l. 19.  He was member for Tavistock from 1624.

Page 133, l. 26.  Oliver St. John (1603-42), Solicitor-General, mortally wounded at Edgehill.

ll. 29, 30.  Cf. p. 129, ll. 15-18.

Page 134, l. 3.  Francis Russell (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford.  ’This lord was the greatest person of interest in all the popular party, being of the best estate and best understanding of the whole pack, and therefore most like to govern the rest; he was besides of great civility, and of much more good-nature than any of the others.  And therefore the King, resolving to do his business with that party by him, resolved to make him Lord High Treasurer of England, in the place of the Bishop of London, who was as willing to lay down the office as any body was to take it up; and, to gratify him the more, at his desire intended to make Mr. Pimm Chancellor of the Exchequer, as he had done Mr. St. John his Solicitor-General’ (Clarendon, vol. i, p. 333).  The plan was frustrated by Bedford’s death in 1641.  The Chancellorship of the Exchequer was bestowed on Culpeper (id., p. 457).

ll. 27 ff.  The authority for this story is the Mercurius Academicus for February 3, 1645-6 (pp. 74-5), a journal of the Court party published at Oxford (hence the title), and the successor of the Mercurius Aulicus.  The Irishman is there reported to have made this confession on the scaffold.

Page 135, ll. 25-8. The last Summer, i.e. before Pym’s death, 1643.  See Clarendon, vol. iii, pp. 116, 135, 141.

Page 136, ll. 7-10.  He died on December 8, 1643, and was buried on December 13 in Westminster Abbey, whence his body was ejected at the Restoration.

35.

Clarendon, MS. History, Bk.  X, p. 24 (or 570); History, ed. 1704, vol. iii, pp. 84-5; ed.  Macray, vol. iv, pp. 305-7.

The two characters of Cromwell by Clarendon were written about the same time.  Though the first is from the manuscript of the History, it belongs to a section that was added in 1671, when the matter in the original History was combined with the matter in the Life.  It describes Cromwell as Clarendon remembered him before he had risen to his full power.  He was then in Clarendon’s eyes preeminently a dissembler—­’the greatest dissembler living’.  The other character views him in the light of his complete achievement.  It represents him, with all his wickedness, as a man of ’great parts of courage and industry and judgement’.  He is a ‘bad man’, but a ‘brave, bad man’, to whose success, remarkable talents, and even some virtues, must have contributed.  The recognition of his greatness was unwilling; it was all the more sincere.

‘Crumwell’ is Clarendon’s regular spelling.

Page 136, l. 22.  Hampden’s mother, Elizabeth Cromwell, was the sister of Cromwell’s father.

Page 138, l. 18. the Modell, i.e. the New Model Army, raised in the Spring of 1645.  See C.H.  Firth’s Cromwell’s Army, 1902, ch. iii.