[Footnote 2:  Locus Benedictus de Whalley.]

[Footnote 3:  This speech is in substance the monarch’s actual Declaration concerning Lawful Sports, promulgated in 1618, in a little Tractate, generally known as the “Book of Sports;” by which he would have conferred a great boon on the lower orders, if his kindly purpose had not been misapprehended by some, and ultimately defeated by bigots and fanatics.  King James deserves to be remembered with gratitude, if only for this manifestation of sympathy with the enjoyments of the people.  He had himself discovered that the restrictions imposed upon them had “setup filthy tipplings and drunkenness, and bred a number of idle and discontented speeches in the alehouses.”]

[Footnote 4:  “There is a laughable tradition,” says Nichols, “still generally current in Lancashire, that our knight-making monarch knighted at the banquet in Hoghton Tower a loin of beef; the part ever since called the sir-loin.”  And it is added by the same authority, “If the King did not give the sir-loin its name, he might, notwithstanding, have indulged in a pun on the already coined word, the etymology of which was then, as now, as little regarded as the thing signified is well approved.”—­Nichols’s Progresses of James I., vol. iii.]

[Footnote 5:  These speeches, given by Nichols as derived from the family records of Sir Henry Philip Hoghton, Bart., were actually delivered at a masque represented on occasion of King James’s visit to Hoghton Tower.]

[Footnote 6:  Published by the Chetham Society, and admirably edited, with notes, exhibiting an extraordinary amount of research and information, by the Rev. F.R.  Raines, M.A., F.S.A., of Milnrow Parsonage, near Rochdale.]