[4] Every one knows the gradations of vis, visit, and visitation; vis inertiæ, therefore, signifies an idle visit.

[5] Stipula. Hence the term stipulation.

[6] The ceremony was rarely, if ever, used in the reign of Tiberius.

[7] This was the customary response, signifying, “Where you are the master I shall be mistress.”

[8] The greater part of the satire here alluded to was retrenched in our Second Edition.

[9] In Petty Cury, Cambridge.

[10] Pattison.

[11] Bulwer—afterwards Lord Lytton.

[12] Stapleton.

[13] Ryland of St. John’s.