^{page v note *} Tanner MS. xxxvii. 147, Bodleian Library.

^{page v note †} These appear to be the letters from Venice to Mr. Adam Newton, mentioned and quoted from in Supplementary Chapter iii. pages 103–4.

^{page v note ‡} In the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth there is a MS. (Codex 772), entitled “A Defence of the Answer to Mr. Alabaster's four Demands against a Treatise entituled ‘The Catholic's Eeply upon Bedel's (afterwards Bishop of Kilmore) Answer to Mr. Alabaster's four Demands.’” This is perhaps the Discourse here referred to. Alabaster was a pervert, but returned afterwards to the Church of England.

^{page vi note *} Before the Lord Deputy and Parliament in 1634, on the text, “Come out of her my people,” Revelation xviii. 4. This sermon Dr. Nicholas Bernard has printed in his ” Certain Discourses,“&c. (Chapter VII. p. 147,) and tells us that he heard it preached.

^{page vi note †} Archbishop Sancroft never carried out his intention of publishing the Life and Works of Bishop Bedell, probably on account of being anticipated by Burnet in 1685. The political troubles in which the Archbishop became soon after involved may have finally banished the subject from his mind.

^{page vi note ‡} William Palliser, D.D., was born in Yorkshire about 1641, but received his University education in Dublin, and became Fellow of Trinity College in 1668. He was admitted to Holy Orders in 1670, appointed Professor of Divinity in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1681, consecrated Bishop of Cloyne March 5, 1692–3, and translated to the Archbishopric of Cashel in 1694. He died January 1, 1726–7, in the 85th year of his age.

^{page vii note *} Tanner MS. xxxv. 94, Bodleian Library.

^{page vii note †} See Supplementary Chapter III. p. 104.

^{page vii note ‡} Dr. Henry Dodwell, born of English parents in Dublin in October 1641, was admitted of Trinity College in 1656, and obtained a Fellowship in 1662. This he resigned in 1666. He did not enter into Holy Orders, but in 1688 was elected Camdenian Professor of History in the Uniyersity of Oxford; refusing, however, to take the oaths to William and Mary, he was deprived three years after. He died at Shottisbrooke, June 7, 1711.

^{page vii note §} Tanner MS. xxxv. 121, Bodleian Library.

^{page vii note |} The explanation of the allusion here made by Captain Ambrose Bedell to his health will be found in Supplementary Chapter XVIII. p. 226.

^{page ix note *} In the eleventh Classical Presbytery of Suffolk, meeting at Bury, the name of Mr. William Beadle of Ratlesden occurs among the Ministers, and that of Dr. Jasper Despotine of Bury among the elders. See a 4to. Pamphlet published in London, 1647, entitled, “Novr. 5, 1645. The County of Suffolke divided into 14 Precincts for Classical Presbyteries,” &c. to be found in the British Museum Catalogue under the heading of “Suffolk.”

^{page x note *} Bedell's letters to Warde, now in the Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS., it will be found, have been made use of in the compilation of some of the Supplementary Chapters.

^{page x note †} The spelling as it stands may not, however, be exactly the same as it was in the original.