^{Page 1 note a} Ducats or crowns.

^{Page 1 note b} Philippe de Bethune, brother of the Duke of Sully. He had been sent on an Embassy to Sootland by Henri IV. in the summer of 1599, and came to Rome in 1601.

^{Page 1 note c} D'Ossat, misspelled in this document “Dossacke” or “Dosake,” sometime agent for Henri IV. at Rome, created cardinal in 1598.

^{Page 2 note a} Odoardo Farnese, son of the Prince of Parma, succeeded Cajetan as Cardinal Protector of England. Card. Camillo Borghese (Burgesius), afterwards Pope Paul V., was appointed Vice-Protector.

^{Page 2 note b} Tomaso Bozio of the Oratory, author of the De Signis Ecclesice (Colon. 1592), a section of which work (lib. xii. cap. 22) is devoted to the persecution of English Catholics under Elizabeth, and contains a list of the martyrs.

^{Page 3 note a} These words were inserted after the paragraph was written.

^{Page 3 note b} Bonviso Buonvisi of Lucca.

^{Page 4 note a} Seraphin Olivier, Dean of the Rota, Patriarch of Alexandria, raised to the Cardinalate 17 September, 1603.

^{Page 4 note b} Dr. William Percy (Pearse or Persons) was ordained priest at Douai in 1578, and afterwards resided chiefly in Paris or Brussels. He, with Dr. Stapleton, was requested by Cardinal Cajetan to advise the Nuncio at Brussels regarding English affairs in 1598 (Douay Diaries, pp. 368, 374, 400). He seems now to have belonged to the household of the French ambassador at Eome. See his letters infra.

^{Page 5 note a} Father Richard Walpole, the hero of the fictitious “ Squier's Plot,” now Parsons' secretary at Rome, and afterwards rector of the seminaries of Seville and Valladolid. Jessopp's One Generation of a Norfolk Souse, p. 289, seq.

^{Page 5 note b} 5 originally, but altered.

^{Page 5 note c} 6 originally.

^{Page 6 note a} 6 erased.

^{Page 6 note b} About a dozen words have been struck out here, apparently by the writer himself.

^{Page 8 note a} “St. Georg ” inserted. Cinthio Aldobrandini, cardinal of St. George, nephew of the Pope.

^{Page 8 note b} Mush's Declaratio Motuum. The other “Latin book” was Bagshaw's Belatio.;

^{Page 8 note a} Edward Drummond, then residing at Borne as agent of James VI.

^{Page 12 note a} Printed in Latin and English by Colleton in his Just Defence, p. 291. See also Brevis Belatio, infra.

^{Page 12 note a} i.e. o'clock. Roman reckoning.

^{Page 14 note a} Feria.

^{Page 14 note b} Father Thomas Owen, who succeeded Parsons in 1610 as rector of the English College at Rome, and prefect of the English mission.

^{Page 15 note a} Chiesa Nuova, the church of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri.

^{Page 16 note a} Dominico Pinelli, Bishop of Fermo; Geronimo Bernier, Ord. Præd., Bishop of Ascoli, commonly called Cardinalis Asculanus; Paolo E. Sfondrati, nephew of Gregory XIV., and Francesoo G. d'Avila, a Spaniard.

^{Page 17 note} i.e. Privy Council.

^{Page 18 note a} The sentence within brackets is an after insertion.

^{Page 19 note a} Caiet. struck out.

^{Page 21 note a} Inserted.

^{Page 21 note b} Father Southwell's Supplication.

^{Page 21 note c} Leicester's Commonwealth, commonly called “Parsons'green coat,” from the green-edged paper. But see note on p. 100 infra.

^{Page 22 note a} Inserted.

^{Page 24 note a} Illegible.

^{Page 24 note b} Interlined.

^{Page 25 note a} Omitted in M.S.

^{Page 27 note a} Parker.

^{Page 28 note a} Planeta, i.e. chasuble.