Sir Nathaniel Rich's notes on proceedings in the House of Commons in 1628

In 1968, which is longer ago than I care to contemplate, I was pursuing my research in the British Museum's manuscript room when I was introduced to R.C.Johnson, the American historian who had just been appointed to edit the sources for the Yale University's project on the Parliament of 1628. I had been doing the work on the Parliaments of the 1620s that later led to my essay on the origins of the politics of the 'middle group' published in 1972 and had become acquainted with a large number of previously unused manuscripts on this subject. In the course of our conversations, I mentioned to Professor Johnson that a set of notes by Sir Nathaniel Rich on proceedings in the House of Commons in 1628 survived in what was then the Huntingdon Record Office. (He was generous enough to offer me a job on the Yale project at that time, an offer I turned down because (a) I was fully engaged in my own research on the 2nd Earl of Warwick at the University of Oxford and (b) I presumptuously thought I knew more about proceedings in 1628 than he did.) When the Yale edition of the debates in 1628 appeared, I was surprised to find in a footnote that I "concurred" in the identification of Sir Nathaniel Rich as the author of these notes. In the last few days I have been looking at my photocopy of the manuscript and comparing it with the transcript published by the Yale project. Unfortunately, there are a number of errors in the published transcriptions, errors involving symbols and words. I hope to publish a better transcription in a few weeks' time. What I did not know then and only discovered later was that a further set of notes on these proceedings by Sir Nathaniel Rich can be found in the National Library of Ireland.