[68] doubt it, MS.
[69] There is a chronological confusion, either of the writer or the bookbinder, in this and subsequent entries. Having in vain endeavoured to unravel it, we have thought it better to follow the manuscript as it stands.
[70] Subsequently President of St. John's, Oxford, and occupant in succession of several episcopal sees. He died Bishop of Ely in 1631.
[71] "ashamed" is interlined in the MS. above "afeard."
[72] Fleetwood, like the Diarist, was of the Middle Temple. Many of his curious letters were published by Sir Henry Ellis (Orig. Letters, 1st Ser. vol. ii.)
[73] The Lord Chief Justice from 1685 to 1642, whose Autobiography was published by the Camden Society.
[74] Sir Roger Manwood was a Justice of the Common Pleas 1572 to 1578, and Lord Chief Baron from 1578 to 1593. Sir Edmund Anderson was Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1582 to 1603. (Foss's Judges, v. 516; vi. 51.)
[75] Edward Curle, who is so frequently mentioned in other parts of the Diary. At this time he was keeping his terms in the Middle Temple preparatory to being called to the bar. He had been admitted of the Inn, specialiter, on the 29th Nov. 1594. The Diarist subsequently married Curle's sister Anne.
[76] William Curle of Hatfield, one of the Auditors of the Court of Wards.
[77] Created Earl of Northampton in 1604-5, died 1614.