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Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1929

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References

page v note 1 I.O.S., No. 103 and N.S., No. 24.

page v note 2 For a more detailed discussion of these manuscripts see Transactionsof the Royal Historical Society, 4th Series, Vol. VIII, pp. 38–55.

page vi note 1 At Stanford Hall are many of these preliminary drafts, some by Elsing and some by Brown.

page vi note 2 Among the House of Lords MSS. for 1621 is one in Elsing's hand, on the outside of which he wrote “For the Lords Subcommittees of privileges. Queries.” It was drawn up at the end of the session and, after many particular questions, has the following: “And may yt please your Lordships to take a reviewe of all, allthough you dyd once peruse all the Journall, save what I have noated in the former leafe. Or is yt your Lordships pleasure, those thyngs I speake of beinge amended by your Lordships, that I examine this fayre wrytten booke with the Originall, and then subscrybe yt with my name (as the auncient manner was) and soe bynde yt up fayre, and leave that only for the recorde of that parlement.”

page vi note 3 Among the Stanford MSS. is a report of the king's speech to Parliament on April 5, 1614, in Elsing's writing. At the top Bowyer wrote: “My nephew Ellsyng did set this day as my clerke and tooke thes noates.”