Diary of John Rous

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^{page 1 note ab} The Admiral, Edward Cecill, lord Wimbledon, having a large fleet under his command, and meeting with little opposition, was much blamed for not doing more execution. Rushworth, pt. i. p. 196.

^{page 2 note a} Landguard or Langer Fort, near Harwich. See Rushworth, pt. i. p. 195.

^{page 2 note b} See the Petition of the Commons against recusants, with the king's Answers, in Rushworth, vol. i. pp. 181–6. Also Fœdera, Hague edit. vol. viii. pt. i. pp. 128,189.

^{page 2 note c} The others were sir Robert Philips and sir Thomas Wentworth. The office of high sheriff incapacitated the person from becoming member of Parliament so long as he held it, and was therefore a penalty to those who were ambitious of parliamentary distinction.

^{page 3 note a} Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Esme Stuart, duke of Lennox. For particulars of this love-match, see Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. pp. 86, 90.

^{page 3 note b} See Rushworth, pt. i. pp. 363 et seq.

^{page 3 note c} See Rushworth, pt. i. pp. 371–4. Here follow the Articles presented by the earl of Bristol against lord Conway and the duke of Buckingham, which it is not thought desirable to reprint, they being already printed in Rushworth, pt. i. pp. 264–6, and elsewhere.

^{page 4 note a} Printed in Fœdera, vol. viii. pt.ii. p. 65 ; date 17th June, 1626.

^{page 5 note a} Rushworth, pt. i. p. 412 ; Fœdera, -vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 64, date 16th June, 1626.

^{page 5 note b} Richard Montagu, afterwards Bishop of Norwich and Chichester. His books are entitled, “A Gagg for the new Gospell ? No; a New Gagg for an Old Goose, or an Answer to a late Abridgment of Controversies and Belyar of the Protestants' Doctrine.” 4to. London, 1624; and, “Appello Csesarem, A Just Appeale from Two Unjust Informers.” Lond. 1625.

^{page 5 note c} In a quarto pamphlet of 236 pages, entitled “An Examination of those things wherein the Author of the late Appeale holdeth the Doctrines of the Pelagians and Arminians to be the Doctrines of the Church of England.” 4to. Lond. 1626.

^{page 5 note d} Francis Rous: “Doctrine of King James, of the Church of England, and of the Catholic Church, shewed to be the same in Points of Predestination, Freewill, and Certainty of Salvation.” 4to. Lond. 1626.

^{page 5 note e} “Ibis ad Cæsarem ; or, an Answer to Mr. Montagu's Appeal in the Points of Arminianism and Popery against the Doctrine of the Church of England.” 4to. Lond. 1626.

^{page 5 note f} “A Plea to an Appeal traversed dialoguewise.” 4to. Lond. 1626.

^{page 5 note g} Matthew Sutcliffe : “Unmasking of a Masse-monger, or a Vindication of St. Augustine's Confessions from the Calumnies of a late Apostate.” 4to. Lond. 1626.

^{page 5 note g} Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 65, date 18th June, 1626.

^{page 6 note a} Thomas Rogers : “The Faith, Doctrine, and Religion professed and protected in the realme of England, expressed in xxxix Articles, the said Articles analysed, with Propositions, and the Propositions proved to be agreeable both to the written Word of God, and to the Confessions of all the neighbour Churches Christianly reformed.” 4to. Lond. 1629.

^{page 6 note b} Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. i. p. 86; date 18 June, 1625. It might probably be re-issued this year in the same form.

^{page 6 note c} It was for the 5th of July in town, and August 2nd in the country. See Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 68; date June 30, 1626.

^{page 6 note d} “Vox Populi, or Newes from Spayne,” 1620, the Second part, 1624, by Thomas Scott, B.D. English minister at Utrecht. The account of his death was published in “A Briefe Relation of the Murder of Mr. Thomas Scott, Preacher of God's Word and Bachelor of Divinity, committed by John Lambert, soldier of the garrison of Utrecht, the 18th of June, 1626.” 4to. Lond. 1628. See also Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. p. 123.

^{page 7 note a} Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 94 ; date 22nd Sept. 1626.

^{page 7 note b} This is the nephew of the diarist, son of his elder brother Thomas.

^{page 7 note c} He was defeated by Tilly, Aug. 27th.

^{page 7 note 11} A false report; the story of Wallenstein's murder in 1634 is too well known to need an allusion.

^{page 8 note a} His name was Galtier, but this was not his real offence. See Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. pp. 183, 186, 189, 190.

^{page 8 note b} See Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. pp. 119, 182.

^{page 8 note c} Stilo nostro : the old style.

^{page 8 note d} There are other readings of this popular skit:—

Learned Cooke and Montagu,

Grave Leigh, and honest Crew,

Two preferred, two set aside,

Then starts up sir Nicholas Hyde.

Another has—

Learned Coke, curt Montagu,

The aged Leigh, and honest Crew.

See Court, &c. of Charles I. vol. i. p. 199; and Yonge's Diary, p. 100.

Sir Edward Coke and sir Randolph Crewe were both displaced during the reign of James I. Sir Henry Montagu, afterwards earl of Manchester, had been made lord president of the council by that king, and sir James Ley, afterwards earl of Marlborough, lord high treasurer.

