[5] Material on witchcraft passed into later editions of the Countrey Justice from earlier works (the Discoverie of Witches (1613) of Thomas Potts and the Guide to Grand-Jury Men (1627) of Richard Barnard), and was transmitted from there to the An Assistance to Justices of the Peace (1683) of Joseph Keble.
[6] Dalton also wrote an unpublished religious work in the tradition of Acts and Monuments, finished 1634 but left in manuscript.
It was considered for publication by the Long Parliament in 1641, but the more extensive work of Thomas Harding was preferred by a committee under Edward Dering; in fact neither was printed.
[8] It is an abstract of events in chronological sequence from the foundation of Christianity to ‘the discovery of anti-christ’ in the sixteenth century.
[3] In 1631 Dalton was fined for having allowed his daughter Dorothy to marry her maternal uncle, Sir Giles Allington of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire.