[218] The Pacification of Berwick took place in June, 1639.
[219] Tobacco-pipefuls; but no doubt a pun was intended. For Bermudas tobacco Nares quotes from Clitus's Whimz., p. 135, "Where being furnished with tinder, match, and a portion of decayed Bermoodus they smoke it most terribly."
[220] Our forefathers esteemed the March brewing; we the October.
[221] To "build a sconce" means, I suppose, to fix a candle in a candle-stick.
[222] This speech of Sir Richard's is very much in Shirley's style: cf. Lady of Pleasure (I. 1).
[223] Galley-foist was the name given to long many-oared barges, particularly the Lord Mayor's barge of state. Foist is also a term for a sharper; and gallifoist was intended to be pronounced here gullifoist.
[224] An account of the way to play Gleek is given in the Compleat Gamester, 1674.
[225] Ambergrease was not uncommonly used for culinary purposes.
[226] Father-in-law is often used by old writers for step-father. Perhaps "by a" is a correction for "to a."
[227] Title, mark of distinction (Hamlet, I. 4, &c.).