(1) Arch. S.J. Rom. Anglia 38.1. fol.271. I owe this quotation to the kindness of Fr. Leo Hicks S.J.

(2) The epitaph is given in full by John, Aubrey, Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey , London, 1718, vol.III p.298.Google Scholar

(3) Foster, J., Alumni Oxonienseas , 1891. vol. I. p. 1.Google Scholar Contrary to the usual practice, his father’s name ia not given.

(4) By contrast, both the uncles of John had been described as “plebeani”, Foster, loc. cit.

(5) See Speaker, Onslow’s Life of Dr. George Abbot , Guildford, 1777, p.143.Google Scholar

(6) Onslow, p.65.

(8) D.N.B. vol. I. p. 21. He probably derived this from Stow’s Survey. Elsewhere, in his article on George Abbot (D.N.B. vol, I. p.6) he follows Fuller”s Abel Redivivus in calling him the sixth and youngest. From the time elapsing between the birth of George in October 1562 and that of Maurice in November 1565, it seems probable that he was the fifth.

(9) On 27 May 1598 he is entered as “Draper, age 30 or more. Widower about 8 months past” in Marriage Licences, London (Harleian Society) vol.I, 1887, p. 250. He was actually thirty-three.

(10) Foster, loc. cit.

(11) It Is Foster who calls him son and heir to Sir Maurice, and the Visitation of London vol. 2 (Harleian Society) 1883, p.42,Google Scholar which describes him as the second son. Was John Abbot, disinherited of course after his conversion, perhaps the eldest son?

(12) State Papers Domestic, Chas. I. Add. 1625–1649, Vol. DXXXVII. 41.

(13) Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers ….. from 1641 to 1667 . ed. Plomer, H.R., (Bibliographical Soc.) 1907, p.2.Google Scholar In 1650 he gives his address “in Grub Street neere the Upper Pump.”

(14) Abbot’s alias of Rivers has caused him to fare rather ill in Wing. The original intention in Wing”s third volume (P–Z) was to treat him under Rivers at R 1550–52, but these entries have been cancelled in favour of a cross–reference back to the correct form of the name, Abbot. Unfortunately, under Abbot in Vole I there was only recorded the 1647 issue of Devout Rhapsodies, and this and the misplaced Philo entry are all that are to be found for his works. Of the 1648 Devout Rhapsodies there are copies also at Dulwich College and Trinity College, Dublin, in addition to those I recorded on p. 30.