{1a} The corrigenda has been applied to this eBook. For example, in the
book this phrase is “and its ancient tombs” but is corrected in the
corrigenda to “and our ancient tombs”. DP.
{1b} See _The Times_, July 14 and August 8, 1881.
{2} Jordan’s Meeting-house, near Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. See _The
Times_, July 20, 1881.
{19} _The Life of Milton_. London: 1699. P. 149.
{20} _Morning Chronicle_, March 18, 1799.
{21a} See _Notes and Queries_, 1st S., xi, 496, and xii, 75.
{21b} See _Notes and Queries_, 1st S., xi, 496, and xii, 75.
{22} _An Account of what appeared on opening the Coffin of King Charles
the First in the vault of Henry VIII_, _in_ [_the Tomb House_,] _St.
George’s Chapel_, _Windsor_, _on the First of April_, _MDCCCXIII_.
{23} It appears that the examiners omitted to utilize this unctuous mask
for the purpose of taking a plaster cast: a default which, as we shall
see, has been paralleled by those who conducted other examinations of the
kind.
{24} _Works of Robert Burns_: Bohn, 1842.
{26} Prefatory Notice to Cunningham’s larger edition of Ben Jonson’s
Works, pp. xviii-xx. For other examples, see _God’s Acre_, by Mrs.
Stone, 1858, chapter xiv, and _Notes and Queries_, 6th S., vii, 161.
{27a} 2nd S., viii, 354.
{27b} _Ibid_, ix, 132.
{29} The case of Dante has been recently alluded to, as if it were one
of exhumation. But despite the efforts of the Florentines to recover the
remains of their great poet, they still rest at Ravenna, in the grave in
which they were deposited immediately after his death.
{31} _Traditionary Anecdotes of Shakespeare_. 1883, p. 11.
{32} _Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare_. 3rd edition, 1883, p. 223.
{33} _Life Portraits of Shakespeare_. 1864, p. 10.
{34} _Shakespeare_: _The Man and The Book_. _Part I_, p. 79.
{35} As to this, see an article contributed by me to _The Antiquary_ for
September, 1880: also the _Shakespeare Jahrbuch_, vol. x, 1875, for Dr.
Schaafhausen’s views.
{37} There is no engraving by “Dunbar”: that name was Friswell’s mistake
for Dunkarton. Boaden’s “absolute fac-simile” and “no difference
whatever,” (_Inquiry_, 1. p., page 137) are expressions not borne out by
the engravings. My old friend, the Rev. Charles Evans, Rector of
Solihull, who possesses the almost unrivalled Marsh Collection of
Engraved Portraits of Shakespeare, at my request compared Cooper’s
engraving of the Croker portrait with those by Dunkarton, Earlom, and
Turner, of the Janssen: and he writes: “In the Cooper the face is peaked,
the beard more pointed, and the ruff different in the points.” After
all, such differences may well be the creation of the engravers. I would
fain know where the Croker portrait now is; and also that which belonged
to the late Dr. Turton, Bishop of Ely.
{39} _A Study of Shakespeare’s Portraits_. 1876, p. 23.
{45} This is exactly as it stands upon the existing gravestone, not as
it is reproduced by the writer in the _Atlantic Monthly_: the like as to
the two lines of the epitaph in No. 6. The manuscript of Dowdall,
referred to on p. 31 _ante_, is unfortunately modernized in _Traditionary
Anecdotes_. He has, indeed ‘friend,’ and ‘these,’ as in the pamphlet
version, but also ‘digg,’ and ‘inclosed.’ Dowdall, however, was a very
inaccurate copyist. See fac-simile in Mr. J. O. Halliwell’s Folio
Shakespeare, vol. i, inserted between pp. 78 and 79. The Dowdall
manuscript does not give the epitaph in capitals, except the initials.