^{Page 47 note a} “Thomas Hesket, Haddock, Baines, Thomas Fitzherbert, and one Sweet, are his [Parsons'] mercenarii to deal against us and spread calumnies.” Mush to Ed. Bennet, Mar. 31, 1602. Tierney, iii. p. clvii.

^{Page 52 note a} The Copies of certaine Discourses. Imprinted at Boane, 1601.

^{Page 53 note a} According to Mush's English narrative Cecil's audience was on the 17th.

^{Page 53 note b} Something left out here. The appellants heard of the remit to the Inquisition on Thursday the 27th.

^{Page 55 note a} June 19 supra.

^{Page 57 note a} Negocium …constet. Some clerical error here.

^{Page 60 note a} Erasures.

^{Page 60 note b} So altered by another hand.

^{Page 60 note c} This substitution, together with the preceding erasures on this page, is made by a subsequent hand with the remark at foot of folio 109 : “Jay rayé les lignes cy dessus.” In each case the name of Aldobrandinus or prœfectus Brevium is legible beneath the erasure.

^{Page 61 note a} The Spanish army under Don Jaan d' Aguilar capitulated at Kinsale on Jan. 2. They embarked for Spain Feb. 20, but it was not until after the siege and destruction of Dunboyn in June that expectation of further Spanish aid was abandoned, by the Irish insurgents.

^{Page 61 note b} Jesuitarum et Hispaniæ ?

^{Page 61 note c} From this point to end of next page of this copy the text is smaller and cramped, as though added as an after-thought. It encroaches on f. 110, the first page of new matter beginning “Eesponsio,” &c

^{Page 62 note a} See note, vol. i. p. 122. Among other absurdities Squiers in his examination before the law officers in London (Cal. Dom. Eliz. Oct. 19, 1598), with unconscious irony makes Father Walpole say “he would write to Dr. Bagshaw at Wisbeach Castle as he knew all the courses of the Jesuits.” The indignant Doctor found no difficulty in establishing his own innocence, but he does not seem to have suspected the possible innocence of Walpole.

^{Page 62 note b} I do not know of any such papal prohibition forbidding the missionaries to meddle with political affairs. The Jesuits, however, on their joining the mission in 1580 received from the superiors of their order the strictest injunctions to that effect.