at the free school at Bray. . . . He was
gentleman commoner at Edem-hall anno 1682. . . . The hall was then
very full, particularly there were then a great many gentlemen
commoners there."

{30c} To this school he went daily on foot, three miles there and three
back.

{31} Transcriber's note: reproduced as printed.

{39} The close of the parenthesis is wanting in the original.

{41} 10_th Feb._ 1721-2.--"Whereas the university deputations on Ash
Wednesday should begin exactly at one o'clock, they did not begin this
year till two or after, which is owing to several colleges having altered
their hour of dining from eleven to twelve, occasioned from people's
lying in bed longer than they used to do."

{46a} The word _heartick_ does not occur in the New Oxford Dictionary.

{46b} Of Lord Baltimore's family.

{56a} _Life and Letters of Charles Darwin_, i., p. 138.

{56b} As described in _Rustic Sounds_, p. 2.

{60} _Pickwick_, chap. xliv.

{62} The "scorers were prepared to notch the runs" (_Pickwick_, chap.
vii.).

{63} He was afterwards Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford: he
died in 1893.

{67} _Rustic Sounds_, p. 92.

{68a} During my life in London as a medical student I had the happiness
of living with my uncle, Erasmus Darwin, one beloved under the name of
_Uncle Ras_ by all his nephews and nieces.

{68b} In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of
the _Origin of Species_.

{71} _Old English Instruments of Music_, by Francis W. Galpin, 1910.

{72} Modern harps, however, have pedals for raising the natural note of
any string by a semi-tone.

{73a} It has also a greater compass than the rote.

{73b} In obedience to good authority I have here adopted the spelling
Clairsech instead of Clarsech. I presume that the spelling _Clarsy_ (p.
74) is intentionally phonetic.

{74a} We imagine the gittern to be laid flat on a table with strings
uppermost.

{74b} Galpin, p. 21.

{77a} In Mr Dolmetsch's _The Interpretation of the Music of the XVIlth
and XVIIIth Centuries_ (N.D.), the author also points out, p. 446, that
the _frets_ of the viol give to the stopped notes the "_clear ring_" of
the open strings. He claims also that in the viol "the manner of holding
the bow and ordering its strokes . . . prevents the strong accents
characteristic" of the violin, and facilitates "an even and sustained
tone."

He recommends (p. 452) that frets should