Note 1 — INTRODUCTION.

There is a document amongst the State Papers, headed "Proceeding to the Parliament of the Most High and Mighty Prince, King Charles, on Tuesday, the 3rd of November, 1640, from Whitehall by water to Westminster Stairs, and from thence on foot." The document is interesting in connection with Clarendon's statement: "The King himself did not ride with his accustomed equipage, nor in his usual majesty, to Westminster, but went privately in his barge to the parliament stairs, and so to the Church, as if it had been to a return of a prorogued or adjourned Parliament."—Hist. of Rebellion and Life (in one vol.), 68. The paper exhibits the following programme: "Messengers; trumpets; the Sergeant-trumpeter alone; Master of the Chancery; the King's Puisne Sergeants-at-law; the King's Solicitor and the King's Attorney-General; the King's two ancient Sergeants-at-law; Masters of the Requests, two and two; Barons of the Exchequer; Justices of the Common Pleas; Justices of the King's Bench; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer: Master of the Rolls; the two Lords Chief Justices; Pursuivants-of-Arms; Privy Councillors; Heralds; Lord Finch, keeper of the Great Seal of England, and many other lords and gentlemen."