[22]: 'Law,' in the Lowlands of Scotland, means a solitary hill.
[23]: An ordinance was at this time in all respects similar to an Act of Parliament, except that it did not receive the Royal assent. In the middle ages an ordinance was exactly the reverse, being issued by the King without Parliamentary approval.
[24]: The name 'Adjutator,' often given to these men, is undoubtedly a mere blunder. The use of the verb 'to agitate' in the sense of 'to act,' and of the noun 'agitator,' in the sense of an agent, is now obsolete.
[25]: Cromwell did not hold that, in fighting against the king, he had himself been assailing the civil institutions of the country. In his eyes, as in the eyes of all others on his side, the king was the aggressor, attacking those institutions, and war against him was therefore defensive, being waged to save the most important part of them from destruction.
[26]: A treaty then meant a negotiation, not, as now, the document which results from a successful negotiation.
[27]: Genealogy of the surviving children of Philip IV:—
| 1. Elizabeth of France | = | Philip IV. | = | 2. Mary of Austria. | ||||||||||
| Maria Theresa | = | Louis XIV. | Margaret Theresa | = | Leopold I. | Charles II. | ||||||||
[28]: Two Christian names were exceedingly rare in the seventeenth century.
[29]: In the time of James I. the usual interest was 10 per cent. The Long Parliament paid 8.
[30]: The right of pardon allows the king to remit the consequences to a particular person of a sentence passed on him. The right of dispensation allows him to remit beforehand the consequences of a breach of a law either to such persons as are named, or to all persons generally who may commit such a breach.