NOTES

Page 3. Master William Cecil.-Afterwards Lord Burghley; born 1520; Secretary of State to Edward VI., 5th September, 1550; knighted, October, 1551; resigned office, June, 1553; Secretary of State to Elizabeth, 20th November, 1558; Baron of Burghley, 25th February, 1571; Lord High Treasurer, July, 1572; died, 4th August, 1598.

Ibid. Ralph Robinson.-Born, 1521; a schoolfellow of Cecil; entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, at the age of 15; was a liveryman of the Goldsmiths' Company, and a clerk in Cecil's service. He applied "for some place to relieve his poverty" to Cecil, in 1572.

Ibid. Upon a time.-The story comes from Lucian.

Page 8. Schoolfellows together.-At Grantham and Stamford Grammar Schools.

Page 13. Such pains.-As far as one can see, very few changes indeed have been made, except by the printer, who seems to have followed in the second edition the rule of altering "i" into "y" and "y" into "i." We shall note the few relatively important changes.

Page 15. Peter Giles.-Born at Antwerp, c., 1486; a pupil of Erasmus; Town Clerk of Antwerp, 1510; died, 1533.

Page 17. Almost half the lifetime of man. More used to rise at two in the morning after four or five hours' sleep.

Page 18. John Clement. Married More's adopted daughter. Reader of Greek at Oxford, 1519; Member of the College of Physicians; died at Mechlin, 1572.

Page 19. Rather be good than wise.—The text has "be good than wise rather;" 2nd ed. "rather be good than wily."

Ibid. Devout . . . professor of divinity.-2nd ed. "virtuous."

The 1624 ed. suggests Rowland Phillips, vicar of Croydon, who is said to have foretold that "the introduction of printing would be the bane of the Roman Catholic religion."—(Lupton.)

Page 20. High Bishop.-This is the rendering of the 2nd ed. In the first Robinson uses bishop for Pontifex here, and Episcopus

in the next line.

Page 21. Prevent him.-Anticipate him. In this page we follow the 2nd ed. in three places where it is necessary to represent the original.

Page 22.

Narrow between the shoulders.-Straitlaced. The first ed. has "in" for "between."

Ibid. Ear of an honest man. This should be "hair." The allusion is to a grip in wrestling.

Page 25. Jerome Buslyde.-This letter of Giles does not appear in Robinson's 1st ed. Busleyden, or Buslyde was a Canon of Brussels, Mechlin, and Cambray; a Councillor of Charles; and a benefactor of the University of Louvain. Aire is now in France.