Mr. Beeching, in the _Introduction_ (vol. i., p. xxiii), states following Dr. Grosart, that the Priory Grove was "the home of a famous poetess of the day, Katherine Phillips, better known as 'the Matchless Orinda.'" Vaughan was certainly a friend of Mrs. Phillips (_cf._ pp. 100, 164, 211, with notes), whose husband, Colonel James Phillips, lived at the Priory, Cardigan; but she was not married until 1647. Miss Morgan points out that there is still a wood on the outskirts of Brecon which is known as the Priory Grove. It is near the church and remains of a Benedictine Priory on the Honddu. P. 28. Juvenal's Tenth Satire Translated. This translation has a separate title-page; _cf._ the _Bibliography_ (vol. ii., p. lvii). OLOR ISCANUS. This volume, published in 1651, contains, besides the poems here reprinted, some prose translations from Plutarch and other writers. The separate title-pages of these are given in the _Bibliography_ (vol. ii., p. lviii): the incidental scraps of verse in them appear on pp. 291-293 of the present volume. The edition of 1651 has, besides the printed title-page, an engraved title-page by the well-known engraver, who may or may not have been a kinsman of the poet, Robert Vaughan. It represents a swan on a river shaded by trees. The _Olor Iscanus_ was reissued with a fresh title-page in 1679. P. 52. Ad Posteros. On the account of Vaughan's life here given, see the _Biographical note_ (vol. ii., p. xxx). _Herbertus._ Matthew Herbert, Rector of Llangattock. Cf. the poem to him on p. 158, with its note. _Castae fidaeque ... parentis_, _i.e._, perhaps, his mother the Church. _Nec manus atra fuit._ Dr. Grosart omitted the _fuit_, together with the final _s_ of the preceding line. In this he is naively followed by Mr. J. R. Tutin, in his selection of Vaughan's _Secular Poems_. P. 53. To the ... Lord Kildare Digby. Lord Kildare Digby was the eldest son of Robert, first Baron Digby, in the peerage of Ireland. He succeeded to the title in 1642. He was about 21 at the time of this dedication, and died in 1661 (Dr. Grosart) The date of the dedication is 17th of December, 1647. A volume was therefore probably prepared for publication at that date, and afterwards, as we learn from the publisher's preface, "condemned to obscurity," and given surreptitiously to the world. At the same time, as Miss Morgan points out to me, some of the poems in _Olor Iscanus_ must be of later date than 1647. The death of Charles I. is apparently alluded to in the lines _Ad Posteros_, and certainly in the "since Charles his reign" of the _Invitation to Brecknock_ (p. 74). This event took place on January 30th, 1648/9. The _Epitaph upon the Lady Elizabeth_ (p. 102), again, cannot be earlier than her death on September 8th, 1650. P. 54. The Publisher to the Reader.