^{page 238 note a} Certain interlineations and additions, here printed in italics, appear to be in the same hand as the body of the documents, but to have been written subsequently. The writing in many places is very faint.

^{page 238 note b} The Jesuits arrived in England in the summer of 1580. This was probably written in 1601.

^{page 238 note c} Interlined: refers apparently to preceding paragraph.

^{page 238 note d} The keeper of Wisbech prison.

^{page 238 note e} The words “I think” have been struck out.

^{page 239 note a} “governed only by” struck out.

^{page 239 note b} This interlineation substituted for the words “was not true.”

^{page 240 note a} The letter is obscure. It might be read as P or H, but it is evidently Blackwell who is referred to.

^{page 240 note b} A copy of Father Lister's treatise Adversus Factiosos is among the Petyt MSS. It was first printed by Bagshaw in his Relatio Compendiosa, pp. 37–4