notes

2 alienissimus asserit Sidenote: Britan. in Cumbria edit. Londinens. 1607 pag 533, “Wirkington salmonum piscatura nobile. Nunc sedes est antiquae equestris familiae Curwennorum, qui genus a Gospatrico Northumbriae comite repetunt; cognomen a Culwen Gallovidiae familiae, cuius haeredem duxerant, ex conventione acceperunt, suasque hic instar castri aedes habent magnificas, et a quibus nobis, absit verbo invidia, genus maternum.” [“Britannia (London edition, 1607, p. 533) on Cumberland: ‘Wirkongton, noble for its salmon fishing. Now it is the seat of the ancient knightly family of the Curwins, who trace their ancestry to Gospatrick, Earl of Northumbria. According to convention, they took their surname from Culwen in Galway, which was their inheritance, and here they have a grand home, like a castle, and (if I may be pardoned for saying so) from them descends my maternal line.’”]

2 cuius genealogiam A sidenote note refers to ms. Cotton Julius F 6.

2 recensitus fuerit Sidenote: Anno 1552.

5 tunc demum quintum aetatis annum agendum Sidenote: 1566.
5 D. Thomae Couperi Throughout this work, individuals are identified with the honorific title Dominus. In the case of individuals belonging to the Peerage or one of the knightly orders, the proper translation is “Sir.” Otherwise it is an honorific title bestowed on any man (usually an academic or clergyman) who possesses the B. A., and is best left untranslated. Cooper [d. 1594] was Master 1549-57.

5 se contulit Sidenote: Vide Parentationem Historicam Degorei Wheari, Oxon. 1628, p. 8, 9.

6 eiusmodi Ardeliones The allusion is explained by Alciato’s Emblem 84:

5 facto canonico Sidenote: Britan. in comitatu Bercheriensi in descriptione Walloigfordiae, pag. 204, “Amplitudinem eius et magnificentiam, cum illic Oxonia pueri secederemus, demirabamur (est enim iam secessus studiosis ex aede Christi Oxoniae).” [“Britannia, on Berkshire, in his description of Wallingford, p. 204, ‘I admired its amplitude and magnificence when I as a lad I would retire there from Oxford (for it is a retreat for Christ Church students).’”]

7 ut ipse asserit A sidenote refers to letter cxcv in the following collection (p. 247).

8 in convocatione A sidenote refers to Registrum K fol. 118.

10 Godefredus Goodmani Sidenote: Godefredus Goodmannus, Godfredi fillius, episcopus Glocestrensis in responsione ad famosam libellum D. Antonii Weldeni, qui Regis Iacobi I Curia inscribitur, pag. 19 ms. in Bibliotheca Bodleiana Oxoniae, ex qua quicquid ad D. Camdenum spectat, meo rogatu perquam benevole transcripsit vir reverendus, mihique iam per triginta annos et quod excurrit, ab ineunte iuventute nostra amicissimus, D. Edwardus Bernardus, astronomiae professor Savilianus, ingens Academiae Oxoniensis decus, et omnigenae eruditionis lumen. [“Godfrey Goodman, son of Godfrey, Bishop of Gloucester, in his response to that notorious book of Domunus Anthony Weldon entitled The Court and Character of King James, page 19 of the manuscript in the Bodlien Library, Oxford. Out of which, at my request, my friend for over thirty years since boyhood, Dominus Edward Bernard, Savilian Professor ofAstronomy, a great ornament to the University of Oxford and a beacon of all manner of erudition, most kindly copied out whatever pertains to Camden.”]

11 Henricum Cuffium Henry Cuffe was private secretary to the Earl of Essex, and was hanged as a participant in the 1601 Essex Uprising.

11 et clarissimum benefactorem Sidenote: Britannia in Middlesexia, p. 239.

12 From Vergil’s Eclogue i.66 (et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos) to Shakespeares "this emerald isle" speech in Richard II, Britian has been written of as being cut off from the world, or as existing as a separate one.

12 D. Philippo Sidneio Sidenote: In initio responsionis ad Brooki calumnias. Elogium vero sequens, cum sit praeclarissimum virtutis Sidneanae et gratitudinis Camdenianae testimonium, nolui omittere. “Philippus mihi non sine piacula tacendus, qui magnum huius familae sidus, magna spes hominum, expressissimum virtutis exemplum et literati orbis amor, acriter ad Zutphenum Geldriae cum hoste congressus, fortiter occubuit. Hic ille Sidneius est, quem ut Deus ideo natum voluit ut priscorum specimen nostro seculo ostenderet, ita ex improviso ad se ut caelo quam terris digniorem revocavit, et nobis subduxit. Eripit utique se ex oculis subito virtus, et optimi neutiquam diurnant. Placide, si fas sit loqui, Sidneie, quiescas, nos te non lachrymis sed admiratione decorabimus. Quicquid in te (ut de optimo illo Britanniae praeside optimus scriptor loquitur) amavimus, quicquid mirati sumus manet, mansurumque est in animis hominum in aeternitate temporum, in fama rerum. Multos velut inglorios et ignobiles oblivio obruit, Sidneius posteritati narratus susperstes erit. éretaÅi, ut docuit ille Graecus, kreÄivnew eÉisi mÒrou.” Britan. in Cantio pag. 233. [“At the beginning of his response to Brooke’s libels. Since it is a most distinguished testimony to Sidney’s virtue and Camden’s gratitude, I did not wish to omit the following eulogy: ‘I cannot hold my silence without incurring guilt, he who, the great star of his family, the great hope of mankind, most express model of the virtues and darling of the literary world, fought the enemy stoutly at Zutphen in Flanders, and died a brave death. He is that Sidney who, just as God wanted him born to serve as an example of our ancestors in our times, so He unexpectedly recalled him, being worthier of heaven than earth, and took him from us. His perfected virtue removed itself suddenly, and the best men never live long. If I may say so, Sidney, may you rest in peace, and we will honor you, not with our tears, but with our admiration. As the best of writers says about that great ruler of Britain, whatever we loved in you, whatever we admired, endures, and is destined to endure in the minds of men for all time and in renown. Just as oblivion has buried many inglorious and ignoble men, Sidney, having been told of to posterity, will survive. As that Greek taught, the virtues are stronger than doom.’ Britannia, on Kent, p. 233.”]
16 exscribam et citabo Sidenote: Epistola LXXI, pag.. 97. The great French historian Jacques-Auguste de Thou [1553 - 1617] is chiefly known for his Historiae (the first part of which was published in 1604).
17 Sarisburiensis episcopus Sidenote: E Registro Penrud, pag. 9.
18 praesertim celeberrimum Casum For some reason, Oxford’s famous Aristotelian had obtained a medical degree in 1589.
19 Mortuo viro doctissimo Edwardo Granto Smith was wrong: Grant resigned office, but lived until1601.
19 sub Iacobo I assumptus Sidenote: Epist. xliv, pag. 53.
19 Grammatica Graeca The present paragraph describes the writing and publication of Camden’s Institutio Graecæ Grammatices Compendiaria in Usum Regæ Scholae Westmonasteriensis (1592). As a textbook this was remarkably successfully: it was reprinted (translated into English) as recently as 1800 (at Boston, Mass.).
21 Richardo Leigo Sidenote: 3 Sept. 1597.
21 et plane inscius Sidenote: Vide Epist. cxcv, p. 247.
21 qui omnia in aula potuit Sidenote: “Proxime hoc Alterynnis aquae quasi insula amnica circumfundetur, quae antiqua sedes veteris et equestris familiae Sitsilorum sive Cecilorum, unde honoratissimus mihi patronus, omnibus virtutis, prudentiae et nobilitatis ornamentis instructissimis, D. Gulielmus Cecilius, baro Burleius et summus Angliae thesaurarius, stemma duxit.” Britan. in comitatu Herefordiensi, pag. 470 [“‘Nearby Allerynnis is surrounded by a brook, almost to make it an island, and this is the old family seat of the ancient and knightly family of the Sysills or Cecils, whence my right honorable patron, a man most lavishly endowed with all the virtues and ornaments of prudence and nobility, Sir William Cecil, Baron Burleigh and High Treasurer of England, derived his pedigree’ Britannia, on the county of Herefordshire, p. 470.”].
22 Collegium fecialium The reader interested in the College of Heralds (more properly the College of Arms) may wish to explore their informative Web site. A roster of the Heralds of the reign of Elizabeth, with dates of service, is available here.
22 Richardus rex tertius Sidenote: 1484.
22 primo et tertio signato Sidenote: 1555. (Derby Place was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666).
23 licet eodem tempore Sidenote: Lib. 2 Partitionum in archivis collegii Heraldorum, fol. 116. [“Second Book of Partitions in the archives of the College of Heralds, fol. 116.”]
24 furtum extrudit The volume in question appeared in 1599. Smith was wrong: the publisher (John Windet) did identify himself.
25 scriptor quidem ex nostratibus Sidenote: In Historia Ecclesiastica Britanniae (hoc enim magnifico titulo istam rhapsodiam insignire placuit), libro 5 pag. 198. [“In his Church History of Britain (for he was pleased to give his patchwork this grand title”]. In his biographical article, Anthony à Wood (345 n. 70 identifies the work in question as Thomas Fuller’s The church-history of Britain; from the birth of Jesus Christ, untill the year M.DC.XLVIII (1656), under the year 1555.
28 oscitantiam The noun oscitantia, not found in the classical Latin lexicon, clearly is meant to designate a degree of exertion (or maybe late-night work) sufficiently arduous to leave a man yawning.
28 In his vindiciis The reader may care to look at A discoverie of certaine errours published in print in the much commended Britannia, 1594. Very prejudiciall to the discentes and successions of the auncient nobilitie of this realme. By Ralphe Brooke, ... To which is added, the learned Mr. Camden’s answer to this book (London, 1723, reprinted the following year).
28 praecipue Thomam Talbottum Sidenote: “In hac comitum successione, ut ingenue fatear, per quem profecerim, Thomam Talbottum in chartophylacio actuarium diligentissimum, et antiquitatis nostrae scientissimum, mihi magnum lumen praetulisse libens merito hic agnosco.” Britannia, de tribunalibus Angliae pag. 32 [”‘Regarding this succession of Earls, as I must candidly admit, I acknowledge that Thomas Talbot, that most diligent actuary in the archive, has gladly furnished me with much illumination,’ Britannia, on the courts of England, p. 32.”]
28 debitis elogiis prosecutus est Sidenote: In defensione pag.6. [“On p. 6 of his answer.”]
28 uti antea in Britannia Sidenote: In comitatu Bercheriensi pag. 229. [“On the country of Berkshire, p. 229.”]
29 Camdeno iudice Sidenote: E charto apud D. Sanfordum. [“In a manuscript owned by Dominus Sanford.”]
29 sub titulo Catalogi Honoris The volume was The catalogue of honour or Tresury of true nobility. peculiar and proper to the isle of Great Britaine (1610). Smith was wrong: it was published under Glover’s name, not Mills’.
30 sexennium impendisse Sidenote: Vide 2 vol. collectanorum in fol. mss. pag. 281 in bibliotheca Bodleiana Oxoniae. [“See the second volume of his notes in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, ms. p. 281.”] The volume in question was printed in 1549 under the title The laboryouse iourney [and] serche of Iohan Leylande, for Englandes antiquitees, geuen of hym as a newe yeares gyfte to Kynge Henry the viij. in the. xxxvij. yeare of his reygne, with declaracyons enlarged: by Iohan Bale.
30 Aristarchus The harsh critic of Homer in the Library of Alexandria.
30 cognatus This must be a noun of the fourth declension meaning something like “understandings, perceptions.”
30 Burtonus William Burton, The description of Leicester shire containing matters of antiquitye, historye, armorye, and genealogy (1622).
30 in bibliotheca Cottoniana Sidenote: Ms. in Jul. C<aes.> 6. All the material described here was destined to be edited and published by the later antiquarian Thomas Hearn as the six-volume Joannis Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis collectanea. Ex autographis descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius (Oxford, 1715).
31 De Scriptoribus Illustribus Britannicis This work was first published by Anthony Hall under the title Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis, auctore Joanne Lelando Londinate (Oxford, 1709).
32 dimittendus est Brookus Sidenote: Hoc tum ex Camdeni schedis, tum ex copia in rotulationis apud clarissimum virum D. Henricum San-Georgium Clarentium constat, quando ex apprenticio, uti loquuntur, emancipatus fuerit in liberatem et admissus in societatem pictorum Londinensium vulgo dictorum Painter-Stainers tertio die Septembris regni reginae Elizabethae decimo octavo. [“This is known both from Camden’s notes and from the records in the possession of Sir Henry St. George, Clarenceux King of Arms, since he was manumitted from his apprenticeship and admitted in to the London Guild of Painter-Stainers in the eighteenth year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign.”]
32 quem honoris causa non nomino From Camden’s diary entries for the end of 1616 (December 27, 30) we know that the victim of this practical joke was William Segar, Norroy King of Arms.
34 Momus The Greek god of captious criticism.
34 passim scatentes Sidenote: In libro adversar. apud clarissimum virum D. Franciscum Sandfordum. [“In a volume of objections in the possession of the right distinguished Sir Francis Sandford.”]
34 merito suo constitutus Sidenote: Obiit anno Christi 1625.
35 Ex eius enim bibliotheca The volume described here was printed at Frankfurt in 1603 under the title Anglica, normannica, hibernica, cambrica, a veteribus scripta: ex quibus Asser Meneuensis, anonymus de vita Gulielmi Conquestoris, Thomas Walsingham, Thomas de la More, Gulielmus Gemeticensis, Giraldus Cambrensis: Plerique nunc priumum in lucem editi, ex bibliotheca Guilielmi Camdeni.
35 ex animo excidere passus Sidenote: Praeclarum quoque huius illustris viri extat elogium in Britannia in comitatu Warwicensi, pag., 426, “Inferius ad Arrow positum est Beauchamp Court a barone Bello-campo de Powick denominatum, a quo per filiam unicam Edwardi Willoughbey filii Roberti Willoughbey baronis Brooke ad Fulconem Grevillee, virum et equestri dignitate et naturae facilitate clarissimum devenit, cuius unicus filius eodem itidem nomine, ita verae virtuti et germanae nobilitati se consecravit, ut animi nobilitate genus longe exsuperet, cuius in me maximis meritis etsi dignas gratias nec animus meus aperire nec illustrare possit, loquens tacitusque tamen gratias et agam et habebo.” [“There is a fine eulogy of this illustrious gentleman in Britannia on the country of Warwickshire, p. 426: “Lower down on the Arrow is situated Beauchamp Cort, named after Baron Beauchamps de Powick, from whom it passed, by the sole daughter of Edward Willoughby, son of Robert Willoughby, Baron Brook, to Fulke Greville, a man most distinguished both for his knightly dignity and his natural talent, and albeit my mind can never publish nor illuminate thanks worthy of his great favors to me, nevertheless I do feel and shall feel gratitude towards him, whether speaking or silent.”]
35 in lucem edi passus est This volume had the fuller title Remains concerning Britain: their languages, names, surnames, allusions, anagramms, armories, moneys, impresses, apparel, artillerie, wise speeches, proverbs, poesies, epitaphs. Its authorship (if not known already) was revealed in a reprinted version “much amended, with many rare antiquities never before imprinted.”, by Camden’s friend, colleage and sometime collaborator John Philipot, Somerset Herald. R. D. Dunn has given us a modern edition (Toronto, 1884).
36 praecipue monumenta Sidenote: Fragmenta quaedam extant apud virum clarissimum D. Henricum San-Georgium Clarentium. [“Certain fragments exist in the possession of the right distinguished Sir Henry St. George, Clarenceux King of Arms.”] As noted below, this work appeared in 1600 under the title Reges, reginæ, nobiles, et alij in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti, vsque ad annum reparatæ salutis 1600 (a subsequent edition was carried down to 1603).
36 non laureolam ex hoc mustaceo This curious phrase comes from Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum V.xx.4.
37 Qui partium studio abrepti As Smith was well aware, there was a contemporary contention between the two Universities as to which was the older (thus giving it precedence in state ceremonies and so forth), that produced a large amount of tedious pseudo-history of the Geoffrey of Monmouth type. Perhaps the least unreadable item in this literature is the elder Phineas Fletcher’s lengthy eclogue De Literis Antiquae Britanniae (not printed until 1633, but written in the 1570’s).
37 serie continetur Sidenote: Britan. pag. 267, 268.
37 id in mentem venerit Sidenote: De Britannicarum Ecclesiarum antiquitatibus, Dublinii 1639 pag. 341, 342.
37 non longe ante mortem habita Sidenote: Vide epistulam CCLXXI pag. 335.
38 acri censura inustum Sidenote: “Actio in Henricum Garnetum Soc. Ies. &c. Versa in Latinum ab eodem Camdeno tota prohibetur.” Index Librorum Prohibitorum et Expurgandorum Iuxta Exemplar Excussum, Madriti 1557, fol. “Eiusdem Anglica, Normanica, &c.” “In prima libri facie adhibe Camdeno notam auctoris damnati, et operis cum expurgatione permissi. Et praeterea observa non tam in antiquis scriptoribus ponendum studium corrigendi aut expurgandi quam in notatiunculis marginalibus ab ipso Camdeno adhibitis et parum sana doctrina infectis” Ibid. Ibi quoque Annales R. Elisabethae censura notati. [“‘The Actio in Henricum Garnetum…by the same Camden is entirely forbidden’: Index Librorum Prohibitorum et Expurgandorum Iuxta Exemplar Excussum, Madrid 1557, folio. ‘The same man’s Anglica, Normannica &c. is noted on the title page to be the work of a condemned man, as a work permitted in expurgated form. And it should be observed that this work is not to be expended on the correction or expurgation of the ancient writers so much as on Camden’s own marginalia, infected by unsound doctrine.’ There the Annales of Queen Elizabeth are marked with censure.”]
39 Varronis, Strabonis et Pausaniae Three ancient writers who wrote on geography and antiquities.
39 D. Simondsio Dewesio Sidenote In literis ad Jacobum Usserum 28 Sept. 1639 datis, quae extant in Usserianum epistolarum sylloge pag. 496. [“In a letter to James Ussher of 28 September 1639, which is on p. 496 of Ussher’s collected letters.”]
40 amoenior, petit Sidenote: 20. Augusti 1609.
41 obiecit Gruterus Sidenote: Vide Epist. CI, p. 141.
42 Historiae Normannorum Scriptores antiquos Sidenote: Lutetia Parisiorum 1619 fol. [“Paris 1619, folio.”]
43 socios nominavit Sidenote: Maii 8 1610.
44 tuerei probe nosset Sidenote: Anno 1597. Vide Camdeni ad lectorem epistolam Annalibus praefixam. [“In the year 1597. See Camden’s letter To the Reader prefixed to the Annales.”]
45 iudice, discamus Sidenote: In epistola praefixa libro Augustini Vincentii. [“In a letter prefixed to Augustine Vincent’s book.”]
47 nostri seculi principem Sidenote: Vide Annalium apparatum ad ann. 1617 pag. 25. [See the Annales’ apparatus for the year 1617, p. 25.]
47 Hinc ista impia dogmata Buchanan in fact set these views forth most explicitly in his De Iure Regni Apud Scotos Dialogus (1579).
48 Ludovicus Molinaeus Sidenote: Oratione in laudem G. Camdeni habita Oxonii, x Iulii 1652. “In an oration delivered in William Camden’s praise at Oxford, 10 July 1652.”] This was printed in 1653 under the title Oratio auspicalis, cui subjuncta est laudatio clarissimi viri Guil. Cambdeni (because of their political differences, Smith suppresses the fact that this individual was the current occupant of the Camden Professorship of History).
48 Although they are not mentioned in chronological order, Smith was presumably thinking of the murder of Mary’s husband Lord Darnley, her quarrel with Darnley, and her subsequent marriage to Bothwell. Less likely, the murder in question may have been that of Mary’s Italian lutenist David Rizzio.
49 ut ipse refert Sidenote In responsione ms. prius citata, pag. 19. [“In his previously-cited manuscript of response, p. 19.”]
51 scriptis liquet Sidenote: Vide epistolam CLXVII p.186 et Ep. CLV, pag. 194.
51 tanquam sacrum depositum Sidenote: Vide etiam viri clarissimi Petri Puteani vitam a Rigaltio conscriptum, Parisiis 1652 quarto, et epistulam CCXLVII pag. 310. [“See the life of the right distinguished Piet De Put written by (Nicolaus) Rigaltius, Paris 1652, quarto, and Letter 155, p. 194.”]
51 Georgium Michaelem Lingelshemium relicto Sidenote: Vide epistulam CCXLVI pag. 310.
51 monumentum sane aere et marmore longe perennius This of course echoes Horace, Odes III.xxx.1, Exegi monumentum aere perennius.
51 curabo Smith evidently had the ambition of producing a new and improved edition based on Camden’s manuscript, but he never did so.
52 vel potius quantum voti Sidenote: “Nihil aliud nunc restat, cum e tot caecis Oceani vadis et asperis antiquitatis cautibus eluctata tandem enavigarit oratio, quam ut nautae olim Neptuno vela lacera aut tabulam votivam, sic ego etiam aliquid Deo optimo maximo et venerandae antiquitati anathema consecrarem, quod libens merito nunc voveo, et suo tempore, Deo volente, vota solvam.” Camdenus in fine Britanniae pag. 860. [“‘Now that my discourse has sailed out of so many blind reefs and shoals of antiquity’s ocean, nothing else remains than, as sailors once offered their shredded sails or a votive tablet to Neptune, so too I dedicate an offering to God Almighty and to venerable antiquity, which I cheerfully do now vow, and in its own good time, God willing,I shall discharge this vow’: Camden at the end of Britannia, p. 860.”]
54 xvii Maii MCDXXII habita Sidenote: E registro N quod acta convocationis ab anno 1615 ad annum 1628 continet, fol. 144. Huius vero inspiciendi, ut et caeterorum, quae in archivis reponuntur, facultem pro ingenti illa humanitate, et longa eaque fidissima acidima, qua me complexus est, concessit vir maximus Joannes Wallisius sacrae theologiae doctor, mathematicorum huius seculi facile princeps, geometriae Savilianus professor, et academiae Oxoniensis archivorum custos meritissimus. [“Fom Register N, which contains the acts of Convocation from the year 1615 to the year 1628. In accordance with his kindness, that great gentleman John Wallis, Doctor of Sacred Philosophy, easily the chief mathematician of this century, Savililian Professor Geometry, and right deservedly custodian of the archives of the University of Oxford, allowed me to inspect this book, as he did the other records kept in the archives.”]
54 huius donationis et fundationis Sidenote: Pix. n. 7 in abaco camerae turris scholarum. {“Box nr. 7 in the sideboard of the tower of the Schools building.”]
54 statis regulisque de loco Sidenote: Ordinationes istas longo post tempore factas e corpore statutorum universitatis Oxioniae tit. iv sec. 1 § 11 hic apponere forsan non abs re erit:

Praelector historices bis in qualibet sepitimana, diebus scilicet lunae et veneris, inter horas primam et secundam post meridiem in schola Historiae designata Lucium Florum aut alios quosvis antiquioris et melioris notae historicos perlegat, eiusque lectiones frequentare teneantur singuli artium baccalaurei, post quadragesimam immediate sequentem primae praesentationis suae diem, donec ad gradum magisterii promoveantur: item iuris civilis studiosi, quousque baccalaurei iuris praesentati fuerint. Quia vero a doctissimo viro Gulielmo Camdeno Clarencieux, munifico huius lecturae fundatore, nihil usquam provisum est, quin rem totam universitatis arbitrio permisit, eo strictius et morosius esse oportet iudicium universitatis in eligendo lectore secundum statuta (tit. x sect. 11, § 6) ut honori et aestimationi tum academiae tum ipsius benefactoris consulatur, qui de fide ac iudicio universitatis tam honorifice sensit, ut ipsis legem ponere non sustinuerit.

[“After all this time, it will perhaps not be inapposite to place here the regulations, taken from the Statutes of the University of Oxford, title iv, section 1 § 11:

Twice each week (namely on Monday and Friday), between the hours of 1 and 2 p. m., shall read Lucius Florus or other ancient historians of better note, in the School of History appointed, and all of the B. A.’s shall be bound to attend these lectures, from the Lent immediately following the day of their matriculation until they are promoted to the grade of M A. Likewise students of the Civil Law, until they have determined for the B. A. And since no provision has been made by the right learned William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, but rather since he has left the entire matter to the decision of the University, the University’s judgment ought to be all the more strict and careful in choosing the Lecturer in accordance with the statute (title x, section 11 § 6) so that due regard is had for the honor and esteem both of the University and of the benefactor himself, who had such an honorable opinion of the faith and judgment of the University he did not impose any rule upon them.”]

54 doctorum in music aucti Sidenote: Regist. N. fol. 144b.
56 gravissime conquestus est Sidenote: Vide regist. O vel potius excerpta e registribus per Brianum Twinum et doctorem Langbainum, archivorum custodes eruditissimos p. 418. [“See Register O, or rather the excerpts from the registers compiled by Bryan Twine and Dr. Langbain, those right erudite custodians of the archives, p. 418.”]
56 ratas habuit academia Sidenote: Reg. N 172.
56 De Ratione et Methodo Legendi Historias Sidenote: Dissertatio habita in schola Historica 12 Iulii 1623, a D. W. octavo 1623. [“A lecture given in the School of History 12 July 1623, by Digory Whear, 1623, octavo.”]
57 condidit Sidenote Ex testamento in curia praerogativa. [“From his will, registered in the Courty of Prerogatives.”]
58 septuagesimo tertio aetatis anno Sidenote: Hinc error in inscriptione sepulchrali corrigendus: certo enim constat, illum solis duobus annis et dimidio, septuagenario maiorem decessisse. [“Hence the error on his tomb’s inscription needs correction: for it is certain that he died two and a half years after his seventieth birthday.”]
60 The word penulatus is not in the Classical Latin lexicon, and (under the assumption it is not a printer’s mistake) I can only guess that it means “clad in morning.”
60 mox futurus concionator Sidenote: Ex registro nuncupato Funeral Certificates, quod signatur l. 20, fol. 90 in archivis collegii heraldorum. Haec consului, perquam benevole id permittente viro amplissimo et clarissimo D. Henrico San-Georgio, equestris dignitatis, Clarentio. [“From the register in the archives of the College of Heralds called Funeral Certificates, vol. 20, fol. 90. I consulted this thanks to the kind permission of the right eminent and distinguished Sir Henry St. George, knight, Clarenceux King of Arms.”]
60 longum vale dicturi Suggested by Vergil, Eclogue iii.79, et longum ‘formose, vale, vale,’ inquit.
61 tandemque Sidenote: Regist. N fol. 170.
62 Morgan (who liked long titles) wrote, among other things, Horlogiographia optica. Dialling universall and particular: speculative and practicall. In a threefold præcognita, viz. geometricall, philosophicall, and astronomicall: and a threefold practise, viz. arithmeticall, geometricall, and instrumentall. With diverse propositions of the use and benefit of shadows, serving to prick down the signes, declination, and azimuths, on sun-dials, and diverse other benefits. Illustrated by diverse opticall conceits, taken out of Augilonius, Kercherius, Clavius, and others. Lastly, topothesia, or, a feigned description of the court of art. Full of benefit for the making of dials, use of the globes, difference of meridians, and most propositions of astronomie (1652), and The sphere of gentry: deduced from the principles of nature, an historical and genealogical work, of arms and blazon; in four books, entituled, The gentleman, esquire, knight, king, Adams shield, Josephs coat, Vulcan & Minerva, Fountain of honour, nobility native. Dative, atchieved. Created. In which is contained, the genealogies of the patriarchs and heroe’s standards of the Jews, hieroglyphicks of the Ægyptians, symbols of the Grecians, antiquities of the Romans, arms & ensignes of the English nation: accommodated with lively cutts on copper, as well for Aarons brest-plate as Ariadne’s crown. Drawn down to King Charles II (1661).
62 quam Marcus Gheeraertes pinxit The Gheeraerts portrait is now in the possession of the Bodleian Library (it hangs in the Gallery), and may be seen here. On the whole, Smith’s description of the painting is accurate, but one problem deserves remark. On the painting, the fifth line of Whear’s epigram reads Quisquis et Historiae Cathedram hanc conscendit, esto, and the superfluous hanc ruins the meter. The simplest explanation of the discrepancy is that Smith silently corrected the mistake. Camden’s surviving portraits are discussed in the D. N. B., pp. 736f.
62 Perenniora saxo See the relevant note on § 51.
63 cimeliisque Assuming it is not a printer’s error, I have no idea what this unclassical word means.
64 Sylvester a Petra Sancta A contemporary Italian herald, chiefly remembered for having devised a system of depicting coats of arms in black and white.
64 satis ostendunt Camden’s verses (collected and published by Smith in this same volume) are available here.
65 in artis pictoriae studio et professione Since Heralds had to draw coats of arms, an artistic ability was part of their necessary equipment (for an example of the fine quality of their work, see this achievement of arms drawn for Sir Robert Sidney when he was created Lord Lisle in 1616, although I do not know if this was the work of Camden or one of his colleagues). This is why Smith has previously told us that Camden’s antagonist Ralph Brooke, York Herald, was a member of the London Guild of Painter-Stainers.
65 In suis visitationibus In these “visitations,” Heralds visited the various counties of England and compiled pedigrees of their armigerous families. Any scholar who has had the need to consult the published volumes containing the results of these visitations (and plenty have) will gratefully attest to their immense utility. Camden certainly participated energetically in these visitations, and one of the tasks of a modern biographer will be to ascertain to what extent he was the driving force behind them. Titles such as The visitation of the county of Kent, taken in the year 1619 by John Philipott, Rouge Dragon, deputy and assistant to William Camden, Clarencieux [sic] King-of-Arms suggest he performed some sort of supervisory role. Were they his brainchild in the first place?
66 D. Robertum Cottonum Sidenote: Britannia in comitatu Huntingdoniensi, pag. 388, “Davidi natus erat Henricus, Henrico David comes Huntingdoniae, per cuius alteram filiam Isabellam descendit Cunnington et alia latifundia iure coniugali ad Robertum Brus, a cuius primogenito filio Roberto, qui agnomine nobilis, Iacobus rex Magnae Britanniae recta linea genus ducit. A Bernardo filio iuniore, cui hoc Cunnington cum Exton obtigit, Robertus Cotton, vir dignitate equestri, qui praeter caeteras virtutes bonarum artium admirator et indagator summus conquisitis undique monumentis venerandae antiquitatis, hic instituit armarium , a quo mihi in his tenebris lumen pro singulari humanitate saepenumero praetulit.” [“Britannia on the country of Huntingdon, p.388, ‘To David was born Henry, and to Henry David Earl of Huntingdon, my way of whose second daughter Isabelle descended by conjugal right Cunnington and other estates to Robert Bruce, from whose firstborn son Robert, called The Noble, from whom King James of Great Britain traces his line by direct descent. From his younger son Bernard, to whom came this Cunnington with Exton, descends Robert Cotton, knight, who (in addition to his other virtues) is an amateur and avid collector of the goodly arts, and, having gathered from all quarters monuments of of venerable antiquity, has founded here a Library, from which, out of his singular kindness, he has often fetched me light when I was in darkness.’”]
66 studuisse crederet Sidenote: Vide epistolam XCVII pag. 138.
67 fermento vacuus Sidenote: Vide Analacta de Rebus Catholicorum in Hibernia, octavo 1616. The reference is to David Rothe’s Analecta sacra nova et mira, de rebus Catholicorum in Hibernia, Pro fide & Religione gestis, the first full edition of which was published at Cologne in 1617. Despite Smith’s dismissive fraterculus, Rothe was a bishop.
67 haereseos notassent Sidenote: Vide Epistolam CXCIV p. 246.
67 Personius et Possevinus Iesuitae Robert Persons (who headed the English College at Rome) and Antonio Possevin.