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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
page 1 note 1 This and the subsequent memoranda up to fo. 5 have been apparently jotted down at odd times upon the fly-leaves of the little book in which what is more properly called the Diary was written.
page 1 note 2 The Queen here mentioned was of course Queen Elizabeth. The writing on this page is in many places so much worn away as to be difficult to decipher.
page 2 note 1 Spenser died Jan. 16, 1598–9.
page 2 note 2 Dr. Henry Parry was at this time a prebendary of York. He was afterwards successively Dean of Chester, and Bishop of Gloucester, and Worcester, and died 12 Dec. 1616. (Hardy's Le Neve, i. 439; iii. 66,177, 264.)
page 2 note 3 The word “lustre” is interlined above “splendor,” as another suggested reading in place of the latter word.
page 2 note 4 Chancel or chantry?
page 3 note 1 Pepys mentions on two occasions a gallery at Whitehall called the Shield Gallery (Diary, i. 105,133), and Hentzner enumerates among things worthy of observation in that spacious and memorable palace, “Variety of emblems on paper, cut in the shape of shields, with mottes, used by the nobility at tilts and tournaments, hung up here for a memorial.” Journey into England, p. 29, ed. 1757.
page 5 note 1 This was Palm Sunday.
page 5 note 2 Sic, but qw. “without.”
page 6 note 1 St. Clement Danes in the Strand.
page 6 note 2 The rector at this time was Dr. John Layfield, of Trin. Coll. Cambridge, one of the revisers of the translation of the Bible temp. James I. and one of the first fellows of Chelsea College. Newoourt's Repertorium, i. 572.
page 6 note 3 In the MS. this word stands “is.”
page 7 note 1 Written by Thomas Floyd; published Lond. 1600, 12mo.
page 7 note 2 Dr. Thomas Mountford was a prebendary of Westminster from 1585 to 1631–2. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 350.)
page 8 note 4 Originally written “Emperour” and afterwards “great person.” When the word “Emperour” was altered, the writer omitted to correct the preceding article.
page 8 note 2 The celebrated Andrew Downes, appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1595. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 660.)
page 10 note 1 Monoux or Munoux ?
page 11 note 1 Dr. Rowland Searchfield, Bishop of Bristol from 1619 to 1622. (Wood's Atheæ, ii. 861.)
page 12 note 1 The cousin alluded to, and frequently vouched as an authority by the Diarist, was Richard Manningham, esq. of Bradbourne in East Malling, Kent. He survived his wife, who is mentioned in this page, and died 25th April 1611, set. 72.
page 12 note 2 Cousin Richard Manningham had been a successful merchant in London. Hence the importance evidently attached to his remarks on subjects connected with commerce and foreign countries.
page 13 note 1 This marriage is not mentioned by Dugdale (Bar. ii. 445) nor in Collins (iii. 382, ed. Brydges). Both of them mention only one marriage of Sir Moyle, which was the source of all the importance of his family, namely, with Elizabeth sole daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Heneage. After Sir Moyle's death this lady was created Countess of Winchelsea.
page 13 note 2 These expectations of the growing importance of Mr. Francis Vane were not altogether disappointed. At the coronation of James I. he was made K.B. and on 19th December 1624 was created Baron Burghersh and Earl of Westmoreland. He died in 1628. The Sir Anthony Mildmay here alluded to was of the Mildmays of Apethorp, co. Northampton.
page 14 note 1 It appears in an omitted passage that, besides the physician Gellibrand, there was another of the same family, who is mentioned as Th. Gellibrand.
page 14 note 2 Live, MS.
page 14 note 3 i. e. rabbits.
page 14 note 4 My cosen, shee, MS.
page 16 note 1 The “Hide” here mentioned was probably the future Sir Lawrence, elder brother of Sir Nicholas the future Lord Chief Justice, and uncle to Lord Chancellor Clarendon. (Foss's Judges, vi. 335.) Tanfield was the future Lord Chief Baron, whose only daughter was mother to Lucius Lord Falkland. (Ibid. 365.)
page 16 note 2 Dugdale remarks that the first Paget who “arrived to the dignity of Peerage” was son to “——Paget, one of the Serjeants at Mace in the City of London.” (Bar. ii. 390.) Sir Thomas White was of course the founder of St. John's college, Oxford.
page 16 note 3 Richard Tarlton, the celebrated low comedian and Joe Miller of his day.
page 17 note 1 We have retained these trifling entries solely on account of the name appended to them. The unfortunate Sir Thomas Overbury, who was son of a gentleman of Gloucestershire, having taken his B.A. degree at Queen's College, Oxford, removed in 1598 to the Middle Temple.
