterwards he was Master of Arts, in which degree it is probable he was incorporated' (Fasti, s. n.).
[7] I owe very hearty thanks to my good friend Mr. W. Aldis Wright, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, and to the Masters and other authorities of Pembroke and Peterhouse, for unfailing attention to my inquiries and the most zealous aid throughout.
[8] My 'document' was an extract from an old Register of the Church. I lent it to the late Mr. Robert Bell (who intended to include Crashaw in his 'Poets'), and somehow it got astray. My priest-correspondent at Loretto was dead when I applied for another copy, and the Register has disappeared. Of the fact, however, that Crashaw died in 1650 there can be no doubt.
[9] Life of Cowley, in Lives of the Poets.
[10] Works, vol. i. (1707) pp. 44-7. Line 3 by a strange oversight is misprinted in all the editions I have seen 'The hard, and rarest....' I accept Willmott's correction.
[11] Query, the legal term 'seized' = taken possession of? So Vaughan, Silurist,