^{page 9 note a} Of his ships being seized as prizes. Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 156 ; date 4th March, 1626–7. The proclamation prohibits the furnishing the Spaniards with provisions or munition of war.

^{page 10 note a} See Fœdera, vol, viii. pt. ii. p. 134.

^{page 10 note b} Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 175, 12th May, 1627.

^{page 10 note c} See Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. pp. 221, 228 ; and Yonge's Diary, p. 105. These prizes were sold by the King to Burlamachi for 150,000l.

^{page 11 note a} Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 191, date 27th June, 1627.

^{page 11 note b} Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 207, date 18th August, 1627.

^{page 11 note c} Ibid. p. 213, date 12th October, 1627.

^{page 11 note d} In Gillcross hundred, co. Norfolk.

^{page 11 note e} “Mastes” in MS.

^{page 14 note a} Duke of Buckingham.

^{page 14 note b} See “The Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell,” published in the second volume of the Camden Miscellany.

^{page 14 note c} The diarist here inserts the King's speech and other speeches in parliament, which are printed in Rushworth.

^{page 15 note a} On the river Deben, co. Suffolk.

^{page 15 note b} Blank in MS.

^{page 16 note a} Rushworth, pt. i. p. 613.

^{page 16 note b} Ibid. p. 610.

^{page 16 note c} The Sloane MS. 826, p. 118, gives a brief digest similar to the present, but the 3rd article is “The feare of foreign designs.”

^{page 17 note a} The reference is to the articles against lord Conway and the duke; see p. 3, note c.

^{page 17 note b} Heads of the Remonstrance, p. 16.

^{page 17 note c} See Rushworth, pt. 1, p. 618.

^{page 17 note d} Two obnoxious sermons were preached on the 4th and 29th July, 1627, and afterwards published. They were suppressed by proclamation 24th June, 1628. The proceedings of parliament against Mainwaring are published in a separate form. 8vo. London, 1709. He was degraded by parliament, but soon afterwards pardoned and promoted by the King.

^{page 18 note a} Sir Hugh Hammersley.

^{page 18 note b} Printed in Rushworth, vol. i. p. 631.

^{page 19 note a} This poem is printed, though with many variations, in the curious collection of Poems on the Duke of Buckingham, edited by Mr. Fairholt for the Percy Society, pp. 19–24. It is from the Sloane MS. 826, f. 31 b. A few lines are omitted in the present version which are found in the other: the readings from the Sloane MS. are given where they seem more correct; but several instances occur in which the present version will be found to rectify that in the Sloane MS.

^{page 20 note a} So in MS.

^{page 20 note b} “Sweetmeats,” Sloane MS.

^{page 20 note c} “Torture,” Sloane MS.

^{page 20 note d} “Titles ” in margin, but the Sloane MS. reads more correctly manes ; the allusion is to the current suspicion that Buckingham was an agent in the death of James I., and in that of the marquess of Hamilton. See Mr. Fairholt's note in p. 20 of the “Poems and Songs.”

^{page 20 note e} Alluding to doctor Lambe, a favourite of the duke.

^{page 20 note f} “Here,” Sloane MS., but hence seems the true reading.

^{page 20 note g} This couplet is omitted in Sloane MS.

^{page 20 note h} “need not fear,” Sloane MS.

^{page 21 note a} “Over ” in margin.

^{page 21 note b} “That the foe landed,” Sloane MS.

^{page 21 note c} The Sloane MS. reads—

“They durst not, but we hear they did descrie

A heedlesse duke, a headlesse companie,

But oh! what men or angels can devise

To excuse, &c.”

^{page 21 note d} “Bruite ” in margin; “taunts ” in Sloane MS.

^{page 21 note e} “coble vile,” in Mr. Fairholt's version.

^{page 21 note f} Sir Alexander Brett, sir Charles Rich, and sir Edward Conway were among the sufferers. (Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. p. 284.)

^{page 22 note a} Cadiz.

^{page 22 note b} Blank in MS.

^{page 23 note a} Cockley-Cley, four miles from Swaffham.

^{page 23 note b} Parish in Greenhoe hundred, co. Norfolk.

^{page 23 note c} Parish in the hundred of Carleford, co. Suffolk.

^{page 23 note d} See Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. pp. 413, 414.

^{page 24 note a} Parish in the hundred of Clavering, co. Norfolk.

^{page 24 note b} Weeting, a parish in Norfolk, where the writer's father was rector of the church of All Saints.

^{page 26 note a} This contains the sense, but not the words, of Felton's paper. See the fac-simile engraved in C. J. Smith's “Historical and Literary Curiosities,” 1840, 4to., and the words in the Gentleman's Magazine, N. S. xxiv. 141. The original, formerly in the Upcott collection, is now missing.

^{page 26 note b} For James and Charles.

^{page 26 note c} George.

^{page 26 note d} Rushworth, pt. i. p. 618, gives it somewhat differently, but the version of the MS. is probably the correct one—

Let Charles and George do what they can,

The duke shall die like Doctor Lamb.

^{page 26 note e} This distich was said in a copy in Ashmolean MS. XXXVIII. p. 25, to have been written by John Marston, several months before the murder of the duke. Mr. Fairholt's Introduction to “Poems, &c.” p. xvi.

^{page 26 note f} He was previously vice-admiral.

^{page 27 note a} “drave ” in margin.

