Page 5, l. 22. unfortunate in the marriage of his Daughter.  James’s daughter Elizabeth married the Elector Palatine, Frederick V, in 1613.  His election as King of Bohemia led to the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48) in which James long hesitated to become involved and played at best an ineffectual part.  The opinion here expressed is explained by an earlier passage in Weldon’s book, pp. 82-4:  ’In this Favourites (Somerset’s) flourishing time, came over the Palsgrave to marry our Kings daughter, which for the present, gave much content, and with the generall applause, yet it proved a most infortunate match to him and his Posterity, and all Christendome, for all his Alliance with so many great Princes, which put on him aspiring thoughts, and was so ambitious as not to content himselfe with his hereditary patrimony of one of the greatest Princes in Germany; but must aspire to a Kingdome, beleeving that his great allyance would carry him through any enterprise, or bring him off with honour, in both which he failed; being cast out of his own Country with shame, and he and his, ever after, living upon the devotion of other Princes; but had his Father in Law spent halfe the mony in Swords he did in words, for which he was but scorned, it had kept him in his own inheritance, and saved much Christian bloud since shed; but whiles he, being wholly addicted to peace, spent much treasure, in sending stately Embassadours to treat, his Enemies (which he esteemed friends) sent Armies with a lesse charge to conquer, so that it may be concluded, that this then thought the most happy match in Christendome, was the greatest unhappinesse to Christendome, themselves, and posterity.’

l. 27. Sir Robert Mansell (1573-1656), Vice-Admiral of England under Charles I. Clarendon, writing of the year 1642, says that ’his courage and integrity were unquestionable’ (ed.  Macray, vol. ii, p. 219).  ‘Argiers’ or ‘Argier’ was the common old form of ‘Algiers’:  cf. The Tempest, I. ii. 261, 265.

Page 6, l. 2. Cottington, Francis Cottington (1578-1652), baronet 1623, Baron Cottington, 1631.  He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1629 to 1642.

Page 7, l. 5.  The first edition reads ’In sending Embassadours, which were’.  The printer’s substitution of ‘His’ for ‘In’ and omission of ‘which’ do not wholly mend the syntax.

l. 10. peace with honour.  An early instance of the phrase made famous by Lord Beaconsfield in his speech of July 16, 1878, after the Congress of Berlin, ’Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace, but a peace I hope with honour.’  Cf. Notes and Queries, 1887, Seventh Series, vol. iii, p. 96.

l. 14. Nullum tempus, &c., the law maxim Nullum tempus occurrit regi, lapse of time does not bar the crown.  The Parliament which met in February 1624 passed ’An Act for the generall quiett of the Subject agaynst all pretences of Concealement’ (21 deg.  Jac.  I, c. 2) which declared sixty years’ possession of Lands, &c., to be a good title against the Crown.