^{page 102 note 1} Blank in MS.

^{page 103 note 1} John Speed, author of History of Great Britain from Julius Cæsar to King James, 1611.

^{page 103 note 2} William Camden.

^{page 104 note 1} See Annalia Dubrensia upon the Yerely Celebration of Mr. Robert Dover's Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills. Written by 33 persons, 1636 (reprinted privately at Manchester, 1877). Thomas Randolph's Eclogue on the noble assemblies revived on Cotswold Hills by Master Robert Dover (in Poetical and Dramatic Works, ed. Hazlitt, 1875, vol. ii), and Madden's The Diary of Master William Silence.

^{page 105 note 1} The plantation of tobacco in England was prohibited during the Commonwealth by an Act of 1 April, 1652, which was put into execution by an Ordinance of 11 April, 1654 (Acts and Ordinances, ii, 580, 1137). The attempt of Commissioners to destroy the tobacco grown at Winchcombe led to a riot, which was appeased by an order from the Council that the Commissioners “be authorised to suspend execution of the Act as to the crop now growing at or near Winchcombe till further older ” (Dom. S.P., 1654, 211, 212, 230 ; ibid, 1655, 100 ; Mercurius Politicus, vol. v, 3597).

^{page 106 note 1} “This objection is now effectually removed by the large drains and sluices, since which it is become as healthy as pleasant.”—(Original note to MS. in a later hand.)

^{page 106 note 2} See article in Dict. Nat. Biog.

^{page 106 note 3} The early history of Elmore and of the Guises is the subject of an excellent article by the late Sir John Maclean in Trans, of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, 1878–9, pt. i, 49–78. There is also an elaborate genealogical table.

^{page 106 note 4} Reproduced by Maclean, ibid, 50–51.

^{page 107 note 1} Died 7 February, 1294–5, Trans, of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, 1878–9, pt. i, 52.

^{page 107 note 2} This Inquisition post mortem, 20th Edward I, is quoted in some detail, ibid, 53–4.

^{page 107 note 3} There were two John Guises.

^{page 107 note 4} i.e. the repository of early Chancery records in the Tower of London.

^{page 108 note 1} Died 1407, Trans, of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, 1878–9, pt. i, 55.

^{page 108 note 2} Died 30 September, 1501, ibid, 58. “M. Agnes, dau. of Berkley of Stoke.”— (Marginal note to MS.)

^{page 108 note 3} In 1539, ibid, 59–60, “Winnington ” is an error for Wiggington, Oxon.

^{page 108 note 4} Died 20 December, 1556, ibid, 61.

^{page 108 note 5} Died 9 May, 1563.

^{page 109 note 1} Brother of Ancelm Guise. Died 7 September, 1574.

^{page 109 note 2} Jane, d. of Richard Paunceforte, m. 22 January, 1564, bur. 22 June, 1587.

^{page 109 note 3} Died 24 January, 1587–8.

^{page 109 note 4} Born 20 January, 1566–7, died September, 1041. Knt. 27 August, 1619. See Foster's Alumni Oxonienses.

^{page 109 note 5} Town Clerk of Gloucester from 1615 till his death about January, 1640–1. Sea Poster's Alumni, and his Judges and Barristers.

^{page 109 note 6} Foster's Alumni.

^{page 110 note 1} Blank in MS.

^{page 110 note 2} Matthew Havyland, Mayor of Bristol 1607–8, d. 16 March, 1619–20. A. B. Beaven, Bristol Lifts, 294.

^{page 110 note 3} Margaret, d. of Christopher Kenn of Kenn, co Somerset.

^{page 111 note 1} Elizabeth, m. 1stly John, 1st Lord Poulett of Hinton St. George, and 2ndly John Ashburnham.

^{page 111 note 2} Elizabeth, d. of Humphrey Waldron, of Wood, co. Devon.

^{page 111 note 3} Second son. See Foster's Alumni and his Inns of Court Register.

^{page 111 note 4} Third son. Foster's Alumni.

^{page 112 note 1} Presumably the wife of Sir Nicholas Stalage, knt., 1604. Shaw, Knights, ii, 132.

^{page 112 note 2} Died 26 August, 1653.

^{page 112 note 3} “having but 600 a year in land to settle besides leases for the younger Children.”—(Original note to MS.)

^{page 113 note 1} Elizabeth, eldest d., m. Thomas Horton, s. of Sir John Horton of Elston, Glos., Knt.

