^{page 7 note a} These and other particulars which have been peculiarly valuable on the present occaion were kindly furnished by Thomas William King, esq., York Herald, from the record known by the name of “Benefactors,” preserved in the College of Arms.

^{page 7 note b} Edward the eldest son was of the age of 14 years 7 months and 11 days at the death of his father, which took place on 15th October, 1596. (Inq. p. m. 39 Eliz. part i. No. 82.) Mr. Hopper communicated a reference to this Inquisition.

^{page 9 note a} Sir John Danvers was skilled in architecture, and in the art of laying out a garden. His house at Chelsea was not a favourable evidence of the purity of his taste in building, but his garden there is said to have been approved and enjoyed by one who in trim gardens took an unaffected delight—Lord Bacon. On one of his visits to Sir John Danvers's “curious garden” at Chelsea we catch a glimpse of Lady Danvers. After walking for some time, overcome by fatigue or indisposition, Bacon fainted. “My Lady Danvers rubbed his face, temples, &c., and gave him cordial water. As soon as he came to himself said he, ‘Madam, I am no good footman.’ (Aubrey's Lives, ii. 226.) We were reminded of this and many other allusions to Sir John Danvers by the Rev. Edward Wilton of West Lavington, whose acquaintance with everything relating to the Danvers family is as great as his kindness in communicating his information to others.

^{page 11 note a} Theophilus Howard, Lord Walden, afterwards Earl of Suffolk, brother of the Countess of Somerset.

^{page 11 note b} “Stammell” was a coarse kind of red cloth ordinarily used for petticoats.

^{page 11 note c} Elizabeth Lady Hunsdon was a sister of Alice Countess of Derby, and both of them daughters of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe.

^{page 12 note a} For example, “their became great bickerings on him;” “there seemed so much bustle;” “I send my kind love;” “this is all at present.” Some of the orthography too was deemed very startling, but that was attributed to the copyist.

^{page 14 note a} The papers which prove the death of the Earl are contained in vol. lxi. of the State Papers of James I., and are numbered 41, 49, 56, 67, 58, 60, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 80, 84, and 107. Among them No. 60 is a letter from John Erskine, Earl of Mar, who succeeded the Earl of Dunbar as Treasurer of Scotland, to Robert Cecil the Earl of Salisbury, dated from Edinburgh the 7th February, 1611. He writes thus:—“As the pen was in my hand to write unto you, at the very instant, I received your letter full of bad news, but it is true, as in your letter you did suspect, that some two days before I had heard of the death of our good friend my Lord of Dunbar. My Lord, what can I say, but I fear it shall be your misfortune and mine, to live and see all our old and best friends die before us. Dunbar and Kinloss are gone, and I dare affirm, the like are not behind of their nation.” No. 70 is from Alexander Seaton, Earl of Dunfermline and Lord Chancellor of Scotland, also to the Earl of Salisbury, and dated from Edinburgh the 8th February, 1611. “Before the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 1st February I was advertised, both to my great grief and astonishment, of our most worthy and noble friend, the Earl of Dunbar, his unexpected decease. For we had not so much as heard before any signification of his sickness.” No. 74 is from Francis Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, also to the Earl of Salisbury, dated from Londesborough the 9th of February, 1610, i.e. 1610–11. “I have lately received a letter from your Lordship and other of my honourable Lords of the Council, whereby I understand of the decease of that worthy Lord the Earl of Dunbar, for which I am more sorry than I can now express, having found him always an upright careful justicer, a most painful and faithful servant to his sacred Majesty, and my most constant and dear friend; who, when last I parted with him, gave me much assurance of his unfeigned love, and that in regard of my travels and charges, whereof he was an eye-witness, in that service, without allowance, he would do me a good turn to his Majesty. The passionate sorrow of my heart makes me thus to speak my mind of him, and almost to forget myself on that which I intended to write of.” Finally, (No. 107). Sec. Sir Thomas Lake, writing to the Earl of Salisbury on the 25th February, 1610 [–11] (according to the indorsement), informs him that the King had determined upon the Bishop of London (Abbot) as successor to Archbishop Bancroft, and that his Majesty would have Salisbury and some other lords to call Bishop Abbot before them and let him understand “of this his Grace's choice, and that besides that his Majesty had a good opinion of him for his own part, he had in so dear remembrance the service of my Lord of Dunbar, who did first recommend him to his Majesty, as that though he were not now living, that the world might say he guided his Majesty, yet, for the affection he bare to him living, he would perform his request, that the world might see that such as he did find good servants he did love them dead as well as living.”

^{page 15 note a} The calendar, though very full and accurate, hag been compared with the originals, from which some of our statements have been derived.

^{page 17 note a} After the bubble burst, and cunning Mary absconded with her plunder, Mrs. Peel says that she “ripped the taffeta to see what powder it was, and found it but a little dust swept out of the flower [floor ?]” S. P. Dom. James I. vol. lxxii. No. 133.

^{page 18 note a} See S. P. Dom. James I. vol. lxxii. Nos. 49–55, and 133.

^{page 24 note a} Man; letters from him occur in the French Correspondence, one of which, dated from Paris on the January 1613–4, is addressed to the Earl of Somerset, by way of congratulation on his elevation to that title and his subsequent marriage.

^{page 25 note a} Camden notices his arrival under “1614, Oct. Didacus de Sarmento legatus pro Hispano.” Annals, Jac. I. p. 11.

^{page 26 note a} We ought to except Mr. Gardiner, who in his admirable History of England from 1603 to 1616, accurately describes the ambassador as “Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuna, better known to us by his later title of the Count of Gondomar.” (vol. ii. 87.) Mr. Gardiner's complete acquaintance with the State Papers enabled him at once to give us a reference to the letter of Cottington, above quoted from the Spanish Correspondence.