^{page 7 note a} There appears to be no complete copy of the Memorial extant. Certain abstracts of it were drawn up and circulated in MS. by the Jesuits in the hope of putting their adversaries to shame by the extravagance of the charges contained in it. Dr. Bagshaw, however, unashamed, printed in his True Relation an English translation of one of these entitled “An Abstract of the Memorial sent by certain Englishmen out of the Low Countries to the Pope's Highness, Clement VIII., against the Jesuits labouring in the English vineyard, Sept., 1597.” The present document, also translated by Bagshaw (p. 111), is a more concise “catalogue of slanders,” as Parsons term it, extracted partly from the Memorial itself and partly from letters written in support of the Memorial by Dr. Gifford, Dean of Lille and afterwards Archbishop of Rheims, and by others of his party. There are three Latin copies of this paper in the Petyt collection (xxxviii. ff. 333, 337, and 347), one of which is described as Articuli Patris Personii contra D. Giffordum decanum Insulensem. Bagshaw gives to his version of the Capita the title “Certain chief points of accusations wherewith many Englishmen have justly charged the Jesuits unto the Pope and divers cardinals: taken out of the Memorial and other letters, some of them dated at Rome, 8 of November, 1597.” His translation contains some variations from the Latin copies. He, moreover, suppresses the references to the sources of the several charges with the names of their author, which are here supplied by Parsons or the compiler. Paragraphs omitted in Bagshaw's version are here marked with an asterisk.

^{page 9 note a} This clause, being the Jesuits’ denial of the preceding statement, is inadvertently included in Bagshaw's version.

^{page 9 note b} The cardinal died Sept., 1596.

^{page 11 note a} Edmunds, i.e. Weston.

^{page 11 note b} Bagshaw reads 26.

^{page 13 note a} Bagshaw reads aut aliam, “or to take some other miserable course.”

^{page 14 note a} Bagshaw reads, “seing their pride by reason of their larger faculties is fenced (as it were) by authority.”