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The Parliamentary Papers of Nicholas Ferrar, 1624

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2009

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Nicholas Ferrar's fame in the twentieth century rests largely upon religious foundations – as a saint of the Church of England and as one of the moving spirits at Little Gidding – but in fact his historical importance is more than merely religious, and indeed religion did not dominate his life before 1625. Born in London in February 1593, the youngest but one of a family of six, Nicholas was named for his father, a highly successful Merchant Adventurer who was also a Master of the Skinners Company. Small, fair-haired, precocious and frail, Nicholas was always his mother's favourite, and it was she who largely influenced his development. At the age of seventeen he was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, but soon after his twentieth birthday he left Cambridge for the sake of his health, spending the years 1613–17 on the continent, chiefly at Padua, where he studied medicine. On his return to England he did not resume his fellowship at Clare, but remained in London with his parents, attending to his now elderly father's business affairs which included membership of the East India and Virginia Companies – and acting as his executor upon his death in 1620.

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page 5 note 1 In all there were nine children, but three died before Nicholas's birth. A daughter followed by five sons survived to reach the age of 21.

page 5 note 2 He did not, however, resign it until 1631.

page 5 note 3 Kingsbury, S. M., The Records of the Virginia Company of London, 19061935, i. 222–3, 386, 467, 473; ii 29.Google Scholar

page 6 note 4 His patron at Tamworth was Lord Paget, another member of the Virginia Company's London council.

page 6 note 5 In addition another item, annotated by Sir Nathaniel Rich, passed into the possession of the Mandeville Commission, and thus into the Manchester Papers. For this item, see below.

page 6 note 6 A microfilm edition of the Ferrar Papers, with an introduction and handlist by D. R. Ransome, was published by Microfilm Academic Publishers of Wakefield in 1992.

page 7 note 7 Ferrar Papers 1433 is entitled [f.ir] ‘Passages in the Parliament/1623’. It then lists [ff.IV–5V], by English counties alphabetically followed by the Welsh constituencies, the members of the House of Commons as originally returned. Since this list, amended to take account of later returns, is available in Return of Members (1878), pp. 456–62Google Scholar, it is not reproduced below.

The first of the diary's three fragments [ff.1–6] opens with the list of members, continues with the events of 12–19 February 1623/4, and ends while the king is making his opening speech. The second fragment [ff.7–22] begins on Saturday 21 February with the presentation of the Speaker to the king and continues until the afternoon of Tuesday 24 February. The third [ff.23–43] recounts events on Monday and Tuesday 1 and 2 March, and after three blank pages in the manuscript [ff.3Ov–31v] runs from Thursday 4 March to the morning of Monday 8 March, breaking off in mid-sentence. The final pages [fr.42–43] record King James's reply at Theobalds on 5 March to a parliamentary delegation of both houses.

page 7 note 8 Ferrar Papers 1584c.

page 7 note 9 When possible these blanks have been filled from other parliamentary diaries, a list of which appears as Appendix 1.

page 8 note 10 Kingsbury, ii. 537–8.

page 8 note 11 Ferrar Papers 1589.

page 8 note 12 Sheffield University, Hartlib MS 61/2. The version given below appears by permission of the Librarian of Sheffield University. The photographic copy of the original was obtained with the aid of the university's Hartlib Papers Project; the editor is particularly grateful to Mark Greengrass and Tim Raylor for their help.

page 8 note 13 See, for example, John Ferrar's letter of 28 November 1653 to Hartlib, printed in The Reformed Virginia Silkworm of 1655.

page 8 note 14 Ferrar Papers 1576b.

page 8 note 15 Ferrar Papers 1397a; 1397c; 484d; 4846; 484a & b & c: 1628a & b.

page 8 note 16 Ferrar Papers 484c.

page 9 note 17 The other councillors besides Ferrar were Christopher Brooke (Newport, IoW), Sir John Danvers (Newport, IoW), John More (Lymington); the freemen, Thomas Bond (Southampton) and George Garrett or Gerard (Newtown, IoW); the kinsmen, his son and heir, James Lord Wriothesley (Winchester) and Thomas Wriothesley (Yarmouth, IoW).

page 9 note 18 Kingsbury, iv. 157. Before their sale in New York city, the Manchester Papers were microfilmed and a copy of the film was deposited in the British Library: B.L. microfilm R P 420. It is this microfilm that the editor consulted.

