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 THE 
 
 Spending of the Money 
 
 OF 
 
 Robert Nowell 
 
 OF 
 
 READE HALL, LANCASHIRE: 
 
 Brother of Dean Alexander Nowell. 
 
 1568-1580. 
 
 EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL AfSS. AT TOWNELEY HALL, LANCASHIRE— 
 WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, 
 
 BY THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, 
 
 St. George's, Blackburn, Lancashire. 
 
 do^^se- - . ' ^.jj / C ^ V\ 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.
 
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 Printed by Charles E. Simms, 
 Manchester.
 
 
 TO 
 
 THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS, 
 BARON O'HAGAN. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 It is of my " Sunny Memories " that on my 
 visits to Towneley Hall, I had the privilege and 
 advantage of spending most pleasant hours with 
 your Lordship and Lady O'Hagan in chats over the 
 days of old, with the Towneley MSS. for chief text 
 (as we Parsons say). 
 
 I wish now, in issuing the Spending of the Mo?iey 
 of Robert Nowell from the Towneley MSS., to ex- 
 press publicly — as already privately — my sense of 
 obligation to the Towneley Family generally, and to 
 your Lordship specially, for the unreserved confiding 
 of this and another valuable MS. to my prolonged 
 keeping, in order that they might be prepared 
 leisurely, and in strict integrity of reproduction of 
 the originals. I flatter myself that both the 
 "Spending" and the "English Jacobite Ballads, 
 &c.," will bear the most rigid and exacting scrutiny 
 and comparison with the MSS. ; whilst the annota- 
 tion will be found — I hope — to add weightily to 
 the materials for (more particularly) the Family- 
 history and Biography of England — all the more 
 that I have reversed the Latin sarcasm — "E se 
 
 G95954
 
 vi Dedication. 
 
 finxit velut araneus" — by seeking help from fellow- 
 workers ; among whom, foremost of all, must be 
 named my companion-visitor to Towneley Hall, Mr. 
 W. A. Abram of Blackburn. 
 
 For the favour itself of permission to print, for the 
 first time, these MSS., and for the whole manner 
 and circumstance of granting it, I shall ever cherish 
 heart-felt gratitude. I may be permitted to indulge 
 the expectation that my two volumes will lead to 
 other Selections from the priceless Towneley MSS. 
 being similarly prepared. It seems a pity that so 
 much literary treasure should be unknown or unused. 
 
 " Contigimus portum, quo mihi cursus erat" ; and 
 so, with renewed thanks and highest regard, 
 
 I am. 
 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's very faithfully, 
 
 ALEXANDER B. GROSART. 
 
 St. George's Vestry, 
 
 Blackburn, Lancashire.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Pages. 
 
 Dedication to the Right Honorable Thomas, Baron 
 
 O'Hagan ... ... ... ... ... v-vi. 
 
 Preface ix-xi. 
 
 Introduction xiii-lv. 
 
 Text of the MS. of Robert Nowell's Charity Trust 
 
 (alternate pages) ... ... ... ... 2-408. 
 
 Notes and Illustrations (alternate pages J ... ... 3-409. 
 
 Index of Persons ... ... ... ... ... 411-439, 
 
 Index of Places and Things ... ... ... ... 440-447,
 
 '\* In the large paper copies (only) fac similes of 
 the MS., shewing the following, front the title-page. 
 
 (I 
 
 (2 
 (3 
 (4 
 (5 
 
 ) Edmund Spenser at Merchant Taylors' School. 
 
 .) Edmund Spenser on going to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. 
 
 .) Edmund Spenser at Pembroke Hall. 
 
 .) Bishop Andrewes at Pembroke Hall. 
 
 .) "Judicious" Hooker, going to Corpus Christi College, 
 Oxford — two entries. In the latter the corrections are in the 
 hand-writing of Dean Alexander Nowell,
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 IT is with no common satisfaction that I place in 
 the hands of the Friends who responded to my 
 proposals thus to print it from the Towneley MSS., 
 — the "Spending of the Money of Robert Nowell." 
 The task of reproducing so difficultly decipherable 
 a Manuscript, and still more of adequately annotating 
 such a multitude of names, has proved very much 
 more arduous than was originally thought of. But 
 the result of painstaking throughout, will, I feel sure, 
 receive recos^nition from all who know the toil in 
 such lines of research. Important and interesting as 
 the MS. at once shewed itself to be, the progress of 
 the reproduction has revealed manifold Facts and 
 jets of historic-biographic light previously unsus- 
 pected. The most casual dipper into these pages 
 can scarcely fail to come on such proofs of the 
 absolute pricelessness of this AIS. as a contribution 
 to Literary and Family Biography — as in my 
 Introduction noticed in detail. The full and minute 
 Index has been very carefully wrought on. 
 
 Agreeably to my announcement, the Manuscript is 
 given literatim et punctatim, page for page, while on 
 
 b
 
 X Preface. 
 
 the opposite side (as a rule"') will be found Notes 
 and Illustrations of the text. The Student may 
 rely on the fidelity of the text to the original. 
 
 It only remains here, that I return sincere thanks to 
 my fellow-labourers in these fields. I name first, Mr. 
 William A. Abram of Blackburn, who will speedily 
 give proof to the world in his History of Blackburn 
 Parish, of a fulness of antiquarian knowledge, and a 
 fine enthusiasm of inquiry that should have won an 
 approving nod from William Camden, and warble of 
 delicious talk from Thomas Fuller. It is impossible 
 to over-state my good friend's sustained and ever- 
 deepening willinghood to work with me throughout. 
 His local knowledge of Lancashire has enriched very 
 many pages that else must have been left nearly 
 blank. Every page in MS. and proof-sheet has 
 passed under his eyes as well as my own, and no 
 page came to myself, as no proof-sheet went back to 
 the Printers, without the benefit of his practised out- 
 look and insiofht. Havino: kindred tastes in various 
 directions, it has been a mutual pleasure to supple- 
 ment each other's gatherings. I should need 
 ardeiitia verba fully to express my indebtedness and 
 gratitude to Mr. Abram, albeit I have an idea that 
 he won't altogether approve of even this much — for 
 he is one of those genuine workers to whom the work 
 itself is its own reward, and noise about it nothing. 
 
 * Where the page of text over-flowed a page, it is continued on 
 the next ; and so with Notes and Illustrations — but all marked.
 
 Preface. xi 
 
 To Colonel Chester of Bermondsey, London, as 
 on many other occasions ; to Professor Mayor of 
 Cambridge, in like manner; to Dr. Bloxam of Upper 
 Beeding ; to the Rev. W. E. Buckley, M. A., Middle- 
 ton Cheney, Banbury ; to the Rev. J. C. Robinson, 
 M.A., Norton Canon, Weobley ; the Rev. Canon 
 Raines, M. A., of Rochdale ; the Very Rev. the Dean 
 and the Librarian of St. Paul's ; to several of the 
 Officials of the two Universities (Oxford and 
 Cambridge), and of the Merchant Taylors' Com- 
 pany, and of various famous Schools, e.g., St. Paul's, 
 Westminster, &c. ; the Introduction, and Notes and 
 Illustrations owe a good deal. Trusting that The 
 Spending of the Money of Robert Nowell will be 
 accepted as another fulfilment of ancient Hesiod's 
 words in this later day of bringing out from national 
 and family MSS. Illustrations of bye-gone days, I 
 close therewith — 
 
 £t 7ap Kev Koi afiLKpov ivl a/mtKpo) KaraOelo, 
 
 Kal dd/u,a TOVT €p8ot<i, rd'^a Kev /^eya KoX to jivoiro. 
 
 ALEXANDER B. GROSART.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 IN the " Fourth Report " of the " Royal Commission on 
 Historical Manuscripts" (pp. 406-8) the Commissioner 
 to Towneley Hall, R. B. Knowles, Esq., gives a full and 
 luminous account ot the Manuscripts there examined by 
 him. It will be the lasting honour of this Commissioner 
 that as he was the first to study so he was the first to dis- 
 cover the value of the MS. that I have called 
 
 %\}Z »»pentiino; of tlje Sl^oiiep of Eoliert j]2o\xielL 
 
 A mere perfunctory Calendarer would have missed the 
 aye-enduring name of Edmund Spenser — to name no 
 other — as it occurs in the MS. To Mr. Knowles belongs 
 the praise that he not only noticed the immortal name, but 
 discerned the bearing (in part at least) of the various entries 
 concerning the " Poet of Poets." To most, these Spenser 
 entries are the eyes of the Manuscript or unmetaphorically 
 what give the main value to it. Hence it is only due to 
 Mr. Knowles to reprint here his account in extenso thus : — 
 
 The Manuscripts of Colonel Towneley, at 
 Towneley Hall, Burnley. 
 
 In his History of Whalley, Dr. Whitaker speaks of 
 the collection of transcripts at Towneley Hall as a monu- 
 ment of industry and research which deserved for their 
 compiler, Christopher Towneley, the title of "inde- 
 fatigable transcriber." A cursory glance at the volumes 
 which owe their existence to his laborious zeal will show
 
 xiv Introdtiction. 
 
 how well he merited that distinction * To his own store of 
 evidences he added transcripts of others borrowed from 
 friends and correspondents, together with extracts from the 
 public records and the chartularies of religious houses, 
 frequently adding marginal notes which prove an intimate 
 acquaintance with the family pedigrees of Lancashire, 
 Yorkshire, and other counties over which his investigations 
 ranged. Writing, as Dr. Whitaker observes, seems to 
 have been the business of his life, and though it is to be 
 lamented " that he did not intersperse a little anecdote and 
 reflections with the drudgery of transcribing," it is also 
 true that those who have followed in the same "walk are 
 infinitely indebted to him." For the purposes of the county 
 historian, Christopher Towneley's transcripts abound in 
 valuable materials. 
 
 Colonel Towneley's collection, however, contains, in 
 addition to the transcripts made or collected by Chris- 
 topher Towneley, many original manuscripts, and I may 
 take this opportunity of calling particular attention to 
 one which contributes a valuable addition to the life of the 
 author of the Faerie Queene. 
 
 All that has hitherto been certainly known of Edmund 
 Spenser before he went to Cambridge is, that he was born 
 in London,-f- A.D. 1552, or in the year following, that his 
 mother's Christian name was Elizabeth, and that he was 
 related to the house of Sir John Spenser, of Althorp. Of 
 the school in which he received the elements of education 
 no trace has been hitherto found, and it is singular that, of 
 a poet whose writings were the delight of his contempo- 
 
 * Christopher Towneley, younger son of Richard Towneley, sen., Esq., was 
 born at Towneley, Jan. 9th, 1603. He married Alice, daughter of John 
 Braddyll, of Portfield, Esq., and widow of Richai'd Towneley, of Carr, Esq. 
 He was buried at Burnley, Aug. 1674. 
 
 + In East Smithfield, by the Tower, according to Oldys manuscript addi- 
 tions to Winstanley's Lives of the most famous English Poets, copied by Isaac 
 Reed, Esq.
 
 I?itrodiution. xv 
 
 raries, a fact which would have redounded so much to the 
 honour of any seminary that could claim him, should have 
 passed into oblivion. Mr. Todd* has nothing more to 
 observe than that Spenser's school " has not been recorded." 
 Mr. Payne Collier ventures the suggestion-f- that Spenser 
 was possibly educated at Kingsbury, " in the county in 
 which Shakespere was born," but he has no better founda- 
 tion for this conjecture than the circumstance that an 
 "Edmund Spenser" is mentioned in the Muster Book of 
 the Hundred of Kingsbury, as one of its inhabitants in 1569, 
 who "may have been the poet's father." Mr. Chalmers 
 dismisses the question of Spenser's schooldays as a matter 
 of no great consequence, because "at that time much 
 knowledge was not to be obtained in any lesser seminaries 
 previous to academical studies.']: When he wrote thus, Mr. 
 Chalmers did not consider the possibility that Spenser 
 might have been educated in some seminary which has 
 survived to the present day, and which would be justly 
 proud if it could show that the stock of learning, whatever 
 it might have been, which the poet took with him to the 
 University was acquired in its class rooms. My inspection 
 of Colonel Towneley's manuscripts enables me to name the 
 grammar school which is entitled to this distinction, and I 
 share by anticipation the pleasure of the Governors and 
 Scholars of MERCHANT Taylors when they learn that to 
 the roll of eminent men whom their school has sent into the 
 world there is now to be added the most famous of all — 
 Edmund Spenser. 
 
 It may be as well that I should here give my proofs in 
 support of this statement. They are contained in a paper 
 folio in a vellum wrapper, more particularly described fur- 
 ther on (page 411), in which are set down the disbursements 
 for various purposes of the executors of Robert Nowell, of 
 
 * Works of Edmund Spenser. 
 
 f The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, vol. i., page x., Aldine edition. 
 
 X English Poets, vol. iii.
 
 xvi Introdiiction. 
 
 Gray's Inn, who died in 1569. At folio 25 there is an entry 
 of "Gownes geven to certeyn poorschoIler[s] of the scholls 
 aboute London, in number 32, viz. ; St. Paul's, Merchant 
 Taylors, St. Anthony's Schole, St. Saviour's grammer 
 Schole, and Westminster Schole. Cost of cloth with* 
 making, xix^' x^ vij'V First on the list of scholars of 
 Merchant Taylors who received these gifts stands — 
 "Edmunde Spenser." 
 
 Spenser's designation as a " poor scholler " accords with 
 what has been presumed as to the circumstances of his 
 parents from his entering Pembroke Hall as a sizar, and the 
 date of the gift of a " blacke goune " corresponds with the 
 age at which the poet, whether his birth is assigned to the 
 year 1553 or to a year earlier, would have repaired to the 
 University. But, presumptive as this evidence is, the 
 manuscript fortunately contains proof which places it 
 beyond the possibility of doubt, that the " Edmunde Spen- 
 ser" of Merchant Taylors was the Edmund Spenser who 
 entered Pembroke Hall on the 20th May 1569. At folio 
 71, under the heading "Geven to poor schollers of dyvers 
 gramare scholles," there is this entry : — 
 
 " To Edmond Spensore, scholler of the M^'chante Tayler 
 schollers at his gowinge to Pembrocke Hall, in Cham- 
 bridge, x^" 
 
 This entry is dated the 28th of April 1569, three weeks 
 before Spenser entered Pembroke Hall, and it is followed 
 by two others, which show the poet still in the position of a 
 " poor scholler," — 
 
 1. "7 Novembris 1570. — To Richard Langher and Ed- 
 mond Spenser, towe poore schollers of Pembrock haule, vj» 
 a peace, in the whole xijs, by the hands of Mr. Thomas 
 New, felow of the same howse." (Folio 75.) 
 
 2. "To Edmonde Spensere the xxiiij^^ of Aprill, A" 
 1571. ij' vjd."* (Folio 72.) 
 
 * A comparison with our text will show that Mr. Knowles is not strictly 
 accurate in his readings of the entries sttpra, and so onward.
 
 Introduction. xvii 
 
 I thought it possible that in the records of Merchant 
 Taylors I might find some additional evidence of Spen- 
 ser's connection with their school, and by the permission 
 of Mr. F. G. Faithfull, the Clerk of the Company, to 
 whom I take this opportunity of acknowledging the obli- 
 gations under which his courtesy has laid me, I have had 
 facilities for searching them from their commencement up 
 to the date when Spenser went to Cambridge. The records 
 had already been examined by Dr. H. B. Wilson when he 
 was compiling his History of Merchant Taylors' School, 
 and if Spenser's name had been in any of the lists of 
 boys admitted gratuitously or at a reduced fee, to which 
 classes the lists, so far as I have examined them, are 
 confined, it was most unlikely that so accurate an in- 
 vestigator could have missed it. I was therefore not 
 surprised when after a careful search I failed to find the 
 name of Edmund Spenser, though I found three other 
 Spensers to whom I shall presently allude. But its absence 
 does not in the slightest degree affect the authority of 
 Colonel Towneley's manuscript. The records are not co- 
 extensive with the history of the school. They commence 
 on the 1st of July 1 562, when the school had been some time 
 opened, and within a few weeks of the first episcopal visita- 
 tion by Dr. Grindall, Bishop of London. The statutes of the 
 school were framed and Dr. Mulcaster was appointed Head 
 Master, on the 24th of September in the previous year, and 
 Dr. Wilson states that scholars began to flock to it immedi- 
 ately afterwards. There is thus a period of nine months 
 of which there is no record, and as Spenser was between 
 nine and ten years old during that period, he had then arrived 
 at an age when he could commence his school career. It is 
 to be observed that his name stands first in the list of poor 
 scholars to whom the "black gownes" were given, and it is 
 a fair inference that he was their senior, and that he was 
 one of the earliest of Dr. Mulcaster's pupils. 
 
 How Spenser came to be connected with Merchant Taylors 
 
 c
 
 xvlii Introduction. 
 
 is a question upon which I hoped that the records of the 
 Company might give some hint, precious however sHght. 
 Three Spensers are mentioned during the years over which 
 my search extended. There are entries (pp. 230, 233, 302) 
 concerning Robert Spenser, gentleman, of Lincoln's Inn. 
 He was not a member of the company, but had pecuniary 
 relations with it. The name of Nicholas Spenser occurs 
 repeatedly (pages 3, 28, 30, 40, 42, 45, 85, 105, 141, 180, 
 211, 217, 229, 245, 250, 311,340, 349) in entries which show 
 that he was a " welthy and able " member of the company, 
 who was elected, 12 July 1568, to the office of "Warden." 
 At page 250, there is the name of John Spenser. It occurs 
 in a list in which are recorded " what nombre of bretheren 
 of this mystrye at this daye (Oct. 21, 1566J do use and 
 occupy the arte or mysterie of clothworkynge and howe 
 many howseholders there be of them, and where and in 
 what parishe every of them do dwell and inhabyte, and wch 
 of them do rowe and shere brode clothes and also wch of 
 them do shere only karseis and cottenynge." But John 
 Spenser's name is not mentioned as one of the " bretheren," 
 but as a " free jorneyman " in the employment of Nicholas 
 Pele, shereman, of Bow Lane. 
 
 Putting Robert Spenser aside, there are thus two adult 
 Spensers who were connected with Merchant Taylors while 
 Edmund was in its school : — Nicholas, the " welthy and 
 able" brother; and John, the "free jorneyman." Was 
 Edmund a poor relation of Nicholas Spenser, and was it 
 Nicholas who for that reason, or for his name's sake, pro- 
 cured his free admission into the school .'* This is a mere 
 conjecture, not improbable. But was John Spenser the 
 father of the poet } This, again, is a conjecture. But 
 Edmund's position as a poor scholar is in striking harmony 
 with the supposition that his father was a journeyman 
 clothworker — a "free jorneyman" of the company in whose 
 school his son was receiving gratuitous education. The 
 supposition acquires weight from the inference that the
 
 hitrodnction. xix 
 
 Masters and Wardens of Merchant Taylors, in their selec- 
 tion of free scholars, would give a preference to the poor 
 members of their own mystery, and by the fact that they 
 did* 
 
 One word more before I leave this interesting subject. 
 That Spenser entered Pembroke Hall on the 20th of May 
 1569 is all that has been hitherto ascertained of his early 
 life. It is now beyond dispute that he acquired the rudi- 
 ments of learning at Merchant Taylors, from which he 
 passed to Cambridge. But who sent him to Pembroke 
 Hall .'' There is some reason to believe that it was Dr. 
 Watts, Archdeacon of Middlesex. Eight years before 
 Spenser went to Cambridge the Master and Wardens of 
 Merchant Taylors were requested by the Lord Mayor and 
 Aldermen of the City of London to found a scholarship at 
 one of the universities. After considering this request they 
 came to the conclusion that, looking to the expenses the 
 brotherhood had incurred, partly in founding their school, 
 they could not charge their corporate funds with any further 
 obligation. They agreed, however, that a scholarship 
 should be founded at the cost of the individual members of 
 their body, according as each might be disposed to contri- 
 bute, but on the condition that the scholar should undertake 
 to " study and be student in divinity." It was not, there- 
 fore, by the Master and Wardens that Spenser was sent to 
 Cambridge. But amongst the " learned men " who accom- 
 panied Dr. Grindall on his first visitations of Merchant 
 Taylors' School, was Archdeacon Watts, of whom Dr. 
 Wilson in his History of the School (page 30) says that he 
 "had founded scholarships at Pembroke Hall in Cambridge 
 with a general preference to youths educated at schools in 
 the metropolis," and that " several of his first scholars were 
 such as had attracted his notice at the episcopal visitation [s] 
 already mentioned." I submit it as probable that Edmund 
 
 • See, however, "Supplemental Note to Colonel Towneley's Manuscripts," 
 page 613, [as onward.]
 
 XX Introduction. 
 
 Spenser was one of the boys who attracted the Arch- 
 deacon's notice, and I may here mention the fact, upon 
 which other conjectures may be made, that at his first three 
 visitations of Merchant Taylors' School (1562, 1564, and 
 1565) Dr. Grindall was accompanied, amongst other learned 
 men, by Alexander Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's, and brother 
 of Robert Nowell, by whose bequests Edmund Spenser 
 profited. 
 
 Supplementary Note to Colonel Towneley's 
 
 Manuscripts. 
 
 Since writing my report I have gone through the whole 
 of Colonel Towneley's Spenser Manuscript, and I have 
 found reason to doubt the conjecture that John Spenser, 
 the "free jorneyman" of Merchant Taylors, was the father 
 of Edmund Spenser. That conjecture is subject to the 
 drawback that John Spenser, afterwards President of 
 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and of whose birth nothing 
 seems to be known, except that he was " a Suffolk man 
 born,"* was at Merchant Taylors' at the same time as 
 Edmund. His Christian name would give him a stronger 
 claim to be the son of the "free jorneyman" than the 
 poet's. But in putting in abeyance a theory which I had 
 entertained with no little pleasure, I can now substitute 
 for it another which has the advantage of making an 
 approach to certainty, and of disclosing, if it is sound, 
 a fact in Spenser's life hardly less interesting than the 
 discovery of his Grammar School. 
 
 In a list of gifts made, July 1569, to the poor of several 
 Lancashire parishes, the name of "Spenser" occurs fre- 
 quently. Under the heading " Habargham Eves, Ightnell 
 Parke, and Fillye Close," there are these items (fo. 1 36) : — 
 " Ux"^ Robte. Spensore - iij yeards wollen. 
 Edmund Spencere - one yeard wollen. 
 Phillipe Spencere - one yeard one q*' wollen. 
 
 * Wood's Athena:, by Bliss, vol. ii. col. 145. [He was the son of John 
 Spenser, gent. See our Note, p. 195, onward. A. B. G.]
 
 Introduction. xxi 
 
 Ales Spencere - one yeard di wollen, 
 
 Robte. Spencere - ij yeards linen." 
 
 At folio 1 37, under the same heading : — 
 
 " Jenet Spensore - ij yeards di wollen." 
 
 And at folio 1 39 : — 
 
 "Ales Spensere - ii yeards di linen, 
 
 John Spensore - ij yeards linen." 
 
 There is here one Edmund Spenser from whom the poet 
 might have taken his name. But at folios 132-3, under the 
 heading '" Bronnley " (Burnley), there are three entries, two 
 of which are very remarkable : — 
 
 " Edmunde Spenser - iij yeards wollen. 
 Isabell Spenser - iij yeards wollen. 
 
 Agnes Spensore - iij yeards wollen." 
 
 The date of these entries is "the vij* of Julii A** 1569," 
 shortly after the poet went to Cambridge. 
 
 "Isabel" and "Elizabeth" are substantially the same 
 name. In Moreri's Dictionnaire Historique they are repeat- 
 edly used synonymously, and at all events their identity is 
 sufficient to have justified Spenser in linking his mother, 
 supposing that her name was Isabel, with his wife and the 
 Queen in the sonnet* in which he praises the " most happy 
 letters " that compose that " happy name," 
 
 " The which three times thrise happy hath me made, 
 With guifts of body, fortune, and of mind. 
 The first my being to me gave by kind. 
 From Mother's womb deriv'd by dew descent ; 
 The second is my sovereigne queene, most kind. 
 That honour and large richesse to me lent ; 
 The third, my Love, my lives last ornament." 
 
 Were the Edmunde and Isabel Spenser of Burnley the 
 poet's father and mother 1 Apart from the coincidence of 
 their Christian names, the supposition that they were 
 derives an air of probability from the fact that, after 
 
 * Sonnet Ixxiv.
 
 xxil Introduction. 
 
 leaving Cambridge, he is believed to have gone to reside 
 with his relations in the North of England. If his parents, 
 for one of whom at least he cherished a tender affection, 
 were alive, they were most likely the relatives with whom 
 he took up his abode on quitting the university* Spenser 
 would therefore have passed some portion of the interval 
 between his leaving Cambridge and his coming to London 
 at Burnley ; and, if so, it is a happy circumstance that from 
 the venerable hall, at whose gates Burnley lies, a manu- 
 script should come into the hands of the Commission to 
 reveal, after the lapse of three centuries, facts so interesting 
 in his life as the later residence of his parents, his father's 
 Christian name, and the grammar school in which he was 
 taught the elements of learning. 
 
 I cannot close my notice of Colonel Towneley's Spenser 
 Manuscript without mentioning that it contains thirty-nine 
 pages filled with gifts of money to scholars at Oxford and 
 Cambridge, made directly or through the hands of pro- 
 fessors, amongst whom are the names of Dr. Haddon, 
 President of Magdalen College, Oxford ; Dr. Humphrey, 
 Professor of Divinity at Oxford ; Dr. Whitaker, Professor 
 of Divinity at Trinity College, Cambridge ; Dr. Whitgift, 
 and Dr. Longworth. Amongst those who received gifts 
 are Richard Hooker, author of The Ecclesiastical Polity ; 
 Thomas Bilson, Bishop of Winchester; Launcelot Andrewes, 
 Bishop of Winchester, and with whom Spenser has been 
 said, though incorrectly, to have competed for a fellowship 
 in Pembroke Hall; John Spenser, of Pembroke Hall, Cam- 
 bridge ; John Spenser, of Magdalen College, Oxford ; and 
 Richard Hakluyt, the naval historian. 
 
 At folio 82 Hooker receives a gift of twenty shillings, 
 
 * In a list of gifts made by Robert Nowell's executors to " his poor kyns. 
 folkes in Lancasliire," I. find (folio 117) two yards and a half of linen, and two 
 pence, given to " Lyttis Nowell, wiffe to Lawrance Spensere, of Castell 
 parishe," and two yards of wollen to "her sonne Elis Spensere." The 
 Nowells, an old Lancashire family, had therefore one family tie with the 
 Spensers, and probably took more than a mere charitable interest in them.
 
 XX 
 
 Introductio7i. xxiii 
 
 and further on, folio 85, there are the following entries in 
 his favour : — 
 
 " To Richard Hooker of Corpus Christie ^ 
 
 Colledge the xijth of Februarye Anno \-\f vj*^." 
 1571, to bring him to Oxford - -J 
 
 " To one Rycharde Hooker, Scholler of ~\ 
 
 Corpus Christie Colledge in Oxford the >-iij^ iij'^." 
 viij° of Marche A° 1573 - - -J 
 
 " To M^ Huker of Corpus Christie Colledge ■\ 
 
 in Oxforde the xxviij''^ of April 1575 Vv^" 
 (folio ^^) - - - - - -J 
 
 I subjoin the entries relating to the other eminent men 
 whom I have named : 
 
 " Thomas Bylson the laste of March A^ ) 
 1569 by Dr. Humphry (folio 81) - -/ 
 
 " To one Lancelet Androwes, poor Schol- 
 ler of Pembroke Hall, the xxviij" of 
 Martch A" 1573, at the sute of M"^ Lewes 
 my Lorde of Lacester gent (folio jZ) 
 
 " To one John Spenser the xxix*^ of Aprill ^ 
 
 1578 the Sonne of of Pembroke [-v^." 
 
 Hall in Cambridge (fol. 80) - - -) 
 
 "To one John Spensore the ix*'^ of October ^ 
 
 1577 of Magdaleyn Colledge in Oxforde Vv*." 
 the daye aforesaid (folio '^^) - -) 
 
 "To one M^ Hakeluite Bachelor of Arts of- 
 Christe College in Oxforde the xii^^ 
 of Maye (1575), by D^ Humfrey (folio 
 
 Zj) ...... 
 
 "To one M"" Hackeluett the iiiit^^ of June).. .,„ 
 
 1575 of Christe Church in Oxforde -3 
 These and other notices connected with men of eminence 
 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth show how much value 
 attaches to this manuscript, and how great a favour Colonel 
 Towneley has conferred on English history and literature 
 by submitting it to the Historical Manuscripts Commission. 
 
 R. B. Knowles. 

 
 xxiv Introduction. 
 
 Elsewhere, namely, in the new edition of the complete 
 works of Edmund Spenser, in the preparation of which I 
 have the honour to associate ^\ith myself a goodly number 
 of pre-eminent scholars and students of Elizabethan lite- 
 rature, I shall utilize these and other Spenser entries 
 obtained in many places, e.g., Burnley, Whalley, West- 
 minster, &c., &c. Suffice to add that in their places — 
 to which the Index will guide — various elucidations of 
 Spenser names are furnished. But while the MS. \vould 
 have been of inestimable value had there been no more 
 than the Spenser entries, these are by no means all the 
 names that arrest attention in it. The Student will turn to 
 the Index for himself ; but, perhaps, it will not be deemed 
 supererogatory to briefly notice certain additional names of 
 permanent interest : — 
 
 {a) Edward Kirke. See page i88 (bottom paging) and 
 relative note. I point out " Kirke " not as in him- 
 self comparable with others to be specified, but from 
 his association with Spenser. That he was the " E. 
 K." of the original notes to "The Shepheard's 
 Calendar" (1579) there seems no question ; but that 
 it is still necessary to maintain his personality, and 
 that the " Notes " were his and not Spenser's own, is 
 absurdly enough proved by a very recent " Note " in 
 Notes and Qtceries, wherein among other preposterous 
 theories " E. K." is gravely held to represent Spenser 
 himself as E[dmund] the K[alendarer] ! (Notes and 
 Queries, vol. vi. Fifth Series, Nov. 4th, 1876.)* The 
 entiy in our MS. brings Edward Kirke before us as 
 Spenser's contemporary at the University. 
 (b) Richard Hooker. See pages 220, 224, 226, and re- 
 lative notes.) Two things may here be noted : (i) 
 
 * I add here as a modern "Curiosity of Literature" a short quotation : — 
 "The gloss or explanatory commentaiy is subscribed 'E. K.,' intended, not 
 improbably, for the poet himself, the initials signifying Edmund the Kalen- 
 darer." The rest is equally ridiculous. The writer's signature is "j8".
 
 Introditction. xxv 
 
 That the entry on page 220 is in the well-known au- 
 tograph of Dean Alexander Nowell ; (2) That the 
 Scribe mis-spells the name egregiously more than 
 once. The Biographers of "the judicious Hooker" 
 have not apparently been aware of his early poverty 
 and straits. To me, for one, these entries are infinitely 
 pathetic. In the fac-similes (in our large paper only) 
 I have placed Dean Nowell's corrective entry beside 
 those relating to Spenser and Bishop Andrewes. 
 
 (c) Launcelot Andrewes. See pages 78 and 184 (bottom 
 
 paging) and relative notes. As with Hooker it is of 
 profound interest to come on these early dates con- 
 cerning one so venerable as this still potential 
 Bishop. Our notes suggest relationships that seem 
 to have escaped his Biographers. 
 
 (d) William Whitaker, See pages 192, 258 (bottom 
 
 paging) and relative notes. This illustrious scholar, 
 who was born at Holme, in the parish of Burnley, 
 Lancashire, in 1547, was related to our Nowell — 
 his mother having been sister of him and of Deans 
 Alexander and Lawrence Nowell, viz., Elizabeth 
 Nowell, who married Thomas Whitaker in 1 5 30, and 
 survived her marriage no fewer than y6 years. The 
 many Biographical notices and his place in history 
 (ecclesiastical) renders it unnecessary to enter here 
 on the incidents of his remarkable career. In our 
 Notes some data are submitted on the relationship 
 and inter-relationship of the different Whitakers of 
 our MS. 
 
 (e) Richard Hackluyt. See pages 30, 226, and relative 
 
 notes. 
 
 (f) Bishop John Still. Seepage 188 and relative note. 
 
 (g) Bishop Thomas BiLSON. See page 198 (bottom paging) 
 
 and relative note. 
 (h) Hammonds of Whalley in Lancashire, family of Dr. 
 Henry Hammond the commentator, page ydi, and 
 relative note page 81. d
 
 xxvi Introdjtction. 
 
 (i) Richard Langher. See page 95 (bottom paging). 
 
 (J) Dr. Peter Baro. See pages 62 and 64, and relative 
 note. 
 
 (k) Anthony Coranus. See pages 62, 64, 100, 104, 106, 
 230, and note, page 231. 
 
 (I ) RODOLPHE LE CHEVALIER. See page 100, and rela- 
 tive note. 
 
 (in) Jeane Cousin, the French preacher. See page 104, 
 and relative note. 
 
 (n) Richard Mulcaster, Master of Merchant Taylors' 
 School. See pages no, 166, and note, page in. 
 
 (0) Dr. Percival Wyburne, the eminent Puritan-Non- 
 conformist. See page 1 14, and relative note. 
 
 (p) Nicholas Crane, the Puritan. See page 118, and 
 relative note. 
 
 (q) John Field, the Puritan. See page 124, and relative 
 note. 
 
 (r) Augustine Rernher the Swiss, editor of Latimer's 
 Sermons. See page 154, and relative note. 
 
 (s) Giles Fletcher, Pater. See page 178, and relative 
 note. 
 
 (t) Thomas Lever, the celebrated Puritan preacher. See 
 page 188, and relative note. 
 
 (h) Bishop Myles Smith. See pages 212 and 236, and 
 relative notes. 
 
 (v) Bishop Henry Parry. See page 248, and relative 
 note. 
 
 (w) Bishop John Wolton. See page 266, and relative 
 note. 
 
 (x) Thomas Churchyard, the Poet. See page 276, and 
 relative note. 
 
 (y) Alexander Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's. See Index 
 s.u. Churton has told fairly well the story of this 
 great and good Worthy of the olden time. I place 
 him last in these selected names, because it is my 
 privilege to give here a very minute and matterful
 
 hitroduction. xxvii 
 
 genealogical account of the Nowells down to the 
 beginning of the seventeenth century, corrective of 
 and supplementary to all prior ones, not excepting 
 the carefully-amended pedigree in the new edition 
 of Dr. Whitaker's Whalley {2 vols, 4to). To Mr. 
 Abram (as before) the Reader is indebted for this 
 substantial contribution to Lancashire family-his- 
 tory. 
 
 NowELL OF Great Mearley and Read in the 
 
 County of Lancaster. 
 
 Adam Noell or Nowell (conjectured from the name 
 to have descended from a Norman follower of William the 
 Conqueror) married in the 13th century the daughter and 
 heir of Stephen de Merlay, and thus brought to the Nowells 
 the manorial estate of Merlay Magna (noAV Great Mearley), 
 situate on the eastern border of Lancashire, in Ribblesdale, 
 about two miles from Clitheroe. By the heiress of Merlay, 
 Adam Noell had two sons, Roger and Simon. "Simone de 
 Noell and Roger his brother " appear as witnesses to a deed 
 temp. Edward I. 
 
 Roger Noell, lord of Merlay Magna, succeeding Adam 
 his father, like him married an heiress, viz., Elizabeth, 
 third daughter of Richard Fytton, lord of Harwood Magna 
 manor, in Blackburn Parish. She and her sisters, Maud 
 and Amabil, were co-heirs of their brother William 
 Fytton, who died without issue ; and after this marriage the 
 Nowells held about five centuries the third part of Great 
 Harwood manor. At the great De Lascy Inquisition in 
 131 1, it was found that Roger Noell held two carucates of 
 land in Great Merlay by the service of the fourth part of a 
 knight's fee and a rent of 2Qd. Roger Noell occurs as a 
 juror in 1326. He had a son Adam. 
 
 Adam Nowell, of Great Mearley, Esq., occurs as a 
 witness to a charter of Whalley Abbey in 1327. King 
 Edward HI. in the 12th of his reign (1338), granted to
 
 xxviii Int7'oductio'n. 
 
 Adam Nowell, for the good service he had expended in the 
 war in Scotland, that he and his heirs for ever might have 
 a market weekly on Thursday at their manor of Nether- 
 ton, in Magna Harewode. A deed in Norman-French, 
 dated 12 Edward II., found among the Hesketh evi- 
 dences, relates to a contest that had taken place between 
 John de Hesketh and Adam Nowell, concerning certain 
 tenements in Great Harwood which after the death of 
 William Fytton were divided amongst his three sisters, 
 A Royal warrant, dated 13 Edward III. (1339), found 
 among the Toiviieley MSS., sets forth the descent of 
 Great Merlay estate from Adam, heir of Stephen de Mer- 
 lay, through Roger, Adam's son and heir, to Adam Noell, 
 "that now is" (1339) ^'^ son and heir of Roger; and 
 another deed in the Lansdowne AISS. names Richard as 
 son and heir of this Adam Nowell in 1359. 
 
 " Richard Noell, Esq., son of Adam," (so described) 
 appears as a witness to deeds in Whalley Abbey Coiicher 
 in 1340 and in 1356. By his wife Johanna he had a son 
 Lawrence. 
 
 Lawrence Nowell, Esq., exchanged, about the year 
 1368, the manor and chase of Magna Merlay Avith Sir 
 Richard de Greenacres, for a moiety of the manor of Read. 
 This was the first settlement of the Nowells at Read, which 
 remained their home rather more than four centuries after- 
 wards. Lawrence Nowell was living in 10 Richard II. 
 (1386). By Katherine his wife, who is party to a deed 
 dated 1368, he had sons, John, Nicholas, and Gilbert, all 
 three named in a deed of settlement dated 18 Richard 11. 
 
 (1 394-) 
 
 John Nowell, Esq., lord of Read, held the estates 
 about forty-five years. By Margaret his wife he had sons, 
 Nicholas, Arthur, and Otwell. In 1389, John Nowell made 
 formal acknowledgment, at the Chapel of Harwood Magna, 
 that he held his estate in Harwood on the condition of 
 homage to Thomas Hesketh, Esq., as chief lord of that
 
 IntrodiLction. xxix 
 
 manor. John Nowell died the 23rd May, 1433. Mr. Wm. 
 Langton* has printed the Inquisition after his death, taken 
 at Wigan, the 30th May, 1433. The jurors attested that 
 "Johannes Nowell de Reved" was seized of the manor of 
 Reved (Read), with 30 messuages, 400 acres of land, 
 100 acres of meadow, 300 acres of woodland, and 200 
 acres of turbary, in the vills of Magna Harewode and 
 Chirche ; that by a deed dated at Read, 18 Richard II. 
 (1394), John, son of Lawrence Nowell of Reved, had settled 
 the estates in trust to James de Langeton rector of Wigan 
 Church, and John Pilkington, rector of Bury Church ; and 
 by another deed dated 3 Henry IV. (1402), these trustees 
 had re-enfeofifed John Nowell in the estate for life, with 
 remainder to his son Nicholas and his heirs male, and after- 
 wards John Nowell enfeoffed William Aburgham, vicar of 
 Croston Church, and Richard Todde, chaplain, of all his 
 lands in Magna Harewode and Chirche and the manor of 
 Reved. Read manor was found to be held by John Nowell 
 of the King as of his duchy of Lancaster, by thanage and the 
 service of (^s.gd. yearly, being worth yearly iooj-. ; and the 
 lands in Magna Harewode and Chirche were held of the 
 King by knight service and the payment of 10^. yearly, 
 being worth yearly beyond reprises lOOi". The writ oi diem 
 clausit extreniiun after the death of John Nowell de Reved is 
 dated 24th May, 11 Henry VI. (1433.) 
 
 Nicholas Nowell, son and heir of John, had died in 
 his father's lifetime, but had left a son, Alexander Nowell, 
 who was found next heir to his grandfather in 1433, and 
 then aged 20 years. The two younger brothers of Nicholas 
 Nowell, Arthur and Otwell, described as sons of John 
 Nowell, of Rede, were living in 1434, when they gave fines 
 for a writ of the Chancery Court of the Duchy of Lan- 
 caster. 
 
