^{page 53 note 2} For ‘you swiftly’.

^{page 53 note 3} For ‘the’.

^{page 53 note 4} Difficult: ‘not’, written in, may be ‘now’ ; ‘so’ is also uncertain.

^{page 53 note 5} ‘Wee have now moved the parliament in our. expect member [? number]’ cancelled.

^{page 53 note 6} For word cancelled.

^{page 53 note 7} For ‘heavenly’.

^{page 54 note 1} For ‘sue for the’[?].

^{page 54 note 2} For ‘our behalf’.

^{page 54 note 3} For ‘unto the’.

^{page 54 note 4} For ‘to sue in the behalf of the’.

^{page 54 note 5} ‘wear entertayned’ duplicated, one cancelled.

^{page 54 note 6} ‘honours’, written in, disturbs the sentence.

^{page 54 note 7} Two lines cancelled : ‘Whie my Lord shall wee’ ‘Yf their hard usage, for some of them are as yet imprisoned’.

^{page 54 note 8} ‘usage’ mistakenly crossed out.

^{page 54 note 9} ‘punishing’ duplicated, one cancelled.

^{page 54 note 10} For ‘at the’.

^{page 54 note 11} ‘prison’ cancelled.

^{page 54 note 12} ‘Sir William Cecill’ crossed out.

^{page 54 note 13} Written along margin.

^{page 55 note 1} Perhaps altered to ‘god’.

^{page 55 note 2} Marginal decoration in ink draws attention to the next sentences.

^{page 55 note 3} After ‘would’, at the end of the line, are two markings, like closing brackets, the meaning of which is not clear. Perhaps they are to draw attention to the mention of Sir Robert Cecil.

^{page 55 note 4} The next few lines are marked not only by a marginal line, but by a nought and a cross, all in ink. And no wonder ! The reference to every man doing what his hand had power to do was naturally the kind of thing on which the archbishop and the High Commission seized with avidity.

^{page 55 note 5} ‘do’ cancelled.

^{page 55 note 6} ‘wee’ written over for ‘your’.

^{page 55 note 7} Looks as if Penry thought of writing ‘silence’.

^{page 55 note 8} No closing bracket.

^{page 56 note 1} Marginal markings in pencil, covering three lines.

^{page 56 note 2} Line written in very small.

^{page 56 note 3} For ‘easte[rne]’, cancelled.

^{page 56 note 4} ‘world’ doubtful.

^{page 56 note 5} ‘wisdom’ mistakenly cancelled.

^{page 56 note 6} Two words joined by an ampersand, faded, crossed out.

^{page 56 note 7} For ‘of’.

^{page 56 note 8} The last line of the page difficult; I have brought down ‘my bloud’ from the line above, where it is duplicated.

^{page 56 note 9} ‘bee upright towardes this cause in my handes’ cancelled.

^{page 56 note 10} ‘though’ cancelled.

^{page 56 note 11} Duplicated.

^{page 57 note 1} For ‘unto you’.

^{page 57 note 2} Uncertain whether short word here cancelled or not; may be ‘goe’ or ‘give’.

^{page 57 note 3} Edge of page, perhaps ‘destruction’.

^{page 57 note 4} With hesitation it has been assumed that 17 left follows 16 right in the normal way, though the breaks on the latter page and the uncertain sequence (though it is just a possible one) leave room for doubt.

^{page 57 note 5} For ‘inocent bloud’.

^{page 57 note 6} A letter cancelled.

^{page 57 note 7} ‘althoughe for professing his cause it had been’ cancelled.

^{page 57 note 8} ‘and requit it’ cancelled.

^{page 57 note 9} ‘whoe’ cancelled.

^{page 57 note 10} This is end of 17 left: nowhere in the vicinity is a page beginning with the continuing alternative. It seems, therefore, best to conclude that the sentence broke down, and that the letter continues on the opposite page, 17 right.

^{page 58 note 1} Undeciphered word.

^{page 58 note 2} Word not easy, but begins ‘c’ and ends ‘it’ ; ‘credit’, however, fits awkwardly ; it is at the end of the page and may be a longer word.

^{page 58 note 3} Seven lines, closely written all along margin, difficult to read : ‘I will publish this writing after your death my Lord eyther unto your honour yf [sic] or utter shame, that the truth of gods judgmentes decreed [?] agaynst you or mercy offered unto you may bee seene to come to pass as you have been forwarned. Jir. 51. 53. Their is neyther I nor my brethren that are so desolate of help but that the name of our god is a sure place of defenc unto [us]. And therfor know that wee stand and shall stand yf the lord hav so determyned, thoughe you deny us the favour which you are bound to grant.’

^{page 58 note 4} ‘that pr’ cancelled.

^{page 58 note 5} For ‘with’.

^{page 58 note 6} For ‘the behalf’.

^{page 58 note 7} Two words undeciphered ; the first, written in, may be ‘worthy’, the second ‘eleace’, perhaps for ‘elect’.

^{page 58 note 8} Sentence breaks down.

^{page 58 note 9} The last three lines on page marked by parallel pencil marks in margin.

^{page 58 note 10} Thomas was the eldest son. Penry wrote ‘Rober’ first, crossed it out and substituted ‘Thomas’, and then put ‘William’ for ‘Robert’ in error. Burghley had other sons, but they died young.

^{page 58 note 11} For ‘rather, by your’.

^{page 58 note 12} For ‘help’.

^{page 59 note 1} Two lines covered by marginal pencil markings.

^{page 59 note 2} For ‘his so[ns]’.

^{page 59 note 3} For ‘by’.

^{page 59 note 4} ‘Wear … hir subjectes’ doubly marked in ink in margin, by vertical line and cross. It was quoted in the indictment.

^{page 59 note 5} For ‘ha[d]’.

^{page 59 note 6} ‘then’ duplicated, one cancelled.

^{page 59 note 7} ‘wold’ blotted and uncertain.

^{page 59 note 8} End of page. Some such word as ‘theft’, ‘robbery’, or ‘it’ missing.

^{page 59 note 9} A line and two words crossed out.

^{page 59 note 10} ‘wheras’ cancelled.

^{page 59 note 11} ‘being a man’ may be cancelled.

^{page 59 note 12} Undeciphered word, ending ‘-ship’.

^{page 59 note 13} ‘wee are more precious in his sight’ cancelled.