page 9 note 19 And began a 53rd but crossed out after writing only ‘Mr Art’.

page 9 note 20 Sir Arthur Harris.

page 9 note 21 See, for example, Cogswell, Thomas, The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621–1624 (1989)Google Scholar, which all but ignores the Virginian dimension in the politics of 1624.

page 11 note 1 The Lord Steward.

page 11 note 2 James Hamilton, 2nd Marquis of Hamilton.

page 11 note 3 Cary, Valentine: Letters of John Chamberlain (Philadelphia, 1939), ii, 546.Google Scholar

page 13 note 4 For the rest of this speech see, e.g., Nicholas or BL, Harleian MS 159 ff.11v–12v. For the Lord Keeper's charge to the Commons to choose a Speaker: ibid., ff.12v–13.

page 13 note 5 Sir Thomas Crew.

page 13 note 6 First written as ‘according’.

page 13 note 7 John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln.

page 13 note 8 BL, Harl. MS 159 f.13v.

page 14 note 9 Conyam has here misinterpreted Ferrar's hand. Ferrar no doubt wrote Le Roy k Veut.

page 14 note 10 ‘lardge’ erased; according to Hacket, J., Scrinia Reserata…, 1693, Pt I p. 176Google Scholar, the speech lasted ‘about the time of half an Hour’.

page 14 note 11 BL, Harl. MS 159 f.14.

page 15 note 12 See 39 Eliz. I c. 5: An Act for erecting of Hospitals…; Conyam has misread Ferrar's ‘39’ as ‘30’.

page 15 note 13 See BL, Harl. MS 159 f.16v: the Lord Keeper's speech.

page 15 note 14 Ibid., f.14v.

page 16 note 15 For this speech, see also Hacket, Pt I pp. 176‘magnificum’ or ‘munificum’?Google Scholar

page 17 note 16 King Ahasuerus, in The Book of Esther.

page 17 note 17 Did Ferrar wrile ‘magnificum’ or ‘munificum’?

page 18 note 18 BL, Harl. MS 159 f.16v.

page 18 note 19 In fact the Thebans: ibid.

page 18 note 20 Cf. Hacket, Pt I p. 177.Google Scholar

page 19 note 21 Ibid., p. 178.

page 19 note 22 Hacket ibid. gives the full quotation: ‘Non domum sed fanum. ubi quot cives tot sacerdotes’.

page 19 note 23 BL, Harl. MS 159 f. 17; Hacket Pt I p. 178 calls him ‘Aphonso the Wise’.

page 19 note 24 Cf. BL, Harl MS 159 f. 17: ‘… that all his subjects were kinges’.

page 19 note 25 Ferrar appears to have here misunderstood the Lord Keeper: ibid., f.17v.

page 19 note 26 Hacket Pt I p. 179: ‘And yet as that Carver that beautified the Temple of Diana, although he wrought upon other Mens Charges, was suffered notwithstanding to engrave his own Name in some eminent Places of the Building:’ Did Ferrar really write ‘Assyrians’ or has Conyarn misread Ferrar's ‘Ephesians’?

page 20 note 27 The Lord Keeper is here referring to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.

page 20 note 28 For the missing details, see BL, Harl. MS 159 f.18, or Hacket Pt I p. 179.

page 20 note 29 Nicholas.

page 20 note 30 i.e. Perrot.

page 20 note 31 Nicholas.

page 21 note 32 Holles.

page 21 note 33 A gap in the ms here appears to he of no significance.

page 21 note 34 Nicholas

page 21 note 35 Yale footnote to Nicholas.

page 21 note 36 Ibid.

page 21 note 37 Ibid.

page 22 note 38 i.e. Strangways: e.g. Hawarde.

page 22 note 39 Recte James.

page 22 note 40 Pym.

page 22 note 41 i.e. Exchequer.

page 22 note 42 ‘signified’ erased.

page 22 note 43 Nicholas

page 23 note 44 Ibid.

page 23 note 45 Ibid

page 23 note 46 Ibid.

page 23 note 47 Ley and Hobart: Ibid.

page 23 note 48 A gap here appears to be of no significance.

page 23 note 49 Sic, but ?recte went.

page 24 note 50 Sir Richard Weston.

