[1] Left blank in the original.

[2] Or rather 27.

[3] Householders.

[4] Lose.

[5] Whereas.

[6] Bishop Gardiner.

[7] Sir Robert Rochester, Comptroller; Sir William Peter, Secretary of State; Sir Francis Inglefield, Master of the Wards; and another.

[8] Cardinal Pole.

[9] Dieppe.

[10] Polling, i.e. shearing or extortionate.

[11] Coarse woollen cloth.

[12] Common, i.e. public.

[13] The Rood, on the Roodloft.

[14] Regimen, government.

[15] In the primitive Church.

[16] From p?es?te??? (elder), both presbyter and priest are derived.

[17] Pretended.

[18] Persuade the people.

[19] Public.

[20] At cess—i.e., quartered on the inhabitants.

[21] Thomas Fitzgerald’s rebellion took place in 1534-5. This reference to it dates the present document as being of 1571 or 1572.

[22] Deceived.

[23] I.e., Cecil.

[24] I.e., Mary Queen of Scots.

[25] Surety.

[26] Paused.

[27] Christopher.

[28] Banner.

[29] Barnard Castle, of which he was Steward.

[30] Outermost.

[31] Lief, dear.

[32] “Francis” in the original text—a slip of the pen.

[33] Men of property among the rebels were attainted, and their lands confiscated; the author appears to threaten that even when their money is gone they remain men and may yet be to be feared.

[34] Sir Thomas Plomtrie—i.e., Thomas Plumptre, priest—chaplain to the rebels, was hanged at Durham for having celebrated Mass in the cathedral there.

[35] Kentish saint, to whose shrine pilgrimage was made; he became the proverb for pre-Reformation superstition.

[36] I.e., his people.

[37] See.

[38] Really 25 of February.

[39] 1569-1570.

[40] Ure—i.e., use.

[41] Babington’s conspiracy.

[42] Precedent.

[43] I.e., “Either supplicate or strike home.”

[44] I.e., Mr. O——’s house.

[45] Orig. ‘unamity.’

[46] In command of the Spanish land forces in the Netherlands.

[47] The Duke of Medina and Sidonia, in command of the Armada. On the 25th of July Drake, writing to Walsingham, says: “God hathe geven us so good a daye in forcying the enemey so far to leeward, as I hope in God the prince of Parma and the Duke of Sedonya shall not shake hands this fewe dayes.”

[48] Gravelines.

[49] The Duke of Parma.

[50] Probably brother=brother-in-law here, as often, or father of his son-or daughter-in-law.

[51] This and some of the other totals are incorrect; they are given as they stand.

[52] Encumbered.

[53] Except.

[54] Awaited.

[55] Chase = the guns in the bows.

[56] Result.

[57] Experienced.

[58] Champaign.

[59] Thoroughly healed.

[60] I.e., Suppose my intent were evil.

[61] Another version is given in Sir Symonds D’Ewes’ Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.

[62] Their—i.e., the Commons.

[63] They had been kneeling.

[64] Conspiracies.

[65] Faults.

[66] These were pasteboard figures eight feet high.

[67] Orig. seemed.

[68] Richard Mulcaster, first headmaster of Merchant Taylors’ School, whose Positions is the most important English educational book of the century.

[69] George Gascoigne, the poet.

[70] I.e., Elizabeth.

[71] Polished.

[72] It was the latter.

[73] Getting rid of.

[74] Slipper.

[75] Adulteries.

[76] Fault, make mistakes.

[77] See p. 97 for Lady Jane Grey, whom Ascham gives as an example of this rule.

[78] Dip.

[79] Antwerp (spelt backwards).

[80] Ill-used.

[81] Crushed.

[82] Arrested.

[83] Probably Burbage.

[84] I.e., Oxford?

[85] Break, flaw.

[86] Speeches.

[87] Sharpest.

[88] I.e., London?

[89] Pointed beard.