^{page 59 note 14} ‘then’ duplicated, ‘ostriches’ crossed out.

^{page 59 note 15} Margin, written along, and emphasized by parallel pencil marks : ‘Well my Lord eyther acquaynt hir maiestie with our cause at least send this my letter unto hir and therby procure us justic even to death yf wee deserve the same, or I will acquaynt posterytyes with your dealing in rejecting this so æquall a suit. Wherfor my Lord as you will avoyd the wrath of god and this discredit lett mee [?-ful] bee accepted of you.’

^{page 59 note 15} Perhaps ‘prey’ intended.

^{page 59 note 16} Margin : ‘Isai’.

^{page 59 note 17} For ‘your’.

^{page 59 note 18} Three words written in ‘a [ ] that’.

^{page 60 note 1} Duplicated in text.

^{page 60 note 2} As MS.

^{page 60 note 3} Margin : ‘Isai. 14’.

^{page 60 note 4} Ending as text.

^{page 60 note 5} ‘confess’ crossed out.

^{page 60 note 6} The ink in this paragraph has faded ; the word may be ‘most’, or possibly it is cancelled.

^{page 60 note 7} ‘can’ crossed out.

^{page 60 note 8} Possibly ‘sinne’, or perhaps some words missing. Sentence does not read.

^{page 60 note 9} For the cancelled beginning of a word.

^{page 60 note 10} Barrow and Greenwood were executed on 6th Apl., 1593, but the reference is more probably to Roger Rippon, who died in Feb., and the fragment dates from March rather than April.

^{page 60 note 11} For ‘bee adjoyne[d]’.

^{page 60 note 12} Word begun before ‘enter’, and not cancelled.

^{page 60 note 13} See N.E.D. for the disease, lupus, the wolf, where the term ‘fretting wolf’ is quoted as an example.

^{page 60 note 14} Both words written above a cancelled word.

^{page 61 note 1} For ‘of my bloud’.

^{page 61 note 2} As MS.

^{page 61 note 3} ‘bloud’ crossed out.

^{page 61 note 4} For ‘nothing’.

^{page 61 note 5} Sentence breaks down.

^{page 61 note 6} The first ten lines marked by double pencil line in margin.

^{page 61 note 7} ‘defenc or’ written in instead of ‘or defenc’ after ‘protection’.

^{page 61 note 8} ‘And that judgment and justic is his’ cancelled.

^{page 61 note 9} For ‘of the’.

^{page 61 note 10} Margin : ‘Deut. I. 17.’

^{page 61 note 11} The last sentence and its undeciphered continuation written in, very tiny, between lines.

^{page 61 note 12} For ‘yf I wear’.

^{page 61 note 13} Word before ‘alien’, perhaps ‘utter’, cancelled, and also ‘But being hir maiesties subjecte’ after it.

^{page 61 note 14} Margin : ‘Exodus 22. 21. and 23. 9. After ‘clear’ ‘Deliver them’ is cancelled.

^{page 61 note 15} Margin : ‘Prov. 24. 11. 12.

^{page 61 note 16} For word cancelled, perhaps ‘sure’.

^{page 62 note 1} For ‘prelates’.

^{page 62 note 2} For ‘regard’.

^{page 62 note 3} A preceding ‘The [n]’ seems to be crossed out.

^{page 62 note 4} The last two lines written in very small, and the edge of the paper torn. Then five difficult lines crossed out vertically, and parts cancelled horizontally as well: ‘Yea but I ame accused to bee Marten [“Marp” cancelled] I answer my Lord that my name is John Penry and not Marten Marprelate [“yf this bee the grief of myne adversaryes” cancelled after “that”] I desier but to bee called to my triall in this poynt [for “land” (?)], and yf I bee found guilty lett the law take place. Yf it bee enoughe to accuse who can bee innocent ?’

^{page 62 note 5} Ornament and ink line in margin. Also pencil lines and cross opposite the Marprelate reference.

^{page 62 note 6} Possibly an adjective like ‘true’ where paper torn.

^{page 62 note 7} For ‘they can’.

^{page 62 note 8} Undeciphered word ends ‘eth’, perhaps ‘obiecteth’ or ‘reporteth’ ?

^{page 62 note 9} ‘Currat lex’ cancelled.

^{page 62 note 10} ‘enow’ cancelled.

^{page 62 note 11} ‘that’ cancelled.

^{page 62 note 12} Margin : ‘Acts 25. 16’.

^{page 62 note 13} ‘Christian’ cancelled.

^{page 62 note 14} Or ‘fact’.

^{page 62 note 15} ‘Ys this the justic that’ cancelled.

^{page 62 note 16} The quotation suggests ‘wormwood’, but without that suggestion the script itself would be baffling, though there is a final ‘d’.

^{page 62 note 17} ‘can f’ cancelled.

^{page 62 note 18} ‘is sufficient to shall at all tymes sufficyently beat back all the’ crossed out.

^{page 63 note 1} Word undeciphered, ends ‘er’, perhaps ‘greater’, looks as if Penry began to write ‘account’ first.

^{page 63 note 2} Marginal line in ink for next five lines of text.

^{page 63 note 3} Much cancellation, some of it of matter written between the lines.

^{page 63 note 4} ‘dislyking the’ crossed out.

^{page 63 note 5} ‘unto my friend the gentleman befor named at his appoyntement I told him’ cancelled.

^{page 63 note 6} ‘their was such a book publish’ cancelled.

^{page 63 note 7} For ‘book’.

^{page 63 note 8} Marginal mark covering two lines of text.

^{page 63 note 9} For ‘much’.

^{page 63 note 10} For ‘utterly refused’.

^{page 63 note 11} For ‘bring it unto him’. Margin : ‘And this was my Lord at such tyme as it was reported that Marten was highly estemed in court.’

^{page 63 note 12} Five words heavily scored out: ‘And therfor ] ] your Lordship’.

^{page 63 note 13} ‘as under’ at end of page, word clearly missing.

^{page 63 note 14} Words italicized as in MS., and marked by ink in margin.

^{page 63 note 15} ‘forward’ cancelled.

^{page 63 note 16} ‘lerning’ cancelled.

^{page 63 note 17} For ‘acc[omplices]’

^{page 63 note 18} Marginal mark in ink covers three lines.

^{page 63 note 19} ‘many’ duplicated, one cancelled.

