[254] Compare Baga de Secretis, pouch X. bundle 2, and Rolls House MS., first series, 284.

[255] Word illegible in the MS.

[256] MS. in Cromwell’s own hand: Rolls House, A 2, 29, fol. 160 and 161.

[257] Rolls House MS. first series. 207.

[258] MS. ibid. 1401.

[259] Depositions relating to Lord Delaware: Rolls House MS.

[260] MS. State Paper Office, Domestic, Vol. XII.

[261] Ibid.

[262] MS. Cotton. Titus, B 1, 457.

[263] For instance, Sir Thomas Percy’s eldest son inherited the earldom of Northumberland; unfortunately, also his father’s politics and his father’s fate. He was that Earl of Northumberland who rose for Mary of Scotland against Elizabeth.