[94] Where David king of the Scots was kept prisoner.
[96] Every part of Corbet’s account of Nottingham Castle corresponds so closely with the relation of Leyland, in his Itinerary, vol. iii. p. 105, &c., that it would be superfluous to transcribe it. See also Speed’s Chronicle, p. 540; and Holinshed’s Chronicle, p. 349.
[98] “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” Proverbs xxviii. ver. 20.
[101] “The 25th of April, 1603, being Thursday, his highnesse (James the First) tooke his way towards New-warke upon Trent, where that night he lodged in the Castle, being his owne house, where the aldermen of New-warke presented his Majestie with a faire gilt cup, manifesting their duties and loving hearts to him; which was kindly received.”
“The true Narration of his Majesty’s Journey from Edenbrough, &c.” 1603.
[104] From this passage we learn that Richard Burbage, the _alter Roscius_ of Camden, was the original representative of Shakespeare’s Richard the Third.
He was buried in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, as Mr. Chalmers discovered, on the 16th of March, 1618-19.
[105] The clerical profligate thus gibbeted for the example of posterity was John Bust, inducted the 8th of April, 1611. He seems to have been a worthy prototype of the Natta of antiquity:
Non pudet ad morem discincti vivere Nattæ? Sed stupet hic vitio, et fibris increvit opimum Pingue; caret culpa; nescit quid perdat, et alto Demersus, summa rursum non bullit in unda.
[106] Guyes cliff. Edit. 1648. The cliff and chapel are engraved in Dugdale’s Warwickshire, vol. i. 274. Ed. 1730.
[107] Of the Theorbo, or Cithara bijuga, so called from its having two necks, which appears from Kircher as well as the bishop’s poetry to have been highly esteemed in Corbet’s time, a graphical representation may be found in Hawkins’s History of Music, vol. iv. p. 111. 4to. 1776.
[111] At the signe of the Alter-stone. Edit. 1648.
[112] Which serve for troughs in the backside. Ibid.
“A discourse of the godly life and Christian death of Mistriss Katharine Stubbs, who departed this life at Burton on Trent, 14th of December,” (1592.) was written by her brother, the sanctimonious author of “The Anatomie of Abuses.”
Anne Askew, burned in 1546 for her rigid adherence to her faith, wrote “a balade which she sang when she was in Newgate;” printed by Bale. A long account of her examination and subsequent martyrdom may be seen in Foxe’s “Actes and Monuments,” vol. ii. p. 1284. edit. 1583. bl. let.
