^{page 19 note 1} Rhombus is a pedantic schoolmaster (something like the Holofernes of Shakespeare) who is introduced in Philip Sidney's dramatic entertainment, The Lady of May, 1578. The play is printed at the end of many of the editions of Sidney's Arcadia.

^{page 20 note 1} A proclamation for a general thanksgiving for the stay of the late fearful visitation of the plague appeared January 22, 1625–6. Cal. S.P. Dom., 1625–6, 231.

^{page 22 note 1} A name for a sword used in romances. Nares, Glossary, ii, 582.

^{page 23 note 1} John Felton murdered Buckingham, August 23, 1628.

^{page 24 note 1} James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, married 1st Honora Denny, d. of Sir Edward Denny cr. Baron Denny of Waltham 1604 and Earl of Norwich 1626; 2nd, Lucy, 2nd d. of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, who said that he “could not endure that his daughter should dance any Scotoh jigs.”

^{page 25 note 1} Carlisle obtained the grant of the Caribee Islands, July 2, 1627.Lucas, , Historical Geography of the Colonies, ii, 170Google Scholar.

^{page 25 note 2} Afterwards James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle.

^{page 25 note 3} Diego Sarmiento de Acuna, Count of Gondomar, Spanish Ambassador in England temp. Jas. I.

^{page 25 note 4} The “verses ” were Peele's Sonnet on Sir Harry Leigh, Works, ed. Bullen, ii, 302.

^{page 28 note 1} 24th November, 1630. Cf. Gardiner, History of England, 1603–1642, vii, 139–41.

^{page 28 note 2} John Cosin, afterwards Bishop of Durham, published in 1627 a “Collection of Private Devotions.”

^{page 28 note 3} Lives of the Queens of England, ed. 1845, viii, 58.

^{page 28 note 4} James, Duke of York, was allowed a Roman Catholic nurse. Strafford Letters, i, 141.

^{page 29 note 1} A game played with “a large inflated ball of strong double leather, struck to and fro by the arm defended by a bracer of wood.” New English Dictionary, i. 641.

^{page 29 note 2} 1631. See Court and Times of Charles the First, ii, 139–140.

^{page 29 note 3} Sir John Finet, 1571–1641, Master of the Ceremonies.

^{page 29 note 4} This is an error. John Lambe, an astrologer, whose chief client was Buckingham, died from the injuries inflicted by London apprentices on 24th June, 1628.

^{page 29 note 5} i.e. quickly. Shakespeare uses the word in The Tempest, Act i, scene 1.

^{page 29 note 6} A slip for Sir Oliver Fleming, diplomatist and Master of the Ceremonies. Somers Tracts, ed. Scott, vii, p. 499.

^{page 30 note 1} Dr. Isaac Bargrave.

^{page 30 note 2} Blank in MS. The name was supplied from Hasted's History of Kent, iv, 188–9.

^{page 30 note 3} September 7, 1632. Capt. Henry Stradling to Nicholas. Returned the 6th inst. into the Downs from Flushing where he was commanded to land Mr, Boswell. Cal. S.P. Dom., 1631–3, 412,

^{page 31 note 1} Elizabeth, d. of James I, married Frederick V., Elector and Prince Palatine of the Rhine, titular King of Bohemia.

^{page 31 note 2} Frederick Henry.

^{page 31 note 3} There is another account of this incident which may be a rough draft in Rawl. MSS., D. 1035, f. 3.

^{page 31 note 4} i.e. start.

^{page 32 note 1} i.e. Bamfort.

^{page 32 note 2} Johnson was dismissed in 1644 at the request of the English Parliament. Everett-Green, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, revised ed. 1909, 363–4.

^{page 33 note 1} Presumably Flagellum Pontificis, a Latin treatise, printed in Holland 1633–4, in favour of Presbyterianism, for which Bastwick was fined £1,000 by the Star Chamber.

^{page 33 note 2} Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, 1585–1646, was sent on a mission of condolence to Elizabeth of Bohemia in December 1632, on her husband's death. Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, 303–5.

^{page 33 note 3} See the article on Vane in the Dict. Nat. Biog.

^{page 36 note 1} He died August, 1645.

^{page 37 note 1} Rhymberque surrendered 2 June, 1633. This campaign is described in Commelyn, Histoire de Frederic Henry, Amsterdam, 1656, pp. 222–230.

^{page 37 note 2} Not preserved.

^{page 38 note 1} The well known Stephen Goffe.

^{page 40 note 1} John Philipot, Somerset Herald. On July 25—August 4, 1633, the Electoral Prince, Charles Lewis, was presented with the Garter, see Ashmole MSS., 1113, f. 120 (Bodleian Library).

^{page 44 note 1} Basil, Lord Feilding (afterwards 2nd Earl of Denbigh) appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to Venice 14 September, 1634.

^{page 45 note 1} Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter,

^{page 46 note 1} Anne, d. of Richard Weston, Earl of Portland. She died 10 March, 1635.

^{page 46 note 2} Tobias Rustat, whose life is recorded in the Dict. Nat. Biog.

^{page 50 note 1} William Raymond, M.A. and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1640. Catalogue of the Graduates in the University of Dublin, 478.

^{page 50 note 2} He died between November 1636 and February 1637. Denbigh MSS., v. 47; but cf. Catalogue of the Clarendon State Papers, i, 126, 160.

^{page 51 note 1} Delicate piece=pretty woman. Venetia Stanley, perhaps the most famous of the lovely women who stooped to folly in the latter years of the reign of James I, married Sir Kenelm Digby secretly in 1625.

^{page 51 note 2} Evidently Rowlandson, secretary of Legation.

^{page 52 note 1} In July, 1648.

^{page 55 note 1} There are eight letters from Gordon to Feilding written about this time, some when Gordon was in Italy, in Denbigh MSS., v.

^{page 59 note 1} i.e. a garret.

^{page 59 note 2} Folios 89–104, which follow in the MS., have been here omitted. The two annexed fragments are from the same MS. Volume.

^{page 60 note 1} This account is confirmed by an order of the Council of State, 24 August, 1659, “on the petitions of Edward Heath and Thos. Drinkwater, that the Committee for Examinations examine the said persons and report.” Cal. S.P. Dom., 1659–60 141.

^{page 61 note 1} John Ireton, who became Lord Mayor 9 November, 1658.