dherents
have dwindled of late, will henceforth be relegated, I trust, to the
category of popular delusions.

{407} Cf. _Sydney Papers_, ed. Collins, i. 353. 'My Lord (of Pembroke)
himself with _my Lord Harbert_ (is) come up to see the Queen' (Rowland
Whyte to Sir Robert Sydney, October 8, 1591), and again p. 361 (November
16, 1595); and p. 372 (December 5, 1595). John Chamberlain wrote to Sir
Dudley Carleton on August 1, 1599, '_Young Lord Harbert_, Sir Henrie
Carie, and Sir William Woodhouse, are all in election at Court, who shall
set the best legge foremost.' _Chamberlain's Letters_ (Camden Soc.), p.
57

{408} Thomas Sackville, the author of the _Induction_ to_ The Mirror for
Magistrates_ and other poetical pieces, and part author of _Gorboduc_,
was born plain 'Thomas Sackville,' and was ordinarily addressed in youth
as 'Mr. Sackville.' He wrote all his literary work while he bore that
and no other designation. He subsequently abandoned literature for
politics, and was knighted and created Lord Buckhurst. Very late in
life, in 1604--at the age of sixty-eight--he became Earl of Dorset. A
few of his youthful effusions, which bore his early signature, 'M.
[_i.e._ Mr.] Sackville,' were reprinted with that signature unaltered in
an encyclopaedic anthology, _England's Parnassus_, which was published,
wholly independently of him, in 1600, after he had become Baron
Buckhurst. About the same date he was similarly designated Thomas or Mr.
Sackville in a reprint, unauthorised by him, of his _Induction_ to _The
Mirror for Magistrates_, which was in the original text ascribed, with
perfect correctness, to Thomas or Mr. Sackville. There is clearly no
sort of parallel (as has been urged) between such an explicable, and not
unwarrantable, metachronism and the misnaming of the Earl of Pembroke
'Mr. W. H.' As might be anticipated, persistent research affords no
parallel for the latter irregularity.

{409} An examination of a copy of the book in the Bodleian--none is in
the British Museum--shows that the dedication is signed J. H., and not,
as Mr. Fleay infers, by Thorpe. Thorpe had no concern in this volume.

{410} On January 27, 1607-8, one Sir Henry Colte was indicted for
slander in the Star Chamber for addressing a peer, Lord Morley, as
'goodman Morley.' A technical defect--the omission of the precise date
of the alleged offence--in the bill of indictment led to a dismissal of
the cause. See _Les Reportes del