^{page 100 note *} Tanner MS. lxxi. 189, Bodleian Library.

^{page 101 note *} Besides this, which is quoted from a letter of Sir Henry Wotton, there is, among the Venetian State Papers in the Public Record Office, a printed reply of the Council of Ten to the Pope's Interdict.

^{page 102 note *} See a note in the handwriting of Dr. Birch on a fly-leaf of. the copy of Burnet's Life of Bishop Bedell, 1692, in the British Museum.

^{page 102 note †} See also the MS. note in Burnet's Life of Bedell 1692, in the British Museum, just referred to.

^{page 102 note ‡} It does not appear what answer Bedell received to this inquiry; nor by what route Bedell travelled to Venice, beyond the remark in the text that his passage over the Alps was especially difficult. Apropos of this it may here be stated that Sir Henry Wotton, in a letter (Sir Ralph Winwood's Memorials, ut supra, vol. ii.) dated July 19, 1604 (from Dover on his way to Venice), mentions that the route he was going to take was first to Boulogne then to Amiens, and so through Lorraine to Strasburg and thence by Augsburg. In returning to England in 1610 Sir Henry, we shall see, came by Lombardy and France, taking Paris in his way.

^{page 103 note *} Among the Venetian State Papers in the Public Record Office, there are two or three copies of the printed circular, dated April 21, 1607, which the Senate sent to the Archbishops and Bishops of the Republic, announcing the conclusion of peace with the Pope.

^{page 103 note †} Newton was a native of Scotland, and was made Dean of Durham in 1606 by King James, which dignity, though not in Orders, he held till 1620, when he resigned it, and was made a Baronet. Newton married Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and dying in 1629, was succeeded by his son William, who died unmarried, and was succeeded by his brother Henry, who assumed the name of Puckering on inheriting the estates of his uncle. Sir Henry Puckering died January 22, 1700, aged 83, when the title became extinct.

^{page 104 note *} These MS. copies are preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. There are copies also in the Bodleian Library. (Tanner MSS.)

^{page 105 note *} Discourses occasioned by the funeral sermon of Bishop Barnet upon Archbishop Tillotson. London, 1695. 4to. Dr. George Hickes had been Dean of Worcester, but was deprived for refusing to take the oaths to William and Mary. He was one of the two non-jurors selected by King James from the list sent him by Dr. Bancroft (the deprived Archbishop of Canterbury) to St. Germain's, to be made Bishops, in order to keep up the Episcopal succession among the adherents of the King by Divine Right. Dr. George Hickes was accordingly consecrated titular Bishop of Thetford by Sancroft.

^{page 105 note †} It is something amusing, if not to be regretted, that Dr. Hickes, and even others after him, of High Church tendencies, should, out of animosity to Burnet, have endeavoured to depreciate Bedell, for surely there was nothing whatever in common between Bedell and Burnet.

^{page 106 note *} Memorie Anedote spettanti alia vita ed agli studj del sommo Klosofo e Giureconsulto F. Paolo Servita, Raccolte ed ordinate da Francesco Griselini, Veneziano, della celebre Accademia dell’ Istituto delle Scienze di Bologna. Ed. 2^a. In Losana, 1760. 8vo.

^{page 107 note *} The scars left by the wounds inflicted on Father Paulo by the assassins.

^{page 108 note *} This tractate, it is to be remarked, is a different work from the “History of the Interdict,” by Father Paulo himself, which was first published in Italian in 1624, at Venice, after Paulo's death, and a translation of which into Latin by Bedell was published in 1626, as will be noticed below in Chapter V.

^{page 109 note *} Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from 1775 to his death in 1797, aged 63.

^{page 111 note *} Du Plessis-Mornay, the Pope of the Huguenots, as he was styled, and one of the purest and grandest characters of his time.

^{page 111 note †} These rules appear to have constituted what has been called the English Grammar which Bedell wrote for the use of Paulo and Fulgentio, (supra, p. 4.) Dr. Nicholas Bernard tells us that he had seen a copy of it in Bedell's own hand.

