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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
In the spring of 1889 a large series of documents formerly in the possession of Edmund Gibson, the learned prelate who for a quarter of a century presided over the see of London, were offered to me for purchase. I at once recognised their interest and importance, and, as it seemed to me that such documents should not remain in private hands, I secured them, not for my own collection but for the library of St. Paul's cathedral church. The papers comprised about ninety volumes in folio or quarto, together with a considerable mass of loose sheets of manuscript matter.
page 155 note a Dr. Gibson was bishop of Lincoln from 1715–16 to 1723; bishop of London from 1723 to 1748.
page 155 note b The Lincoln Returns include the Visitations for 1717, 1718, 1720, and 1721. The London Returns comprise the Visitations for 1723, 1727, 1738, 1741, 1742, and 1747. Two volumes relate to the stipends of curates, and other interesting matters, in 1736.
page 156 note a Measuring 9¼ by 7¼inches.
page 156 note b Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of England, edition 1865, iv. 232Google Scholar. The whole of this paragraph is derived from Miss Strickland.
page 157 note a Gardiner, . Great Civil War, ii. 121, 125Google Scholar.
page 157 note b Ibid. ii. 23, 40.
page 157 note c Measuring about 12 by 7½inches.
page 157 note d The words in italics are erased.
page 157 note e An erasure here.
page 157 note f An erasure here.
page 157 note g An erasure here.
page 157 note h That is, George Lord Digby, one of the King's Secretaries.
page 157 note i That is, Lords in a Parliament.
page 158 note a An Appendix to the Three Volumes of Mr. Archdeacon Echard's History of England, by the same Author. Folio, London, 1720, pp. 5–6.
page 158 note b Gardiner. History of the Great Civil War, 1642–9; II. 463. Note: The King's Vow, April 13. Clar. MSS. 2,176. Printed in the Appendix to Echard's History, p. 5.
page 159 note a This line is written in a much later hand than the body of the document.
page 159 note b The variations in Echard's printed copy of the Vow are very unimportant, but still it may be as well to note them here. I give Echard's readings:—
Line 2, the Divine Majesty.
Line 4, I do now.
Line 8, whom I propose to chuse.
Line 10, in the Design.
page 159 note c Measuring seven inches by six.
page 160 note a Gardiner's, Great Civil War, ii. 464, 471, 472, 478Google Scholar.
page 160 note b Eight inches and a-half, by six inches and seven-eighths.
page 160 note c Which occurred at Lambeth on the 4th of June, 1663.