 During the minority of ALEXANDER NowELL, son of 
 
 * Christopher Towneley's Abstracts of Lancashire and Cheshire Inquisitions, 
 edited by Mr. William Langton ; Chetham Society's works, vol. xcix, p. 38.
 
 XXX Introduction. 
 
 Nicholas, and heir to his grandsire in 1433, the estates were 
 committed by the Crown to the custody of Hugh Hesketh 
 and Richard Towneley, Esqrs. The 17th March, 12 Henry 
 VI. (1434) a writ was issued de cetate probanda of "Alexan- 
 der Nowell, son and heir of Nicholas son of John Nowell ; " 
 on the 1st October, in the same year, the precept was 
 addressed to the escheator to deliver to Alexander, son and 
 heir of Nicholas son of John Nowell, seisin of his father's 
 lands, he having proved his age ; and presently after Alex- 
 ander Nowell gave fine to the Duchy Court for respite of 
 homage. He married Isabella, daughter of Roger Banastre, 
 and had a son and heir Roger, and (among probably other 
 children) a daughter Isabel, wife of Geoffrey Winckley of 
 Winckley. The date of Alexander Nowell's death is not 
 recorded, but he was living in 1467. 
 
 Roger Nowell, Esq., lord of Read, son of Alexander, 
 had to his first wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas 
 Hesketh, Esq., from whom he was divorced in 3 Edward 
 IV. {1463). His second wife was Grace, daughter of 
 John Towneley, Esq. (marriage settlement dated 7th 
 March, 1468). Roger Nowell, among his possessions, had 
 an estate at Arkesay, near Wakefield, in the county of 
 York, and there he sometime resided. He founded a 
 Chantry in the Church of All Saints, Wakefield, in the year 
 1480. He died in i486. Grace Nowell, his wife, survived 
 him, and was living, a widow, in 1487. His children 
 named in the last-published pedigree of the Nowells are, 
 one son, John, and six daughters ; but a note by Thomas 
 Talbot the antiquary, found in the Cotton JIISS., proves 
 that he had not fewer than seven sons and seven daughters. 
 The record is to the effect that in a window of Whalley 
 Church was an inscription: "©rate jjvo animaljus Hogm 
 floUiel armtgfr ft (Grattae uxorts ejus ct pto iiono gtatu 
 Soljanuis iloiucl pn'mogentti liogcrf, cum fiatitiius tt 
 Borortbus suis, ([Hi tstam feucistram fieri fecnunt anno 
 Domini 15 10." The describer of the memorial window
 
 Inb^odtiction. xxxi 
 
 adds : " He hath 7 sones knehng by him, and she hath 
 7 doghters by her, wherof two wer maried." The evidence 
 of the Manuscript printed hereafter supports this record 
 that Roger Nowell had several younger sons ; for, although 
 the names of such sons are not supplied explicitly, the 
 number of cousins and kinsfolk of Dean Nowell and 
 Robert Nowell, bearing the name of Nowell, who appear 
 in the MS., require that the Dean and his brother should 
 have had uncles who had children living in 1568-15 80. In 
 one case (see page 261, note 5) it has been proved that 
 Thomas Nowell of Runcton and his brother and sisters 
 were first cousins of Dean Nowell ; and there are other 
 entries of Nowells, described as " cousins," who could not 
 have been nephews or nieces. Besides the heir, John 
 Nowell, Roger Nowell had probably sons — Andrew, father 
 of John and Charles (see page 259) ; Robert (named in the 
 Visitation of 1567); and Roger. The rest of the seven 
 cannot be named. Of his seven daughters, six are 
 mentioned : Maud, wife of Edward Radcliffe of Mearley ; 
 Grace, wife of John Hoghton of Pendleton ; Anne, wife 
 of Ralph Rishton of Ponthalgh ; Jane, wife of William 
 Fleming of Fleming Hall ; Elizabeth, wife of Robert 
 Challoner; and Eleanor (she died in 1549), wife of John 
 Hop wood, Esq. 
 
 John Nowell of Read, Esq., son of Roger, married, 
 first, in i486, Dowse, daughter of Robert Hesketh of 
 Rufiford, Esq., and by her had a son and heir, Roger. 
 His second wife, whom he married before 1505, was 
 Elizabeth, daughter of (Robert) Kay of Rochdale, gent. ; 
 and by her he had issue : sons — John ; Alexander (Dean 
 of St. Paul's) ; Lawrence (Dean of Lichfield) ; Robert (of 
 Gray's Inn) ; Christopher ; and Nicholas, steward to the 
 Earl of Shrewsbury ; and the following daughters — 
 Beatrice, wife of Thomas Hammond of Whalley, gent. ; 
 Alice, wife of Henry Whitaker of High Whitaker, gent. ; 
 Maud, wife of William Deane of Tunworth in Billington,
 
 xxxii Introduction. 
 
 gent. ; Margery, wife of Thomas Aughton, gent. ; Elizabeth, 
 wife of Thomas Whitaker of Holme, gent.; Jane (perhaps 
 she was the daughter who was wife of Hamlet Ashton, 
 gent.; see page 89, note 4); Margaret, married, in 1530, 
 Thomas Rycroft ; Grace, wife of Richard Neve of London, 
 fishmonger (see pp. 5 5, and 264-5); and Isabella, wife of John 
 Wolton of Whalley, yeoman, and mother of John Wolton, 
 Bishop of Exeter. I have enumerated fifteen children of 
 John Nowell by his second wife, and am not sure that the 
 category is exhausted. John Nowell, Esq., died on the 
 4th (or 5th) of June, 1525. The Inq. post mort. was taken 
 at Lancaster, the 24th August, 1525, when it was found 
 that John Nowell, Esq., of Reyde, had died seized of the 
 manors of Reyde and Magna Harwood, with messuages 
 and lands in those townships and in Chirche. Roger 
 Nowell was found to be his son and heir, who had a son 
 and heir apparent named Thomas, then an infant. Other 
 sons named in the escheat are, John, Alexander, Lawrence, 
 Robert, and Christopher. (John and Christopher are 
 omitted in all the pedigrees hitherto.) Daughters Isabel 
 and Margaret are named ; and the wife of John Nowell, 
 Elizabeth Nowell, is also named. John Nowell's Will is 
 cited, dated 3rd June, 1525. 
 
 Elizabeth Nowell, widow of John, married, secondly, 
 within the first year of her widowhood, Charles Towneley 
 of Towneley, Esq. (a dispensation for the marriage, on 
 account of consanguinity of the parties, is dated 20th 
 December, 1525). To Charles Towneley she bore a son 
 John, who is the John Towneley named in the ]\IS. as an 
 executor of the Will of Robert Nowell, Esq. 
 
 Roger Nowell of Read, Esq., son of John, by his first 
 wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Rishton, gent, had no 
 issue, and was divorced from her in 1524. He then married 
 Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Sherburne of Stonyhurst, 
 knt., and had issue : sons — Thomas, born about 1525 ; and 
 Roger; and daughters— Alice ; Anne, married, 15th Sept.,
 
 Introduction. xxxiii 
 
 1561, Richard Houlden of Chageley, gent.; and Grace. 
 Roger Nowell died in 1566. By Inq. post inort. taken 
 at Preston, 14th January, 1566-7, it was found that Roger 
 Nowell of Reade, Esq., had died on the 2nd September, 
 
 1566, seized of Reade Manor, the third part of Magna 
 Harwoode Manor, with messuages, lands, woodlands, rents, 
 &c., there and in Churche and Dynkeley. Thomas Nowell, 
 Esq., was found to be his son and heir, then aged 40 (41) 
 years and upwards. Roger Nowell's younger son, Roger 
 Nowell, is named in the record as then living at Preston. 
 
 Thomas Nowell, Esq., Roger's eldest son, married, first, 
 Benedicta, daughter of Richard Towneley, Esq., and by her 
 had issue, two daughters, Grace, born about 1545, who 
 married Thomas Procter, gent. ; and Elizabeth, living in 
 
 1567. By his second wife, Alice (.'* Willotte), whom he 
 married before 1565, he had a son John, baptized at Whalley 
 Church, 8th February, 1571, who died in infan.cy. Thomas 
 Nowell is named several times in the MS. {inter alia see 
 p. 70, and relative note p. 71). Thomas Nowell, Esq., died 
 in August, 1575 ; and the Inquisition taken at Whalley, the 
 14th January, 1575-6, returns that Grace, wife of Thomas 
 Procter, gent, was found to be his daughter and heir, then 
 aged 30 years and upwards. Alice Nowell, his widow, 
 received money from Dean Nowell in February, 1575-6. 
 (See p. 266.) She died in Manchester, in 1590, and was 
 buried at the Collegiate Church ; the burial register contains 
 the entry: — 1590. Jan. 14. "Alyce Wydowe to Thomas 
 Nowell of Read, Esq., buried." (Her kinsfolk doubtless 
 dwelt at Manchester.) 
 
 Roger Nowell, brother of Thomas, now succeeded to 
 the entailed estates in default of issue male to Thomas 
 Nowell. He married Florence, daughter of Reginald Atkin- 
 son, gent., and widow of Lawrence Starkie, Esq. The 
 marriage took place on the 25th January, 155 1-2. He had 
 issue, sons, John, and Roger ; and a daughter Alice, wife 
 of William Shuttleworth, gent., of Asterley in Whalley.
 
 xxxiv Introduction. 
 
 Roger Nowell's eldest son, John Nowell, gent., married, at 
 Whalley Church, 26th September, 1575, Letitia, daughter 
 of Edward Braddyll, Esq., but had no issue ; he died in 
 the hfetime of his father, in 1583, and was buried at 
 Whalley, the 23rd July in that year ; his wife, Letitia 
 Nowell, survived him. This Roger Nowell died the i8th 
 May, 1591 ; and the Inq. post inort., taken at Whalley the 
 15th July, 1591, shows that he had held the manor of Read 
 by the gift and concession of his brother, Thomas Nowell, 
 Esq., deceased ; and that Roger Nowell was his surviving 
 son and heir, aged 29 years and upwards. His wife, 
 Florence Nowell, survived him, and was made sole execu- 
 trix of his Will. "Florentia Nowell, ux. Rogeri," w^as 
 buried at Whalley Church, " 18 die Decembris, 1593." 
 
 Roger Nowell, Esq., lord of Read, son of the above 
 Roger, married Katherine, daughter of John Morton, Esq, 
 The marriage is thus entered in the W'halley Church 
 register : — " Rogerus Nowell, gen. et Katherina Marton, 9 
 Mali, 1581 ; his testibus Will'mus Herris Clericus, Joh'es 
 Nowell, gen., Joh'es Crombocke, Willm. Shuttleworth, 
 Joh'es Marton, Joh'es Lawe, Joh'es Cunclyfife, Ric'us 
 Sudell, Laurentius Standworth, Joh'es Dugdall, Lucas 
 Whittingham, Thomas Haliday." The issue of this mar- 
 riage were, sons, Roger, baptized 8th August, 1582 ; John, 
 bai^tized 26th March, 1589, married Mary Procter; Alex- 
 ander, born in 1591, died in May, 1595 ; a second Alexander, 
 born in 1595 ; and Robert, born in 1596 ; daughters, Maria, 
 baptized 21st May, 1586 (married, first, Richard Fleetwood 
 of Calwich, Esq. ; secondly, Ralph Hopton of Armley); 
 Florence, baptized 27th March, 1587 (married Nicholas 
 Scarborough, Esq.); Isabella, baptized i8th February, 1592 
 (married, first, John Byrom of Byrom, Esq.; secondly, John 
 Bretherton of Hey, gent.); Anne, born in 1598, married 
 John Sharpe, gent.; and Catherine, born in 1600. Roger 
 Nowell's wife, Katherine Nowell, died at Whalley, the 20th 
 January, 1620-1. He died in 1623. The Liquisition for
 
 IntrodiLction. xxxv 
 
 the escheat, taken at Preston, 8th April, 1624, returns 
 that Roger Nowell of Reade, Esq., had died at Whalley, the 
 30th January, 1623-4, seized of Reade manor, and Harwood 
 Magna manor, with messuages and demesne lands in these 
 places, and other lands in Church, Symonston, Dinckley, and 
 Whalley in Lancashire ; and of East Bradford manor, with 
 lands in Wakefield, Loftus, Wentbridge, Thorpe Audhill, 
 Darrington, and Oscropp, in the county of York. His sons, 
 Roger, John, and Robert, were then living. 
 
 Roger Nowell, gent., eldest son of Roger, had died at 
 Whalley (vitm patris), the 12th November, 1623; he had 
 been twice married, first, to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
 Fleetwood of Calwich, Esq., by whom he had sons, Roger, 
 Thomas, Adam, and Richard ; and daughters, Katherine, 
 Fleetwood, Elizabeth, Anne, Mary, and Frances ; and 
 secondly, to Katherine Hulton, widow (married at Whalley, 
 30th October, 161 8), sister of Hamnet Hyde of Norbury, in 
 the county of Chester, Esq., by whom he had sons, George, 
 Ralph, and Henry, and a daughter Penelope. All these 
 children of Roger Nowell were living at Whalley at the date 
 of the Inquisition on the elder Roger's death. Roger 
 Nowell, son of Roger the younger, was found heir to his 
 grandfather, and was eighteen years old on the 13th of 
 March, 1623-4. 
 
 Beyond this point I need not pursue the genealogy of the 
 Nowells, having nothing to add to the full record of the 
 later generations in the pedigree inserted in the new edition 
 of Whitaker's History of Whalley, vol. ii, p. 41. I close 
 with concise biographic notices of the three brothers chiefly 
 connected with this MS., viz., Robert Nowell, Esq., Dean 
 Alexander Nowell, and Dean Lawrence Nowell. 
 
 Robert Nowell (the posthumous expenditure of 
 whose fortune in charities is recorded in the MS. now 
 printed) was a younger son of John Nowell of Read, Esq., 
 by his second wife Elizabeth (Kay). His birth must have 
 been about 15 17-1520, but the date is not fixed. With his
 
 xxxvi Introd2iction. 
 
 brother Alexander and others of his brethren he was 
 educated at the Grammar School of Middleton, and from 
 that school proceeded to Brasenose College in Oxford. 
 He was still a child when his father died, in 1525 ; and in 
 the inquisition after John Nowell's death Robert is named 
 among his sons. After leaving the university, Robert 
 Nowell adopted the profession of a lawyer, and was entered 
 of Gray's Inn ; but nothing is on record concerning him 
 from this time until, in the 1st Elizabeth (1558), he was 
 employed as counsel for the patentees of certain lands, 
 parcel of the estates of the Bishop of Winchester, He 
 would then be about forty years old. By patent dated 
 8th February, 1560-1, Robert Nowell, counsellor of Gray's 
 Inn, was appointed the Queen's Attorney of the Court 
 of Wards, for his life. The same year he was elected 
 Lent Reader of Gray's Inn. After this his appoint- 
 ments were numerous and lucrative, and it is likely 
 that he had amassed the handsome competency, indicated 
 by the many thousands of pounds left at his death for 
 distribution, chiefly during the last ten years of his life 
 (i 558-1 568). Churton (Life of Dean Nozvell, pp. 137-8) 
 enumerates these important offices fulfilled by Robert 
 Nowell: — By patent dated 8th February, 1563, he was 
 appointed guardian of Charles Waldegrave, with an allow- 
 ance of 40/. a year out of the estates of his late father. Sir 
 Edward Waldegrave, knt., in Somersetshire, and had a 
 lease from the crown of lands in Cardiganshire, part of 
 the estates of the late Duke of Richmond. He was, in 
 1565, made a member of a special commission to audit 
 accounts and correct abuses in the Queen's household. 
 He was steward to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, 
 and of them held the reversionary grant of the rectory and 
 great tithes of Tottenham. In 1567 he was made guardian 
 of one Frances Green. Robert Nowell had two places of 
 residence — his chambers at Gray's Inn, in London, and a 
 country house on his estate at Hendon, in Middlesex. His
 
 httrodnctioii. xxxvli 
 
 household included five men-servants and several women- 
 servants, named in the MS., and in his Will as legatees. 
 He enjoyed the influential friendship of Mr. Secretary- 
 Cecil, afterwards Lord Burghley. Among his special 
 friends are also named Robert Barton, gent, of Gray's Inn, 
 Mr. Kitchine of Gray's Inn, and Mr. Milles. In 1563, 
 when the plague was raging in the City of London, Robert 
 Nowell, providing against the risk of sudden death, made 
 his Will, which is dated the i6th August, 1563. The Will 
 was drafted by himself. He lived more than five years 
 after making this Will, which we now print in extenso for 
 the first time. It is assumed that Robert Nowell did not 
 marry, from the fact that neither wife nor child is named in 
 the Will ; yet it is possible he had a wife who predeceased 
 him some years, leaving no issue. Robert Nowell, Esq., 
 died in his chamber at Gray's Inn, on the 6th of February, 
 1568-9. The same day a codicil was added to the Will of 
 1563, which is printed along with the Will. Dean Nowell 
 has left a graphic statement of his brother's charge to him, 
 a few hours before his departure, respecting the bestowal of 
 his money upon certain charities, in two letters to Lord 
 Burghley, written nearly thirty years after, in 1595-6. The 
 Dean writes : — " My brother Robert, late Attorney of her 
 Ma'ties Courte of Wardes, about vi houres before he dyed, 
 said unto me : ' Forget not Myddelton schole, and the 
 college of Brasen-nose, wher we were brought upp in our 
 youth ; and yf you wolde procure any thynge to continue, 
 with my money, yow shall doe it beste and moste surely in 
 the Queues Ma'ties name, whose poore officer I have bene.' 
 . . . . And for that my saide brother, not longe before 
 hys death, delyuerynge me hys key of the cheste, where 
 hys other keyes were, and hys rynge also, prayed me not 
 to deceyve hym, but that the poore should have all hys 
 goods, hys debts, legacies and funeralls beyng fyrste dis- 
 charged. Now that he maide yr good L[ordj overseer, I 
 think I am occasioned hereby summarily to showe how the
 
 xxxviii Introductio7i. 
 
 reste of hys goods were bestowed." In the other letter we 
 read : — " My brother Roberte sometime Attorney in 
 the Court of Wardes , . . specially charged me upon 
 his death bed to procure the foundation of Myddleton 
 Schole in the County of Lancaster, where we and 
 other o' brethren were taught in o"" childhoode, and the 
 said schole to be annexed unto Brasenose College in 
 Oxf'd where we were poor students, in the time of our 
 youthe." How well and faithfully Dean Nowell discharged 
 the obligation so solemnly laid upon him by his expiring 
 brother, this Manuscript remains amply to testify, which we 
 are privileged to give to the world in printed form after the 
 lapse of three centuries. The Dean made his brother a 
 very stately funeral ; he was buried in the old cathedral of 
 St. Paul's, "in the place called sancta sanctor" ; and over 
 the grave was placed an alabaster stone with an inscrip- 
 tion (see p. 40). The MS. gives copious items of the funeral 
 arrangements ; the preparation of the church for the oc- 
 casion ; the eleven petty canons and six vicars in attend- 
 ance ; the fees of the herald for the armorial insignia ; the 
 varied provision of viands for the funeral dinner ; payments 
 for 240 black gowns for as many poor men ; for other gowns 
 for poor women, and for scholars of the public schools in 
 London ; better gowns for persons of wealth ; gifts to 
 preachers of the funeral sermons ; and many other interest- 
 ing matters connected with the obsequies of Robert Nowell 
 and the execution of his Will, under the direction of Dean 
 Nowell, the acting executor. 
 