page 18 note 1 Herbert Weatfaling, Bishop of Hereford (1585–1602) had a daughter Margaret who may have been the lady here alluded to, although at this time married to Dr. Richard Eedes, Dean of Worcester. (Wood's Athenæ, i. 720, 750.) Like many of these trifles, it will be observed that the anagrammatic reading is incomplete.
page 18 note 2 It seems from remarks of Mr. Hunter, in his Illustrations of Shakspeare, i. 391, that the Italian play here alluded to was not one of those termed the Inganni, of which there are several, but the Ingannati, which, like the Taming of the Shrew, is a play preceded by a dramatic prologue or induction, entitled Comedia del Sacrificio di gli Intronati. There is no separate title-page to the Ingannati, but there are several editions of the Sacrificio di gli Intronati, in which the Ingannati is introduced, printed at Venice in 1537, 1550f and several subsequent years.
page 19 note 1 Thomas Rateliffe, third Earl of Sussex (1556–1583.) The reader of Kenilworth will need no further illustration than a reference to those attractive pages.
page 19 note 2 Bishop, afterwards Archbishop, Bancroft.
page 20 note 1 Probably Mr. William Sedley of the Friars in Aylesford, afterwards the first Baronet of this family. His lady, here alluded to, was Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Stephen Darell of Spelmonden, and widow of Henry Lord Abergavenny, ob. 1587. Hasted, ii. 170, ed. 1782.
page 20 note 2 Wrothani?
page 20 note 3 Qu. John afterwards the second Baronet ?
page 21 note 1 “A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions concerning Religion and State: wherein the author, framing himself a Quilibet to every Quodlibet, decides an hundred crosse Interrogatorie doubts, about the generall contentions betwixt the Seminarie priests and Jesuites at this present.” 4to. n. p. 1602.
page 21 note 2 There are in Watson's book other arguments numbered 4 and 5, but probably the Diarist did not think them worthy of note. Watson's remarks are not so much arguments in favour of toleration abstractedly considered, as reasons why it would not answer the purpose of Father Parsons and the Jesuits to support its introduction into England.
page 21 note 3 Henry Clinton, the second Earl of Lincoln of that family, succeeded to the title in 1585, as heir to his father the Lord High Admiral, and held it till his death in 1616.
page 22 note 1 Sir Gervase Clifton, a man of great wealth and power in Nottinghamshire, was created a peer in 1608. In 1618 he died by an act of the same hand which had so gallantly defended his son from the bear. His title of Lord Clifton is now united to that of Earl of Darnley.
page 23 note 1 Warden of the Mint.
page 23 note 2 In the parish of Smeeth. The Scotts of Scotts Hall were originally seated at Bradbourne.
page 24 note 1 Judge in the Court of Common Pleas, 1604–1610.
page 25 note 1 Edward, son of the Protector Somerset, Earl of Hertford from 1559 to 1619, the same who married Lady Catherine Grey. The lady here alluded to, Frances daughter of Thomas first Viscount Howard of Bindon, became ultimately the celebrated Duchess of Richmond and Lennox of the reigns of James I. and Charles I.
page 25 note 2 Dr. James Montague, first master of Sidney Sussex College, editor of King James's Works, and subsequently Bishop successively of Bath and Wells and of Winchester.
page 26 note 1 others, in MS.
page 30 note 1 Dr. Lancelot Andrewes was Dean from 1601 to 1605, when appointed Bishop of Chichester. He was afterwards translated, first to Ely, and afterwards to Winchester. This sermon was preached on Whitsunday.
page 35 note 1 Dr. Alexander Nowell, died 13th Feb. 1601–2; Dr. John Overall was elected 29th May 1602. (Hardy's Le Neve, ii. 315.)
page 35 note 2 This epigram was a great favourite with our forefathers, and consequently there are many tranlations of it. Mr. Collier, in his Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature (i. 223), gives two examples, one by D. T. an author whose name is not yet discovered, and the other by Ben Jonson, printed from his own MS. at Dulwich. We have not been able to identify TH. SM. with any certainty.
page 36 note 1 Sir James Dyer, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1559 to 1582. He was of the Middle Temple, the Inn of Court to which our Diarist belonged. (Foss's Judges, v. 480.)
page 36 note 2 Egerton, Lord Keeper from 1594 to 1603. Sergeant Hele was one of the legal butts of the time. (See Foss's Judges, vi. 141; Egerton Papers, pp. 315,391 399.)
page 37 note 1 doubt it, MS.
page 38 note 1 There is a chronological confusion, either of the writer or the bookbinder, in this and subsequent entries. Having in vain endeavoured to unravel it, we have thought it better to follow the manuscript as it stands.
page 38 note 2 Subsequently President of St, John's, Oxford, and occupant in succession of several episcopal sees. He died Bishop of Ely in 1631.
page 38 note 3 “ashamed” is interlined in the MS, above “afeard.”
