[Footnote 19:  Gavelkind, or the practice of dividing lands equally among all the male children of the deceased, was (according to Spelman) adopted by the Saxons, from Germany, and is noticed by Tacitus in his description of that nation. Gloss.  Archaiol., folio, Lond. 1664.  Harrison, in The Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed’s Chronicle (vol. i. page 180), says, “Gauell kind is all the male children equallie to inherit, and is continued to this daie in Kent, where it is onelie to my knowledge reteined, and no where else in England.”  And Lambarde, in his Customes of Kent (Perambulation, 410, 1596, page 538), thus notices it:—­“The custom of Grauelkynde is generall, and spreadeth itselfe throughout the whole shyre, into all landes subiect by auncient tenure vnto the same, such places onely excepted, where it is altered by acte of parleament.”]

[Footnote 20:  Minster-walk, 1st edit.]

[Footnote 21:  Ambrose Spinola was one of the most celebrated and excellent commanders that Spain ever possessed:  he was born, in 1569, of a noble family, and distinguished himself through life in being opposed to Prince Maurice of Nassau, the greatest general of his age, by whom he was ever regarded with admiration and respect.  He died in 1630, owing to a disadvantage sustained by his troops at the siege of Cassel, which was to be entirely attributed to the imprudent orders he received from Spain, and which that government compelled him to obey.  This disaster broke his heart; and he died with the exclamation of “they have robbed me of my honour;” an idea he was unable to survive.  It is probable that, at the time this character was composed, many of the disaffected in England were in expectation of an attack to be made on this country by the Spaniards, under the command of Spinola.]

[Footnote 22:  and Lipsius his hopping stile before either Tully or Quintilian. First edit.]

[Footnote 23:  Primivist and primero were, in all probability, the same game, although Minshew, in his Dictionary, calls them “two games at cardes.”  The latter he explains, “primum et primum visum, that is, first and first seene, because hee that can shew such an order of cardes, first winnes the game.”  The coincidence between Mr. Strutt’s description of the former and the passage in the text, shows that there could be little or no difference between the value of the cards in these games, or in the manner of playing them.  “Each player had four cards dealt to him, one by one, the seven was the highest card, in point of number, that he could avail himself of, which counted for twenty-one, the six counted for sixteen, the five for fifteen, and the ace for the same,” &c. (Sports and Pastimes, 247.) The honourable Daines Harrington conceived that Primero was introduced by Philip the Second, or some of his suite, whilst in England.  Shakspeare proves that it was played in the royal circle.