^{page 100 note 1} The transcript of these interesting Memoirs was placed at the disposal of the Council of the Royal Historical Society by G. J. Courthope, Esq., of Whiligh, through the good offices of W. J. Courthope, Esq., C.B., and Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte, K.C.B., an Honorary Life Fellow of the Society, both of whom have taken much interest in the preparation of this edition, for which Mrs. W. J. Courthope has kindly supplied the copy for the printers.

^{page 101 note 1} But see p. 95, above.

^{page 101 note 2} Should be ‘Wolverhampton.’ See note on p. 137, below.

^{page 103 note 1} The first Sir George's father, John Courthope of Whiligh, Esq., died in 1615, and is buried at Ticehurst. His son George probably removed to the family seat not long after the younger George was born.

^{page 103 note 2} Sir Charles Howard died in 1673. His eldest son, Francis, succeeded as 5th Lord Howard of Effingham in 1681, on the death of Charles Howard, third Earl of Nottingham, without direct heirs. The reference to him as the Lord ‘ that now is ’ shows that the Memoirs were not written, or at any rate finished, until after 1681.

^{page 103 note 3} According to Foster's Alumni, the true date was two years later; i.e. he matriculated June 22, 1632, aged sixteen, and took his B.A. degree on May 8, 1635. If these dates are correct he was only for a few weeks under the care of Dr. Bancroft, who resigned the mastership of University College on August 23, 1632, on his appointment as Bishop of Oxford. Dr. Thos. Walker was elected in his place on August 31.

^{page 104 note 1} The journey to France could not have been so early as 1635, as the Earl of Leicester did not go over as Ambassador Extraordinary (Lord Scudamore being Ambassador in ordinary) until May 1636. As is shown by the next note, Courthope and Lord Dacres crossed in October 1636. The former was therefore not much more than one academic year at Oxford after taking his degree.

^{page 104 note 2} This incident enables us to fix the date almost exactly. In his despatch of October 23-November 2 the Earl of Leicester writes, ‘ The seas are now dangerous, by reason of the Dunkirks; and the other day, Battiere, my secretary (who hath lately bin with your honor) in his returne between Rye and Deepe, being in the English passage boat with my Lord Dacres and some other gentlemen, they were met by the Dunkirks, who (notwithstanding they were English and provided with good passports) used violence against them, and robb'd them, taking away from Battiere, in particular, amongst other things … about 50l in Spanish pistols … and if the sight of a Holland man of warre had not made them goe away, they had used them worse. The particular declaration … I will send, God willing, the next weeke.’ Leicester to Coke, S. P. France, vol. 102; printed in Collins's ‘ Sydney Papers.’ Courthope calls the pirate ship an ‘Algerine,’ but, apart from Leicester's statement, this is shown to be incorrect by the context. A ‘ Turk ’ would not have cared in the least whether the goods were French or English.

^{page 105 note 1} A near neighbour of the Courthopes. Seated at Combwell, in Kent, only about three miles from Whiligh. Sir William commanded a regiment for Charles I., and was killed in a sally from Colchester during the siege in 1648. In later times there were many marriages between the Campions and the Courthopes.

^{page 105 note 2} This fits in exactly with the true dates. Courthope's twenty-first birthday was on June 3, 1637, when he had been at Loudoun some five months or more.

^{page 106 note 1} Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Coke, married against her will to Sir John Villiers (Buckingham's elder brother), afterwards created Viscount Purbeck. When her husband's feeble-mindedness developed into insanity she fled from him with Sir Henry Howard. In 1635 she was committed to the Fleet, but escaped and entered a nunnery in Paris, which, however, she left in July 1636 (see Lord Scudamore's letter, Cal. State Papers, Dom., under date July 11–21). There is a mention of this ‘ possessed nun ’ in the Earl of Ancaster's MSS. Young Lord Willoughby saw her at Loudoun in 1649, when she was restored to her right mind and was prioress of her convent. See also Evelyn's Diary, under date August 5, 1670.