^{page 63 note 20} Final ‘s’ cancelled.

^{page 63 note 21} Marginal mark in ink covers three lines of text.

^{page 63 note 22} ‘neyther … reading’ written between lines, very small.

^{page 63 note 23} For ‘it’.

^{page 64 note 1} N.E.D. gives ‘mome’ as a carping critic or jester, but there are no examples given of the word used for a story or jest.

^{page 64 note 2} In The Epistle (Pierce, The Marprelate Tracts, p. 69).

^{page 64 note 3} For ‘your’.

^{page 64 note 4} Two parallel pencil lines in margin, opposite the 4 lines to the end of the page.

^{page 64 note 5} ‘and’ cancelled.

^{page 64 note 6} ‘ad’ crossed out, no ‘an’ substituted.

^{page 64 note 7} ‘owne’ may be cancelled.

^{page 64 note 8} ‘I saw’ cancelled.

^{page 64 note 9} Ink line with ornamental heading in margin, covering two-thirds of page.

^{page 64 note 10} ‘the’ cancelled.

^{page 64 note 11} ‘men’ seems correct. Is something missing after ‘men’ or ‘unfit’ before it ?

^{page 64 note 12} For ‘with’.

^{page 64 note 13} ‘4. hee’ written and cancelled.

^{page 64 note 14} For ‘writings’.

^{page 64 note 15} Parallel pencil marks in margin, covering 2 lines.

^{page 64 note 16} For ‘the’.

^{page 64 note 17} The first book. The Æquity (1587), has no name ; The Exhortation (1588), A Defence of that which hath been written (1588), A viewe of some part (1589), Th' Appellation (1589), Reformation No Enemy (1590), all have Penry's name ; the only works which do not seem to have it are the Briefe Discovery and the translation of Beza's Propositions and Principles (1591).

^{page 65 note 1} Margin (small and difficult) : ‘Lastly my dealing [ ] hath been such [ ] for the supporting [?] stay [?] of this cause as some of thes [ ] [ ] unto my hand in writing’.

^{page 65 note 2} For ‘laye’.

^{page 65 note 3} For ‘by the grac’.

^{page 65 note 4} For ‘think’.

^{page 65 note 5} Two words difficult, possibly ‘broad sword’.

^{page 65 note 6} For ‘fly the [ ]’.

^{page 65 note 7} ‘mee to be guilty of [ ]’ cancelled.

^{page 65 note 8} ‘and that … I were Marten’ written in small between lines and in margin.

^{page 65 note 9} Parallel pencil marks in margin covering four lines.

^{page 65 note 10} ‘in the last’ first written, then ‘one’ written above caret, and ‘of’ forgotten.

^{page 65 note 11} ‘w’, probably beginning of ‘well’, crossed out.

^{page 65 note 12} Penry wrote ‘long befor’, then crossed out ‘long’. In fact, it was a near thing. Penry was married in September, 1588, the Epistle came out about the middle of October.

^{page 65 note 13} Large asterisk in ink in margin, covering 4 lines.

^{page 65 note 14} ‘have been’ substituted for indecipherable cancelled word.

^{page 65 note 15} ‘to’ cancelled.

^{page 65 note 16} ‘in any wise … can have’ written between lines, very small, one or two words uncertain.

^{page 65 note 17} For ‘shold’.

^{page 65 note 18} ‘I will not bee afrayd to do the lyk, when it shall benefitt befor the seat of justic. And the’ cancelled.

^{page 66 note 1} For ‘sha[ll]’.

^{page 66 note 2} Ornamental ink marking in margin covering second half of underlined words.

^{page 66 note 3} For ‘tha[nk] ?’

^{page 66 note 4} Words written over, difficult: ‘my circumstances can [clear if reason ?] '.

^{page 66 note 5} ‘unjust’ crossed out.

^{page 66 note 6} For ‘refuse’.

^{page 66 note 7} For ‘an ynfant’.

^{page 66 note 8} ‘mee thinks’ cancelled.

^{page 66 note 9} Sentence stops.

^{page 66 note 10} For ‘that dy of it self’.

^{page 66 note 11} ‘befor’ crossed out. The hand has now become very tiny.

^{page 66 note 12} ‘yt is … last’ written in.

^{page 66 note 13} The word seems to be ‘accusing’, but could Penry mean this ?

^{page 66 note 14} Word cancelled.

^{page 66 note 15} The line ‘citt …’ is written very small, but above it is a line in an even tinier hand : ‘putt no man on his tryall but myne self that they [ ]’.

^{page 66 note 16} ‘pr’ cancelled.

^{page 66 note 17} The writing becomes a little larger.

^{page 66 note 18} Space, about half-an-inch, in MS.

^{page 66 note 19} ‘that althoughe’ crossed out, ‘not’ left in by mistake.

^{page 66 note 20} But in this draft only ‘Sir Robert Cicell’ has been mentioned. Essex is joined with him in another draft (see below, p. 70).

^{page 67 note 1} Uncertain word, perhaps ‘new

^{page 67 note 2} For ‘great’.

^{page 67 note 3} Written in small:‘as the spirit of [the] Lord calleth the enemye [ ] of syn the great’.

^{page 67 note 4} For ‘and the’.

^{page 67 note 5} May be ‘Tribes’. A word written above, may be ‘knowne’, makes reading difficult.

^{page 67 note 6} Word missing in three places, may be ‘them’.

^{page 67 note 7} Margin: ‘Oppression maketh a wise man madd’. Eccles. vii. 7. Cf. below, p. 94.

^{page 67 note 8} ‘at least … owne’ written in small, above a caret.

^{page 67 note 9} Undeciphered word.

^{page 67 note 10} ‘desiring your Lordship to pitty I say to pitty the state of my poor brethren that are now in most miserable prisones most unnaturally handled’ cancelled.

^{page 67 note 11} ‘hunger’ cancelled.

^{page 67 note 12} Word cancelled.

^{page 67 note 13} ‘many of them’ cancelled.

^{page 67 note 14} Margin: ‘Call yf not for the prelates yet for Mr. Yong and call for thos which hee hath comitted and as [? ask] for the dead man murthered by him, as it is sayd and see how they were rifled.’

^{page 67 note 15} ‘honest mans wif’ written in, ‘a’ altered to ‘an’, but ‘woman’ allowed to stay.

