[Footnote 11:  Andrew Melville was not present at the celebrated conference held at Hampton-Court, in the first year of King James I., upon the complaint of the Puritans against the ceremonies and the liturgy of the Church of England.  He was summoned to appear before the King and Council in 1604.  In the first edition of “Mr. Walton’s Life of Mr. George Herbert,” Melville is described to be “Master of a great wit; a wit full of knots and clenches; a wit sharp and satirical; exceeded, I think, by none of that nation, but their Buchanan.”]

[Footnote 12:  Daughter of Charles Stuart, Earl of Lenox, the younger brother of Henry, Earl of Darnley, father of King James I. She was born at Hampstead in 1577, and received a very liberal education; added to which, she possessed a large estate, and, the English succession being doubtful, she was supposed to be a probable heir to the crown.  She incurred the displeasure of James, by marrying Mr. William Seymour, grandson of the Earl of Hertford, for which she was sent to the Tower; and although she had made her escape thence, she was overtaken, brought back, and died there in 1615.]

[Footnote 13:  James Duport, the learned son of a learned father, John Duport, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, was Greek Professor in that University.  On the promotion of Dr. Edward Rainbow to the See of Carlisle, he was appointed Dean of Peterborough, and in 1668 was elected Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge.]

[Footnote 14:  In the margin of the 1670 edition is written “Albumazar, Ignoramus.”  The author of “Albumazar,” a piece presented before the King at Cambridge in 1614, and printed in the same year, was John Tomkis.  “Ignoramus,” a Latin comedy by James Ruggle (or Ruggles), was first printed in 1630.]

[Footnote 15:  Dr. Richard Parry, who died September 26, 1623.  The “sinecure” here mentioned was the rectory of Whitford.]

[Footnote 16:  Mr. Herbert Thorndike was then Fellow of Trinity College.  He was ejected from his Fellowship by the usurped powers, and admitted to the Rectory of Barley in Hertfordshire, July 2, 1642.  On the death of Dr. Samuel Ward, he was elected to the Mastership of Sidney College, but was kept out of it by the oppression of the times.  For his sufferings and great learning he was installed Prebendary of Westminster, Sept. 5, 1660.  In the year following he resigned his living of Barley, and died in 1672.  He assisted Dr. Walton in the edition of the Polyglot Bible.]

[Footnote 17:  Dr. John Williams, afterwards Archbishop of York, was then Bishop of Lincoln, the last ecclesiastic who was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.]

[Footnote 18:  See Prof.  Mayor’s “Nicholas Farrer:  Two Lives by his brother John and Dr. Jebb.” (Cambridge, 1855.)]

[Footnote 19:  A native of Scotland, educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, afterwards Greek Professor of the University.  During the Civil Wars, he suffered extremely for the Royal Cause, and was an exile with Charles II., who gave him the Deanery of Wells on the Restoration, and in 1670, he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells.  He died in 1672.]