FOOTNOTES:
[1] Pub.: Gay and Bird, London. The Howard Publishing Company, Detroit.
[2] “Introduction,” p. 11.
[3] He speaks in the third person—as a royal personage.
[4] Introduction, p. 8. It seems probable that this was written soon after the events in 1601.
[5] Introduction, p. 13.
[6] The Biliteral Cipher of Sir Francis Bacon, by Mrs. Gallup.
[7] The passage quoted is from the translation by Gilbert Wats, 1640, as reproduced in The Bi-literal Cypher of Francis Bacon, at the end of Part I.
[8] Published, since this article was written, in the Third Edition of Bacon’s Bi-literal Cypher.
[9] Even present day London writers are not in accord in the use of “u,” for I find in the Times, “font of type.” Mr. Marston and others write “fount.”... Are the writings of “A Correspondent” in the Times to be discredited for following the American method?
[10] See “Old and New London,” Vol. II., p. 269.
[11] Sir John Spencer’s daughter and heiress Elizabeth, married Lord William Compton (created Earl of Northampton), eloping with him from Canonbury Manor in a baker’s basket. (As I am a man, there was one conveyed out of my house yesterday in this basket.—Merry Wives of W. Act IV., sc. ii.)
[12] Created Baron Verulam of Verulam 12th of July, 1618, and Visct. St. Alban Feb. 3rd, 1619.
[13] The acreage of various “closes” is here given.