NOTES.

Page 1, line 2, Mistris Anne Fitton, Mayde of Honour to ... Queene Elizabeth.]—A Mary Fitton, daughter to Sir Edward Fitton, of Gawsworth, and maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, is mentioned by Ormerod, Hist. of Cheshire, iii. 293; and “Mrs. Fitton” is noticed as holding that office in several letters of Rowland Whyte, printed among the Sydney Papers. It seems unlikely that the Queen should have had two maids of honour called Fitton; and yet we can hardly suppose that Kemp mistook the Christian name of his patroness. I may add, that an examination of Sir E. Fitton’s will in the Prerogative Court has proved to me that his daughter was named Mary.

P. 1, l. 6, sort.]—set, band.

P. 1, l. 11, Kery, mery, Buffe.]—Compare Nash’s Haue with you to Saffron-walden, 1596, “Yea, without kerry merry buffe be it spoken,” &c. Sig. F. 4; and Middleton’s Blurt Master Constable, “Tricks, tricks; kerry merry buff.” Act i. sc. 1; Works, i. 235, ed. Dyce.

P. 1, l. 14. Trenchmore.]—a boisterous sort of dance to a lively tune in triple time.

P. 2, l. 2, Jigges.]—See Introduction.

P. 2, l. 8, I could flye to Rome (at least hop to Rome, as the olde Proverb is) with a morter on my head.]—So in Fletcher’s Fair Maid of the Inn, “He did measure the stars with a false yard, and may now travel to Rome with a mortar on ’s head, to see if he can recover his money that way,” Act v. sc. 2, Works, ix. 498, ed. Weber; and in Middleton and Rowley’s Spanish Gipsy, “A cousin of mine in Rome, I[’ll] go to him with a mortar,” Act ii. sc. 2, Middleton’s Works, iv. 135, ed. Dyce.

P. 2, l. 11, huntsup.]—a tune played to rouse the sportsmen in a morning.

  P. 3, l. 10, Thomas Slye.]—A relation, probably, of William Slye, the actor.

P. 3, l. 15, bel-shangles.]—A cant term, which is also used by Nash: “Canonizing euerie Bel-shangles the water-bearer for a Saint.”—Haue with you to Saffron-walden, 1596, Sig. I.

P. 4, l. 18, Bauines.]—small faggots.

P. 4, l. 30, hey-de-gaies.]—a kind of rural dance: the word is variously written.

P. 6, l. 9, dy-doppers.]—didappers, dabchicks.

P. 6, l. 13, a noted Cut-purse, such a one as we tye to a poast on our stage, for all people to wonder at, when at a play they are taken pilfring.]—Mr. Collier, who has cited the present passage, observes, that this method of treating cutpurses, when detected at theatres, is no where else adverted to by any writer.—Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet. iii. 413.

P. 6, l. 18, Trenchmore.]—See note, p. 25.

P. 6, l. 22, companions.]—scurvy fellows—a play on the word.

P. 7, l. 7, Sir Thomas Mildmay, standing at his Parke pale.]—Sir Thomas Mildmay, Knt., of Moulsham-hall. He married the Lady Frances, only daughter, by his second wife, of Henry Ratcliffe, Lord Fitzwalter and Earl of Sussex; from which marriage his descendants derived their title and claim to the Barony of Fitzwalter. He died in 1608.—Morant’s Hist. of Essex, ii. 2; Dugdale’s Baron. ii. 288.

P. 7, l. 9, points.]—tagged laces.

P. 7, l. 9, being my ordinary marchandize, that I put out to venter for performance of my merry voyage.]—This “marchandize” was instead of a deposit in money: but we learn from a passage towards the end of the tract (p. 19), that our Morrice-dancer had also “put out some money to have threefold gain at his return,”—it being then a common custom for those who undertook expeditions to put out sums of money on condition of receiving them back trebled, quadrupled, or quintupled, at the completion of the voyages or journies. Kemp (ibid.) complains that the greater number of those with whom he had deposited money would not “willingly be found:” compare A Kicksey   Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-twang; Wherein John Taylor hath Satyrically suted seuen hundred and fifty of his bad debtors, that will not pay him for his returne of his iourney from Scotland. Taylor the Water-poet’s Workes, 1630, p. 36.

P. 7, l. 26, bels.]—“The number of bells round each leg of the morris-dancers amounted from twenty to forty. They had various appellations, as the fore-bell, the second bell, the treble, the tenor, the base, and the double-bell. Sometimes they used trebles only; but these refinements were of later times. The bells were occasionally jingled by the hands, or placed on the arms or wrists of the parties.”—Douce’s Illust. of Shakespeare, ii. 475. The same writer mentions that in the time of Henry the Eighth the Morris-dancers had “garters to which bells were attached,” 473.