^{page 108 note 1} ‘Richelieu, built by the Cardinal in 1635 ; 152 miles S.W. of Paris.’ [E. P.]

^{page 108 note 2} Strachan's curious tale evidently ends at this point, the rest being an addition of Courthope's own, supplied from the information of the son in 1644. The French Gazetteer says that the town was ‘built in 1637.’ If Richelieu had such ambitious designs for the future of his town they were frustrated by his death. Evelyn, who visited it in 1644, writes, ‘Since the Cardinal's death, it is thinly inhabited, standing so much out of the way, and in a place not well situated for health or pleasure.’

^{page 109 note 1} Cecil Tufton, youngest son of Nicholas, 1st Earl of Thanet, and of Lady Frances Cecil. Born 1619 ; ob. 1682.

Sir William Cowper, bart. (of Scotland, and in 1642–3 of England), of Hertford Castle ; collector of imposts in the Port of London. The Assurance office was ‘ on the left side of the Royal Exchange ’ (Anderson's Commerce, ii. 203).

John Tracy, grandson of Sir John Tracy, made Lord Tracy in 1642–3 at the age of seventy-two. John Tracy the younger was born in 1617, matriculated at Oxford in 1633, succeeded his father (Robert) as 3rd Lord in 1662, and died in 1686–7.

Francis Twisden, a younger son of Sir William Twisden, bart., soldier, courtier, and scholar, of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent.

^{page 110 note 1} ‘This was probably the friend of Milton to whom some of his Latin Elegiacs are inscribed. Milton was in Italy in 1638, and from these Memoirs it appears that Sir George Courthope must have been there between the years 1635 and 1641.’ [E.F.]

Mr. Ferrers's suggestion is not correct. This is Giovanni Diodati (1576–1649), professor of theology and head of the Reformed Church at Geneva. Milton's friend, Charles Diodati, was the son of Giovanni's brother Theodore, who had settled in England. Milton was staying with Dr. Diodati at Geneva when he heard of his friend's death, and there wrote the Epitaphium. John Evelyn visited the Doctor in 1646, and ‘ had a great deal of discourse with that learned person.’

^{page 110 note 2} The Burlamacchi were a family of wealthy merchants and financiers. The best known of them is Philip, who settled in England, and often assisted Charles I. and also the Queen of Bohemia.

^{page 111 note 1} Basil Fielding, Earl of Denbigh, after being two years in Venice, was transferred to Turin in the autumn of 1637. He remained there a year, returning to Venice in the autumn of 1638.

^{page 111 note 2} The Duc de Guise, driven out of France by the influence of Richelieu, had settled with his family at Florence in 1631.

^{page 112 note 1} ‘ Montmélian, in Savoy, 27 miles E. of Grenoble; 8 S.E. of Chambéry.’ [E. F.]

^{page 113 note 1} See Evelyn's Diary. ‘ We came to Montefiascone … heretofore Falernum, as renowned for its excellent wine as now for the story of the Dutch Bishop, who lies buried in Faviano's church with this epitaph:

“Propter Est, Est, Dominus meus mortuus est.”

Because having ordered his servant to ride before, enquire where the best wine was, and there write Est, the man found some so good that he wrote Est, Est, and the Bishop drinking too much of it died. ’

^{page 113 note 2} Sir Richard Ducie, knight and bart., son of Sir Robert Lord Mayor of London, &c., who died in 1634. Sir Richard was sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1637–8. On the breaking out of the Civil War he espoused the King's cause, was in Bristol at its surrender, and compounded for his estate upon its articles. (See Cal. Of Committee for Compounding, p. 1017.)

^{page 115 note 1} ‘ Venice. Perhaps it should have been Messina; the Gulph, which is generally Called the Pharos, is ten miles long and at Messina only a mile and half over. Scylla is on the Calabrian shore; Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The Whirlpool is said to have been removed by the earthquake in 1783. ’ [E. F.]

