Page 25, ll. 5, 6. “_Straitly commanded by the Admirall, At the same Port to settle their aboad._” --“On the 11th of April, 1415, Nicholas Mauduyt, serjeant-at-arms, was commanded to arrest all ships and other vessels carrying twenty tons or more, _as well belonging to this kingdom as to other countries_, which were then in the river Thames, and in other sea-ports of the realm as far as Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or which might arrive there before the 1st of May, and the said vessels were to be at the ports of Southampton, London, or Winchelsea by the 8th of May at the latest” (Sir Harris Nicolas). Page 25, l. 28 [Stz. 51]. “_Bay of Portugall_” = Bay of Biscay. Page 26, l. 14 [Stz. 53]. “_Pruce._” --Prussia. Page 26, l. 23 [Stz. 54]. “_Flee-boats._” --Flyboats, Fr. _flibots_, which affords a more probable etymology than _freebooter_ for _flibustier_ and _filibuster_. Page 27, ll. 17, 18 [Stz. 58]. “_From Holland, Zeland, and from Flanders wonne By weekely pay, threescore twelue Bottoms came._” --“It was one of the earliest measures to secure shipping from Holland” (Nicolas). The total number of ships enumerated by Drayton as joining in the rendezvous at Southampton is one hundred and seventy-eight, the foreign hired vessels included. A contemporary authority quoted by Sir Harris Nicolas makes it three hundred and twenty, made up by contingents from the neighbouring havens to between twelve and fourteen hundred. According to the list published by Sir Harris Nicolas, the number of effective fighting men did not exceed ten thousand five hundred, though there were probably as many more attendants and camp-followers. Page 27, l. 31 [Stz. 59]. “_The acclamation of the presse._” --Might be said in our time of any popular war, but in how different a sense! Page 28, l. 1 [Stz. 60]. --This and the following stanza are quoted by Sir Harris Nicolas with just admiration. In fact, Drayton’s description of the marshalling and departure of the expedition are the best part of his poem. Page 29, ll. 4-6 [Stz. 64]. “_In Ensignes there, Some wore the Armes of their most ancient Towne, Others againe their owne Diuises beare._” --The catalogue which follows is entirely in the spirit of Italian romantic poetry, and may be especially compared with that of Agramante’s allies and their insignia in the “Orlando Innamorato.” In many instances the device, as Drayton says, represents the escutcheon of some town within the county; in others he seems to have been indebted to his imagination, though endeavouring not unsuccessfully to adduce some reason for his choice. Page 30, l. 11 [Stz. 68]. “_Brack._” --Brine. Page 30, l. 20 [Stz. 69]. “_Lyam._” --A band or thong by which to lead a hound; hence _lyme-hound_. Page 31, l. 3 [Stz. 71]. “_A Golden Fleece and Hereford doth weare._” --Grammar requires this line to begin _And Hereford_. Awkward dislocations, however, are not infrequent in Drayton.