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puede ser. See the Earl of Dorset’s lines on this play, printed in his Works. ↩

See note 2239. ↩

Dinah Dunster wrote to the Navy Commissioners, September 13th, 1667, asking them “to send somebody to look after the Maybolt galliot, her husband the late master being dead, and the mate and seamen sick” (Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 461). Captain Henry Southwood was in command of the Maybolt in November, 1667 (Calendar of State Papers, 1667⁠–⁠68, pp. 31, 37). ↩

Bishops Stortford, a town of some antiquity in Hertfordshire, 32¼ miles N.N.E. of London. ↩

Elizabeth Aynsworth, here mentioned, was a noted procurerss at Cambridge, banished from that town by the university authorities for her evil courses. She subsequently kept the Rein Deer Inn at Bishops Stortford, at which the Vice-Chancellor, and some of the heads of colleges, had occasion to sleep, in their way to London, and were nobly entertained, their supper being served off plate. The next morning their hostess refused to make any charge, saying, that she was still indebted to the Vice-Chancellor, who, by driving her out of Cambridge, had made her fortune. No tradition of this woman has been preserved at Bishops Stortford; but it appears, from the register of that parish, that she was buried there 26th of March, 1686. It is recorded in the History of Essex, vol. iii, (p. 130) 8vo., 1770, and in a pamphlet in the British Museum, entitled, Boteler’s Case, that she was implicated in the murder of Captain Wood, a Hertfordshire gentleman, at Manuden, in Essex, and for which offence a person named Boteler was executed at Chelmsford, September 10th, 1667, and that Mrs. Aynsworth, tried at the same time as an accessory before the fact, was acquitted for want of evidence; though in her way to the jail she endeavoured to throw herself into the river, but was prevented. See May 25th, 1668. —⁠B. ↩

From the Duke of Newcastle’s play, which was altered and prepared for the stage by Dryden. ↩

Mr. George T. Robinson, F.S.A., in a paper on Decorative Plaster Work, read before the Society of Arts in April, 1891, refers to the ceilings at Audley End as presenting an excellent idea of the state of the stuccoer’s art in the middle of James I’s reign, and adds,

“Few houses in England can show so fine a series of the same date.⁠ ⁠… The great hall has medallions, in the square portions of the ceiling formed by its dividing timber beams. The large saloon on the principal floor⁠—a room about 66 feet long by 30 feet wide⁠—has a very remarkable ceiling of the pendentive type, which presents many peculiarities, the most notable of which, that these not only depend from the ceiling, but the outside ones spring from the walls in a natural and structural manner. This is a most unusual circumstance in the stucco work of the time, the reason for the omission of this reasonable treatment evidently being the unwillingness of the stuccoer to omit his elaborate frieze in which he took such delight.”

Journal Soc. of Arts, vol. xxxix, p. 449

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This portrait of Henry VIII, and many other pictures formerly at Audley-End, passed into the hands of the Skeffington family; they were dispersed at the auction at Skeffington Hall, many years ago (see Nichols’s Leicestershire). —⁠B. ↩

Mr. George T. Robinson, F.S.A., in a paper on Decorative Plaster Work, read before the Society of Arts in April, 1891, refers to the ceilings at Audley End as presenting an excellent idea of the state of the stuccoer’s art in the middle of James I’s reign, and adds, “Few houses in England can show so fine a series of the same date⁠ ⁠… The great hall has medallions in the square portions of the ceiling formed by its dividing timber beams. The large saloon on the principal floor-a room about 66 feet long by 30 feet wide-has a very remarkable ceiling of the pendentive type, which presents many peculiarities, the most notable of which, that these not only depend from the ceiling, but the outside ones spring from the walls in a natural and structural manner. This is a most unusual circumstance in the stucco work of the time, the reason for the omission of this reasonable treatment evidently being the unwillingness of the stuccoer to omit his elaborate frieze in which he took such delight” (Journal Soc. of Arts, vol. xxxix, p. 449) ↩

John Howarth, D.D., Prebendary of Peterborough and Master of Magdalene, was Vice-Chancellor, 1666⁠–⁠67. ↩

She became the wife of Sir Richard Edgecumbe, and by him had a son, Richard, created an English baron in 1742. She married, secondly, the Hon. Christopher Montagu, elder brother of Charles, Lord Halifax. —⁠B. ↩

A low bedstead moving on wheels or castors, which ran in under the principal bed.

“With a chain and a trundle-bed following at th’ heels,
And will they not cry then, the world runs a-wheels?”

Ben Jonson’s Vision of Delight

The same as truckle bed. ↩

The twins were the third and fourth sons of Lord Sandwich: Oliver Montagu, afterwards M.P. for Huntingdon, and in 1685 Solicitor-General to the Queen; he died unmarried in 1693: and John Montagu, made Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1683, and Dean of Durham, 1699, who also died a bachelor in 1728⁠–⁠29. —⁠B. ↩

Nun’s Bridge is still in existence, and known by that name. It is at the foot of Hinchingbrooke Hill, and adjoining to some old ponds which belonged to the house when a nunnery. —⁠B. ↩

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