^{page 115 note 2} ‘ Negropont, the ancient Eubœa.’ [E. F.]

^{page 117 note 1} Sir John Cordell, sheriff of London in 1634, knighted in 1641; imprisoned as a delinquent in 1642. (See Cal. S. P., Dom., 1641–3, p. 403). He was an important member of the East India Company, carried on a large trade with the Levant, and had ‘ factors ’ at the principal ports.

^{page 118 note 1} i.e. khan.

^{page 119 note 1} ‘ Pera, a suburb of Constantinople, as is Galata; they are both on the European side of the Strait. Scutari is opposite and upon the Asiatic side. ’ [E. F.]

^{page 119 note 2} But then, as now, Pera seems to have been the usual dwelling-place of the ambassadors. George Sandys, in his Relation of a Voyage, &c. (see note on p. 127, below), speaks of ‘ ascending the vines of Pera ’ to the ambassador's house.

^{page 119 note 3} Mis-script for Sir Peter Wych. He had long been entreating to be recalled, and Sir Sackville Crow was nominated his successor as early as 1635, but put off his going time after time, and only reached Constantinople in October 1638. Wych surrendered all papers, &c., and the Ambassador's house, but the Grand Signior was absent ‘ at the siege of Babylon ’ i.e. Bagdad, so that Wych could not get his dismissal, nor Crow be received. When a messenger was sent to the Grand Signior he returned answer to his Vizier to tell ‘ the old Ambassador ’ that ambassadors could not be licensed or discharged during his absence. Wych received his discharge on April 20, 1639, and left Constantinople shortly afterwards.

^{page 120 note 1} ‘ Perhaps Scutari. ’ [E. F.] Uskudar is its Turkish name.

^{page 121 note 1} ‘ A.D. 194.’ [E. F.]

^{page 121 note 2} ‘ About the year 312.’ [E. F.]

^{page 123 note 1} Should read ‘ send to the Caimacham.’

^{page 126 note 1} Greaves, Description of the Grand Seignor's Seraglio, reprinted in 1737. Greaves does not seem to have got the description from Withers direct. He states that the manuscript was given to him at Constantinople, and that upon inquiry he has ‘ found it since ’ to be the work of Withers.

^{page 126 note 2} ‘ Sestos and Abydos. The Strait is called Gallipoli and is two miles over. It joins the Archipelago to the Propontis. The Castles are called the Dardanelles.’ [E. F.] In Henry Blount's Voyage into the Levant, 1634–6, he states that these two castles on the Hellespont are called ‘ Dardanelli.’

^{page 126 note 3} ‘ Callipoli. In a book at Whiligh (entitled “A Relation of a Journey containing a Description of the Turkish Empire of Egypt etc. etc.” p. 22), the reasons are assigned why this place is called both Callipoli and Gallipoli. These voyages were performed about the year 1610, i.e. twenty years before Sir George's Travels, which they illustrate, and prove the accuracy of many of his observations. It is a thin folio.’ [E. F.] Written by George Sandys, poet and traveller, best known for his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses into English verse. The book was published in 1615.

^{page 127 note 1} ‘ Lepanto, in Livadia, 100 miles W.N.W. of Athens—350 S.W. of Constantinople. Here Cervantes, the author of “Don Quixote,” lost his arm, in 1571, when Don John of Austria gained a victory over the Turkish fleet, to which Sir G. C. alludes. The Sea of Marmora or Propontis is 120 miles long, 50 broad, extending from the Archipelago through the Dardanelles and Strait of Constantinople to the Euxine or Black Sea.’ [E. F.]

^{page 127 note 2} ‘ Tenedos is ten miles from the Straits of Gallipoli and on the Asiatic side.’ [E. F.]

^{page 127 note 3} ‘ Horace ’ has been underlined, and Virgil written after it, in different ink, but in Mr. Ferrers's hand. In the same way ‘ the former poet ’ has been crossed through, and ‘ Horace ’ substituted, below. The references are also in different ink, probably added by Ferrers later.