 Concerning ALEXANDER NowELL, Dean of St. Paul's, 
 there is no necessity to repeat the biographical particulars 
 printed in various previous books, and amplified in Chur- 
 ton's well-known and carefully-composed " Life." I present 
 merely the dates of the salient events of his lengthened 
 and distinguished career ; with some information as to his 
 first marriage which has not before been printed. Alexan- 
 der Nowell was born at Read, about A.D. 1507. He was
 
 Introduction. xxxix 
 
 the second son of the second marriage of his father John 
 Nowell, Esq., who died when he was about i8 years old. 
 He was sent to Middleton School, some twenty miles from 
 Read. He proceeded thence to Oxford, and was entered 
 at Brasenose College; stayed in College 13 years; took 
 B.A. 29th May, 1536 ; elected a Fellow shortly afterwards ; 
 M.A. loth June, 1540. In 1543 he was appointed Head 
 Master of Westminster School, resigned in 1555; licensed 
 as a preacher about 1550; installed Prebendary of West- 
 minster, second stall, 5th December, 1551 ; elected Member 
 of Parliament for Loo, in Cornwall, 5th October, 1553. 
 The election was questioned in Parliament, and set aside. 
 October 12th, 1553, the House of Commons appointed 
 " Mr. Secretary Bourne [and others] to enquire for Alexan- 
 der Nowell, Burgess of Loo, in Cornwall, Prebend of 
 Westminster, if he may be of this House." "October 13th, 
 It is declared by the Commissioners, that Alexander 
 Nowell, being Prebendary in Westminster, and thereby 
 having voice in the Convocation House, cannot be a Member 
 of this House, and so agreed by the House, and the Queen's 
 Writ to be directed for another Burgess in that place." 
 During Mary's reign, being marked as a Puritan, Nowell 
 incurred the enmity of Bonner, and to preserve his liberty 
 escaped to the Continent, being assisted to do so by Francis 
 Bowyer, citizen and merchant of London. He resided at 
 Frankfort about two years, in community with the German 
 and Swiss Reformers ; but promptly came back to England 
 on the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1558. From this 
 time his preferments in the Church were valuable and con- 
 tinuous ; collated Archdeacon of Middlesex, ist January, 
 1559-60 ; held it about a year ; presented to the Rectory of 
 Saltwood, 3rd February, 1559-60; resigned 1560; Pre- 
 bendary of Canterbury, 14th February, 1559-60, resigned, 
 1564 ; Prebendary of Westminster, seventh stall, by Queen's 
 patent dated 21st June, 1560, resigned, 1561 ; Prebendary 
 of Wildland, in the Cathedral of London, 3rd December,
 
 X 
 
 1 Introduction. 
 
 1560; elected Dean of St. Paul's, 17th November, 1560; 
 presented to the rich Rectory of Great Hadham, in the 
 county of Herts, about December, 1562, resigned 1589; Pre- 
 bendary of Totenhall, Cathedral of London, i ith November, 
 1588, held till his death ; Canon of Windsor, installed 25th 
 April, 1594, held till his death ; President of Brasenose 
 College, Oxford, 6th September, 1595, resigned 14th 
 December, 1595. In 1568, Dean Nowell made a preaching 
 tour in his native county of Lancashire, and he was 
 in Lancashire again the following year (see pp. 218-19). In 
 February, 1568-9, when his brother Robert Nowell died, 
 Dean Nowell was one of his executors. The MS. shows 
 in detail the manner in which Dean Nowell carried out 
 the distribution of his brother's bounty, subsidised by 
 much of his own money, during about twelve years 
 from 1569 to 1580. He was in Sussex frequently in these 
 years, and in the West Country in the autumn of 1569. 
 His first marriage (hitherto obscure) took place about the 
 year 1560. He married Jane, daughter of Robert Merry of 
 Hatfield, Esq., widow of Thomas Bowyer of London, citizen 
 and grocer (who had died the 13th September, 1558), and 
 mother of Thomas Bowyer, of Lathorne, parish of North 
 Mundham, in the county of Sussex, and of Joan 
 Bowyer, wife, first, of George Cassey, citizen and grocer 
 of London, and secondly of Dean Nowell's cousin, 
 Thomas Nowell of Runcton, gent, (see page 261). 
 By this dame Dean Nowell had no issue, and she died 
 at North Mundham the 3rd August, 1579. The entry 
 of her burial in the Parish Register of North Mundham 
 is as follows: — 1579. "The xiiij day of August, 1579, A^ xxi 
 Elizabeth Regine, Joane Nowell, late ye wyfe of Alexander 
 Nowell Deane of ye Cathedrall Church of St. Paull in Lon- 
 don before the wyf of Thomas Bowyer cytezen & 
 grocer of London, was buried by ye body of the said 
 Thomas Bowyer on ye north side of the chancell of ye 
 church of North Mundham, having left issue by ye said
 
 Introduction. xli 
 
 Tho: Bowyer deceased two sonnes & one daughter, viz. 
 Thomas Bowyer of the Middle Temple, Richard Bowyer, 
 citizen & grocer of London, & Jane, the wife of Thomas 
 Nowell & before the wife of George Cassey of London 
 grocer." Dean Nowell's second wife, whom he married 
 between 1580 and 1583, when he was more than seventy 
 years old, was Elizabeth, daughter of Hast of Wind- 
 ham, and widow of Thomas Blount, Esq., collector of the 
 customs for the port of London (by whom she had a son 
 Edward and other children). This wife survived Dean 
 Nowell, and died in 161 1. Among the published writings 
 of Dean Nowell are : A Homily on account of the Plague 
 (1564) ; controversial books against Dorman (1565-6-7) ; 
 and the celebrated Cattxhisiiius (1570). He was created 
 Doctor of Divinity, ist October, 1595. Dean Nowell made 
 his Will ten years before his decease. The Will is dated 
 8th January, 1592-3. After directions concerning his 
 funeral, testator gives 20/. to the repairs of St. Paul's ; 10/. to 
 Christ's Hospital in London ; to his good friend (and son- 
 in-law) Thomas Bowyer of the Middle Temple, Esq., 5/. for a 
 ring ; books to the library of Brasenose, and to his "cousin" 
 (nephew) Dr. Whitaker of Cambridge ; "and for the painful 
 and faithful service which Elizabeth Nowell my wife hath 
 these many years in my extreme age and great and many 
 sicknesses and continual weakness done unto me, and for 
 that I have spent of her goods and rents more than all that 
 I have is worth, I give unto her in token of the love that I 
 have continually borne and do beare unto her all the rest of 
 my goods, cattle, chattells, leases, money, plate, jewels, 
 household stuff," &c. Wife Elizabeth sole executrix. 
 There are two codicils to the W^ill, in which testator speci- 
 fies a number of kinsfolk and servants to have legacies. 
 Dean Nowell died, aged about 94, on the 13th February, 
 1 601-2, and was buried in St. Mary's Chapel of St. Paul's 
 Cathedral, in the rear of the high altar, and in the same 
 grave Avhich received his brother Robert Nowell in 1 568-9. 
 
 /
 
 X 
 
 lii hitroditction. 
 
 A fine monument, with a marble effigy of the Dean, and a 
 lengtliy description in Latin, was placed in the Chapel, 
 and was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. A portrait at 
 Brasenose College, Oxford, depicts the Dean with a fishing- 
 rod over his head, and a paper of fishing-hooks in his hand 
 (in allusion to his favourite sport), and underneath the 
 inscription : — " Alexander Nowellus, sacrae theologiae Pro- 
 fessor, St. Pauli Decanus, obiit 13 Febr. A.D. 1601, RR- 
 Eliz. 44 ; An. Decanatus 42 ; aetatis suae 95 ; cum neque 
 aures obtusiores, neque memoria infirmior neque animi cullae 
 facultates, viete essent. Piscator Hominum." 
 
 Lawrence Nowell, brother of Alexander and Robert 
 Nowell, and an executor under the Will of the latter, was 
 born at Read about the year 15 16; educated, probably, 
 like his brothers, at Middleton School ; entered of Brase- 
 nose College, Oxford, in 1536; but presently transferred 
 himself to Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1541-2, 
 in which degree he was incorporated at Oxford, 19 July, 
 1542; proceeded M.A. at Oxford, 18 March, 1543-4; 
 appointed Master of the Grammar School at Sutton Col- 
 field, in the county of Warwick, i October, 1 546 ; ordained 
 deacon by Bishop Ridley, 9 November, 1550; in 1550 the 
 corporation of Sutton alleged against him neglect of his 
 duty as Master of the School there, but Lawrence Nowell 
 vindicated himself in an appeal to the King in Council, and 
 letters were addressed to the warden and fellows of the 
 King's town of Sutton, dated the 28 February, 1550-1, 
 commanding them not to remove Mr. Nowell from his place 
 of schoolmaster nor to molest him therein. In the reign of 
 Mary, Lawrence Nowell found a retreat at Carew Castle, in 
 the county of Pembroke, the seat of Sir John Perrot, where 
 he lay in hiding until he could convey himself to Germ.any 
 to join his brother Alexander and the other English Pro- 
 testant exiles. He returned to England in the ist Elizabeth 
 (1558) ; and was at once appointed Archdeacon of Derby. 
 On 20 March, 1559-60, Lawrence Nowell was installed Dean
 
 Introduction. xliii 
 
 of Lichfield. The 9 August, 1 563, he received the prebend of 
 Ferring, in the cathedral of Chichester ; and a later church 
 preferment was to the prebend of Ampleford, York, to 
 which he was appointed 27 May, 1566. He had, too> 
 the rectory of Haughton and Drayton Basset, in the county 
 of Stafford. In 1563, he was acting as tutor to the Earl of 
 Oxford. In 1568, he was made an executor under his 
 brother Robert's Will, and is so-named in the ]\IS. His 
 wife also is mentioned near the beginning of the MS. (A.D. 
 1569), as "Mrs. Nowell of Litchfeild." In 1570, he was 
 charged by one Peter Morwyn with having spoken sedition 
 against the Queen and the Earl of Leicester ; his answer to 
 which is in the State Paper Office. In 1574, he purchased 
 a house and estate at Sheldon, in the county of Warwick, 
 for. a sum of 400/. Dean Lawrence Nowell married, before 
 1567, Mrs. Mary Glover, widow (who by her former husband 
 had two sons, Daniel and Edward Glover, mentioned in the 
 MS.). He had issue by her, sons, Samuel ; Lawrence, bap- 
 tized at St. Mary's, Litchfield, 7 December, 1571, a com- 
 moner at Brasenose in 1590; Thomas, baptized 5 April, 
 1573 j Robert ; and Alexander; and daughters, Catherine ; 
 Mary, baptized 16 September, 1567, died young; Sarah, 
 baptized i May, 1569; and a second Mary, baptized 
 I August, 1574. Dean Lawrence Nowell died in 
 October, 1576, and is supposed to have been buried at 
 Weston, in the county of Derby. His Will is dated the 
 7 October, 1576, and was proved the 26 August, 1577, by 
 his widow as executrix. He bequeathed loo/. each to his 
 surviving daughters ; and 100/. to the poor of the parishes 
 of which he had charge. His brother Alexander Nowell 
 and half-brother John Towneley, were nominated overseers 
 of the Will, and to have the custody of testator's children, if 
 his wife married again. " Dean (Lawrence) Nowell was a 
 diligent searcher into the national antiquities, and had a 
 profound knowledge of Anglo-Saxon. He instructed in 
 that tongue William Lambarde, subsequently so eminent
 
 xliv Inirod7(ciion. 
 
 as a skilful and laborious antiquary." He left in MS. a 
 Vocabulary of the Saxon language, compiled in 1560, now 
 in the Bodleian Library ; historical collections now among 
 the Cottoft MSS.; and a Latin letter to Sir William Cecil, 
 dated June, 1563, on the inaccuracy of the general Maps of 
 England, which is among Lansdowne MSS. {Ath. Cantab., 
 vol. i, pp. 357-8 ; Churton's Life of Alexander Nowell, pp. 
 233-9, &c.) 
 
 By the kindness of Colonel Chester, I am enabled — for 
 the first time — to print in full and accurately ROBERT 
 Nowell's long and very valuable Will, as follows : — 
 
 " Decimo Sexto Augusti Anno Miitimo quingentesimo 
 sexagesimo tercio I Robarte Nowell of graies Inne 
 attorney to the quenes ma*'® in her highenes courte of 
 wardes beinge in parfecte memorie and in good healthe 
 of bodie thankes be vnto god consideringe the daunger 
 of this pnte tyme and the vncertainetie of mannes lyfe 
 and willinge to bestowe suche goodes as almightie god 
 hathe lente me in such sorte as noe suite nor controversie 
 ryse for them after my deathe doe make my laste will 
 and testamente in mannor and fourme followinge firste 
 I bequeathe my sowle to almightie god trusteinge and 
 fuUie beleaveinge to be saved and to be one of those 
 that shall enherite the kingedome of heaven by the 
 deathe and passione of Jesus christe his sonne and my 
 savior and readeamer and my bodie to be buried where 
 it pleasethe almightie god I giue to the poore of the 
 parrishe where I shalbe buried Tenne poundes to be 
 bestowed by my executors either at the tyme of my 
 buriall or within a weeke after accordeinge to theire 
 discrecon Item I giue foure poundes to hym or them 
 that shall preache for me the dale of my buriall and 
 twoe sonndaies nexte after for euy sarmonde foure nobles
 
 hitrodiiction. xlv 
 
 Item I will that threescore poundes shalbe bestowed 
 vppon a dynner and a supper if it will soe sarve of 
 them that goe w* me to the churche and vppon the 
 poore of the parrisshe where I shall fortune to be buried 
 Item I giue to the reperacons of the churche where I 
 shall fortune to be buried three poundes sixe shillinges 
 eighte Pennce but I will that myne executors shall take 
 A bonde of xx'i of the churchewardeines or of some 
 other honeste of the pishe to bestowe it within a yeare 
 after my deathe Item I giue to the poore of the 
 parrisshes of saincte Andrewe in holborne of hendon 
 of whallie and of brunleye fouretie markes to euy pishe 
 XX nobles & yet if I chaunce to be buried in anye of 
 theis parrisshes I will that pishe shall haue onelie the 
 legacie of tenne poundes w<=^ I haue before appointed 
 to the parrisshe that I shalbe buried in & noe more 
 Item I giue to euy one of my sisters Elizabethes daughters 
 beinge vnmaried fouretie poundes and to euy one that 
 is maried twentie poundes Item I giue to euye one of 
 my sister Isabells daughters beinge married xx markes 
 and to euy one vnmaried fouretie markes Item I giue 
 to euerie one of my awnte hopwoddes childrenn beinge 
 alyve seaven poundes Item I giue to euye sisters childe 
 of myne to whome I haue made noe legacie fyve poundes 
 Item I giue to euye one of singletons wyves sonnes and 
 daughters excepte the heire w'^'^ wife Anthonye Laton 
 married vi^i It I giue my lease of M^ Lusons landes 
 to my brother lawrence deane of lechefeelde Item I giue 
 all my plate and my pewter latine & brasse excepte suche 
 as shalbe bequeathed otherwise to my saide brother Roger 
 Lawrence and to my brother John towneley evenlie to be 
 devided betwene them Item I giue my signet to my 
 brother Allexander Deane of pawles Item I giue to
 
 xlvi Introduction. 
 
 mystris Casie my best ringes or other Jewelles of myne 
 that she will chose and the nexte to her mother my 
 sister and all the reste Jewelles that remaine I giue to 
 my sister my brother John Towneleys wife Item I giue 
 fyve markes to my brother Lawrences wife to make her 
 a ringe w*=all Item I giue to my Cosen Roberte 
 Towneley of boston suche featherbed boulster and twoe 
 pillowes of myne as he will chose a tabell clothe of 
 damaske diaper a towell and xii napkins to the same 
 and a good geldinge to be deliuered by my executors 
 I giue to M"s Alice Reskimer my beste table clothe 
 of diaper my beste towell of diaper & A dozen napkins 
 and my beste carpet & a geldinge to be deliuered by 
 myne executors vppon condicon y*^ she be good to 
 James woulton w'^^ I haue appointed to haue my lease 
 in hendon after me and suffer hym to contynewe the 
 terme w* quietnes all the reste of my stuffe in the 
 howse at hendon not bequeathed together w*^ y^ lease 
 of the same howse & lande and the licence of my lorde 
 of Pembroke to my landeladie to let it and alsoe all my 
 lorde of pembrokes . lease of silke fieldes and terme 
 saveinge one yeare becawse I maye not giue the hole 
 together w* the cattell vpon the grounde saveinge my 
 rydeinge horses & all my pottes pannes spittes and 
 candelstickes in the same howse And a garnishe of 
 vessell I giue to James woulton I giue to euye one of 
 my men sarvauntes to whome I haue made noe bequeaste 
 and w<=^ are nowe remayninge w* me tenne poundes & a 
 good black coate and a good paire of blacke hose and 
 I require my executors to be good vnto them & to 
 helpe suche of them as will serve to some good m^^ 
 and to bynde Edward Norham the boye that is w* me 
 when the plage is paste apprentice in some good place
 
 hitroductioii. xlvii 
 
 in london Item I giue to Elyn Tenne poundes and to 
 the mayden xl^ I giue to Todgill xl^ and to ]\I"9 walker 
 xls and to Launcellottes wife xl^ and to hughe halsall xl^ 
 Item I giue to Langetree a coate a gowne a cote & a 
 doblett to Oglethorpe a gowne a coate a doblet & a 
 paire of hose to browne y* was my sarvante a gowne 
 a cote a dublet & a cloke to Thomas burton A gowne 
 a coate & a dublet to William deane my Cosen servaunte 
 to my ladie Matrauers my lease of weylande & a cloke 
 cote & doublet & x'' in monnye to Richard Whitakre 
 & to William Whitakre the xl^J a yere w'^'^ S"" Raphe 
 Leicester hathe graunted vnto me oute of M"" leeghes 
 landes in chesheire duringe the mynoritie of younge 
 M'' Leeghe that is to sale to eiiy one of them xx^i which 
 xx^i yearelie I will M'' whitakre shall receyve streighte 
 waies & bestowe hymselfe in some howse of Courte or 
 gett hymselfe some good wife if he can & I will that 
 the xx'i yearelie for William shalbe laide vpp and bestowed 
 vpon the buyenge of M^ bruisters wyves daughter or 
 otherwise as my brother Allexander shall thinck conve- 
 niente vntill he be able in yeares and discrecon to vse it 
 & order it hym and I require my brother Allexander 
 not onelie to be good vnto hym but to other his pore 
 kinsfolkes nowe when tyme and ojDortunitie sarvethe 
 & when he maye doe them good I giue xl^i to be 
 bestowed emongeste the children of my Vncles doughters 
 y* maried Wilkinson in london after the discrecon of 
 my executors & I desire my executors to be good 
 bothe to her and to them I giue to Robarte Cassie 
 my godsonne a c'^ & further I giue hym my lease of 
 the parsonage of tottingeham & yet I will that bothe 
 he & his parentes toucheinge the psonage of tottingeham 
 shalbe ordered by my brother M-^ Deane of pawles for
 
 xlviii I 71 iro duct ion. 
 
 the agream* or suite with the fermor for the possession 
 becawse I am vncertaine whether his lease be good or ill 
 yf it pve ill yet I will they shall giue hym so muche 
 as M"" Deane of powles shall appointe them to giue 
 either in monnye or in yearelie rente and if his lease 
 prove good yet Roberte Casie maye either take monnye 
 for his lease or elles beinge soe younge as he is he 
 maye lyve and enioye it hymselfe and see the expiracon 
 of the tenauntes lease and for the c^i I will it shalbe soe 
 bestowed for his vse and benefite as my brother and 
 sister w'^^^ is his grandemother together w* his father and 
 mother shall thincke conveniente I giue my lease of 
 esingdon and hartingefurtheburie in the countie of Harte- 
 forde to my Cosen John Nowell M"" Andrewe Nowelles 
 Sonne w* all my intereste in the same and I desire hym to 
 be good to the tenauntes of esingedon and to the myller 
 thowghe they haue littell deserued it & if the lease prove 
 forfeyted by lawe as I thincke it is not and sure I ame in 
 equitie it oughte not to be becawse the rente was offered to 
 M^ Tooke by Richarde Whitakre and by my comaunde- 
 mente before the dale of paymente whereas M"" Tooke 
 wolde haue a forfeiture for none paymente of the rente yet 
 if it be forfeited by the lawe I giue vnto John Nowell xl^' in 
 recompence of it But if John Nowell will foUowe the matter 
 as my thinckes in reasone he shoulde excepte he maye be 
 agreed w'^all becawse it is worthe the followinge for it 
 is better then xx markes a yere besides the rente 
 and there is greate conscience and reasone in it & 
 M^ Tooke hath delte therein subtellie & extreamelie 
 in that matter (if he will folowe it) I thincke surelie 
 he maye haue and order for hym in equitie althoughe 
 the lawe sholde pve againste hym & I exhorte my cosen 
 John Nowell to agree w* my ladie his mother in lawe
 
 Introduction. xlix 
 
 I glue to my good ladie the ladie perion fyve poundes 
 to make her a ringe withall & I desire her to be goode vnto 
 John Novvell her sonne in lawe and fynde some meanes of 
 agream* w*^ hym I giue vnto my brother AUexander as 
 muche of myne apparrell & as manye of my geldinges as he 
 will choose leaveinge sufficiente to performe my will and I 
 giue hym a C^^ in monnye and to my brother John Towneley 
 a hundrethe markes and to my brother Lawrence fiftie 
 markes I desire my brother John to be good to my ij 
 brethren if the worlde chaunge and if they stande in neede 
 of hym I desire hym alsoe to be good to my sister 
 Elizabethe and to her poore childrenn I giue my lease of 
 my lorde of bathes landes w<=^ surelie is a verey good lease 
 to my iij brethren AUexander Laurence and John Towneley 
 I call it a good lease bycawse I wolde not haue my execu- 
 tors to departe w*^ it before they knowe what it is w*''^ iij 
 brethren I make my executors & I will that they shall be- 
 stowe the pfites of the lease and the reste of all my goodes 
 y' they shall haue by force of my will not bequeathed vnto 
 them vpon my poore kinsfolkes such as haue neede & vpon 
 other pore folkes accordinge to theire discrecon and my 
 meaninge is and I desire them and chardge them that they 
 shall receyve noe other benefite of none of my goodes then 
 I haue bequeathed vnto them and I praie them that they 
 will performe my will as muche as in them liethe I giue and 
 bequeathe to my good M"" and freinde M"" Secretorie Cicill 
 the wardeshippe of younger M'' Walgrave with all my righte 
 and intereste in the same payenge suche monnye to the 
 queues ma*^® as I shoulde and I giue hym a C markes in 
 monnye requireinge hym to make some suche thinge 
 therew* as it shall please hym in remembraunce of me his 
 poore freinde And I beseche hym neither to truste to 
 muche to hymselfe nor to this disceitefull worlde I giue to 
 
 g
 
 1 hitroductioji. 
 
