APPENDIX I. 



HISTORICAL NOTES. 



The Thatched House at Hoddesdon is stated by the Rev. 

 Moses Brown to be seventeen miles from London by the Ware 

 Road. It is now quite unknown, but it is supposed that a thatched 

 cottage, once distinguished by the sign of the Buffalo's Head, 

 standing at the farther side of Hoddesdon, on the left of the road 

 in going towards Ware, was the actual building. MAJOR. 



b A house built by Lord Burleigh in Herts, and by his son, an 

 Earl of Salisbury, exchanged with James I. for Hatfield House. 

 EPHEMERA. 



Mr. Ralph Sadler was the grandson of Sir Ralph Sadler, so 

 conspicuous in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth. 

 " He delighted much in hawking and hunting, and the pleasures 

 of a country life ; was famous for his noble table, his great 

 hospitality, and his abundant charity to the poor." HAWKINS. 



d Mr. George Sandys, a very pious, learned, and accomplished 

 gentleman, was the youngest son of Dr. Edwin Sandys, Archbishop 

 of York. He published his " Travels to the Holy Land, Egypt," 

 in folio, 1615 (frequently reprinted), and made an excellent Para- 

 phrase on the Psalms, Canticles, and Ecclesiastes, in verse ; and 

 also translated Ovid's " Metamorphoses," Grotius's " Tragedy of 

 Christ's Passion," i2mo., 1640, &c. He died in 1642. H. 



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