feared
that sea coal will be good merchandise even in the city of London."
Harrison's prophecy was fulfilled in a very few years; for about 1615,
there were two hundred sail employed in carrying coal to London. See
Anderson, vol. i. p. 494.]

[Footnote 41: NOTE OO, p. 373. Life of Burleigh, published by Collins,
f--44. The author hints that this quantity of plate was considered only
as small in a man of Burleigh's rank. His words are, "His plate was not
above fourteen or fifteen thousand pounds." That he means pounds weight
is evident. For, by Burleigh's will, which is annexed to his life, that
nobleman gives away in legacies, to friends and relations, near four
thousand pounds weight, which would have been above twelve thousand
pounds sterling in value. The remainder he orders to be divided into two
equal portions; the half to his eldest son and heir; the other half to
be divided equally among his second son and three daughters. Were we
therefore to understand the whole value of his plate to be only 14 or
16,000 pounds sterling, he left not the tenth of it to the heir of his
family.]

[Footnote 42: NOTE PP, p. 373. Harrison says, "The greatest part of
our building in the cities and good towns of England consisteth only
of timber, cast over with thick clay to keep out the wind. Certes, this
rude kind of building made the Spaniards in Queen Mary's days to wonder;
but chiefly when they saw that large diet was used in many of these so
homely cottages, insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them
said after this manner: These English, quoth he, have their houses made
of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king. Whereby
it appeareth, that he liked better of our good fare in such coarse
cabins, than of their own thin diet in their princely habitations and
palaces. The clay with which our houses are commonly empanelled, is
either white, red, or blue." Book ii. chap. 12. The author adds, that
the new houses of the nobility are commonly of brick or stone, and that
glass windows were beginning to be used in England.]

[Footnote 43: NOTE QQ, p. 375. The following are the words of Roger
Ascham, the queen's preceptor: "It is your shame, (I speak to you all,
young gentlemen of England,) that one maid should go beyond ye all in
excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues. Point out six of
the best given gentlemen of this court, and all they together show not
so much good will, spend not