^{page 1 note a} John Young, S. T. B., was elected Master of Pembroke Hall on 12th July, 1567, resigned in 1578, on being made Bishop of Rochester. Died at Bromley 10th April, 1605.

^{page 2 note a} The word “in” has been erased and “of art” written over it by Harvey.

^{page 2 note b} ‥‥ Osbarne, Fellow of Pembroke Hall.

^{page 2 note c} Thomas Nevil, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Senior Proctor in 1580, Dean of Peterborough in 1591, Dean of Canterbury in 1597. He died 2 May, 1615.

^{page 2 note d} ‥‥ Lawherne, Fellow of Pembroke Hall.

^{page 2 note e} Thomas Nuce, alias Newce, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Prebendary of Ely in 1584, and Vicar of Gazeley, co. Suffolk, where he was buried 9 Nov. 1617.

^{page 3 note a} Henry Farre, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Junior Proctor in 1586.

^{page 3 note b} ‥‥ Hoult, M.A. of Pembroke Hall.

^{page 5 note a} ‥‥ Jackson, of Pembroke Hall.

^{page 5 note b} Will Sumner, alias Sommers, Court Jester to Henry VIII. and Edward VI. See Dr. Doran's Court Fools, pp. 134–144.

^{page 5 note c} Juvenal, Sat. ii. 24

^{page 7 note a} William Lewyn, Fellow of Christ College, Junior Proctor in 1568, Public Orator in 1570. Gabriel Harvey dedicated to him his Ciceronianus in 1577.

^{page 7 note b} John Becon, of co. Suffolk, Fellow of St. John's 1561, and Public Orator in 1571.

^{page 7 note c} Walter Allen, of Christ's College, Senior Proctor in 1572.

^{page 10 note a} Philip Melanchthon, German Reformer, 1497–1560.

^{page 10 note b} Peter Ramus, French Philosopher, 1515–1572.

^{page 10 note c} Cornelius Valerius, Professor at Louvain, 1512–1578.

^{page 10 note d} Sebastianus Foxius Morzillus, Tutor to Don Carlos, 1528–1548.

^{page 11 note a} Hieronymus Osorins, Bishop of Silves in Algarve, Professor at Coimbra, 1506–1580.

^{page 11 note b} Jacob Omphalius, Professor at Cologne, died in 1570.

^{page 14 note a} Against the word greef is written in the margin “pitti.”

^{page 17 note a} Verg. Æn. ii. 97–100.

^{page 19 note a} Sir Thomas Smith (1514–1577) of Audley End, in Saffron Walden, a near neighbour and patron of Harvey's family, Dean of Carlisle, Ambassador to France, &c. See his Autobiography in Sloane MS. 32

^{page 20 note a} ‥‥ Gaubert, Pensionar of Pembroke Hall.

^{page 20 note b} ‥‥ Flower, Fellow of Pembroke Hall.

^{page 20 note c} Humphrey Tyndale, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, President of Queens' College in 1579, and Dean of Ely in 1591. He died in 1614.

^{page 21 note a} Saffron Walden in Essex, Harvey's birthplace and residenc

^{page 21 note b} Lancelot Brown, Physician, Fellow of Pembroke Hall. See Munk, Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, vol. i. p. 86.

^{page 22 note a} ‥‥ Wale. Apparently the ordinary carrier from Saffron Walden to Cambridge.

^{page 22 note b} Triacle. Not the modern treacle, but the old sovereign remedy against poison. See Early English Text Society, vol. 67, pp. 37, 38.

^{page 32 note a} Thomas Ýale, Fellow of Queens' College. See Cooper's Athena Cantabrigienses, vol. i. p. 379.

^{page 33 note a} Bear Inn in Cambridge.

^{page 33 note b} Pensioners at Cambridge are ordinary students as distinguished from sizars.

^{page 37 note a} Juvenal, vi, 223.

^{page 38 note a} Chilo of Sparta, one of the seven sages of Greek, flourished b.c. 556.

^{page 39 note a} Chrysippus, a Stoic philosopher, b.c. 291–208.

