onder not then if he bequeathed no great
wealth to his daughter, being _privately interred_ in the choir of
Paul's, as _much indebted to his creditors_ though not so much as our
nation is indebted to his memory."

Some curious inquirer may afford us a catalogue of great ministers of
state who have voluntarily declined the augmentation of their private
fortune, while they devoted their days to the noble pursuits of
patriotic glory! The labour of this research will be great, and the
volume small!

FOOTNOTES:

[115] Skelton's satire is accessible to the reader in the Rev.
Alexander Dyce's edition of the poet's works. Roy's poem was printed
abroad about 1525, and is of extreme rarity, as the cardinal spared
no labour and expense to purchase and destroy all the copies. A
second edition was printed at Wesel in 1546. Its author, who had
been a friar, was ultimately burned in Portugal for heresy.

[116] The palace of Wolsey, as Archbishop of York, which he had
furnished in the most sumptuous manner; after his disgrace it became
a royal residence under the name of Whitehall.--Note in Dyce's ed.
of Skelton's Works.

[117] _Point-device_, a term explained by Mr. Douce. He thinks that
it is borrowed from the labours of the needle, as we have
_point-lace_, so _point-device_, i.e., _point_, a stitch, and
_devise_, devised or invented; applied to describe anything
uncommonly exact, or worked with the nicety and precision of
_stitches made or devised by the needle_.--_Illustrations of
Shakspeare_, i. 93. But Mr. Gifford has since observed that the
origin of the expression is, perhaps, yet to be sought for: he
derives it from a mathematical phrase, _a point devise_, or _a given
point_, and hence exact, correct, &c.--_Ben Jonson_, vol. iv. 170.
See, for various examples, Mr. Nares's Glossary, art.
_Point-devise_.

[118] Lyson's "Environs," v. 58

[119] Burnet says, "Others called it _Holland House_, because he was
believed to be no friend to the war: so it was given out that he had
money from the Dutch."

[120] At the gateway of the Three Kings Inn, near Dover-street, in
Piccadilly, are two pilasters with Corinthian capitals, which
belonged to Clarendon House, and are perhaps the only remains of
that edifice.

[121] An old term for _contractors_. Evelyn tells us they were
"certain rich bankers and mechanics, wh