^{page 109 note a} Some words wanting here.

^{page 109 note b} The name cut out.

^{page 109 note c} This second letter and the fourth (referred to, p. 115) are unfortunately not in the Petyt collection.

^{page 109 note d} Father Parsons.

^{page 114 note a} The Conference about the next Succession, by N. Doleman (i.e., Parsons), was published in 1594. Parliament in the following year made it high treason to possess a copy.

^{page 114 note b} The writer may mean that the Six Questions on the deposing power of the Pope, extracted from, or based upon, Sanders' De Visibili Monarchia and Bristowe's Motives, and proposed to priests on their trial for alleged treason in 1582, contributed to the death of those who were then executed. No instance is known of anyone being put to death for the possession or dissemination of Sanders’ books. His De Schismate Auglicano was not printed till 1585. But William Carter. a printer, was hanged in 1584 for reprinting Dr. Gregory Martin's Treatise of Schism (see Lingard, vol. vi., Appendix, note QQ,); and Alfield, a priest, and Webley, a dyer, suffered the same penalty in 1585 for importing and distributing copies of Allen's Modest Defence. The handling of Bristowe's Motives was fatal, indeed, to both James Duckett, the printer, and Bullock, his binder, but this was in 1602, and therefore after the date of the present letter.

^{page 114 note c} Apologia pro rege Catholico, authore Didymo Veridico Henfildano (i.e., Thomas Stapleton of Henfield), Constantiæ [1592].