P. 7, l. 26, the olde fashion, with napking on her armes.]—“The handkerchiefs, or napkins, as they are sometimes called, were held in the hand, or tied to the shoulders.” Douce, ubi supra, 475.

P. 8, l. 8, The hobby-horse quite forgotten.]—When the present tract was written, the Puritans, by their preachings and invectives, had succeeded in banishing this prominent personage from the Morris-dance, as an impious and pagan superstition. The expression in our text seems to have been almost proverbial; besides the well-known line cited in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 2, (and in his Love’s Labours Lost, Act iii. sc. 1.)

parallel passages are to be found in various other early dramas. As the admirable scene in Sir Walter Scott’s Abbot, I. ch. xiv. (Wav. Novels, xx.) must be familiar to every reader, a description of the hobby-horse is unnecessary.

P. 8, l. 23, plash.]—pool.

P. 10, l. 15, blee.]—complexion, countenance.

P. 10, l. 27, hey de gay.]—See note, p. 26.

P. 11, l. 25, the Lord Chiefe Justice.]—Sir John Popham: he was appointed Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in 1592.

P. 12, l. 13, Sir Edwin Rich.]—Third son of Robert Lord Rich,   was knighted at Cadiz in June 1596: see Account of the expedition to Cadiz in Hakluyt’s Voyages, I. 617. ed. 1599 (where, by mistake, he is called Sir Edmund), and Stow’s Annales, p. 775. ed. 1631. About three years after, he purchased the manor of Mulbarton in Norfolk from William Gresham, Esq. In 1604, when Sir Anthony Shirley went as ambassador from the Emperor of Germany to the King of Morocco, in his suite was Sir Edwin Rich, “whose behauiour was good, and well spoken of in euery place where he came,” &c. He married Honora, daughter of Charles Worlick, Esq.; and died, and was buried (I know not in what year) at Hartlepool. A monument is erected to his memory, and to that of his sons, Robert and Sir Edwin, in Mulbarton church. Collins’s Baron. III. P. ii. 592. ed. 1741; Le Neve’s Mon. Angl. Suppl. 113; Purchas’s Pilgrimes, Sec. Part. p. 863. ed. 1625; Blomefield’s Hist. of Norf. III. 52.

P. 13, l. 5, began withall this, blessing, &c.]—Old ed. “began with. All this: blessing,” &c.

P. 13, l. 26, He was a man, &c.]—Warton thinks that this description of the Innkeeper at Rockland, “which could not be written by Kemp, was most probably a contribution from his friend and fellow player Shakespeare [?]. He may vie with our Host of the Tabard.” Hist. of Eng. Poet. IV. 63, ed. 4to.

P. 13, l. 28, Welcome.]—“coming,” apud Warton (ubi supra, 64,) by mistake.

P. 13, l. 31, What wonders once in Bullayne fell.]—At the siege of Boulogne: on the 14th of Sept. 1544, it surrendered to Henry the Eighth, who entered it in triumph on the 18th of the month.

P. 14, l. 1, Turwin and Turneys siedge were hot.]—After the Battle of the Spurs, which took place August 16th, 1513, Terouenne surrendered to Henry the Eighth on the 22nd of that month, and on the 27th its defences were razed to the ground: Tournay surrendered to the English monarch on the 29th of the ensuing September. Historians differ somewhat as to the dates of these events: I have followed Lingard.

P. 14, l. 3, Kets field.]—The battle near Norwich, August 27th, 1549, when the Earl of Warwick routed Ket and the Norfolk rebels.

  P. 14, l. 3, Muscleborough fray.]—The battle of Pinkey, in which the Protector Somerset defeated the Scots with great slaughter, September 10th, 1547.

P. 14, l. 10, poating sticke.]—Or poking-stick, an instrument for setting the plaits of ruffs. Poting-sticks were originally made of wood or bone; afterwards of steel, that they might be used hot.

P. 14, l. 11, Cutting Dicke.]—Is thus mentioned by Wither:

From the following entry by Henslowe we learn that this worthy figured in a play: “Pd. unto Thomas Hewode, the 20th of september [1602], for the new adycions of Cutting Dick, the some of xxs.” Malone’s Shakespeare, (by Boswell,) III. 333.

P. 14, l. 12, ’tis a world.]—Equivalent to—it is a wonder.

P. 14, l. 27, Lack ye? what do you lack, Gentlemen?]—The usual address of the London tradesmen to those who passed by their shops, which were formerly open like booths or stalls at a fair.

