1. E. Coke, The Third Part of the Institutes Of the Laws of England (W. Lee and D. Pakeman, 1644), B3°.
2. ‘Hugh {sic} Cuffs speech at this Execucion: Secretary to the Lord of Essex’, Joseph Hall’s commonplace book, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC [FSL] MS V.a.339, fol. 207r; for other versions, see Walter Bilmor’s commonplace book, British Library, London [BL] Harley MS 1327, fol. 55r–v; William Cole’s commonplace book, BL Additional MS 5845, fol. 178r. For a longer version of the scaffold proceedings see Public Record Office [PRO] State Papers (SP) 12/279, art. 25; FSL MS G.b.4, 1–5; printed in T.B. Howell (ed.), A Complete Collection of State trials, and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanours from the earliest period to the year 1783, 21 vols (T.C. Hansard, 1816), vol 1, 1414.
3. On Cuffe see Paul Hammer’s entry for the New Dictionary of National Biography; I am grateful to Dr Hammer for letting me read his article in manuscript. See also Dictionary of National Biography s.v. Henry Cuffe; A.L. Rowse, ‘The Tragic Career of Henry Cuffe’, in Court and Country: Studies in Tudor Social History (Harvester Press, 1987), 211–41.
4. See Mervyn James, ‘At a Crossroads of the Political Culture: the Essex Revolt, 1601’, in Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 1985), 416–65.
5. For the classic statement, which inspired my pursuit of Henry Cuffe, see Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, ‘“Studied for action”: how Gabriel Harvey read his Livy’, Past and Present 129 (1990), 30–78.