_Mr. Ice._ Perhaps Stephen Isles who was appointed a
Commissioner for the London Militia, 7 July, 1659. The name 'Mr.
Ice' occurs in Tatham's _Rump_ in the same context.

p. 379 _Loether._ Sir Gerard Lowther, who, once a loyalist, became a
republican, and in 1654 was one of the Three Commissioners of the
Great Seal in Ireland. He acquired large estates and died very
wealthy on the eve of the Restoration.

p. 381 _Duke of Buckingham's Estate ... with Chelsey House._
Bulstrode Whitelocke actually had obtained the Duke's sequestered
estate, and stood for Bucks in Parliament. During the Commonwealth
Chelsea House was bestowed upon him as an official residence, and he
lived there till the Restoration, when it reverted to the Duke, to
whose father it had been granted in 1627 by Charles I. He sold it in
1664 to the trustees of George Digby, Earl of Bristol. In 1682 it
became the property of Henry, Marquis of Worcester, afterwards Duke
of Beaufort, and was renamed Beaufort House. Sir Hans Sloane
purchased it in 1738, and it was demolished two years later.

p. 381 _Hugh Peters._ This divine, who had been chaplain to Sir
Thomas Fairfax, was notorious for his fanatical and ranting sermons.
Having openly advocated and preached the death of Charles I, he was,
at the Restoration, excluded from the general amnesty, tried for
high treason, and executed 16 October, 1660.

p. 382 _Scobel._ Henry Scobell, clerk to the Long Parliament. His
name appeared as the licenser of various newsbooks, and he
superintended the publication of _Severall Proceedings in
Parliament_, No. 1, 25 Sept.-9 Oct., 1649. Scobell died in 1660,
his will being proved 29 Sept. of that year.

+Act IV: Scene ii+

p. 394 _Vails._ Avails; profits. Money given to servants: 'tips'.

+Act IV: Scene iii+

p. 398 _Cushion-Dance._ A merry old English round action dance
common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

p. 398 _Nickers._ Or knickers, marbles generally made of baked clay.
cf. Duffet's farce, _The Mock Tempest_ (1675), Act iv, I:--

_Enter _Hypolito playing with Nickers.
_Hyp._ Anan, Anan, forsooth-- you, Sir, don't you stir the Nickers.
I'l play out my game presently.

+Act IV: Scene iv+

p. 402 _Joan Sanderson._ The air to which the Cushion Dance was
usually performed. It may be found in Playford's _Dancing Master_,
1686. Sometimes the dance itself was known as J