^{page 67 note 16} ‘to hir children’ cancelled.

^{page 67 note 17} For ‘comon jayl’ ; then ‘yf she hath not very many evell dispo[sed]’ cancelled.

^{page 67 note 18} For word cancelled, probably ‘persones’.

^{page 67 note 19} Blot may obscure a word.

^{page 67 note 20} For ‘of’.

^{page 68 note 1} For ‘may speak truth unto’.

^{page 68 note 2} ‘Slaves’ cancelled.

^{page 68 note 3} Broken sentence.

^{page 68 note 4} For unfinished word.

^{page 68 note 5} ‘her’ cancelled.

^{page 68 note 6} ‘of’ duplicated.

^{page 68 note 7} ‘Marginal marks in pencil covering 6 lines.

^{page 68 note 8} Word cancelled, perhaps misspelling.

^{page 68 note 9} ‘The prelates the cause of’ crossed out.

^{page 68 note 10} For ‘at’

^{page 68 note 11} These words difficult.

^{page 68 note 12} Undeciphered words in margin ; ‘bear’ may be ‘have’, word after ‘in the’ ends ‘dest’.

^{page 68 note 13} ‘lamentable and necessary’ written above, ‘necessary’ below.

^{page 68 note 14} ‘having been already drawen’ cancelled.

^{page 68 note 15} Marginal pencil marks, covering 4 lines.

^{page 68 note 16} ‘lett us yet be rid [?] out of our prisones’ cancelled.

^{page 68 note 17} Sentence unfinished.

^{page 68 note 18} For ‘f[or]’.

^{page 68 note 19} ‘yet will’ cancelled.

^{page 68 note 20} ‘our usage’ cancelled.

^{page 68 note 21} ‘will bring us unto but unto [?]’ cancelled.

^{page 69 note 1} ‘your evell dealing in particular my Lord when in that’ cancelled.

^{page 69 note 2} For cancelled word.

^{page 69 note 3} ‘of these vultures’ crossed out, some words, partly cancelled, written above, very tiny and difficult, probably’ pursuit of (“thes tigeres”, crossed out) us by theis tigeres’.

^{page 69 note 4} Some minor cancellation here.

^{page 69 note 5} Two lines written above a caret, and continued in margin, almost impossible to read (about half-a-line is represented by the brackets) : ‘and lett Mr. Justic Yong unjust hand be stayed in the meane tyme, who shall deliver [ ] of the allmighty without his repentance for all the cruel dealings and sainges that he hath used by speak[ing] and done agaynst us’.

^{page 69 note 6} ‘know’ duplicated and cancelled.

^{page 69 note 7} ‘yf meanes sh[old]’ cancelled.

^{page 69 note 8} For ‘judg them to bee’.

^{page 69 note 9} ‘sent’[ may be crossed out.

^{page 69 note 10} Penry probably intended to cancel this, for the preceding line is scored out: ‘yf such [?] of my brethren now in duranc were bound [?]’. Penry's criticisms of the ‘forward preachers’ do not appear in the notebook.

^{page 69 note 11} For ‘will’.

^{page 70 note 1} For ‘write’.

^{page 71 note 1} For ‘think’; some unreadable cancellation, much overwriting.

^{page 71 note 2} ‘yet not well understanding by your wordes unto my wife whether your Honours [Lordes] pleasure and command [?] bee that I shold repayr unto your Lordship’ cancelled.

^{page 71 note 3} For ‘that’.

^{page 71 note 4} ‘as I protest that I dare not as conceave it’ cancelled.

^{page 71 note 5} Three lines here emphasized in margin by parallel pencil marks.

^{page 71 note 6} ‘therat’ cancelled, undeciphered words written below.

^{page 71 note 7} For ‘understand’, ‘honours’ cancelled before ‘mynd’, ‘farther’ after it.

^{page 71 note 8} Four lines cancelled : ‘And marvell not my Lord that I hasten not unto this bisines. For seest thow a man hasty in his matters sayeth the spirit of god (for “Lord’ cancelled) ther is more hope of a fool then of such a one’. [The reference is to Prov. xxix. 20.]

^{page 71 note 9} For ‘Lordshipes plea[sure]’.

^{page 71 note 10} For ‘presenc’.

^{page 71 note 11} For ‘of you’.

^{page 71 note 12} For ‘give mee some’.

^{page 71 note 13} For ‘come’.

^{page 71 note 14} For ‘I’.

^{page 71 note 15} ‘befor … Lordshipe’ written in, very small, one word undeciphered.

^{page 71 note 16} ‘your’ cancelled.

^{page 71 note 17} For ‘of access’.

^{page 71 note 18} For ‘enemyes’.

^{page 72 note 1} ‘Jiremy the prophett of god required in the lyk case at the handes even of his princ’ cancelled.

^{page 72 note 2} These four words written above caret in sentence already written in.

^{page 72 note 3} ‘naturall’ duplicated.

^{page 72 note 4} ‘as …therin’ written in, small.

^{page 72 note 5} Margin : ‘Jir. 38.’

^{page 72 note 6} ‘I’ before ‘althoughe’ and ‘I fear not’ after it cancelled.

^{page 72 note 7} Fragment cancelled before I.

^{page 72 note 8} ‘under’ cancelled.

^{page 72 note 9} For ‘self’.

^{page 72 note 10} ‘dye for hunger, cold’ cancelled.

^{page 72 note 11} For ‘And’.

^{page 72 note 12} For ‘my entertaynment, yf the’.

^{page 72 note 13} May be ‘practices’ wrongly spelt.

^{page 72 note 14} For ‘shold’.

^{page 72 note 15} For ‘shall’.

^{page 72 note 16} Margin : ‘Prov. 24. 11. 12.’

^{page 72 note 17} ‘in case …especially’ written above for ‘Remember that this [“for” cancelled] wilbe [?] land that this wilbe [?] land, shall vomitt out hir inhabitantes bv the just judgment of God’—Penry has Lev. xviii. 24 in mind—and in margin : ‘Sav thow mee not this day’.

^{page 72 note 18} For ‘coming’.

^{page 72 note 19} ‘not’ duplicated, one cancelled.

^{page 72 note 20} Margin : ‘1 Saml. 20. 1.’.

^{page 72 note 21} For ‘is my synne’.

^{page 72 note 22} For ‘iniquity’, ‘myne’ left.

