“Go, boy, and carve this passion on the bark
Of yonder tree, which stands the sacred mark
Of noble Sydney’s birth; when such benign,
Such more than mortal-making stars did shine,
That there they cannot but for ever prove
The monument and pledge of humble love;
His humble love, whose hope shall ne’er rise higher,
Than for a pardon that he dares admire."-E.

(343) Hubert Tanguet, who quitted the service of the Elector of Saxony on account of his religion, and attached himself to the Prince of Orange.  He died in 1581.-E.

(344) In Harris’s History of Kent, he gives from Philpot a list of the constables of Queenborough Castle, p. 376; the last but one of whom, Sir Edward Hobby, is said to have collected all their portraits, of which number most probably were these ten.

(345) Hever Castle was built in the reign of Edward iii., by William de Hevre, and subsequently became the property of the Boleyn family.  In this castle Henry viii. passed the time of his courtship to the unfortunate Anne Boleyn; whose father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, was Created Earl of wiltshire and Ormond, 1529 and 1538.-E.

(346)Daughter of Sir Robert Rich, and elder sister of Elizabeth Rich, Lady Lyttelton.

(347) A very ancient and magnificent structure, built throughout of stone, at different periods, formerly belonging to the family of Crovequer.  In the fifteenth of Edward ii.  Sir Thomas de Colepeper, who was castellan of the castle, was hanged on the drawbridge for having refused admittance to Isabel, the Queen-consort, in her progress in performing a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas `a Becket at Canterbury.  The manor and castle were forfeited to the crown by his attainder, but restored to his son, sir Thomas Colepeper.  By his Diary of May 8, 1666, it appears to have been hired by Evelyn for a prison.  “Here,” he says, “I flowed the dry moat, made a new drawbridge, brought spring-water into the court of the castle to an old fountain, and took order for the repairs."-E.

(348) Mary, Duchess of Buckingham, only daughter of Thomas, Lord Fairfax.-E.

145 Letter 65 To George Montagu, Esq.  Strawberry Hill, Aug. 28, 1752.

Will you never have done jigging at Northampton with that old harlotry Major Compton?  Peggy Trevor told me, she had sent you a mandate to go thither.  Shall I tell you how I found Peggy, that is, not Peggy, but her sister Muscovy?  I went, found a bandage upon the knocker, an old woman and child in the hall, and a black boy at the door.  Lord! thinks I, this can’t be Mrs. Boscawen’s.  However, Pompey let me up; above were fires blazing, and a good old gentlewoman, whose occupation easily spoke itself to be midwifery.  “Dear Madam, I fancy I should not have come up.”—­“Las-a-day!  Sir, no, I believe not; but I’ll stop and ask.”  Immediately out came old Falmouth,(348) looking like an ancient fairy, who had just been tittering a malediction