^{page 28 note a} Other accounts of the duke of Buckingham's assassination will be found in his Life by Sir Henry Wotton, in Lord Clarendon's History, in the Memoirs of Sir Simonds Dewes, and in a letter of Sir Dudley Carleton to the Queen, in Ellis's Orig. Letters, First Series, iii. 137. See also the Gentleman's Magazine for August 1845.

^{page 29 note a} This epitaph is printed, almost verbatim, in Mr. Fairholt's “Poems on the Duke of Buckingham,” p. 51, from Ashmole MS. XXXVIII. art. 18. At the end of the verses in that MS. occur the words, “Finis, Jo. Heape.” “We are thus supplied,” writes Mr. Fairholt, “with the name of the author of one of the bitterest rhymes of the series brought forth on this remarkable event.”

^{page 29 note b} Query, Thomas Jenner, a London printer of the period.

^{page 29 note c} This and the following lines are printed with slight variations from Sloane MS. 603, in pp. 66, 67 of Mr. Fairholt's collection.

^{page 30 note a} See Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. p. 405.

^{page 31 note a} A parish in the north of Suffolk.

^{page 33 note a} This adventure was near Canada and Newfoundland. See Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. pp. 405,409, 417.

^{page 34 note a} See Courtand Times of Charles I., vol. i. pp. 436–437, 443. The young widow had two other suitors, sir Sackville Crow and sir John Finch : the wits of the day said that of her three birds, Finch, Crow, and Raven, the Raven had the worst of it.

^{page 34 note b} Date, 6th December, 1628, Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. iii. pp 5, 6.

^{page 34 note c} Date, 11th December, 1628, Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 6. See note, p. 39.

^{page 35 note a} His Majesty's speech at Whitehall, Jan. 24th, 1628–9, and Mr. Rous's speech on the 26th of the same January, are omitted here, as printed in Eushworth.

^{page 35 note b} Page 38 infra.

^{page 35 note c} “Babel not Bethel, i.e. the Church of Rome no true visible Church of Christ; being an Answer to Hugh Cholmeley's Challenge, and Robert Butterfield's Maschiil.” By Hen. Burton, 4to. Lond. 1628.

^{page 35 note d} By William Prynne, 4to. Lond. 1629. “Barrett's Recantation” of 1595 was translated by him, and published with the “Novem positiones, or Lambeth articles,” and other controversial tracts of the period.

^{page 35 note e} Dr. John Cosins, afterwards Bishop of Durham, published “A collection of Private Directions in the Practice of the Ancient Churches, called The Hours of Prayer,” 8vo. London, 1627 ; to which Prynne replyed in a pamphlet entitled “A brief Survey and Consure of Mr. Cozens his cousening devotions, proving them to be merely Popish.” 4to. London, 1628.

^{page 36 note a} Fœdern, vol, viii. pt. iii. p. 2.

^{page 37 note a} A parish in the hundred of Wayland, co. Norfolk.

^{page 37 note b} Printed in the Fœdora, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 264 ; dated June 24th, 1628.

^{page 37 note c} It bears date 17th January, 1629. Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. iii. p. 20.

^{page 37 note d} Blank in MS.

^{page 38 note a} Inserted afterwards.

^{page 38 note b} “God no Impostor nor Deluder ; or, an Answer to a Popish and Arminian Cavil, in Defence of Free-will and Universal Grace.” 4to. London, 1630.

^{page 38 note c} Added afterwards.

^{page 39 note a} Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain, widow of the Archduke Albert of Austria, and governor of the Spanish Netherlands.

^{page 39 note b} This second proclamation was dated 24th March, 1629. See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 13, where is an account of the Bishop of Chalcedon. See also the Discovery of the Jesuits at Clerkenwell, in the second volume of the Camden Miscellany.

^{page 39 note c} Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. iii. p. 36.

^{page 39 note d} Ibid. p. 39.

^{page 40 note a} Sir John Eliot, see below.

^{page 40 note b} Rushworth, pt. i. p. 660.

^{page 40 note c} For the prosecution of Elliot, Hollis, and Valentine, see Rushworth, pt. i. pp. 683, 686.

^{page 40 note d} Denzil.

^{page 40 note e} Hayman. See Rushworth, pt. i. p. 661.

^{page 41 note a} Pariah in the hundred of Grimshoe, co. Norfolk.

^{page 41 note b} Fœdera, vol. viii.pt. iii. p. 39, date 10th May, 1629.

^{page 41 note c} Ibid., p. 37, date 2nd May.

^{page 41 note d} Page 45 in MS. See p. 22 supra.

^{page 42 note a} This incident is recorded in Rushworth, with a proclamation for the arrest of the delinquents, under the year 1630. See pt. ii. vol. i. p. 80. The proclamation appears in the Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. iii. p. 57, under the true date, 12th July, 1629.

^{page 42 note b} A copy in Sloane MS. 826, f. 152, is headed “Verses supposed to bee made by Dr. Corbet, Bishop of Oxford, against the opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628,” and is followed by “An Answer to the same, lyne for lyne.”

^{page 42 note c} “Nobles,” Sloane MS.

^{page 42 note d} “their,” Sloane MS.

^{page 42 note e} “Prym,” Sloane MS. for Pym.

^{page 42 note f} “define What lords are hetrodox,” Sloane MS.

^{page 42 note g} “Brough,” Sloane M.S.; but under neither name is there any work on the subject in question. Query, Is the reference to William Barclay's tract “De regno et regali potestate, adversus Buchananum, Brutum et reliquos Monarchomachos.” 12mo. Hanover, 1617.

^{page 42 note h} “Buchanan.” Probably referring to George Buchanan's treatise “De Jure Regni,” in which the argument tends to prove the right of subjects to rebel against oppression.

^{page 43 note a} “Paritie.”

^{page 43 note b} Written afterwards.

^{page 43 note c} Written afterwards.

^{page 43 note d} Henry Prince of Orange.

^{page 43 note e} A comical mis-reading of the Dutch article Hets, generally contracted into Ts Hertogensbusche, by the French called Bois-le-Duc.

^{page 44 note a} “untrue ” is omitted.

^{page 44 note b} This was the truth of the affair. See Court and Times of Charles I. vol. ii. pp. 27–8, 33.

^{page 44 note c} A parish in Grimshoc hundred, co. Norfolk.

^{page 45 note a} A parish in the hundred of Wilford, co. Suffolk.

^{page 45 note b} In the hundred of Carleford, co. Suffolk.

^{page 45 note c} In the hundred of Hoxne, co. Suffolk.

^{page 45 note d} Ibid. Here was the family residence of the elder branch of the Rous family.

^{page 45 note e} Leigh priory, near Felstead, co. Essex, the seat of tho earls of Warwick.

^{page 46 note a} The allusion is to the prosecution in the Star-chamber of the earl of Bedford, sir Robert Cotton, Selden, and others, which was made the pretence for locking up the Cottonian Library. Biographia Britannica, iv. 301, edit. Kippis.

^{page 47 note a} Collated with a copy ⁱn Harl. MS. 3638, f. 140.

^{page 47 note b} “your,” Harl. MS.

^{page 47 note c} “hath this operation,” Ibid.

^{page 47 note d} “an,” Ibid.

^{page 47 note e} “vanitie,” Ibid.

^{page 48 note a} There are several parishes of that name, with some distinctive affix, in Shropham hundred, Norfolk.

^{page 48 note b} Parish in the hundred of Shropham, co. Norfolk.

^{page 49 note a} County of Suffolk.

^{page 49 note b} Near Bury St. Edmund's.

^{page 49 note c} This proclamation does not appear in the Fœdera. It is alluded to in a news-letter, Court and Times of Charles I. vol. ii. p. 67.

^{page 50 note a} “And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning; afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

^{page 51 note a} See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 70.

^{page 51 note b} George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, and Thomas lord Wotton, but not the earl of Anglesey. There was no lord Scrope at this date. The title became extinct in 1627.

^{page 51 note c} Rushworth, part ii. vol. i. p. 30, gives the five following directions, but not the remainder of the document.

^{page 53 note a} Alexander Leighton, a Scotchman, first a physician, then a divine. He wrote two works : “The Looking Glass of the Holy War,” and “Zion's Plea against Prelacy,” in both of which the bishops are roughly handled, and for which he was severely punished. See pp. 54, 55, infra; and Rushworth, vol. i. pt. ii. pp. 55–58. The particulars of his seizure are given in the Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i, pt. ii. p. 61; and of his punishment, pp. 80–85.

^{page 53 note b} Inserted afterwards.

^{page 54 note a} Query, “New England's Trials, declaring the suecesse of twenty-six ships employed thither within these six yearcs, with the benefit of that country by sea and land, and how to build three score sayle of good ships to make a little navie royall,” by Capt. John Smith, 4to. Lond. 1620.

^{page 54 note b} Blank in MS.

^{page 54 note c} See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 58.

^{page 54 note d} This is a mistake, the queen mother was represented by the duchess of Richnond.

^{page 54 note e} Referring to the practice of sponsors giving spoons. See Shakespeare's Henry VIII. act v. scene ii.

^{page 54 note f} “All subsidies” in Gilchrist's Collection of Corbet's Poems, 12mo. Lond. 1807, p. 148.

^{page 55 note a} “Newly coined,” Sloane MS.

^{page 55 note b} “Thrice happy,” Ibid.

^{page 55 note c} See pp. 42, 43, supra.

^{page 55 note d} See pp. 53, 54, supra.

^{page 56 note a} Fœdera, vol. viii. pt. iii. p. 136.

^{page 56 note b} Don Carlos de Colonna.

^{page 56 note c} So in the MS. The death of many doctors seems to be meant.

^{page 56 note d} See p. 55, supra.

^{page 56 note e} See p. 24, supra.

^{page 56 note f} East Flegg, co. Norfolk.

^{page 56 note g} Parish in the hundred of Clavering, co. Norfolk.

^{page 56 note h} Blank in MS.

^{page 57 note a} Parish in Walsham hundred, co, Norfolk.

^{page 58 note a} A parish in Clavering hundred, co. Norfolk.

^{page 58 note b} Holton is 1¼ miles from Halesworth, hundred of Blything, Co. Suffolk.

^{page 60 note a} See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. pp. 93–103.

^{page 60 note b} Score.

^{page 60 note c} In Norfolk.

^{page 60 note d} In Suffolk.

^{page 60 note e} In the hundred of Forehoe, co. Norfolk.

^{page 61 note a} A parish in the hundred of Grimshoe, co. Norfolk.

^{page 61 note b} In the list of the clergy of Weeting, occurs the following : “1600, June 25, Anthony Rouse. Agnes Wright and Thomas Wright, by grant of the presentation from Sir Robert Wyngfleld, Knight, &c. He was buried 13th June, 1631. In his answer to King James's Queries in 1603, he says there were 104 communicants here.” Bloomfield's Norfolk, 8vo. edit. vol. ii. p. 170.

^{page 61 note c} A parish in the hundred of Risbridge, co. Suffolk.

^{page 61 note d} Or Walberswick, hundred of Blything.

^{page 61 note e} Near Framlingham, co. Suffolk.

^{page 61 note f} Hundred of Forehoe, co. Norfolk—spelled Wymondham, or Windham.

^{page 61 note g} See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 135.

^{page 62 note a} The report of her sudden death, on the very day in which a procession celebrating the victories of the Romish party took place, was correct: and also that the thunder and lightning were very violent on that day. See Court and Times of Charles I. vol. ii. p. 166.

^{page 62 note b} Probably the name of the person who gave this information.

^{page 62 note c} Added later.

^{page 62 note d} Blank in MS.

^{page 63 note a} In the Isle of Ely.

^{page 63 note b} Incorrect. Tilly was shot near Ingoldstadt, 30th April, 1632.

^{page 63 note c} Beginning.

^{page 63 note d} Added afterwards.

^{page 63 note e} Mary, afterwards princess of Orange.

^{page 64 note a} It was printed separately, 4to. London, 1631, and is reprinted in Churchill's Voyages, vol. ii.

^{page 65 note a} Paulus Grebnerus, who came over to England in 1582, presented queen Elizabeth with a MS. in Latin, containing predictions of the future history of Europe, which excited a good deal of attention, on account of the verification of many of his predictions, more particularly those relating to Gustavus Adolphus. The MS. was deposited in Trinity College, Cambridge. See a memorandum at the end of Harl. MS. 6882, which is transcribed from a loose sheet, printed May 1649, of which a copy is among the King's Pamphlets, British Museum, in folio. There is a brief extract from Gtrebner's prophecy in Harl. MS. 4931, f. 13, in which the king of Sweden's successor, and the Popish queen of king Charles are named.

^{page 66 note a} Rodolph II., emperor of Austria.

^{page 66 note b} Philip II. of Spain.

^{page 66 note c} Hundred of Stow, co. Suffolk.

^{page 66 note d} Redenhall, a parish one mile and a half from Harleston.

^{page 66 note e} The seat of the Rous family, in Wangford parish, Suffolk.

^{page 66 note f} Halesworth, a market town, hundred of Blything, co. Suffolk.

^{page 66 note g} Hundred of Thingoe, co. Suffolk.

^{page 67 note a} In the hundred of Lackford, co. Suffolk.

^{page 67 note b} See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. pp. 107–110.

^{page 68 note a} See note ^a, p. 65, supra.

^{page 68 note b} This should be Sir T. Roe, who was ambassador to Turkey, and afterwards to Sweden, and was a warm friend of the Queen of Bohemia. The letter and present are mentioned in The Court and Times of Charles I. vol. ii. p. 143.

^{page 68 note c} that.

^{page 69 note a} Beckham, hundred of Erpingham, co. Norfol.

^{page 69 note b} Hundred of Grimeshoe, co. Norfolk.

^{page 69 note c} “And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees; therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.”

^{page 69 note d} “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.”

^{page 70 note a} Henry Butts, D.D. elected master of Corpus Christi or Benet college 1626. His suicide created a great sensation. In a letter to the fellows of Corpus Christi college, dated the 2d of April, the King says, “You can hardly conceive how we are affected with the untimely and precipitated death of Dr. Butts, our vice-chancellor and master of that our colledge in our university of Cambridge, wherewith the harts of all good Christians are affected.” The “something ” which “gave occasion ” to the fatal act has not been ascertained, though it seems clearly established that it was not pecuniary embarassment. Masters, Hist, of Corp. Chr. coll. 141, Append, xliv; Wood's Ath. Oxon. i. 478; Cooper's Annals of Cambr. iii. 251; Smith's Obituary, p. 6. The King's and Queen's visit to Cambridge was on the 22d March, 1631–2. Cooper's Annals, iii. 249.

^{page 70 note b} Henry Sherfield; on this matter see Hatcher's History of Salisbury, fol. 1843, pp. 371–373.

^{page 70 note c} “Histrio-mastix ; the Players' Scourge, or the Actor's Tragedy, in two parts: wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, that popular stage-plays are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles.” 4to. London, 1633.

^{page 71 note a} D. C. is Dean Corbet, Bishop of Norwich. This and the following are printed, with slight variations, in the volume entitled “Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume,” edited by Mr. Fairholt for the Percy Society, pp. 136, 137. The notes appended are Mr. Fairholt's.

^{page 71 note b} “Cipress was a fine kind of crape or gauze.”

^{page 71 note c} “The rayle was the neckerchief.”

^{page 71 note d} “Alluding to the great length of the falling band, which was allowed to hang down upon the shoulders.”

^{page 71 note e} “White linen railes are raies of light.” Harl. MS. 6,396.

^{page 71 note f} “do penance.” Harl. MS.

^{page 72 note a} “weare ” in margin and in Harl. MS.

^{page 72 note b} “In a ludicrous ballad, describing James I.'s visit to Oxford in 1621, when Corbet, in his office of chaplain, preached before the King, he is thus spoken of:—

See further stanzas in the Progresses, &c. of James I. iv. 1110.

^{page 72 note c} A copy in Sloane MS. 1792, f. 260, reads thus :—

Fair halfe-blind boy, borne of halfe-blind mother,

Equall'd by none, but by each one the other,

Send her thine eie, sweet boy, and shee shall prove

The Queene of Beauties, thou the God of Love.

A different reading still occurs in Egerton MS. 923, f. 58.

^{page 73 note a} A sort of active bounding waltz.—Halliwell'g Dictionary.

^{page 73 note b} “Que vole.”

^{page 76 note a} “The King's Majesty's Declaration to his Subjects, concerning Lawful Sports to be used.” 4to. London, 1633. Reprinted in Harl. Miscell. vol. x. p. 75.

^{page 76 note b} A proclamation about soap-boiling, &c. settling former disputes, dated 13th July, 1634, is printed in Fœdera, vol. viii.pt. iv, p. 83.

^{page 77 note a} Sir Robert Heath. See Court and Times of Charles I., vol. ii. p. 137, and see also his biography in the first volume of the Miscellany of the Philobiblon Society.

^{page 77 note b} Sir Edward Littleton, afterwards chief justice of the Common Pleas.

^{page 77 note c} “Rather had ” in margin.

^{page 77 note d} “Piteous indeed ” in margin.

^{page 77 note e} The name of the author of this letter is not given, but internal evidence points it out as the production of Gaston Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIII. He married, in 1632, Margaret of Lorraine, sister of the dukes Charles and Nicolas Francis. This alliance brought down upon the house of Lorraine the wrath of Louis XIII., who was at variance with his brother, and in 1634 duke Charles was self exiled in Germany, and duke Nicolas, in whose behalf he had abdicated, was languishing in prison at Nanci.

^{page 78 note a} “Dammy, from the soldier's band, who usually sweareth God dam me.” in margin.

^{page 79 note a} Robert Shelford was of Peterhouse. The Puritans loudly complained of Dr. Beale the Vice-chancellor for licensing Shelford's Discourses. Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, iii. 268.

^{page 79 note b} John Stoughton, D.D., sometime fellow of Emmanuel College, died 4 May, 1639. (Smith's Obituary, p. 16.) A brief notice of him and his works is given in Brook's Lives of the Puritans, iii. 527.

^{page 80 note a} Ralph Cudworth, B.D., sometime fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, died rector of Aller in Somersetshire, in August or September 1624. He was the father of the famous divine of the same name, who died 26 June, 1688, having been successively fellow of Emmanuel College, Master of Clare Hall, and Master of Christ's College.

^{page 80 note b} Peter Heylin. “A Coal from the Altar, or an Answer to Dr. G. Williams's Letter to the Vicar of Grantham, against the placing of the Communion Table at the East end of the church. Lond, 1637.”

^{page 80 note c} See Clarendon's History, vol. ii. p. 135

^{page 80 note d} These verses were obviously intended to be read in a double sense; that is, as they appear, or thus,

hold as faith What Rome Church saith, &c.

See Collet's Relics of Literature (a work really written by Tho. Byerley), pp. 169, 170.

^{page 81 note a} Litcham, hundred of Launditch, co. Norfolk.

^{page 81 note b} Hadleigh, co. Suffolk.

^{page 82 note a} Full particulars of the proceedings against them were published in a pamphlet entitled “A new discovery of the Prelates' tyranny, in their late prosecutions of Mr. William Pryn, an eminent lawyer, Dr. John Bastwick, a learned physician, and Mr. Henry Burton, a reverend divine,” &c. 4to. London, 1641. See also Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. pp. 324, 380–5, and Clarendon's History, vol. i. p. 292. Burton's sermons are entitled “For God and the King;” not as the diarist has quoted the title. They were 5th November sermons, preached from Proverbs, xxiv, 22, 23.

^{page 82 note b} Honington, Blackburn hundred, co. Suffolk.

^{page 83 note a} Don Carlos de Colonna, general of the Spanish forces in the Netherlands.

^{page 83 note b} Added later.

^{page 83 note c} Blank in MS.

^{page 83 note d} John Dunton, one of the expedition, published “A true journal of the Sally fleet, with the proceedings of the voyage.” 4to. London, 1637. Sallee was a town in Barbary, in the hands of the Moors, who ten years before revolted against the Emperor of Morocco, and, forming themselves into a republic, entreated help from England, and offered the subjection of the place to Charles I.; but he took the other side in the quarrel. In Additional MS. 15,226, f. 57, is the letter from the King of Morocco to Charles I., sent on this occasion. Court and Times of Charles I., vol. i. pp. 243, 255.

^{page 83 note e} James Buck, B.D., a determined Episcopalian and Loyalist. For an account of him see Davy's Suffolk Collections, Additional MS. 19,092, f. 262. He was sequestered by Parliament in 1643.

^{page 83 note f} “Saint for ‘said’ was the author's word” in margin.

