^{Page 29 note a} According to W. C. in his Replie to Parsons' Manifestation : “They had but one onely passport, and that of Banishment, that is the full truth therein. Some of the company beeing stayed at Dover, contrary to their expectation, they were enforced to send back to London: and thereupon procured a note to the searchers and officers there, that they should passe freely, without search, with such things as they had to carry with them.” f.78.

^{Page 30 note a} Francis Barnaby. See Replic unto a certain Libcell, by W.C., ol. 78.

^{Page 31 note *} At this point occurs a marginal note, added subsequently, it seems, by the same hand: “Here the Spanish Ambassador of the lowe cuntrey did expostulate wth the nuncio for hauinge conference wth the same preists, being but the spies of the Queene of England.”

^{Page 31 note a} MS. torn.

^{Page 31 note †} Here there is another marginal note (same hand) : “Here maye come in the Second Appeale of the preists of England.”

^{Page 35 note a} ‘Hebdomada, casta, ineuntis Quadragesimæ hebd. dioebatur.’ Duoange.

^{Page 39 note a} Inserted above the line.

^{Page 39 note b} James Archer of Kilkenny was a very bellicose Jesuit indeed. He took an

^{Page 40 note a} There were four priests executed in England during the stay of the Appellants at Rome, besides two laymen, one of whom was hanged for assisting or harbouring a priest, and the other for selling Catholic, books. But these executions, which were in no way exceptional, can hardly be attributed to the cause suggested in the text.