Page 57, l. 4.  Thomas Herbert (1606-82), made a baronet in 1660.  Appointed by Parliament in 1647 to attend the King, he was latterly his sole attendant, and accompanied him with Juxon to the scaffold.  His Threnodia Carolina, reminiscences of Charles’s captivity, was published in 1702 under the title, Memoirs of the Two last Years of the Reign of that unparalleled Prince, of ever Blessed Memory, King Charles I.  It was ‘printed for the first time from the original MS.’ (now in private possession), but in modernized spelling, in Allan Fea’s Memoirs of the Martyr King, 1905, pp. 74-153.

l. 10.  Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), bishop of Salisbury, 1689, the historian whose characters are given in the later part of this volume.  His Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton, 1677, his first historical work, appeared while Warwick was writing his Memoires of Charles.  It attracted great attention, as its account of recent events was furnished with authentic documents.  ’It was the first political biography of the modern type, combining a narrative of a man’s life with a selection from his letters’ (C.H.  Firth, introduction to Clarke and Foxcroft’s Life of Burnet, 1907, p. xiii).

l. 15. affliction gives understanding.  Compare Proverbs 29. 15, and Ecclesiasticus 4. 17 and 34. 9; the exact words are not in the Authorised Version.

l. 30.  Robert Sanderson (1587-1663), Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, 1642, Bishop of Lincoln, 1660.  Izaak Walton wrote his Life, 1678.

Page 58, l. 20.  Sir Dudley Carleton (1573-1632), created Baron Carleton, 1626, and Viscount Dorchester, 1628; Secretary of State, 1628.

l. 21.  Lord Falkland, see pp. 71-97; Secretary of State, 1642.

Page 59, ll. 11-13.  Plutarch, Life of Alexander the Great; opening sentences, roughly paraphrased.

Page 60, l. 20. Venient Romani, St. John, xi. 48.  See The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Speech or His Funerall Sermon, Preacht by himself on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill, on Friday the 10. of Ianuary, 1644.  London, 1644, p. 10:  ’I but perhaps a great clamour there is, that I would have brought in Popery, I shall answer that more fully by and by, in the meane time, you know what the Pharisees said against Christ himself, in the eleventh of Iohn, If we let him alone, all men will beleeve on him, Et venient Romani, and the Romanes will come and take away both our place and the Nation.  Here was a causelesse cry against Christ that the Romans would come, and see how just the Iudgement of God was, they crucified Christ for feare least the Romans should come, and his death was that that brought in the Romans upon them, God punishing them with that which they most feared:  and I pray God this clamour of veniunt Romani, (of which I have given to my knowledge no just cause) helpe not to bring him in; for the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation, as he hath now upon the Sects and divisions that are amongst us.’