^{page 127 note 4} ‘ Mitylene or Lesbos. Not more than seven miles from the Trojan coast. Here Sappho and Alcæus were born.’ [E. F.]

^{page 127 note 5} Should be ‘ Laudabunt alii claram Rhodon aut Mitylenen.’ It is quoted correctly by Sandys.

^{page 131 note 1} Here the 1st volume ends and the 2nd begins.

^{page 133 note 1} ‘ There were at that time seven Colleges or Alberges—1 for France, 1 of Auvergne, 1 Provence, 1 Castile, 1 Aragon, 1 Italy, 1 Germany. Before the Reformation there was an eighth for England.’ [E. F.]

^{page 134 note 1} This is incredible; it is even doubtful whether they would have Mass at sea at all, unless they had a dispensation. But the Protestants of that day sometimes used the word ‘ Mass ’ loosely for any services of the Roman Church.

^{page 135 note 1} Wych, having left Constantinople about May 1639, had a tedious journey to Italy, but arrived there during the summer, and was back in England before November. Therefore the ‘ September ’ here is certainly September 1639.

^{page 135 note 2} John Evelyn also notices the ‘ singular courtesy ’ and hospitality of the English Jesuits at Rome. See Diary under dates November 8 and 24, December 29, 1644; February 18, 1644–5.

^{page 136 note 1} ‘ Father to the famous Algernon Sidney ’ [E. F.]. The Earl returned from his embassy in 1641, on being appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

^{page 135 note 2} ‘ The famous Sacharissa of Mr. Waller.’ [E. F.] She was married July 20, 1639. Her husband, Henry, Lord Spencer of Wormleighton, was created Earl of Sunderland in June 1643, but fell mortally wounded at the first battle of Newbury, shortly afterwards, fighting for the King.

^{page 136 note 3} As shown by note 2, above, and note 1 on the previous page, the true date of his return was Christmas 1639.

^{page 137 note 1} This statement is rather perplexing. The 1st Sir George died on the 12th, as here stated. This date is given on his memorial tablet in Ticehurst Church, and is confirmed by the fact, as proved by the parish register, that he was buried on the 19th, just a week later. His son reached the King on a Sunday, i.e. the 16th, which he could do by fast travelling. But Clarendon states that the King left Shrewsbury on the 12th, and this is shown to be correct by the Iter Carolinum, which gives the following ‘ gests ’:—Oct. 12th, to Bridgnorth ; 15th, to Wolverhampton; 17th, to Birmingham. It must therefore have been at Wolverhampton, not at Shrewsbury, that young Courthope came to the Court.

^{page 137 note 2} The Alienation Office, which in 1576 had been leased to the Earl of Leicester, and was held by him until his death, was afterwards put into the hands of Commissioners. They issued licences for alienations of land and pardons for those passed without licence or made by will. Every pardon and licence had to pass under the great Seal in Chancery, and to be entered of record. For every pardon upon an ‘ ultima voluntas ’ and every licence, half a year's rent was paid to the Crown, and for other pardons a whole year's rent (the proportions appear, however, to have differed at different times). Moreover most part of the alienations passed upon writs of covenant, and for each such writ there was paid 6s. 8d. fine for every five marks of land. One object of their passing the Great Seal was that they formed good proof of the tenures of tenants in capite, &c., ‘ which bringeth wardships, marriages of wards,’ &c. (see S. P., Dom., Eliz., vol. 110, No. 57). The office was not finally abolished until the reign of William IV.

The office buildings were situated in the Temple, at the north end of King's Bench Walk (see Calendar of Inner Temple Records, prefaces to vols. i. ii. iii.)

^{page 138 note 1} Sir John Colepeper, created Baron Colepeper of Thoresway, October 21, 1644.

^{page 138 note 2} ‘ Brenchley in Kent.—He died September 17, 1649 ; was interred in the Chancel there, where on the north side of the Eastern wall is a Monument with the following inscription :—

‘ M.S.