page 40 note 1 Fleetwood, like the Diarist, was of the Middle Temple. Many of hia curious letters Were published by Sir Henry Ellis (Orig. Letters, 1st Ser. vol. ii.)
page 40 note 2 The Lord Chief Justice from 1635 to 1612, whose Autobiography was published by the Camden Society.
page 41 note 1 Sir Roger Manwood was a Justice of the Common Pleas 1572 to 1578, and Lord Chief Baron from 1578 to 1593. Sir Edmund Anderson was Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1582 to 1603. (Foss's Judges, v. 516 ; vi. 51.)
page 41 note 2 Edward Curle, who is so frequently mentioned in other parts of the Diary. At this time he was keeping his terms in the Middle Temple preparatory to being called to the bar. He had been admitted of the Inn, specialiter, on the 29th Nov. 1594. The Diarist subsequently married Curle's sister Anne.
page 41 note 3 William Curle of Hatfield, one of the Auditors of the Court of Wards.
page 43 note 1 Created Earl of Northampton in 1604–5, died 1614.
page 45 note 1 much in MS.
page 45 note 2 Sir Christopher Wray was a puisne Judge of the Queen's Bench from 1572 to 1574, and Lord Chief Justice of that court from that time to 1592. (Foss's Judges, v. 546.)
page 46 note 1 Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke of that family, died 19 Jan. 1600–1. His successor in the Presidency of Wales here alluded to was Edward the last Lord Zouche of Haryngworth, before the abeyance was determined in 1815.
page 47 note 1 it, in MS.
page 49 note 1 This “Mr. Oliver Cromwell” was in truth, according to other writers who have mentioned him, Sir Oliver Cromwell, stated to have been knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1598, created K.B. at the coronation of King James, and uncle to his namesake the future Protector. An ancestor of his in the reign of Henry VIII. is described by Mr Carlyle as “a vehement, swift-riding man.” (Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, i. 42, ed. 1846.) Sir Oliver seems to have inherited some of the ancestral qualities.
page 49 note 2 Translated from Worcester 1597; died 1616.
page 49 note 3 Widow of Secretary Walsingham.
page 49 note 4 Dr. Arthur Yildard died 1st Feb. 1598. Dr. Ralph Kettell “was nominated and admitted by Thomas Bilson, Bishop of Winchester, 12th Feb. 1598.” (Hardy's LeNeve, iii. 572.)
page 49 note 5 “Lady Poliuizena” was Anne dau. of Giles Hoofman or Hooftman, of Antwerp, mentioned in p. 51, and widow of Sir Horatio Palavicini, a well known native of Genoa settled at Baberham, in co. Cambridge. Sir Horatio died 6th July 1600 : his lady, fulfilling the customary obligations of her widowhood to the very letter, was married to Sir Oliver on the 7th July 1601. Sir Henry Cromwell who is mentioned in this paragraph was the Golden Knight ; father of Sir Oliver and grandfather of the Protector. He died in January 1603–4. In the April before his death, Sir Oliver, being in possession of his father's lands under the arrangement mentioned in this paragraph, received King James at Hinchinbrooke on his way from Scotland to take possession of the throne. There is no mention of Sir Henry having been present on that occasion.
page 50 note 1 The young gentleman here alluded to, who was just twenty years of age, was Dudley the third Lord North, who succeeded to that title on the death of his grandfather, the second Baron, on 3rd Dec. 1600. Dugdale informs us that the lady alluded to was Frances daughter of Sir John Brockett of Brockett Hall, co. Hertford, and that there was issue of the marriage four sons and two daughters. Lord North himself died on the 6th Jan. 1666–7, being then 85 years of age. (Baronage, ii. 394.)
page 50 note 2 Blank in orig.
page 51 note 1 Sir Henry Cromwell's first wife was Jane daughter of Sir Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London in 1536 and 1544. Sir Ralph had an only son named Richard, who was seated at Claybury, Essex. This was the uncle Warren here alluded to. On his death Lady Cromwell was his heir, and upon her decease uncle Warren's lands would descend to Sir Oliver.
page 52 note 1 So in MS.
page 52 note 2 Not Dean, but Chancellor. He was collated in 1547, deprived during the reign of Queen Mary, but restored shortly after the accession of Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1571. (Hardy's Le Neve, ii. 651, 652.)
page 52 note 3 Evidently his cousin's wife.
page 53 note 1 for in MS.
page 54 note 1 Dr. John Spenser, fellow-student with Hooker at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and president of that college from 1607 to 1614. Wood states (Ath. Oxon. ii. 145) that he was “a noted preacher and a chaplain to King James I.” It was to him that upon Hooker's death his MSS. were delivered over for completion of the Ecclesiastical Polity. The sermon of which Manningham took such copious notes was printed in 1615, after Dr. Spenser's death, under the editorship of Hamlet Marshall, his curate. The author of the Christian Year speaks of it as “full of eloquence and striking thoughts ; the theological matter almost entirely, and sometimes the very wordes, being taken from those parts of Hooker in which he treats of the visible church.” (Hooker's Works, ed. Keble, i. xxiii.)
