page 645 note 1 References are to the one-volume Oxford edition.

page 645 note 2 D.N.B.; Malone, ed. Shakespeare, 1821, II, 245 ff.; Randall Davies, Chelsea Old Church, 1904, Greatest House at Chelsey, 1906, 1914, Introduction to ed. of Gorges' Olympian Catastrophe, Kensington, 1925.

page 645 note 3 Below, p. 650.

page 646 note 4 Ret ister Univ. of Oxford, 11, pt iii, 43.

page 646 note 5 In 1596 he refers to-twenty yean spent in the Queen's service; in 1601 three times to twenty-four years, twice to twenty. Baifieid MSS Col., VI, 481; XI, 194, 222,310; 116,165. (Hatfield papers are referred to for convenience by the Calendar, when it exists, but have been consulted in the original.)

page 646 note 6 J. P. Baxter, Sir Fetdinando Gotta and ku Province of Maine, 1890, II, 151 ff., 163 n. For the family Thome George (Pedigrees of ... . Gorges, priv. pr., 1903) offers a large collection of material requiring identification and testing; its unreliability is exposed by O. Barron, Tke Ancestor, IX. On William Gorges see also Acts Privy Council, 1578-84, indices.

page 646 note 7 T. Westcote, View of Devonshire in 1630, 466, 336; F. Brown, Pedigree of Sir F. Gorges, Histor. and Genealog. Register, 1875. Baxter records the marriage oi William and Winifred Gorges as of 1565, without reference; since a legal record in Addit. MS 38170, f. 245b, speaks explicitly of Arthur Gorget as bom after

Brown gives Tristram and Robert as the first and second sons. Tristram (d. 1607) was the literary executor of Thomas Cavendish, who sends a last message to him and hit brothers at the end of the 1591 voyage (Purchas, Pilgrima, 1907, XVI, 151, 176).

The Arthurian names crop out only in this branch and at this moment

page 647 note 8 Bodl. MS Add. C. 206, f. 26. Gorges' reply (catalogued wrongly as F. Gorges', Summary Cat 29080) is in his own hand at the bottom of the soliciting letter. His name is not inscribed in the official or informal lists of donors to the Bodleian fabric, which are, however, doubtless incomplete: Regislrum Donationum, MSS Top. Ox. b. 41, Arch. Seld. A. 75, Wood D. 32.

page 647 note 9 Arthur and Timoleon, metric. Christ Church, 1616; Timoleon det. B. A. 1618/19, inc. M. A., All Souls, 1622. Register Univ. of Oxford, II, pt. ii, 348; pt. iii, 368. For Arthur jr. as Eubulus in the Christ Church production of Burton's Pkilosopkaster, 1617, see Bist. MSS Com. IV, 356, Lord Mostyn's MS 197. For a diverting anecdote concerning his attendance ata Lenten play at Trinity, 1632, see Gardiner, Carer in Star Ckamber, Camden Soc, 112.

page 647 note 10 Observations for a Seafight, unprinted. The variant account in his Islands Voyage pr. 1625 (Purchss, Pilgrima, 1907, XX, 52) does not suggest the boy Arthur's presence and assigns the part given his father in the MS version to Sir John Parrot.

page 647 note 11 Acts Privy Council,Xl,i22.—ms relations with Sir Thomas and Lady Helena were evidently friendly: Haifieid MSS Col., VII, 395; Sir Thomas' wQl (with tokenn and affectionate reference), George, Pedigree of Gorges, 172; Daphnaida dedication.—On Lady Helena see Colin Clout, 508-515; London T.LS., Sept 8, 1927; Queen Elisabeth and a Swedisk Princas, ed. Sea ton, 1926, 31.

page 647 note 12 Deductions that Gorges' youth was spent in Cornwall, in friendship with Ralegh and Spenser, are purely speculative: Hunter, Chorus Faints; D.N.B (“friend” of Spenser); Davies, Olympian Catastrophe, 11.

