135. _her husband died._ Sir Richard Herbert died in 1597. 136. _in Oxford four years._ From 1598 to 1603-4. 142. _Bachelor of Arts in 1611._ The correct date is 1612-13. 142. _Matter of Arts, 1616._ See also p. 143. These data were furnished to Dr. Grosart by the University authorities. 143. _chosen Orator._ 18th January 1620. 149. _many Seals._ See vol. i. p. 72. 150. _a sinecure._ Whitford is in Flintshire. 152. _cross-bias me._ A bowling-green image. 154. _Prebend of Layton Ecclesia._ Grosart points out that Walton was wrong here. Herbert was not a Deacon. He held the prebendary of Layton (Leighton Bromswold) as a laic, as he did the sinecure rectorship of Whitford. 163. _she died in the year_ 1627. In June. On July 1 Donne preached her Funeral Sermon. See _ante_, p. 139. When it was published (London, 1627, 12mo) Herbert appended to it the Greek and Latin poems to her memory, entitled _Parentalia_; these were the chief verses he published in his lifetime. 165. _three months after this marriage._ It took place at Edington on 5th March 1629. 167. _canonical clothes._ This, as Dr. Grosart says, shows that he "was still a layman." 167. _Parsonage of Bemerton._ In the presentation in the Record Office, which is dated 16th April 1630, ten days before his induction, it is styled "Rectory of the parish church of Fulston (Fuggleston) St. Peter's and Bemerton." 175. "_The Country Parson._" For further particulars see p. 212. Of the simplicity of this beautiful little book Canon Ainger has well said, "Not for the first or last time in our literature was it to be shown that the euphuistic tendency is killed when the writer begins to think more of his topic than himself" (Craik's _English Prose_, ii. (1894), 204). 190. _being_, seeing. _Cf._ also p. 258. 193. _genteel_, refined, well-bred. 201. "_The Temple._" See full title on p. 213. 205. _passion_, violent commotion of the mind, perturbation. 206. _my last Will._ This, which Walton had not seen, is printed by Dr. Grosart (_Herbert's Poetical Works_, 1876, p. lxi). 207. _buried 3rd day of March, 1632._ I.e. in 1633, as the rest of the note seems to imply. He lies under the altar in the church. LIFE OF SANDERSON _Text, etc_ The first separate edition of the _Life of Dr. Robert Sanderson_ was printed in 1678, 8vo. It is corrected and supplemented in Jacobson's edition of Sanderson's works, 1854, 6 vols. 223. _the place of his birth was Rotherham._ As stated in the note, it was Sheffield, in a house called the Lane Head Stane. He was baptized on the 10th September. 240. _about this time._ He was presented to the Rectory of Boothby Pagnell in 1619. There is a print of Boothby Parsonage in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1801, i. 105. 241. _resigned his Fellowship._ In May 1619. 241. _pennyworths_, bargains. 271. _prevented him_, anticipated him. 282. _Little Britain_. Like Duck Lane, Little Britain was (in Strype's words) "much inhabited by booksellers."