[3] He had received the Duchy of Anjou in addition to that of Alençon, and some historians call him by the former title.
[4] Hallam, Constitutional History, Chapter III. Macaulay, Essay on Hallam’s Constitutional History.
[5] James had given this man the title and estates of the exiled Hamiltons.
[6] Some persons whose names do not appear in the Commission sat on the trial, while some who were appointed did not sit.
[7] Those who wish to know the grounds on which Mary’s complicity in Babington’s plot has been denied can consult Lingard, Tytler, and Labanoff. In my opinion, their arguments are very feeble.
[8] There was no formal proclamation of war on either side.
[9] The remaining Privy Councillors were Archbishop Whitgift, Lord Chancellor Bromley, the Earls of Shrewsbury and Warwick, Lord Buckhurst, Sir James Crofts, Sir Ralph Sadler, Sir Walter Mildmay, Sir Amyas Paulet, and the Latin Secretary, Wolley.
[10] Kingsley, Westward Ho.
[11] Institutes, Fourth Part, Chap. 1.
[12] These figures are taken from Barrow’s Life of Drake.