Footnote 329:  Itinerary, vol. iii. p. 374.

Footnote 330:  A Method for Travell, fol.  G.

Footnote 331:  Instructions for Forreine Travel, p. 51.

Footnote 332:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. v. p. 24.

Footnote 333:  The Voyage of Italy; Preface to the Reader, fol.  B 4.

Footnote 334:  The State of France, 1652.  Folio B.

Footnote 335:  Robert Boyle, Works, 1744, vol. i. p. 7.

Footnote 336:  Lismore Papers, 1st Series, vol. v. pp. 78, 80.

Footnote 337:  Ibid., 112.

Footnote 338:  It was a common custom at this time to marry one’s sons, if a favourable match could be made, before they went abroad.

Footnote 339:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 95.

Footnote 340:  On Nov. 23rd, 1610, Carleton, the Ambassador at Venice, wrote to Salisbury that his son was ill at Padua.  “He finds relish in nothing on this side the mountains, nor much in anything on this side the sea; his affections being so strangely set on his return homeward, that any opposition is a disease.”  Cranborne’s tutor, Dr Lister, wrote to Carleton in December:  “Sir, we must for England, there is no resisting of it.  If we stay the fruit will not be great, the discontent infinite.  My Lord is going to dinner, this being the first meal he eateth.” (State Papers, 1610.  Cited in Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, ed.  Pearsall-Smith, vol. i. p. 501.)

Footnote 341:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 98.

Footnote 342:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 234.

Footnote 343:  Ibid., p. 171.

Footnote 344:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 100.

Footnote 345:  Ibid., p. 103.

Footnote 346:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 100.

Footnote 347:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 99.

Footnote 348:  In March 1640.  This fact, and his appearance in the Lismore Papers, are not mentioned in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Footnote 349:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 113.

Footnote 350:  Ibid., p. 235.

Footnote 351:  Ibid., p. 234.

Footnote 352:  Ibid., pp. 232-3.

Footnote 353:  She became one of the mistresses of Charles II.  With her daughter, Charlotte Boyle, otherwise Fitzroy, she is buried in Westminster Abbey. (Cockayne’s Peerage, under Viscount Shannon.)

Footnote 354:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. v. pp. 19-24.

Footnote 355:  Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. v. pp. 72, 97, 121.

Footnote 356:  Three Diatribes or Discourses, London, 1671.

Footnote 357:  The Compleat Gentleman, London, 1678.

Footnote 358:  The Compleat Gentleman, p. 3.