Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Lord Herbert

The accomplished, the brave, and romantic Lord Herbert of Cherbury was born in this reign, and laid the foundation of that admirable learning of which he was afterwards a complete master.

Footnotes14

His name was Sir Thomas Falconer.

17 This is not true, for her legitimacy was with good reason contested.

27 This is a mistake; her epitaph says stipendia constituit tribus hoc coenobio monachis et doctori grammatices apud Wynbourne.

29 Sir Giles Dawbney; he was not Earl of Bridgewater, not a Lord.

34 This romantic inscription probably alluded to Philip II., who wooed the Queen after her sister’s death; and to the destruction of his Armada.

36a This probably alluded to the woollen manufacture; Stow mentions his riding through the Cloth Fair on the Eve of St. Bartholomew.

36b The collar of SS.

46 He probably means rushes.

49 Her father had been treated with the same deference. It is mentioned by Foxe in his “Acts and Monuments,” that when the Lord Chancellor went to apprehend Queen Catherine Parr, he spoke to the King on his knees. King James I. suffered his courtiers to omit it.

53 Lord Treasurer Burleigh died August 4, 1598.

56 She was the daughter, sister, and aunt, of Sir William, Henry, and Sir Philip Sidney.

68 This was a strange blunder to be made so near the time, about so remarkable a person, unless he concluded that whoever displeased Henry VIII. was of course put to death.

69 This is a mistake; it was the surcoat of Edward IV., enriched with rubies, and was preserved here till the civil war.

70 This is confounded with the Round Tower.

71 It is not clear what the author means by hypocaustis; I have translated it bathing-rooms; it might mean only chambers with stoves.

73 The original is optici; it is impossible to guess what colour he meant.

76 Here are several mistakes.

84 Those marked with a † are extinct, or forfeited.

91 This is another most inaccurate account: the murderers of Becket were Tracy, Morville, Britton, and Fitzurse.

99 Queen Mary.

101 Viz., Popish.

102 “This is the work of the Lord, and it is wonderful in our sight.”

103 “I have chosen God for my help.”

105 i.e., “I will confine you.”

106 The Irish rebel.

108 al. not.

110 al. horse.

112a al. find

112b al. say.

112c The First.

113a Fathers.

113b During Queen Elizabeth’s reign.

113c Charles I.

115 Burleigh, Leicester, and Walsingham.

116 al. were without.

117a The eldest son.

117b Existing.

117c In which she ruled.

118 Mary.

119 al. amused.

122a Camp.

122b Council.

122c In the first year of Queen Mary.

124a Of his Privy Council.

124b The Duke of Somerset.

126 al. humours.

127a Of which you have an account hereafter in this small pamphlet.

127b In a future state.

127c The art of poisoning.

127d Martial state.

128 Leicester’s.

129 al. supported by.

130a An estate.

130b Under Edward VI.

131a Elizabeth’s.

131b Counsellors.

132 Because notwithstanding many dissented from the Reformed Establishment in many points of doctrine, and still acknowledged the Pope’s infallibility and supremacy, yet they looked not upon these doctrines and discipline to be fundamentals, or without which they could not be saved; and, therefore, continued to assemble and baptise and communicate for the space of ten years in the Reformed Church of England.

133 The Pope.

136 Beginning.

138 Poland.

140a Gondomar, the Spanish Ambassador, amused King James I. with much dissimulation.

140b The traitor, of whom hereafter in this collection.

144 al. had

165 Instability.

166a James I.

166b He dishonourably cut off this good servant’s head, and seized upon his estate.

174 al. blew.

181 As related before, in the account of Secretary William Cecil.

189a Horatio.

189b Elizabeth’s.

191 Willingly.