page 647 note 13 Cf. dedicatory letter; the white lion is' the badge of the Howards.

page 648 note 14 star Cham. Proc. Elix. H. 20/3 (betrothal aad marriage).—Lanad. MS 43, S. 53, 56, before Oct. 13, 1584 (Howard's effort to retain Douglas).—Acts Privy Council, XII, 205, 234; State Papers Dom. Eli*. CXLIII, 4, 12, 13, 14, 31, 32 (his maltreatment of wife and daughter, 1580).—Lansd. MS 54, nos. 81, 82; Pleadings, Ct. of Wards, 57, Mich- 42-43 Elizabeth, Gorges vs. Cheverell (his debts and outrages in general).—Howard's behavior betrays dementia.

page 648 note 15 Frances Mesutys, lady in waiting to Elizabeth, 1562, Complete Peerage, VI, 584. Her brother was the Queen's messenger in the episode recorded in n. 16.

page 648 note 16 Ordered at Whitsuntide, 1584, by Queen and Council to deliver his wife and daughter, Howard grossly replied to the effect that the Queen might have done him a favor to take his lady a dozen years before, “but it was his grief to deporte with his daughter,.... his onelye Ioye.” Lansd. MS 43, f. 53.

page 650 note 17 Whitman's Subject Index assumes it to be a typifying name; Hunter, Chorus Vatum, surmised that it was taken from Ambrose Dudley's.

page 650 note 18 Chancery Proc. Series II, C. 3, 225/41, endorsed Nov. 1590 (Gorges' complaint); HarL Soc. Rentiers, voL 25, St. Martin in the Fields, baptism Jan. 2, 1588/9; Lansd. MS 43, f. 59; Chancery Inq. Post Mortem, II, 231, 89, Henry Howard, Oct- 6,1591. (Ct of Wards, Misc. Bk. 109, f. 40, corrects the date of his death from 1589 to 1590).

page 650 note 19 This appeal cannot be a late insertion c. 1594-5, for Alcyon is still too “bent to mourne” to allow for healing year.

page 651 note 20 Cf. Long (N. Y. Nation, Nov. 1, 1906, Mod. Lane. Ret., IV, 530 f.) who assumes a writing late in 1591, or a circulation in manuscript till January 1, 1592. To allow for the dedication on New Year's 1592 in London, he argues away Kilcolman as the genuine setting for the letter to Ralegh on Dec. 27, 1591—an ingenuity rendered needless if 1591 is fixed for the London letter. Of the possible explanations of 1591 printed to mean 1591, our style (cf. de Séhncourt, Spenser's Minor Poems, Oxford, xxi f.) the most plausible is a misprint; if one thing is easier for a printer than to set up a 1 for a 0 in written copy, it is to slip in the date of the current year for the one just ended (as Spenser's printer would be doing if he set Daphnaida up after March 25, 1591).

page 651 note 21 Acts Privy Council, XXI, 416. The precautions were needed; ibid., 460; Lansd. MS 43, f. 59.

page 651 note 22 Lansd. MS 43; Acts Privy Council, XXII, 335, Byndon in the Fleet.

page 651 note 23 Gorges (Star Cham. Proc Elix. S. 27/25) tells of the lewd living and “Banckeroute and famished povertie” of Stansfield, who sank so low as to fetch “his bread and drinke from the Alehowses by the pennye worthes.”

page 652 note 24 Hatfield MSS Col., TV, 370, V, 93, 233, 436 (Co/, wrongly ascribes to Ferdinando), 481-(1593-5); VII, 395 (from the Axons, 1597); X, 73, 82 (Col. wrongly ascribes to Sir Thomas Gorges), 387; XIV, 128 (1600).—Lord Chamberlain's Papers 4/192, p. 297 (cf. 333), 1594, a bond between Byndon end Gorges for £4000, kindly called to my notice by Professor Leslie Hotson.—Lansd. MS 62, f. 215 (c 1590).-HarL MS 6997, f. 192 (1596).-Xd Privy Council XXIII, 222, 264, 265, 295, 360.—State Papers Dom. Elix. CCUI, 47 (1595).—Star Chamber Proc. Elix. S. 27/25, Stansfield vs. Gorges (1601).—Various Ct of Wards documents for these years repeat details.

