In the 1667 issue the paragraph about the Pole runs: "Where the Maypole is elevated (with a plumm cake on the top of it) 5 yards ¾ above the Market Cross". The mention of Saffron Walden had apparently been ridiculed, and the author in this year joins in the laugh, and in 1669 omits the paragraph altogether. But what had Herrick at any time to do with Saffron Walden, and why should the poet, whose politics, apart from some personal devotion to Charles I., were distinctly moderate, mix himself up with an ultra-Cavalier publication? Also, if Herrick be "Poor Robin" we must attribute to him, at least, the greater part of the twenty-one "Poor Robin" publications, of which Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith gave a list in _Notes and Queries_, 6th series, vii. 321-3, _e.g._, "Poor Robin's Perambulation from the Town of Saffron Walden to London" (1678), "The Merrie Exploits of Poor Robin, the Merrie Saddler of Walden," etc. These have been generally assigned to William Winstanley, the barber-poet, on the ground of a supposed similarity of style, and from "Poor Robin" having been written under a portrait of him. Mr. Ecroyd Smith, however, attributes them to Robert Winstanley (born, 1646, at Saffron Walden), younger brother of Henry Winstanley, the projector of the Eddystone Lighthouse. He assigns the credit of the "identification" to Mr. Joseph Clark, F.S.A., of the Roos, Saffron Walden, but does not state the grounds which led Mr. Clark to his conclusion, in itself probable enough. In any case there is no valid ground for connecting Herrick either with the _Almanack_ or with any of the other "Poor Robin" publications. INDEX TO PERSONS MENTIONED. Abdie, Lady. [_See_ Soame, Anne.] Alabaster, Doctor, II. 70. Baldwin, Prudence, I. 152, 189, 251 II. 78. Bartly, Arthur, II. 36. Beaumont, Francis, II. 4, 276. Berkley, Sir John, II. 63. Bradshaw, Katharine, I. 116. Bridgeman, I. 46. Buckingham, Duke of, I. 123. Carlisle, Countess of, I. 78. Charles I., I. 28, 29, 74, 133, 198; II. 43, 87, 123, 202, 204, 207. Charles II., I. 1, 105; II. 13, 66. Cotton, Charles, the elder, II. 119. Crew, Lady, I. 237; II. 128. Crew, Sir Clipseby, I. 139, 201, 228, 248; II. 18. Crofts, John, II. 83. Denham, Sir John, II. 39. Dorchester, Marquis of, II. 124, 125. Dorset, Earl of, I. 235. Falconbridge, Margaret, II. 81. Falconbridge, Thomas, I. 226. Finch, Elizabeth, II. 123. Fish, Sir Edward, I. 191. Fletcher, John, II. 4, 269. Giles, Sir Edward, II. 272. Gotiere [Gouter, Jacques], I. 47. Hall, John, II. 122. Hall, Joseph, Bishop of Exeter, I. 77. Harmar, Joseph, II. 125. Hastings, Henry, Lord, II. 270. Heale, Sir Thomas, II. 98. Henrietta Maria, I. 133. Herrick, Bridget, I. 255. Herrick, Elizabeth, I. 26, 182. Herrick, Julia, II. 143. Herrick, Mercy, II. 86. Herrick, Nicholas, II. 161. Herrick, Robert, Poem on his Father, I. 31. Herrick, Robert, Poem to his Nephew, I. 188.