F. J. Williams.
24. Mark Lane.
"Merciful Judgments of High Church," &c. (Vol. ix., p. 97.).—The author of this tract, according to the Bodleian Catalogue, was Matthew Tindal.
Ἁλιεύς.
Dublin.
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Vol. ix., p. 105.).—I can refer A. S. to Camden's History of Elizabeth, where, under the year 1588, it related,—
"Neither was the publick joy anything abated by Leicester's death, who about this time, namely, on the 4th day of September, died of a continuall fever upon the way as he went towards Killingworth."
I can also refer him to Sir William Dugdale's Baronage of England, vol. ii. p. 222., where I find it stated that he—
"Design'd to retire unto his castle at Kenilworth. But being on his journey thitherwards, at Cornbury Park in Com. Oxon., he died upon the fourth of September, an. 1588, of a feaver, as 'twas said, and was buried at Warwick, where he hath a noble monument."
But neither in the above writers, nor in any more recent account of his life, have I seen his death ascribed to poison. The ground on which Stanfield Hall has been regarded as the birthplace of Amy Robsart is, that her parents Sir John and Lady Elizabeth Robsart resided at Stanfield Hall in 1546, according to Blomefield in his History of Norfolk, though where he resided at his daughter's birth does not appear.