[Footnote 6: Chambers includes it in his Appendix A, _Doubtful Poems_, but seems to lean to the view that it is by Roe. The second is printed as Donne's by Grosart and as presumably Donne's by Chambers.] [Footnote 7: In _O'F_ and _S_, where they also occur, they are more dispersed; but these manuscripts have, like _1635_, adopted a classification of the poems they contain which involves their distribution as songs, elegies, letters and satires. _A10_ is the most significant witness. This manuscript contains very few poems by Donne. Why should it select just this suspicious group?] [Footnote 8: Among the marriage licences granted by the Bishop of London in 1601 (_Harleian Society Publications_) is the following: 'Henry Sackford the younger, of the Charter House, Gent; 27, father dead, and Sarah Rowe of St Johns in St John's Street, co. Middlesex, Maiden, dau. of John Rowe of Clapham, Beds, Esq. decd (i.e. deceas'd) about 9 years since,' &c.] [Footnote 9: See the genealogies given in the _Harleian Society Publications_, vol. xiii, 1878, from the _Visitation of Essex_ 1612 (pp. 282-3) and the _Visitation of Essex_ 1634 (p. 479).] [Footnote 10: The oldest was the John Rowe of Clapham, Beds. The second, Henry, was also Mayor of London and was knighted in 1603. The fourth, Robert, was the father of the ambassador, and died while his son was a child. There were two daughters--Mary, who married Thomas Randall, and Elizabeth, who married William Garret of Dorney, co. Bucks. The son of the latter couple was Donne's intimate friend George Gerrard or Garrard.] [Footnote 11: Row, John, of Essex. arm. matric. 14 Oct., 1597, aged 16. (Joseph Foster, _Alumni Oxonienses_, iii, 1284). The Provost of Queen's has kindly informed me that in the College books his name is entered simply as 'Rowe' and as having entered 'Ter. Mich. 1597'. He tells me further that in Andrew Clark's edition of the University Matriculation Registers it is stated that the date of his matriculation was between Oct. 14 and Dec. 2, 1597. There can be no doubt, I think, that this is our Roe. There are not likely to have been two in the County of Essex with the right to be called 'armiger'. Had his father still lived he would have been entered as 'fil. gen.' or 'fil. arm.'] [Footnote 12: _Hist. MSS. Com._: _Buccleugh MSS._ (Montague House), vol. i, pp. 56, 58. The letters are dated May 13, Nov. 7.] [Footnote 13: _Calendar of State Papers._ Ireland, 1606-8, p. 538. I owe this and the last reference to Mr. Murray L. R. Beavan, University Assistant in History, Aberdeen University.]