Joannes [sic] Courthop de Brenchley in Comitatu Cañt: Armiger. Amplissimi Viri Georgii Courthop Equitis Aurati de Whiligh in Comitatu Sussex. Frater natu minor, olim inter serenissimi Caroli Primi Satellites Generosos. Carnis mortalitate demum exutâ hic situs requiescat.

Obiit autem Mensis Septembris 17⁰ Anno Reparatæ Salutis ultra Millesimo Sexentessimo [sic] quadragesimo nono.’ [E. F.]

^{page 138 note 3} This statement does not quite tally with the petition which, shortly after the Restoration, George Courthope presented to the King. It runs as follows: ‘ That John Courthopp of Brinckley in the county of Kent esquire was gentleman pensioner to his late Majestie, and going to performe his dutie to his Majestie during the late warrs, was taken prisoner by the Parliament's forces, and after long imprisonment he was released upon condition hee should not returne unto his Majestie againe: That not long after hee dyed, leaving your petitioner his executor, subject to his debts: That there was due to John Courthopp for his wages at the time of his death 8001l., being the most considerable part of his personall estate.’ George Courthope prays his Majesty to confer a pensioner's place upon himself, that he may be better able to pay his uncle's debts, and also ‘ be in a capacity to expresse his cordiall dilligence ’ in the King's service. The petition is signed in a clear, firm hand ‘Geo. Courthop’ [S. P., Dom., Car. II., vol. ii., No. 154]Google Scholar.

^{page 139 note 1} ‘ Rawbone ’ is, of course, ‘ Barbone ’ (probably merely a mis-script). This Parliament was summoned by Cromwell, but as Captain-General, not as Protector. It entirely abolished the Court of Chancery, but, in order to the carrying on of business, resolved that ‘ original writś, writs of covenant, and writs of entry ’ were to be issued by the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal (see Commons' Journals, under date October 15, 1653). It would appear from Courthope's statement that the Alienation Office was put down when the Chancery was, and re-erected with it the next year, although there are no notices of this in the Journals.

^{page 139 note 2} ‘ Another Parliament,’ i.e. the first Protectorate Parliament, which met September 3, 1654. It restored the Court of Chancery, and evidently the Alienation Office also.

^{page 139 note 3} At the Restoration he was displaced, and his office given to Mr. Edward Nicholas. It was then stated that Bond was ‘ behind with his accounts for that office for seven years past,’ and he was ordered to pay up these arrears to his successor. He is sometimes called Samuel Bond, sometimes Thomas (see Calendar of Treasury Books, 1660–1667).

^{page 139 note 4} Sir William Compton, colonel of a regiment for the King; Royalist governor of Banbury; master of the Ordnance after the Restoration. The ‘ intelligence from the King's Court ’ was no doubt sent by the traitor Manning. Writing to Thurloe in May 1655, he says that he wonders Compton is not yet taken.

^{page 140 note 1} Courthope is here harking back to earlier times. Charles II., as Prince, was partly at Oxford with his father, and was a member of his Council, by whom the order to remove to London was given ; but he was a mere boy, only twelve years old when Charles I. went to Oxford, and sixteen when he finally quitted it in 1646.

^{page 140 note 2} This is very confused. The Long Parliament was expelled April 20, 1653. The Little or Barbones Parliament met July 4, 1653, and dissolved itself—i.e. ‘ delivered back their power,’ &c.—on December 12. No Parliament sat and installed Cromwell as Protector. The Instrument of Government was drawn up by the Council of Officers, and it was by them that the Protectorate was offered to him. The first Protectorate Parliament met September 3, 1654, and was dissolved January 22, 1654–5. Both this and the following Parliament included Irish and Scotch members, and consisted largely, though not entirely, of knights of the shire. The small boroughs were disfranchised or gathered into groups, but the important ones sent members. The context clearly shows that it was to the second Protectorate Parliament that Courthope was elected. The second Protectorate Parliament met September 17, 1656, and it was this Parliament which pressed the kingship upon Cromwell and to which he made the ‘ long speech.’

