P. 12, l. 28. _burlibond_] Todd, in his edition of Johnson, has adduced one illustration of the word _burly_, which approximates to the meaning here, that of loud, boisterous; derived, as he supposes from _borlen_, Teut., to make a noise. Though neither in Nares nor Todd, it will be found in Nash’s Pierce Penniless [Reprint, Shaksp. Soc., p. 25]: “The most grosse and senseless proud dolts are the Danes, who stand so much vpon their vnweldie _burlibound_ souldiery, that they account of no man that hath not a battle-axe at his girdle to hough dogs with, or weares not a cock’s fether in a thrumb hat like a caualier: briefly, he is the _best foole bragart_ under heaven.” P. 13, l. 25. _hodie-peeles_] Nash, in his _Anatomie of Absurdities_, uses the word _hoddy-peke_, there implying cuckold, which is the meaning it bears in this place. “Who under her husband’s that _hoddy-peke’s_ nose must have all the distilling dew of his delicate rose.” P. 14, l. 2. _true-pennie_] See the Notes to the Reprint of “Hay any Worke for Cooper,” p. 79. P. 14, l. 7. _Buls slicing._] Bull was the name of the common hangman; he is quoted some two or three times in “Pap with a Hatchet,” and in many of the Dramas of the time. P. 15, l. 21. _Old Martin of England._] An allusion to the “Iust censure and reproofe of Martin Iunior, by his reuerend and elder brother Martin Senior.” P. 16, l. 14. _dudgen distinction._] I am unable to explain this. P. 16, last line. _bibble-babble._] Idle talk. “Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heaven restore! endeavour thyself to sleep, leave thy vain _bibble babble_.”—_Shakspeare, Twelfth Night._ P. 17, l. 1. _gibbrige_] Gibberish. P. 17, l. 19. _Cli. the Cobler, &c._] Cliffe, Newman, Lawson. P. 22, l. 25. _Will Tong._] I cannot give any account of this worthy, unless Will. Kempe, who succeeded the celebrated Tarlton, is meant. Elderton’s name is well known, his rimes and ballets are the subject of frequent allusion in the dramas and pamphlets of the time. See “Pap with a Hatchet,” [Reprint, p. 14]. Harvey’s “Pierce’s Supererogation.” [Reprint, p. 181.] P. 23, l. 25. _his Welchnes._] An allusion to Penry. P. 24, l. 4. _Hodgkins, Tomlins and Sims._] Hodgkins, and his two men, Tomlyn and Symms, who were employed to print the Mar-Prelate Tracts after Waldegrave’s press had been broken up, were seized at Manchester in printing “More work for the Cooper.” Their examination will be found in Strype’s Annals, vii. 602-5.—See also much information in Sutcliffe’s Answer to Job Throckmorton, p. 72, 4to, 1595. P. 25, l. 8. _Bumfeging._] _i. e._ belabouring. The word does not occur in Nares. In “Hay any Worke for Cooper,” Martin says, “For ise so bumfeg the Cooper,” &c. [Reprint, p. 24.] P. 26, l. 5. _the aged champion of Warwicke._] _i. e._ Thomas Cartwright. P. 26, l. 8. _Phi. Stu._] Philip Stubbes, the brother-in-law of Cartwright. His “Anatomy of Abuses,” was printed in 1589. P. 31, l. 24. _ribrost._] To belabour, to beat soundly.