| 1 | Ramsey became Sir Alf when he was knighted a year later. | |
| 2 | When I heard that, I took my medicine and went out hospital humming song in despite of my state of the illness. | |
| 3 | He was the great-grandson of Nicolas Luckner, Marshal of France and commander-in-chief of the French Army of the Rhine, who had been elevated to count in the 18th century by the King of Denmark. | |
| 4 | Men of noble birth, are noted to be envious towards new men, when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on, they think themselves, go back. |