1
Leland's Itinerary, Ed. L. T. Smith, Vol. I, 18-19.
2
Leland's Itinerary, Ed. L. T. Smith, Vol. IV, 126.
3
Collins, Peerage of England, IX, 460.
4
J. Nichols, Collections toward the History of Leicestershire (Biblioth. Topogr. Brit., VII, 534). See, below, Appendix, A.
5
Letters relating to the Suppression of the Monasteries, pp. 251-252, Camden Society, 1843. The editor, Thos. Wright, describes the petitioner as of Thringston, Co. Leicester.
6
J. M. Rigg, Dict. Nat. Biog. art., John Beaumont; and Nichols's History of Leicestershire, III, ii, 651, et seq.
7
Collins, Peerage, VI, 648, et seq.; H. N. Bell, The Huntingdon Peerage, 1821. See also, below, Appendix, Table B.
8
Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), 1595, p. 154.
9
Challoner, Missionary Priests, I, 347.
10
For the preceding details, and some of those which follow, see the respective articles in the Dictionary of National Biography; Dyce's Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Vol. I, Biographical Memoir; Grosart, Sir John Beaumont's Poems, and the sources as indicated. See also, below, Appendix, Table C.
11
See Shaw's Knights of England; Collins, Peerage; and articles in D. N. B. under names.
12
Dyce says that the Judge was knighted; so Rigg (D. N. B.) and others. The Inner Temple Records speak of him thirty times, but only once, Nov. 5, 1581, as "Sir," though others in memoranda running to 1601 which mention him are given the title. In the codicil to his will he is plain "Mr. Beaumont"; and he is not included in Shaw's Knights of England.
13
For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton.
14
Works of B. and F., XVI.
15
Inns of Court and Chancery (Lond., 1912), p. 45; W. R. Douthwaite, Gray's Inn, its History and Associations (Lond., 1886), pp. 36, 78, 253. For the Beaumonts, and what follows, see, also, Inderwick, Inner Temple Records (Lond. 1896), I, 421; II, 435; Introductions, and subjects as indexed.
16
Inns of Court, etc., p. 163.
17
The Dedication first appears in the folio of 1616.
18
H. E. Duke, K. C., M. P., Gray's Inn in Six Lectures on the Inns of Court and of Chancery, 1912.
19
Early English Classical Tragedies, Introduction, p. lxxxvi.
20
Letters and Life of Francis Bacon, I, 342.
21
Cunliffe, E. E. Class. Tragedies, p. lxxxvi.
22
Reprinted by Dramaticus, Sh. Soc. Pap. III, 94 (1847).
23
Dramaticus, (as above).
24
On these identifications, see Fleay, Chron. Eng. Dr., I, 143-145; Elton, Michael Drayton, pp. 13, 58; Child, Michael Drayton (in Camb. Hist. Lit., IV, 197, et seq.).
25
Gardiner, Hist. Engl. 1603-1607, p. 87.
26
Shaw's Knights of Engl., Vol. II, under dates.
27
Grosart (D. N. B. art. John Beaumont) says that John had been admitted to the Inner Temple with Henry. John does not appear in Inderwick.
28
John Morris, Life of Father John Gerard, p. 311, et seq.
29
Morris, op. cit., p. 113. See below, Appendix, Table D.
30
Gardiner, Hist. Engl. 1603-1642, I, 234.
31
Morris, p. 360. See also, below, Appendix, Table D.
32
Fletcher's connections, also, the Bakers, Lennards, and Sackvilles were interested in the fortunes of Francis Tresham; for he had married Anne Tufton of Hothfield, Kent, granddaughter of Mary Baker who was sister of Sir Richard of Sissinghurst and of Cicely, first Countess of Dorset. – Collins, III, 489; Hasted, VII, 518. See below, Appendix, Tables D, E.
33
The facts as here presented are drawn from the Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), the Gunpowder Plot Book, and Father Gerard's Narrative (in Morris), in the order of dates as indicated.