 M' Gilberte Gerrarde the quenes ma^ies generall attorney 
 v'^ to make hym a ringe w^all & iijj yardes of velvet for his 
 coate and I make hym and M"" Secretarie my overseers and 
 I doe beseche them to helpe to see my will performed and 
 to be good to my brethren I giue to M'^ Raphe barton my 
 beste gowne and my beste chyste that he will chose and 
 fyve rnlkes to make hym a ringe w* I giue to M"" place of 
 graies Inne a cowe a cheste and 1^ to make hym a ringe 
 w* I giue to my brother John towneley my hangeinges in 
 my chamber at graies Inne iij fair chistes for the furnyture 
 of it a fether bedd w*^ the apptenaunces for hymselfe & a 
 matteris for his servaunte to lie vpon & my bedsteede there 
 and all my bookes (saveinge those that were M^' Chaleners 
 ■^ch I giue tQ graies Inne to be in the liberarie and a table 
 of fettisharbarte w^ii Mi" Harbarte muste haue becawse it is 
 his) and I woulde my brother shoulde get hymselfe admytted 
 together w* M"" barton in the chamber if he coulde I giue 
 to James Woulton the lease of the psonage of harpinden 
 w'=^ remaynethe in the deane of westministers handes and I 
 desire my brother M^" deane of pawles to be a meane to get 
 it forthe of the deanes handes Item I giue to my cozen 
 Lawraunce Nowell one Anuitie of v^^ yearelie w* I haue 
 goinge oute of certeine landes in Kente of the graunte of 
 my brother Allexandre and for tearme of his lyfe and I 
 giue hym soe muche satteine as will make hym a coate and 
 doublet Item I giue to James Woulton all the whoale 
 corne & maulte that is dewe vnto me either by carpenter or 
 by M'' Woordenham or Wornham of wantage or by M"" heathe 
 of london Memorand that all the testamente of m"" Roberte 
 Nowell above writtenn was founde in A booke in his studie 
 at graies Inne and was writtenn w* his owne proper hande 
 in vij leaves of the same booke as is testified by the sub- 
 scriptions of the rightc honorable S' william Cicill knighte
 
 Introduction. li 
 
 principall secretarie to the quenes ma^i® and m'' Gilberte 
 Gerrarde esquire the quenes generall attorneye I knowe 
 that the writinge conteyned in the seaven leaves here nexte 
 before was by the propper hande of the saide Robte Nowell 
 late attorney of the courte of wardes whereof I ame M"^ and 
 by that meanes and other like had parfit acquaintence of 
 his hande writinges by me william Cecill decimo die Marcii 
 A" vndecimo Elizabeth Regine I knowe this will to be of 
 the hande writinge of the saide M"" Nowell Gilbte Gerrarde, 
 " Sexto Februarij Miffimo quingeS sexagesimo octauo et 
 Regni diie Regine Elizabeth vndecimo whereas I Robte 
 Nowell of graies Inne haue before this tyme made a will in 
 the w'^^ will are diuers & sondrey legacies conteyned to dius 
 psons I doe ratefie & confirme the saide will and all legaceies 
 therein conteyned & as I there did see doe I here againe 
 will & bequethe my sowle into thandes of allmightie god 
 trusteinge by his onelie nucie throughe Jesus Christe his 
 dere sonne my sauior to haue remyssione of my synnes and 
 lyfe eulastinge And besides the legaceis conteyned in that 
 will I doe will & bequethe vnto hughe halsall my sarvaunte 
 one C^^ Item I bequethe vnto James Woulton my servaunte 
 y^ Item I bequeathe vnto John Thorpe my servaunte 
 Hj^i [ z>. three score or ^60.] Item I bequeathe to 
 Thomas Reyner my sarvaunte xx^i I bequeathe vnto 
 John Fletcher of hampsteede & his wife xiii'i vi^ viij'^ 
 Item I bequeth to William whitager scoller & bachiler 
 of arte of trinitie colledge in Cambridge xU' Item I 
 bequeathe vnto my cozen lawrence Nowell xx^' Item I 
 doe bequethe vnto my cosen Tho : Nowell xx^' Item I 
 doe bequeathe vnto m"" Rafe barton of graies Inne my 
 good friende the some of xl^' & my best furred gowne & my 
 best other gowne faced w* velvet Item I doe bequethe vnto 
 my goode freinde m"^ henrie Mills the some of vi'' xiij^ iiij<*
 
 Hi Introduction. 
 
 to buye hyma ringe in remembraunceof me It: I doe bequethe 
 vnto Elizabeth Shepparde widowe x^^ Item I doe bequethe 
 vnto Anne Wilkinson x^' to thuse of her & her children 
 onelie to be ymployed vpon condicon y* her husbande shall 
 not haue the same nor anye pte thereof Item I bequethe 
 vnto Grace Wilkinson the some of vi^i xiij^ iiijd It I 
 bequeathe to m"^ clapham iij^^ vi^ viij*^ It I bequethe to 
 Joane Todd xl^ I? I bequeth vnto humfrey Kirrey & 
 Margerie his wife iiij mkes It I bequeth to lambte langtree 
 my late servaunte & to his wife xx'^ It I bequethe to John 
 Towneley servaunte to my freinde m' Henrie Milles iij^i vi* 
 viij*^ Prouided alwaies y* they that haue legaceies in my 
 forrn) will&in this addicon alsoe shall chose oneof the legaceis 
 w*=^ they will in the firste will or in this & shall not haue 
 bothe for y' I remember not nowe the verey certeintie of 
 the former legaceies and I doe make in this will as I haue 
 don in the firste my beloved brethren Alexander Nowell 
 deane of powles lawrence Nowell deane of lechefelde & 
 John Towneley esquire my executors as well of y* forrnl will 
 as alsoe of this my addicon vnto the same theis beinge 
 witnesses to the last pte of this will & testam* bereinge date 
 the vj*^ of februarie A" miitimo quingenJ sexagesimo octauo 
 Henrie milles hughe halsall Rotite pickeringe James 
 woolton Rafe barton Thomas Nowell and others." 
 
 [ TJie Will was proved iji the Prerogative Court of Canter- 
 bury, 14. jllaj/, 1569, l>j' Alexander Nowell, Lawrence 
 Nozvell, and John Towneley, Esq., the executors named. 
 Recorded in Book " Sheffield" at folio 13.] 
 
 With regard to the Scribe of the J/5. and keeper of the 
 accounts of the " Spending," there is no absolute means of 
 identification in the record itself; but in a note at page/ I 
 have designated James Wolton as the person most likely to 
 have been the writer, and in a later note on page 403 I have
 
 Introductio7i. liii 
 
 marshalled the data which support this conclusion. The 
 Scribe was a servant of Dean Nowell's, and unquestionably 
 was one of four servants who accompanied the Dean in his 
 journey to the West Country in the autumn of 1569, who 
 were, James Wolton, Robert Pickering, Alexander Brad- 
 shaw, and John Houghton. James Wolton's disbursements 
 were larger and more constant than those of the other three 
 servants, and it is plain that he held the position of a 
 private secretary or steward to the Dean. Moreover, he 
 alone of the four was a near kinsman of Dean Nowell, and, 
 what is more material still, he alone had been confidential 
 servant to Robert Nowell for several years before his death, 
 and by the Will of Robert Nowell, his first master, had a 
 bequest of 50/., and also testator's leases of Hendon and of 
 the parsonage of Harpinden. After Robert Nowell's 
 decease, James Wolton at once entered into the service of 
 Dean Nowell, and continued therein for many years. That 
 he should be selected by the Trustees to keep the record 
 of the funeral charges, gifts of money for gowns, and other 
 items of expenditure incurred immediately after Robert 
 Nowell's death, was natural. I have no doubt myself that 
 James Wolton was the Scribe of the MS. He was, as 
 stated in the Notes, a son of John Wolton, of Whalley, in 
 Lancashire, and brother of John Wolton, Bishop of Exeter. 
 Their mother was Isabella (Baines has Margaret), daughter 
 of John Nowell, Esq., and sister of Dean Nowell, who thus 
 was uncle to John and James Wolton. The Scribe writes 
 of himself in the third person when entering items of receipt 
 or payment by him ; but frequently styles Dean Nowell 
 " my master," and when copying the Dean's own memo- 
 randa of gifts to kinsfolk enters, as the Dean would, " our 
 cousin," " our brother," &c. 
 
 The MS. bears on the face of it throughout to be an 
 authorized Family-Record, and the corrections and inser- 
 tions in the handwriting of Dean Alexander Nowell, 
 together with the wording of "our brother" and the like,
 
 liv Introduction. 
 
 make it manifest that it was prepared for family use, and 
 for a testimony of the manner in which the executors of 
 Robert Nowell fulfilled their responsible trust. 
 
 How the MS. came to be deposited in the Muniment 
 Room at Towneley is simply accounted for. The three 
 executors under Robert Nowell's Will were his brothers, 
 Dean Alexander Nowell and Dean Lawrence Nowell, and 
 his half-brother, John Towneley, Esq. Dean Alexander 
 Nowell was manifestly the acting trustee, and this book of 
 disbursements was kept for him by his secretary or steward, 
 James Wolton. The second executor, Dean Lawrence 
 Nowell, was the first to die, in 1576. Dean Alexander 
 Nowell, with whom the papers of the trust would abide in 
 keeping, died in 1601 ; and the MS. would then pass into 
 the custody of John Towneley, Esq., as last surviving exe- 
 cutor. John Towneley died in 1608 ; and after his death, 
 the MS. would remain as the property of his heir at 
 Towneley Hall. The interpolated writing proves that the 
 MS. was at Towneley in 16 14, and there it has reposed 
 ever since, hitherto unmarked among the voluminous col- 
 lections of the Toivneley MSS., of which it is perhaps the 
 most curious and valuable treasure. 
 
 Two additional points may, finally, be stated : — 
 (a) The jI/S. is not at all chronological, but seems to have 
 been made up from separate papers, earlier and 
 later, 
 (d) Besides the names on which light is shed, the values of 
 money and articles in daily use are largely illus- 
 trated. 
 
 Anything else requiring notice may be looked for in the 
 several places in the Notes and Illustrations. To "the 
 Gentlemen Readers" I say as did Richard Jones for the 
 Boiver of Delights (1591) in fine, this: — "Pardon mee, 
 (good gentlemen) of my presumption, and protect me, I 
 pray you, againft thofe cauellers and find-faults, that neuer 
 like of any thing that they fee printed, though it be neuer
 
 Introduction. Iv 
 
 fo well compiled." . . . "So shall [y® Editor] haue iuft 
 caufe hereafter . . . and acknowledge himfelfe moft 
 bounden (at all times) to do you fervice to the vtmofh of 
 his power." — (Mr. HENRY Huth's Prefaces, Dedications, 
 Epistles, Selected from Early English Books, 1 540-1701. 
 1874. 50 Copies.) 
 
 ALEXANDER B. GROSART.
 
 The Spending of the Money of 
 Robert Nowell, Esq. 
 
 " They say it is an ill mason that refuseth any stone ; 
 and there is no knowledge but in a skilful hand serves, 
 either positively as it is, or else to illustrate some other knowledge." 
 
 George Herbert. 
 
 " If thou be a severe sour complexioned man then I here dis- 
 allow thee to be a competent judge." 
 
 IzAAK Walton.
 
 Blacke Gowens 
 geuen to the porret 
 sorte afi pticulerly 
 appcrethe 
 in numbr 41/ 
 
 (Page I of the MS., folio 17.) • 
 
 § 
 
 i. T mp''mis mS ffarmer curatt of S* "i 
 
 ± gregories ^ iij yardes and a halfe at x^ the > xxxv^ 
 
 yearde J 
 
 2. the Chaplen of grayes Jnne^ iiij yardes ) ,g 
 
 at x^ the yarde j 
 
 3. to Syr Lewes Harvie^ a poor Minister iij \ ^....^ .^ 
 
 yardes a quarter at vij^ viij^^ the yarde ... J ' ' ■^ ^ 
 
 4. M"" Sager psonne of S* peteres at ) ^ ....g .^ 
 
 pauUs warfife* iij yardes at vij^ viij*^ j"" ^ ' ^ 
 
 5. M"^ Vicar of henden^ iij yardes & a half) • s --d 
 
 at vijs iiij*^ the yarde I •' 
 
 6. Leonard Tayler pursyvante of the^ 
 
 courte of wardes^ iij yardes & a half at vxxxv^ 
 x^ the yarde j 
 
 7. M'' Quinten vssher of the courte of^ 
 
 Wardes iij yardes iij q'ters ^t x^ the [-xxxvij^ yj*^ 
 yarde j 
 
 8. Edward Wallrande^ iiij yardes & a half"! ...jj 
 
 at xiijs iiij*^ the yarde j ^ 
 
 9. M'" brooke of Essex ^ iiij yardes and a half) , g 
 
 at x^ the yarde j x v 
 
 io. M' holden of haslindene^ iiij yardes & ) ,3 
 
 a half at x^ the yarde j 
 
 ii. M' Wood'" of the courte of wardes iiij ) , ...g 
 
 yardes at xij^ the yarde j •' 
 
 12. M' Ratclief my L. of London S 
 
 his mane^' iiij yardes & a half at x^ evry >x\v^ 
 yarde j 
 
 13. M"" Chamberes my L. of Sarysbury^ .-^ 
 
 mane '2 jjj yardes iij quarteres at x^ the > ' -^ 
 yarde j •' 
 
 14. Ric.WhitakerLate srvante to M'^attourney^^ ] Iviij^ 
 
 iiij yardes & a half at xiij^ the yarde ... j vj^ 
 and a yard & a di for a cote to the same ) , ... 
 
 ric. at xijs the yarde j ^^"^ 
 
 i5. Willm VVhitaker Scholler** vij yardes ) ....j ....5 
 at xij^ the yarde j ■' ^ 
 
 16. M' marten bogett maker '^ iij yardes } .^ ..^ 
 
 & a half at x« iiij^ the yarde / ^^^^i' 'J 
 
 17. to Wylkinsonne'6 iiij yardes at vii^ i]'^} ... .... 
 
 ^ ,, -^ , ■^ -^ r xxvnj^ vnj"* 
 
 the yarde j •' ■' 
 
 i8. To Thomas NowelP^ iiij yardes &' a half) ,.., • ,^ 
 at ix' vj*^ the yarde j " ^ 
 
 ig. Lamberte Langtree*^ iiij yardes & a half K... .3 
 at xijs the yarde j ^ 
 
 20. to henry TodgylP^ iiij yardes & a half] ,....3 
 
 at xij3 the yarde j ■• 
 
 21. Ric. haukcns M'' attourney mane^o iiij),....g 
 
 yardes & a half at xij^ the yarde J "^•' 
 
 § .7—-- 
 
 Suma) xlvij'' xvijs 
 
 2 
 
 xlvij'' xvijs j 
 
 id
 
 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 ' " Ml ffarnter cnratt of St. gregories." This was St. Gregory's by St. Paul's; and 
 unfortunately the "dreadful fire," which is so often lamented by Newcourt and other 
 ecclesiastical historians, destroyed all its registers, &c. The "curatt" appears onward 
 {1573) as "M"' ffarmer psonne of S" Gregories vnder powles." (See Index of Names 
 s.n.) From the connection it is just possible that he may have been a son of Edward 
 Farmer, Chancellor ;of Salisbuiy Cathedral: collated 22nd Dec. 1531. (Le Neve's 
 Fasti, vol. ii, p. 651.) For the interesting history of St. Gregory's, consult Newcourt's 
 Repertoriutn Eccl. Par., London, vol. i, pp. 358-9. 
 
 - "//ic Chaplcn of grayes jftine." In the Memoir of Dr. Richard Sibbes (Works, 
 vol. i, p. xl), may be read an account from Gray's Inn Book of Orders (MS.), of the 
 provision made in the thirty-third year of Heniy VIII. and in the fourth of Elizabeth, 
 "for y^ findinge of a chaplaine to celebrate divine service in y^ chapell of Graye's Inn 
 
 for y' students, gent, and fellowes of y* said house." The "chaplen" of this 
 
 entry was William Charke. Dean Nowell, in 1598, mentions "Mr. Charke " with 
 others, "men both of great learninge and godlyness. " He wrote against Campion. 
 {Chtirtoji's Life, p. 278.) As "Grayes Inn" occurs very often in the MS. it will be 
 in place to give here, from the Book of Orders (as before), the earlier history of the 
 Society. Having recited certain ancient medireval-Latin records, which are also 
 supplemented by prior relations to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, the Chroni- 
 cler proceeds : — "By all w''' severall offices, it appeares that the said manor of Portepole, 
 now Gray's Inne, or within y'^ which a part of Graye's Inne is now situate, was 
 anciently the Inheritance of the Grayes. But I do not find in any of y' said formes 
 
 &c that any Gray, lord or owner of y' said manor or messuage, did at any 
 
 time reside there [save] Reginald de Gray, in y^ 44"' year of y^ reign of Kinge 
 Edw. 3., for y* yearly rent of Q (?) as is mentioned in y^ office, then found after his 
 decease. And in y*^ w'^'' office (the same beinge in form'' inquisitions named mesuagium) 
 is thereby found to be hospitium, and in lease, whereby it's manifested y' y" house then 
 and yet knowne by the name of Gray's Inn, was demised to some p'sons of speciall 
 regard and rank, and not to meane ones, or p'sons of meane or privat behav'', but to 
 such as were united into a Society p'fessinge y^ lawes, that in those dayes begunn to 
 congregat and settle themselves within y^ Court (?) as an associated company enter- 
 tayning hospitalitie together. And then this house grew to be off an higher title in 
 denominacon and became to be totally termed by y* Intetulacon of Hospitium in 
 Portepole. And it also appeareth that y" said Reginald de Gray devised y® said 
 messuage as aforesaid in y'= reigne of King Edw. 3. in his life-time, and at his death 
 was held for hospitium and by the jury before whom y'' said inquisition was taken in 
 y" said 44"' j'eare of Edw. 3. (A" 1370) was found to bee hospitium, and not mesuagium. 
 Imediately whereupon y' said hospitium is called Gray's Inne, or Hospitium Graiorum, 
 for that that estate had been soe long and by soe many severall descents in y' name." 
 (Works of Sibbes, as before, vol. i, p. xli. ) 
 
 ^ ^' Syr Lewes Harvie a poor Minister.'''' The "Sir" long preceded the (compara- 
 tively) modern " Reverend." In the recent unhappy controversy evoked by the Bishop 
 of Lincoln's refusal to sanction the use of "reverend " by a minister of the Wesleyan 
 Methodists, it was g^-avely proposed by a clergyman, on the Supreme Court's judgment, 
 adverse to the Bishop, that the clergy (of the Church of England) should, henceforth, 
 drop " reverend " and resume the ancient "Sir." King James's Knights had been a 
 mere handful in such case compared with the clerical "Sirs." "Harvie" occurs 
 several times in this MS. (see Index of Names, s.n.), but among a considerable number 
 of Harvies and Harveys, contemporary and later, no Lewes or Lewis appears any- 
 where. 
 
