^{page 345 note a} See the Nobleza del Andaiuzia, by Molina, fol. Sev. 1588, and the Hist, de la insigne Order del Toyson de Oro, by Julian de Pinedo y Salazar, fol. torn. i. pp. 168, 201.

^{page 346 note b} Annales de Sevilla, fol. Madr. 1677, p. 492.

^{page 347 note c} Blason des Armoiries de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or, fol. La Haye, 1667.

^{page 348 note d} Afterwards created Marquess of Montesclaros, by Charles the Fifth.

^{page 348 note e} Don Inigo Lopez de Mendofa, Duke of Infantadgo, and Marquess of Cinete.

^{page 348 note f} “Assi de presentes como de diuersas repocjsas de mas caras, y momerias de hombres y mugeres prinçpales.”

^{page 350 note g} Dobla.

^{page 350 note h} Cantuaria.

^{page 351 note i} Derfort.

^{page 351 note k} Sorel.—Thomas Howard, created Feb. 2, 1513-4.

^{page 351 note l} William Lord Parr, of Kendal, created Earl of Essex, 23 Dec. 1543, and Marquess of Northampton, 16 Feb. 1545-6.

^{page 351 note m} “Entapicadas.”

^{page 352 note n} Catherine Parr, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, of Kendal, married to the King, 12 July, 1543.

^{page 352 note o} Lady Margaret Douglas, daughter of Margaret, sister of Henry VIII. who married first, James IV. of Scotland, and secondly, Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus.

^{page 352 note p} Can this be Anne of Cleves?

^{page 352 note q} “Viuelas darco.”

^{page 352 note r} This individual apparently is alluded to in the Privy Purse expenses of the Princess Mary, where is this item in Jan. 1543-4. “It'm geven to the Italian, the daaincer, bringing a partlet of gold wroughte, xls.” p. 145.

^{page 353 note s} “La Reyna tiene buen gesto y alegre, es alabada de virtuosa. Estaua vestita de vna delantera de tela di oro, y vna saya de brocardo, con mangas a forrada en raso carmesi, e la forra de las mangas de terçco pelo carmesi; la falda tenia mas de dos varas.”

^{page 353 note t} “La Infante Dona Maria tiene buen rostro y persona.”

^{page 353 note u} “Es tan amada en todo el Reyno esta Infante, q'no les falta sino adorarla. El vestido q'traya era saya de tela de oro, y vn ropon de tercio pelo morado; el tocado de muchas piedras ricas.”

^{page 354 note v} The writer probably alludes to the subsidy of the sixth part of every man's goods attempted to be raised in 1524 by Commission, but which project failed.

^{page 354 note w} At Paris Garden on the Bankside, Southwark, where these amusements at that period usually took place. See Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 192, 4to, Lond. 1801.

^{page 354 note x} “Donde los atan largo, y les hechan grandes y denodados perros, para q' se ceuen en ellos y se hagan brabos y fieros.”

^{page 354 note y} Compare with this the famous passage in Laneham's Letter from Kenilworth, describing a similar scene; “It was a sport very pleazaunt,” &c. This practice of baiting bears continued down to the reign of Queen Anne.

^{page 355 note y} The same mode of diverting the populace is mentioned by Holinshed, in his account of the entertainment of the Danish Ambassador at Greenwich, in 1586, vol. iii. col. 1562, ed. 1587.

^{page 355 note z} “En el mismo lugar sacan vna haca con vna mona atada en cima, veran andar la haca a coces tras los perros, y los gritos q' da la mona, viendo los perros cabesi colgados de los orejas y pescueco de la haca, es cosa de risa.”

^{page 355 note a} In reality there were only nineteen arches, the twentieth, so called, being a sluice, or draw-bridge. See the amusing and elegant volume intitled, “Chronicles of London Bridge,” p. 324.

^{page 355 note b} In the same manner writes Paulus Jovius, in his description of Britain, 1548. “Olores autem agminatim laeto occursu et festivis cantibus subeuntes classes excipiunt.”

^{page 355 note c} Hounslow.

^{page 356 note d} Hartford Bridge.

^{page 356 note e} Basingstoke.

^{page 356 note f} Shaftesbury.

^{page 356 note g} Sherborn?

^{page 356 note h} Chard.

^{page 356 note i} Honiton.

^{page 356 note k} Ashburton.

^{page 356 note l} Plemua.

^{page 356 note m} La Isla Duque.

^{page 357 note n} “Baxillos de stano.”

^{page 357 note o} La Godina.