page 652 note 25 Chancery Inq. Post Mortem, II, 231,89, Henry Howard; 260, 139, Ambrosia Gorges.—Hatfidd MSS Col. (1596-1603) VI, 373, 410; VUI, 192 (Co/, wrongly ascribes this and VI, 373 to Ferdinando); IX, 421, X, 73,110; XIII, 612; XIV, 196. -Unsd. MS 43, f. 59.-Ct of Wards, Decrees 39-43 Ella., Bk. 87, ff. 152, 184.—Coke's Reports, ed. Thomas and Fraser, 1826, III 300, Pt. VI, 22a.

page 652 note 26 Register Univ. of Oxford, II, pt. ii, 205; pt iii, 197, det. B. A. 1596/7. License to travel granted him, April 28,1597, Col. Stole Papers Dun, Bis. 1595-7, p. 398. —Sir Thomas' bond to Gorges for £8000 in Dec. 1596 probably relates to the marriage (L. C. 4/193, P 187b, a reference I owe to Professor Hotson).

page 653 note 27 Hatfield MSS Cal., XI, 222, 1601; also 187, 123 (uncalendared 1603, printed below) where he says the complete offer was £10,000—the sum he was reported in 1600 to he about to receive from Lord Thomas Howard. Whether this concerns the marriage with Francis Gorges, or a fresh arrangement, is not clear. Probably in discretion, Gorges never mentions the marriage to Francis in his letters and petitions; it is referred to only in the Decree Book (87) and in Coke's Reports (both after the death of Francis). Lansd. Roll 9, showing Lady Helena's descendants (c 1635), records the marriage.

page 653 note 28 White to Sidney, Sidney Papers, II, 141: As the Queen passed by the faire new House in Chelsey, Sir Arthur Gorge presented her with a faire Iewell (Nov. 1599).

page 653 note 29 Ibid., II, 193, 197.

page 653 note 30 Hatfield MSS 187, 123, quoted below; the Queen allowed Gorges £80 a year for the keep of the child from March 8.1598, Ct. of Wards Decree Book, 87, f. 184.

page 653 note 31 Sidney Papers, II, 202; Chamberlain's Letters, Camden Soc., 92.

page 653 note 32 Chamberlain's Letters, Lc; Letters from Cecil to Caret,, Camden Soc, 57. White reported also to Sidney, Sidney Papers, II, 218.

page 654 note 33 Hatfield MSS 187, 123, quoted on thb page, Cal. X, 386, XI, 116, 165, 194, 222, 310, 311, XTV, 196, and (uncakndared, after 1603) 105, 146, 10S, 98, 99. 86, 65, 116, 17.—State Papers Dom. Jas. I, XV, 33.

page 654 note 34 Acts Prwy Council, XXXII, 149.

page 655 note 35 Pat Rolls 4 Jas. I, pt. 18 (cf. Col. Slate Papers Dom. Jas. 1,1603-1610, p. 330, Sept 6, 1606).—Hatfield MSS. 105, 146 (a reversion of the lease of this manor secured from Lord Cobham c. 1600 for £3000), /77,74 (aletterof gratitude Aug 27 1606).

page 656 note 36 D.N.B, Ralegh.

page 656 note 37 Sir E. Gone, Raleigh, 5 f. I know of no evidence for Miss Wileon'i assertion (Queen Bitabetk's Maids cf Boner, 148) that Ralegh obtained introduction through Gorges.

page 656 note 38 State Papers Dom. Eliza. CLI, 45, p. 4; John Cheke waa to be shot with Gorges, St John, Life of Raleigh, 1869. 35, 45.

page 656 note 39 Acts Privy Council, XI, 421 f.

page 656 note 40 Members of Parliament, 1878; Hatfield MSS Col., TV, 295. His other terms were for Yarmouth Borough (Southampton), 1584; Camelford Borough, Cornwall, 1588; Rye and the Cinque Ports, 1601.

page 656 note 41 Ckurckyards Challenge, Printed by John Wolfe, 1593; Chamber's Elis. Stage, III,267.

page 656 note 42 Camden, Elisabetk, Bk. III (ed. 1630, p. 140); Copy of Letter to Don Bernardin Mendota, 1588, Hart. Mitt. II, 78; van Meteran, in Hakluyt, ed Glasgow, 1904, IV, 217; I. L[ea] tr. An Answer to tke Vntrutkes, Published ....in Spaine, 1589, pr. Brydges, Brit. Bibliographer, I, 371. See Laugh ton, J. K., State Papers Relating to Ike Armada, Navy Records Soc., I. lxxvi. Gorges says in July, 1595 (Hatfield MSS Cat. V, 292) that he has served four or five times in the Queen's ships.

page 657 note 43 Edwards, Life cf Ralegk, I, 470 f.; State Papers Dom. EEs. CCLLX, 97. Cf L. C. 4/194, p. 154b, Henry Willoughby to Gorges, £1000, 1599 (Prof. Hotson).

page 657 note 44 MS Ashmole 1729, f. 177, endorsed 26 July, 1592; a copy by Birch in Addit MS 4106, f. 62. The letter is inaccurately printed in Birch's Life (Ralegh's Works, 1829,1,594) and in Cayley's Life, 1805,1,124.

page 658 note 45 Hatfidd MSS Col. IV, 377 f. (1593); IV, 569 (1594); V, 161, 233 (1595); VI, 373.(1596); d. VTJ, 143, 166 (1597).

page 659 note 46 Ibid., V, 292. Gorges has just heard of the Lord Admiral's going to the seas. Immediately after July 23 Thomas Gorges or Ralegh would have been in position to drop a hint. (Cheyney, Hist, of Engl, from Armada to Death of Elis., I, 544, II,43.)

page 659 note 47 Sidney Papers, 1,381, 363. The M. Gorges acting as dispatch bearer for Essex and Cecil in 1595 (Hatfield MSS Cat. V, 178, 464, XIII, 530) is probably Edward Gorges; cf. Edmondes Papers, Roxburghe Club, 205, 221, etc. (For earlier service of a Mr. Gorge in connection with France, see Hatfield MSS Col. II, 277, 1579; Col. Slate Papers Dom. Bis. Add. 1580-1625, 80, Nov. 14,1582.)

page 659 note 48 Hatfield MSS Col. VI, 481.

page 659 note 49 Acts Privy Council, XXVI, 410.

page 659 note 50 Hatfidd MSS Cal. VII, 166.

page 659 note 51 State Papers Dom. Elix. CCLXTV, f. 94 (July 21), f. 130 (July 29), Hatfield MSS Cal. TO, 347 (Aug. 12).

page 660 note 52 Hatfield MSS Cat. X, 332; Gorges' will, below. See Dsvies, Chelsea Old Church, 12S (on which cf. Chancery C 2 Jas. I, G 3/12,1622.)

page 660 note 53 Though Gorges is not named as csptain in any official Ust (Oppenheim, Naval Tracts of Sir W. Monion, II, 39, n.) he and Purchas put him forth as such (Islands Voyage, title and 70 f.) and White corroborates (Sidney Papers VI, 74) with his “only 9 Knights made; Egerton, Arthur Gorge, Vavesor, but none of your other Captens.”

“Warspite” is often the printed form of the ship's name, bat the anal form in manuscript accounts is “Wastspite” (including Gorges' Islands Voyage, hit and Essex's holograph letters—Hatfield MSS CaL VTI, 368, 439—and many other documents). Possibly an original Wastspite (Wasp-spilet) wore down to Warspite.

page 660 note 54 Islands Voyage, Purchas, 88; Ralegh, Hist, of World, Bk. V, ch. 1, sec 9 — Gorges wrote from Fayal to Cecil, Hatfield MSS CaL VII, 395; the mentioned.

page 661 note 55 The sonnet is printed as Ralegh's in Hannah's Poems of Raleigh, 1892 30, and other editions. Refusal to flatter is a favorite theme of Gorges: preface to Islands Voyage; Ballard MS 52; “To the Reader,” Olympian Catastrophe; New Year's Verses, etc

page 661 note 56 Islands Voyage, Purchas, 69, 92, 116; Ballard MS 52.

page 661 note 57 Metcalfe, Book of Knights. Sidney Papers, II, 74, Oct. 29, 1597.. The fleet had arrived at Plymouth about Oct. 24-6, Cadwallader, Career of Essex, 1597-1601, 20; Tanner MS 76, f. 1 ff.

page 661 note 58 Ct of Requests, Proc 28/54, Gorges vs. Sanderson, concerning debt.

page 661 note 59 Hatfield MSS Cal. XI, 382, pr. Edwards, Life of Ralegh, II, 233.

page 662 note 60 Caykry, Lift of Raleik, II, 28, 36; SUte Papers Dom. Jas. I, IV, 83; State Trials, ed. Stephen, 1899,1, 24. Edward's Lift, I, 396, here reads “Sir Ferdinando Gorges” as does Hart. MS 39,277b.

page 662 note 61 State Papers Dom. Jas. I, II, 46 (Edmondes reports Sir Arthur Gorges apprehended); Col. State Paters Venetian X, p. 71 (Scaramelli, July 30, reports among the imprisoned “Artur Gorgeartur Selvago”); Addit. MS 6787, f. 111b (a hst in one of Harriot's papers, seemingly in his hand): S.W.R., L. Gray, L. Cobham, M. G. Brooke, S-Ar. Gorge, S. Ar. Sauadge, S. Griffin Marcum.

page 662 note 62 State Papers Dom. Jas. I, H, 43 (Gorges' first name omitted); III, 7; DoddTiemey, Church History 4 End., 1841, IV, App. I, xv.—Grey was holding off.

page 662 note 63 Hatfield MSS 102, 103, 103a, 104, probably mid-Jury; Edmondes' report of the arrest is dated July 13. Friday morning she writes: “I humblry beseeh you that If any of m' Gorges frendes or kine w- I heyr ar in trobli; be fonde mor deslouall then the owet or shold be to ther kinge and contrye Let that be no case of geteysy to his trueth or lowallty which I troust in God none shall euer haue pouer goustly to ackuse he hath not byne a faueret of anie of ther fortense and I trost he shall not Ust of ther desgrases: If he haue ofended your honor any way I beech you forgeyt and forgeue it I haue hard him often sayey and wouey that he was hartely sorry for yo:^r disfauor toward es him; and the more sorry If he haue giuen lust cause of ofence to your lo: I should thinck my selfe highly bound to you if yo:^r honor wold yelde my torrowfull and opresed hart that comfort.... that by my menes he myght obUyne this his wished desire.” She next writes that she will pawn her life for him and begs that he may be a prisoner in his cam house by reason of this contagious time of infection; on Sunday she repeats the request, thanking Cecil from her heart for a favorable letter comforting her sorrow, “which hath byne greater out of loue to m^r Gorges, then any cause of feare.”

page 663 note 64 Ibid., 188 12.

page 663 note 65 Ibid., 108, 98.

page 663 note 66 State Papers Dom. Jas. I, XV, 33 (1605). In April 1606 six of his children are at once “vysyted w^th the mesells, and y^e 7:th deade,” wherefore he does not presume to breathe on Cecil, till he has “purged my famelye in a clearer ayre.” (Hatfield MSS 116, 17.) See note 85.

page 663 note 67 Hatfield MSS 115, 126 (1606).

page 664 note 68 Ibid., 109, 130; 190, 34, Jan. 1605/6.—For other mattert kept before Cecil d. Cal. XII, 261, 489 (wrongly ascribed to Ferdinando; report on serninary priests, 1602); XII, 581 (two letter*—the second properly 97, 48—Jan. 1602/3, in which he nervously explains that a gift of hanging, for Cecil's new house has no trace of servile bribery); 121, 56, 64 (1607, wardship of Tristram's children; purchase of jewels); State Papers Dom. Jas. I, XLVIII, 7, marked 381 (1609, Lady Kennedy's arrival in distress at hit house).

page 664 note 69 Hatfield MSS 12S8 156 (1610); Harl. MS 7007, f. 440 (to the Prince); Star Chamber Proc. Jas. I, 244/4, Prescott vs. Gorges, 1612.

page 664 note 70 Harl MS 7007, f 357; cf. Gardiner, Hist, of End. 1603-1642, JX, 106 (£20,000 the annual expense computed for the Prince's household, 1610).—The reference in Gorges'letter may be to Ralegh; see below p. 668. The letters in Hart. 7007 are printed by Birch, Life of Henry, 1760, 146,163.

page 664 note 71 State Papers Dom. Jas. I, LXII, 40, Men. 22, 1610/11; Tanner MS 103, f. 222; Gorges, Tke Publique Rentier for teneratt Commerce.—Pat Rolls 8 Jas. I, pt. 30; State Paper Dom. Warrants XTV, 86,1623, re-grants the office to Charles Chute.

Gorges' plea that the 1611 office be in Cecil's Britain's Burse had succeeded by 1612, as a printed slip pasted in one of the 1612 copies (Brit Mas.) shows.

page 664 note 72 Hatfield MSS Cat. VII, 166 (my house without Bishopsgste, 1597); VIII, 192 (my house in Wood Street, 1598); X, 8, 73 (both dated Chelsea 1599/1600); Sidney Papers, H, 141; Faulkner, T., Bister. Description of Chelsea, 1829, II, 119, Chelsea Pariah Register, 1599-1600. In 1599-1600, Lincoln was effecting the purchase of the Chelsea estate from Cecil (SUte Papers Dom. Elix. CCLXX, 51; cf. HatfieldMSS Cal. LX,75,426,X,8). The “new house” may be the smaller western house built after 1597 and later known as Gorges House, or possibly the greet house renovated, a. Davie*, Greatest Bouse, Chap. IV, and Chelsea Old Church, 1198 ff.

page 665 note 73 Hatfield MSS Col. Xn, 261; 102, 104; 86, 65; 705,146; 116,17; 117, 74; 121, 56, 64; 12i, 156. SUte Papers Dom. Jas. I, XV, 33, LXII, 40; Star Chamber Proc Jas. I, 244/4, G 153/24.

page 665 note 74 Hatfield MSS. 109,130,190, 34, 115, 126, letters from Walbrook, 1606 (the last perhaps 1607). The parish register, All Hallows, Bread Street, records the baptism of Carewe, son of Sir Arthur Gorge, “now having a house in this parish,” April 18, 1604; the register of St Stephen's, Walbrook, gives the baptism of Frances, a daughter, Feb. 27,1605/6 (Harl. Soc Registers, 43,49).

page 665 note 75 Hatfield MSS 121, 64. The jewels are “a table Dyamonde very perfect in all hys comers,” £250; 140 “oryent rownde pearles,” some £5, some £10; Gorges hope* Cecil will “sett those prysoners att lybertye,” engaged as they are for less than £500.

page 665 note 76 Star Chamber Proc Jas. I,244/4 (1612), Jas. I, G 153/24 (1613).

page 665 note 77 MS Addit 38170, f. 245b, among papers of Sir J. Caesar; Chancery Affid. 1615, Mich. G 258, Bdl. 1.

page 665 note 78 Davies, Greatest Bouse, 56, 82 ff. Cf. Chancery Affid. 1615, Mich. 705 Bdl. 1, Dec 14,1615.

page 666 note 79 Acts Privy Council, 1614, Mch. 27. Star Chamber Proc. Jas. I, 244/4 and G 153/24, Prescott and Gorges, 1612, 1613; ibid., 91/29 Lincoln vs. Gorges, 1614. Preterm's charge it similar to one in Lansd. MS 62, f. 215, c. 1590.

page 666 note 80 On Lincoln see Mod. Lang. Rev. XXII, 1927, 444. After a cooperative beginning (Halfield MSS Cal. IX, 75, 426, X, 8, 56) trouble soon arose (X, 312, 324, 332; State Papers Dom. Elir. CCLXXXIV.no,80 ff.). Gorges apparently raked up an old tale of Lincoln's pact with the Duke of Norfolk and recent speeches of the Queen's growing tyrannies and familiarity with Essex; Lincoln accused Gorges of “seekyng Naboths Vyneyard by my death and disgrace.” In the Star Chamber document, 1614, Gorges complains that Lincoln has brought twelve or fourteen cases against nun and his wife within the past fifteen or sixteen years; Gorges is charged with violent resistance to arrest; confused allegations are made on both sides of false witness about a scheme of Gorges' to poison the Earl.

page 666 note 81 State Papers Dom. Jas. I, CV, 23 0- P.); MS Addit. 11056, f. 289 (on Lady Dacrc's charity and her monument; cf. Davies, Chelsea Old Church, 1101.). Signs of activity outside Chelsea are rare: Lady Elizabeth appeared in Queen Anne's funeral procession, 1619 (Nichols, Progresses, III, 540); Arthur jr. was knighted at Theobald's in 1621 (Metcalfe, Book of Knights); a reference to Sir Arthur Gorges' fishing patent, 1624 (State Papers Dom. Jas. I, CLIX, 85) sounds as if it might concern Sir Ferdinando.

page 666 note 82 Star Chamber Proc. Jas. I, 160/18, Chancery C. 2, Jas. I, G 2/16 (1618, 1619)

page 667 note 83 Davies, Greatest Bouse, and Chelsea Old Church, passim; both volumes reproduce the brass. For the Latin inscription, copied by Bowack, but not existing now in the Church, see Faulkner, Chelsea, I, 234:

In obitum illustrissimi viri Domini

Arthuri Gorges, equitis aurati

Epicedium

Te deflent nati, natae, celeberrima con jux;

Te dolet argutae magna caterva scholae;

Arthurum Gorges, transtulit ipse Deus.

Aethereas cupiens Arthurus adire per auras,

En, nonus [novus?l ex ejus nomine natus adest.

page 667 note 84 P. C. C. Clarke, 142, proved Dec. 27,1625. Ct. of Wards Inq. 75, 70, Dec. 20, 1626; it gives the date of death as Sept. 28, 1625. Burial, Chelsea Parish Register (Faulkner, Chelsea, II 130): “1625. Sir Arthur Gorge, October 10.—Twenty-two persons died of the plague.”

page 667 note 85 For Timoleon's unfortunate end, see Col. State Papers Dom. Chas. I, 1629-31, p. 17, ibid., 1627-8, 1628-9, indices. Davies, Chelsea Old Church, 123f.