^{page 113 note 2} John, William and Henry.

^{page 113 note 3} Eleanor and Frances.

^{page 114 note 1} William Leigh of Addlestrop (which is near Longborough).

^{page 114 note 2} This is obviously an error, since there has been no knight, baronet, or peer of this name.

^{page 115 note 1} “Ay 140.”—(Original note to MS.)

^{page 115 note 2} Catherine, widow of Thomas, 3rd Lord Berkeley, founded a free school at Wotton-under-Edge in 1384. Supplement to Ralph Bigland's Collections for Gloucestershire, Victoria County History of Gloucestershire, ii, 396–409.

^{page 116 note 1} There were five ‘younger sonnes ’ : George, Antony, Jasper, Christopher and Edward. For Antony see Foster's Alumni.

^{page 116 note 2} “Mr. Payne.”—(Original note to MS.)

^{page 116 note 3} Cf. Life of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, ed. 1857, i, 7, 63; and Christie's Life of Shaftesbury, i, 17. Both confirm this account of excessive drinking at Oxford about this time.

^{page 118 note 1} Rendcombe belonged to Sir Maurice Berkeley of Hannam (knt. 1621). His estate was sequestered during the Civil War, and he was forced to pay 1,3721. composition. Probably it was to raise this sum that the Berkeley family sold Rendcombe to the Guises. (If so, the writer's chronology is at fault here.) See Rudder's Gloucestershire, 622.

^{page 119 note 1} I can find no record that he was ever formally entered at the Middle Temple. It is interesting to note that Edward Hyde (aft. Earl of Clarendon) had an allowance of only £40. Cal. Clar. S.P. i, 33.

^{page 120 note 1} The family of Stephens was of great importance in Gloucestershire during the 17th century. No less than seven Stephens appear as Commissioners for Gloucestershire for various purposes during the Commonwealth.

(See index to Acts and Ordinances.)

(a) Nathaniel Stephens, M.P. Gloucestershire, 1627–8, 1640–49.

(b) Edward Stephens, M.P. Tewkesbury, 1643–1648, Gloucestershire, 1660.

(c) John Stephens, M.P. Tewkesbury, 1645–48. Gloucestershire, 1659, Bristol, 1660.

(d) Colonel Henry Stephens, died a prisoner of war in 1643.

(e) Colonel Thomas Stephens.

(f) Richard Stephens.

(g) James Stephens, M.P. Gloucester, 1656–60.

Some particulars about (a), (d) and (e) are in Washbourn's Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis.

^{page 120 note 2} M.P. Gloucestershire, April-May, 1640; Parliamentary Governor of Tewkesbury, 1643; knt., July 21, 1621.

^{page 120 note 3} M.P. Cirencester, 1623–4; knt., 3 December, 1622.

^{page 123 note 1} Elizabeth, d. of Sir Laurence Washington of Garsden, Wilts. Knt., 29 July, 1627.

^{page 123 note 2} “At this place some leaves are out out of the MS.”—(Original note.)

^{page 123 note 3} He was buried 19 September, 1642.

^{page 124 note 1} Colonel, afterwards Major-General, Edward Massey, Governor of Gloucester during the siege.

^{page 125 note 1} Sir Humphrey Tracy, Bart., of Stanway: a staunch royalist. See G. E. C, Complete Baronetage.

^{page 125 note 2} Perhaps the well-known Dr. Peter Heylin. A Dr. Heylin of Gloucester compounded for delinquency, Cal. Com. of Compounding, 86.

^{page 125 note 3} Probably Edward Savage, who compounded at the same time as Dr. Heylin, ibid. That these three suffering royalists should shut their doors to Christopher Guise, at this time a timid Parliamentarian, though he became a local commissioner during the Protectorate, is not surprising.

^{page 125 note 4} “A just punishment, notwithstanding his zeale for them and subscription to Waller.”—(Original note.)

^{page 125 note 5} Captain Walter West.

^{page 125 note 6} Captain William Matthews.

^{page 127 note 1} No further evidence of this “sally ” appears to exist: in 1650 information that “Chr. Guise, Maraden, co. Gloucester ” “was in arms in 1643 and 1644, and had a commission in the King's army ” was in the possession of the Committee for the Advance of Money (Cal., p. 1278), but this was almost certainly false ; probably a reference to his father (App. iv).

^{page 127 note 2} Sir William Hicks of Beverstone, Glos., Bart., a prominent local royalist.