^{page 141 note 1} ‘ 1649, according to our present style of beginning the year on the first of January : at that time the year began on the 25th of March, and the interval was generally marked in this manner, 1648/9.’ [E. F.] This paragraph about the murder of the King is a parenthesis, apparently to explain there being no House of Lords.

^{page 141 note 2} ‘ Courthop's name appears as sixth among the nine members returned for the county of Sussex on August 20, 1656.’ [E. F.] There were also members for the boroughs of Arundel, Chichester, East Grinstead, and Lewes.

^{page 141 note 3} See Goffe's letters, Thurloe State Papers, v. 341, 382.

^{page 142 note 1} The President of the Council was Henry Lawrence, not Sir John.

^{page 142 note 2} ‘ Mr. Cooper ’ was John Cooper, second son of Sir Roger, of Thurgarton, employed as agent by Charles II. He was sent into England in the spring of 1656, and was successful in getting ‘ horses ’ (by which was probably meant money) for the King; but he had been over before and been imprisoned, as in 1655 he is said to have ‘ escaped from the Gatehouse ’ (see Cal. Clar. S. P. iii. 122, 164).

^{page 142 note 3} There is no mention of this in the Books of the Council of State, and it i not easy to see what Courthope means. No one would dream of sending money to Oxford for ‘ Charles Stewart, son of the late King.’ The argument might be expected to run :—‘ If they proved that I sent money to ____, where the King was, I must have been tried ; but as it was only paid to Gilby at Brussels, they could do nothing.’ Perhaps there was also a charge of sending money from London to Charles I. at Oxford during the Civil War.

^{page 143 note 1} This was at the Council meeting of May 26, 1657; ‘ the next day,’ i.e. May 27, the news came that Blake had fired the fleet, &c.

^{page 143 note 2} ‘ Query whether it be generally known that the reputation of Admiral Blake depended on so nice a point as it here appears to have done? ’ [E. F.]

^{page 144 note 1} ‘ A town on the east side of the Island of Teneriffe, W.L. 16, N.L. 28. See Hume, vol. 7, p. 257. N.B.—He there says when the treasures arrived at Portsmouth the Protector from ostentation ordered them to be transported by land to London. Query, if the Lading was taken out and all the bullion removed, what treasures remained on the ships to be removed by land? ’ [E. F.] The transporting of the bullion from Portsmouth had nothing to do with the affair of Santa Cruz. It was after Blake's attack on the ships in Cadiz harbour, September 8, 1656, when he did get the treasure, that the eight-and-thirty waggon-loads came ‘ triumphantly jingling up,’ probably for the purpose of bringing home to the minds of the people the reality of the victory over Spain.

^{page 144 note 2} ‘ At p. [154] it appears that these memoirs were written after 1679. The Earl who was ambassador died in 1677, and this must have been his son Philip, who succeeded him, November 2, 1677.’ [E. F.]

^{page 145 note 1} ‘ Should be Piers.’ [E. F.]

^{page 145 note 2} ‘ See her husband's epitaph, p. [157].’ [E. F.]

Mr. Ferrers here confuses two Marys. The epitaph relates to the husband of Sir George's step-sister, not of his daughter. See note on p. 157, below.

^{page 145 note 3} No parliament was sitting at the time of the Protector's death. He had dissolved it seven months before, on February 4.

^{page 146 note 1} ‘ See Echard, p. 745, where the names of the members are mentioned. They were twenty-three in number.’ [E. F.]

