^{page vi note a} Forster's Grand Remonstrance, p. 91, ed. 1860.

^{page vii note a} I am the more particular in stating these provisions, because the power given to the King by this Act of Parliament, of limiting the ultimate succession to the crown in default of issue of his children, has been unaccountably overlooked by Blackstone (Comm. lib. i. cap. 8.), and, so far as I have observed, by all his editors, and by the many writers who have depended upon his accuracy.

^{page xi note a} Hallam, Const. Hist. i. 389 ; and see a Treatise on the State of England by Wilson. [Dom. Corr. State Paper Office, 1600.] Wilson was contented with twelve claimants.

^{page xi note b} Works, vol. vi. p. 312, of the admirable edition of Mr. Spedding.

^{page xvi note a} Bacon's Works, vi. 300, ed. Montagu.

^{page xvi note b} Ibid. p. 251

^{page xix note a} State Paper Office, Domestic, 1601, Match 25.

^{page xxi note a} Cuffe, Appendix, p. 86.

^{page xxiii note a} Appendix, p. 97.

^{page xxiv note a} Danvers, pp. 103, 104.

^{page xxv note a} The expression is Sir Robert Cecil's (State Paper Office, Dom. Feb. 13, 1600–1), but was applied by him to the suspicious scrutiny with which the proceedings of Essex were watched in Ireland.

^{page xxvi note a} “A Discoverie of the unnatural and traiterous Conspiracie of Scottish Papists against God and his Church … set down as it was confessed by Maister George Ker and David Graham of Feutrie.” Lond. 4 to. 1593. The book related to the conspiracy known as that of the “Spanish Blanks.”

^{page xxvii note a} Peyton, Appendix, p. 81.

^{page xxix note a} Their first instructions written before that event have not been found.

^{page xxxi note a} Lord Hailes's Secret Correspondence, pp. 9, 10.

^{page xxxii note a} Jardine's Criminal Trials, i. 353.

^{page xxxii note a} Jardine's Criminal Trials, i. 353.

^{page xxxvii note a} Hume, cap. xlv.

^{page xxxix note a} Reliq. Wotton. p. 169, cd. 1672.

^{page xl note a} Chamberlain's Letters during the reign of Elizabeth, edited by Miss Williams for the Camden Society, pp. 151, 154.

^{page xli note a} Coilins's Sydney Papers, ii. 326.

^{page xli note b} In describing and identifying these seals, I have had the great advantage of the assistance of Thomas William King, Esq., York Herald. His perfect acquaintance with all heraldic subjects, and the zeal with which he aids literary inquirers, cannot be too frequently commemorated.

^{page xliii note a} Ireland, State Paper Office, 1600, Feb. 1.

^{page xliv note a} Lodge's Peerage, ed. Archdall, iii. 1; and Strype's Life of Sir Thomas Smith, p. 137.

^{page xliv note b} Court and Times of Charles I., ii. 89.

^{page xliv note c} Court and Times, ii. 89, 90. Fullerton's punning epitaph was, I suppose, written by Puller.

^{page xliv note d} Bishop Goodman says that “the correspondency was ever sent by the French post, and not by Berwick,” which seems more improbable than the asserted transmission by way of Ireland. The Bishop follows this statement with a singular perversion of the story quoted at p. xxxix. from Wotton. It is evident that he had not any accurate information upon the subject. (Court of James I. i. 32.)

^{page xlv note a} Scotland, State Paper Office, Dec. 15, 1559. Nicolson to Cecil.

^{page xlv note b} The Bond entered into by the Scottish nobility attracted little attention in England, although well enough known. Chamberlain notices it as an article of news in a letter to Dudley Carleton, dated 22 Feb. 1600. See Chamberlain's Letters during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, edited by Miss Williams for the Camden Society, p. 66.

^{page xlvii note a} Prince Henry.

^{page xlviii note a} Ellis's Letters, 2nd Ser. iii. 194.

^{page xlviii note b} Hatfield MSS. vol. xcii. No. 19.

^{page xlix note a} Hatfield MSS. vol. xcii. No. 18 (2).

^{page xlix note b} Ibid. No. 33.

^{page l note a} Hatfield MSS. Vol. xcii. No. 42.

^{page l note b} Ibid. No. 43.

^{page l note c} Ibid. No. 46.

^{page li note a} Hatfield MSS. Vol. xcii. No. 47.

^{page li note b} Ibid. No. 47 (2).

^{page lii note a} Hatfield MSS. Vol. xcii. No. 58.

^{page liii note a} Hatfield MSS. Vol. xcii. No. 65.