1. Thomas Wright, ed., Queen Elizabeth and Her Times, ii (London: H. Colburn, 1838), pp. 74–6.
2. The biographical details of the many people in this chapter are taken from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography supplemented, where appropriate, by the entries for all the parliamentarians in P.W. Hasler, ed., History of Parliament: The Commons 1558–1603, 3 vols (London: HMSO, 1981). I have not specifically footnoted references to ODNB essays, which are searchable electronically and alphabetically.
3. P.H. Ditchfield and William Page, ed., VCH, Berkshire, iii (London: Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, 1907), p. 529.
4. TNA, SP 12/281; SP 14/72; John Nichols, ed., The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, ii (London: J.B. Nichols, 1828), pp. 630–9.
5. VCH, Berkshire, ii (London: Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, 1907), p. 251.