^{page 115 note a} Acarisio. Parsons calls him “Signor Acaritius Squarsiontus, Canon of St. John Laterans” (Apologie, f, 121).

^{page 116 note a} The edge of the MS. for a few lines hence mutilated or discoloured.

^{page 118 note a} Or perhaps “faind.” The writing is not clear.

^{page 119 note a} These letters are printed in Parsons’ Briefe Apologie, ff, 125–127.

^{page 121 note a} Compare Puncta Principalia, infra, p. 126.

^{page 121 note b} Upon this matter see “An Answear of Mr. Doctor Bagshaw to certayne pointes of a libell,” &c, printed in Dr. Ely's Certaine Briefe Notes, p. 331.

^{page 122 note a} The affair of Squiers’ plot and his alleged connection with F. Walpole is fully discussed by Dr. Jessopp in his One Generation of a Norfolk House, pp. 290–297, Squiers declared that he had a letter from Walpole for Bagshaw but that he (Squiers) had thrown it into the sea. The Council, believing that Bagshaw was implicated in the supposed plot, summoned him from Wisbeeh to London for examination, Oct. 1598. See also Jesuits and Seculars, p. Ixxix.