page 55 note 1 “here Naked” is interlined in the MS. as another reading.
page 58 note 1 Sir Edmund Anderson; 1582–1605.
page 59 note 1 Mr. Justice Thomas Walmesley, puisne Judge of the Common Pleas 1589–1611. (Foss's Judges, vi. 191.)
page 59 note 2 Blank in MS.
page 59 note 3 Richard of Kinsale, the fourth Earl, 1601–1635.
page 59 note 4 Thomas, the tenth Earl, 1546–1614. The young lady here mentioned, who was the Earl's only child, was ultimately married, through the influence of King James I. to Sir Richard Preston, subsequently created Earl of Desmond.
page 60 note 1 Antony Wood tells several strange tales about Nicholas Hill, who was one of the astrologers and alchemists whom the Earl of Northumberland gathered round him during his long imprisonment in the Tower. Ben Jonson laughed at
“those atomi ridiculous,
Whereof old Democrite and Hill Nicholas,
One said, the other swore, the world consists ;”
and the world at large seems to have entertained a very mean opinion of the modern upholder of those doctrines. His end, according to a hearsay commemorated by Wood, was very unhappy, and was connected with the other person mentioned in our text. It is said that he fell into a conspiracy with “one Hill of Umberley in Devonshire, descended from Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, a natural son of King Edward IV., who pretended some right to the crown.” Being forced to fly into Holland, Hill practised physic at Rotterdam, in conjunction with his son Laurence, on whose death he went into an apothecary's shop, swallowed poison, and died on the spot. (Ath. Oxon. ii. 86.)
page 60 note 2 Capt. Edmund Whitelocke, a brother of Sir James Whitelocke, father of Bulstrode Whitelocke. The Captain was one of the gayest and wildest of men, a great traveller, “well seen in the tongues,” “extreme prodigal,” a fellow of infinite merriment, and suspected of being concerned in half the plots and duels of his day. He was in trouble with the Earl of Essex, and again about the Powder Plot, and probably knew familiarly all the prisons in the metropolis. He died about six years after the time with which our Diarist is dealing, at Newhall, in Essex, the seat of his friend the Earl of Sussex. The Earl attended his funeral, and laid him honourably in the chapel of the Ratcliffes. See Liber Famelicus of Sir James Whitelocke, {Camden Society,) pp. iv. 10. The Earl of Sussex here alluded to was Robert the fifth Earl of the family of the Radcliffes, 1593–1629.
page 61 note 1 Bridget, daughter of Sir Charles Morison of Cashiobury, Herts. She was aunt to the wife of the celebrated Lord Falkland.
page 61 note 2 Lord Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham.
page 61 note 3 These initials, inserted by a later hand, indicate “Samuel Rowlands,” the author of this very popular little volume. The first edition bears date in 1602, and had probably just been published when it attracted the attention of our diarist.
page 62 note 1 This anecdote derives some little vraisemblance from the circumstance that Sir John Doderidge, who was a justice of the King's Bench from 1612 to 1628, was looked upon as a man of a philosophical character of mind, and of very large acquirements. Fuller remarks that it was hard to say whether “he was better artist, divine, civil or common lawyer” (Worthies, i. 282), and Croke, that he was “a man of great knowledge as well in common law as in other human sciences and divinity.” (Reports, Car. 127, cited in Foss's Judges, vi. 309.)
page 63 note 1 These initials are by a more recent hand. The lines do not appear in the published works of Ben Jonson.
page 63 note 2 The lady alluded to was Anne Carew, daughter of a merchant of Bristol and widow of a person named Ball. She had a considerable fortune.
page 64 note 1 Dr. John King, styled by King James the King of Preachers. Queen Elizabeth presented him in 1597 to the rectory of St. Andrew's in Holborn, and to a prebend in St. Paul's in 1599. He was Bishop of London from 1611 to 1621. (Neweourt's Repert. i. 211, 275 ; Hardy's Le Neve, ii. 303.
page 72 note 1 Afterwards Sir John Croke, Recorder of London from 1595 to 1603, Speaker of the House of Commons in 1601, and a Judge of the King's Bench under James I. (Foss's Judges, vi. 130.)
page 73 note 1 Sir John Garrett or Garrard.
page 73 note 2 Thomas Sackville, poet and statesman ; Lord Buckhurst, 1567–1604, Earl of Dorset, 1604–1608, and Lord Treasurer, 1599–1608.
page 77 note 1 Qu. Thomas Cartwright, the leader of the Puritans. He was at this time master of a hospital at Warwick, where he died in 1603.