page 24 note 51 Sic, but recte Cottington.

page 24 note 52 Conyam has written this sentence as a separate paragraph, but sense requires that it be read as a continuation of the preceding sentence.

page 24 note 53 ‘as’ erased.

page 24 note 54 Sir Thomas Edmondes.

page 24 note 55 Sir John Suckling.

page 25 note 56 Aged sixteen, Philip IV had succeeded his father on 31 March 1621.

page 25 note 57 John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, ambassador to the court of Spain.

page 25 note 58 Heidelberg, whose English garrison surrendered on 19 September 1622.

page 25 note 59 Isabella Clara Eugenia, ‘sovereign prince’ of the southern Netherlands, together with her husband the Archduke Albert.

page 26 note 60 Arthur Lord Chichester of Belfast, sent as envoy to the Palatinate in 1622.

page 26 note 61 Sense requires the insertion of a ‘not’. The size of the gap here suggests that additional words are missing.

page 26 note 62 Endymion.

page 26 note 63 Gaspar de Guzman, conde-duque de Olivares.

page 26 note 64 To the sister of Philip IV, the Infanta Maria, who in 1629 married her first cousin, the future Emperor Ferdinand III.

page 27 note 65 The Emperor Ferdinand II, who was brother to Philip's mother.

page 27 note 66 i.e. Digby/Bristol.

page 27 note 67 i.e. Porter.

page 27 note 68 This word comes at the end of a line. Conyam's eye seems to have skipped over the next line or lines of Ferrar's draft, and thus written nonsense.

page 28 note 69 ‘with him’ deleted.

page 28 note 70 Nicholas.

page 28 note 71 Alessandro Ludovisi, as Gregory XV, was Pope 1621–23.

page 28 note 72 Cf. Nicholas: ‘which being not so effectual as he wished’.

page 29 note 73 Sir Walter Aston.

page 29 note 74 Aranjuez, a royal palace south of Madrid.

page 30 note 75 Rich.

page 31 note 76 Juan Manuel de Mendoza y Manrique, marques de Montesclaros.

page 31 note 77 Diego Sarmiento de Acuna, conde de Gondomar, the former Spanish ambassador to the court of England.

page 32 note 78 Puntillio, Pantillio, i.e. Punctilio: a petty formality.

page 32 note 79 Written over ‘pursue’ erased.

page 32 note 80 Sense requires the insertion of the following words.

page 32 note 81 Nicholas.

page 33 note 82 Sic, but ?recte ‘them’.

page 33 note 83 Nicholas.

page 34 note 84 Sir Walter Aston.

page 35 note 85 Ines de Zuniga had married her first cousin Olivares in 1607.

page 37 note 86 By NF, over ‘after’ erased.

page 37 note 87 Baltasar de Zuniga, uncle to both Olivares and his countess, directed Spanish foreign policy from 1617 until his death in 1622.

page 37 note 88 i.e. the Discalced Carmelites.

page 38 note 89 Correction by NF, over ‘were’.

page 38 note 90 Nicholas, Holles.

page 39 note 91 Pym.

page 40 note 92 i.e. praemunires.

page 40 note 93 Sir Ranulph Crew, King's Serjeant.

page 40 note 94 Sir Thomas Coventry.

page 40 note 95 Heneage Finch.

page 40 note 96 Sir Robert Heath.

page 41 note 97 Sir Julius Caesar.

page 41 note 98 Sir Lawrence Tanfield.

page 41 note 99 i.e. Glanville.

page 42 note 100 i.e. Coryton.

page 43 note 101 Sir Edward Seymour: Nicholas.

page 43 note 102 Ibid.

page 43 note 103 In the Persian Gulf, taken by the English from the Portuguese in April 1622.

page 43 note 104 Nicholas; ‘Van de Putte’: Hawarde.

page 43 note 105 Here Conyam has not understood Ferrar, who probably wrote ‘promiscuously’.

page 44 note 106 A gap of two or three lines follows.

page 44 note 107 Ambrogio Spinola, the Genoese general of the Spanish troops in the Netherlands.

page 44 note 108 Sir Richard Weston.

page 45 note 109 ‘prespeden’ erased.

page 45 note 110 Sir Thomas Edmondes, Treasurer of the Household.

page 46 note 111 For this speech, see also Hacket Pt I pp. 185–86.

