[23] See Annals of the Reformation, Strype, Oxford, 1824 ed., vol. vii. p. 185. If the reader has any curiosity to see more remarkable proof of the infamy of this man, Topcliffe, he may peruse another letter in Strype, vol. vii. p. 53.
[24] He was afterwards condemned and executed as a traitor.
[25] For this and many other cases see, Martyrs Omitted by Foxe. London. 1872. Compiled by a member of the English Church. With a preface by the Rev. Frederick George Lee, D.C.L., F.S.A., Vicar of All Saints’, Lambeth.
[26] Retrospective Review, vol. iv., 1821, p. 270.
[27] Specimens of the Early English Poets, first edition, vol. ii. p. 166.
[28] Vol. i. p. 644, fourth edition.
[29] Notes of Ben Jonson’s Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, p. 13.
[30] Here are seven of its seventeen stanzas:
Enough, I reckon wealth;
A mean the surest lot,
That lies too high for base contempt,
Too low for envy’s shot.