page 78 note 1 Richard Hadsor, of the Middle Temple, occurs frequently among the State Papers of James I. and Charles I. as a person in communication with the government on Irish affairs. We shall find further particulars respecting him hereafter.
page 78 note 2 Probably Edmund Plowden, the author of the Reports, whose connection with tho Middle Temple is commemorated by a range of buildings which bears his name.
page 79 note 1 He was of Christ Church. The occasion alluded to was perhaps on his proceeding D.D., which he did in this year, 1602. Wood says that he had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edward Coke would often say of him that he was the best speaker in the Star Chamber in his time. (Ath. Oxon. ii. 295.)
page 79 note 2 Henry, the ninth Earl of Northumberland, known as the Wizard Earl, and remembered for his fifteen years' imprisonment in the Tower. His wife was Dorothy, daughter of Walter Devereux, the first Earl of Essex of that family, and widow of Sir Thomas Perrott. The child here alluded to must have been Algernon, the tenth Earl, who is stated by Collins to have been baptised on the 13th Oct. 1602. (Peerage, ed. Brydges, ii. 346.)
page 80 note 1 Dr. William Redman, Bishop from 1594 until his death on 25th Sept. 1602. (Hardy's Le Neve, ii. 470.)
page 80 note 2 Blank in MS.
page 80 note 3 William Perkins, of Christ Church, Cambridge, and minister of St. Andrew's in that town; the well-known Calvinistic divine.
page 81 note 1 Robert Lord Rich, Lord Chancellor from 1547 to 1551.
page 83 note 1 We have here ventured to omit seven pages of extracts from an academical oration by Thomas Stapleton the controversialist, “An Polilici horum temporum in numero Christianorum sint habendi,” printed among his works.
page 84 note 1 See page 60.
page 86 note 1 “Cock-crown. Poor pottage. North.” Halliwell, Arch. Dict. i. 260.
page 86 note 2 Perhaps grandson, son to Sir John Egerton, the Lord Keeper's eldest son and successor. Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper's eldest son, died in Ireland in 1599. It may be doubtful whether the “Tho.” in the MS. was not intended to be erased.
page 91 note 1 1578–1603. (Foss's Judges, v. 516.)
page 92 note 1 The title of the book is “The Plea of the Innocent: wherein is averred That the Ministers and People falslie termed Puritanes are iniuriouslie slaundered for enemies or troublers of the State.” 12mo. 1602. The author, Josias Nichols, was instituted to the rectory of Eastwell in 1580, deprived 1603, but buried there May 16,1639. Hasted's Kent, fol. edit. iii. 203.
page 98 note 1 There were two contemporary Judges of this name, but this was probably the one who was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1559 to 1574. (Foss, v. 471.)
page 99 note 1 We have not found any other trace of this “little book.” It was probably a work of one of the celebrated French Protestants of the name of Cappel. {La France Protestante,iii.198.)
page 99 note 2 Donne the poet. His marriage to the Lord Keeper's wife's niece, the daughter of Sir George More, is a well-known circumstance in his history,
page 100 note 1 The mention of this “device” enables us to correct a little mistake of the otherwise ost careful and accurate editor of Chamberlain's Letters, temp. Elizabeth, (Camden Soc.) p. 169. The “device” was not the composition of John Davies of Hereford, but of John Davies, the future Sir John, author of the poem on the Immortality of the Soul.
page 101 note 1 There is here a superfluous repetition of “glad like a glad as” in the MS.
page 103 note 1 “Ætatis suœ 77,1603.” This now rare engraving was carefully copied by John Swaine, and republished in the Gentleman's Magazine for Jan. 1837.
page 103 note 2 Dr. William Smith, master of Clare Hall from 1598 to 1612, when he became Provost of King's College. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 671, 683.)
page 103 note 3 Dr. Thomas Playfere of St. John's College was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity rom 1596 to 1609, (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 654.)
page 104 note 1 “His funeral was solemnly and sumptuously performed at the sole charges of Christe College, which challenged, as she gave him his breeding, to pay for his burial ; the Vniversity and Town lovingly contending which should express more sorrow thereat. Dr. Montague, afterwards Bishop of Winchester, preached his funeral sermon, and excellently discharged the place, taking for his text, Moses my servant is dead.” This is Fuller's description of the honourable way in which Perkins was brought to his grave. (Holy State, ed. 1840, p. 71.) Whitaker died in 1595, and was buried in St. John's College, where of he was master. (Ibid. p. 53.)