page 46 note 112 Nicholas

page 46 note 113 Richard Grimes or Greames, gentleman of the horse to the Duke of Buckingham.

page 46 note 114 A repetition of ‘heare that hee was any way’ cancelled.

page 47 note 115 George Abbot.

page 49 note 116 The Duke of Alençon.

page 49 note 117 Plans for the marriage of Henry VIII's sister to the future Emperor Charles V occupied the years 1506–14, and for Charles V's marriage to Henry's daughter the years 1520–25.

page 49 note 118 Recte Portugal, in 1526.

page 49 note 119 Cavaliere or Caballero: i.e. Sir (Robert).

page 49 note 120 i.e. Gondamar; cf. BL, Harl. MS 159 f.25v.

page 50 note 121 Now PRO, SP 94/21 f.33.

page 50 note 122 Now PRO, SP 94/25 Pt I f.182.

page 51 note 123 Ibid., ff.169 70.

page 51 note 124 Juan de Ciriza.

page 51 note 125 Now PRO, SP 94/25 Pt II ff.263–66, recte of 21 October 1622.

page 51 note 126 The Elector Palatine or Pfalzgraf, Frederick V, husband of James I's daughter Elizabeth, and briefly in 1620 King of Bohemia.

page 51 note 127 Ibid., ff.342–26.

page 51 note 128 Ibid., f.325.

page 52 note 129 i.e. Bavaria.

page 52 note 130 William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke.

page 52 note 131 Diego de Mexia, marques de Leganes, ambassador from the Archdukes in 1623.

page 52 note 132 ‘like’ erased.

page 52 note 133 Sir Thomas Edmondes.

page 53 note 134 Heneage Finch.

page 53 note 135 The Infanta Catalina Micaela (1567–97) married Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy in 1585.

page 53 note 136 over ‘haveinge’.

page 53 note 137 ‘possessions’ deleted by NF.

page 53 note 138 deleting a word now illegible.

page 54 note 139 Marseille.

page 54 note 140 Sir Richard Weston.

page 54 note 141 Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex.

page 55 note 142 The Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia.

page 55 note 143 Count Ernst von Mansfeld, then in the service of the Elector Palatine.

page 55 note 144 Here begins FP 1584c, the only original notes made by Nicholas Ferrar to have survived. Since Conyam reproduced them with a high degree of accuracy, they are not here given in full. NF's variations, are, where legible, given in subsequent footnotes.

page 55 note 145 ‘Sandys’.

page 55 note 146 ‘D of Buckingham’.

page 55 note 147 ‘pleasur’, over ‘commaunde’ erased.

page 55 note 148 ‘Coppye’

page 55 note 149 ‘last’ erased.

page 55 note 150 ‘Selecte Committee’ erased.

page 55 note 151 ‘of the House’ erased.

page 56 note 152 ‘Lady’ erased.

page 56 note 153 ‘would’ erased.

page 56 note 154 ‘demanded’ erased.

page 56 note 155 ‘with’ erased.

page 56 note 156 ‘greate derogatione’ erased.

page 56 note 157 John Ferrar has interpolated the words between the two asterisks.

page 56 note 158 ‘occatione’ erased.

page 56 note 159 ‘multitue’ erased.

page 56 note 160 ‘Couradg’ erased.

page 56 note 161 ‘be all’ erased. At this point John Ferrar ceases to write, and Tristram Conyarn takes over.

page 56 note 162 ‘that of’ erased.

page 57 note 163 Interpolated by John Ferrar.

page 57 note 164 Here John Ferrar has erased ‘invaded’.

page 57 note 165 ‘cast’ erased.

page 57 note 166 Frederick Henry (1614–29).

page 57 note 167 Inserted by Ferrar, after erasing Conyam's ‘Dishonours’.

page 57 note 168 ‘imp-’ erased.

page 57 note 169 John Ferrar has added the words between the asterisks in place of Conyam's few words: ‘have obtruded uppon our Nation and Religion’. Ferrar's clause ‘inviting still to new Treaties’ repeats Conyam's.

page 58 note 170 Here Conyam yields to Ferrar again, who writes the rest of the document.

page 58 note 171 Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (d.1612).

page 58 note 172 In 1622.

page 58 note 173 Ferdinand de Boiscot, ambassador of the Archdukes in February 1623.

