I have followed the convention of taking 1 January as the start of the calendar year. When citing from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century editions, I have preserved original capitalisation, punctuation, and spelling (including u/v and i/j), with the exception of long s and vv, which I have changed to regular s and w. Further, I have reversed italic font and spelled out ligatures and superscript abbreviations such as y^e or the tilde. If they are available, I have cited page numbers, and if not, signatures. All Biblical references are to the 1560 edition of the Geneva Bible, unless indicated otherwise. References to the works of Ben Jonson are to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, and references to the works of Francis Bacon are to The Oxford Francis Bacon, unless indicated otherwise.