"It is to be marked that many things which I put down as strange expressions to within a year or two become so familiar that even I myself do wonder why I took notice of them. Which may put us in mind how the English language changeth in the age of man." (p.138)
"The inseparable difficulties of Latin do arise chiefly from hence, that we pretend to the understanding of Latin which hath been writ in all places and ages for about 2,000 years, whereas we are not able to understand our English Chaucer who lived but 300 years ago. And the several dialects of our own little country used at this day are not understood by any one person." (p.149)
There is much to entertain in the notes as well as Blundell loved a tall tale. The following is all the more poignant for the fact that Blundell was himself severely disabled by a gunshot wound in his leg early in the Civil War.
"A servant maid, at the siege of Hardin (Hawarden) Castle, was shot in the mouth and the bullet came out of her fundament, and she recovered the hurt. She served Sir William Neale, who affirmed this to be true in my hearing. But the bullet (you must know) came, many days after it was shot, through the common passage" (p.119).