FOOTNOTES:

[1] See Memoirs of the Martyr King.

[2] Evelyn's Diary, vol. iv. p. 134, 1870 ed.

[3] See Memoirs of the Martyr King, p. 73.

[4] See Turner's History of Remarkable Providences, 1677.

[5] Continuation of the Life of Lord Clarendon.

[6] Diary, 3 March 1666-67.

[7] The old Hall was pulled down in 1771.

[8] Evelyn's Diary, Sept. 18, 1683.

[9] Descendants of Proger, or Progers, are still living in Bury St. Edmunds.

[10] The Antiquary, vol. xxxviii.

[11] The Miss Hobart who figures in de Gramont's Memoirs was Sir John's sister, one of the first baronet's sixteen children.

[12] There is an illustration of the room that Monmouth slept in at Raynham upon this occasion in King Monmouth.

[13] A Narrative of the Visit of His Majesty King Charles the Second to Norwich, 1671 (1846).

[14] See Secret Chambers and Hiding-Places.

[15] See Memoirs of the Martyr King.

[16] There is an engraving of this room in Nash's Mansions.

[17] The description was written more than twenty years ago.

[18] See King Monmouth.

[19] Illustrations of these relics are in King Monmouth.

[20] The open roof of the manor-house, now a cooper's shop, is also worth inspection.

[21] See The Flight of the King and After Worcester Fight.

[22] See illustration in King Monmouth.

[23] This was formerly the case at "Payne's Place," Worcestershire, a house mentioned in another chapter.

[24] See Some Beauties of the Seventeenth Century.

[25] See Flight of the King and After Worcester Fight.

[26] See Flight of the King.

[27] Hist., MSS. Com. Rep. 7 App. p. 758.

[28] See Flight of the King.

[29] They have been reproduced most carefully for the drawing-room of the Cedar House at Hillingdon.

[30] Pepys' Diary, March 18, 1667-68.

[31] We have described these relics (now in the possession of Mrs. Martin-Edmunds) in detail in the Memoirs of the Martyr King.

[32] In the account in Secret Chambers of the inscription on the swords, it is given in error as "Shortly."

[33] See Some Beauties of the Seventeenth Century.

[34] See King Monmouth.

[35] This and other information we have derived from Mr. Harry Speight's interesting work, Romantic Richmond.