Page 82, ll. 23-6.  See p. 90, ll. 6-13.

Page 83, l. 2.  Falkland’s participation in ’the Northern Expedition against the Scots’, 1639, was the subject of a eulogistic poem by Cowley: 

Great is thy Charge, O North; be wise and just, England commits her Falkland to thy trust; Return him safe:  Learning would rather choose Her Bodley, or her Vatican to loose.  All things that are but writ or printed there, In his unbounded Breast engraven are, &c.

It was the occasion also of Waller’s ‘To my Lord of Falkland’.

l. 14. et in luctu, Tacitus, Agricola, xxix.

l. 15. the furious resolution, passed on November 24, 1642, after the battle at Brentford:  see Clarendon, vol. ii, pp. 395-9.

Page 84, l. 9. adversus malos, Tacitus, Agricola, xxii.

ll. 11-28.  The date of this incident is uncertain.  Professor Firth believes it to have happened when the House resolved that Colonel Goring ‘deserved very well of the Commonwealth, and of this House’, for his discovery of the army plot, June 9, 1641 (Journals of the House of Commons, vol. ii, p. 172).

Page 85, l. 18. the leaguer before Gloster.  The siege of Gloucester was raised by the Earl of Essex on September 8, 1643.  Clarendon had described it (vol. iii, pp. 167 ff.) just before he came to the account of Falkland.

Page 86, l. 1. the battell, i.e. of Newbury, September 20, 1643.  How Falkland met his death is told in Byron’s narrative of the fight:  ’My Lord of Falkland did me the honour to ride in my troop this day, and I would needs go along with him, the enemy had beat our foot out of the close, and was drawne up near the hedge; I went to view, and as I was giving orders for making the gap wide enough, my horse was shott in the throat with a musket bullet and his bit broken in his mouth so that I was forced to call for another horse, in the meanwhile my Lord Falkland (more gallantly than advisedly) spurred his horse through the gapp, where both he and his horse were immediately killed.’  See Walter Money, The Battles of Newbury, 1884, p. 52; also p. 93.

A passage in Whitelocke’s Memorials, ed. 1682, p. 70, shows that he had a presentiment of his death:  ’The Lord Falkland, Secretary of State, in the morning of the fight, called for a clean shirt, and being asked the reason of it, answered, that if he were slain in the Battle, they should not find, his body in foul Linnen.  Being diswaded by his friends to goe into the fight, as having no call to it, and being no Military Officer, he said he was weary of the times, and foresaw much misery to his own Countrey, and did beleive be should be out of it ere night, and could not be perswaded to the contrary, but would enter into the battle, and was there slain.’