Footnote 17: [(return)]
This incident has been made the subject of much criticism to the disparagement of Fox. He, however, gives it as hearsay only, and, though the circumstantial details might not have been reported to him correctly, the substantial fact may be true nevertheless. Fox, too, was personally connected with the family of the Duke of Norfolk (at whose house the scene is said to have occurred), being once tutor in it.—Strype's Annals, pp 110, 368.
Footnote 18: [(return)]
Strype's Annals, p. 242.
Footnote 19: [(return)]
Fox, iii. 459.
Footnote 20: [(return)]
Three Conversions, ii. 215.
Footnote 21: [(return)]
Id. 230.
Footnote 22: [(return)]
Id. ii.81, and Strype's Annals, p. 240.
Footnote 23: [(return)]
Id. ii. 81, and Strype's Annals, p. 336.
Footnote 24: [(return)]
Id. iii. 23.
Footnote 25: [(return)]
We are aware that this rhyme is rather unusual; but we may parody the maxim of Sir Lucius—"When patriotism guides the pen, he must be a brute that would find fault with the rhyme."
Footnote 26: [(return)]
Sir Richard Birnie would never suffer imperial larking to go unpunished.