^{page 81 note *} This letter has been printed in Hardwicke's State Papers, i. 372, but with many inaccuracies, and one most serious omission. I do not scruple therefore to reprint it from the original.

^{page 83 note *} As I remember he sayde he meante it of your honour.

* Here at first followed, “viz. Garrie Lonyes,”—but these wo}rds were afterwards struck through.

† Here followed originally “conveyed diuers lettres from the Erie to the King of Scottes,” but these words were struck through and those which follow substituted in their place.

* I presume that this document had no legal validity, having been written after the testator's conviction of high treason; but it is full of indirect information respecting Essex's party and friends, and alludes to many well-known persons. On the whole, I think it will be deemed well worthy of publication.

† Of course, this was the future Sir Henry, the editor of Chrysostom, and Provost of Eton.

* The Earl at first here signed his name “H. Southampton,” but afterwards erased it and substituted the following.

* Sir John Peyton.

† An encounter in the public street.

* Birch published a portion of this most valuable document (Mem. Eliz. II. 470) from a copy of a copy which is in the Advocates's publication is strangely incomplete; after a certain time it is a mere confused jumble. I am not aware that the paper has ever been printed entire. In vol. lxxxiii. of the Hatfield MSS. there is the original draft as well as a fair copy, both in the handwriting of Sir Charles Danvers. I have printed from the latter.

page 107 note * The names were not added.

page 109 note * On reconsideration Sir Christopher added here the following paragraph.

page 109 note † That is, into Ireland.