[Footnote O:  The London “Monument,” erected from a design by Sir Christopher Wren, on the spot where the great London Fire of 1666 began.—­Ed.]

[Footnote P:  The historic Tower of London.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Q:  A theatre in St. John’s Street Road, Clerkenwell, erected in 1765.—­Ed.]

[Footnote R:  See ‘Samson Agonistes’, l. 88.—­Ed.]

[Footnote S:  See ‘Hamlet’, act I. sc. v. l. 100.—­Ed.]

[Footnote T:  The story of Mary, “The Maid of Buttermere,” as told in the guidebooks, is as follows: 

’She was the daughter of the inn-keeper at the Fish Inn.  She was much admired, and many suitors sought her hand in vain.  At last a stranger, named Hatfield, who called himself the Hon. Colonel Hope, brother of Lord Hopetoun, won her heart, and married her.  Soon after the marriage, he was apprehended on a charge of forgery, surreptitiously franking a letter in the name of a Member of Parliament, tried at Carlisle, convicted, and hanged.  It was discovered during the trial, that he had a wife and family, and had fled to these sequestered parts to escape the arm of the law.’

See ‘Essays on his own Times’, by S. T. Coleridge, edited by his daughter Sara.  A melodrama on the story of the Maid of Buttermere was produced in all the suburban London theatres; and in 1843 a novel was published in London by Henry Colburn, entitled ’James Hatfield and the Beauty of Buttermere, a Story of Modern Times’, with illustrations by Robert Cruikshank.—­Ed.]

[Footnote U:  Compare S. T. C.’s ‘Essays on his own Times’, p. 585.—­Ed.]

[Footnote V:  He first went south to Cambridge, in October 1787; and he left London, at the close of his second visit to Town, in the end of May 1791.—­Ed.]

[Footnote W:  Compare ‘Macbeth’, act II. sc. i. l. 58: 

  ‘Thy very stones prate of my whereabout.’

Ed.]

[Footnote X:  The Houses of Parliament.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Y:  See Shakespeare’s ‘King Henry the Fifth’, act IV. sc. iii. l. 53.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Z:  Solomon Gesner (or Gessner), a landscape artist, etcher, and poet, born at Zuerich in 1730, died in 1787.  His ‘Tod Abels’ (the death of Abel), though the poorest of all his works, became a favourite in Germany, France, and England.  It was translated into English by Mary Collyer, a 12th edition of her version appearing in 1780.  As ’The Death of Abel’ was written before 1760, in the line “he who penned, the other day,” Wordsworth probably refers to some new edition of the translation.—­Ed.]

[Footnote a:  Edward Young, author of ’Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality’.—­Ed.]

[Footnote b:  In Argyleshire.—­Ed.]

[Footnote c:  Permission was given by Henry I. to hold a “Fair” on St. Bartholomew’s day.—­Ed.]

[Footnote d:  In one of the MS. books in Dorothy Wordsworth’s handwriting, on the outside leather cover of which is written, “May to December 1802,” there are some lines which were evidently dictated to her, or copied by her, from the numerous experimental efforts of her brother in connection with this autobiographical poem.  They are as follows: