[1] Spelman's "History of Sacrilege."
[2] 34 Henry VIII.
[3] Hallam's "Constitution of England," i. 8, 4to.
[4] The remains of this feudal pomp and power were visible even at a
later period in the succeeding reign, when we find the Earl of
Nottingham, in his embassy to Spain, accompanied by a retinue of five
hundred persons, and the Earl of Hertford, at Brussels, carried three
hundred gentlemen.
[5] "The graziers have assured me of their credit, and some of them
may be trusted for a hundred thousand pounds."--Sir J. Harrington's
Prologue to _The Metamorphosis of Ajax_.