33.  In 1444, Ladislaus king of Hungary, in breach of a treaty solemnly
   sworn upon the gospel, invaded Bulgaria, at the instigation of the
   Cardinal Legate.  He was slain, and his army totally routed in the
   bloody battle of Warna, where ten thousand Christians fell before
   the janissaries of Amurath II.  It is said, that while the battle
   remained undecided, the sultan displayed the solemn treaty, and
   invoked the God of truth, and the blessed name of Jesus, to revenge
   the impious infidelity of the Hungarian.  This battle would have
   laid Hungary under the Turkish yoke, had it not been for the
   exploits of John Corvinus Huniades, the white knight of Walachia,
   and the more dubious prowess of the famous John Castriot, king of
   Epirus.

34.  In the preface to which the author alleges, that Hunt contributed
   no small share towards the composition of “Julian the Apostate.” 
   See WOOD’S Ath.  Oxon. v. ii. p. 729.

35.  The song against the bishops is probably a ballad, upon their
   share in throwing out the bill of exclusion, beginning thus: 

     The grave house of Commons, by hook, or by crook,
     Resolved to root out both the pope and the duke;
     Let them vote, let them move, let them do what they will;
     The bishops, the bishops, have thrown out the bill.

   It concludes with the following stanza: 

     The best of expedients, the law can propose,
     Our church to preserve, and to quiet our foes,
     Is not to let lawn sleeves our parliament fill,
     But throw out the bishops, that threw out the bill.
                                   State Poems, Vol.  III. p. 154.

   The Tunbridge ballad, which our author also ascribes to Shadwell or
   his assistant, I have not found among the numerous libels of the
   time.

36.  The “Massacre of Paris” appears to have been written by Lee,
   during the time of the Popish plot, and if then brought out, the
   subject might have been extravagantly popular.  It would appear it
   was suppressed at the request of the French ambassador.  Several
   speeches, and even a whole scene seem to have been transplanted to
   the “Duke of Guise,” which were afterwards replaced, when the
   Revolution rendered the “Massacre of Paris,” again a popular topic. 
   There were, among others, the description of the meeting of Alva
   and the queen mother at Bayonne; the sentiments expressed
   concerning the assassination of Caesar, and especially the whole
   quarrelling scene between Guise and Grillon, which, in the
   “Massacre of Paris,” passes between Guise and the admiral
   Chastillon.  In the preface to the “Princess of Cleves,” which was
   acted in 1689, Lee gives the following account of the transposition
   of these passages.  “The Duke of Guise, who was notorious for a