Henry Cavendish, whose journey to Constantinople is narrated in the following manuscript, was the eldest son of Sir William Cavendish and his third wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, the celebrated 'Bess of Hardwick', who subsequently married, as her fourth husband, George Talbot, sixth earl of Shrewsbury.

Introduction V

A. Sir John Eliot's personal accounts, 1622-25

B. Sir John Eliot's accounts in the Admiralty records, 1622-26

C. Depositions taken in 1627

D. Brief of evidence against Sir John Eliot, 1627

Index

Introduction V

Ordinances of the Chapter, 1241-1254

Injunctions of Bishop Hugh of Balsham, 1261

Statutes of Bishop Ralph of Walpole, 1300

Ordinances of the Chapter, 1304

Injunctions of Bishop Robert of Orford, 1307

Ordinances of the Chapter, 1314

Metropolitical visitation of Archbishop Thomas Arundel, 1401

Injunctions of Archbishop Thomas Arundel, 1403

Injunctions of Bishop William Gray, 1466

Comperta and detect a in the visitation of Archbishop William Warham's Vicar General, 1515