^{page 72 note 23} An excellent illustration of t h e problems of transcription : ‘die’ and ‘day’ look exactly alike.

^{page 72 note 24} For ‘For’.

^{page 72 note 25} Word ending in ‘-ally’ written above ‘stumble’.

^{page 72 note 26} ‘with no other thing then that which’ cancelled.

^{page 72 note 27} At the head of the page is an unfinished line which interrupts the sentence and perhaps does not relate to the subject: ‘This shalbe mencioned whatsoever cometh of the’.

^{page 72 note 28} ‘supremacy’ may be crossed out.

^{page 73 note 1} ‘being …preheminenc’ written in small, other additions undeciphered.

^{page 73 note 2} For ‘places’.

^{page 73 note 3} ‘hereof …even’ written between lines, and it is not clear precisely where it fits.

^{page 73 note 4} ‘prove’ cancelled.

^{page 73 note 5} ‘them’ cancelled.

^{page 73 note 6} Word undeciphered.

^{page 73 note 7} From this point to the end of the paragraph written between lines and in ‘margin’.

^{page 73 note 8} ‘both’ cancelled.

^{page 73 note 9} ‘of’ cancelled.

^{page 73 note 10} Word ending in ‘-less’.

^{page 73 note 11} Word unread.

^{page 73 note 12} For ‘th’.

^{page 73 note 13} For ‘reward’. These three lines, much overwritten, have two parallel pencil marks in margin.

^{page 73 note 14} Word uncertain, edge of page.

^{page 73 note 15} An asterisk is attached to this undeciphered word, which may be another ‘native’, and a line drawn to the conclusion of the sentence at the top of p. 27 right.

^{page 73 note 16} ‘they then thus’ cancelled.

^{page 73 note 17} A second ‘testament’ and some other words cancelled.

^{page 74 note 1} Much cancellation here.

^{page 74 note 2} A long cancellation of 7 lines, overwritten and difficult, in which Penry clumsily applies Prov. xxvi. 24–26, follows, making a better attempt in the next paragraph : ‘whether I live or dy you will hear [?] truth at my handes, my Lord, that though you hated a man [for “mee” ], yet you cold counterfayt with your lippes even then when he lodged deceyt in his hart, though you speak fayvorablie unto a man yet you wear not to be believed, because their wear many abhominationes in your hart [for “in his hart”]. Your [or “His”] hatred you [for “he”] were [for “might bee”] able by your wisdome, to cover for a while, “but my death hath” cancelled, wheras my [undeciphered word, perhaps “troble” ]. ‘

^{page 74 note 3} Margin : ‘Prov. 26. 25. 26’.

^{page 74 note 4} For ‘pretend otherwise’, ‘with his’ duplicated.

^{page 74 note 5} For ‘thoughe he’.

^{page 74 note 6} ‘to’ repeated.

^{page 74 note 7} For ‘a worthy’.

^{page 74 note 8} For ‘whether’.

^{page 74 note 9} Margin: ‘Isa. 22. 21. Isa. 16. 5. Isa. 32. 2. 3. 4.’.

^{page 74 note 10} For ‘your handes’.

^{page 74 note 11} For ‘end’.

^{page 74 note 12} Perhaps ‘etc’ or ‘him’ duplicated.

^{page 74 note 13} ‘abhorred him’ cancelled.

^{page 75 note 1} ‘all’ cancelled.

^{page 75 note 2} The only two certain letters are ‘ch’, but ‘charg’ looks more probable than ‘chois’ which appears in the draft above, p. 74, as ‘choyse’.

^{page 75 note 3} Sentence breaks down.

^{page 75 note 4} Words cancelled, may be ‘yf not’.

^{page 75 note 5} Word undeciphered.

^{page 75 note 6} Sentence unfinished. There is a word at the end of the line, which is the end of the item, which apparently has no connexion with it. It might be anything from ‘Robert’ to ‘Devill’ or ‘Deliverd’, the last being most probable. It may refer to the delivery of the letter to Burghley.

^{page 75 note 7} May possibly be ‘true’.

^{page 75 note 8} Above this paragraph is an undeciphered word which looks more like ‘Seneca’ than anything else. The paragraph itself has two parallel pencil lines in margin.

^{page 75 note 9} ‘Hary …downe’ written in, very small.

^{page 75 note 7} May possibly be ‘true’.

^{page 75 note 8} Above this paragraph is an undeciphered word which looks more like ‘Seneca’ than anything else. The paragraph itself has two parallel pencil lines in margin.

^{page 75 note 9} ‘Hary … downe’ written in, very small.

^{page 76 note 1} Two parallel pencil lines in margin.

^{page 76 note 2} Short word undeciphered.

^{page 76 note 3} Two parallel pencil lines in margin.

^{page 76 note 4} For ‘suspected’.

^{page 76 note 5} Two parallel pencil lines in margin.

^{page 76 note 6} Small cross in ink and the two pencil lines in margin.

^{page 76 note 7} ‘the’ cancelled.

^{page 76 note 8} The reference is to Marprelate. See above, pp. 65–6.

^{page 76 note 9} ‘Martens’ uncertain, and then one or two undeciphered words.

^{page 77 note 1} Detached from the other paragraphs, probably a stray note, the last item on the page.

^{page 77 note 2} Short undeciphered word ending in ‘k’.

^{page 77 note 3} One word, or maybe two, undeciphered before ‘sory’.

^{page 77 note 4} Word undeciphered.

^{page 77 note 1} Detached from the other paragraphs, probably a stray note, the last item on the page.

^{page 77 note 2} Short undeciphered word ending in ‘k’.

^{page 77 note 3} One word, or maybe two, undeciphered before ‘sory’.

^{page 77 note 4} Word undeciphered.

^{page 77 note 5} ‘smart for’ crossed out.

^{page 77 note 6} For ‘hee[r]’.

^{page 77 note 7} Penry wavered several times between ‘wil’ and ‘wold’, and then chose wrongly.

^{page 77 note 8} For ‘compell’.

^{page 77 note 9} ‘churches as they are called’ crossed out.

^{page 77 note 10} ‘as’ crossed out.

^{page 77 note 11} The first two letters look like ‘ev’, but the last three are ‘dly’. ‘Outwardly’ is just possible, but the balance is in favour of ‘evidently’.