page 58 note 174 Don Carlo Coloma, the Spanish ambassador.

page 58 note 175 ?Burgstadt (today in Saxony) 8 miles NW of Chemnitz, or (more likely) PBurstadt (today in Rhenish Hesse), 5 miles E of Worms & 7 miles N of Mannheim.

page 58 note 176 i.e. Mainz.

page 59 note 177 ‘owne’ erased.

page 59 note 178 William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.

page 59 note 179 Sir Edwin Sandys.

page 59 note 180 Now PRO, SP 92/9 Pt I ff.140–43: Abstract of letters of Card. Ludovisi to Pere Hyacinth of 22 May/1 June, & 1/11 June 1622.

page 59 note 181 NF's original reads: ‘which in his imployment in Savoy hee had intercepted’.

page 59 note 182 Nicholas.

page 59 note 183 Hyacinthe: Nicholas.

page 59 note 184 ‘Then hee’ erased.

page 59 note 185 ‘being to this effect’.

page 59 note 186 As in NF's notes.

page 59 note 187 ‘with all sitt’ erased; ‘of ye want … Treaties’ interpolated.

page 59 note 188 ‘his ma.t may not’ erased.

page 59 note 189 ‘then but immediately discharge them with’ erased.

page 59 note 190 ‘wch mixed kynde of repone was’ erased.

page 60 note 191 2want[in]g.

page 60 note 192 ‘to seeme to make it a’ erased.

page 60 note 193 ‘hee delivered the’ erased.

page 60 note 194 ‘Sandys’.

page 60 note 195 ‘dif erased.

page 60 note 196 ‘That was the pr’ erased.

page 60 note 197 ‘that morn[in]g/had in the upper house made’ erased; ‘saide … Upper’ interpolated.

page 60 note 198 ‘soe resolute’ interpolated over an illegible erasure.

page 60 note 199 ‘demaunde’ erased.

page 60 note 200 ‘not onely soe moast probably’ erased.

page 60 note 201 ‘most probably’ interpolated.

page 60 note 202 ‘therto to be p'pared’ interpolated.

page 60 note 203 ‘and’ interpolated.

page 61 note 204 ‘speake’ erased.

page 61 note 205 NF perhaps wrote ‘were’.

page 61 note 206 NF wrote ‘therin’; ‘and therin they wronged us’ interpolated.

page 61 note 207 An illegible erasure precedes ‘consideration’.

page 61 note 208 ‘never’ erased.

page 61 note 209 ‘with intent to bee performed when’ erased; ‘intend … what’ interpolated.

page 61 note 210 ‘till’ erased & replaced.

page 61 note 211 ‘they inf’ erased.

page 61 note 212 ‘uppon’ erased.

page 61 note 213 i.e. Coryton.

page 61 note 214 NF wrote: ‘haveinge once passed itt it was not…’.

page 61 note 215 ‘nor moderate itt’ interpolated.

page 61 note 216 ‘fully’ erased.

page 61 note 217 NF perhaps wrote ‘that’.

page 62 note 218 ‘there was noe’ erased.

page 62 note 219 ‘for fforraigne Nations’ interpolated.

page 62 note 220 NF wrote ‘Harly’.

page 62 note 221 NF wrote ‘if wee now should …’.

page 62 note 222 ‘should’ erased.

page 62 note 223 NF wrote ‘Mr Wandesford’; Christopher, not John: Ruigh, , Parliament of 1624, p. 194.Google Scholar

page 62 note 224 ‘Lords’ erased.

page 62 note 225 ‘hitherto not’ are the words Conyam failed to read.

page 62 note 226 ‘bee’ erased.

page 62 note 227 Conyam has added this word which is not in NF's original notes.

page 62 note 228 Sir Thomas Coventry.

page 62 note 229 Sir John Davies, serjeant-at-law.

page 63 note 230 Cf. Rich.

page 64 note 231 Recte Belasyse: Holland.

page 65 note 232 The appearance of a missing line here seems to have no significance.

page 65 note 233 Ferrar's original notes end at this point.

page 66 note 234 ‘Dudley Diggs’ erased.

page 67 note 235 ‘and’ erased.

page 68 note 236 ‘Very’ erased.

page 69 note 237 ‘to’ erased.

page 69 note 238 ‘your’ erased.

