[Footnote 23:  Thomas Nashe, an English Satirical writer, baptized in 1567 at Lowestoffe, in Suffolk, and educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge.  As a master of invective he has no superior; he died in or before 1601.—­An Almond for a Parrot, was probably by Lyly the Euphuist. A Fig for my Godson, and Come, Crack me this Nut, are the after-titles of Pappe with an Hatchet, another tract of Lyly’s (if we may believe the testimony of Gabriel Harvey).]

[Footnote 24:  In some of the later editions of the Life of Hooker, this paragraph is thus altered—­“And in this examination:  I have not only satisfied myself, but have begun a treatise in which I intend the satisfaction of others, by a demonstration of the reasonableness of our Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity; and therein laid a hopeful foundation for the Church’s peace; and so as not to provoke your adversary, Mr. Cartwright, nor Mr. Travers, whom I take to be mine—­but not mine enemy—­God knows this to be my meaning.  To which end I have searched many books, and spent many thoughtful hours; and I hope not in vain, for I write to reasonable men.  But, my Lord, I shall never be able to finish what I have begun, unless I be removed into some quiet country parsonage, where I may see God’s blessings spring out of my mother earth, and eat mine own bread in peace and privacy.  A place where I may, without disturbance, meditate my approaching mortality and that great account, which all flesh must at the last great day give to the God of all Spirits.  This is my design; and as those are the designs of my heart, so they shall, by God’s assistance, be the constant endeavours of the uncertain remainder of my life.”]

[Footnote 25:  He was for some time Fellow of Oriel College, and principal of St. Mary Hall.  He was made a Cardinal by Pope Sixtus V. in 1587.  In 1589, he was appointed Archbishop of Mechlin in Brabant, and died on 6th October, 1594.]

[Footnote 26:  It is ascertained by Bishop King’s letter to Walton, that it was Dr. Stapleton who introduced the works of Hooker to the Pope.  Thomas Stapleton was a Romish Divine, born in 1536, at Henfield, in Sussex, and educated at Winchester, and New College, Oxford.  In the reign of Mary he was made Prebendary of Chichester; but at the accession of Elizabeth he left England, and became Professor of Divinity at Douay.  He died at Louvain, in 1598, and his works form four volumes in folio.]

[Footnote 27:  Dr. John Earle, author of the “Microcosmography, or a piece of the World, discovered in Essays and characters,” was born at York, in 1601; was educated at Oxford, and was Tutor to Prince Charles.  In the Civil Wars, he lost both his property and preferments, and attended the King abroad as his Chaplain.  At the Restoration he was made Dean of Westminster, in 1662 was consecrated Bishop of Worcester, and in 1663 was translated to Salisbury.  He died at Oxford, 1665.  His translation of Hooker’s Polity was never printed.]