. The Court of Aldermen
allowed Fletcher forty marks towards the expenses of his
journey.--Repertory 26, pt. i, fo. 119b.

4 Letter dated Newcastle, 11th April, 1603.--Journal 26, fo. 80. See
Appendix.

M3 James leaves Edinburgh for London, 5 April.

5 Journal 26, fos. 78b, 82, 82b, 88.

6 Journal 26, fo. 81b.

7 Repertory 26, pt. i, fo. 131b.

M4 The citizens ride forth to meet him, 7 May.

8 It is computed that more than 230 knights were created by James on
his passage from Edinburgh to the Tower. The lord mayor (Lee) was
knighted at Greenwich on the 22nd May. At the king's coronation,
which took place in July, all the aldermen of the city who were not
already knights were knighted at Whitehall.--Nichols, "Progresses of
King James I," i, 113n, 120, 234.

M5 The plague of 1603.

9 Howes's Chron., p. 827; Journal 26, fos. 74, 114b, 116b; Repertory
26, pt. i, fo. 171.

10 Journal 26, fo. 98.

11 Repertory 26, pt. ii, fo. 361.

12 Journal 26, fos. 103b, 122b, 124b, 125b, 127; Repertory 26, pt. i,
fo. 149b. In May of the following year the king himself lost two
beagles, which had strayed and probably been killed.--Journal 26, fo.
211b. In 1611 the queen also lost her dog, and a liberal reward was
offered for its recovery. The animal was described as being "lowe
and thicke, of a meene coulor, and his taile turninge up to the
middle of his backe."--Journal 28. fo. 284.

13 Journal 28, fos. 116, 126, 126b.

14 Journal 28, fos. 145, 145b. The Merchant Taylors contributed the
largest quantity (936 qrs.): they were followed by the Grocers (874
qrs.), the Mercers (820 qrs.), the Goldsmiths (809 qrs.), next to
which came the Drapers (768 qrs.) and the Haberdashers (724 qrs.).

M6 The king's public passage through the city, 15 Mar., 1604.

15 The amount at which each company was assessed will be found printed
from the City's Records in Nichols' "Progresses of King James I," i,
400, 401.

16 Journal 26, fos. 163, 164, 178, 179b.

17 Journal 26, fo. 178b.

18 Journal 26, fos. 186, 188; Repertory 26, pt. ii, fo. 311.

19 Nichols, "Progresses of King James I," i, 360, 361.

M7 Catholic plots against the king, June, 1603.

20 Journal 26, fos. 111, 117b, 118b.

21 Id., fo. 174.

M8 The first parliament of James,