^{page 3 note 1} Strype, Grindal, p. 171. All these insertions in small type are additions by the editor to the original text, so that it may be as Complete as possible.

^{page 3 note 2} Strype, Annals, i. pt. i. 59.

^{page 3 note 3} Waddington, Congregationalism, ii. 743. From the original MS. at the R. O. Also see Strype, Grindal, pp. 169, 200.

^{page 3 note 4} Strype, Grindal, p. 226. Heylin, Aerius Redivivus, Bk. vi. sect. 36.

^{page 4 note 1} Strype, Annals, ii. pt. i. 133. See also Dedham, Orders, p. 99.

^{page 4 note 2} Wandesworth Puritans to the Bishop's chaplain, MS. register, quoted by Waddington, Congregationalism, iii. 7.

^{page 5 note 1} For biographical notes concerning these and other names in this volume consult the alphabetical list in the Introduction.

^{page 5 note 2} All depositions taken 1590, except Johnson, to the contrary. See Whitgift, iii. 272. But the articles of the Warwick Synod, attested genuine by a MS. Copy found by Strype (see p. 17) and the ‘ Minute Book,’ prove that it was not only voted but put in operation. See also letters, Paine to Lloyd, Strype, Whitgift, ii. 18.

^{page 6 note 1} Strype, Whitgift, iii. 33.

^{page 6 note 2} Lansdowne MSS. 17, f. 55. Original, signed.

^{page 6 note 3} Heylin, Aerius Redivivus, Bk. vii. sect. 8.

^{page 6 note 4} Strype, Grindal, p. 320. On authority of original official correspondence; he gives no details.

^{page 6 note 5} Strype, Annals, iii. pt. i. 31.

^{page 7 note 1} Heylin, Aerius Redivivus, Bk. vii. sect. 35.

^{page 7 note 2} ‘Pig to Field, 16 of May, 1582,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 7 note 3} ‘ Pig to Field,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 7 note 4} Here follow the decrees, which being long and well known have been omitted. They are printed in Fuller, Bk. ix. sect. 5; Heylin, Aerius Redivivus, Bk. vii. sect. 33, a little changed; and Neal, Puritans, i. 278, dated wrongly 1576. Begins, ‘ Let no man though he be an university man ; ’ ends,‘ at some certain time every year.’

^{page 8 note 1} ‘ Gelibrand to Fieia,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 9 note 1} The names are not given by Bancroft, but they are in Stone's Deposition (Fuller, Bk. ix. sect. 7)—‘Travers, Charke, Egerton, Gardener, Barber, Brown, Somerscales, Cartwright, Chatterton, Gyfford, Allen, Edmunds, Gyllybrand, Culverwell, Oxenbridge, Barbon, Fludd, Stone.’

^{page 9 note 2} This was probably from the Braintree Classis, showing that they had at least eleven members. See supra, p. xxix; but cf. p. 98.

^{page 9 note 3} ‘ Abroad’ in the sense of ‘ in the country.’

^{page 9 note 4} ‘Field to Travers. 3. Iulie. 1585,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 10 note 1} ‘ Gelibrand to Fieia, Nov. 9, 1585,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 10 note 2} ‘ Gelibrand to Field, Jan. 30, 1585,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 10 note 3} ‘ Gelibrand to Field,’ 1586, Bancroft's Note.

^{page 10 note 4} Lansdowne MSS. 46, f. 132, holograph.

^{page 10 note 5} Lansdowne MSS. 50, f. 89, holograph. Maldon was the town where Gifford was the leader.

^{page 11 note 1} Barbar's Deposition, 1590. Strype, Whitgift, iii. 274. Omitted by Bancroft because they add nothing to the proof.

^{page 11 note 2} According to Stone's Deposition, ‘Chatterton and others of Cambridge, Cartwright, Gyflord, Allen, Snape, Fludde, Stone ’ (Fuller, Bk. ix. sect. 7).

