page 3 note * See passages in pp. 33 (“no more tyll the nexte.”), 60,61, and the concluding paragraph in p. 65.

page 4 note * Sale Catalogue of Mr. Bright's Manuscripts, Lot 276: which was evidently another copy of the same Journal, as shown by the passage there given, which is the same as that in p. 44, though slightly differing in language. It is supposed to have passed into the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart.

page 4 note † Printed in the Reliquiae Wottonianse.

page 5 note * See pp. 48, 49. He also mentions another cousin, sir Richard Acton, whose degree of relationship has not been discovered.

page 5 note † See pp. 29, 60, 61.

page 5 note ‡ See p. 71.

page 5 note § Sir Philip Boteler's mother was Anne, daughter of John Coningsby esquire of North Minims in Hertfordshire, younger brother of Thomas Coningsby esquire of Hampton Court, co. Hereford, the father of Humphrey, father of sir Thomas. See the pedigree of Boteler in Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, vol. ii. p. 477, and that of Coningsby in vol. i. p. 444.

page 5 note para See p 73.

page 6 note * An abstract of this deed, and of the rules of the institution, maybe seen in Duncumb, Collections for Herefordshire, vol. i. p. 405 et seq.; or in Price's Historical Account of the City of Hereford, Appendix, p. 213 et seq.

page 7 note * “A Journall of the honourable service by the renowmed knight S. John Norrice, generall of the English and French forces, performed against the French and Spanish leaguers in Fraunoe 1591,” is appended to Churchyard's Civill Wars in the Netherlands, 4to. 1602, pp. 119–133. It extends from April 11,1591, to March 1, 1592.

page 7 note † “June 25. A graunt to send 4,000 foot in to France, which be in Normandy, under the E. Essex.

“— 29. The French ambassador bound for the payment.

“July 19. The queen at my houss to see the erle of Essex horss in Covent Garden.— 3,000 men appoynted to be imbarked for Depe to serve under the erle of Essex.

“— 21. The erle of Essex's commission for Normandy.

“August 3. The erle of Essex landed at Diepe.” Lord Burghley's Diary.

page 8 note * Letter dated 11th July, 1591. Sidney Papers, i. 327.

page 8 note † MS. Cotton. Caligula C. vm. In the memoir of sir Henry Unton, contained in the introduction to The Unton Inventories, which I edited for the Berkshire Ashmolean Society in 1841,1 have given some notice of this volume, as also of another relating to the same embassy preserved in the Bodleian Library, No. 3498. A third volume of sir Henry Unton's papers has since made a transient appearance before the public at the sale of Mr. Bright's collection of MSS. in 1844, lot 263, and is now in the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. (See the Gentleman's Magazine, Aug. 1844, vol. xxii. p. 151.)

page 8 note ‡ Some of sir Christopher Hatton's letters in the same volume have been recently edited in his “Life and Times” by Sir Harris Nicolas.

page 9 note * There was a “Digeours du Siege de la ville de Rouen an mois de Novembre, 1591, icrit par le capitaine G. Valdori,” printed at Rouen in 1592; but of this there is no copy in the British Museum.

page 9 note † F. Markham's Decades of Warre, 1622, fol. p. 198.

page 10 note * Sir Henry Unton dying when ambassador Ueger in France in 1596, was buried with the state due to a baron. The same honour was also formerly paid to the body of a lord mayor of London dying when in office.

page 10 note † “The office of the marshall is painful and great, for he medleth with the whole affaires of the warres.” Sir Roger Williams's Discourse of Warre, p. 14. “The lord-marshall of an armie, above all other officers, ought to be a most approved soldier … for this man above all others hath the greatest place of action and direction in all the armie.” Markham, p. 189.

page 10 note ‡ As in all ages, men of high birth were sometimes placed over the heads of men of experience. “The martial Byron would say also, these coronells of three days marres all the armies of the world.” So reports sir Roger Williams; and, speaking on his own authority, he remarks in another place: “A man may be sufficient to conduct a private companie, and not sufficient to command a regiment; likewise sufficient for a coronell, and not for a generall.” Preface to Discourse of Warre, 1590.

page 10 note § Memoirs of sir Robert Cary, earl of Monmouth, p. 33.

page 10 note | Discourse of Warre, p. 17.

page 12 note * Humphrey Barwiek says a musket would kill the armed of proof at 200 yards, men in common armour at 400 yards, and unarmed men at 600. Discourse concerning the force and effect of all manual Weapons of Fire, and the disability of the Long Bowe or Archery, &c.—For this and several of the preceding quotations the Editor begs to acknowledge his obligations to Bolton Corney, esq. M.K.S.L. one of the Council of the Camden Society.

page 13 note * A surprise: see The Leicester Correspondence, p. 319.

page 13 note † Worn away in MS.

page 14 note * i. e. halt.

page 14 note † hargulatiers: see the Introductory Observations.

page 15 note * casques, or head pieces.

page 24 note * Bellencombre.

page 24 note † Hawling of booty, foraging.

page 26 note * A halt, or stop.

page 27 note * Half-dead with disappointment.

page 27 note † Darnetal

page 37 note * Montpensier.

page 37 note *† Soissons.

page 40 note * Or mountures, i. e. horses and furniture.

page 40 note † MS. cause.

page 42 note * Power ?

page 42 note † Stuffed: from bombyoe, cotton.

page 42 note ‡ Any?

page 45 note * The anniversary of the queen's accession to the throne.

page 52 note * To spike the cannon.

page 58 note * Anciently, prow, i. e. valiant; hence prowess.

page 68 note * Ferdinando Gorges, afterwards knighted by the earl of Essex on the 8th Oct.

page 69 note * Printed Arques in the Memoirs, but clearly in error.

page 71 note * Sir Charles Percy was a younger brother of the Earl of Northumberland. He engaged in the wars of the Low Countries and of Ireland; and, as a friend of the earl of Essex, was implicated in his rebellion, and had a pardon 44 Eliz. On the death of the queen he was one of the messengers sent by the privy council to announce that event to king James in Scotland. He died in 1628, s. p.

page 71 note † Sir William Brooke was the second Bon of William lord Cobham. He was born Dec. 11, 1565, and had for bis sponsors in baptism Cecilia daughter of the king of Sweden, Thomas duke of Norfolk, and William lord Howard of Effingham, then lord chamberlain. Collectanea Topog. et Geneal. vol. vii. p. 353.

page 71 note ‡ Afterwards the first lord Fairfax, 1627, died 1640.

page 75 note * The noble editor of the Earl of Monmouth's Memoirs has here appended a note, erroneously identifying the person mentioned with Charles de Montmorenci, afterwards admiral of France.

page 78 note * Misprinted Sold by Murdin.