{8e} Robert Aldrich was born at Burnham in Buckinghamshire, educated at Eton, and elected a scholar of King’s college, Cambridge, in 1507, where he took the degree of M.A. afterwards became proctor of the university, schoolmaster of Eton; fellow of the college, and at length provost. In 1523 he was one of those who were sent out by the university of Cambridge to preach in different parts of the nation, as the judges now go their circuits. In 1529 he retired to Oxford, where he was incorporated B.D. About the same time he was made archdeacon of Colchester. In 1534 he was installed canon of Windsor, and the same year he was appointed register of the most noble order of the garter. July 18, 1537, he was consecrated bishop of Carlisle. He was a correspondent of Erasmus, who termed him when young, “blandæ eloquentiæ juvenis,” and appears to have associated with him during his residence at Cambridge. Leland was his familiar acquaintance, and gives him a high character for parts and learning. He was the author of a volume of epigrams, and several theological treatises. {9a} Cart. Rot. 16 Car. 2. {9b} Memoirs of Sir Edward Fynes Clinton, Annual Register 1772, Characters, p. 2. {9c} Fenman’s Vade Mecum, Harleian MS. No. 4127. {11a} Clarendon, Rapin, and Hume. {11b} Ludlow’s Memoirs. {12} Vicar’s Parliamentary Chronicle. {15a} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle. {15b} Ibid. {16a} Intercepted letter from Sir William Widdrington. Rushworth’s Collections, 8vo. edit. vol. v. 78. {16b} Ibid. {17a} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle. {17b} Ibid. {18} Some say this was a Captain Portington, who afterwards told Cromwell that he aimed at his nose, when he hit his horse on the head. Life of Cromwell. See also Ludlow, Vicars, and Hume. {19a} The road adjoining to Winceby field bears the name of _Slash Lane_, where it is traditionally related great numbers of the royal army were slaughtered, owing to their retreat being obstructed by a closed gate. {19b} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle. {19c} Ibid. {20a} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle. {20b} This anecdote the author has repeatedly heard from several of the old inhabitants of the town. {20c} October 11, 1643. {21} It is said accompanied by Sir William Widdrington. Rapin. {22} Dr. Stukeley has incorrectly described this fortress as a complete parallelogram: Gough, too has erroneously stated it to have enclosed twenty acres. {23} The Roman youth were first instructed in the game of Troy Town by Ascanius, called also Julus, the son of Æneas, and from him the maze in which it was performed took the name of Julian Bower. A very animated description of this game is given by Virgil in the fifth book of his Æneid. See also Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p, 91. {26a} “Ecclesia de Horne Caster, & de Askeby, & de superiore Toynton, & de Mering, & de Hinderby sunt de donac’oe d’ni Regis, & Osbertus Persona tenet eas de dono Regis Ricardi.” Testa de Nevill.