¹ This list was compiled and published by E. Jacoby as an appendix to Tönnies, F., Studien zur Philosophie und Gesellschaftslehre im 17. Jahrhundert, ed. Jacoby, E. (Stuttgart, 1975).Google Scholar I am grateful to Dr Jacoby for sending me a copy of this appendix. Omitted from it is a letter from Hobbes to Edmund Waller dated Rouen, 8 August 1645; cf. Wikelund, P., ‘“Thus I passe my time in this place”: an unpublished letter of Thomas Hobbes’, English Language Notes, vi, 4 (1969).Google Scholar A number of Hobbes's letters remain unpublished and there must be others which still exist undiscovered in various archives. I can only endorse Dr Jacoby's proposal for a complete edition of Hobbes's correspondence.

² For Scudamore, cf. D.N.B., s.v. and Trevor-Roper, H. R., Archbishop Laud (London, 1940)Google Scholar, passim. Besides the Scudamore papers in the British Museum there are others in the Public Record Office, Chancery, Master's Exhibits, duchess of Norfolk Deeds (C115). I have been informed in a letter from Mr D. L. Thomas of the Search Department of the P.R.O. that the register of these documents contains no reference to any correspondence to or from Hobbes. I have not been able to investigate these papers but it might be worth doing so in the hope that the register is incomplete.

³ Cf. D.N.B., s.v., ‘William Cavendish, third earl of Devonshire.’

⁴ Hobbes, T., English works, ed. Molesworth, W. (11 vols., London, 1839–1845), iv.Google Scholar This was first printed with a slightly different title in 1662; cf. Macdonald, H. and Hargreaves, M., Thomas Hobbes: a bibliography (London, 1952, pp. 49–50).Google Scholar Molesworth reprints the 1680 edition.

⁵ Ibid. iv, 414.

⁶ Thomas Hobbes…Vita carmine expressa, 1681, in Latin works, ed. Molesworth, W. (5 vols., London, 1839–1845), i, xcGoogle Scholar; cf. also his prose Vita, 1681, ibid. i, v.

⁷ Mersenne, Marin, Correspondance, ed. de Waard, C. (12 vols., Paris, 1932–1972), x, 210.Google Scholar

⁸ Cf. Zagorin, P., The court and the country (N.Y., 1970), pp. 207, 209.Google Scholar

⁹ Cf. Skinner, Quentin, ‘Thomas Hobbes and his disciples in France and England’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, viii (1965–1966).Google Scholar

¹⁰ Mersenne, M., op. cit. viii, 359 n.Google Scholar, contains some details on du Bosc, who ‘assura souvent les communications entre Français et Anglais…’; de Sorbière, S., Lettres et discours…sur diverses matières curieuses (Paris, 1660), letters 29–30.Google Scholar

¹¹ Quentin Skinner, “Thomas Hobbes and his disciples”.

¹² I have extended the contractions in the text but otherwise made no alterations.

¹³ Hobbes's ‘my Lord’ is William Cavendish, third earl of Devonshire. He must have arrived in London after attending the Council of Peers called by Charles I at York between 24 September and 28 October 1640 to deal with the emergency created by the Scottish Covenanters' invasion of England.

¹⁴ Obviously Hobbes kept clear of Scudamore for a time to make sure that he had not caught the plague.