| [13] | Caffari Annales Genuenses in Muratori’s Italicarum Rerum Scriptores, Tom. VI: Bent’s Genoa; and Dunlop’s History of Fiction, edited by H. Wilson, Vol. I, Supplementary Note on the Sangreal. |
| [14] | ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ of June 23, 1868. |
| [15] | ‘The Schoolmaster,’ by Roger Ascham; Book I. The Schoolmaster was published by his widow, in 1570. |
| [16] | ‘Oh, may my lot grant such a friend who knows The art to crown with bays a poet’s brows, If ever in the coming time my lay Our native kings shall call again to-day, Shall call up Arthur, even in worlds below Preparing wars against the heathen foe; Or tell of that great fellowship renown’d The high-souled heroes of the Table Round, And break, if God his present aid affords, The Saxons’ serried bands with British swords.’ It is curious to note that Milton with all his learning should, like Malory and Caxton, have spoken of the Britons as English, and the Saxons as foreigners—a popular misuse of names which still makes the Lowland Scotch complain if they are called English instead of British, though they are in fact more English than the English in language and in blood. |
| [17] | ‘There be 2 Lordshipps lyenge not very far from Ripon ... Malory hath Hutton Coniers. Thes Lands cam to their Aunciters by two Dowghtars, Heirs generall of that Coniers. Malory hath another place caullyd Highe Studly, a litle from Fountaines.’ Leland’s Itinerary, viii. 2. p. 55. Hearne, 1712. |
| [18] | These two dates are obligingly given me by G. W. Tomlinson, Esq., Secretary of the Yorkshire Archæological Society. |
| [19] | Noble’s Spanish Armada List, 1886, p. 42. |
| [20] | Brown’s Genesis of the United States, 1890. Vol. I, p. 211; Vol. II, p. 940. |
| [21] | Burton’s Description of Leicestershire, pp. 140, 262. |
| [22] | Kirby’s Register of the Wardens, Fellows, and Scholars of Winchester, 1888, quoted by Mr. L. Johnson in the Academy, September 20th, 1890. |