^{page 7 note *} It is most probable that this word in the original was equites, and should have been translated “knights.”

^{page 8 note *} Baptized at Buckland Newton, 25 July, 1588.

^{page 8 note †} “William James, scholar of this school under Dr. Busby, elected student of Christ Church, and lastly Second Master of this school. He died the 23rd July, 1663, lamented by all ingenious men that knew him, and was buried near the lower door going into the cloisters.”—Dart's History of St. Peter's, Westminster, vol. ii. p. 142. See also Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (by Bliss,) iii. 634.

^{page 8 note ‡} Thomas Knipe, of Christ Church, B.A. 1660, M.A 1663, B. and D.D. 1695 : Head Master of Westminster School 1695, succeeding the famous Busby; Prebendary of Westminster, 1707 ; died 1711, aged 73. “For the space of fifty years he, in the School of Westminster, labour'd for the promoting piety and learning ; and for sixteen years was Head Master there ; which province he happily administer'd, being deeply acquainted with the helps of learning, practis'd to indefatigable industry, and made up of the most humane sweetness. From hence he supplied the University with youth versed in the best discipline, many of whom are now ornaments in the church and state ; and more there are who now give earnest of being hereafter so.” See the rest of Dart's translation of Dr. Knipe's epitaph in the History of Westminster Abbey, ii. 79; and the Latin inscription itself engraved with the monument on the plate at p. 74. It is also printed in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. i. p. 26. See further of Dr. Knipe, in Wood's Athente Oxon. (by Bliss,) iv. 643.

^{page 9 note *} The house at Chiswick, provided as a residence for the scholars of Westminster in seasons of sickness, is still standing, and has latterly been occupied as a printing-office successively by the Messrs. Whittingham, uncle and nephew.

^{page 12 note *} In the original no doubt pons regalis ; which should have been translated “The King's Bridge.” The landing-place in New Palace Yard was so called, or else Westminster Bridge ; and that in Cotton Garden (subsequently Parliament Stairs) was called the Queen's Bridge. See some remarks on these names in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1853, vol. xxxvii. pp. 487, 577.

^{page 14 note *} So the MS. but it should be Wood Norton, co. Norfolk.

^{page 14 note †} Giles Thornbury, of Brazenose College, graduated B.A. Oct. 26, 1686.

^{page 17 note *} Carfax conduit. See an engraving of this public monument (now removed to Nuneham Courtenay) in Skelton's Oxonia Illustrata,

^{page 17 note †} B.A. March 23, 1673 ; M.A. June 23, 1674 ; B.D. Feb. 4, 1683 ; D.D. July 7, 1688. He died July 4,1710, and was buried in the abbey church of Westminster, near St. Benet's chapel.—Dart, ii. 72.

^{page 18 note *} William Shortgrave, B.A. 1670 ; M.A. 1673.

^{page 18 note †} Dr. Fell.

^{page 18 note ‡} This must be another mis-translation. Mr. Kingsmill was probably the brother of his step-mother. See before, p. 15.

^{page 18 note §} The fullest account of Wilton House at this period is contained in Aubrey's Natural History of Wiltshire, printed for the Wiltshire Topographical Society, 1847, 4to.

^{page 21 note *} It is not very clear what is meant by this; probably, as at the present time, the ass goes into a large hollow wooden wheel, and, by climbing up the steps inside it, turns the cylinder on which the well-rope is coiled; by this means he draws up the water in a bucket. The well is said to be three hundred feet deep.

^{page 21 note †} Canones Chronologici, necnon Series Summorum Magistratorum, et Triumphorum Romanorum. Oxon, 1675. 8vo. This work was then first published from a MS. in the library of Dr. John Lamphire, Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford. Lydyat died in 1646.

^{page 21 note ‡} Nathaniel Lye, of Brazenose, B.A. 1668, M.A. 1671, Archdeacon of Gloucester 1714, died 1737.

^{page 22 note *} Situate in the parish of Limington, near Ilchester. The family arms are still to be seen on the front of the old manor-house, but the property has passed into other hands.

^{page 23 note *} Dr. Fell, late Dean of Christ Church, had been raised to the see of Oxford in Jan. 1676.

