[7:E] In a letter, dated November 2nd, 1598, Rowland Whyte says, that Lord Southampton is about to return to England. Sydney Papers, vol. ii. p. 104. [8:A] Imperfect Hints towards a New Edition of Shakspeare, 4to. Part II., Advertisement, p. xxi. [8:B] Birch's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 422. [8:C] Kennet's History of England, vol. ii. p. 614. [9:A] Vide Harrington's Nugæ Antiquæ, vol. ii. p. 33. [11:A] Bacon's Works, Mallet's edit. vol. iv. p. 412. [11:B] Vide Queen Elizabeth's Progresses, by Nichols, vol. ii. p. 1. [11:C] Chalmers's Supplemental Apology, p. 311, 312. [12:A] Wilson tells us, that "the Earl of Southampton, covered long with the _Ashes_ of great Essex his _Ruins_, was sent for from the Tower, and the King lookt upon him with a smiling _countenance_, though displeasing happily to the new Baron _Essingdon_, Sir _Robert Cecil_, yet it was much more to the Lords _Cobham_ and _Grey_, and Sir _Walter Rawleigh_."—History of Great Britain, folio, 1653, p. 4. [12:B] Lodge's Illustrations of British History, vol. iii. p. 270. [13:A] Winwood's Memorials, vol. iii. p. 54. [13:B] Lodge's Illustrations, vol. iii. p. 331. [13:C] Winwood's Memorials, vol. iii. p. 154. [15:A] "This Spring," relates Wilson, "gave birth to four brave Regiments of foot (a new apparition in the English horizon) fifteen hundred in a regiment, which were raised, and transported into Holland, under four gallant Collonells; the Earl of Oxford, the Earl of Southampton, the Earl of Essex, and the Lord Willoughby, since Earl of Lindsey."—History of Great Britain, p. 280. [16:A] History of Great Britain, p. 284. [16:B] Cabala, p. 299. [17:A] When Richard Brathwaite dedicated his "Survey of History, or a Nursery for Gentry," to Lord Southampton, he terms him "Learning's select Favourite." Vide Restituta, vol. iii. p. 340.—Nash, dedicating his "Life of Jacke Wilton," 1594, to the same nobleman, calls him "a dere lover and cherisher, as well of the Lovers of Poets, as of Poets themselves;" and he emphatically adds,—"Incomprehensible is the height of your spirit, both in heroical resolution and matters of conceit. Unrepriveably perished that booke whatsoever to wast paper, which on the diamond rocke of your judgement disasterly chanceth to be shipwrackt." Jarvis Markham also addresses our English Mecænas in a similar style, commencing a Sonnet prefixed to his "Most honorable Tragedie of Richard Grenvile, Knt." in the following manner:— "Thou glorious Laurell of the Muses' hill; Whose eyes doth crowne the most victorious pen: Bright Lampe of Vertue, in whose sacred skill Lives all the blisse of eares-inchaunting men:" and closes it with declaring, that if His Lordship would vouchsafe to approve his Muse, immortality would be the result:— "So shall my tragick layes be blest by thee, And from thy lips suck their eternitie." Restituta, vol. iii. pp. 410, 414.