Footnotes to Wm Dighton's biographical sketch of Sidney Godolphin

Godolphin: *Note 1

Penelope married Sir Charles Berkeley, second Viscount Fitzhardinge.

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Godolphin: *Note 2

The wife of Sidney, first earl, was Margaret Blagge, celebrated by Evelyn, and their one son Francis, second Earl Godolphin, married Henrietta Churchill, later Duchess of Marlborough in her own right. Their son died without heirs; so the Godolphin estates passed through Mary, their daughter, to her husband, Thomas Osborne, fourth Duke of Leeds, whom she married in 1740, and in whose family they remained until just after the late war.

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Godolphin: *Note 3

Tin mines and land in Cornwall and Norfolk, together with a lease of the Scilly islands, were the most valuable property which the family possessed. The lease of the Scilly islands had been in the family for three generations. The Cornwall property is all left to Sidney's elder brother Francis.

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Godolphin: *Note 4

Boase, Registrum Collegii Exoniensis, Pars II (Oxford, 1894, p.126).

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Godolphin: *Note 5

Boase, op.cit. and Foster's Alumni Oxonienses (Oxford, 1891, p.577). In Boase's Registrum Collegii Exoniensis (Oxford Historical Society, 1894, p.280) is a record of a tankard of 17½ ounces `ex dono Sidney Godolphin hujus collegii commensalis'.

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Godolphin: *Note 6

His name does not appear in the printed list of the members of Lincoln or Gray's Inn, and the librarians of the Inner and Middle Temple have kindly written that they have no record of his admission to either Temple.

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Godolphin: *Note 7

Members of Parliament, p.474 (Accounts and Papers 17, Part I).

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Godolphin: *Note 8

What the exact relationship was is uncertain, but there is little doubt that he was connected with leicester through his mother, Thomasine Sidney.

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Godolphin: *Note 9

The exact date has been erased in the records. Note in Members of Parliament, p.486.

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Godolphin: *Note 10

Also printed in Echard's History of England (1720, pp.539, 561).

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Godolphin: *Note 11

Hopton's Narrative of his campaign in the West (1642-1644), Bellum Civile, Somerset Record Society, vol. xviii, 1902, pp.11, 18, 31, 33.

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Godolphin: *Note 12

Marquis of Hertford.

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Godolphin: *Note 13

These two letters are contained in The Buller Papers, ed. R.N.Worth, 1895 (pp.81 and 83), privately printed from a collection at Antony, Cornwall. I am indebted for my knowledge of them to Miss Mary Coate, of Lady Margaret Hall.

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Godolphin: *Note 14

Moilesbarrow, to the NE. of Lostwithiel.

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Godolphin: *Note 15

An old couplet also proves that Godolphin was not the least important of the leaders in Devon and Cornwall.

"The four wheels of Charles' wain

Grenvill, Godolphin, Trevanion, Slanning slain,"

Boase, Registrum Collegii Exoniensis (Oxford, 1894, p.cxvi).

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Godolphin: *Note 16

Accounts of Godolphin's death, which, however, give no additional information, are to be found in British Museum Civil War Tracts, E.91.25 and E.89.17, and in a letter of Sir Bevil Grenville to his wife, MS. South Kensington, No.234, dated February 9, 1642.

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Godolphin: *Note 17

This lease in 1640, 1641, and 1642 was worth 40 pounds a year (Receivers' Views of Accounts for the Duchy of Cornwall (1638-50). For this reference I am indebted to Miss Mary Coate of Lady Margaret Hall.

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Godolphin: *Note 18

He was also Godolphin's brother-in-law: see p. xv, note i. He died 12 June 1668.

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Godolphin: *Note 19

Francis Godolphin

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Godolphin: *Note 20

Clarendon's Brief View and Survey of Mr Hobbes's Leviathan, Oxford, 1676, p.7. For corroborative statements, see Clarendon State Papers, ii, pp.322, 341.

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Godolphin: *Note 21

Brief View, pp.319, 320.

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(The Rejoice & Sing Enchiridion:edited by David Goodall; last amended 11/4/03)