^{page 11 note 3} ‘ M. Johnson. So in effect. M. Littleton, M. Sharpe,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 11 note 4} For these names, as for all others, see Introduction.

^{page 12 note 1} ‘ M. Snape reporteth as much, as Edward Smith, Ri: Hawgar, et. Ri: Holm haue deposed,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 12 note 2} ‘ M. Snape and M. Littleton doe likewise herin agree with M. Johnson.’ Confirmed by the ‘ Minute Book.’

^{page 12 note 3} ‘ M. Litleton deposeth as much,’ Bancroft's Note. See also the agreement of the Dedham Classis, p. 25.

^{page 13 note 1} ‘ The like M. Sharpe of Dauentry Classis,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 13 note 1} Probably Chatterton.

^{page 14 note 1} ‘ M. Sharpe to the same purpose of Dauentrie Classis,’ Bancroft's Note. Confirmed by ‘ Minute Book,’ p. 36. See Deposition in Strype, Whitgift, iii. 275.

^{page 14 note 2} ‘ Abroad’ in the sense (as before) of ‘ in the country.’ or in other parts of England.

^{page 14 note 3} Johnson.

^{page 14 note 4} Probably the long MSS. printed by Davids was this survey for Essex. To it we are indebted for most of our knowledge of the Essex ministers. Davids, Nonconformity

^{page 15 note 1} Put into effect at Dedham, pp. 50, 56, infra.

^{page 15 note 2} Compare the case of Huckle and others in the ‘ Charge against Snape,’ Strype, Whitgift, ii. 12, and infra, p. 73.

^{page 16 note 1} See letters and papers from or by these ministers, infra, pp. 94, 98.

^{page 16 note 2} This is the Classis whose record we have in the ‘ Minute Book.’

^{page 16 note 3} See p. xxviii for a collection of such statements.

^{page 17 note 1} Strype, Annals, iii. pt. ii. 477–479, in Latin. Not given by Bancroft.

^{page 17 note 2} These are given in Strype, Whitgift, i. 555, from an original copy from Wright's study, dated ‘ 1588 die decimo 4ti,’ i.e. 10 June, 1588. Also in Fuller, Bk. ix. sect. vii. 194. Cleuely and Cartwright declared that these were not ‘resolved,’ but ‘merely discussed.’—Whitgift, iii. 254–5, 275.

^{page 18 note 1} This form is (infra, p. 92) that signed by the Dedham Classis, being identical with the one given by Bancroft (tract, p. 110) as the one signed generally. See other forms in Neal, v. 292, and Strype, Whitgift, i. 502.

^{page 18 note 2} See ibid. iii. 276. Also by their own confession Edward Lord and Andrew King, ibid. iii. 247.

^{page 18 note 3} Neal gives (i. 471) a very long list of those who signed the Book, and states that the signatures numbered in all five hundred, of which he only gives a part. This, with some misgivings, I have accepted in making up my count of the ministers connected with the movement.

^{page 18 note 4} The Government probably had the original documents signed. Wee Strype, Whitgift, iii. 239. Confirmed by the ‘ Minute Book.’

^{page 19 note 1} Perkins also so deposed, Whitgift, iii. 275. When questioned by the Government, the Head and Fellows of St. John's denied any such‘ Presbytery,’ ibid. ii. 56–8.

^{page 19 note 2} Johnson and Barker.

^{page 19 note 3} This was stringently and flatly denied by all concerned. But there can be little doubt that there was much referring of matters to each other, called, however, the ‘ taking of opinions,’ the ‘ asking their advice.’

^{page 20 note 1} Thomas Cartwright, a very ordinary way of reference to him.

^{page 20 note 2} Snape to Barbon,‘ Aprill 11, 1590,’‘ and to Stone,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 20 note 3} ‘ Stone Dep. in Star Chamber,’ Bancroft's Note.

^{page 21 note 1} The decision is not given. The tract goes on at some length to give an account of Cartwright's trial, and many arguments to show that the denials of those examined that they had not done what was charged were but subterfuge of playing with words.