page 104 note 2 Doubt has existed whether Pym the statesman was a member of one of the Inns of Court. The allusion to him in our text has led to inquiries which have enabled us to place this point beyond a question. J. E. Martin, Esq. Librarian of the Inner Temple, has sent us an extract from the books of the Middle Temple, which proves that “Mr. Johannes Pym, filius et heres Alexandri Pym nuper de Brymour in comitatu Somerset, ar. defuncti,” was admitted “generaliter” into the Society of the Middle Temple on the 23rd of April 1602. His relation Mr. Francis Rowse and Mr. William Whitaker were his sureties, “et dat pro fine ad requisicionem Mri Gybbes, unius Magistrorum de Banco hujus hospicii, nisi, xx8.”
page 107 note 1 Dr. Martin Culpeper, warden 1573 to 1599. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 555.)
page 109 note 1 Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, 1595–1606. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 115.)
page 116 note 1 Lob, a clown, a clumsy fellow. (Halliwell's Archaic Dict.)
page 116 note 2 Clunch, a clod-hopper. (Halliwell.)
page 116 note 3 This word in the MS. is somewhat blotted and in consequence doubtful. The “forel” was the cloth or canvas covering in which it was at one time customary to wrap up a book; see Prompt. Parvulorum, p. 171. Mr. Way there gives a quotation from Horman, who says “I hadde Ieuer haue my boke sowed in a forel than bounde in bourdis.”
page 116 note 4 Camden prints these lines in his Remaines (ed. 1637, p. 194) and assigns them to the reign of Edward III. They have since been quoted in many places, and frequently assigned to the Scots, although Camden does not give them that origin.
page 117 note 1 Justice of the Common Pleas, 1598–1600. (Foss's Judges, v. 494.)
page 118 note 1 The poem from which the following lines were extracted remained unpublished for two centuries after the time of our Diarist. It was written in the style of the Mirror for Magistrates, and was clearly intended for insertion in some subsequent edition of that popular work, but there were obvious reasons connected with its subject-matter which would operate against its publication in the reign of Elizabeth and in that of her successor, and after that time the Mirror had fallen out of fashion, another style of poetry had come into vogue, Queen Mary and her sorrows had lost for a time their hold upon the public mind, and the Tragicall History was consequently entirely lost sight of. In 1810 it was found by Mr. John Fry in a manuscript belonging to a gentleman named Fryer, and was published by Mr. Fry in a volume entitled “The Legend of Mary Queen of Scots and other ancient Poems, now first published from MSS. of the 16th century.” (Lond. 8vo.) At the end of the principal poem there occurs in Mr. Fryer's MS. the date of the 10th July 1601, with the name of the supposed and, in all probability, the real author, Thomas Wenman. He is thought to be the person of those names who contributed one of the commendatory poems prefixed to the second part of Browne's Britannia's Pastorals, published in 1616. Wenman was of the Inner Temple. He was Public Orator of the University of Oxford from 1594 to 1597 (Wood's Athenæ), ii. 365. Fasti, i. 251. Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 534,) and, as may be gathered from Mr. Fryer's MS., was a Roman Catholic. We doubted whether the extracts given by our Diarist should be printed, the whole poem having been included in the volume edited by Mr. Fry, but after consideration we have come to the conclusion that it was best to do so: 1, Because Mr. Fry's impression was an extremely small one, and the poem is consequently very little known, even to poetical antiquaries; and 2, Because many of the lines here quoted supply other readings, and in many cases correct obvious misreadings, in the edition of Mr. Fry. The tenour of the writer's opinions upon the moot points of Queen Mary's history may be gathered even from our Diarist's disjointed extracts. The numbers added in the margin within brackets refer to the stanzas of the poem as printed by Mr. Fry.
page 120 note 1 This is given by Manningham as the substance of stanzas 34 to 40.
page 121 note 1 Manningham's abstract of stanzas 48 to 66.
page 121 note 2 Abstract of stanzas 83 and 84.
page 122 note 1 Abstract of stanzas 102 to 117. The numbers in this and the following page are printed as in the MS.
page 123 note 1 This line does not occur in Mr. Fry's publication.
page 124 note 1 Note of Manningham on a phrase in stanza 160.
page 125 note 1 184, Fry.
page 126 note 1 179, Fry.
page 126 note 2 181, Fry.
page 126 note 3 We have omitted here the mottoes in a Lottery, drawn upon the occasion of a visit paid by Queen Elizabeth to Lord Keeper Egerton, which have been printed already by the Percy and Shakespeare Societies and in Nichols's Progresses.
page 126 note 4 Dr. George Abbot, Dean of Winchester, from 1599–1600 to 1609, when he was appointed Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and in 1611 translated to the see of Canterbury. (Hardy's Le Neve, i. 26, 556, iii. 22.)
page 126 note 5 Blank in original.
page 128 note 1 Napier of Merchiston, the inventor of Logarithms. His work entitled “A plain Discovery of the whole Revelation of St. John” was printed at Edinburgh in 1593, by Waldegrave. It went through many editions and was translated into the principal languages of Europe.
