[Footnote 4:  One of Translators of the Bible of 1565, born at Hawkshead in Lancashire in 1519, and educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he embraced the Protestant faith.  He was committed to the Tower and Marshalsea for having preached in favour of Lady Jane Grey; and on his release he left the kingdom, till the accession of Elizabeth, by whom he was made Bishop of Worcester.  In 1570, he was translated to London, in 1576 to York, and in 1588, he died:  his sermons are still admired, and a most virtuous character is given him by Fuller.  His son, Sir Edward Sandys, Prebendary of York, was born about 1561, and is well known as the author of the tract entitled, “Europae Speculum,” a view of the State of Religion in the Western parts of the World.  He thus describes the various contrarieties of the state and church of Rome.  “What pomp, what riot, to that of their Cardinals?  What severity of life comparable to that of their Heremits and Capuchins?  Who wealthier than their Prelates? who poorer by vow and profession than their Mendicants?  On the one side of the street, a cloister of Virgins:  on the other a stye of courtezans, with public toleration.  This day all in masks, with all looseness and foolery:  to morrow all in processions, whipping themselves till the blood follow.  On one door an excommunication throwing to Hell all transgressours:  on another a Jubilee, or full discharge from all transgressions.  Who learneder in all kinds of sciences than their Jesuits? what thing more ignorant than their ordinary mass-priests?  What prince so able to prefer his servants and followers as the Pope, and in so great multitude?  Who able to take deeper or readier revenge on his enemies?  What pride equal unto his, making Kings kiss his pantofle?  What humility greater than his, shriving himself daily on his knees to an ordinary priest?”]

[Footnote 5:  The name of this well-known English Cardinal is omitted in the later editions.]

[Footnote 6:  Dr. Jackson was born at Wilton on the Wear, in Durham, in 1579, and was educated at Queen’s and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford.  He was made Prebendary of Winchester in 1635, and Dean of Peterborough in 1638; he died in 1640, and his principal work is a “Commentary on the Creed.”]

[Footnote 7:  Dr. Thomas Harding, educated at Winchester school, became Fellow of New College, Oxford, in 1536.  He was the first King’s Hebrew Professor in that University, and in the reign of King Edward vi. he displayed great zeal for the Reformed Religion.  Under Queen Mary he abandoned his principles, and obtained considerable preferment; a Prebend in the Church of Winchester, and the Treasurership of Salisbury.  On the accession of Queen Elizabeth he adhered to the religion to which he had recently conformed, and fled beyond sea to Louvain, where he distinguished himself by writing against Bishop Jewel’s “Challenge.”  He had been Chaplain to the Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey.]