NOTES. 405 



College, Oxford, and in lf)21, he published his Microcosmos, 

 alluded to in the text. He was stedfastly attached to King 

 Charles I. and wrote for him the weekly paper entitled Mer- 

 curius Aulicus; though his loyalty reduced him to great 

 poverty. He died on May 8th, 16G2. 



Page 239. Grotiusin his Suphom. 



Hugo Grotius, or De Groot, a very celebrated scholar, states- 

 man, and theologian, who was born at Delft in Holland, on 

 April 10th, 1583. He was at first an advocate, but about 1613 

 he became Grand-Pensionary of Holland; though in 1618, for 

 adhering to the doctrines of Arminius, he was confined for 

 nine months in the castle at the Hague. Grotius died at Ros- 

 tock in Pomerania, August 28th, 1645. His works were very 

 numerous, and a translation of that alluded to in the text, is 

 shewn at No. 20 in the foregoing list. The passage will be 

 found at pages 29, etc. in the speech of the Chorus, and in the 

 notes to the third Act, pages 84, etc. The title of the Tragedy, 

 Sophompaneas, signified, in the Egyptian language, the Saviour 

 of the World ; and was given to Joseph, Pharoah's minister, 

 because he delivered so many nations from destruction by 

 famine. 



Page 254. It is well said by Caussin. 



Nicholas Caussin, a Jesuit and Confessor to Louis XIII., 

 was born at Troyes in Champagne, in 1580. He was esteemed 

 a person of great probity, and of such a spirit, that he 

 attempted to displace Cardinal Richelieu ; but that minister 

 proved too powerful for him, and procured his banishment to 

 a city of Lower Bretagne. He returned to Paris after the 

 Cardinal's death, and died in the Jesuits' Convent there, 

 in July 1651. Hawkins. The " grave Divine" mentioned 

 on the next page, according to the Rev. Moses Browne, was 

 Dr. Donne. The verses by Sir Henry Wotton, in the same 

 place, are printed near the end of his Remains, No. 43 of the 

 preceding list. 



Page 266. Brelsford. 



Brelsford, or Brailsford, a Township in the Hundred of 

 Appletree, in Derbyshire, situated about seven miles N.W. of 

 the Town of Derby. 



Page 270. Own me for his adopted Son. 



This alludes to the practice of the ancient Alchemists and 

 Astrologers, of adopting favourite persons for their sons or 

 pupils, to whom they imparted their secrets. Hawkins. In 

 the English translation of the Scriptures, the disciples of the 

 Prophets are called " the Sons of the Prophets," with the 

 same signification. 



Page 283. Tom Coriate. 



The son of the Rev. George Coriate, born at Odcombe in 



