ssion of _clouted brogues_,
which Mr. Steevens explains to be "shoes strengthened
with _clout_ or _hob-nails_."
63, line 9, "_dragon that pursued the woman._" Evidently
an allusion to _Revelations_, xii. 15.
91, note 8, line 15, for _Styla_ read _Hyla_ in both
instances.
92, note 10, line 5, for _Leiden_ read _Leyden_.
117, line 3, "Their humanity is a _leg to the
residencer_." A _leg_ here signifies a _bow_. Decker
says, "a jewe neuer weares his cap threedbare with
putting it off; neuer bends i' th' hammes with _casting
away a leg_, &c." _Guls Hornebooke._ p. 11.
182, note 1, for _spunge_ read _sponge_.
208, line 4, for _spera_ read _spero_.
ib. line 30, for _conjesta_ read _congesta_.
ib. line 31, for _susuperavit_ read _superavit_.
231, line 11, for _Jude_ read _Inde_: for _ferucat_ read
_ferueat_.
245, line 7, for _whosc_ read _whose_.
Several errors and inaccuracies of less consequence than those here
pointed out, will probably be discovered. These were occasioned by the
editor's distance from the press, and he requests the gentle reader to
pardon and correct them.
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The _Inscription_, No. x. of the _Appendix_, should have been entirely
omitted. The following extract from Guillim's _Heraldry_, shews that
Bishop Earle could not have been connected with the Streglethorp family,
since, if he had, there would have been no occasion for a new grant of
armorial bearings.
"He beareth _ermine_, on a chief indented sable, three
eastern crowns or, by the name of _Earles_. This coat
was granted by _Sir Edward Walker_, garter, the 1st of
August, 1660, to the Reverend Dr. _John Earles_, son of
_Thomas Earles_, gent, sometime Register of the
Archbishop's Court at York. He was Dean of
_Westminster_, and Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty
King _Charles_ the Second; and in the year 1663, made
Bishop of _Salisbury_."
Guillim's _Heraldry_, folio. Lond. 1724. p. 282.
It is almost unnecessary to add that I was not aware of this grant, when I
compiled the short account of Earle, at page 186, and spoke of
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