^{page 135 note 1} Robinson probably prepared this table of contents of a packet of excerpts from treasury records at a date later than when they were compiled, perhaps after he was out of office. This prefatory memorandum is understandable under those circumstances.

^{page 144 note 1} See pp. 186–7.

^{page 146 note 1} Probably George Chalmers, then a pamphleteer, later a government clerk, biographer of Paine, etc.

^{page 146 note 2} William Nelthorpe.

^{page 146 note 3} The last three items were not transcribed. The quotations given are abstracts by the copyist.

^{page 166 note 1} Page 12b is lacking, and the next page would be numbered 18b, the first part of the sheet being wanting. Although Mr. Stevens insisted that the intervening pages are blank in the original book, and so he did not make facsimiles of them, it would nevertheless seem from the contents of the pages here that both the second part of sheet 12 and the first part of sheet 18 contained items in these accounts. See p. 186.

^{page 169 note 1} The book is thus incomplete; the final totals were not taken.

^{page 171 note 1} Mr. Stevens inserted a pencilled note saying that this sum was “first issued for the discovery of the South Pole.”