This list is intended to assist the reader in following the activities of a large number of people and as an indication of the sort of numbers one is dealing with in studying all levels of political society. Thus, it includes virtually all gentry – and a few non-gentry, such as the Birches and some of the Benfords, and some members of gentry families who were themselves untitled – to have any kind of interest in the county in this period, although it remains somewhat selective with regard to families, such as the Botellers of Warrington, which had substantial holdings elsewhere and very little in Warwickshire. Nevertheless, some figures are listed who do not qualify for inclusion in the cross-sections listed in appendix 2 but were in some way involved in county affairs; Ralph Astley, for instance. Also listed are some members of branches of Warwickshire families, such as some of the purely Leicestershire branch of the Purfreys, whose sphere of activities was in other counties but who were on the periphery of Warwickshire affairs by virtue of their relatives' membership of county society. Unlike appendix 2 the list contains almost all members of Warwickshire families, not just the heads, although in the case of those, such as the Longvilles, who rarely turn up on Warwickshire records for most of the period, information is far from complete. The first date usually indicates entry on local affairs, the participant being probably somewhere between about fourteen and twenty-five years old, although in some instances, notably where there are surviving I.P.M.s and wardships, people turn up in the records at a much earlier age