APPENDIX XXI. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



a Nicholas Caussin, a Jesuit and confessor to Louis XIII., was 

 bora at Troyes in Champagne, in 1580. He was esteemed a per- 

 son of great probity, and of such a spirit, that he attempted to dis- 

 place 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. H. 



b Dr. Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, in his sermons. H. 



c Angel, a coin of the value of ten shillings. The words " to vie 

 angels," are a metonomy, and signify "to compare wealth." In 

 the old ballad of " The Beggar of Bethnal Green," a competition 

 of this kind is introduced : a young knight, about to marry the 

 beggar's daughter, is dissuaded from so unequal a match by some 

 relations, who urge the poverty of her father ; the beggar challenges 

 them to " drop angels " with him, and fairly empties the purses of 

 them all. 



The neighbourhood of Bethnal Green is seldom without a public 

 house with a sign representing the beggar, and the dissuaders of the 

 match, dropping gold ; the young woman and the knight her lover 

 standing between them. 



END OF PART I. 



