Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 June 2025
1 Historical Manuscripts Commission, Salisbury MSS., vol. 6, p. 63.
2 Ibid., vol. 15, pp. 282, 283.
3 ‘Durham Protestations’, Surtees Society, vol. 135, pp. 60, 84.
4 ‘Durham Royalist Compositions’, Surtees Society, vol. III, pp. 57, 58, 65-68, 73, 74.
5 For a fuller statement of the views here suggested, see Durham County Local History Society, Bulletin 22, pp. 18-42.