^{page 47 note 1} Bedford House, the town house of the Earls of Bedford, was on the north side of the Strand, on the site of the present Southampton Street; Boswell House was on the site of the Law Courts in Carey Street and was rented from a Mr Ralph Boswell or Bosvile from the spring of 1586; and a house at Tottenham had been hired for yr. to Lady Day, 1586. In the MS., Tottenham is usually rendered Totnam; the spelling has been consistently expanded for convenience of reading.

^{page 48 note 1} Lady Lucy was sister to the Earl.

^{page 49 note 1} The addition of the items is £179 s. 11 d., against the total given of £17 10 s 3 d. Has the clerk miscopied viij d. as iiij d. in the second item?

^{page 50 note 1} The receipt of a total of £1400 ‘ at the hands of Walter Strickland, gent.’ for the Manor of Carnaby, Yorkshire, is acknowledged in [8] and [12] in 1587, after heavy fines had been levied on the tenants by the Earl. Carnaby was one of the few manors inherited from his father which were not entailed.

^{page 50 note 2} I.e. the dowry of Katherine, Countess of Northumberland, the mother of the Earl.

^{page 52 note 1} Wolfgang Musculus: Commonplaces of Christian Religion, H. Bynneman, 1578, S.T.C. 18309; Heinrich Bullinger: Sermonum decades quinque de potissimis christianae religionis capitibus, vols., 1587, S.T.C. 4076.

^{page 54 note 1} The Queen had been expected at Petworth in July 1583: Cal. S.P. Dom. Eliz., clxi. 15.

^{page 57 note 1} The Ladies Elizabeth, Jane and Mary Percy were the daughters of the seventh Karl of Northumberland.

^{page 58 note 1} The Historie of Guicciardini, containing the wanes of Italie, translated by G. Fenton, T. Vautrollier for W. Norton, folio, 1579, S.T.C. 12458.

^{page 58 note 2} Boswell House, which the Earl was using as his London residence at this time, was on the site of the Law Courts in Carey Street.

^{page 58 note 3} Eresden Parke: Earsdon Park, Northumberland.

^{page 60 note 1} Earsden Parke: Earsdon Park, Northumberland.

^{page 60 note 2} Westward Park: the forest of Westward, Cumberland.

^{page 67 note 1} ‘The yong ladyes ’presumably refers to the Ladies Jane and Mary Percy, daughters of the seventh Earl; cf. p. 74.

^{page 75 note 1} William Baldwin: A Myrroure for Magistrates, S.T.C. 1247 ff.; Edmund Spenser: The Shepheardes Calender, J. Wolfe for J. Harrison the younger, quarto, 1586, S.T.C. 23091; Lodowick Lloyd: Pilgrimage of Princes penned out of sundry Greek and Latin A ucthours, J. Wolfe, quarto, S.T.C. 16625. ‘ The Walsh Chronicle ’ seems too vague for positive identification.