p. 1, 12. _The .xxv. Orders of Knaues._--Mr Collier gives an entry in the Stationers' Registers in 1585-6: "Edward White. Rd. of him, for printinge xxij^{ tl} ballades at iiij^{ d} a peece--vij^{ s} iiij^{ d}, and xiiij. more at ij^{ d} a peece ij^{ s} iiij^{ d} ... ix^{ s} viij^{ d}" And No. 23 is "The xxv^{ tie} orders of knaves."--_Stat. Reg._ ii. 207.
p. 22. _The last Duke of Buckingham was beheaded._--Edward Stafford, third Duke of Buckingham, one of Henry VIII.'s and Wolsey's victims, was beheaded on Tower Hill, May 17, 1521, for 'imagining' the king's death. ('The murnynge of Edward Duke of Buckyngham' was one of certain 'ballettes' licensed to Mr John Wallye and Mrs Toye in 1557-8, says Mr J. P. Collier, _Stat. Reg._ i. 4.) His father (Henry Stafford) before him suffered the same fate in 1483, having been betrayed by his servant Bannister after his unsuccessful rising in Brecon.--_Percy Folio Ballads_, ii. 253.
p. 23. _Egiptians._ The Statute 22 Hen. VIII. c. 10 is _An Acte concernyny Egypsyans_. After enumerating the frauds committed by the "outlandysshe people callynge themselfes Egyptians," the first section provides that they shall be punished by Imprisonment and loss of goods, and be deprived of the benefit of 8 Hen. VI. c. 29. "de medietate linguæ." The second section is a proclamation for the departure from the realm of all such Egyptians. The third provides that stolen goods shall be restored to their owners; and the fourth, that one moiety of the goods seized from the Egyptians shall be given to the seizer.
p. 48, l. 5. _The Lord Sturtons man; and when he was executed._ Charles Stourton, 7th Baron, 1548-1557:--"Which Charles, with the help of four of his own servants in his own house, committed a shameful murther upon one Hargill, and his son, with whom he had been long at variance, and buried their Carcasses 50 foot deep in the earth, thinking thereby to prevent the discovery; but it coming afterwards to light, he had sentence of death passed upon him, which he suffer'd at Salisbury, the 6th of March, Anno 1557, 4 Phil. & Mary, by an Halter of Silk, in respect of his quality."--_The Peerage of England_, vol. ii. p. 24 (Lond., 1710).
p. 77. _Saint Quinten's._ Saint Quinten was invoked against coughs, says Brand, ed. Ellis, 1841, i. 196.