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Francis Beaumont: Dramatist
Early English Classical Tragedies, Introduction, p. lxxxvi.
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Letters and Life of Francis Bacon, I, 342.
21
Cunliffe, E. E. Class. Tragedies, p. lxxxvi.
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Reprinted by Dramaticus, Sh. Soc. Pap. III, 94 (1847).
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Dramaticus, (as above).
24
On these identifications, see Fleay, Chron. Eng. Dr., I, 143-145; Elton, Michael Drayton, pp. 13, 58; Child, Michael Drayton (in Camb. Hist. Lit., IV, 197, et seq.).
25
Gardiner, Hist. Engl. 1603-1607, p. 87.
26
Shaw's Knights of Engl., Vol. II, under dates.
27
Grosart (D. N. B. art. John Beaumont) says that John had been admitted to the Inner Temple with Henry. John does not appear in Inderwick.
28
John Morris, Life of Father John Gerard, p. 311, et seq.
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Morris, op. cit., p. 113. See below, Appendix, Table D.
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Gardiner, Hist. Engl. 1603-1642, I, 234.
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Morris, p. 360. See also, below, Appendix, Table D.
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Fletcher's connections, also, the Bakers, Lennards, and Sackvilles were interested in the fortunes of Francis Tresham; for he had married Anne Tufton of Hothfield, Kent, granddaughter of Mary Baker who was sister of Sir Richard of Sissinghurst and of Cicely, first Countess of Dorset. – Collins, III, 489; Hasted, VII, 518. See below, Appendix, Tables D, E.
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The facts as here presented are drawn from the Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), the Gunpowder Plot Book, and Father Gerard's Narrative (in Morris), in the order of dates as indicated.
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Nov. 5-8.
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Morris, Life of Father Gerard, p. 385.
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Morris, pp. 413-414.
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Cal. State Papers (Dom.), April 7, 1593.
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Briefe View of the State of the Church.
39
Nichols's Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, II, 506-510.
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See the story in Camden Miscellany, III (1854).
41
Sir Richard Baker, in his Chronicle of the Kings of England.
42
Fuller's Worthies, as cited by Dyce, I, x, xi.
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The materials as furnished by Dyce, B. and F., I, xiv-xv, from Birch's Mem. of Elizabeth, and the Bacon Papers in the Lambeth Library are confirmed by Cal. St. Papers (Dom.), June 1596, July 9, 1597, etc.
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As her monument in Canterbury would indicate. Hasted, Hist. Kent, XI, 397.
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For the Bakers and their connections, see Hasted, Hist. Kent, III, 77; IV, 374, et seq.; VII, 100-101; for the Sackvilles. – Hasted, III, 73-82; for the Lennards, – Hasted, III, 108-116; the Peerages of Collins, Burke, etc., and the articles in D. N. B. See also, below, Appendix, Table E.
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The King's letter to Salisbury (undated, but of 1608). Gardiner, Hist. Engl. 1603-1642, II, 43-45.
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This much more distinguished favour has been overlooked by Thorndike and other critics. But it is possible that Shaw, Knights of England, I, 154, may be confounding him with another Carr, a favourite of Queen Anne's.
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Dyce, B. and F., Vol. I, p. 53.
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Act IV, 14, 50-54.
50
Cf., Lazarillo's Farewells, Act III, 3.
51
See Chap. XXIV, below.
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Prologue, for a revival, in 1649, of The Woman-Hater, which D'Avenant mistakenly attributes to Fletcher.
53
Reasons for dating an earlier version of the play about 1604 are given by Oliphant, Engl. Studien, XV, 338-339, and Thorndike, Infl. of B. and F., 70-71. In its present form, however, the play dates later than Jonson's Epicoene, 1610. See Gayley, Rep. Eng. Com., III, Introd., § 15.
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I heartily concur with W. W. Greg's interpretation, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama, p. 274.
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See Fleay, Chron. Eng. Dr., I, 312, and Thorndike, Infl. of B. and F., 64.
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Folio, 1647, 'mortallitie'; a misprint.
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See Chap. XXIII, below.
58
See Guskar, Anglia, XXVIII, XXIX.
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Stiefel, Zeitschr. f. Vergl. Litt., XII (1898), 248; Engl. Stud., XXXVI; Hatcher, Anglia, Feb. 1907; and Macaulay, C. H. L., VI, 156.
60
French Influence in English Literature, pp. 300, 308.
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Adapted from Cartwright in the Commendatory Poems, Folio of B. and F., 1647.
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Details in Inderwick, op. cit., Vols. I and II, passim.
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Aubrey's Brief Lives, Ed. Clark, I, 94-95.
64
Dyce, B. and F., I, XXVI, n.
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Based upon Dekker's Bellman of London, 1608. Acted at Court, 1622.
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See Chapter XXV, below.