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76 with respectful scepticism the Romance of Brutus, the Trojan; who is now buried in silent oblivion with Scota, the daughter of Pharaoh, and her numerous progeny, v. Gibbon's Rom. Hist. ii. p. 526. In Henry VIII.'s famous Manifesto against James IV. he insisted at great length on the superiority of the kings of England over the kingdom of Scotland, which he derived from his illustrious predecessor, Brute, the Trojan, v. Henry's Hist. of Eng. xi. p.526. As Henry claimed kindred, he should have added his ancestor's name to his own. Henry the Brute would have well preserved the recollection of the illustrious lineage.

Poem, p. xxviii, Tables.]Sir William Forrest, chaplain to Queen Catherine, speaking of her when young, says,

See Andrews' Hist. of Gt. Brit. i. 419.

 

Life, p. 5, Mistress.]Elizabeth bestowed the primacy upon Dr. Mathew Parker, though she liked not his marriage, as she contrived once humorously to tell his consort. The queen had been hospitably entertained at his house; she had thanked him—"and now," she said, turning to the lady, "what shall I say to you? Madam I may not call you, and Mistress I am ashamed to call you, so I know not what to call you, but yet I do thank you."

'It must be observed, that though Mrs. Saunderson was very young when married to Betterton, she retained the appellation of Mistress. Mademoiselle or Miss, though introduced among people of fashion in England, about the latter end of Charles the Second's reign, was not familiar to the middle class of people till a much later time, nor in use among the players till toward the latter end of King William's reign. Miss Cross was the first of the stage Misses. She is particularly noticed in Joe Haines's Epilogue