During the Jacobite uprising of 1745, the claimant to the British throne, Charles
Edward Stuart, amassed an army in Scotland and marched as far south as Derby before
being driven back north by troops loyal to George II.

See, for instance, William Green’s A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints (1814), which opines that the “splendid display of wood” in this particular site
“is no where equalled in the north of England” (30). Green was an Ambleside-based
artist and friend of the Wordsworths.

The Pleiades cluster.

This poem was composed on 27 June 1817 and first published in the River Duddon volume of 1820.

Hawkshead.

More commonly known as the chub.

In Part I of The Compleat Angler (1653), Izaac Walton sets out “to recover the lost credit of the poor despised Chub.”

Line 35 of the poem “Loyalty Confined” from Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Percy dates the poem to 1671 and tentatively attributes it to Sir Roger L’Estrange.