^{page 134 note c} Seneca opens his De Providentia with these words: “Quæsisti a me, Lucili quid ita, si Providentiâ mundus ageretur, multa bonis viris acciderent mala? Hoc commodius in contextu operis redderetur, quum præsse universis providentiam probaremns, et interesse nobis Deum: sed quoniam a toto particulam revelli placet, et unam contradietionem, manente lite integra, solvere; faciam rem non difficilem, causam deorum agam.” Opera, edit. Ruhkopf (80, Lipsiæ, 1797), i. 297, 298.

^{page 136 note a} Seymour (Survey, i. 684Google Scholar) prints a short epigram on the relation between S. Faith (in the Crypt) and the Cathedral itself:

This Church needs no repair at all,

For Faith's defended by S. Paul.

^{page 138 note a} Alluding to y^e Cathedrall Church at Norwech, where thes was spoke, y^e top of whose spire to y^e quantity of two yards hath been downe these 3 yeares. (Marginal note in the original manuscript.)

^{page 138 note b} “I had almost said bolsters and pillows.” Harleian MS. No. 750, from which the version in Longman and Malcolm is taken. This version is condensed, and far inferior to that exhibited in the text.

^{page 139 note a} use, that is, interest.