Page 165, ll. 6-9.  See Clarendon, vol. i, p. 259.

l. ii. that unhappy kingdome.  This was written in France.

ll. 20-5.  Antony a Wood did not share Clarendon’s scepticism about Say’s descent, though he shared his dislike of Say himself:  see Athenae Oxonienses, ed.  Bliss, vol. in, col. 546.

Page 166, ll. 25 ff.  See Clarendon, ed.  Macray, vol. i, pp. 333-5.  Cf. note p. 134, l. 3.  After the King’s execution he took little part in public affairs, but at the Restoration he managed to be made a Privy Councillor and Lord Privy Seal.

Clarendon has another and shorter character of Say, which supplements the character here given, and deals mainly with his ecclesiastical politics (vol. i, p. 241).  He was thought to be the only member of the Independent party in the House of Peers (vol. iii, p. 507).

Arthur Wilson gives short characters of Essex, Warwick, and Say:  ’Saye and Seale was a seriously subtil Peece, and alwayes averse to the Court wayes, something out of pertinatiousnesse; his Temper and Constitution ballancing him altogether on that Side, which was contrary to the Wind; so that he seldome tackt about or went upright, though he kept his Course steady in his owne way a long time:  yet it appeared afterwards, when the harshnesse of the humour was a little allayed by the sweet Refreshments of Court favours, that those sterne Comportments supposed naturall, might be mitigated, and that indomitable Spirits by gentle usage may be tamed and brought to obedience’ (Reign of King James I, p. 162).

49.

Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 48-9:  Life, ed. 1759, p. 16.

This and the four following characters of men of learning and letters are taken from the early section of the Life where Clarendon proudly records his friendships and conversation with ’the most excellent men in their several kinds that lived in that age, by whose learning and information and instruction he formed his studies, and mended his understanding, and by whose gentleness and sweetness of behaviour, and justice, and virtue, and example, he formed his manners.’  The characters of Jonson, Falkland, and Godolphin which belong to the same section have already been given.

Page 167, l. 27. his conversation, fortunately represented for us in his Table-Talk, a collection of the ’excellent things that usually fell from him’, made by his amanuensis Richard Milward, and published in 1689.

Page 168, l. 3. M’r Hyde, i.e.  Clarendon himself.

l. 5. Seldence, a phonetic spelling, showing Clarendon’s haste in composition.

l.10.  Selden was member for Oxford during the Long Parliament.

ll. 15, 16.  Compare Clarendon’s History, vol. ii, p. 114:  ’he had for many years enjoyed his ease, which he loved, was rich, and would not have made a journey to York, or have lain out of his own bed, for any preferment, which he had never affected.  Compare also Aubrey’s Brief Lives, ed.  A. Clark, vol. ii, p. 224:  ’He was wont to say “I’le keepe myselfe warme and moyst as long as I live, for I shall be cold and dry when I am dead “.’