Footnote 1: [ (return)] See Gentlemen's Magazine, April, 1829.
Footnote 2: [ (return)] See vol. xiii. MIRROR.
Footnote 3: [ (return)] Jane Seymour, or as is sometimes written de Sancto Mauro, eldest daughter of Sir John Seymour, Knight, and Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth, of Nettlestead, in Suffolk was born at her father's seat of Wolf Hall, in Wiltshire. From her great accomplishments, and her father's connexions at court, (he being Governor of Bristol Castle, and Groom of the Chamber to Henry VIII.) she was appointed Maid of Honour to Queen Anne Boleyn, in which situation, her beauty attracted the notice of Henry, who soon found means to gratify his desires, by making her his wife. The family of the Seymours had since the time of Henry II. been keepers of the neighbouring Forest of Savernac, "in memory whereof," says Camden, "their great hunting horn, tipped with silver, is still preserved."
Footnote 4: [ (return)] Herbert, p. 386.
Footnote 5: [ (return)] Fuller's "Worthies."
Footnote 6: [ (return)] "Life and Raigne of K. Edward the Sixth," p. 1.
Footnote 7: [ (return)] Sanders', de Schism Anglic, p. 122.
Footnote 8: [ (return)] "Octobris 12 Regina cum partus difficultate diu luctata, in lucem edidit, qui post patrem regnauit, Edvvardum, sed ex vtero matris excisum cum alterutri, aut parturienti nempe aut partui necessario percundum compertum esset."—"Annales," p. 64.
Footnote 9: [ (return)] "Chronicles," p. 575, edit. 1631.
Footnote 10: [ (return)] Of this letter, which was a circular to the Principal Officers of State, Sheriffs of Counties, &c. four original copies are preserved in the British Museum; three among the Harleian MSS., Nos. 283, and 2131; and one, from which the above is copied, Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x.