The seven children alive in 1625 were Arthur, Timoleon, Egremont, Cerew, and Henry, sons; Dudley and Elizabeth, daughters. The six sons and five daughters of the brass tally in number with the known records of all the children bom to Arthur and Elizabeth. William, who lived only from 1599 to 1600, was Cecfl'l godson (Hatfiled MSS Cal. X, 8,73, Faulkner, I. c). Daughters Frances and Winifred were baptized May 27, 1608 and Aug. 26, 1612, Surrey Pariah Register Soc., Richmond, vol. I. Frances, buried April 6,1606, was baptized Feb. 27,1605/6 (n. 74) on which date a cup and cover are listed as a gift at her christening in the expense account of the Earl of Rutland (Hist. MSS Com. XXIV, pt. IV, 459; cf. the “Mr. Gorge” in the same accounts, 1598, 416).

page 668 note 86 D.N.B., Ralegh.

page 669 note 87 Fortescue Papers, Camden Soc., 73, Naunton to Buckingham. Gardiner seems to suggest that this concerns the Plymouth Company's projects, as the following reference to Captain Smith undoubtedly does; but this allusion to Stukeley and Gorges follows immediately on matter relating to Ralegh's efforts to escape moreover, Naunton's letter of Nov. 27, p. 67, deals with Stukeley's petition and declaretion.

page 669 note 88 Addit 6789, f. 538. The catalogue ascription to Ferdinando is an error

page 669 note 89 Arte of English Poesie, Puttenham (?), ed. Arber, 235.

page 670 note 90 He can hardly be called a “chance patron,” requesting a poem on a lady Spenser had never seen (Sheavyn, Lit. Profession in Elis. Age, 22).

page 670 note 91 Purchas, 1907, XX, 34, n. The title in the MS version begins, “A true Relation of the Voyage To the lies of Azores.” The sidenotes are similar, but not identical.

page 670 note 92 Binding and remains of ribbons are similar to those of Lord Leconfield's MS 48, inscribed “Given by Sir Arthur Gorges.” Many of the manuscripts at Petworth House formerly belonged to Northumberland, Ralegh's associate in the Tower after 1605 (Hist MSS Com. VI, 287).

page 671 note 93 Hatfield MSS 104, 85.

page 671 note 94 The Seafight is likewise followed by Ralegh's Orders in the other three manuscripts.

A letter of Gorges, July 1619, expostulates with Buckingham for not listening to some important communication (Hist. MSS Com. II, 55, Fortescue MSS).

page 671 note 95 Brushfield, T. N., Bibliog. of Ralegh, 1908. The title of these Observations in the 1650 edition, etc., is (Excellent) Observations and Notes Concerning the Royall Navy.....

page 672 note 96 On the olders see Haanay, D., Mariner's Mirror, 1913, p. 212.

page 673 note 97 The sonnet “To the Reader” (No praise lor Poesie do I affect) was appropriated by or for Sir Arthur Gorges the younger, as his contribution to Lachrymae Musarvm, 1650, on the death of Henry Lord Hastings. (Pr. Brydges, Brit. Bibliograpker, III, 134 ff.)—The closing sonnet is the lamentation of Richmond, where Gorges resided.

page 674 note 98 I find no other trice, of contact with Bacon except poasbly through a Cooke (or a Meutyt?) connection (p. 649, andn. IS), and an anecdote told of “Mr. Gorge, one of my Lord Chancellor¹! men,” which might fit a son of Sir Arthur¹! (Bacon. Works, ed. Shedding, VII, 182).

page 674 note * I take this opportunity to thank those who have helped me to trace and examine Gorge.' letter, and paper.: especially the Marque*, of Salisbury, and Lord Leconfield, for permission to consult manuscripts in their collections, the Reverend Stanhope LoveU, Librarian at Hatfield House, for most generous service; Brigadier-General Edmund Howard Gorges, and Colonel the Right Honorable George A. Gibbs for helpful response to inquiries, and particularly Mr. Raymond Gorges, of University, Virginia, and Onteora, New York, for information and cordial interest