^{page 127 note 3} Blank in MS. Married 1st Earl of Donegal (1651).

^{page 127 note 4} Sir John Pretyman, 1st Bart.

^{page 128 note 1} G. E. C., Complete Baronetage, iii, 218–19, is clearly wrong in stating that Guise's wife was d. of Nicholas Coraellis. “Some leaves have here been cut out of the MS.”—(Original note.)

^{page 130 note 1} Major-General John Desbrowe wa chosen M.P. for Gloucester in 1656, but elected to sit for Somersetshire.

^{page 131 note 1} Sir Thomas Abdy, 1st Bart., m. Mary, d. of Lucas Corsellis,

^{page 131 note 2} Blank in MS.

^{page 132 note 1} “Here Sir John Guise (i.e. 3rd Bart.) takes up the story.”—(Original note.

^{page 133 note 1} He was buried 24 October, 1670. Brockworth Parish Register.

^{page 133 note 2} He was created a Baronet July, 1661, being discharged for the fee usually paid on assuming that title. Cal. S.P. Dom., 1661–2, 22 ; Cal. Treas. Books, 1672–5, 425.

^{page 133 note 3} This statement is absurd. Mention is made of a payment to a certain “Mr. Guyse ” in 1653–4 in the Clarendon State Papers, iii, 41. This is the sole reference to a Guise in all Clarendon's published writings.

^{page 133 note 4} This is obviously a blunder. There has never been a Sir Michael Est.

^{page 134 note 1} Presumably Barnabas O'Brien, 6th Earl of Thomond. See Carlyle's Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, Letter xcvii.

^{page 134 note 2} Not to be identified with Thomas Dover, grandson of Robert Dover, the founder of the Cotswold games. See the Dict. Nat. Biog. and Thomas Dover : Physician and Merchant Adventurer, by J. A. Nixon. Reprinted from the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal, March, 1909.

^{page 134 note 3} Matriculated at Christ Church, 3 December, 1669.

^{page 134 note 4} Elizabeth, d. of John Grubham Howe of Compton, Glos., and of Langar, Notts., and sister of Jack Howe.

^{page 135 note 1} The writer has blundered here. Sir John Guise (misprinted Oyse in Official Returns of Members of Parliament, under date 1679) and Sir Ralph Dutton represented Gloucestershire in the last three Parliaments of Charles II, but were defeated in 1685 by Charles Somerset, titular Marquess of Worcester, and Sir Robert Atkyns, Junr., Knt.

^{page 136 note 1} This statement is not supported by any other authority.

^{page 136 note 2} Lieut .-Colonel Foulke succeeded to the command of the regiment raised by Guise on 20 September, 1689.

^{page 137 note 1} This is confirmed by the list in Cal. S.P. Dom., 1691–2, 264. (A daughter, Louisa Mary, was born to James, 28 June, 1692.)

^{page 137 note 2} He died of small pox, 19 November, 1695, according to G. E. C, Complete Baronetage, iii, 219.

^{page 139 note 1} i.e. the Whigs who were particular friends of the Guises.

^{page 139 note 2} Minors were excluded from the House of Commons by 7 and 8 Wm. III, c. 25. This statute was frequently broken. See Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons, i, 223–235.

^{page 139 note 3} Thomas Stephens was returned at this by-election 11 December, 1695. See Introduction.

^{page 140 note 1} William Lowndes, Secretary to the Treasury.

^{page 140 note 2} Probably Samuel Rich, chaplain to the regiment of foot raised by Guise.

^{page 140 note 3} Sir Nathaniel Napier of Middlemarch Hall and More Critchell, 2nd Bart., m. 1stly Blanche, d. and coheir of Sir Hugh Wyndham, Justice of the Common Pleas, and 2ndly Susanna, d. of Rev. William Guise.

^{page 141 note 1} Cal. S.P. Dom., 1696, 140, 154.

^{page 141 note 2} Mrs. Ann Arnold.

^{page 142 note 1} 3rd Bart.

^{page 142 note 2} John Egerton, 4th Earl of Bridgwater, m. 2ndly Jane, d. of Charles (Powlett) 1st Duke of Bolton and Mary, illeg. d. of Emmanuel Scrope, Earl of Sunderland, and sister of Sir John Guise's (3rd Bart.) grandmother.

^{page 143 note 1} Rachel, d. and coheir of Sir Hugh Wyndham, m. John, 3rd Earl of Bristol, as his 2nd wife.

^{page 144 note 1} “The petition complained of the Sheriff's granting a scrutiny (which I think he might do, however hazardous to himself, perhaps ought to do, when properly demanded, and the matter feasible), but it complained also of the election and return, and without entering at all into the merits of the election … How was voted duly elected. It was at the motion of Sir Simon Harcourt (afterwards Lord Harcourt) [who] was often reproached with it to his face : but he was a man without shame, although very able.” Oaslow's note to Burnet, History of My Own Time, ii, 335.

^{page 144 note 2} By Order of the House, dated 20 January, 1708–9, the return for Abingdon was amended by erasing the name of Sir Simon Harcourt.

^{page 145 note 1} Maynard Colchester, Whig M.P. for Gloucestershire 1701–10.

^{page 146 note 1} M.P. Gloucester, 1702–8 ; father of Sir C. Hanbury Williams.

^{page 146 note 2} John Prinn accused Howe of being a Jacobite and was fined 4001. The case was carried to the House of Lords, but the verdict in Howe's favour was upheld. See Lords' Journal, xvii, 635b ; and Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc, 1877–8, 60–1.

^{page 146 note 3} This character of Jack Howe should be compared with that of Macaulay (History of England, ed. C. H. Firth, iii, 1336). The latter character, though based too exclusively on lampoons, is undoubtedly the more correct.

^{page 147 note 1} Charles, 6th Duke of Somerset, “the proud Duke.”

^{page 148 note 1} Henry Shales, one of the two Auditors of the Exchequer.

^{page 148 note 2} Presumably Thomas Jett, one of the “Five Under-Clerks in the Inner Room ” —Chamberlayne's Magna Britannia, under Exchequer.

^{page 148 note 3} Charles, 2nd Earl of Berkeley. His diplomatic appointments are noticed in G. E. C. Complete Peerage, ed. Vicary Gibbs.

^{page 148 note 4} William, afterwards 1st Earl Cadogan.

^{page 149 note 1} Sir Philip Medowes, created Knight-Marshal of the Household, December 23, 1700. Shaw's Knights, ii, 272.

^{page 149 note 2} The famous Whig physician.

^{page 150 note 1} Edward (Ward) Lord Dudley, m. Diana, only d. and h. of Thomas and Diana Howard. He died in 1704, she in 1709 when only 23.

^{page 151 note 1} Anne, widow of Sir Henry Every, 3rd Bart., mar. lic. 2 January, 1710–11.

^{page 151 note 2} Bart., M.P. Tewkesbury, 1673–89.

^{page 152 note 1} John Berkeley and Matthew Ducie Moreton were returned for Gloucestershire 25 October, 1710.

^{page 153 note 1} The marriage settlement is dated 20 December, 1710. “Last week I was at the sale of Lady Every's, now Guise's, goods at Burton (the best, indeed they had reserved), and saw in a few hours the house emptied, she had to my knowledge been many years with great expense and nicety fitting and furnishing. I did not see my countryman, Sir John Guise; he hath the oharaoter of a fine gentleman. Her two former spouses gave her the power, the third 'tis thought she must vail to.” Lady Pye to Mrs. Abigail Harley, 28 July, 1711. Barley Papers, iii, 65–6.

^{page 153 note 2} Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset. See Macaulay (iv, 1664) for his being sponsor to the Duke of Gloucester.

^{page 154 note 1} Thomas Pelham Holles, cr. 1715 Duke of Newcastle, m. Henrietta, 1st d. and coheir of Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin by Henrietta, suo jure, Duchess of Marlborough.

^{page 154 note 2} Countess of Lippe and Buckenburg, one of the Ladies of the Prinoess of Wales.

^{page 154 note 3} Henry D'Auverquerque, or. 1698 Earl of Grantham, Chamberlain to the Princess of Wales.

^{page 155 note 1} Proceedings on the case concerning the King's prerogative in respect to the education and marriage of the Royal Family. Howell's State Trials, xv, 1195–1230.

^{page 155 note 2} “The governess.”—(Original note.) “Frail” probably=fräulein.

^{page 156 note 1} “Anne.”—(Original note.)

^{page 156 note 2} i.e. Robethon.

^{page 157 note 1} “Sinoe Ld. Wilminton.”—(Original note.)

^{page 157 note 2} “This conclusion is in the handwriting of Sir John Guise, fourth Baronet.”—(Original note.) Sir J. Guise, 3rd Bart., d. 16 November, 1732.