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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The manuscript from which the accompanying extracts are made came into my possession by purchase about eleven years ago. I know nothing whatever of its history, except what is disclosed by a pencil note in a modern hand on the inside of the first board of the cover. This memorandum states that the book came “From Lord Somers' Library, having passed into his private Secretary's possession, & from him to his family.” As this statement is unsigned, and as I have been unable to identify the hand-writing, I know not what amount of trust to place in it. The first page of the table of contents has upon it the signature of “Wm Milbourne.” It seems about a century old.
page 1 note a A clerical error for xvijth.
page 3 note a Bruce, Cal. Stat. Pap. Dom. 1628, x. p. 142.
page 5 note a Omitted in orig. The passage is given as follows in the Luttrell copy: But wth all hee adds not abroade, but at home.
page 5 note b MS. Lutt.
page 5 note c MS. Lutt.
page 5 note d Lutt. MS.
page 5 note e The Lutt. MS. has Holmes. I have not much doubt that this is the correct reading. There was at that period a noted Puritan divine named Nathaniel Holmes or Homes, a sketch of whose career may be seen in Wood's Athenæ Oxon. sub nom. He cannot have been the person whom Mr. Burgess ejected from the pulpit, for, far from being an aged man, he was at this time but twenty-nine years of age. It is possible that it may have been his father, George Holmes, minister of Kingswood, co. Gloucester, who suffered this affront.
page 7 note a Thus, Lutt. MS.
page 8 note a As a specimen of the errors that creep even into carefully executed manuscripts, it may be well to note that the Luttrell copy makes worse than nonsense of the above by reading picture for lecture. A picture was about the last thing a rigid Puritan of those days would “sett vpp.” A few years after, at the beginning of the Scottish Civil War, while Montrose was yet a Covenanter, Jamestone's portrait of the provost of Aberdeen was removed from the session-house as “savouring of Popery.” I. Hill Burton's Scot Abroad, v. ii. p. 326.