[7] The old form of guests.
[8] The word fairing (i.e. a present brought home from a fair) is explained by the fact that Beech was murdered on Bartholomew eve ("Tis Friday night besides and Bartholomew eve"). Bartholomew Fair was held the next day.
[9] A famous tavern in Thames Street.
[10] Proposal.
[11] Nares supposed that the expression fear no colours was "probably at first a military expression, to fear no enemy. So Shakespeare derives it [Twelfth Night, i. 5], and, though the passage is comic, it is likely to be right."
[12] "Here on" = hear one.
[13] i.e. what are you doing here so late?
[14] Old ed. "gentleman."
[15] Old ed. "ends."
[16] Mr. Rendle in his interesting account of the Bankside and the Globe Playhouse (appended to Pt. II. of Mr. Furnivall's edition of Harrison's England) says:—"As to the features of the locality we may note that it was intersected in all directions with streams, not shown in the map of the manor, except Utburne, the Outbourne possibly; and that bridges abounded."