^{page 343 note 1} Transactions of the Royal Historical Society for 1884, p. 190 et seq.

^{page 343 note 2} Vide Appendix, ‘Pedigree of the Stuarts.’ The descent from Banquo is purely mythical.

^{page 344 note 1} Vide Appendix, Tudor and Cromwell Pedigrees.

^{page 344 note 2} Richard Cromwell.

^{page 348 note 1} Bacon, History of Henry VII.

^{page 351 note 1} History of English Literature, Van Latin's Translation.

^{page 351 note 2} History of the Reformation, book xix. chap. i. page 770, White's Translation (revised by the author).

^{page 352 note 1} Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada.

^{page 353 note 1} Quoted on the authority of Cavendish in Craik and Macfarlane's Pictorial History of England, vol. ii. book vi. chap. i. page 373, and in Guizot's History of England, chap. xvi. page 49.

^{page 353 note 2} History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Appendix to vol. ii. ‘Fresh Evidence about Anne Boleyn,’ page 600.

^{page 354 note 1} Vide Froude's ‘Fresh Evidence about Anne Boleyn.’ If Chapuys's letters to the Emperor prove anything, they prove conclusively that but for their relationship to Charles both Queen Catharine and Mary would have been put out of the way.

^{page 357 note 1} Henry IV., part I, act ii. sc. 4.

^{page 357 note 2} Ibid., act v.sc. 1.

^{page 358 note 1} Vide Appendix, Stuart pedigree.

^{page 358 note 2} Vide Appendix, Cromwell pedigree.

^{page 359 note 1} For there is a certain (definite) ebb and flow in (the mental development of) families of men, as indeed there is in that of nations; and sometimes, if the family be a talented one, (a succession of) eminent men arise in it for a certain period; and then a backward movement takes place.

^{page 360 note 1} P. E. Dove, in the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, calls him ‘the apostle of religious toleration’.

^{page 364 note 1} E.g. ‘The family character seems to be owing partly to the physical connection’ (Smith, Adam, Moral Sentiments, p. 306)Google Scholar. Mr. Maiden himself, even when opposing this view, gives unconscious support to it by speaking of Plantagenet characteristics.

^{page 369 note 1} Ievan ap Morgan ap Ievan is said to have been descended in a direct male line (tenth in descent) from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, King of Powys, and thus in the female line from Rhodri Mawr, King of Wales in the ninth century.

^{page 369 note 2} It is uncertain who this lady was. She is called in Burke Anne Cromwell, but Cromwell appears to have had only two sisters, Elizabeth and Katherine, the former being married to William Wellyfed. His wife's sister was married to a Wyllyams alias Williamson, and had a Richard. (Vide Thomas Cromwell's will.)