2
His character has suffered by antiquarian research, which tells us that the song was made on a Colonel Horner, intrusted by the last Abbot of Wells with a pie, containing the title-deeds of the abbey, which he was to deliver to Henry VIII., and that he abstracted one for his own purposes, whereupon the abbot was hanged.
3
The old name for pancakes. Slap-
4
The figure which struck the hour, as on the old clocks of St. Dunstan's, and of Carfax in Oxford.
5
Bron-rhuddyn = "breast-burnt," or "breast-scorched."