^{page 431 note a} See the note of Mr. Douce on the passage, Illustrations of Shakespeare, Vol. i. p. 165.

^{page 431 note b} I am not sufficiently acquainted with the earlier Latin Facetiae to detect any obligations the Compiler may have had to Poggio, Bebelius, or other of that class.

^{page 432 note a} e. g. The story of the Welshman who mistook an ape for a gentleman. Of the scholar who proved by logick, that two fowls were three; and one relative to the wise men of Gotham.

^{page 438 note a} See Rot. Pat. II Edw. II. p. 1.

^{page 443 note a} This pipe has since been presented by Mr. Lysons to the Trustees of the British Museum.

^{page 443 note b} See p. 123.

^{page 446 note a} Morant's Essex, Vol. I. p. 456.