Note 1. To which the reporter adds, “otherwise a Papist, which God for His mercy ever forbid!”
Note 2. To flewer or fleer is to smile in that grinning manner which shows all the teeth. Our forefathers considered it a mark of a sneering, envious man.
Note 3. Domestic State Papers, James the First, volume eighteen, article 20.
Note 4. This most untruthful gentleman asserted that “his true name was Oldcorne;” but Garnet and Anne Vaux both call him Hall in writing to each other.
Note 5. Domestic State Papers, James the First, volume 18, article 64. Mrs Dorathie Abington was Mr Abington’s maiden sister, who lived at Hendlip Hall, and had a priest of her own, a Jesuit, named Butler or Lyster. He does not appear in this narrative, and was very likely absent.
Note 6. This was not meant profanely, but was simply equivalent to saying, “God’s will be done!”