^{page i note a} In MS. “and pu in 1778.” Amongst Mr. Nichols's notes there is the copy of the title-page of the “Meditations on the twenty-fifth Psalm.” But I have not seen it, and as it is not mentioned here I conclude that it does not contain the title.—S. R. G.

^{page i note b} From some unaccountable misapprehension the biographer of 1701 calls him “Mr. Robert Murray” instead of Thomas; an error which is followed by Ballard and his copyists.

^{page ii note a} Five(?) years of age.—MS.

^{page ii note b} Rymer's Fœdera, xvi. 631.

^{page ii note c} See p. 19.

^{page iii note a} Surtees's History of Durham, i. 142. [The date is not given here, but it is stated that his predecessor died in Dec. 1608].

^{page iii note b} See the Life of Hakewill in Wood, Athense Oxon. (edit. Bliss) iii. 254.

^{page iii note c} Letter of Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton [Aug. 10, 1622] in Court and Times of James I. ii. 325.

^{page iv note a} In MS. “Archbishop Williams took the occasion to write to the Duke (?) of Buckingham conveying a remonstrance that the Prorostship should have been conferred upon a layman.”—Williams's Letter is in Cabala, 264.

^{page iv note b} The biographer of 1701, from some other manuscript of Lady Halkett, supplies several anecdotes of her childhood; but they are of trifling importance and no historical interest.

^{page v note a} Life, 1701, p. 15.

^{page viii note a} This date of the year is placed in the margin of the original MS. but was omitted by the transcriber.

^{page ix note a} Shafto (?) of Benwill (?).

^{page xi note a} Life, 1701, p. 22.

^{page xv note a} Mr. Nichols had written “this was the last time that Anne Murray saw him.” But see the next page.