^{page 39 note b} Carneades, a Greek philosopher of Cyrene, b.c. 214–129, the great opponent of Chrysippus.

^{page 39 note c} Theseus. See Sophocles' Œdipus Coloneus.

^{page 39 note d} Œdipus. See Sophocles' Œdipus Coloneus.

^{page 39 note e} Sophocles' Œdipus Coloneus, 1. 1129.

^{page 40 note a} Cleobulus, one of the seven sages of Greece, b.c. 694–564.

^{page 42 note a} “Wylye beguile himself.” A comedy called “Wily Beguiled.” See Hawkins' Origin of the English Drama, vol. iii. pp. 288–377.

^{page 43 note a} Dr. Lancelot Brown. See page 21, note ^b.

^{page 43 note b} Taxor. An annnal office, like the Proctors', now discontinued. See Hardy's Le Neve's Fasti, vol. iii. pp. 635–649.

^{page 46 note a} … Hales, Fellow of Pembroke Hall.

^{page 53 note a} Satires, vii 1.

^{page 53 note b} Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of Rochester and London, martyred 1555.

^{page 53 note c} Edmund Grindal, Bishop of London, Archbishop of York and Canterbury, 1519–1583.

^{page 53 note d} John Bradford, Prebendary of St. Paul's, London, martyred 1555.

^{page 53 note e} Nicholas Carr, M.D. Regius Professor of Greek, 1523–1568.

^{page 53 note f} Anthony Girlington, Proctor in 1560, and Public Orator, 1560–1561, afterwards Rector of Tilney, co. Norf.

^{page 53 note g} Robert Hutton, Rector of Little Braxted and Wickham Episcopi, co. Essex, and Vicar of Catterick, co. York, died 1568.

^{page 55 note a} George Gascoigne, the poet, died at Stamford, 7 Oct. 1577. See Coopers' Athenæ Cantabrigienses, vol. i. pp. 374–378.

^{page 55 note b} Hercules Strozzi, an Italian poet of Ferrara, 1471–1508.

^{page 56 note a} Here four leaves have been cut.

^{page 56 note b} The above paragraph is written on a blank space in f. 34 b. and was evidently intended to come in somewhere on the recto of the first of the excised leaves.

^{page 56 note c} Dias of Ephesus, a Greek philosopher, circ. 350 b.c.

^{page 57 note a} Scoggin, alias Scogan, Court Fool to Edward IV. See Doran's History of Court Fools, pp. 123–130.

^{page 57 note b} John Skelton, Poet Lanreate, died 1529.

^{page 57 note c} Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 1516–1547.

^{page 58 note a} Edmund Spenser, whom Harrey in this volume sometimes calls “Benevolo” sometimes “Immerito.”

^{page 59 note a} Verlayes or vaudevilles, so called from Vire, a town in Normandy, south of Bayeux, where the first inventor of them lived.

^{page 59 note b} Bartholomew Fair. See Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, by Henry Morley, London, 1859.

^{page 59 note c} Stourbridge Fair. See Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, vol. v. p. 73.

^{page 64 note a} Edmond Spenser.

^{page 66 note a} Spenser.

^{page 66 note b} Erasmus' Epistles, cxlii. Leyden, 1706. Folio.

^{page 67 note a} Thomas Wilson, one of the Queen's Players. See Stowe's Annales, ed. 1615, p. 697.

^{page 67 note b} Richard Tarleton, Court Jester to Queen Elizabeth, died of the plague in 1588. See Shakespeare Society's Publications, Tarltons Jests, ed. by J. O. Halliwell, 1844.

^{page 67 note c} Leicester's Players. See F. G. Fleay's Shakespeare Manual, pp. 76–81.

^{page 67 note d} Warwick's Players. See as above.

^{page 67 note e} Vaux' Players. Not in Fleay's Manual.

^{page 67 note f} Rich's Players. Not in Fleay's Manual.

^{page 67 note g} This was the theatre near Shoreditch; being the first regular theatre in London it was called The Theatre par excellence.

