42.

Clarendon, MS. History, p. 486 (first paragraph) and Life, p. 249 (second paragraph); History, Bk.  VII, ed. 1703, vol. ii, p. 292; ed.  Macray, vol. iii, pp. 216-17.

Clarendon added the first paragraph in the margin of the manuscript of his earlier work when he dovetailed the two works to form the History in its final form.

Page 152, l. 27. this Covenant, the Solemn League and Covenant, which passed both Houses on September 18, 1643:  ’the battle of Newbery being in that time likewise over (which cleared and removed more doubts than the Assembly had done), it stuck very few hours with both Houses; but being at once judged convenient and lawful, the Lords and Commons and their Assembly of Divines met together at the church, with great solemnity, to take it, on the five and twentieth day of September’ (Clarendon, vol. iii, p. 205).

43.

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town ...  Written by His Widow Lucy, Daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower, &c.  Now first published from the original manuscript by the Rev. Julius Hutchinson ...  London:  1806. (pp. 4-6.)

The original manuscript has disappeared, and the edition of 1806 is the only authoritative text.  It has been many times reprinted.  It was edited with introduction, notes, and appendices by C.H.  Firth in 1885 (new edition, 1906).

The Memoirs as a whole are the best picture we possess of a puritan soldier and household of the seventeenth century.  They were written by his widow as a consolation to herself and for the instruction of her children.  To ’such of you as have not seene him to remember his person’, she leaves, by way of introduction, ‘His Description.’  It is this passage which is here reprinted.

44, 45, 46, 47, 48.

Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 212-15; History, Bk.  VI, ed. 1703, vol. ii, pp. 158-62; ed.  Macray, vol. ii, pp. 541-8.

These five characters of Parliamentary peers follow one another at the conclusion of Clarendon’s sixth book, and are part of his ’view of those persons who were of the King’s Council, and had deserted his service, and stayed in the Parliament to support the rebellion’.  A short passage on the Earl of Holland, between the characters of Warwick and Manchester, is omitted.

Taken as a group, they are yet another proof of Clarendon’s skill in portraiture.  Each character is clearly distinguished.

Page 159, ll. 7-10.  His grandfather was William Cecil (1520-98), Lord Burghley, the great minister of Elizabeth; his father was Robert Cecil (1563-1612), created Earl of Salisbury, 1605, Secretary of State at the accession of James.

Page 160, l. 9.  He was member for King’s Lynn in 1649, and Hertfordshire in 1654 and 1656.

ll. 13-16. Hic egregiis, &c.  Seneca, De Beneficiis, iv, cap. 30.