page 130 note 1 It is stated in Heywood's Apology for Actors, that “to this day [1612], in divers places of England there be townes that hold the priviledge of their fairs and other charters by yearly stage-playes, as at Manningtree in Suffolke, Kendall in the North, and others.” (Shakespeare Soc. ed. p. 61.) The Lawless Court of Rochford has been described in various places, especially in Morant's Essex, i. 272, and in Notes and Queries, ix. ll. W. H. Black, Esq. F.S.A. has made it the subject of a privately printed ballad entitled “The Court of the Honor of Rayleigh,” in which it is stated that the parties assemble at a post in a close called the King's Hill, and that whatever is spoken during their proceedings is whispered to the post.
page 130 note 2 Aurelian Townsend is probably here alluded to. He was at one time steward in the household of Sir Robert Cecil.
page 131 note 1 Qu. of concealed lands.
page 132 note 1 The lady pointed at by this anecdote was Anne daughter and heir of John Lord St. John of Bletsoe, married to William Lord Howard of Effingham, eldest son of Charles Earl of Nottingham, on 7th Feb. 1597–8 (Faulkner's Chelsea, ii. 124, where the lady is inaccurately termed “Agneta”). There is mention in Faulkner of the baptism of a daughter Anne on 12th October 1605, but no allusion to the child who is said by our diarist to have come so unceremoniously into the world.
page 135 note 1 Dr. John Still, who had been Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1592 to 1607–8.
page 136 note 1 The celebrated ambassador to France. See the excellent volume of Unton Inventories, edited by Mr. John Gough Nichols, for the Berkshire Ashmolean Society, 4to. 1841.
page 137 note 1 The words here quoted will be found in vol. i. p. 35, of the beautiful edition of the Works of Ludovicus Vives published at Valentia, in 8 vols. 4to. 1782–90. This particular treatise of Vives was a great favourite with our ancestors. Several editions of a translation into English, by Richard Moryson, were published by Berthelet and John Daye.
page 138 note 1 This passage seems to have puzzled our Diarist, who was probably copying from a manuscript. It stands thus in the Spanish edition above mentioned. “Ex bestiis, exitiabiles maxime, inter feras invidia, inter mansuetas adulatio.” (i. 42.)
page 138 note 2 “A just and temperate Defence of the Five Books of Ecclesiastical Polity written by Mr. Richard Hooker, against an uncharitable Letter of certain English Protestants … By Willam Covel, D.D.” Lond. 4to. 1603, reprinted in the Works of Hooker, edited by Hanbury. Lond. 1830, ii. 449.
page 138 note 3 Dr. Thomas Holland, Fellow of Balliol College, and Regius Professor of Divinity from 1589 to. 1611. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 509.)
page 142 note 1 This association was not confined to Amsterdam. A club of profligates under the same name existed in London much about this time, under the captainship of Sir Edmund Baynham, a well-known young roysterer. On the death of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Edmund was committed to prison by the Council for declaring openly that the King of Scotland was a schismatic, and that he would not acknowledge him as King. In 1605 the same gentleman was sent to Rome by the Gunpowder Conspirators that he might be there, as their agent, to communicate with the Pope, after the plot should have taken effect. Garnet helped him on his way to Rome by a letter to the Pope's Nuncio in Flanders. (Jardine's Gunpowder Treason, 58, 318.)
page 143 note 1 Drunken. “They take it generallie as no small disgrace if they happen to be cupshotten.” Harrison's Deso. of England, p. 283, ed. 1807.
page 148 note 1 Persons fond of noticing such coincidences remarked also that Thursday had been a, fatal day to Henry VIII. and the succeeding Tudor sovereigns, he himself, Edward VI. Mary, and Elizabeth having all died on that day. (Stowe's Chronicle, ed. Howes, p. 812.)
page 148 note 2 As printed in the Book of Proclamations (fol. Lond. 1609, p. 1.) there are thirty-seven signatures appended to it, headed, according to ancient custom upon such occasions, by Robert Lee, Maior. The others were Archbishop Whitgift, Lord Keeper Egerton, Lord Treasurer Buckhurst, and the principal nobility, officers of state and of the household then in town. The honourable roll was closed by Sir John Popham, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
page 149 note 1 Aulus Gellius; Noct. Atticæ, i. xiv.
page 154 note 1 The way in which the exuberance of Lord Beauchamp's loyalty occasioned this report will appear in a subsequent entry. This Lord Beauchamp was the father, as our readers will be aware, of the Marquess of Hertford, who was the faithful servant of Charles I., faithful even to death, and after the Restoration was created Duke of Somerset.