 * "Mr. Soger p' Sonne of St. peters at paitlls warffe." This was "of old called S' 
 Peter's Parva, or Little, because it was but a small Church, but of latter times called 
 S. Peter's Paul's Wharf, because situate near to that place." (Newcourt, vol. ii, pp. 
 527-8.) It too was "burnt"; and so its registers, &c., perished. Nothing has been 
 transmitted of "M'Sager," but the name is a Lancashire one still. (Burnley, &c. ) 
 It occurs modernly in Le Neve's Fasti, frequenter. The only quick name to-day of the 
 "parsons" of S. Peter's is the learned and venerable Edward Marbury, one of its 
 rectors — on whom see Memoir prefixed to his Commentary on Obacliah, &c., in 
 Nichol's Puritan Commentaries. 
 
 * " Mr. Vicar of hencion." This was Richard Laurence, who succeeded i July 1564, 
 on the resignation of the former Vicar, and he remained Vicar of Hendon until 1582, 
 being then followed by Ric. Evans, M.A., "per mort. Laurence." (Newcourt, vol. i, 
 
 B 2 3
 
 (Page 2 of the JIS., folio 17 verso.) 
 
 22. Javes Cunbery Tayleri jij yardes sett ^ 
 
 at xiij^ vj^ because it was bought >-xiijs vj^ 
 by greate J 
 
 23. John Morton of the old change^ iiij ] ^^3 
 
 yardes at x^ the yarde ) ' 
 
 24. Thomas Lawe3 iiij yardes & a half ) xxxvij^ x^ 
 
 at viijs iiijd x]^Q yarde j 
 
 25. George Bexwicke* iij yardes & a l^^lf]^ -g^^j 
 
 at vijs vj'^ the yarde / 
 
 26. John Eaton^ iij yardes at vij^ the yard... xxj^ 
 
 27. Peter Batesby^ iij yardes at vijs | ^. 
 
 the yarde j 
 
 28. henry Evattes Steward of S* | xxxv^ 
 
 Thomis7 iij yardes & a half at x^ j 
 
 29. George Karpenter^ ij yardes at x^ \ ^^^^ 
 
 the yarde j [erasurel 
 
 30. Thorns Cassonne chief butler of^ •- -• 
 grayes Jnne^ iiij yardes & at ^-Hiijs 
 xijs the yarde 
 
 31. John Draper second butler of graies ) ig 
 
 Jnne iiij yardes at x^ the yarde j cv - - 1 
 
 32. Robte Clowdesley the third butler of] ,g ^ ^^^ 
 
 graies iiij yardes at x^ the yarde j 
 
 33. to one David the forth butler of) ,^ 
 
 graies Jnne iiij yardes at x* the yard j " 
 
 34. to Thorns OrrelP" M'' cooke of graies ) 
 
 Jnne iij yardes & a at x* the yarde j 
 
 35. To one M'' hilliarde^' iiij yardes at] -^ 
 
 ixs the yarde | •' 
 
 36. To one Thorns Evanes M^ \ 
 
 Attourney Tayler^^ jjjj yardes at >-xxxiij^ iiij<^ 
 viijs iiij*^ the yarde j 
 
 37. Thorns Keyne Smythe^^ iij yardes ] -g ^ 
 
 & a half at vij^ viij*^ the yarde j •' 
 
 .he officers 3^- Symon Marston's iij yardes at ) 
 ^p^""^'* viijs iiijd the yarde | xxv 
 
 39. humfrey Kerry iiij yardes at x^ iiijd | 
 
 the yarde j 
 
 40. John Meeke bellringer of paulls ] ...-a -^j 
 
 iij yardes at vijs viijd the yarde j ^ ^ 
 
 41. John Ower^s iij yardes at vij viijd ) ...g 
 
 the yarde | ^■^ 
 
 §- 
 
 Suma^ xxxjii xiiij^ v"^
 
 Notes and IllMstrations. 
 
 p. 644.) See our Introduction for Robert Nowell's connection with Hendon. In 
 " Repertorium" there is a full account of the Church and its (sinecure) Rectors and its 
 Vicars, &c. See Index of Names, s.n., for other references to Laurence. 
 
 * '^ Leonard Tayler of the co!irteof7va7-des'": iJ est, the "wards" or minors in the 
 charge of the Court of Chancery. Nothing more is known of Tayler than that he was 
 " pursy vante" = pursuivant or State messenger attendant on the Heralds. Neither is 
 anything known of " Mr. Quinten" of the next entry. 
 
 7 "Edward Wallrande" : » ''Mr. brooke of Essex'' : neither traceable. 
 
 3 "Mr. Holden of haslindc7ie.'" This recipient was Thomas Holden, curate of Has- 
 lingden, in the county of Lancaster. He was second son of Gilbert Holden, gent., of 
 Holden Hall, near Haslingden, by Grace Towneley his wife ; and is named in the 
 heraldic Visitation of Lancashire in 1567, as "Thomas Holden, aclerke." Whitaker 
 (Hist, of Whalley) identifies this first Protestant curate of Haslingden with Frater 
 Thomas Holden, a young monk of Whalley at the suppression of the Abbey in 1538 ; 
 he was probably the last survivor of that fraternity, and, having embraced the reformed 
 faith, he is found as curate of Haslingden in 1540; and was still living and serving 
 that cure in 1574, when the Primate licensed him. In the license he is described as 
 "Thomas Holden, clerke, of sober life and competent learning." 
 
 '" "Mr. Wood'' : See Index of names under "James Wood." 
 
 " " I\Ir. Ratclief my L. of London his mane." The Bishop of London of this time 
 was Edmund Grindall, who became ultimately Archbishop of Canterbury. He was 
 bishop of London from 1559 to 1570. His Remains have been edited by Nicholson for 
 the Parker Society {1S43, 8vo). He died 1583. Cf his Remains and Lifehy Strype. 
 "Mr. Ratclief" is unknown, but See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 12 " j[fr. Chambers my L. of Sarysbury mane." The then bishop of Salisbury was 
 the illustrious Jewel, who was bishop from 1559 till his death in 1571. See our Intro- 
 duction for more on him, as he occurs frequently in this MS. 
 
 '2 " Ric. Whitaker Late servante to Mr. Attourney" : i.e., Robert Nowell himself, 
 {see Introduction. ) He was second son of Thomas Whitaker of Holme, gent. , and 
 elder brother of William Whitaker: see next note. 
 
 M ^'- Willm. Whitaker Scholler" : clariim et venerabile nomen. See our Introduction 
 for a full notice of him, as later he was Novell's chosen almoner at Cambridge ; also, 
 for other Whitakers, later notes, and the Index of Names, s. n. 
 
 '* Mr. marten bogett maker." This "Mr. marten" remains untraced ; but "bogett 
 maker" means "budget maker," i.e., bougette, Fr. bag or knapsack maker. At p. 4, 
 Mrs. Marten is described as wife of the "bugett maker." These are excellent exam- 
 ples of the original meaning of the word "budget." Shakespeare uses it as = a 
 leathern bag: "and bear the sow-skin boivget." (Wint. iv. 3, 20), rhyming — as 
 Schmidt notes — to "avouch it." 
 
 '" "to Wylkinsonne." " Wilkinson" is a frequent name in this 71/^. These Wil- 
 kinsons were among the numerous people down in Lancashire whose kinship, near or 
 distant, was acknowledged by the Nowells. One of them — John Wilkinson — had 
 been Robert Nowell's cook. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 17 " To Thomas NoiveW : see om" Introduction and later notes, on this and all the 
 Nowells of the MS. 
 
 '* " Lamberte Lang-tree." He was of Lancashire. Lambert Langtree is named in 
 the family pedigree (a.d. 1567), as fourth son of John Langtree of Langtree, in the 
 county of Lancaster, gent., and brother of Gilbert Langtree, gent., then scion of the 
 family, whose wife was Helene, daughter of Sir James Stanley of Lathom, knt. See 
 Index of Names, s.n., for other references. 
 
 ''J " henry Todgyll. " He is entered at page 3 as one of the " mene" of " M' Attour- 
 ney," as in note 13. See page 3, note 5. 
 
 "" "Ric. hankens Mr. Attoierney mane" : see note II, supra; he re-appears at page 
 3, as in last note. 
 
 ' Javes Cunbery, Tayler." Onward for "Javes" we find "Jarves," which was of 
 course the same as " Gervase," as Gervase Markham, &c., &c. See page 13, entry 5th, 
 and Index of Names, s.n.; also under Merchant-Tailors. 
 
 2 " John Morton of the old change" : i.e., the Exchange that preceded Sir Thomas 
 Gresham's. This doubtless was the same with "John Moreton, citizen and haber- 
 dasher of London" (so-styled in a deed in the Kuerden I\ISS. ), who was son of Gilbert 
 Moreton of Moreton-house in Whalley (now JMoreton Hall), and who came into pos- 
 session of the patrimony about 1583 (?) His daughter Catherine married, May 8, 1581, 
 Roger Nowell of Read, Esq. 
 
 ^ " Thornas Lawe." He was of the family of La we of Whalley, neighbours of the
 
 (Page 3 of the MS., folio i8.) 
 
 § 
 
 Money geuen to Mr T mSimis to Richard hawkcns^ to by) ........ 
 
 Attourneys mene' I , .''^ Y 111° lllj" 
 
 & vnto his kinsmene J_ him an CappC ) 
 
 wipes'" '"" to Ric. Whitakei-3 to by him a pair 1 .^jj^^ jj-.^ 
 
 of hose & a cappe j ' •* 
 
 to Thoms Nowell* to by him a pair ) . 
 
 of hose & a cappe j ■' 
 
 To todgill^ for his howsen & a cappe xiij^ iiijd 
 
 To John Thorpe^ for his hossen & cappe... xiij* iiij"^ 
 to Thorns Rayner'' for his hose & cappe... xiij* iiij^ 
 to James Wolton^ for his hossen & cappe... xvj^ 
 to Hughe Hallso9 v^ for dett that he clamed \ -^ 
 and for his hossen & cappe \ ■' 
 
 § 
 
 § 
 
 Biacke Gowens j T mpJ mis m^i^sTowenley' ' ij yai'dcsand ahalf ),•■., • j 
 
 geuen to certen I • -j 1 i / 1111^ IX" 
 
 woomen of welthe in J[ at XXJ^ V]'^ the ycardc j ■' 
 
 numbrxo ^_ j^t,,3 Nowcll of poulls^^ iij yeardcs iij I ii'ii j^s iiijd 
 
 at xviij^ vj<^ the yearde j •* ^ 
 
 3. Metres Nowell of Lytchfilde^^ jj yardes & ) ,...g . ^^ 
 
 at xxjs vj^ the yearde j ^ 
 
 4. M''s bowyer of Wimbliedone^* ij yeardes & a | tg 
 
 half at xxs the yearde j 
 
 5. Mrs Bowyer of the old Jury'^ ij yeardes ) ,3 
 
 and a half at xxj^ the yeard | 
 
 6. MJ'^ Miller^^ ij yeardes and iij [erasure] at ") ,....g 
 
 xvj^ the yearde j ^ 
 
 7. M^'s Cassey'7 jj yeardes & a half at ) ,g 
 
 xxjs the yeard j 
 
 8. M''^ Clapham^^ ij yeardes & a half at xvj^ ) . 
 
 the yearde J 
 
 9. M''^ harrysonne^9 in chepsyed ij yeardes ] ^ ^ 
 
 & a half at xij^ the yearde | ' ' ' 
 
 io. M's houghton^o ij yeardes & a half at \ ,g 
 
 xvj3 the yearde j 
 
 ii. Magdaline Bowyere^i ij yeardes ) |g 
 
 & a half at xvj^ the yearde j 
 
 12. Mrs fifoxe22 iij yeardes at xij^ v]^ the yeard xxxvij^ vj^ 
 
 § : — r 
 
 Sume xxxij'' viijs 
 
 § 
 
 V" IX^ VI I 
 
 |XXVJ"XV1
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 Nowells of Read. Several members of the family appear later in this MS., as reci- 
 pients of Robert Nowell's bounty. See a subsequent genealogical note, and Index of 
 Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ * * None of these names known at this late day. 
 
 ' "henry Evattes Stnvard of St. T/ionis^'' = 'ix.. Thomas's; qu. — St. Thomas's 
 Hospital? Various hospitals are named later. See Index of Names (" Hospitals"). 
 
 8 " George Karpenier''' = Carpenter. 
 
 8 " Thomas Cassonne chief butler of grayes Inne'" : an all-important personage in his 
 day and generation, seeing that besides the ordinary dining, there were great Feasts 
 and regal and costly entertainments at this renowned House. The next four entries 
 refer to now unknown officials subordinate to the " chief butler." 
 
 '0 " Thomas Orrell.'" Orrell is a Lancashire surname. The Orrells of Orrell early 
 failed in the chief descent ; but a branch settled at Turton, who appear as small gentry 
 temp. Elizabeth. Thomas Orrell, "master cooke of Graies Inne," may have gone up 
 from Turton to London to be initiated into the culinary mysteries ; and, pushing his 
 way, reached the height of a cook's aspiration as chefm Gray's Inn's great kitchen. 
 
 '' " To one Rlr. hil/iarde." The Index of Names, s.n., will guide to several occur- 
 rences of " Hilliarde" as a "poor minister." Query of the family of the miniature- 
 painter immortalized by Donne and others? Further on in i\ie MS. I find "John 
 Hillyarde, poore schoUer of Christe Church in Oxford." 
 
 '2 " To one Thomas Evanes Mr. Attourney Tayler." See note 13, page I. 
 
 '3 " Thomas Keyne Smythe'" : as more than one Christian name came later, it is to 
 be assumed that " Smythe" designates Keyne's craft of "smith," black or tin-smith. 
 
 1^ "the officers in paidls" : "officers" is originally written " vargesores" = (vergers) 
 and erased. The "officers" are from No. 38 to 41. 
 
 '* " Symon Marston" (No. 38) : in the meagreness of the Dramatist John Marston's 
 biography, and in the knowledge that his family came of Wilts and Shropshire (with 
 which the Nowells were intimately connected) it is well to note the occurrence of this 
 Marstonat St. Paul's in London in 1568. But it is not improbable that the name in- 
 tended was really Simon Marson, a servant to Sir Thomas Mounson and a good musi- 
 cian, as was George Marson of the "divers authors" of "Madrigals, the Triumphs of 
 Oriana to five and six voices'' (1601). See Wood's Fasti (edn. Bliss), vol. i, p. 242, 
 and Sir Anthony Weldon's Court and Cha^-acter of Kitig James, 1650, pp. 106-7. 
 
 '^ " jfohn Owe?-^'' : onward he is named, like Meeke, as a "bell-ringer" of St. Paul's. 
 See Index of Names, s. n. 
 
 (3) 
 
 ' " Money geuen to mr. Attottrney's mene" : as before (page i, No. 21). "Mr. 
 Attourney" is Robert Nowell himself (see our Introduction). 
 
 ^ " Richard Hawlcens to by" . . . . : see page I, No. 21, where the name is spelled 
 with "u" for " w" : "by" = buy, as in side-note, and where " ho7vse^' is = hose or 
 hosen, as in entiy below to "todgill." 
 
 ' " Ric. IVhitaker" : see page i, note 13. 
 
 * " Thoms. Nowell" : see page i, note 17. 
 
 * " To todgill" : see page i, note 19. 
 
 8 "John Thorpe" .... ^ " Thomas Rayner" : nothing more is known of either : 
 but see Index of Names, s.7i., and our Nowell's Will in Introduction. 
 
 ^ " yames IVolton." This name will be found recurring very often in the MS. James 
 Wolton was confidential servant both to Robert Nowell, and, after his death, to Alex- 
 ander Nowell the Dean. As almoner for the latter, he disbursed large sums in charity 
 under Robert Nowell's trust ; and certain entries towards the end of the AIS. suggest 
 the likelihood that James Wolton was the actual writer of the MS. He was brother 
 of John Wolton, rector of Spaxton, vicar of Braunton, warden of Manchester Colle- 
 giate church in 1578, and finally bishop of Exeter. He also is named in the MS. 
 hereafter. The brothers were sons of John Wolton, a yeoman of Whalley, in the 
 county of Lancaster, by his wife Margaret Nowell. Proofs of the family connexion, 
 derived from this MS., and more particulars respecting James and John Wolton, will 
 be furnished in a subsequent note. See Index of Names, s.n. : also our Introduction. 
 
 ^ " Hughe hallso'" : " Hallso" is a contraction for the Lancashire surname of Hall- 
 sail. Hugh Hallsall occurs frequently as one of the agents or servants of Dean 
 Nowell. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^° (side-note) " certen ivoomeii ofwelthe." It will be noticed that at page i, side-note, 
 the recipients of the "gifts" are designated " the pon-cr sorte" ; but by "porrer" were 
 meant the middle-class as distinguished from those of "welthe" and the "very poor" 
 that follow this list. This is proved by the recipients being of the clergy and good 
 families.
 
 Blacke Gowens 
 geuen to the porrer 
 sorte^ of Woraene. 
 
 (Page 4 of the MS., folio i8 verso.) 
 
 § 
 
 i. T mplmis Goodwief Kerry^ iiij yardes at x** | y ....^ 
 J. iiij"^ the yarde j ^ 
 
 2. M" marten the bugett maker^ his wief ) ^^j.^ ^^j 
 
 ij yardes iij q"s at x^ iiij^ the yarde j ^ 
 
 3. M'"sShepharde*Widdowe ijyeardes iijquarfs | ^^^.jjjs 
 
 at xijs the yarde j ' 
 
 4. Mrs Willkinsonne^ ij yardes & a half at xij^ | xxx^ 
 
 the yeard j 
 
 5. Mother hunte^ ij yardes iij qt"^ at | xxxiii^ 
 
 xijs the yearde j 
 
 6. M^s payne7 ij yardes and a half at xijs \ ^^.^ jjj.j 
 
 •v]^ the yearde j -^ 
 
 7. Eaton wiefs ij yardes at vij^ the yarde xiiij^ 
 
 8. Baterbyese^ wief ij yardes at vijs the ) ^.jj.3 
 
 yearde j 
 
 9. M^s ij yardes & a half at xij» v'f \ ^^-^ jjo 
 
 the yearde j 
 
 10. M"" Overton Sheparde'" doughter ij yardes & \ j^j^^^ja \[\a 
 
 a half at xijs vj*^ the yearde j' •' •' 
 
 ii. Susane ffoxe'i ij yardes & a half at viij^l^^^g^d 
 iiij"^ the yearde j 
 
 12. Dorothee trayheron'^ ij yardes & a half) ^ g 
 
 at xijs the yeard ". j 
 
 1 3. Johan Todd'3 ij yardes & a half at ix^ ) ^^.. .^ 
 
 the yeard j 
 
 14. Ellsabethe martine'* ij yardes iij q*^"s | ^^^..g .^ 
 
 at x^ the yeard . . . j ^ 
 
 15. Ellsabethe Standbridge^^ ij yeardes ^ I ^xiis vi'i 
 
 a half at ixs the yeard j ^ ^ 
 
 16. Judethe Saterbey'^ ij yeardes & a ) ^^..g .^^^ 
 
 qter at xs the yearde | ' -^ ■' 
 
 17. Katherin Kerry'7 her maid ij yardes & q*^" | g ...j 
 
 at ix* the yarde j ^ 
 
 18. Mother Wallker'^ ij yardes at vij^ the yard xxj* 
 
 19. Agnes M'' Attourneies made^^ ij yardes | --s -d 
 
 & a half at vij» the yarde j ' ^ ■' 
 
 20. Ellsabethe of the Ketchine ij yardes & a ) ■■ -^ 
 
 half at ix^ a yarde j' ^ 
 
 23. iij mades svantes of M^ Deanes of lytchfild^o \ ...jj .. .^ 
 vij yardes & a half at viijs iiij*! the yarde j J J J 
 
 27. iiij mades of M^' Towenleys svantes ) ..■■■^■^ .■• •■■.^ 
 
 X yardes at viijs iiij'^ the yarde j J J J 
 
 28. GraceWilkinsonne^iijyardesq^eratviijsiiij^'yeyarde xxiij^ 
 
 29. Grace Wilkinsonne syster ij yardes a q*" ) xxiii^ W^ 
 
 at viijs iiij<i the yarde j 
 
 § , 
 
 Suma -. . . xxxiiij^' xvj^ xi'' 
 
 [A blank folio (19) follows this in the MS] 
 
 §xxxiiij''j
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 1' '' lift res. Torvenley" : see our Introduction on all the Townleys named in the MS. 
 