^{page 146 note 2} Lambert defeated Booth at Nantwich on August 19, 1659. The Parliament was turned out by the Army on October 13, after which the Committee of Safety was appointed, and was the governing power until the restoration of the Parliament on December 26. The statement that Monek did not know of Booth's defeat is absurd. The Council of State sent him an official narrative of it on August 25. There can be little doubt that he intended to join Booth, but before there was time to do anything the rising collapsed, after which he remained quietly in Scotland and wrote dutiful letters to the Parliament. When the breach between the Army and the Parliament occurred in October, Monck declared for the latter; but even then he only demanded the restoration of the Rump. Lambert marched out from London on November 3, and reached Newcastle towards the end of the month. On November 15 Monck declared for a free Parliament, and announced his. Intention of marching into England, but it was not until January 2 that he actually crossed the Tweed.

^{page 146 note 3} I.e. Grimstone.

^{page 146 note 4} Granville.

^{page 147 note 1} A very common mistake for Albemarle.

^{page 147 note 2} Nearly eighteen years. It met on May 8, 1661, and was dissolved on January 24, 1678–9.

^{page 148 note 1} The dates here are not quite accurate. The ‘ magnificent passage ’ from the Tower to Whitehall was on April 22, the day before the Coronation, and the installation of the Knights of the Garter had taken place the week before, ‘ apud Castrum Windesore, decimo quinto die dicti mensis Aprilis,’ in order to lend greater glory to the Coronation itself. The ‘ two dinners ’ to which the King treated the Order would be on the 15th and 16th, and on this later occasion, no doubt, the Earl of Northumberland desired Courthope to go next morning to the King, as the knighthood was conferred on April 17. As regards his uncle's place as Gentleman Pensioner see petition, p. 138, above, note 3.

^{page 150 note 1} ‘ See pages [145 & 156]. His name was George, born 1646, and then nineteen. He married first the daughter of Captain Fuller of Waldron, and 2^ndly Albinia daughter of Sir William Elliott of Busbridge in Surry. See his Monument in Ticehurst Church, Sussex. He left only one son, George Courthop, Esqr.’ [E. F.]

^{page 151 note 1} They landed on August 3. See S. P., Dom., under date.

^{page 152 note 1} 1668 is a mistake (probably merely a mis-script) for 1678.

^{page 152 note 2} ‘ N.B.—Oates was tried and convicted of perjury May 1685. Sir George Courthop died Nov. 18, 1685.’ [E. F.]

^{page 152 note 3} The scene of the murder was never identified. Godfrey was at St. Martin's in the Fields at noon (of October 12, 1678), and was reported to have been seen in the Strand, between St. Clement' Church and Somerset House, later in the day. His body was found on the slopes of Primrose Hill.

^{page 154 note 1} ‘ See his Epitaph, page [155]. From the phrase vacare Deo, which is repeated in the Epitaph, it is most probable that he wrote the Epitaph himself.’ [E. F.]

^{page 154 note 2} ‘ A.D. 1679.’ [E. F.]

^{page 155 note 1} By Mr. Ferrers.

^{page 155 note 2} ‘ Aged 69.’ [E. F.]

^{page 156 note 1} ‘ See page [145], where it appears that this son was married first to the daughter of Captain Fuller of Waldron in Sussex in 1674 and that she died 1675.’ [E. F.]

^{page 156 note 2} ‘ Grandfather to the present possessor of Whiligh, 1801.’ [E. F.]

^{page 157 note 1} ‘ 1658. The date cannot be correct: at p. [145] it appears that Sir George married in 1643; and that Mary was his youngest daughter; but according to this statement, she would have been a widow at fourteen years of age, even if she, as the eldest child of Sir George Courthop, had been born in 1644. Query if the figures should not be reversed, i.e. 1685 instead of 1658.’ [E. F.]

Ferrers has (as stated above, p. 145, note) confused the two Mary Courthopes. Mary, wife of Henry Haslen, was the daughter of the first Sir George Courthope by his 2nd wife Elizabeth, widow of Edward Hawes. The second Sir George Courthope married Elizabeth Hawes, daughter of his stepmother by her first husband, and had by her a daughter Mary, who was unmarried at the date when these memoirs were written.