[Footnote 69:  The quince comes from Sydon, a town of Crete, we are told by Le Grand, in his Vie privee des Francois, vol. i. p. 143; where may be found a list of the origin of most of our fruits.]

[Footnote 70:  Peacham has here given a note. “The filbert, so named of Philibert, a king of France, who caused by arte sundry kinds to be brought forth:  as did a gardener of Otranto in Italie by cloue-gilliflowers, and carnations of such colours as we now see them.”]

[Footnote 71:  The queen-apple was probably thus distinguished in compliment to Elizabeth.  In Moffet’s “Health’s Improvement,” I find an account of apples which are said to have been “graffed upon a mulberry-stock, and then wax thorough red as our queen-apples, called by Ruellius, Rubelliana, and Claudiana by Pliny.”  I am told the race is not extinct; but though an apple of this description may yet be found, it seems to have sadly degenerated.]

[Footnote 72:  The Court of Wards was founded in the right accorded to the king from the earliest time, to act as guardian to all minors who were the children of his own tenants, or of those who did the sovereign knightly service.  They were in the same position, consequently, as the Chancery Wards of the present day; but much complaint being made of the private management of themselves and their estates by the persons who acted as their guardians, and who were responsible only to the king’s exchequer, King Henry VIII., in the thirty-second year of his reign, founded “the Court of Wards” in Westminster Hall, as an open court of trial or appeal, for all persons under its jurisdiction.  In the following year, a court of “liveries” was added to it; and it was always afterwards known as the “Court of Wards and Liveries.”  By “liveries” is meant, in old legal phraseology, “the delivery of seisin to the heir of the king’s tenant in ward, upon suing for it at full age,” the investiture, in fact, of the ward in his legal right as heir to his parents’ property.  This court was under the conduct of a very few officers who enriched themselves; and one of the first acts of the House of Lords, when the great changes were made during the troubles of Charles I., was to suppress the court altogether.  This was done in 1645, and confirmed by Cromwell in 1656.  At the restoration of Charles II. it was again specially noted as entirely suppressed.]

[Footnote 73:  D’Ewes’s father lost a manor, which was recovered by the widow of the person who had sold it to him.  Old D’Ewes considered this loss as a punishment for the usurious loan of money; the fact is, that he had purchased that manor with the interests accumulating from the money lent on it.  His son entreated him to give over “the practice of that controversial sin.”  This expression shows that even in that age there were rational political economists.  Jeremy Bentham, in his little treatise on Usury, offers just views, cleared from the indistinct and partial ones so long prevalent.  Jeremy Collier has an admirable Essay on Usury, vol. iii.  It is a curious notion of Lord Bacon, that he would have interest at a lower rate in the country than in trading towns, because the merchant is best able to afford the highest.]