^{page 33 note 1} See below, Worc. Coll. fo 26^v, p. 229.

^{page 33 note 2} Below, Harl. MS. 4931 fo 47, pp. 233–34.

^{page 33 note 3} Below, Ibid., p. 234.

^{page 33 note 4} Below, Ibid., p. 234.

^{page 33 note 5} Below, Harl. MS. 4931 fo 47^v, p. 236.

^{page 33 note 6} Below, Ibid., p. 237.

^{page 33 note 7} Below, Ibid., p. 236.

^{page 33 note 8} Below, Harl. MS. 4931 fo 48, p. 238.

^{page 33 note 9} Below, Harl. MS. 4931 fo 47, p. 234.

^{page 33 note 10} O.E.D. gives a date of 1643 for ‘royalist’, but see: Willson, D. H., The Privy Councillors in the House of Commons (Minneapolis, 1940), p. 123, n. 41.Google Scholar

^{page 33 note 11} Below, Harl. MS. 4931 fos 47^v–48, pp. 236–39 and notes.

^{page 34 note 1} Below, Harl. MS. 4931 fo 47, p. 233.

^{page 34 note 2} Below, Harl. MS. 4931 fo 47^v, p. 235.

^{page 34 note 3} Below, Harl. MS. 4931 fo 49, p. 242.

^{page 34 note 4} Below, Ibid., p. 244.

^{page 34 note 5} For example, below, Petition, Essex (18 April), Harl. MS. 4931 fo 41^r, p. 275.

^{page 34 note 6} Christopher Thompson brought the Gauden material, such as that in fo 24^r, to our attention.

^{page 34 note 7} For example, S.P. 16/441/113; S.P. 16/451/9 (below, Montague Papers, p. 2, 20 April n. 1, p. 99).

^{page 34 note 8} For example, below, S.P. 16/450/113, 16/452/9, pp. 290–91.

^{page 34 note 9} For example, Hastings (CSP 1640, pp. 2–3).

^{page 35 note 1} For example, below, S.P. 16/450/113, p. 290.

^{page 35 note 2} Bodl., Tanner MS. 65, fo 79^v. A list of correspondents appears there too.

^{page 35 note 3} S.P. 16/450/88; S.P. 16/451/16; S.P. 16/451/57; S.P. 16/451/66; S.P. 16/452/20. The comments in Commons Debates, 1629, pp. xliv–xlvGoogle Scholar, need some revision. Copies of the letters of 12 and 19 May (S.P. 16/453/24 and B.L., Add. MS. 11045, fos 116^r–17^v) appear in B.L., Sloane MS. 1467, fos 104^r–108^r, 108^r–11^v. The Sloane MS. is a volume of miscellaneous extracts. It includes copies of letters from the period after 19 May but none for that of the Short Parliament.

^{page 35 note 4} See B.L., Add. MS. 11045, fos 105^r–105^v, 109v, 116^r.

^{page 35 note 5} For example, see B.L., Add. MS. 11045, fos 95^r, 105^r; but also see B.L , Add. MS. 11045, fo 115r, and Finch-Hatton MS., p. 57, below, p. 172, concerning Peard's speech.

^{page 36 note 1} B.L., Add. MS. 11045, fos 109^r–109^v, 110^r; cf. S.P. 16/450/88; see also S.P. 16/451/66 and B.L., Add. MS. 11045, fos 110^r–13^r.

^{page 36 note 2} B.L., Add. MS. 11045, fo 109^v; cf. S.P. 16/450/88.

^{page 36 note 3} B.L., Add. MS. 11045, fos 111^r–13^v, 114^r–15^v; cf. S.P. 16/451/66 and S.P. 16/452/20. It is possible that they paid different fees.

^{page 36 note 4} 25 April (wrongly dated 27 April in MS.); see also C.J., ii, pp. 11–12.Google Scholar

^{page 36 note 5} Cf. below, S.P. 16/451/16 (21 April), p. 246, and B.L., Add. MS. 11045, fo 111^r; also below, S.P. 16/451/57 (23–24 April), pp. 246–47, and B.L. Add. MS. 11045, fos 111^v–12^v.

^{page 37 note 1} But see Gardiner, S. R., History of England, 1603–1642, ix (London, 1884), p. 115n.Google Scholar

^{page 37 note 2} See below, App., Pym (17 April), p. 299.

^{page 37 note 3} See Finch-Hatton MS., p. 54, p. 169.

^{page 37 note 4} The second version comes at the end of the volume, after the king's speech at the dissolution, and is in a different hand.

^{page 37 note 5} See below, App., Rudyerd (16 April), Eliot, pp. 296, 313.

^{page 38 note 1} For example, CSP Ven. 1640, pp. 40, 46.Google Scholar

^{page 38 note 2} Twenty-one volumes of transcripts of Salvetti's dispatches are among the Additional Manuscripts in the British Library. Those for the Short Parliament can be found in Add. MS. 27962 I. See also Hist. MSS Comm., xvi, Eleventh Report, App. i: Skrine MSS, Salvetti Papers (London, 1887), p. 2. Transcripts of Rossetti's dispatches for the Short Parliament are preserved in the Public Record Office, P.R.O. 31/9/18.

^{page 38 note 3} For example, B.L., Add. MS. 27962 I, fos 54^r–55^r; P.R.O. 31/9/18, fos 181^r–82^r.

^{page 38 note 4} P.R.O. 31/9/18, fos 181^r–82^r.

^{page 38 note 5} The reports are preserved among the manuscript collections in Vienna of the Haus-, Hof-, und Staatsarchiv, Englische Korrespondenz 18, fos 54^r–87^r. We used photocopies borrowed from Danila C. Spielman.

^{page 38 note 6} Von Lisola, fo 86^r.

^{page 38 note 7} P.R.O. 31/3/72, fos 124^r, 129^r.

^{page 38 note 8} P.R.O. 31/3/72, fos 4^r–5^r, 136^r.

^{page 39 note 1} P.R.O. 31/3/72, fos 4^r–5^r. 118^r, 136^r. See also Hist. MSS Comm., ii. Third Report, App.: Northumberland MSS, Alnwick Papers (London, 1872), p. 80. Transcripts of Montereul's dispatches are preserved in the Public Record Office (P.R.O. 31/3/72).

^{page 39 note 2} P.R.O. 31/3/72, fo 144^r.

^{page 39 note 3} p.R.O. 31/3/72, fos 124^r, 144^r.

^{page 39 note 4} P.R.O. 31/3/72, fos 119^r, 120^r.

^{page 39 note 5} E.g., the Spanish dispatches (Archivo General de Simancas) or those of the Dutch representative, Heere Van Sommelsdyck. We are grateful to Norah Fuidge for information that the transcripts of Van Sommelsdyck's dispatches in the British Library do not include accounts of the Short Parliament; B.L., Add. MS. 22870 ends in March 1640 and B.L., Add. MS. 22871 begins in January 1640/41.

^{page 39 note 6} STC 9241; 9246; and especially 9249, His Majesties Declaration to All His Loving Subjects, of the Causes Which Moved him to Dissolve the Last Parliament (London, 1628)Google Scholar, B.L., 8122. c. 26; also Rushworth, i, Appendix.

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