[32] It was acted seven nights. The author’s third night was by command of their royal highnesses. R.
[33] Spence.
[34] Ibid.
[35] Ibid.
[36] Ibid.
[37] To Trinity college. By the university register it appears, that he was admitted to his master’s degree in 1679; we must, therefore, set the year of his birth some years back. H.
[38] We need not remark to any of our readers, but to those who are not Oxford men, that Pullen’s name is now remembered in the university, not as a tutor, but by the venerable elm tree which was the term of his morning walks. “I have the honour to be well known to Mr. Josiah Pullen, of our hall above-mentioned, (Magdalen hall,) and attribute the florid old age I now enjoy to my constant morning walks up Headington lull, in his cheerful company.” Guardian, No. 2. Ed.
[39] The vicarage of Willoughby, which he resigned in 1708. N.
[40] This preferment was given him by the duke of Beaufort. N.
[41] Not long after.