^{page 2 note a} Sir Dominick Sarsfield, C.J. of the Common Pleas.

^{page 3 note a} i. e. in the Session of 1629.

^{page 6 note a} In MS. is here inserted “that his answere to the Bill.”

^{page 21 note a} i. c. by.

^{page 21 note b} Lord Aungier, Master of the Rolls.

^{page 36 note a} Mr. Macray has directed my attention to Rawlinson's MS. B. 131, which contains the defence of Sir John Throgmorton, “Justice of the Council of the Marches of Wales and “Vice-President of the same.”

^{page 36 note b} ? howsoever.

^{page 36 note c} Sic.

^{page 38 note a} Blank in MS. See Barns' The Starchamber, 120.

^{page 38 note b} Blank in MS.

^{page 42 note a} 1921–2.

^{page 42 note b} Sic. ? prowling.

^{page 42 note c} To the benevolence for the Palatinate.

^{page 43 note a} The harvest of 1630 had failed. For the measures taken in consequence, see the Proclamations of June 13 and Sept. 28. Rymer, xix. 175, 195, and several entries in the Council Megister.

^{page 49 note a} Continued from p. 40.

^{page 52 note a} Sic for Sunderland.

^{page 53 note a} Sunderland.

^{page 56 note a} Continued from p. 60.

^{page 57 note a} Continued from p. 56.

^{page 60 note a} i.e. Feb. 23, 1628.

^{page 60 note b} Blank in MS.

^{page 61 note a} Axholme.

^{page 62 note a} 1628.

^{page 65 note a} “Rescous, Rescussus, comes from the French Rescousse, i. Liberatio, is a resistance against lawful authority,” &c.—Cowel's Interpreter, s. v.

^{page 70 note a} i.e. Shap.

^{page 73 note a} Samuel Harsnet.

^{page 74 note a} i.e. two.

^{page 79 note a} i.e. Deyncourt.

^{page 79 note b} To instruct the jury, or promise reward for or before appearance.— Cowell's Law Dictionary.

^{page 80 note a} i.e. Leake.

^{page 79 note a} i.e. Deyncourt.

^{page 79 note b} To instruct the jury, or promise reward for or before appearance.— Cowell's Law Dictionary.

^{page 80 note a} i.e. Leake.

^{page 82 note a} Proclamation Sept. 20, 1630.—Rymer, xix. 195. Compare the orders in the Council Register, 1630–1631.

^{page 85 note a} Howell in the side-note.

^{page 89 note a} i.e. Kenelm.

^{page 82 note a} Proclamation Sept. 20, 1630.—Rymer, xix. 195. Compare the orders in the Council Register, 1630–1631.

^{page 85 note a} Howell in the side-note.

^{page 89 note a} i.e. Kenelm.

^{page 90 note a} Blank in MS.

^{page 90 note b} As a gift or fee.

^{page 91 note a} Grove or groove is defined in Mander's Derbyshire Miner's Glossary as “the works that the miners make in the mines in sinking by shafts, driving by drifts, cuttings, sinkings, drivings, pumpings,” &c.

^{page 91 note b} Mander, in the book jnst quoted, states that lot is a customary duty of every thirteenth dish payable to the Crown or its grantees, and that cope is a tribute payable to the king after the miner's liberty to sell his ore to whom he pleases.

^{page 94 note a} He had been one of the King's printers. He was charged with spreading a rumour that Lord Keeper Coventry had taken a bribe. See List of Causes, June 17 1630. W. Dom., clxix. 5.

^{page 95 note a} Blank in MS.

^{page 96 note a} Continued from p. 94.

^{page 96 note b} Blank in MS.

^{page 97 note a} i.e. Brother-in-law.

^{page 104 note a} bloudy.

^{page 105 note a} i.e. slough.

^{page 105 note b} A man who makes no difference between the Churches.

^{page 108 note a} Sir Richard Grenvile. See Clarendon, viii. 135–6. Lady Grenvile had been previously married to a brother of the earl.

^{page 113 note a} Rot. Part. iii. 630,632 (B).

^{page 113 note b} Rot. Parl. i. 172, 181 (B).

^{page 113 note c} Blank in MS.

^{page 114 note a} Blank in MS.

^{page 114 note b} Perhaps referring to the preliminaries of the single combat claimed by Lord Eeay and David Ramsay.

^{page 114 note c} The Star Chamber decree against duelling Jan. 26, 1614, is printed in Spedding's Letters and Life of Bacon, iv. 409.

^{page 115 note a} i.e. Small rings.

^{page 115 note a} Blank in MS.

^{page 121 note a} i. e. taking both sides.

^{page 133 note a} i. e. the Court of Common Pleas.

^{page 154 note a} Collumpton.

^{page 158 note a} Joseph Hall.

^{page 169 note a} Sic.

^{page 172 note a} Gal. v. 15.

^{page 173 note a} Hunsdon.

^{page 175 note a} Because these words were left out. See p. 160.

^{page 177 note a} Properly Membrane 13.

^{page 177 note b} Jacobus Archer de Assheton.

^{page 178 note a} i. e. are fined for not serying on juries.