25: A. Collins, _Letters and Memorials of State_, vol. i. p.
271. (Sir Henry Sidney to his son Robert Sidney, after Earl of
Leicester.)

Footnote 326: _Davison's Poetical Rhapsody_, ed. Nicolas, vol. i. pp.
viii.-xi.

Footnote 327: _Sir Henry Wotton; Life and Letters_, ed. Pearsall Smith,
vol. i. p. 233 (note 1).

Footnote 328: _Davison's Poetical Rhapsody_, pp. viii., xi.

Footnote 329: _Itinerary_, vol. iii. p. 374.

Footnote 330: _A Method for Travell_, fol. G.

Footnote 331: _Instructions for Forreine Travel_, p. 51.

Footnote 332: _Lismore Papers_, 2nd Series, vol. v. p. 24.

Footnote 333: _The Voyage of Italy; Preface to the Reader_, fol. B 4.

Footnote 334: _The State of France_, 1652. Folio B.

Footnote 335: Robert Boyle, _Works_, 1744, vol. i. p. 7.

Footnote 336: _Lismore Papers_, 1st Series, vol. v. pp. 78, 80.

Footnote 337: _Ibid._, 112.

Footnote 338: It was a common custom at this time to marry one's sons,
if a favourable match could be made, before they went abroad.

Footnote 339: _Lismore Papers_, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 95.

Footnote 340: On Nov. 23rd, 1610, Carleton, the Ambassador at Venice,
wrote to Salisbury that his son was ill at Padua. "He finds relish in
nothing on this side the mountains, nor much in anything on this side
the sea; his affections being so strangely set on his return homeward,
that any opposition is a disease." Cranborne's tutor, Dr Lister, wrote
to Carleton in December: "Sir, we must for England, there is no
resisting of it. If we stay the fruit will not be great, the discontent
infinite. My Lord is going to dinner, this being the first meal he
eateth." (State Papers, 1610. Cited in _Life and Letters of Sir Henry
Wotton_, ed. Pearsall-Smith, vol. i. p. 501.)

Footnote 341: _Lismore Papers_, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 98.

Footnote 342: _Lismore Papers_, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 234.

Footnote 343: _Ibid._, p. 171.

Footnote 344: _Lismore Papers_, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 100.

Footnote 345: Ibid., p. 103.

Footnote 346: _Lismore Papers_, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 100.

Footnote 347: _Lismore Papers_, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 99.

Footnote 348: In March 1640. This fact, and his appearance in the
_Lismore Papers_, are not mentioned in the _Dictionary of National
Biography_.

Footnote 349: _Lismore Papers_, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 113.

Footnote 350: Ibid., p. 235.

Footnote 351: Ibid., p. 234.

Footnote 352: Ibid., pp. 232-3.

Footnote 353: She became o