 '2 ''Mires. Nowell of potills" : Ibid, for all the Nowells. 
 
 1' " Mtres. Nowell of Ly/c/ijilde" : Laurence Nowell, Dean of Lichfield, married 
 Mary Glover, widow, by whom he had two known sons and four daughters. 
 
 *■* "Mrs. Bojvyer of Wimbliedone'''' : related, no doubt, to the Bowyers of the Old 
 Jury, noticed infra. 
 
 '* " Alls. Bowyer of the old Jury.'''' These Bowyers of the Old Jury were much re- 
 garded by the Nowells, and with reason, for Francis Bowyer, whose wife doubtless is 
 the lady here named, had successfully contrived the means of Alexander Nowell's 
 escape to the continent in the reign of Mary. Fuller dedicated a section of his Church 
 History to "Mr. Thomas Bowyer of the Old Jury, merchant," whose " gran^lfather, 
 Francis Bowyer," says Fuller, "brought no fevvell to the flames [in Mary's days] but 
 endeavoured to quench them. The church is indebted to him for saving Rev. Dr. 
 Alexander Nowell, and sending him safe beyond the seas. " See further references to 
 Bowyers onward in the MS. 
 
 16 '■'Mrs. Miller^'' : nothing appears to be known of her. 
 
 '7 "Mrs. Cassey." A sister of Robert Nowell married a Mr. Cassie, and one Robert 
 Cassie is named in Robert Nowell's will as his godson. See our Introduction and 
 Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 18 "Mrs. Claphavi''' : as in note 1 6. 
 
 19 '■'Mrs. Han-ysonne in Chepsyed." Cheapside was then, as it is now, one of the 
 principal business streets in the city of London. Mrs. Harrysonne was the spouse, we 
 may suppose, of some wealthy mercer or grocer in old " Chepe." 
 
 ^ "Mrs. Houghton." This lady, if the reference is to the wife of Thomas Hoghton, 
 Esq., of Hoghton Tower, in the county of Lancaster, was Catherine, daughter of Sir 
 Thomas Gerard of Brynn, Knt. , and she may have been living in London with her 
 kinsman Sir Gilbert Gerard, the Attorney General, and who is often named in this MS., 
 for her husband, Thomas Hoghton, had to leave England on account of his "recu- 
 sancy" about the date of this record (1568). 
 
 ^ " Alagdaline Bowyere" : see note on IBowyers above. 
 
 S2 "Mrs. ffoxe" : another relative. See onward, and Index of Names for references. 
 
 (4) 
 
 * "porrer sorte of wojuenc'''' : see page 3, note 10. 
 
 ^ " Goodzvief Kerry" : " 6^w^7W(^" is the familiar name for a "wife"as "Goodman" 
 for a "husband" in page 5, No. i "Goodman Hallawall." 
 
 3 "Mrs. Marten the btigett maker": see page i. No. 16, and relative note on 
 " boggett "= budget. 
 
 * "Mrs. Shepharde, Widdojve'" : a common Lancashire name ; but this Mrs. Shep- 
 harde was of the Nowell kin. See onward and Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * "Mrs. Willkinsonne" : seepage i. No. 17, and relative note 16, on (probably) 
 her husband. 
 
 6 " Mother hunte" : like "Goodwief" and "Goodman" (supra) "Mother" was a 
 kindly-used name for an aged respected woman, e.g. Mother Hubbard of nursery renown. 
 This "Mother" was in all likelihood related to the good George Hunte, elsewhere 
 noticed. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ "Mrs Payne" : as in note 4, supra. 
 
 ^ "Eaton wief" : see page 2, No. 26, "John Eaton." 
 
 ' "Baterbyesewief": no doubt the modern Battersbie or Battersby — a local sur- 
 name in the Clitheroe district. 
 
 10 i i Mrs. Overton Shepharde daughter " : see note 4, supra. 
 
 1' " Susanneffoxe" : see page 3, No. 12, — a decayed member of the "women of 
 welthe " there named ? See Index of Names, s. n. 
 
 '^ " Dorothee tray heron" : probably same as Treherne. See Index of Names, s.n., 
 for others. 
 
 '^ "jfohan Todd"==]oa.n or Joanna. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 '■* ' ' EUsabcthe martine " : cf. note 3, supra. 
 
 1* " Ellsabethe Stanbridge" : the variant speUing of "Elizabeth" in the MS. and 
 contemporarily, is curious. 
 
 " "Judethe Saterley" : this is a noticeable christian name. 
 
 '^ " A'atherin Kerry her maid" = Katherin Kerry's maid. See entry above, No I. 
 
 18 "Mother Wallk'er" : see note 6, sJipra. 
 
 '5 " Agnes Mr. Attourneies tnade" : i.e. of Robert Nowell, as before. She was 
 Agnes Andrews. See a later note, and Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^0 "■ svantes of Mr. Deane of lytchfild" : see our Introduction on all the Nowells of 
 the MS. , &c., and ibid on next entry. 
 
 ^' " Grace IVilkinsonne" : on this and next entry, see note 5, supra.
 
 (Page 5 of the MS., folio 20.) 
 Gowens of the Newe Tlioms Slieplevs ill caftor leane ij yardes ) ^---s ;;ci 
 
 collor'geuen the very .'■ ■' .. . ^ ■••a j.\ if XUlj'' 11 
 
 poor & a half new collor at v^ viij'i the yard j ^ ■' 
 
 James poutts at the backgatt ij yardes | ^^^g ^^ 
 & a half at vj^ viij'^ the yard of newe coUer j 
 i. Goodman hallawall 
 
 2. Alexander white 
 
 3. Thoms hutton 
 
 4. Wiltm Eaton 
 
 5. Wiltm Cowell 
 
 6. John Casey 
 
 7. Thoms hodgsonne 
 
 8. harrold^ a poor blindmane 
 
 9. A poor mane that wear a gowen^ 
 
 for M^s Walker of holborne wyddowe 
 
 10. Witim Lobley 
 
 11. William Garratt - ^ 
 
 12. Willm Rydley* j 
 
 13. John fifrankleyn^ j 
 i4.-|-John ffayrbarne f 
 
 15. Willm Stirrope \ 
 
 16. Poole kep of the easte churchyarde^ i 
 
 17. Roger maden^ 
 
 18. Cuthbearde Carrall " ;; 
 
 19. John hassellwood \ 
 
 20. Charles bradshowe » 
 
 21. Benett Clearke \ 
 
 22. John ffarrington^ ' 
 
 23. Robte Dinsdale ' 
 
 24. ffather willsonne^ j 
 
 xxiiij Gowens made by Alexander white h 
 
 Tayler for w^^^^ he hadd in all Clothe \ 
 
 of the newe coUer Ixij yardes iij q*"^ 
 
 i. Henry Chambrs a 
 
 2. Roberte Rysame r 
 
 3. Thomis pyersonne 1 
 
 4. John Dytton \ 
 
 5. father Sylvyster '; 
 
 6. John wood I 
 
 7. J. Roberte Willamsonne*" 'i 
 
 10
 
 Notes and Illustration^, 
 
 15) 
 
 1 " GoTvens of the Newe Collar'''' (side note) : The entries onward for several pages 
 refer to gifts of cloth of the "newe collor" (colour,) for gowns. I meet with nothing 
 in this AIS. or elsewhere to indicate what the "newe collor" of 1568 for gowns and 
 coats of the English commonalty was. It may have been one of the crimson dyes 
 extracted from the cochineal insect, introduced into Spain from ^lexico before the 
 middle of the i6th century ; thence into the Netherlands and probably into England 
 by the Flemish refugees who came hither in the early years of Elizabeth's reign. Prior 
 to their advent English woollen cloths had to be sent into Holland to be dyed. Indigo 
 came into use in Europe as a dye about this period, but was prohibited m England. 
 The cloth of these entries was the same, I imagine, as that which is described in the 
 MS. as "broad newe colored cloth," " brode London cloth," "London brod cloth," 
 and otherwise. It was a woollen cloth of London manufacture for outer garments, 
 distinguished from several kinds of linen cloth (chiefly made in Lancashire) specified 
 in the same connexion. Its cost was from S-f- to 8i'. per yard, while the common linen 
 did not exceed from 5^/. to "jd. per yard. Some of the linen cloths were dyed in sin- 
 gular colours, e.g., 13 yard of linen bought of William Wigen, a Lancashire maker of 
 cloth, is described as of "geeliflower collor," at \%d. a yard. See Index of Things 
 under "Cloth." 
 
 The " Gowens" gifts recorded here and in pp. 6-12 being all to the "very poor," 
 it were a vain quest as uncalled for, to expect memorials of them. The Church-registers 
 in and around Burnley and in and around Read Hall — the family-seats of the Townleys 
 and Nowells respectively — contain almost eveiy name herein enumerated ; but it could 
 serve no end to give them on the chance that they might be of the lowly recipients of 
 Nowell's bounty of " Gowens of the newe collor." Our faithful reproduction of every 
 name, however, may guide those interested in any particular family-line to their per- 
 chance humble yet not necessarily unworthy ancestry. Evidently the "godly poor" 
 and deserving were "sought out" in the administration of the bounties ; and that is 
 better than mere "blue blood."' Many of the names of these "very poor" are still 
 frequent in Lancashire and are borne by those who are in good positions and honoured 
 in their generation. On certain of the names of these "very poor " I am able to add 
 only a few slight notes, e.g. 
 
 First List. 
 
 ' No. 8, " harrold a poor blind mane.'" The Index of Names contains many such 
 pitiful entries. So 
 
 ^ No. 9, ^' A poore man that wear a gowen for Mrs. Walker." 
 
 * No. 12, " Williani Rydley" : — reminds of the martyr-bishop of that name. 
 
 * No. 13, " John ffrankleyn" : one is glad to meet any occurrence of a great name, 
 in the recollection that Benjamin Franklin was of the mother-country ; but of course 
 it is to be remembered that as a word "Franklin" or "Frankelein" (A.N.) meant a 
 free-holder, generally a small landholder — as had been the "Franklins" of Spilsby, 
 Lincolnshire, whence Sir John Franklin came. 
 
 ^ No. 16, ^'- Poole Kep. of the easte churchyai-de." Probably of St. Paul's, London. 
 " Kep " is short for Keeper. 
 
 '' No. 17, "' Roger Maden" : recalls the famous Preacher of still quick Sermons of 
 the same name. 
 
 ^ No. 22, ^^ yohn ffarrinqton" =^Yzxx\x\^dion — a famous Lancashire name. 
 
 9 No. 24, "ffather IVillsonne" : Cf. "Mother," page 4, note 6. 
 
 Second List. 
 
 '** No. 7, "J. Roberte Willamsonne" : As more than one Christian name came very 
 much later the "J " was doubtless inadvertently written and left unerased. 
 
 II
 
 - JPage 6 of the MS., folio 20 verso) 
 8. John harpare 
 y. Richard CoIHns 
 
 10. John ffarlee 
 
 11. Robte Alarde 
 
 12. Robte Needham 
 
 13. Robte hassilhvood 
 
 14. John Nebbes 
 
 15. Edward hitchies 
 
 16. Laurance heathe 
 
 17. John, Goose^ 
 
 18. John, Thomas 
 
 19. Wiitm Barker 
 
 20. Goodmane Walshe 
 
 21. John Reade 
 
 22. Goodman, Carter 
 
 23. Goodman, price 
 
 24. Gilberte, Todde 
 
 25. Browene^ \ 
 
 26. harwood, f r 1 ji 
 T^ ' >ot hadhame 
 
 27. Burre i 
 
 28. Chri stover grave j 
 
 29. Robte, ffoxe 
 
 30. Andrewe waterhawe 
 
 31. John Mathewe 
 
 32. Nycholes hales 
 
 33. Thomas warde 
 
 34. John holte waterbearer-^ 
 
 35. Goodman Dyshere 
 2,6. Goodman, myller 
 
 37. Joanes the booke bynder* 
 
 38. Robte hetonn 
 
 39. Wiiim Dallissonne 
 
 40. John Gylberte 
 
 41. Ric. Weste 
 
 42. henry Edmundes fl 
 
 43. George rychardsone p M'' mylls T 
 
 44. John Cooke ' 
 
 45. Hughe Allystre 
 
 46. father bolton 
 
 47. henry halton 
 
 48. Mother Gylls,^ worne by a poor mane, 
 
 49. Joane Spynny worne by a poor mane 
 
 50. henry Barthelmewe^ 
 
 51. Richarde Jeninges 
 
 52. Robte Motten7 
 
 12
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (6) 
 
 Second List (continued.) 
 
 ' No. 17, '^yohii Goose'''' — an odd name that seems to have died out, and however 
 truthfully descriptive, we can understand the willinghood of those inheriting it to let 
 it go. Perhaps the modern Goss and Gosse are improvements upon it; as in our liv- 
 ing Poet of "On Viol and Flute" {1876), Edmund W. Gosse. 
 
 ' No. 25 to 28, ^' of Hadhavte" = Hadham in the county of Herts., of which parish 
 Dean Nowell was rector. See Introduction. 
 
 2 No. 34, " yohn holte 'diaterbearer'''' : This suggests journeys among the hills to fetch 
 "water" from the springs ; for long ago it was not introduced into all houses, as now- 
 a-days in populous places at least. 
 
 * No. 37, '■'■ Joanes the booke bynder'''' : " Joanes" is noticeable and "the" also = the 
 one "booke bynder" of the village and district ; albeit if in London it only indicated 
 "the" special book binder employed by the family. 
 
 5 No. 48, '■'■ Mother Gylls, tiwrne by a poor mane"" : the "poor mane" was likely 
 tediously sick and so his "wief," who (like others in the MS. specially named) having 
 most probably married beneath her (as the saying is), suffered accordingly. So too 
 No. 49. 
 
 * No. 50, ^^ henry BiD'thdmezve" i.e. Bartholomew. 
 '^ No. 52, '■' Robte Motten'''' : a noticeable surname. 
 
 M
 
 (Page 7 of the MS., folio 21.) 
 
 53. John Walker 
 
 54. Robte hollys 
 
 55. Rogere Swallowe' 
 
 56. Lewes fflowdde^ 
 
 57. Thorns Tyle 
 
 58. Nicholes, Benall, 
 
 59. Thorns, Warde, 
 
 60. Rycharde coopere. 
 
 § Ix Gowens made by John Punte^ "i 
 
 Marchante Tayller, for w'^^ he hadd ^chx yardes & di 
 in all clothe of the Newe collore... j 
 i. Richard caverley 
 
 2. Thorns, Elyote 
 
 3. George Rychardsone 
 
 4. Willm Baker 
 
 5. Robte Mane 
 
 6. Morgan hewes 
 
 7. John wyatt* 
 
 8. Thorns Barton 
 
 9. Rychard Baxter^ 
 
 10. Ric. hussey 
 
 11. WyHm warner^ 
 
 12. father Norryes 
 
 13. John Grippes 
 
 14. Thorns ffoxe 
 
 15. John Whitacres 
 
 16. Willm Langley 
 
 17. Peter Davis 
 
 18. John Edwardes 
 
 19. Thoms Dompayne 
 
 20. John Stocker 
 
 § xx'' Gowens mad by Rychard Gybbons Tayler ) , , o ,• 
 for w'^^^ he hadd in all clothe of the newe collor J ^ 
 i. Richard morecrofte 
 
 2. Roger Kynge 
 
 3. George Robert es 
 
 4. John Letsame 
 
 5. Thoms Deremane 
 
 6. Gylles pallmer'' 
 
 7. Willm Glasher 
 
 8. John hoUande 
 
 9. John Beane, 
 
 14 
 
 i
 
 Notes a?id Illustrations. 
 (7) 
 
 Second List (continued.) 
 
 ' No. 55, " Rogere Swallowe" — an odd name still found in Lancashire. 
 
 2 No. 56, " Lrw^s J/Icnvdde'" : same as the modern Flood of Ireland. See Index of 
 
 Names, s.ti. 
 
 Third List. 
 
 ^ It is to be noted that "John Punte" is described in this heading as a " Marchante 
 Tayller. " Queiy — as having been a member of the great Guild of Merchant Tailors ? 
 See Index of Names, s.n., for other entries. 
 
 ■• No. 7, '* jfokn JVyatt" — The Poet's name of Wyatt and Wyat was a not infrequent 
 one in Lancashire. Drayton in his Verses to Master George Sandys, mentions a much 
 later Wyat thus : — 
 
 " Of Noble Wyat's health, and let me hear :" 
 
 (Hooper's ^aw^/jv, vol. i, p. Ixvii.) 
 Sandys was related to the Wyats. 
 
 ^ No. 9, " R}'c/iard BaxUr" — It is somewhat singular that earlier and later 
 " Richard" is very common as the Christian name of Baxters. Of course one eclipses 
 all others "for all time." 
 
 ^ No. II, "lV}'//m. IVarner" : Could this have been of the family (or himself?) 
 of William Warner, Attorney in the Common Pleas? Rewrote "Pan his Syrinx, or 
 Pipe, compact of seuen Reedes : including in one, seuen Tragical and Comical Argu- 
 ments, with their diners Notes not impertinent. Whereby, in effect, of all thinges 
 is touched, in few, something of the vayne, wanton, proud, and inconstant course of 
 the world. Neither herein, to somewhat praiseworthie, is prayse wanting." (1585 : 
 revised edition 1597), and the better known Albions England (1586 : revised editions 
 1589: 1592: 1596: 1597: i602. ) He died in 1609. Warner's biography is ex- 
 tremely scanty in facts. 
 
 Fourth List. 
 
 ' No. 6, " Gylles palhner" : Herbert Palmer gives interest to every occurrence of 
 the name. See " Lord Bacon not the Author of the Christian Paradoxes but Herbert 
 Palmer." (i vol. 8vo. 1865.) See Index of Names, s.n., for other Palmer references, 
 especially John Palmer. 
 
 15
 
 (Page 8 of the MS., folio 21 verso.) 
 io. Willm Sowein 
 
 11. Robte, Smithe 
 
 12. Rychard, Dixon 
 
 13. John Wgod 
 
 14. Thorns, harrys 
 
 15. Phillopte Wattam 
 
 16. henry, Johansone 
 
 17. Thorns Banester 
 
 18. Nicholes Barnarde 
 
 19. John, Smithe 
 
 20. Peter Baynbrydge^ 
 
 § XX Gowens mad by Rychard Aperde ^ 
 
 Tayler for w"'^ he hade in clothe Uij yardes & di) 
 of newe collore § ) 
 
 1. Simone hackett^ 
 
 2. George Showe 
 
 3. Vaucher 
 
 4. John Edwardes 
 
 5. Roberte Slayghter 
 
 6. Thoms Austene 
 
 7. Thoms Baldwine 
 
 8. Norwoode 
 
 9. Roberte home 
 
 10. henry Nortonn 
 
 11. John Alyne 
 
 12. Thoms Slacke 
 
 13. Thoms Christmas 
 
 14. Thoms harrysonne 
 
 15. Willm Robsonne 
 
 16. John Bushe 
 
 17. Rogeres 
 
 18. Rychard Trappes 
 
 19. Willm Rooe 
 
 20. Willm Barley^ 
 
 21. Willm haull 
 
 22. henry coulle 
 
 23. John hodgekine 
 
 24. Thoms Clearke*
 
 Notes and Illustratio7is. 
 
