^{page 30 note *} This should be ten shillings the oz. as would appear by calculation.

^{page 31 note *} These signify the ladies, who in the printed copy of the masque are called “The Follies, which were 12 she-fooles.”

page 31 note † These are the “Priests of the Muses.”

^{page 32 note *} A Sphynx, emblematical of Ignorance, opens the inasque, bringing in Love or Cupid bound.

page 32 note † See Parliamentary Report, 1840.

^{page 33 note *} Sold in May 1853, at Christie's. No. 209 of Sale Catalogue.

page 33 note † The principal group in this picture is engraved in Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Monastic Orders, p. 245.

page 33 note ‡ His arms aa Knight of the Golden Fleece are given in Maurice, Blason de la Toison d' or, No. cccviii.

^{page 35 note *} Diffiniciones de la Orden y Cavaleria de Calatrava, fol. Madrid, 1748.

page 35 note † Mr. John Smith, who describes this portrait in his Catalogue Raisonné of Rubens' works, No. 1151, p. 311, tells us that the original picture, from which the engraving is taken, belongs to the Duke of Hamilton, and is painted in grisaille.