Page 13, l. 25.  The passage here omitted deals with Buckingham’s unsuccessful journey to Spain with Prince Charles, and with his assassination.

Page 16, l. 28. touched upon before, ed.  Macray, vol. i, p. 38; here omitted.

4.

Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 27, 28; History, Bk.  I, ed. 1702, vol. i, pp. 36-8; ed.  Macray, vol. i, pp. 56-9.

Page 18, l. 5. the Bishopp of Lincolne, John Williams (1582-1650), afterwards Archbishop of York.  He succeeded Bacon as Lord Keeper.  He is sketched in Wilson’s History of Great Britain, pp. 196-7, and Fuller’s Church-History of Britain, 1655, Bk.  XI, pp. 225-8.  His life by John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata, 1693, is notorious for the ‘embellishments’ of its style; a shorter life, based on Hacket’s, was an early work of Ambrose Philips.

l. 22. the Earle of Portlande, Sir Richard Weston:  see No. 5.

l. 24. Hambleton, Clarendon’s usual spelling of ‘Hamilton’.

5.

Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 28-32; History, Bk.  I, ed. 1702, vol. i, pp. 31-43; ed.  Macray, vol. i, pp. 59-67.

Another and more favourable character of Weston is the matter of an undated letter which Sir Henry Wotton sent to him as ’a strange New years Gift’ about 1635.  ’In short, it is only an Image of your Self, drawn by memory from such discourse as I have taken up here and there of your Lordship, among the most intelligent and unmalignant men; which to pourtrait before you I thought no servile office, but ingenuous and real’.  See Reliquiae Wottonianae, ed. 1672, pp. 333-6.

Page 21, l. 7. the white staffe.  ’The Third Great Officer of the Crown, is the Lord High Treasurer of England, who receives this High Office by delivery of a White Staffe to him by the King, and holds it durante bene placito Regis’ (Edward Chamberlayne, Angliae Notitia, 1674, p. 152).

Page 23, l. 4. L’d Brooke, Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628) the friend and biographer of Sir Philip Sidney.  He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1614 to 1621.

Page 28, l. 18. eclarcicement, introduced into English about this time, and in frequent use till the beginning of the nineteenth century.

l. 28. a younge, beautifull Lady, Frances, daughter of Esme, third Duke of Lennox, married to Jerome Weston, afterwards second Earl of Portland, in 1632.

6.

Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 33, 34; History, Bk.  I, ed. 1702, vol. i, p. 44; ed.  Macray, vol. i, pp. 69-71.

This is one of Clarendon’s most unfriendly portraits.  It was seriously edited when first printed.  The whole passage about the coldness and selfishness of Arundel’s nature on p. 31, ll. 12-30, was omitted, as likewise the allusion to his ignorance on p. 30, ll. 25-7, ’wheras in truth he was only able to buy them, never to understande them.’  Minor alterations are the new reading ’thought no part of History so considerable, as what related to his own Family’ p. 30, ll. 28, 29, and the omission of ‘vulgar’ p. 31, l. 11.  The purpose of these changes is obvious.  They are extreme examples of the methods of Clarendon’s first editors.  In no other character did they take so great liberties with his text.