22.

Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 51-4; Life, ed. 1759, pp. 19-23.

This is Falkland in his younger days, amid the hospitable pleasures of
Tew, before he was overwhelmed in politics and war.

Page 86, l. 20. he, i.e.  Clarendon.

Page 88, l. 2. the two most pleasant places, Great Tew (see p. 72, l. 30) and Burford, where Falkland was born.  He sold Burford in 1634 to William Lenthall, the Speaker of the Long Parliament:  see p. 91, l. 5.

Page 89, l. 2.  He married Lettice, daughter of Sir Richard Morrison of Tooley Park, Leicestershire.  His friendship with her brother Henry is celebrated in an ode by Ben Jonson, ’To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lucius Cary, and Sir H. Morison’ (Under-woods, 1640, p. 232).

Page 91, ll. 17-20.  So in the MS. The syntax is confused, but the sense is clear.

Page 92, ll. 21, 22.  Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1663; Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and builder of the Sheldonian Theatre there.

George Morley (1597-1684), Bishop of Worcester, 1660.

Henry Hammond (1605-60), chaplain to Charles I.

Clarendon has given short characters of Sheldon and Morley in his Life.  For his characters of Earle and Chillingworth, see Nos. 50 and 52.

Page 94, l. 11.  See note p. 74, l. 14.

Page 95, l. 3.  Cf. p. 78, l. 17.

l. 17.  It is notable that Clarendon nowhere suggests that Falkland was also a poet.  Cowley gives his verses the highest praise in his address to him on the Northern Expedition (see p. 83, l. 2, note); and they won him a place in Suckling’s Sessions of the Poets: 

  He was of late so gone with Divinity
  That he had almost forgot his Poetry,
  Though to say the truth (and Apollo did know it)
  He might have been both his Priest and his Poet.

His poems were collected and edited by A.B.  Grosart in 1871.

23.

Clarendon, MS. Life, p. 55; Life, ed. 1759, p. 24.

This very pleasing portrait of Godolphin serves as a pendant to the longer and more elaborate description of his friend.  Clarendon wrote also a shorter character of him in the History (vol. ii, pp. 457-8).

Page 96, l. 2. so very small a body.  He is the ‘little Cid’ (i.e. 
Sidney) of Suckling’s Sessions of the Poets.

PAGE 97, l. 1.  He was member for Helston from 1628 to 1643.

l. 6.  In the character in the History Clarendon says that he left ’the ignominy of his death upon a place which could never otherwise have had a mention to the world’.  The place was Chagford.

24.

Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 69-70; History, Bk.  I, ed. 1702, vol. i, pp. 69-73; ed.  Macray, vol. i, pp. 119-25.

The three characters of Laud here given supplement each other.  They convey the same idea of the man.