^{page 68 note a} Unico Aretino = Pietro Aretino. See Mazzuchelli, Vita di Pietro Aretino, Milan, 1830.

^{page 68 note b} Bernardo Bibbiena, 1470–1520. See Paolo Giovio's Elogium Bernardi Bibbiennœ, f. 40 b. Venice, 1546.

^{page 68 note c} Thomas Churchyard, the Poet, 1520–1604. See Wood's Athenœ vol. i. p. 727.

^{page 68 note d} William Elderton, Master of the Westminster Boys Company, died about 1592. See Wood's Athenœ, Vol. i. p. 499.

^{page 69 note a} George Gascoigne.

^{page 70 note a} Patch, Jester to Cardinal Wolsey. See Doran's Court Fools, pp. 132–134.

^{page 70 note b} Humphrey Tyndale. See p. 20, note ^c.

^{page 71 note a} Henry Cornelius Agrippa A Nettesheim, 1486–1535.

^{page 71 note b} John Dee, 1527–1604, the famous wizard, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,

^{page 71 note c} John Caius, M.D., Founder of Cains College, 1510–1573.

^{page 72 note a} Humphrey Busbye, LL.D., Fellow of Trinity Hall, Regius Professor of Civil Law, died ante 1580.

^{page 72 note b} Venetias, a kind of hose or breeches made to come below the garters.

^{page 72 note c} Thomas Phaer, a Welsh physician, of Kilgerran, co. Pembroke, the first English translator of Virgil. He died in 1560. See Wood's Athenœ, i. 316.

^{page 72 note d} Kilgerran Forest, on the River Teifi, two miles south of the town of Cardigan.

^{page 73 note a} The words within square brackets are written in the margin.

^{page 73 note b} The word “disburse” has been scored through, and an unreadable equivalent written beneath.

^{page 78 note a} See Arber's reprint of Ascham's Scholemaster, p. 37.

^{page 78 note b} Philbert of Vienne. The Philosophy of the Courte. Englished by Geo. North. London, 1575. 8vo.

^{page 78 note c} Balthazar Castiglione. Il Cortegiano; or, The Courtier. Translated by Thomas Hobby. London, 1556, 1561. 4to.

^{page 79 note a} Stephen Guazzo. Of Conversation; in four books; into English by G. Pettle and B. Young. London, 1586. 8vo.

^{page 79 note b} Paolo Javio's Ragionamento sopra i Motti e Disegni, d'Arme d' Amore. Milan, 1559. 8vo. Con un Discorso di Ruscelli.

^{page 79 note c} Plutarchi Vitœ gallice, par Jacques Amyot. 1565. Folio. Plutarchi Moralia gallice, par Jacques Amyot. Paris, 1572. 2 tom, folio.

^{page 79 note d} Frontini's Stratagems. Translated into English by Richard Morysine. London, 1539. 8vo.

^{page 79 note e} Polyœnus' Stratagems. I can find no English translation of this work before 1793.

^{page 79 note f} Francisco Guicciardini's History of Italy. Translated by Geoffrey Fenton, 1579. Folio.

^{page 79 note g} See Mullinger's University of Cambridge, pp. 629–631.

^{page 79 note h} Jean Bodin's De Republica libri sex.

^{page 79 note f} Louis le Roy alias Regins, Professor at Constances; died in 1577.

^{page 81 note a} Folio 44 evidently contains corrections of and additions to the former letter at f. 40, but there is no mark to show where they were meant to be inserted.

^{page 86 note a} Alluding to Gascoigne's Comedy “Supposes.”

^{page 88 note a} William Fulke, D.D., circ. 1538–1589. Appointed Domestic Chaplain to Lord Leicester about 1569, and elected Master of Pembroke Hall, 10 May, 1578.

^{page 88 note b} Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, K.G., circ. 1532–1588.

^{page 88 note c} These words are written in Harvey's hand in the margin.

^{page 89 note a} This page seems to be a draft of an intended edition of some of Harvey's compositions with a dedication to the poet, Sir Edward Dyer, born 1540; died 1610. The words “Quod vult Deus” are written in the margin against the word “Benevolo,” and seem to have been intended (by “J. W.”—whoever he was) as an alternative expression for “Benevolo.”

