[Footnote 3: See No. 6, introductory note, and No. 36, p. 140, II. 17-22 note.]
[Footnote 4: Contractions have been expanded. The punctuation of the original is slight, and it has been found desirable occasionally to insert commas, where seventeenth century printers would have inserted them; but the run of the sentences has not been disturbed. In modernized versions Clarendon's long sentences are sometimes needlessly subdivided.]
[Footnote 5: State Papers, 1773, vol. ii, pp. 288-9.]
[Footnote 6: Letter of March 16, 1647; infra p. 275.]
[Footnote 7: Letter of January 8, 1647; T.H. Lister, Life of
Clarendon, 1837, vol. iii, p. 43.]
[Footnote 8: Ed. 1857, part 1, § 85; omitted in the edition of 1759.]
[Footnote 9: Of the thirty-seven characters by Clarendon in this volume, twenty-seven are from the 'Manuscript Life'.]
[Footnote 10: State Papers, 1786, vol. iii, supp., p. xlv.]
[Footnote 11: Clarendon's lifetime coincided almost exactly with Milton's. He was two months younger than Milton, and died one month later.]
[Footnote 12: December 14, 1647; infra p. 275.]