^{page 1 note a} Sir Peter Temple, of Stowe, married for his second wife, Christian, daughter of Sir John Leveson, of Trentham. Whitelocke, in his Memorials, describes this Lady Temple as a busy woman, and a great politician, who had acted as the agent and messenger of Lord Savile.

^{page 1 note b} The writer's sister, Katherine, married Sir Thomas Bland, of Kippax Park.

^{page 7 note a} The Queen landed from Holland at Bridlington at the end of Feb. 1643.

^{page 9 note a} Sic.

^{page 13 note a} Sic.

^{page 14 note a} Sic.

^{page 21 note a} This petition and all the documents which follow are taken from the Royalist Composition Papers in the Public Record Office, Second Series, volume vi.

^{page 27 note a} Sic.

^{page 27 note b} i. e. the Earl of Newcastle's. See p. 31, post.