^{page 84 note a} Dr. Richard Ball, rector of Wilby and Westerfield, co. Suffolk, afterwards chaplain of Charles II. See an account of him ibid. f. 372.

^{page 85 note a} Sir Robert Berkeley.

^{page 86 note a} Boston.

^{page 88 note a} He was at the head of the covenanting lords. He was committed to the private custody of one of the sheriffs of London. (Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 1103.)

^{page 88 note b} Collated with a copy in Harl. MS. 367, f. 160.

^{page 88 note c} “And, like the Levite, sad with rage ascribe Its pecemele portions,” &c. Harl. MS.

^{page 88 note d} “hath.”

^{page 88 note e} “fagg and eryes.”

^{page 88 note f} “To wrong alone, but mocke at majestie.”

^{page 89 note a} “What facultie should not be injured.”

^{page 89 note b} “fresh access of store.”

^{page 89 note c} “and ” omitted.

^{page 90 note a} “Puritans bear sway.”

^{page 90 note b} Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. App. pp. 177–212.

^{page 90 note c} Printed in Rushwortli, pt. ii. vol. ii. pp. 1131–1136.

^{page 90 note d} May 5, 1640.

^{page 91 note a} Printed with variations in Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 1214.

^{page 91 note b} Collated with a copy in Harl. MS. 4931, f. 129.

^{page 90 note c} “desired.”

^{page 92 note a} Fœdera, vol. ix. pt. iii. p. 26.

^{page 93 note a} Ibid. vol. ix. pt. iii. p. 27.

^{page 93 note b} Printed with differences in Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 1262 ; but the present is the better copy. The signatures marked with an asterisk are not in Rushworth, which on the other hand gives “earl of Bristol ” and “Pagett,” which are not in the MS., nor in a contemporaneous copy in Sloane MS. 1467, f. 132.

^{page 93 note c} “The sense of that duty.”

^{page 94 note a} “Mulgrave,” Rushworth ; “Musgrave,” Sloane MS. 1467, f. 132 b.

^{page 95 note a} Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 1217–19, gives Sir Thomas Rowe's speech against the coining of brass money, but no other ; the following seems to be the digest of the arguments on both sides rather than the speech of any particular individual.

^{page 98 note a} Mary de Medicis, then visiting England.

^{page 98 note b} The Earl of Strafford.

^{page 98 note c} Dr. Williams, formerly Lord Keeper.

^{page 99 note a} See Rushworth, pt. iii. vol. i. pp. 20, 67, 74, 228.

^{page 99 note b} Ibid. pp. 20, 67, 78, 207, 213.

^{page 99 note c} Ibid. pp. 20, 79, 80, 119, 193, 203, 283.

^{page 99 note f} Laurence Chaderton, B.D. the first Master of Emmanuel college, resigned that office in 1622. When he died, he was, it is said, in the 103rd year of his age. It would seem he was buried in the old chapel of Emmanuel college. Cleveland has an elegy on Dr. Chaderton, occasioned by his long-deferred funeral.—Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, iii. 305.

^{page 99 note d} Ibid. pp. 20, 228, 229.

^{page 99 note e} i. e. altar-rails.

^{page 99 note g} The Speech is printed without this modification in Rushworth, pt. iii. vol. i. pp. 13–16.

^{page 100 note a} Printed less perfectly in Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 1336.

^{page 100 note b} “House of Commons.” R.

^{page 100 note c} “I have reposed.” R.

^{page 101 note a} Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.

^{page 101 note b} Sir Edward Reeve, justice of the common pleas. See Smyth's Obituary, p. 23.

^{page 101 note c} Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 1167, mentions that his study was searched, but nothing further. A contemporaneous record of events in Sloane MS. 1467, f. 104, mentions a personal search, and says that “Lord Brookes had taken from him a discourse between Mr. Cotton, a minister now in New England, and Mr. Ball, concerning our church liturgy, one being to mainteine it against the other's opposing it. Hee had alsoe some peticions to complaine of some greivances, one being from silent ministers to desire there might not be soe heavy a hand carried over them.”

^{page 101 note d} Collated with a contemporaneous copy in Sloane MS. 1467, chap. i. There is another copy in Addit. MS. 6396, fol. 15.

^{page 101 note e} “Sir Roger.”

^{page 101 note f} “Of the children's threes.”

^{page 102 note a} “divides.”

^{page 102 note b} “thee.”

^{page 102 note c} “Booker.”

^{page 103 note a} Edit. 1482, printed by Caxton.

^{page 104 note a} See Seriptores post Bedam, Henry Huntingdon's Hiat. p. 309, end of book i. and p 359, beginning of book vi.

^{page 104 note b} Printed in Fœdera, vol. ix. pt. iii. p. 34. Sir Benjamin Ruddierd's and Sir Robert Dering's speeches follow; but both are omitted as being in print.

^{page 104 note c} Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. pp. 1342, 1351, gives parts of a speech of lord Falkland in this parliament, but it differs entirely from the present.

^{page 105 note a} This and those of the subsequent paragraphs to which an asterisk is prefixed, are printed in Rushworth, pt. ii, vol. ii. App. p. 242.

^{page 105 note b} “this,” Rushworth.

^{page 106 note a} “whatsoever,” margin.

^{page 106 note b} “eminent,” Rushworth.

