Entick (_Survey_ 2. 65) gives an interesting account of a match which took place in 1583. The Duke of Shoreditch was accompanied on this occasion by the ‘marquises of _Barlow_, _Clerkenwell_, _Islington_, _Hoxton_, and _Shaklewell_, the earl of _Pancras_, etc. These, to the number of 3000, assembled at the place appointed, sumptuously apparelled, and 942 of them had gold chains about their necks. They marched from merchant-taylors-hall, preceded by whifflers and bellmen, that made up the number 4000, besides pages and footmen; performing several exercises and evolutions in _Moorfields_, and at last shot at the target for glory in _Smithfield_.’ =4. 7. 69 Ha’.= See variants. The original seems to me the more characteristic reading. =4. 7. 84 after-game.= Jonson uses the expression again in the _New Inn, Wks._ 5. 402: And play no after-games of love hereafter. ACT V. =5. 1. 28 Tyborne.= This celebrated gallows stood, it is believed, on the site of Connaught Place. It derived the name from a brook in the neighborhood (see Minsheu, Stow, etc.). =5. 1. 29 My L. Majors Banqueting-house.= This was in Stratford Place, Oxford Street. It was ‘erected for the Mayor and Corporation to dine in after their periodical visits to the Bayswater and Paddington Conduits, and the Conduit-head adjacent to the Banqueting-House, which supplied the city with water. It was taken down in 1737, and the cisterns arched over at the same time.’--Wh-C. Stow (ed. 1633, pp. 475-6) speaks of ‘many faire Summer houses’ in the London suburbs, built ‘not so much for use and profit, as for shew and pleasure.’ The spelling _Major_ seems to be a Latin form. Mr. Charles Jackson (_N. & Q._ 4. 7. 176) mentions it as frequently used by the mayors of Doncaster in former days. Cf. also Glapthorne (_Wks._ 1. 231) and _Ev. Man in_ (Folio 1616, 5. 5. 41). =5. 1. 41 my tooth-picks.= See note 4. 2. 26. =5. 1. 47 Saint Giles’es.= ‘Now, without the postern of Cripplesgate, first is the parish church of Saint Giles, a very fair and large church, lately repaired, after that the same was burnt in the year 1545.’--Stow, _Survey_, ed. Thoms, p. 112. =5. 1. 48 A kind of Irish penance!= ‘There is the same allusion to the _rug gowns_ of the wild Irish, in the _Night Walker_ of Fletcher: We have divided the sexton’s household stuff Among us; one has the _rug_, and he’s turn’d _Irish_.’--G. Cf. also Holinshed, _Chron._ (quoted _CD._):‘As they distill the best aqua-vitæ, so they spin the choicest _rug_ in Ireland.’ Fynes Moryson (_Itinerary_, fol. 1617, p. 160) says that the Irish merchants were forbidden to export their wool, in order that the peasants might ‘be nourished by working it into cloth, namely, Rugs ... & mantles generally worn by men and women, and exported in great quantity.’