^{page 23 note †} Oxon. 8vo, 1678. St. Cyprian was a great favourite with Bishop Fell. He completed an edition of his works in folio, Oxon, 1682 ; having published a translation of his treatise on the Unity of the Church in 1681, 4to. “Having assisted Bishop Fell, the pious and learned editor of St. Cyprian, in comparing several manuscripts, in order to his new edition, by this means I became well acquainted with the writings of that primitive father; which may serve as an excuse for my quoting him so often, if it needs any apology. The schismaticks of his time, and those of the hierarchy that countenanced them, were so like some that have since appeared, that the pictures which he has drawn of Novatus, Novatianus, and Stephanus (Epist. 52, 55, 60, 74, and 75), if exposed to publick view, would be taken for modern faces.”—Postscript to Dr. Taswell's Artifices and Impostures of False Teachers.

^{page 23 note ‡} Robert South, B. and D.D., 1663.

^{page 24 note *} Thomas Mannyngham, B.A. 1673 ; M.A. 1676; but he did not proceed to the degree of D.D. at Oxford.

^{page 24 note †} Thomas Bayley, B.A. 1662 ; M.A. 1665 ; B.D. 1675 ; D.D. 1684.

^{page 24 note ‡} John Nicholas, D.D. then Vice-chancellor.

^{page 25 note *} Thomas Bouchier, of All Souls' College, D.C.L. 1663.

^{page 25 note †} B.A. 1678, M.A. 1681, Proctor 1689, B.D. 1690, D.D. 1693.

^{page 26 note *} William Lancaster, B.A. 1674, M.A. 1678, B.D. 1690, D.D. 1692; afterwards Provost of Queen's.

^{page 26 note †} John Clerke, of Christ Church, B.A. 1669; of All Souls, M.A. 1673.

^{page 26 note ‡} Probably Samuel Fisher, of Christ Church, B.A. 1674, M.A. 1677.

^{page 27 note *} B.A. 1662, M.A. 1665.

^{page 27 note †} “The Art of Contentment, by the Author of The Whole Duty of Man,” was first published in 1675, at the Theatre in Oxford.

^{page 28 note *} Zaecheus Isham, of Christ Church, B.A. 1671, M.A. 1674, B.D. 1682, D.D. 1689. He was Rector of St. Botolph's, Aldersgate, and of Solihull, co. Warwick; a Prebendary of Canterbury and St. Paul's ; and died 1705. See Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 264.

^{page 28 note †} Thomas Bayley, of Christ Church, B.A. 1670, of New Inn Hall, M.A. 1673, Principal of that Hall, 1684, B. and D.D. 1687.

^{page 28 note ‡} Richard Allestree, of Christ Church, created D.D. Oct. 1660, Regius Professor of Divinity, and Provost of Eton.

^{page 29 note *} Sir Edward Dering, of Surenden Dering in Kent, the second Baronet, son of Sir Edward the learned antiquary and parliamentary orator. He represented Kent in Parliament from 1660 until his death in 1684, and was a Commissioner of the Treasury.

^{page 30 note *} Francis Bernard, M.D., physician to King James the Second: see an account of his library, and hia epitaph, in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. iv. p. 105.

^{page 30 note †} Charles Bernard, serjeant-surgeon to Queen Anne in 1702: of whom see the same work, in the page preceding the last reference.

^{page 30 note ‡} Some curious notices of this famous astrologer have been collected by Mr. Blencowe in his Sydney Papers.

^{page 33 note *} The translator made these remarks in apparent forgetfulness of the statement made by his grandfather in the introductory paragraph, that the memoirs had not been commenced until the author was forty-eight years of age, that is, in the year 1700. At that period Dr. Taswell seems to have surmounted the principal difficulties of his career, and in the concluding passage he had assigned his own reasons for discontinuing the task—namely, that he was tired of it, and had other avocations.

^{page 33 note †} It appears from the History of Surrey, by Manning and Bray, vol. i. p. 214, that Dr. Taswell was presented to the bishop of Winchester for institution to the rectory of Bermondsey, by William Browning, fellmonger, of that parish, who had purchased a term in the advowson, and who afterwards, on Dr. Taswell's resignation in February, 1726–7, presented his son, the Rev. William Browning, M.A.

^{page 34 note *} In Blomefield and Parkin's History of Norfolk, iv. 455, his name is misprinted Faswell.

^{page 35 note *} Lysons' Environs of London, 1792, i. 395. “Dr. Taswell calculated the houses in Newington at only 660 in the beginning of the century; they are now (1792) about 1800 in number” (ibid. p. 396); in 1850 increased to 11,000 houses and 71,000 inhabitants ; now about 12,000 houses and 74,000 inhabitants.