P. 15, l. 2, sort.]—set, band.

P. 15, l. 15, let.]—hindrance.

P. 15, l. 23, Master Roger Wiler the Maior.]—An error, it would seem, not of the author, but of the printer, for afterwards (p. 18), the name is given more correctly, Weild. In the list of Mayors of Norwich during Elizabeth’s reign, drawn up by Blomefield, we find—

P. 17, l. 1, Wifflers.]—Persons who clear the way for a procession:   see Douce’s Ill. of Shakespeare, I. 506. I may just notice that when Grose compiled his Prov. Gloss., the word whifflers had not become obsolete in the city of which Kemp is now speaking.

P. 17, l. 4, preaze.]—press.

P. 17, l. 17, points.]—tagged laces.

P. 18, l. 2, my Jump, the measure of which is to be seene in the Guild-hall at Norwich, &c.]—It is hardly necessary to inform the reader that no memorial of Kemp is now extant in that building.

P. 18, l. 10, angels.]—Gold coins, worth about 10s. each.

P. 18, l. 11, is a man.]—Old ed. “as a man.”

P. 18, l. 22, commodities.]—goods, in which needy prodigals took either part or whole of the sum they wanted to borrow, and for which they gave a bond: these commodities (sometimes consisting of brown paper!) they were to turn into ready money. Our early writers have innumerable allusions to the custom.

P. 18, l. 22, wit, whither wilt thou?]—A kind of proverbial expression, by no means unfrequent: see, for instance, Shakespeare’s As you like it, Act iv. sc. 1.

P. 18, l. 26, tottered.]—tattered.

P. 18, l. 30, M. Weild the mayor.]—See note, p. 29.

P. 19, l. 8, I put out some money to haue threefold gaine at my returne.]—See note, p. 26.

P. 19, l. 19, Bench-whistlers.]—perhaps, sottish idlers on ale-house benches; see Gifford’s note in B. Jonson’s Works, i. 103.

P. 19, l. 19, ketlers and keistrels.]—The first of these terms I am unable to explain; but it occurs in Middleton’s Black Book, “So, drawing in amongst bunglers and ketlers under the plain frieze of simplicity, thou mayest finely couch the wrought velvet of knavery;” and in his Father Hubburd’s Tales, we find “like an old cunning bowler to fetch in a young ketling gamester:” see Middleton’s Works, v. 543, 589, ed. Dyce. Keistrels are hawks of a worthless and degenerate breed.

P. 20, l. 3, pretends.]—intends.

P. 20, l. 9, sort.]—set, band.

P. 20, l. 24, Jigmonger.]—ballad maker.

  P. 20, l. 26, the great ballet-maker T. D., alias Tho. Deloney, Chronicler of the memorable liues of the 6. yeomen of the west, Jack of Newbery, the Gentle-craft.]—Thomas Deloney succeeded Elderton as the most popular ballad-writer of the time: for an account of his poetical pieces, see Ritson’s Bibl. Poet. and Collier’s Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet. iii. 100. The pleasing ballad of Fair Rosamond, reprinted in Percy’s Rel. of An. Engl. Poet. ii. 143. ed. 1794, is probably the composition of Deloney, as it is found in more than one of his publications. In 1596, had he not eluded the search of the Mayor of London, he would have been punished for writing “a certain Ballad, containing a Complaint of great Want and Scarcity of Corn within the Realm ... bringing in the Queen speaking with her People Dialogue-wise, in very fond and undecent sort,” &c., Stow’s Survey, B. v. 333. ed. 1720, where he is described as “an idle Fellow, and one noted with the like Spirit in printing a Book for the Silk Weavers, wherein was found some such like foolish and disorderly matter.” Nash terms him “the Balletting Silke-weauer,” Haue with you to Saffron-walden, 1596, Sig. N. 3. Deloney was no less celebrated among the vulgar for his prose-romances than for his ballads. Thomas of Reading, or the sixe worthie Yeomen of the West, is noticed in the present passage as a well-known work, and was dramatized in 1601 (Malone’s Shakespeare, by Boswell, iii. 325-6; Collier’s Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet. iii. 99), but no impression has been discovered earlier than the fourth, 1612, 4to: this tale is reprinted in Thoms’s Early Prose Rom. i. Of The pleasant Historie of John Winchcomb, in his younguer yeares called Jack of Newbery, the famous and worthy Clothier of England; declaring his life and loue, together with his charitable deeds and great Hospitalitie, &c., the earliest edition extant is the eighth, 1619, 4to: its entry in the Stationers’ Books stands thus:

(Liber C. fol. 19)

  The Gentle Craft, A most merry and pleasant History, not altogether vnprofitable, nor any way hurtfull: very fit to passe away the tediousnes of the long winters euenings, in Two Parts, 1598, 4to., is probably the first edition, for the following entry in the Stationers’ Books seems to relate to it:

P. 21, l. 7, one whose imployment for the Pageant was vtterly spent, he being knowne to be Eldertons immediate heyre.]—An allusion to Anthony Munday. During a long life he figured in various capacities,—as a player, an apprentice to Allde the printer, a retainer of the Earl of Oxford, a Messenger of her Majesty’s Chamber, Poet to the City, dramatist, writer in verse and prose, and draper. He also excited considerable attention, and drew much trouble on himself, by his efforts in detecting the treasonable practices of the Jesuits. According to the inscription on his monument in the church of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, he died in his 80th year, August 10th 1633. (Stow’s Survey, B. iii. 61. ed. 1720.) For a fuller account of Munday and his writings, see Chalmers’s Biog. Dict., Collier’s Supplementary volume to Dodsley’s Old Plays, Warton’s Hist. of Engl. Poet., iii., 290, seq. ed. 4to., Ritson’s Bibl. Poet., and Lowndes’s Bibl. Man. His Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, and Death of Robert, &c. (in the latter of which, if not in the former, he was assisted by Chettle) are reprinted by Mr. Collier in the volume just mentioned; his English Romayne Life; Discovering the Lives of the Englishmen at Rome, the orders of the English Seminarie, &c. and his Banquet of daintie Conceits, &c. may be found in The Harl. Miscell. VII. 136, IX. 219, ed. Park; his Triumphes of Reunited Britania, Metropolis Coronata, and Crysanaleia, the Golden Fishing, are included in Nichols’s Prog. of K. James, i. 564, iii. 107, 195; and extracts from his translations of various romances are given in Sir E. Brydges’s Brit. Bibl. i. 225, 135, ii. 561.

  Gifford thinks it probable that most of the annual pageants from 1591 to the death of Elizabeth were produced by Munday (Note on B. Jonson’s Works, vi. 328). Though Kemp declares here that his “imployment for the pageant was utterly spent,” yet Anthony furnished the city shows for 1605, 1611, and (in spite of an attack made on him by Middleton in 1613—see my ed. of Middleton’s Works, v. 219, note), for 1614, 1615, and 1616.

P. 21, l. 11, mistery.]—art, trade.

  P. 21, l. 14, making.]—poetical composition.

P. 21, l. 15, Macdobeth.]—This mention of a piece anterior to Shakespeare’s tragedy on the same subject has escaped the commentators.

P. 21, l. 21, the bankside.]—In Southwark, where the Globe and other theatres were situated.

P. 21, l. 29, hoddy doddy.]—A term of contempt, which occurs in B. Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour, Act iv. sc. 8, Works, i. 141, ed. Gifford, and is used by a comparatively recent writer, Swift. See Richardson’s Dict. in v.

P. 21, l. 30, habber de hoy.]—“A Hober-de-hoy, half a man and half a boy.” Ray’s Proverbs, p. 57, ed. 1768.—The word is variously written: see Jamieson’s Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang. in v. Hobbledehoy.

P. 21, l. 30, squall.]—probably, poor effeminate creature. Taylor, the water-poet, describes the rich foolish gallant calling his harlot,

and Middleton, who employs the word several times, seems to use it in the sense of wench: see his Works, iii. 55, v. 575. ed. Dyce.

P. 21, l. 32, Derick.]—hang,—the name of the common hangman when this tract was written: he is frequently mentioned in our old plays.

P. 22, l. 6, Mundus Furiosus.]—Mundi Fvriosi sive P. A. Iansonii Narra[tio]nis Rervm Tota Europa Gestarum, Continvatio ab Anno 1597 vsque ad annum præsentem 1600. Coloniæ, 1600, 8vo.

P. 22, l. 7, Cullians.]—scoundrels.

P. 22, l. 13, this beggerly lying busie-bodies name brought out the Ballad-maker.]—Kemp, I conceive, alludes here to Richard Johnson, who is still remembered by his Famous Historie of the Seuen Champions of Christendome, in two Parts, of which the earliest extant edition (what edition the title-page does not indicate) was printed in 1608, 4to. Ritson remarks that this celebrated romance is mentioned in Meres’s Palladis Tamia (fol. 268), 1598. Observ. on Warton’s Hist. of Engl. Po et. p. 23; but I can produce a notice of it anterior to that date from the Stationers’ Books:

  LONDON: J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET.