Act iv. fc. i. p. 71.

Suff. Look on my George, I am a gentleman; Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid.

Whit. And fo am I, my name is Walter Whit

more.

How now? why start'ft thou? what, doth death affright?

Suff. Thy name affrights me, in whofe found is death.

A cunning man did calculate my birth,
And told me, that by water I should die.]

In Queen Margaret's letter to William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, (England's Heroical Epifiles. See Michael Drayton's Poems, republished 1619, p. 66.) there are lines to the fame purpofe.

"I pray thee, Poole, have care how thou doft "pass,

"Never the fea yet half fo dangerous was, "And one foretold, by water thou should'st die, "(Ah! foule befal that foule tongue's pro"phefie.)"

The note upon these lines. "The witch of "Eye receiv'd answer from her spirit, that the "Duke of Suffolk fhould take heed of water." Sc. i. p. 72.

Captain to Whitmore, concerning the Duke of Suffolk.

Capt. Convey him bence, and on our long boat's · fide ftrike off his head.]

"The Duke of Suffolk, upon his banishment "from court, immediately imbarked for France,

"but

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but was met by an English man of war, fent

out by the Duke of Exeter, governor of the «Tower; the commander whereof coming on "board the fhip, either on purpose to search "for the Duke of Suffolk, or on fome other ac

count, and finding him in the hold, appre "hended this great minifter; and, taking him "into his boat, cut off his head in Dover road, "throwing his head and body upon the fhore,

which were afterwards taken up, and buried " by one of his chaplains." Holinfbed's Chronicle, Henry VI. p. 632. Grafton's Chronicle, p. 610.

Id. ib.

Suff. Gelidus timor occupat artus; it's thee I fear.]

Vid. Ovid. Trift. 313. Metamorph. 247.
Sc. iii. p. 80.

Alarum to fight, wherein both the Staffords are
flain.]

"A detachment was made against Jack Cade, "&c. under the command of Sir Humphry, and "Sir William Stafford, to oppose those of Cade's "men that remained in a body, imagining that "moft of them were retired to their several

..

dwellings: but Cade having placed his troops "in ambufcade, in the woods about Sevenoke, the "forces commanded by the Staffords were fur"rounded, and most of them either killed or “taken prisoners, the two brothers who com"manded them being killed on the spot." Holinfbed's

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infbed's Chronicle, Henry VI. p. 364. See likewife Echard's Hiftory of England, vol. 1. p. 449. Salmon's Hiftory of England, vol. 3. p. 183, 184.

Sc. iv. p. 83.

K. Henry. Lord Say, the traitors hate thee; Therefore away with us to Killingworth.]

"The King and court were so terrified at the approach of these rebels to Blackheath, that "they retired to Kenelworth castle, in War"wickshire." Holinfbed, ibid. Echard, ibid. Salmon, ibid.

Sc. vi. p. 85. Cade to Lord Say.

Cade.

What canft thou anfwer to my Majesty for giving up of Normandy unto Monfieur Bafmecu.] Sc. vi. p. 86.

Lord Say. Hear me but speak, and bear me when you will.

Kent, in the commentaries Cæfar writ,

Is term'd the civil'ft place of all this ifle.]

He refers to a paffage in (a) Cafar's Commentaries.

Malmbury (as Camden obferves in his Kent} has written thus in their praise: "That the "country-people, and citizens of Kent, retain "the spirit of the antient nobility, above the "reft of the English; being more ready to af

(a) Ex his omnibus longe funt humaniffimi qui Cantium incolunt. Cæfaris Comment. de bello Gallico. lib. v. xiv. << ford

"ford respect and kind entertainment to others, "and lefs inclinable to revenge injuries."

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Id. ib.

The people liberal, valiant.]

Camden obferves of them, in the fame place, "As to bravery in war, a certain monk has ob"ferved it to be fo eminent in the Kentish men, "that, in their engagements among the rest of "the English, the front of the battle was looked upon to belong properly to them, as fo many "triarii, [who among the Romans were always "the strongest men, and] upon whom the stress "of the battle lay." See fc. iv. p. 121. P. 88. Take him away, I fay, and ftrike off his bead prefently, and then break into his fon in-law's boufe, Sir James Cromer, and bring them both ир on two poles hither.]

"Cade ordered the Lord Mayor and Alder"men to affemble in Guild ball, in order to fit "in judgment upon Lord Say: but his Lord

fhip infifting upon his being tried by his peers, "Cade hurried him from the bar, and ftruck off "his head at the Standard in Cheapfide. And af"terwards meeting with Sir J. Cromer, who had "married Lord Say's daughter, he cut off his

head, ordering that and Lord Say's to be car"ried before him on fpears." Holinfbed, ibid. Speed's Hiftory, &c. p. 693. Salmon, ibid.

Sc. viii. p. 92.

Meff. Pleafe it your Grace to be advertised, The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland;

And,

And with a puillant and mighty power,
Of Gallowglaffes, and ftout Kernes,
Is marching hither in proud array.]

The (a) Gallowglasses and (b) Kerns, according to Staniburst, were two orders of foot-foldiers among the Irish; the former very bold and ftrong men, but very inhuman; the latter were fond of keeping their fwords clean, and free from (c) hacks. Of which he produces one remarkable instance.

Mr. Spenfer (in his View of the State of Ireland, vol. 6. p. 1577.) fays, "That the Gallowglaffes, "from their name, were antient English; for

gallogla fignifies an English fervitor or yeoman; " and he being arm'd in a long fhirt of mayl

(a) Proximus eft equitibus, ordo pedeftris, qui conftat e quodam genere militum, quos illi Galeglafios appellant; homines funt magnæ ftaturæ, præter communem morem corporati, fortes Baftuarii fanguinarii toti, et minime propitii milites, humanum apud illos nihil tam eft, quam odium humanitatis. Richardi Staniburfti Dublinienfis, De rebus in Hibernia geftis, lib. 1. p. 41. Antwerpiæ, p. 1584.

(b) Tertius ordo comprehendit alios etiam pedites, ac levis armaturæ Macharophoros, ab Hybernis Karni dicuntur. Id.

ib. p. 42.

(c) Enfes acuti et minime scabri illis in armoribus funt; et ne in æruginem incidant, neve eorum acies hebefcat, omni diligentiâ curant. Ferunt quendam de horum grege, e præliis revertentem, plus quatuor periculofis vulneribus acceptis gladium infpexiffe, cumque ex nulla parte tractum aut aduncum vidiffet, maximas numini gratias egiffe, quod illa vulnera corpori, non enfi fuerunt inflicta. Id. ib.

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