* Born in the Tower of London, whilst her father Sir Allen Apsley was keeper there, Lucy Hutchinson was a formidable character, known for her intellect and her republicanism. A Latin scholar (then rare among women), she was the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (‘On the Nature of Things’), and later wrote poetry and many religious treaties. She was the mother of nine children, and her husband, John Hutchinson’s, biographer after his death.
* Richard II (1367–1400) had lost his throne after resigning it before the House of Lords, rather than through a public trial.
* Whitford’s identity as the killer of Dr Dorislaus would remain secret until the following May, when he was on the way to his execution with other defeated Royalists, and declared who he was, and what he had done. The Scots then declined to execute him.Whitford was from that point on hunted by the Commonwealth, but always remained a step ahead of them.
* After whom Davenport College, at Yale University, is named.