page 347 note * Vol. iii. p. 261.

page 349 note * The italics are mine.

page 350 note * Dr. Ames was a friend and fellow-labourer of Peters at Rotterdam.

page 350 note † Spelt “Foy” in the seventeenth century.

page 351 note * Mrs. Read was the widow of Edmund Read of Wickford, Essex, and mother of Colonel Thomas Read, afterwards governor of Stirling, and a partisan of Monk at the Restoration.

page 351 note † There are frequent remarks in the writings of Americans against the criticisms ot the English Dryasdusts, who in viewing the career of Peters are prone to echo more or less such strictures as the following, which I extract from Kennett's Register, p. 281:— ‘Peters was known to be infamous for more than one kind of wickedness, a fact which Milton himself ‥‥ did not dare to deny when he wrote his apology to this very end, to defend, even by name, as far as was possible, the very blackest of the conspirators.’

page 352 note * Peters generally omitted the final ‘s’ in signing his name.

page 352 note † See ante. In one of Mr. Winthrop's notes—alluding, no doubt, amongst other things to the Franklyn legend—he designates Yonge's book as ‘scandalous.’

page 352 note ‡ It is plain from documents in the Colonial State Papers that Sir Harry Vane, senior, highly disapproved of his son's proceedings.

page 352 note § Mr. Percy Grey in his very recent History of the United States comments upon the extraordinary provisions of the charter of the, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

page 353 note * Shepard died in 1649. Dunster was afterwards (1650) the first president of Harvard University.

page 353 note † Masstts. Hist. Coll. 3rd series, vol. viii. p. 204.

page 353 note ‡ See the passage in Shepard's letter to Peters, which I have italicised.

page 353 note § Masstts. Hist. Coll. 2nd series, vol. viii. p. 46.

page 353 note ‖ Ibid. 1st series, vol. vi. p. 250, et seq.

page 353 note ¶ Possibly some ancestral connection of the more famous Jim Fisk of modern days.

page 354 note * He means captive Pequot Indians.

page 354 note † The following from Colonial State Papers (Saintsbury), America and West Indies, 1661–8, p. 26, is remarkable:— ‘Through the motion of Parson Hugh Peters, England contributed 900l. per annum to Christianise the Indians New England; which money found its way into private men's purses, and was cheat of Hugh Peters.’—Letter of (? Jno. Giffard) to Secretary Nicholas. Endorsed by Secretary Nicholas : ‘Concerning Massatts. Bay in N.E. and Hugh Peters cheats.’

page 354 note ‡ A subject worthy of investigation. There seems to have been much correspondence with the old country on the subject of Doctrine and Discipline. Vide, for instance, the long pamphlet printed in London, 1643, called Church Government and Church Covenant.

page 355 note * Hist, of the United States, vol. i. By Percy Grey. 1887.

page 355 note † 1641.

page 355 note ‡ At what date I cannot find out. She appears to have been living in 1637. I find no certain information of her having gone to New England at all. A charitable pamphlet at the Restoration says Hugh Peters sold her as a slave to the West Indies—a highly improbable tale. Peters brought a maid-servant with him to New England.

^{page 356 *} See ante, p. 355.

page 356 note † Life and Letters of Winthrop, p. 297. J. Winthrop, junior, afterwards married the step-daughter of Peters, nee Read.

page 356 note ‡ Masstts. Hist. Coll. 2nd series, vol. vi. p. 371.

page 356 note § Id. vol. viii. p. 27.

page 357 note * Peters was preacher at Whitehall, and received 200l. per annum, paid quarterly. Vide State Papers Cal. 1657–8, p. 556.

page 357 note † When his papers and books as well as those of Thurloe were ordered by the House of Commons to be seized.

page 358 note * ‘Despairing Hugh Peters’ is the expression applied to him in a mention of his execution. Vide Hist. Com. (Appendix), 5th Report, p. 175. This agrees with Yonge's account.

page 358 note † Diary, any edition, under reference to Peters.

page 358 note ‡ Preserved in Collection, British Museum Library.

page 359 note * Yonge seems to believe in the alibi set up by Peters at his trial in 1660.