^{page 78 note 1} Margin : ‘Job 32. 9.’

^{page 78 note 2} An erasure after the comma, probably the beginning of ‘no[r]’.

^{page 78 note 3} ‘do not allwayes’ duplicated.

^{page 78 note 4} ‘And the crye of the bloud of the sayntes And’ cancelled before this sentence.

^{page 78 note 5} For ‘use’.

^{page 78 note 6} Margin : ‘Proverb[s] 22. 22. 23.’.

^{page 78 note 7} Frequent changes from singular to plural, and vice versa.

^{page 78 note 8} For word cancelled.

^{page 78 note 9} For ‘cause’.

^{page 78 note 10} ‘unto’ repeated.

^{page 78 note 11} Or ‘workes’.

^{page 78 note 12} The beginnings of the lines on this page are not easy to read because the margin is crowded with seven lines written lengthwise. It is not clear where Penry intended them to be introduced, but this seems as suitable a place as any.

^{page 78 note 13} See Horace, Ep., I. i. 75 :

‘Quia me vestigia terrent,

Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.’

^{page 79 note 1} ‘Wee must do it least the’ cancelled.

^{page 79 note 2} For word cancelled.

^{page 79 note 3} ‘my’ and ‘your’ written over.

^{page 79 note 4} ‘gaynsayd’ cancelled before ‘fight’ and ‘You might’ after it.

^{page 79 note 5} ‘the injury’ cancelled.

^{page 79 note 6} Two lines crossed out: ‘your handes for his cause for witnessing with his sone Christe Jesus our Lord agaynst Antichrist his great enemye’.

^{page 79 note 7} A line written at the head of the page and cancelled has no connection with the petition, perhaps it was intended to be added to the four ‘grievances’ on p. 36, above: ‘Detestable iniquity and extortion in prisones.’

^{page 79 note 8} ‘Word at edge of page and difficult; some other word seems to have been begun.

^{page 79 note 9} Or ‘hath’, one word being superimposed on the other. ‘The one’ was probably Mrs, Penry.

^{page 79 note 10} For ‘your Lord’.

^{page 79 note 11} Several attempts at this sentence, including ‘wherin all do ly’.

^{page 80 note 1} ‘not’ crossed out.

^{page 80 note 2} For ‘unt[o]’.

^{page 80 note 3} ‘frome’ cancelled.

^{page 80 note 4} ‘but by the’ cancelled.

^{page 80 note 5} Margin : ‘Nomber[s] 35. 34 [sic, 33].’.

^{page 80 note 6} For ‘stand’.

^{page 80 note 7} Ends here, the page containing five lines only.

^{page 80 note 8} For ‘to come’.

^{page 80 note 9} ‘the’ duplicated.

^{page 80 note 10} Penry wrote first ‘befor heaven’, and then added the rest.

^{page 80 note 11} For ‘this’. Parallel pencil marks opposite two lines.

^{page 80 note 12} Penry first wrote ‘now’, cancelled it, wrote ‘at this’, and forgot .‘time’.

^{page 80 note 13} ‘and’ substituted for ‘places, great’.

^{page 80 note 14} ‘therof of the same’ cancelled, but even then a superfluous ‘the same’ remains.

^{page 80 note 15} For ‘raysed agaynst’.

^{page 80 note 16} For short word, cancelled.

^{page 80 note 17} Word of four letters undeciphered.

^{page 80 note 18} For ‘unf’.

^{page 80 note 19} Looks as if Penry intended to write ‘condescended’, but the final ‘ed’ is missing and thevfirst ‘s’ comes before the first ‘d’.

^{page 80 note 8} For ‘to come’.

^{page 80 note 9} ‘the’ duplicated.

^{page 80 note 10} Penry wrote first ‘befor heaven’, and then added the rest.

^{page 80 note 11} For ‘this’. Parallel pencil marks opposite two lines.

^{page 80 note 12} Penry first wrote ‘now’, cancelled it, wrote ‘at this’, and forgot ‘time’.

^{page 80 note 13} ‘and’ substituted for ‘places, great’.

^{page 80 note 14} ‘therof of the same’ cancelled, but even then a superfluous ‘the same’ remains.

^{page 80 note 15} For ‘raysed agaynst’.

^{page 80 note 16} For short word, cancelled.

^{page 80 note 17} Word of four letters undeciphered.

^{page 80 note 18} For ‘unf’.

^{page 80 note 19} Looks as if Penry intended to write ‘condescended’, but the final ‘ed’ is missing and the first ‘s’ comes before the first ‘d’.

^{page 81 note 1} End of page. Either a full stop, or ‘in’ and sentence unfinished.

^{page 81 note 2} ‘Moses’ crossed out before ‘the’, and sentence unfinished.

^{page 81 note 3} ‘of it briefly is this’ cancelled.

^{page 81 note 4} ‘Wee affirme’ cancelled.

^{page 81 note 5} Between the two asterisks an irregular line appears in MS., probably accidental and not a cancellation.

^{page 81 note 6} For ‘unto the written word’.

^{page 81 note 7} For ‘therfrome’.

^{page 81 note 8} ‘them’ cancelled.

^{page 81 note 9} For ‘Wee affirme’.

^{page 81 note 10} For ‘apoynt the’.

^{page 81 note 11} ‘in the’ cancelled.

^{page 81 note 12} For ‘appoynted the society’.

^{page 81 note 13} ‘of the Romish’ cancelled.

^{page 81 note 14} ‘of’ cancelled.

^{page 81 note 15} Word undeciphered.

^{page 82 note 1} For ‘power of’.

^{page 82 note 2} ‘which’ duplicated, one cancelled.

^{page 82 note 3} ‘Now my’ duplicated, the first, on a separate line, cancelled.

^{page 82 note 4} For ‘may’.

^{page 82 note 5} For ‘great’.

^{page 82 note 6} For ‘was between Corah’.

^{page 82 note 7} For ‘controversy’.

^{page 82 note 8} For ‘bear’.

^{page 82 note 9} Possibly ‘gaynstood’.

^{page 82 note 10} For ‘bee of greater’.

^{page 82 note 11} ‘to save’ cancelled.

^{page 82 note 12} ‘shee’ cancelled, sentence unfinished.

^{page 82 note 13} beginning of word cancelled.

^{page 82 note 14} This paragraph marked in margin by two parallel pencil lines.

