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Henry, who died October 25th, 1651 ; or Sir George, the 

 nephew of Henry, the brother of Henry, Fifth Earl of Hunt- 

 ingdon, who is recorded in Richard Smith's Obituary to have 

 died of the plague on June 4th 1641. See Peck's " Desiderata 

 Curiosa," vol. ii. lib. xiv. p. 19. Collins' Peerage, Edit. 1779, 

 vol. iii. p. 97. 



Page 69. Albertus observes, etc. 



Albertus Magnus, a German Dominican, and a very learned 

 man : Urban IV. compelled him to accept of the Bishopric of 

 Ratisbon. He wrote a treatise on the Secrets of Nature, and 

 twenty other volumes in folio; and died at Cologne in 1280. 

 Hawkins. The passage in the text is from Topsell's History of 

 Serpents, No. 42 in the preceding list, p. 180 of that volume. 

 The quotation from Bacon will be found at p. 194, Century ix 

 of No. 3. See also Dr. Franklin's letter to M. Dubourg, " On 

 " the prevailing Doctrines of Life and Death." 



Page 73. The Royal Society, etc. 



See No. 37 in the foregoing list, pp. 2170-2175; the list 

 alluded to is on the last page. This passage did not appear 

 until Walton's last edition. The word Sleight on the follow- 

 ing page is from the Icelandic Slaegd or the Anglo-Saxon Slyth, 

 Deceit, or Deceitful. 



Page 76. That smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow. 



Christopher Marlow, or Marloe, was a poet of considerable 

 eminence, and is called by Phillips " a kind of second Shaks- 

 peare." He is supposed to have been born about 1562, and in 

 1587 he became M.A. at Bene't College, Cambridge; after 

 which he commenced actor and dramatic writer. There are 

 extant five Tragedies of his writing, and a Poem entitled Hero 

 and Leander, which was finished by George Chapman. The 

 Song attributed to Marlow in the text, is printed with his name 

 in England's Helicon, 1600, 4to. ; as is also the Answer, there 

 signed Ignoto, but ascribed by Walton to Sir Walter Raleigh. 

 Marlow is said towards the end of his life to have become a 

 professed atheist : he died before 1593, of a wound given him 

 by a serving-man, who was his rival. Hawkins. 



Page 77. What song was it I pray ? 



See the Songs As at Noon, Chevy Chase, Johnny Armstrong, 

 and Troy Town, printed after the most authentic copies in Percy's 

 Reliques of English Poetry. Hawkins. Phillida flouts me, was 

 printed in the Theatre of Compliments. Lond. 1689, 12mo. but 

 it is also to be found in a volume collected by J. Ritson, en- 

 titled " Ancient Songs from the time of King Henry the Third 

 to the Revolution." Lond. 1792, 12mo. Art. xi. p. 235. The 

 Editor of that collection states in the notice preceding the 

 verses, that there is a modern Answer by A. Bradley, and that 

 the song of Come Shepherds, is not known ; the last, however, 