page 155 note 1 The particulars of Cary's wonderful ride are related by himself in his Memoirs. “He took horse,” apparently at the lodging of the Knight Marshal at Charing Cross (probably at the old Mews'), “between nine and ten o'clock,” on the morning of Thursday the 24th of March, “and that night rode to Doncaster,” about 160 miles. On Friday night he came to his own house at Widdrington, about another 135 miles. “Very early on Saturday he was again on horseback and reached Norham on the Tweed about noon. This was about 50 more miles, and left only about another 50 miles, “so that,” he saya, “I might well have been with the King at supper time : but I got a great fall by the way, and my horse, with one of his heels, gave me a great blow on the head, that made me shed much blood. It made me so weak that I was forced to ride a soft pace after, so that the King was newly gone to bed by the time that I knocked at the gate” [of Holyrood House.] (Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth, ed. Edinb. 1808. pp. 126–128.
page 157 note 1 Dr. Ralph Some, Master of Peter House, Cambridge, elected 1589. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 668.)
page 158 note 1 Epist. lib. i. 41.
page 159 note 1 The curious admixture of fact and fiction in our Diarist's memoranda relating to Sir Robert Cary will be observed by every one who turns to his Memoirs before referred to. The principal fact in this entry is that James was foolish enough to reward the bringer of good tidings with an appointment as gentleman of his bed-chamber. The thing was so silly, and so much in the nature of an affront to the English Council, that the overdelighted monarch was obliged to withdraw the appointment, much to Cary's annoyance. (Cary's Memoirs, ed. 1808, p. 132.)
page 159 note 2 One of the reasons alleged in this proclamation for restraining that “earnest and longing desire in all his majesties subiects to enioy the sight of his royall person and presence” which had induced “very many of good degree and quality to hasten and take their iourneys unto his highnesse,” was that the country whither such “over-much resort and concourse” was made, being “over-charged with multitude, scarcity and dearth was like ynough to proceed.” (Book of Procs. fol. 1609, p. 5.) His Majesty left Edinburgh on the 5th April, the day on which this proclamation was published at Whitehall, and entered Berwick the day following.
page 160 note 1 See it printed in Stowe's Annales, ed. Howes, p. 818.
page 165 note 1 See Book of Proclamations, fol. Lond. 1609, p. 6.
page 166 note 1 Dr. Giles Thompson appointed 25th February 1602–8, elected Bishop of Gloucester in 1611, and held the Deanery in commendam, until his death on 14 June 1612. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 374.)
page 167 note 1 Dr. Martin Heton, Bishop from 1598 to 1609. (Hardy's Le Neve, i. 343.)
page 168 note 1 Sir John Davies ; he was of the Middle Temple, but was expelled for some quarrelsome misconduct. As Attorney-General of Ireland he obtained great favour at Court, and would have been appointed an English Judge, but for his sudden death. He is now principally known by his poem on the Immortality of the Soul. In a passage in this Diary which we have omitted on account of its grossness, he is described as extremely awkward in his gait; waddling in most ungainly fashion and walking as if he carried a cloak-bag behind him.
page 168 note 2 Lady Barbara Ruthven, the sister of the Earl of Gowrie, mentioned at p. 156.
page 169 note 1 Bishop Bancroft from 1597 to 1604, when he was translated to the see of Canterbury. (Hardy's Le Neve, ii. 302.)
page 169 note 2 We have here omitted several pages of extracts from Sir John Hayward's Treatise on the Succession in reply to Father Parsons, a book of great interest in its day. It is now easily accessible to those who desire to refer to it. It was published Lond. 1603, 4to.
page 169 note 3 The future Sir Henry, Editor of Chrysostotn, and Provost of Eton.
page 170 note 1 Dr. Matthew Hutton, Bishop from 1595 to 1606, when he was translated to York. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 295.) The opposition alluded to was probably connected with Border quarrels.
page 170 note 2 Sir Edward Bruce, Lord Bruce of Kinloss, who came to England with the Earl of Mar in 1601, ostensibly on a visit of congratulation to Queen Elizabeth, but really to effect an understanding with Sir Robert Cecil, and pave the way, which he did most successfully, for his master's succession. He was appointed Master of the Rolls in 1604, and lies buried in the Rolls Chapel.
page 170 note 3 The future Earl of Northampton.
page 171 note 1 Raleigh on his trial alludes incidentally to Sir Amias Preston's challenge. Speaking of a book against the title of King James to succeed Elizabeth, which Cobham had stated that “he had” from Raleigh,— “I never gave it him,” answered Raleigh, “he took it off my table. For I remember a little before that time I received a challenge from Sir Amias Preston, and, for that I did intend to answer it, I resolved to leave my estate settled, therefore laid out all my loose papers, amongst which was this book.” (State Trials, ii. 21.) As to the relations between Sir Walter and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, see Archæologia, vol. xxxiii. p. 241.
page 171 note 2 Camden is probably the original authority for this pleasant anecdote :— “qui non alio nomine quam dalcis sororis Temperantiœ nomine salutavit” are the words of his Introduction to the Annales of Elizabeth.