[Footnote 320:  The original edition was printed in 1757 without engravings.  They occur only in that which is described in our text.]

[Footnote 321:  I have usually found the School-Mistress printed without numbering the stanzas; to enter into the present view it will be necessary for the reader to do this himself with a pencil-mark.]

[Footnote 322:  Long after this article was composed, Miss Aikin published her “Court of James the First.”  That agreeable writer has written her popular volumes without wasting the bloom of life in the dust of libraries; and our female historian has not occasioned me to alter a single sentence in these researches.]

[Footnote 323:  Morant in the “Biographia Britannica.”  This gross blunder has been detected by Mr. Lodge.  The other I submit to the reader’s judgment.  A contemporary letter-writer, alluding to the flight of Arabella and Seymour, which alarmed the Scottish so much more than the English party, tells us, among other reasons of the little danger of the political influence of the parties themselves over the people, that not only their pretensions were far removed, but he adds, “They were UNGRACEFUL both in their persons and their houses.”  Morant takes the term UNGRACEFUL in its modern acceptation; but in the style of that day, I think UNGRACEFUL is opposed to GRACIOUS in the eyes of the people, meaning that their persons and their houses were not considerable to the multitude.  Would it not be absurd to apply ungraceful in its modern sense to a family or house?  And had any political danger been expected, assuredly it would not have been diminished by the want of personal grace in these lovers.  I do not recollect any authority for the sense of ungraceful in opposition to gracious, but a critical and literary antiquary has sanctioned my opinion.]

[Footnote 324:  “She was the only child of Charles Stuart, fifth earl of Lennox, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Cavendish of Hardwick, in Derbyshire, and is supposed to have been born in 1577.  Her father, unhappily for her, was of the royal blood both of England and Scotland; for he was a younger brother of King Henry, father of James the Sixth, and great-grandson through his mother, who was daughter of Margaret, Queen of Scots, to our Henry the Seventh.”  Such is Lodge’s account of “this illustrious misfortune,” which made the life of a worthy lady wretched.]

[Footnote 325:  A circumstance which we discover by a Spanish memorial, when our James the First was negotiating with the cabinet of Madrid.  He complains of Elizabeth’s treatment of him; that the queen refused to give him his father’s estate in England, nor would deliver up his uncle’s daughter, Arabella, to be married to the Duke of Lennox, at which time the queen uso palabras muy asperas y de mucho disprechia contra el dicho Rey de ascocia; she used harsh words, expressing much contempt of the king.  Winwood’s Mem. i. 4.]