^{page 89 note b} This page is evidently out of place, and is part of the speech which broke off so abruptly on ff. 47 and 47 b.

^{page 90 note a} Folios 49 b—51 evidently contain the piece marked No. 2 on f. 48 b.

^{page 92 note a} Chesterton, co. Cambridge, a mile and a half north of Cambridge. Walden was first written, then Trumpington, but both scored through, and Storforde. Chesterton, written instead.

^{page 99 note a} Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, circ. 1545—1604, educated at Audley End, in Saffron Walden. He accompanied Queen Elizabeth thither in July, 1578, when Harvey presented his Gratulationes Valdnenses.

^{page 100 note a} Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, circ. 1516—1547. He translated Virgil's Æneid, books i. and iv. into English blank verse.

^{page 100 note b} Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of Dorset, circ. 1536—1608. Wrote, conjointly with Norton, the Tragedy of Gorboduc, first acted at Whitehall, 18 Jan. 1561–2.

^{page 100 note c} Thomas Norton, circ. 1532—1584, Remembrancer of the City of London; joint author of Gorboduc.

^{page 100 note d} Gascoigne's Steele Glass, a satire in blank verse, was published in 1576.

^{page 100 note e} Simmias of Rhodes, circ. b.c. 300.

^{page 100 note f} Richard Willes, M.A. of Oxford, Mayence, and Perugia, incorporated at Cambridge, 16 Dec. 1578. See Coopers' Athenœ Cantabrigienses, vol. i. p. 398.

^{page 101 note a} Immerito = Edmund Spenser.

^{page 101 note b} Sir Philip Sidney.

^{page 101 note c} Sir Edward Dyer.

^{page 101 note d} The next seven pages, ff. 54–57, are headed by Harvey, “Fine Notes for mie Rhetorique Discourses.” They contain nothing worth, transcribing.

^{page 165 note a} Christoff Hegendorff, German philologer; born at Leipsic in 1500, died at Lunebourg in 1540.

^{page 166 note a} ? Jacob Harrison, of Christ's College.

^{page 167 note a} Afterwards Sir Arthur Capel, Sheriff of co. Hertford, father of Arthur, first Baron Capel.

^{page 167 note b} Sir John Cheke, 1514–1537. The hurt of sedition hon grievous it is to a Commonwealth, London, 1676. 8vo.

^{page 167 note c} Thomas Marshe's A Myrrour for Magistrates, London, 1578. 4to.

^{page 167 note d} Roger Ascham, 1515–1568, Præceptor to Queen Elizabeth. The Schoolmaster, London, 1570. 4to.

^{page 167 note e} Balthsaris Castilionis Comitis de Curiali sine Aulico libri quatuor ex Italico sermone in Latinum Conversi, Bartholomœo Clerke, Anglo Cantabrigiensi interprete, London, 1586, 8vo.

^{page 169 note a} Probably Harvey's own father.

^{page 170 note a} Philippa, 2nd wife of Sir T. Smith, of Audley End, and relict of Sir John Hampden.

^{page 171 note a} Luke Gilpin, of Trinity College, Junior Proctor in 1574.

^{page 173 note a} Richard Bird, Fellow of Trinity College, and, in 1576, Curate in the neighbourhood of Saffron Walden.

^{page 174 note a} ? Richard Remington, Fellow of Peterhonse.

^{page 176 note a} John Duffield, of Peterhonse.

^{page 176 note b} ? Robert Church, B.D. 1579, Fellow of Caius College.

^{page 178 note a} Thomas Byng, Master of Clare Hall, 1571–1599, and Regius Professor of Civil Law, 1574–1594.

^{page 180 note a} Humphrey Hales, B.A. 1572, of Pembroke Hall; afterwards York Herald in 1587. He died 16 June, 1591.

^{page 181 note a} “Specimen et forma legitima tradendi sermones et ratinis disciplinas ex P. Rami scriptis collecta,” Strassburg, 1572. 8vo.