^{page iii note a} See note as to Mary's age at the end of this Preface.

^{page iv note a} It seemed to me at first that a title page must have preceded the prefatory poem and been lost; but the leaf which contains the poem is clearly the first leaf of the first sheet, the next leaf bearing the signature A ii. This, in the opinion of Mr. Graves of the British Museum, proves that there could have been no general title-page. The title prefixed in this Edition, “Solennes Ceremoniæ et Trinmphi,” is borrowed from the text. See page 2.

^{page iv note b} The two sections of the lower part of the frontispiece may be from the same blocks in both editions; but the higher part, though the design corresponds in the minutest details, is much coarser work in the English edition than in the Latin.

^{page viii note a} See my Letters and Papers, Ric. III. and Henry VII., i 360–1.

^{page ix note a} Gonsalvo Fernandez of Cordova.

^{page ix note b} Gonsalyo had the title of Duke of Terranova. See Calendar of State Papers of Henry VIII., Vol. I., No. 3593, at the end, of Style's despatch.

^{page x note a} Memorials of Henry VII. (Rolls Series), pp. 438–440.

^{page x note b} Calendar of Henry VIII., Vol. I., Nos. 27, 240, 490 (p. 68).

^{page xi note a} MS. Cott., Galba B III. 93. The original letter is slightly mutilated.

^{page xii note a} MS. Cott. Galba B. III., 138. Calendar of Henry VIII., Vol. II., No. 234.

^{page xii note b} One argument, indeed, seems to militate against the date of this letter being 1508. It is countersigned by Haneton, who was actually a member of the embassy then in England. But it is clear that it was written and prepared for signature some time before it was actually signed; for both the month and the day of the month were originally left blank, and the “xviij” and “decembre” have been distinctly filled up in the blank spaces by another hand.

^{page xiii note a} Calendar of Henry VIII., Vol. I., No. 4058.

^{page xiii note b} Venetian Calendar, Vol. II., No. 564.

^{page xiii note c} Calendar, Vol. I., Nos. 4508, 4512, 4560.

^{page xiii note d} Ib., No. 4296, ii.

^{page xiii note e} Ib., No. 4328.

^{page xiii note f} Ib., No. 4416, and Rymer, XIII., 374.

^{page xiv note a} Calendar, Henry VIII., Vol. I., Nos.4932, 4976, 5018, 5029, 5030.

^{page xiv note b} Calendar, Nos. 5041, 5126, 5152, 5290.

^{page xiv note c} Ib., No. 5212.

^{page xv note a} See page 19.

^{page xv note b} See the letter in Fabronio, Leonis X. Vita, 278.

^{page 2 note a} Misprinted “facmorem.”

^{page 2 note b} Legetiū in original.

^{page 2 note c} Sic.

^{page 3 note a} Misprinted “Impecatore.”

^{page 3 note b} John lord of Berghes, the Emperor's Chamberlain.

^{page 3 note c} Laurence de Gorrevod, governor of Bresse.

^{page 4 note a} Splonke, Fploneke. The name, which was really Pflug, is misprinted both in the English and in the Latin. In Rymer it appears in one place (Vol. xiii. 228) as Pileng, and in another as Plough (238); while Wolsey, in his despatches to Henry VII., calls him Dr. Flucke. His Christian name was Sigismund, and his degree was Doctor utriusque juris or LL.D.

^{page 4 note b} Jean le Sauvaige.

^{page 4 note c} George de Theimseke, of whom Sir Thomas More speaks in his Utopia as “a man not only by learning, but also by nature, of singular eloquence, and in the laws profoundly learned; bnt in reasoning and debating of matter, what by his natural wit and what by daily exercise, surely he had few fellows.”

^{page 4 note d} This was Philip Haneton, the Emperor's first secretary and audientiarius.—See Bymer xiii. 230.

^{page 5 note a} Misprinted “quoe.”

^{page 5 note b} Adolphe de Bourgogne, Seigneur de Bevres (Bereren).

^{page 5 note c} John de Berghes Seigneur de Walhain eldest son of John lord of Berghes above mentioned.

^{page 5 note d} Sir Gilbert Talbot.

^{page 6 note a} Thomas Goldstone.

^{page 6 note b} John Dygon.

^{page 6 note c} George Talbot, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury.

^{page 6 note d} John de Giglis Bishop of Worcester, Papal agent in England.

^{page 6 note e} Sir Thomas Docwra, prior of the Knights of St. John at Clerkenwell.

^{page 6 note f} Dr. Nicholas West, afterwards Bishop of Ely.

^{page 7 note a} The mayor this year was Sir Stephen Jennings, merchant taylor.

^{page 7 note b} William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury.

^{page 7 note c} The sheriffs this year were Thomas Exmewe and Richard Smith.

^{page 8 note a} The Knights of the Royal Body, called frequently milites pro corpore Regis.

^{page 8 note b} Rodrigo de Pnebla, LL.D.

^{page 9 note a} Henry Prince of Wales, afterwards Henry VIII.

^{page 10 note a} William Warham.

^{page 11 note a} William Warham.

^{page 11 note b} Richard Fox.

^{page 11 note c} Thomas Fits-Alan, 16th Earl of Arundel.

^{page 16 note a} Margaret married to James IV. of Scotland.

^{page 16 note b} The old palace at Sheen, as the place was then called, was burned down on the 21st December, 1497. It had since been rebuilt in most sumptuous fashion, and called by Henry Richmond from the title which he bore before he was King. The locality, it is needless to say, is known by that name still.

^{page 17 note a} Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henry VII., died on the 11th February, 1503.

^{page 18 note a} This is an error, for the 16th December was Saturday in 1508. Of course the reading should have been decimus Septimus. The 16th of the month has been already mentioned in the narrative (p. 17).

^{page 18 note b} Isabella the Catholic.

^{page 20 note a} William Warham.

^{page 23 note a} Richard Fitzjames.

^{page 25 note a} vel non in orig.

^{page 25 note b} Sic.

^{page 29 note a} Sic, for oonsidere.

^{page 29 note b} Sic, for consessis.

^{page 29 note c} Sic.

^{page 30 note a} Apparently the word mandatu has been omitted here.

^{page 31 note a} Sic.

^{page 32 note a} Sic.