^{page 82 note 15} For ‘hir nobility, counsell or judges of the land the magistrates of the same’.

^{page 82 note 16} For ‘are not’.

^{page 83 note 1} Word doubtful, edge of page—possibly ‘pursuit’.

^{page 83 note 2} Sentence written between lines, very small.

^{page 83 note 3} The last five words duplicated.

^{page 83 note 4} This unfinished sentence written in.

^{page 83 note 5} ‘no otherwise then as wee are wold [? wont] to’ cancelled.

^{page 83 note 6} For ‘æquity and justic’.

^{page 83 note 7} Undeciphered word.

^{page 83 note 8} For ‘their’.

^{page 83 note 9} Word after ‘true’ cancelled, maybe also the ‘the’ before it.

^{page 83 note 10} ‘persecuting us poor inocentes’ cancelled.

^{page 83 note 11} For ‘th[e]’.

^{page 83 note 12} vats or cisterns. The reference is to Jer. ii. 13.

^{page 83 note 13} Sentence breaks down.

^{page 83 note 14} ‘truth’ duplicated.

^{page 83 note 15} Word missing in MS.

^{page 83 note 16} Uncertain word, may be intended for ‘might’ or ‘right’.

^{page 83 note 17} ‘is’ cancelled.

^{page 83 note 18} Word crossed out.

^{page 84 note 1} Margin : ‘Jir. 6. 14.’

^{page 84 note 2} ‘of go[d]’ repeated and cancelled.

^{page 84 note 3} Sentence breaks down.

^{page 84 note 4} Two parallel pencil lines in margin opposite this paragraph.

^{page 84 note 5} Sentence breaks down.

^{page 84 note 6} Sentence unfinished.

^{page 84 note 7} The nature of Penry's hand is suggested by the fact that the first reading of this word was ‘defend’. It looks like ‘defend’, and only increased acquaintance with the script justifies ‘withstand’.

^{page 84 note 8} The next two paragraphs marked by parallel pencil lines in margin.

^{page 84 note 9} For ‘of’.

^{page 84 note 10} Two words cancelled.

^{page 84 note 11} Sentence does not end.

^{page 85 note 1} A dot suggests ‘iniquity’, but neither ‘equity’ nor ‘iniquity’ seems to give the sense.

^{page 85 note 2} For ‘the’.

^{page 85 note 3} Or ‘whenas’.

^{page 85 note 4} Something omitted.

^{page 85 note 5} Sentence unfinished.

^{page 85 note 1} May possibly be ‘right’ repeated.

^{page 86 note 1} ‘negligent’ may be cancelled.

^{page 86 note 2} Faint ; looks like ‘dear’, but this is unlikely.

^{page 86 note 3} Ampersand doubtful.

^{page 86 note 4} Probably Penry intended to cancel ‘and … cause’.

^{page 86 note 5} For ‘honour’.

^{page 86 note 6} Line cancelled : ‘shee is sure to bee [ ? ] [ ? ]’.

^{page 86 note 7} Last word or words on page difficult, which, combined with the fact that the first words on 6 right have faded, makes order of pages awkward to determine.

^{page 86 note 8} ‘hir maiestie’ cancelled.

^{page 86 note 9} for ‘by the’.

^{page 87 note 1} ‘caryed’ cancelled, ‘being’ may also be cancelled.

^{page 87 note 2} Sentence unfinished.

^{page 87 note 3} Two words on separate line cancelled, perhaps ‘These beinge ‘or ‘These livinge’.

^{page 87 note 4} Edge of page.

^{page 87 note 5} One word, and maybe more, faded and unreadable.

^{page 87 note 6} For ‘violenc’.

^{page 87 note 7} The alternative does not appear.

^{page 87 note 8} Marked by short parallels in mar

^{page 88 note 1} For ‘your’.

^{page 88 note 2} Much written in hereabouts. The strange land is Scotland.

^{page 88 note 3} Undeciphered, edge of paper, begins ‘ste’.

^{page 88 note 4} ‘eyther ‘crossed out.

^{page 88 note 5} Probably something missing, preaching in Wales is what he means.

^{page 88 note 6} They do not appear in this place, where there is an inch gap in the text. But see pp. 63–4.

^{page 88 note 7} This first ‘consider’ probably cancelled.

^{page 88 note 8} Possibly ‘or’.

^{page 88 note 9} First letters difficult; the word may be ‘adding’.

^{page 88 note 10} ‘easily’ is written in, and another word, or the beginning of one, follows.

^{page 88 note 11} Is ‘parowe’ ever found as equal to ‘parole ‘? The word may be ‘pawne’.

^{page 88 note 12} ‘wee being’ cancelled.

^{page 88 note 13} ‘atte[mpted]’ begun and cancelled.

^{page 88 note 14} Margin : ‘I sett but downe how commodious this wold bee how acceptable to hir subjectes how greatly to gods glory.’

^{page 89 note 1} For ‘workes’.

^{page 89 note 2} Sentence breaks down.

^{page 89 note 3} ‘that was invented’ crossed out.

^{page 89 note 4} ‘A’ cancelled.

^{page 89 note 5} ‘crowne and subjectes’ first written, and the rest written in. Queried word almost certainly ‘support’.

^{page 89 note 6} ‘even as by counsell’ cancelled.

^{page 89 note 7} For ‘therof’.

^{page 89 note 8} For ‘their’.

^{page 89 note 9} Margin : ‘To the mayntenanc of fals worship and fals offices as now it is ought it [sic, it ought] not to bee employed. To the mayntenanc of the church of Christ it ought not to bee used, because hee hath appoynted another way for his mynistery to be mayntayned, and that it is derogatorious unto his honour, to have the allowanc of his enemy for his mynisters whenas hee hath otherwise apoynted. the pric of a day hier of a whore and the reward of bloud for the most part which ought not to bee brought into the Lordes tabernacle.’

^{page 89 note 10} ‘as’ duplicated, one cancelled.

^{page 89 note 11} ‘and so this iron yok of bondag wherby the angell of the bottomles’ cancelled.

^{page 89 note 12} ‘hir maiestie[s] prerogative’ written in above, an obvious afterthought.

^{page 89 note 13} ‘eyther’ cancelled.

^{page 89 note 14} Ezek. xxxix. 11–15.

^{page 89 note 15} ‘have so’ written in above ‘would’,

^{page 90 note 1} ‘bee so contagiously’ written in.

^{page 90 note 2} Two marginal notes, the first written along the margin : ‘wee draw you unto that cause which wee know justifiablie [sic]’ ; ‘the erecting [possibly ‘electing’] of the former [?] Your HH. wisheth [?]’. Also at this point seven lines scored out: ‘Now my Lord, lett it not be thought strang unto your Honour, that I shold move you in this to bee an instrument to stir [?] up hir maiestie in this work. For First it is agaynst Babell that this whole plutt [sic] is layed, whoe must bee overthrowen. Now my Lord that all these thinges ought to bee done I offer befor your honour, eyther’

^{page 90 note 3} ‘and that’ cancelled.

^{page 90 note 4} For word crossed out, perhaps ‘case’.

^{page 90 note 5} For ‘yf’.

^{page 90 note 6} ‘Now ‘cancelled.

^{page 90 note 7} ‘wee will never’ cancelled.

^{page 90 note 8} fragment cancelled.

^{page 90 note 9} For ‘off offering’.

^{page 90 note 10} ‘untill wee have made hir a perpetuall desolation’ cancelled.

^{page 90 note 11} For ‘never’.

^{page 90 note 12} ‘the next age shall’ cancelled. Margin : ‘Re. 18. 19.’

^{page 90 note 13} ‘how’ cancelled.

^{page 90 note 14} ‘made desolate’ duplicated, one cancelled.

^{page 90 note 15} ‘shee shalbe made a’ cancelled.

^{page 90 note 16} For ‘whore’.

^{page 91 note 1} Two parallel pencil lines in margin.

^{page 91 note 2} For ‘the’.

^{page 91 note 3} For ‘accomplish’.

^{page 91 note 4} For ‘work’, ‘and’ cancelled after ‘action’.

^{page 91 note 5} This line written in. The interrogation mark is uncertain, and the sentence may be unfinished.

^{page 91 note 6} ‘so blessed’ cancelled.

^{page 91 note 7} Two ampersands cancelled.

^{page 91 note 8} For ‘hir maiesties crowne’.

^{page 91 note 9} Those who marked this sentence with parallel pencil lines in the margin little realized how prophetic it was.

^{page 91 note 10} ‘greater’ cancelled.

^{page 91 note 11} ‘managing of’ crossed out, ‘the’ left standing.

^{page 91 note 12} For ‘putt the’.

^{page 91 note 13} Cancellations show that ‘hir nobility’ first intended.

^{page 91 note 14} ‘With’ and ‘by’ both written.

^{page 91 note 15} Several lines cancelled : ‘for it shalbe found that hir maiestie shall have the heartes of all hir subjectes with hir as the heart of one man, those only exepted whose hartes are enflamed with the Romish marchandise’.

^{page 91 note 16} ‘in that safety’ first written, then ‘no less quietnes’ written above.

^{page 91 note 17} For ‘went through the land of Egypt’.

^{page 91 note 18} Doubtful: may be ‘best’, ‘base’.

^{page 92 note 1} One ‘all’ cancelled.

^{page 92 note 2} For ‘kept’.

^{page 92 note 3} For ‘being acquaynted with that’.

^{page 92 note 4} For ‘contentedness’.

^{page 92 note 5} ‘in all’ repeated after ‘all’.

^{page 92 note 6} ‘eyther … presenc’ written in margin.

^{page 92 note 7} For ‘vouchaf’.

^{page 92 note 8} For ‘wold’.

^{page 92 note 9} ‘And’ may be cancelled, ‘although’ is at corner of page, and ‘This one thing I wold’, written in below, is evidently intended to replace it.

^{page 92 note 10} ‘yet had wee rather that’ cancelled.

^{page 92 note 11} For ‘that’, but sentence does not read.

^{page 92 note 12} ‘joyn our small labours with your owne great o[nes]’ first written,

^{page 92 note 13} May be ‘this’, ‘people’ cancelled after it.

^{page 93 note 1} Undeciphered word ; looks like ‘lakyles’, which suggests lactation ; ‘Norces’ I take to be ‘Nurses’.

^{page 93 note 2} The item ends abruptly, a line being drawn across the page at this point.

^{page 93 note 3} The ‘yf’ might be intended to replace the ‘though’.

^{page 93 note 4} Or ‘report’.

^{page 93 note 5} Penry began to write ‘enforced’ and crossed it out.

^{page 93 note 6} For ‘some’.

^{page 93 note 7} Page very dirty; smudge before ‘I’ may be ampersand.

^{page 93 note 8} Edge of page ; may be ‘oversure’.

^{page 93 note 9} Edge of page.

^{page 93 note 10} Possibly ‘early’.

^{page 93 note 11} Sentence collapses : no doubt Ps. cxxxvii. in mind.

^{page 93 note 12} ‘Thiefry’ is used by Shakespeare (and Browning) for the fruits of theft as well as its practice.

^{page 93 note 13} Sentence breaks down.

^{page 94 note 1} Short word undeciphered.

^{page 94 note 1} Short word undeciphered.

^{page 94 note 2} ‘yet’ written on ‘so I’.

^{page 94 note 3} ‘p[lease]’ begun and crossed out.

^{page 94 note 4} For ‘unto’.

^{page 94 note 5} For ‘neer unto’.

^{page 94 note 6} ‘stand’ comes in middle of line, the next two lines seem to be an alternative, but there is no cancellation.

^{page 94 note 7} From ‘yet’ in middle of line, a line is drawn to immediately after ‘For’ at beginning of next paragraph.

^{page 94 note 8} ‘my soveraing, and the honour I will not say’ cancelled, and a word, probably ‘crowne’, written in small. The preceding ‘maiestie’ is at the edge of the page, possibly ‘s’ was added.

^{page 94 note 9} For ‘augmenting’.

^{page 94 note 10} For ‘good’.

^{page 94 note 11} Sentence breaks down.

^{page 94 note 12} Fragment ends here.

^{page 95 note 1} Bracket as MS.

^{page 95 note 2} Word undeciphered.

^{page 95 note 3} As MS. ; sentence collapses.

^{page 95 note 4} For ‘messag of’.

^{page 95 note 5} After ‘farr’ Penry wrote ‘from’, then crossed it out, and the sentence does not read.

^{page 95 note 6} Page here very dirty, and words cannot be read.