The Memoirs as a whole are the best picture we possess of a puritan soldier and household of the seventeenth century. They were written by his widow as a consolation to herself and for the instruction of her children. To 'such of you as have not seene him to remember his person', she leaves, by way of introduction, 'His Description.' It is this passage which is here reprinted. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 212-15; _History_, Bk. VI, ed. 1703, vol. ii, pp. 158-62; ed. Macray, vol. ii, pp. 541-8. These five characters of Parliamentary peers follow one another at the conclusion of Clarendon's sixth book, and are part of his 'view of those persons who were of the King's Council, and had deserted his service, and stayed in the Parliament to support the rebellion'. A short passage on the Earl of Holland, between the characters of Warwick and Manchester, is omitted. Taken as a group, they are yet another proof of Clarendon's skill in portraiture. Each character is clearly distinguished. Page 159, ll. 7-10. His grandfather was William Cecil (1520-98), Lord Burghley, the great minister of Elizabeth; his father was Robert Cecil (1563-1612), created Earl of Salisbury, 1605, Secretary of State at the accession of James. Page 160, l. 9. He was member for King's Lynn in 1649, and Hertfordshire in 1654 and 1656. ll. 13-16. _Hic egregiis_, &c. Seneca, _De Beneficiis_, iv, cap. 30. Page 161, ll. 3-19. 'Clarendon's view that Warwick was a jovial hypocrite is scarcely borne out by other contemporary evidence. The "jollity and good humour" which he mentions are indeed confirmed. "He was one of the most best-natured and cheerfullest persons I have in my time met with," writes his pious daughter-in-law (_Autobiography of Lady Warwick_, ed. Croker, p. 27). Edmund Calamy, however, in his sermon at Warwick's funeral, enlarges on his zeal for religion; and Warwick's public conduct during all the later part of his career is perfectly consistent with Calamy's account of his private life (_A Pattern for All, especially for Noble Persons_, &c., 1658, 410, pp. 34-9).'--C.H. Firth, in the _Dictionary of National Biography_. l. 13. _Randevooze_ (or _-vouze_, or _-vouce_, or _-vowes_) is a normal spelling of _Rendezvous_ in the seventeenth century. The words had been introduced into English by the reign of Elizabeth. ll. 20-2. The proceedings are described at some length by Clarendon, vol. ii, pp. 19-22, 216-23. Warwick was appointed Admiral by the Parliament on July 1, 1642. l. 23. The expulsion of the Long Parliament on April 20, 1653. A thorough examination of all the authorities for the story of the expulsion will be found in two articles by C.H. Firth in _History_, October 1917 and January 1918. ll. 24-5. Robert Rich, his grandson, married Frances, Cromwell's youngest daughter, in November 1657, but died in the following February, aged 23. See _Thurloe's State Papers_, vol. vi, p. 573.