^{page 106 note c} “how he would,” margin and Rushworth.

^{page 106 note d} “contemned,” margin ; the latter is the true reading.

^{page 106 note e} “us,” Rushworth.

^{page 108 note a} “my,” in margin.

^{page 108 note b} Sir John Finch. See his impeachment in Harl. Miscell. vol. v. p. 566.

^{page 108 note c} “that,” margin.

^{page 109 note a} You are, I see.

^{page 109 note b} A copy in Sloane MS. 1489 reads, “A P O P they say you'll be, but tis to late.”

^{page 109 note c} Are you too wise.

^{page 109 note d} You are a K.

^{page 109 note e} I see you are.

^{page 109 note f} A Gregory.

^{page 110 note a} Collated with a copy in Harl. MS. 4931, f. 80, where the burden is “Gramercy, good Scott.”

^{page 110 note b} “Promoters, informers.”

^{page 110 note c} “Mompesson,” margin. He was a notorious delinquent in the matter of alehouse licenses, in the reign of James the First, and fled the country to avoid the rigour of the law. See the Progresses, &c. of James I. vol. iii. pp. 660, 666.

^{page 110 note d} “Epson,” Harl, MS. Empson and Dudley, the extortioning ministers of Henry VII.

^{page 110 note e} “You ” and “your.”

^{page 110 note f} “And he for to sette it.”

^{page 110 note g} “goring.”

^{page 110 note h} “You ” and “your” throughout.

^{page 111 note a} “The moone.”

^{page 111 note b} “With Scripture divine they.”

^{page 111 note c} “almost.”

^{page 111 note d} “The miser shall give all away.”

^{page 111 note e} “French toies and popery wee'le banish the ile.”

^{page 111 note f} “plott.”

^{page 112 note a} “Hugenden ” in Journals of the House of Commons, ii. 54.

^{page 113 note a} Sir Robert Berkeley, one of the justices of the King's bench ; he was seized when on his judicial bench and taken to prison. He was one of the judges who gave opinion in favour of the King's levying ship-money ; was impeached in 1637, but escaped conviction till the impeachment was renewed in 1640. See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 606 ; pt. iii, vol. i. pp. 318–9. Clarendon, Hist. Rebell. vol. ii. p. 499.

^{page 115 note a} Qu. “patent ”? in allusion to the monopolies so numerous during the early part of this reign.

^{page 116 note a} St. Augustine.

^{page 116 note b} “Exposition of the Book of Proverbs, by John Dod, Robert Cleaver, and Willia Flinde.” 4to. Lond. 1610–11.

^{page 120 note a} Printed with variations in Rushworth, pt. iii. vol. i. p. 560, under date of April 9th.

^{page 121 note a} See Rushworth, pt. iii. vol. i. p. 779.

^{page 121 note b} See Clarendon, History, vol. i. p. 659.

^{page 121 note c} Hock-tide is a festival beginning the 15th day after Enster, which fell this year on April 10th.

^{page 122 note a} Giftbrd-hall, Stoke by Neyland, co. Suffolk.

^{page 123 note a} “An exact relation of the passages which happened at Portsmouth at the late siege.” 4to. London, 1642.

^{page 123 note b} “Exceeding true News from Boston, Sherbourne castle, &c.” 4to. London, 1642.

^{page 123 note c} Both printed in Rushworth, pt. iii. vol. ii. pp. 11–13.

^{page 123 note d} Of Ashley, co. Lincoln.

^{page 123 note e} See p. 121.

^{page 124 note a} By George Eglisham, or Eglisemmius, a Scotchman ; it was originally written in Latin, and published in 1626, but translated and entitled “The Forerunner of Revenge ; being two Petitions, one to the King and the other to the Parliament; wherein is expressed divers actions of the late earl (sic) of Buckingham, especially concerning the death of king James and the marquess of Hamilton, supposed by poyson.” 4to. London, 1642. It is reprinted both in the Harleian Miscellany, vol. ii. and in the Somers Tracts, vol. v.

^{page 125 note a} Rushworth, pt. iii. vol. ii. p. 26.

^{page 126 note a} “Eight Speeches, spoken in Guildhall, October 27, 1642, by the lord Wharton,” &c. 4to. London, 1642.

^{page 126 note b} See p, 129 infra.

^{page 127 note a} Added afterwards.

^{page 127 note b} Grimshoe hundred, co. Norfolk.

^{page 127 note c} Sir John Evelyn.

^{page 127 note d} Evelyn had been excepted by name, in the King's proclamation for pardon to the county of Wiltshire, and therefore the King refused to receive him.

^{page 128 note a} Printed in Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, vol. ii. p. 103.

^{page 128 note b} A mistake. It was returned in a few hours. Ibid. p. 104.

^{page 128 note c} Brentford.

^{page 128 note d} Probably Sir Cornelius Vermuyden.

^{page 129 note a} Feltwell, consisting of the parishes of St. Mary and St. Nicholas consolidated, hundred of Grimshoe, co. Norfolk.

^{page 129 note b} The baptisms of three children of “Robert Asty, preacher of God's word,” in 1689–1642, are given from the registers of Wrentham, in Davy's Suffolk Collections, Addit. MS. 19,083, f. 219.

^{page 131 note a} So in MS.

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