[3] For a delightful modern biography, see the _Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork_, by Dorothea Townshend (Duckworth). [4] See the Lismore Papers (referred to throughout as L. P.), edited by the late Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, D.D., LL.D., from the original MSS. belonging to the Duke of Devonshire, and preserved in Lismore Castle (10 vols.). [5] Corpus Christi. [6] Froude’s _History_, vol. vii. (1562). [7] _Ibid._ [8] Edmund Spenser’s _View of the Present State of Ireland_. [9] Then worth about five times as much. [10] Spenser’s _View of the Present State of Ireland_. [11] _True Remembrances._ [12] _True Remembrances._ [13] Life of the Earl of Cork in the L. P., second series, vol. v. [14] Equal to about £5000 now. [15] _True Remembrances._ [16] _Philaretus._ [17] L. P., first series, vol. i. [18] _Philaretus._ [19] Aubrey’s Account. [20] Oliver St. John, High Treasurer for Ireland. [21] This celebrated tavern, “haunted by roysterers and famous for its wine” in Ben Jonson’s day, and dating back into the 15th century, was in New Fish Street (Cunningham’s _London_). Croone must have moved into “new and enlarged premises,” for he will be found in 1641 at the Nag’s Head Tavern, in Cheapside. [22] See Evelyn’s _Diary_ and Pepys’s _Diary_. [23] Abbott. [24] Loftus, Earl of Ely. He and Sir Adam Loftus of Rathfarnham were cousins. [25] Falkland. [26] The Earl’s house is mentioned as “my Lord Caulfield’s.” [27] In succession to Lord Grandison, whose house in Channell Row the Earl had rented. [28] She was buried with her mother in the tomb in St. Patrick’s. [29] _Life of Milton_, by David Masson. [30] Mall. [31] _Ireland under the Stuarts_, vol i. [32] Bulkeley and Usher. [33] Charles I to Lord Deputy, 1634. L. P., second series, vol. iii. [34] Though, in his _Philaretus_, he dates it a little earlier. It is, however, evidently the same that is recorded in the Earl’s _Diary_ under the date Dec. 17, 1634. [35] _Philaretus._ [36] _Philaretus._ [37] See L. P., second series, Carew’s letters from Eton to Earl of Cork. [38] They were “commensals” at the second table. See Lyte’s _History of Eton_. [39] See the masterly biography of Wotton in the _Dictionary of National Biography_. Also Izaak Walton’s _Life of Wotton_, and Masson’s _Milton_, vol. i. [40] See his lines on “His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia,” Percy Society Publications, vol. vi. [41] See Masson’s _Milton_, vol. i. p. 531. [42] Evelyn’s _Diary_. [43] Was “Irish” part of the Eton curriculum in 1635? [44] L. P., second series, Carew’s letters to the Earl. [45] _Philaretus._ [46] _Ibid._ [47] _Philaretus._ [48] L. P., second series, Carew’s letters to Earl. [49] See _A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth_, Percy Society Publications, vol. vi. [50] Masson’s _Life of Milton_, vol. i. p. 665. [51] _Ibid._ [52] It was payable in three instalments, the third to be paid on Midsummer Day 1638.