^{page 5 note *} For the loan of this cut the Society is indebted to John Evans, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A.

^{page 13 note *} It forms one of the most valuable collections of autographs, as well as one of the most interesting historical records, anywhere to be met with. I should like to say, in passing, how much it is to be wished that Mr. Coote (than whom no one is more competent) would undertake the editing of this volume, and thus complete the work attempted with so much success by his distinguished father, Dr. Coote, in his privately printed “Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Eminent English Civilians” (London, 1804). The volume is in the fitting custody of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in Lambeth Palace Library.—Trans. Royal S. Lit. xii. 165.

^{page 14 note *} Civilians. Law Mag. August 1863. Article by Mr. H. C. Coote.

^{page 15 note *} Cal. State Papers by Mrs. Green, Jac. I. p. 11.

^{page 16 note *} Cal. of State Papers by Mrs. Green, Jac. I. p. 496.

page 16 note † Auditors' Patent Books, vol. xii. (i. in index) fo. 25.

page 16 note ‡ Auditors' Patent Books, vol. xv. (iv. in Index) p. 47.

^{page 17 note *} Coote. Civilians.

page 17 note † Dr. Coote, p. 82.

page 17 note ‡ Coote. Civilians.

page 17 note § Auditors' Patent Rolls, vol. xxiv. (xiii. in Index) p. 126.

page 17 note ‖ H. C. Coote, in Law Magazine, loc. cit.

page 17 note ¶ Dr. Coote, p. 106.

^{page 18 note *} So Dr. Coote, who says he was appointed Advocate General and knighted by Queen Anne in 1710. The date of the patent in the Auditors' Books is Jan. 13, 1715.

page 18 note † Dr. Coote, p. 107.

page 18 note ‡ Dr. Coote, p. 108.

^{page 19 note *} Auditors' Books, vol. xxxvi. (xxv.) p. 185.

page 19 note † Coote, p. 116.

page 19 note ‡ Auditors' Books, vol. xxxvii. (xxvi.) p. 236.

page 19 note § Auditors' Books, vol. xxxviii. (xxvii.) p. 167.

page 19 note ‖ Auditors' Books, vol. xl. (xxix.) p. 94.

^{page 20 note *} Auditors' Books, vol. xlii. (xxxi.) p. 85.

page 20 note † Auditors' Books vol. xlvi. (xxxv.) p. 263.