^{page 112 note *} Sir Dudley Carleton (successor of Sir Henry Wotton), in a letter from Venice to Sir Ralph Winwood, mentions the incident of a Fulgentio being burnt for a heretick, but confounds him, as has been done by others since, with Fulgentio the Servite. The latter was then living in Venice, and lived to attend Father Paulo on his death-bed in 1623, and afterwards to write his life.

^{page 113 note *} The College was the place in Venice whither Ambassadors resorted.

^{page 114 note *} Spain.

^{page 114 note *} Allusion is here made to the enmity of Pope Paul IV. (John Peter Caraffa), and other members of his family, to the King-Emperor Charles the Fifth. The Caraffas were Neapolitans, and, as such, were at that time subjects of the Spanish Crown, and, in common with their countrymen, had suffered from the oppression of the Spanish yoke. But as a family they had special grievances of their own against the King of Spain, which John Peter was not disposed to forget on his elevation to the Papal throne, even if the Spanish Royal-Imperial party had not brought them vividly back to the new Pontiff's remembrance by their endeavours to prevent his election.

John Peter Caraffa was elevated to the Popedom in 1555, and in 1556 the Emperor Charles V. abdicated.

^{page 115 note *} Lansdowne MS. xc. 66, in the British Museum; also some original letters of Bishop Bedell, &c. tit supra, pages 69 and 77.

^{page 116 note *} The words here printed in Italics are written in cypher in the original.

^{page 117 note *} Sir Henry Wotton's letters to King James himself among the Venetian State Papers in the Public Record Office, are signed :—“Ottavio Baldi.” This was the name under which Sir Henry Wotton was first introduced to the notice of King James, when, before James's accession to the throne of England, he presented himself to his Majesty in Stirling Castle (having travelled from Italy to Scotland by way of Norway for greater privacy), as an Italian envoy from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to warn him against Popish emissaries who sought his life. See Isaak Walton's Life of Sir Henry Wotton.

^{page 118 note †} This word was written in cypher.

^{page 118 note ‡} This was rather a sanguine and overstrained view, on the part of Sir Henry Wotton, of the approval by Father Paulo of King James's Articles of Faith. See note *, infra, p. 120.

^{page 119 note *} This is a Venetian phrase, Sir Henry Wotton remarks, in a marginal note, signifying, in the present purpose, or in the matter in hand.

^{page 119 note †} Despatch from Venice in the Public Record Office.

^{page 120 note *} Griselini (ut supra)quotes a letter from Father Paulo on this subject to James Lecasserio, written at the end of the year 1609, in which the Father remarks, that, “if the oath proposed to Catholics by the King of England had come to us bare and unmixed with the controversies of the time, it would have been approved of by the more judicious, but, as the King has entered so much into theological questions, were we to approve his articles, we should be supposed to receive all the doctrine.”

^{page 120 note †} The penalty, had there been one, in such a case, would have probably been a fine, and ten years at the galleys, or, in case the condemned was not able to row, imprisonment for life.

^{page 122 note *} To this letter there is neither date nor address, but it is endorsed “His M^y to me, 12 Sept^r, 1609,” and occurs among letters addressed to the Earl of Salisbury on the subject.

^{page 122 note †} The story of the presentation of the King's Book by Sir Henry Wotton to the Senate on St. James's Day, as related in a letter from Sir Thomas Edmonds to Sir Ralf Winwood, dated London, October 4, 1609 (Winwood's Memorials, ut supra, pp. 77, 78, vol. iii.), is in substantial agreement with the account now given from the original documents.

^{page 123 note *} Andreæ Mauroceni (Morosini, in Italian) Senatoris Historia Veneta ab anno M.D.XX.I. usque ad annum M.D.CXV. In quinque partes tributa. Folio, Lib. xviii. p. 690. Venetiis, 1623.

^{page 123 note †} Opere citato, p. 134.

^{page 123 note ‡} Opere citato.

^{page 124 note *} The copies of certain Letters between Spain and England, &c.