page 69 note 239 ‘wilbe’ erased.

page 71 note 1 The missing day is 28 April; for which see Kingsbury, S. M., Records of the Virginia Company of London, ii. 539Google Scholar, and Journal of the House of Commons, i.691 col. 1.Google Scholar

page 73 note 2 At a Virginia Company Quarter Court held that same morning, ‘The Court taking into Consideracion that the matters to be delivered to the Parlyament did fall under fower generall heads (vizt) the Matter of Tobacco and all the greivances therin: The buisines of the Contract. The proceedings of the Comissioners and the passadges since, and conceivinge that neither Counsell att Lawe could be soe fully informed as were requisite, and perhapps would not be soe well heard, did therefore thinke fitt to beseech the Lord Cavendish Sir Edwin Sandis and Sir John Da[n]vers to take uppon them the delivery of the three last partes, (vizt) The Lord Cavendish the buissines of the Comission, Sir Edwin Sandys that of the Contract, and Sir John Da[n]vers the last: And for ye matter of Tobacco they imposed itt uppon mr Deputy. His Lordship very Nobly vouchsaffed to promise his performance of their desires, and the like did the other of their partes.’ [Kingsbury, ii.538]

page 74 note 3 Interpolated over ‘at’ which has been erased.

page 75 note 4 FP 1589: a hand that is probably Nicholas Ferrar's has corrected ‘hundred’ to ‘thousand’.

page 77 note 5 FF 1589 p. 8: at the foot of the page, after ‘… to have paid butt 3d’, Nicholas Ferrar has added: ‘. … … … … … … …. according [MISSING]ation yt: there Tobacko was sold at [MISSING].

page 78 note 6 Sense would seem to require a repetition: ‘This Five thowsand pound…’.

page 80 note 7 FP 1589 p. 15: Tristam Conyam at first wrote ‘interested’, which Nicholas Ferrar corrected to ‘entrusted’.

page 82 note 8 Neither copy of the speech goes any further. At this point Ferrar would have handed over the attack on the Lord Treasurer to ‘my Lord and thother gentlemen’, namely Lord Cavendish, Sir Edwin Sandys and Sir John Danvers [See above p. 73 n. 2, citing Kingsbury, ii.538].

page 83 note 9 Cf. Kingsbury ii.434–5.

page 83 note 10 Cf. Kingsbury ii.437.

page 83 note 11 ?Sir Samuel Argall.

page 83 note 12 ?Alderman Robert Johnson.

page 83 note 13 ?Samuel Wrote.

page 83 note 14 Three illegible letters.

page 84 note 15 Cf. Kingsbury ii.437.

page 88 note 16 Here the notes end.

page 89 note 1 There are two copies of this petition: FP 1628b, in the hand of Nicholas Ferrar, and FP 1628a, in the hand of Edward Collingwood.

page 89 note 2 FP 1628a: most.

page 89 note 3 FP 1628a: and being not able.

page 90 note 4 FP 1628a: Treasury.

page 90 note 5 FP 1628a: there abridged to the.

page 90 note 6 Three copies of the Turkey Merchants petition survive: FP 484a and FP 484b are entirely in Nicholas Ferrar's hand; FP 484c is in the hands of Nicholas Ferrar and Edward Collingwood. The text above is FP 484a; variants taken from FP 484b are given in the footnotes which follow. Cf. BL, Harl. MS 159 f.44.

page 90 note 7 FP 484b does not italicise Turky Merchants, and is numbered ‘2’.

page 90 note 8 FP 484b names them ‘Turky merchants’.

page 90 note 9 FP 484b: corrans.

page 90 note 10 This word has been added in the left hand margin.

page 90 note 11 FP 484b: twopence now in Anno 1620.

page 90 note 12 FP 484b: maketh.

page 90 note 13 ‘Commodity’ erased.

page 90 note 14 The five is first erased and then put back.

page 91 note 15 Interpolated over ‘Velbatelli’ erased.

page 91 note 16 FP 484b: straunger.

page 91 note 17 FP 484b: Englishmen.

page 91 note 18 FP 484b: wooll.

page 91 note 19 ‘muskadyne’ erased.

page 91 note 20 FP 484b: wynes.

page 91 note 21 Originally ‘unto’, the ‘un-’ being erased.

page 91 note 22 ‘the late’ is added in the left hand margin, then erased. FP 484b has ‘Elizabeth’ in full.

page 91 note 23 FP 484b: Turky.

page 91 note 24 FP 484b: Merchant.

page 91 note 25 ‘the’ erased.

page 91 note 26 FP 484b: and for.

page 92 note 27 ‘wch’ erased.

page 92 note 28 FP 484b: This.

page 92 note 29 The full stop replaces a comma, which has been erased.

page 92 note 30 Nfs ‘then’ is erased, and ‘then was’ added in another hand.

page 92 note 31 ‘resumed’ erased.

page 92 note 32 ‘pr’ erased.

page 92 note 33 ‘that’ erased.

page 92 note 34 ‘former’ erased.

page 92 note 35 ‘being layde upon a false (changed by NF to an erronious)’ is all erased. In their place another hand has interpolated ‘not yet entred … erroneous’.

page 92 note 36 FP 484b: entered.

page 92 note 37 ‘it saving uppon t’ erased.

page 92 note 38 FP 484b: the.

page 92 note 39 ‘gre’ erased.

page 93 note 40 Contrast BL, Harl. MS 159 f.46v.

page 93 note 41 This word is interpolated above ‘the like from the / p’ erased.

page 93 note 42 NF at first wrote ‘there duty’.

page 93 note 43 Another hand has changed this word to ‘iudgement’.

page 93 note 44 NF at first wrote ‘none’ in place of ‘no man’.

page 93 note 45 Interpolated by NF over the original ‘either of theire’ erased.

page 93 note 46 Interpolated by the other hand.

page 94 note 47 Interpolated by the other hand.

page 94 note 48 Interpolated by NF over ‘chardge’ erased.

page 94 note 49 Interpolated by the other hand.

page 94 note 50 Interpolated by the other hand over Nf's ‘fitt’.

page 94 note 51 ‘hat’ erased.

page 94 note 52 Added by the other hand, NF's separated ‘by’ being erased.

page 94 note 53 ‘which liberty onel’ erased.

page 95 note 54 Interpolated over first ‘depop’ erased, then ‘privation’ erased.

page 95 note 55 Cf. BL, Harl. MS 159 ff.45V–46r.

page 95 note 56 ‘6’ has been erased.

page 96 note 57 NF has written both the superscript ‘s’ and the full word.

page 96 note 58 The superscript ‘e’ has been added by another hand.

page 96 note 59 Interpolated by the other hand over NF's ‘of’ erased.

page 96 note 60 Interpolated by the other hand over NF's ‘an untrue’ erased.

page 96 note 61 NF has interpolated ‘slight and base’ for ‘faulty’ erased.

page 96 note 62 Interpolated by the other hand over NF's ‘a proper and just direction’ erased.

page 96 note 63 Interpolated by the other hand over NF's ‘case’ erased.

page 96 note 64 Corrected by the other hand from NF's ‘there’.

page 97 note 65 Adapted by the other hand from NF's ‘undutifulness to / wards’.

page 97 note 66 Interpolated by the other hand over NF's ‘to’ erased.

page 97 note 67 Cf. BL, Harl. MS 159 f.46v for variations in the wording.

page 97 note 68 ‘8’ has been erased.

page 97 note 69 Corrected by another hand from NF's ‘there’.

page 97 note 70 Statutes of the Realm iv.i.489: 8 Eliz.I c.6.

page 97 note 71 Interpolated by the other hand over NF's ‘shall’ erased.

page 97 note 72 Adapted by the other hand from NF's ‘Clothiers’.

page 97 note 73 Corrected by the other hand from NF's ‘there’.

page 97 note 74 Interpolated by the other hand over NF's ‘Hand’ erased.

page 98 note 75 Interpolated by the other hand over NF's ‘was’ erased.

page 98 note 76 Adapted by the other hand from NF's ‘and’.

page 98 note 77 Interpolated by the other hand over NF's ‘of’ erased.

page 98 note 78 Interpolated by the other hand after erasing NF's ‘by’.

page 98 note 79 Corrected by the other hand from NF's ‘there’.

page 98 note 80 Cf. BL, Harl. MS 159 f.46v.

page 98 note 81 Cf. ibid.

page 98 note 82 Harl. MS 159 f.46v here reads ‘Wynes’.