 (8) 
 
 Fourth List (continued.) 
 ' No. 20, ^' Peter Bay nbrydge" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 Fifth List. 
 
 'No. I, '' Simofte hackett" -. As with Palmer (page 7, No. 6, fourth List) this 
 reminds of the learned and good and quaint Bishop Racket, whose great folio of 
 "Sermons" (1675) is worth a cart-load of modern ones. 
 
 ' No. 20, ^'IViilui. Barley": an unusual name. There is a village called "Barley" 
 in Pendle Forest, about two miles from Read, the Nowell family-seat. 
 
 * No. 24, "Thorns. Clearke" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 17
 
 (Page 9 of the MS., folio 22.) 
 
 25. John Benett 
 
 26. Wyttm Dyxon 
 
 27. Barwike 
 
 28. Edward Jespare 
 
 29. Walter Vptone 
 
 30. henry Ryghsby 
 
 31. Nycholes prestmane 
 
 32. WiUm hollande 
 
 § xxxij^Gowens mad by GavesDunbery' ^ 
 
 Tayler for w"=^ he hade in all Vlxxxiiij yardes q*^"" 
 
 clothe of the newe collore j 
 
 i. John Johannsonne 
 
 2. John, Orringe^ 
 
 3. Robte Browene 
 
 4. John, BulP 
 
 5. Rychard Parrys 
 
 6. John, Baker 
 
 7. Thorns Ingrame 
 
 8. John, Clearke 
 
 9. Christofer Thomsonne 
 
 10. George, Norton, 
 
 11. John Johnsonne 
 
 12. Wyllm Goyter 
 
 13. John Edwardes 
 
 14. John Hughsonne 
 
 15. Thomes Lemynge 
 
 16. George Rychardsonne 
 
 17. Robte holsolte 
 
 18. Rychard Moriecrofte 
 
 § xviijt«=^ Gowens mad by Charles Bradshawe ^ 
 
 Tayler for w'^'^ he hade in all clothe of Ixxxij yardes 
 
 the newe collor J 
 
 i. henry, Geare , 
 
 2. Robte puddell 
 
 3. madenhead 
 
 4. Ashmer 
 
 5. homfrey marrowe'* 
 
 6. Wyllm hodjoine 
 
 1 
 
 18
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (9) 
 
 Sixth List. 
 
 ' "■Caves' Dunbery": At page 2, No. 22, he is called "Javes" : see relative note in 
 the place. 
 
 * No. 2, "John Orriiige" — an unusual name. There was an Edward Oreno-e LL B 
 1520. (Wood's /Jw//, vol. i, p. 52.) ^' ' *' 
 
 * No. 4, "John Bull" — a frequent name in Lancashire. When was it first applied 
 to England personified ? 
 
 Seventh List. 
 
 * No. 5, '■^ homf7-ey marrcmie^'' — another unusual name. 
 
 C 2 19
 
 (Page lO of the MS., folio 22 verso.) 
 
 7. Thorns Patkinsone 
 
 8. Rychard, houlden 
 
 9. John Jaxsone 
 
 10. Thorns Richardsonne 
 
 11. Rychard Aperde^ 
 
 12. Thorns, Wattersone 
 
 § xij Gowens mad by Rychard Dyrrey^ 
 
 Tayler for w* he hade vxxixii yardes& a half 
 
 in all clothe of the Newe collor J 
 
 i. Anthony Marlooe^ 
 
 2. John, Eaton 
 
 3. VVyllm ffarrar^ 
 
 4. Thorns Gente 
 
 5. John Mynton 
 
 6. Thorns Thomsonne 
 
 7. Willm Curtyese* 
 
 8. Roberte, Ive 
 
 9. Geffrey Walkinden^ 
 
 10. Willm Swane 
 
 11. Rye Willams 
 
 12. Willm Bullocke 
 
 13. Rychard Gybbyns 
 
 14. Ric. Twyde 
 
 15. Wyllam fylde 
 
 16. Markes Burton 
 
 17. Mychaell rose 
 
 18. Willm Pynder 
 
 19. John, Green 
 
 20. Rogere, ffyner 
 
 § xxti Gowens made by Clemente ffryar^ 
 
 Tayler for w<=^ he hade in all clothe >-lij yardes 
 
 of the newe collore j 
 
 i. Wyllam, Dracke 
 
 2. Thoms holden 
 
 3. James harrysone 
 
 4. John Johanson 
 
 5. Wyllam Markes 
 
 6. John Smythe 
 
 7. John Phillips 
 
 8. Wyllam hinchpoole 
 
 9. John yonge 
 
 10. Edmond ffoxley 
 
 these X Gowens mad by James |^.i.^^^ 
 
 Pynimmge Tay ler for w^h he V^ ^\^^^ 
 
 hadd m all clothe of the new collor ) 
 
 20
 
 Notes and Illust7'atio7is. 
 
 (lo) 
 
 Seventh List (continued.) 
 
 ' No. II, '' Rychard Aperde" : from preceding lists it is seen that one of the " tayleis " 
 employed for making the "gowens" was so named. 
 
 Eighth List. 
 
 '^ No. I, "Anthony Marlooe" : query — Marlowe miswritten? Christopher Marlowe 
 was a native of Canterbury, and various Canterbury names occur in our MS., as John 
 Lyily and the Haymons. 
 
 ^ No. 3, "IVyllmffarrar" — a venerable 'name for us all, through George Herbert's 
 saintly friend and editor Nicholas Farrer or Ferrar. See Professor Mayor's admirable 
 "Nicholas Fen-ar" (1855), and Index of Names, s.n., for several Farrars. 
 
 ■• No. 7, "Wyllm. Cm-tyese^' — a noticeable English surname. 
 
 « No. 9, "Geffrey Walkinden": " Walkinden " seems to be the older form of the 
 surname now shortened to "Walkden"— a name of rather frequent occurrence in 
 Blackburn and Leyland Parishes, in the county of Lancashire. This, and several 
 other surnames in these lists, belong to the North of England; e.g., "Ploulden," which 
 occurs twice on this page of the text, and is a territorial name in East Lancashire and 
 Craven in the West Riding of Yorkshire, appropriated as a personal name. 
 "Ryghsby" (for Rigby), "Hollande," "Lemynge," "Compton," "Morre" (for More 
 or Moore), and "Whitehead," also smack of the County Palatine; but most of the 
 other names are either strange to Lancashire or are common to other parts of England. 
 These recipients of gowns were mostly, I conceive, of the class of gentlemen's servants. 
 
 21
 
 (Page .1 1 of the MS., folio 23.) 
 i. Richard, Budge 
 
 2. John Tylswourth 
 
 3. Edmonde hyll 
 
 4. James Garrett 
 
 5. Wyllyam, Byxau 
 
 6. Thorns Chaundler 
 
 7. Thoms'-Wyller 
 
 8. Edward compton 
 
 9. Thorns harrys 
 
 10. John Bryskay* 
 
 1 1. John Smythe 
 
 12. George Slaughter^ 
 
 § xij Gowens made by Roberte kelly^ 
 
 Tayler for w*^^ he hade in all [-xxxj yardes & di 
 
 clothe of the newe collore j 
 
 i. Ric. forster 
 
 2. Wyllyam fferrer^ 
 
 3. Willm Pristone 
 
 4. Robte hodges 
 
 5. hughe hearne 
 
 6. Willm morre 
 
 7. John whitehead 
 
 8. Lewees Johannes"^ 
 
 9. Shepard watter karrer^ 
 
 10. John Bogett^ 
 
 1 1. ffather Lacye 
 
 12. hudsons waterkerrer 
 
 § xij Gowens made by John whitheade \ 
 
 Tayler for w'^'^ he hade in all clothe 'xxx^'i yardes iijq*"» 
 
 of the newe collore } 
 
 i. CIemente,7 ffreare 
 
 2. Dominicke^ Secare 
 
 3. John Edmondes 
 
 4. Rychard, Bylboroughc
 
 Notes a?id Illustrations. 
 
 Ninth List. 
 
 ' No. lo, '^ John Bryskay" : — an unusual name. 
 
 ' No. 12, " George Slaiighkr''^ := .Slater, a surname, frequent in Lancashire. 
 
 Tenth List. 
 
 ^ No. 2, "IVyllym fferrer" : see note on seventh List, No. 3. 
 
 ■* No. 6, "Leivees Johannes''^ : a singular surname. 
 
 * No. 9, "■ Shepard loatter karref'" : see page 6, No. 34 in second List. So No. 12 
 below. The circumstance, that here, and in several other places, the Scribe spells 
 the word "water" with two fs, is rather suggestive of his nativity in Lancashire or 
 the North of England. One never hears a cockney pronounce water as here spelt — 
 ■Kjattcr; but in the part of East Lancashire with which the Nowells were connected, 
 that is the proper spelling to represent the sound of the word as still pronounced by 
 natives of the labouring class. In some other districts of Lancashire the word is pro- 
 nounced waytcr. At page 10, the proper name of Waterson is spelled "Watterson." 
 This trifling point of provincial spelling is one among various indications that the self- 
 styled servant of Dean Nowell, who kept these accounts, was an East Lancashire man. 
 (See Note 8, page 7.) 
 
 ^ No. 10, '■'''John Bogett" : see on the thing that gave this name on page I, No. 
 16, and relative note. 
 
 Eleventh List. 
 
 ^.* Nos. I and 2. Two uncommon Christian names in humble life — "Clemente" 
 and "Dominicke"— as also the surname "Secare. " Clemente ffreai'e is no doubt the 
 " Tayler" of page 20, ante. 
 
 The names of these successive lists furnish a considerable addition to the number 
 of English Surnames in Lower and the other authorities. 
 
 23
 
 (Page 12 of the J/5., folio 23 verso.) 
 5. John, Cooke 
 . 6. James Wicklif 1 
 
 7. Thorns, MaHn 
 
 8. John, Smythe 
 
 9- 
 
 io. 
 
 ii. 
 
 i2. 
 
 § xij Gowens made by Arthure Medlecott^ ^ 
 
 Tayler for w^^ he hade in all clothe >-xxx*^ yardes 
 
 of the newe collor J 
 
 Gowens3 of newe collor geuen to poor } ^pijjjjth 
 mene ccliiij* j 
 
 yardes of nevvecollored clothe for the ^ 
 
 same Gowenes to poore men as Vccccccxlvij* yardes iij q*^"^ 
 before pticulerly apperethe j 
 
 2X ,, 
 
 I
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 (12) 
 
 1 No. 6, "James Wicklif : one of the lustrous surnames of England. 
 
 ' " Arthiire Medlecoit" : As Medlicott, this surname is still found in Ireland and in 
 the United States. See notice of him, and relative note onward. 
 
 3 "Gcnvens" &c. It is noteworthy here that although the " gowens" in the text were 
 "geven the very poor," they are priced at 5^. Sd. and 6s. 8d. per yard, equivalent in 
 money- value to from;f2 to ^{"3 per yard now. The cloth was made up into "gowens" 
 by a number of the "merchant tailors" of London. "John Punte, merchanteTayller" 
 had 1694 yards to make into 60 "gowens," and eleven other master-tailors had share 
 of the patronage. Altogether 254 gowns were made for as many poor men, and the 
 quantity of the "newe collored cloth" used in this one benefaction was 647I yards. 
 The charge for making the gowns at 12^/. each was ;,^I2. 12s., equivalent to well-nigh 
 ;^ioo to-day. 
 
 25
 
 (Page 13 of the MS., folio 24.) 
 
 Taylers* paid for 
 makinge of poor 
 men gowenes as 
 hear after apperetiie 
 
 Impi'mis 
 makinge 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 Robte 
 
 John 
 
 Arthur 
 
 Mr 
 
 M"- 
 
 to Alexander White for ) .... 
 
 of xxnij* govvens j •* 
 
 Punte^ for makinge Ix ) ...,j 
 
 Rychard Gybbes for ) ^ ^ 
 
 gowenes 
 
 J 
 for makinge ) 
 
 gowens 
 
 XX 
 
 .'S 
 
 makinge 
 
 xxxij" 
 
 xvnj' 
 
 makinge of xx 
 Rychard Aperde 
 
 of XX gowenes ) 
 
 Jarves Dunbery Tayler for ) 
 
 makinge xxxij' gowenes j 
 
 Charles bradshawe Tayler \ 
 for makinge xviij'^'^^ gowens j 
 Rye. Dysney Tayler for \ 
 
 of xij gowens j 
 
 Clemente ffryer for ) 
 
 makinge of xx* gowenes j 
 
 James Pymminge tayler for ] 
 
 makinge of x gowenes j 
 
 Kylley for makinge of 
 
 xij gownes 
 
 whithede for makinge of) 
 
 gownes ) 
 
 mydlecot^ Tayler for | 
 of xij gownes ... j 
 
 ^ : 
 
 Sume paid for makinge 
 
 Gownes as apperethe in 
 
 the end of the booke of 
 
 clothe boLighte to the 
 
 XIJ 
 
 makinge 
 
 xij^ 
 
 xxs 
 
 x=^ 
 
 XIJ^ 
 
 XIJ^ 
 
 XIJ^ 
 
 .w 
 
 ij'' xij^ 
 
 ^§xij 
 
 number of 
 Subscribed by 
 
 gownes 
 eu''y tayler 
 
 '> xijs 
 
 §- 
 
 Geuen to Lewes harvay^ a poor minister \ ..^ 
 
 to pay for makinge his gowene | ^'•' 
 
 to Mathew Eaton for makinge his gowene xij^^ 
 
 To Nycholas Benall . for makinge '\ 
 
 of vij gownes for seven scholleres of ... ( ..^ 
 
 poulls scholl^ as by the accquitance ( ^'^ 
 
 more at lardgc apperethe * 
 
 §- 
 
 §ix9 
 
 Suma xiiji' xij* 
 
 (Page 14 of the MS., folio 24 verso.) 
 for makinge moe poor mens gowenes the x*'' of j 
 
 februaryc A^ 1568' j xv» 
 
 26
 
 Notes and Il/iistrations. 
 
 ' These "Taylers" names occur in the preceding lists of the recipients and their 
 several bounties. Probably they were all of the Guild of Merchant-Tailors, e.g., 
 "William Albaney" was Master of the Merchant Tailors Company 1568-9. "Mr. 
 Spearke" was John Sperke, Master Warden 1569-70 : " William Kymptone " Master 
 1570-1: "John Punte," more accurately " Pounte," Warden 1579-80: "Arthur 
 Mydlecot" Warden 1604-5. See Index of Names, s.tt., for other references and 
 relative notes. 
 
 * "Mr. Finite.'''' This Merchant Taylor was a donor of silver spoons to the plate- 
 chest of the company. In an inventory of plate, &c. , taken in 1609, are included 
 "one dozen of Spoones, of the guift of Mr. John Punte marked with I. P., weying 
 three and twenty ounce three quarters." (Clode's Memorials of the Guild of Merchant 
 Taylers', p. 93.) John Punte occurs further on in this AIS. as having received, circa. 
 1570, forty shillings "for the exhibition of a poor scholler of Trinitie colledge in 
 chambridge. " 
 
 ^ '■'■ Arthiire viydlecot, Tayler.''^ Among the plate of the Merchant Taylors' Company, 
 inventoried in 1609, is mentioned " one very faire Bason and Ewre, of the guift of Mr. 
 Arthur Medlicott, all guilt, weying One hundreth forty eight ounce three quarters." 
 (Clode's Memorials, &'c., p. 92.) Arthur Medlycott of Shrewsbury, on 5 June 1565, 
 was admitted free of the Merchant Taylors' Company. By his will, dated 25 July 
 1605 (proved 31 August following), he directs to be buried by his wife in St. Gregory's, 
 London. His brother Thomas Medlicott of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., executor. Both 
 brothers appear to have died s.p. 
 
 ■• "Lewes ha)"vey a poor minister''' : see page i. No. 3, and relative note. 
 
 * "• senen fc hollers of pmills fcholl " : see Index of Names under St. Paul's for scholars 
 of this famous School whose names occur in this MS. 
 
 (14) 
 
 ' "Ao 1568" : This is the first date in the DIS. and it is to be assumed that it also 
 belongs to the whole of the preceding entries, inasmuch as Robert Nowell having died 
 in 1568 his "bounties" would closely follow thereon.
 
 (Page 15 of the MS., folio 25.) 
 Sadler^ Scholer of poulls fcholle ] 
 ij yardes & di, at v^ viij'^ the yarde j 
 
 Gowiies geuen Wilim 
 
 to carteyn poor 
 fcholler[s]ofthefcholls 
 
 fn^numb^^xxxjlh Nychole/Smithc^ §'- 
 
 Willm husnis^ 
 Edmund Levisns* 
 
 xjs iiij< 
 
 Jefree morgane^ 
 
 Robte Russell^ 
 
 Anthony Egliefild^ fchollers of poulls 
 fchole for their gownes xij yardes & di 
 at v'f iiij^ the yarde § 
 
 iijl* xix^ \]^ 
 
 xij yardes di. 
 
 Edmunde fpenfer^ § 
 
 Rychard Bitese^ 
 
 George hunte^^ 
 
 Thorns Curleyii 
 
 henry Ive^^ 
 
 Greeorie Donnhill'^ fchollers of the 
 
 M chante Taylers fchole '■* xij yardes di. 
 
 at vj^ the yarde § 
 
 § 
 
 iijli xv^ 
 
 xij yardes & a di. 
 
 SchoUercs at S* 
 Anthonys^s fchole xij yardes di at vj^ the 
 yarde § 
 
 iijli xv^ 
 
 xij yardes di.
 
 Notes and ILlush'ations. 
 (15) 
 
 ' ^'■Willm. Sadler, Scholer of poulls Scholle" : unknown. For an interesting account 
 of this renowned School, see Howard Staunton's Great Schools of England, pp. 132- 
 167 (1869), also Maria Hackett's Cathedral and Collegiate Schools. The Rev. 
 J. H. Lupton, M.A., of this School, in writing ine on the loss "of all registers, &c.," 
 before "the great Fire," suggests that it is not always remembered that the Cathedral 
 School was often called " Paul's" simply, so that it is difficult to determine whether a 
 given "scholler" belonged to it or to St. Paul's School properly so-called. Unfortu- 
 nately in neither case are Registei's or other AfSS. preserved. It seems a pity that no 
 attempt should have been made to furnish a companion volume to the Ahinini West- 
 monastcnenses for St. Paul's — lamentable that the present Dean of St. Paul's and the 
 learned Librarian alike had to report me absolute inability (with all willinghood) to 
 shed any light on any of the names of the MS. connected with this great Church and 
 School. En passant I give a note from Mr. Lupton (as before) on Dean Nowell : 
 "Has it ever struck you that the engraving of the mutilated bust facing p. 388 of 
 Churton's Life, cannot really be that of Nowell (compared with the one at p. 336), but 
 is almost certainly Colet's?" Every one must acquiesce in this correction by one to 
 whom we owe so much admirable work done for the "Remains" of the venerable 
 Dean Colet. 
 
 ^ "■ Nye holes Sinithe'''' : a Nicholas Smythe was of the Merchant Taylors. (Clode, 
 as before, p. 116.) 
 
 ^ " Willin. husnis.'''' I think this may have been William Hunnis miswritten. I 
 like to believe that the "sweet Singer" of the "Recreations" (1595) was among the 
 scholars of "paulls Schole." Many examples go to show that the Scribe was not always 
 careful in his spelling of names, e.g., Gottesford for Cotesford, Sharppsparrowe for 
 Sharperowe and the like. So that "Husnis" for "Hunnis" is not at all unlikely. 
 The dates agree. 
 
 ■* " Edmund Levisns" : unknown. 
 
 * " jfefree Motgane'^ : unknown. 
 
 ^ " Robte RnsselP' : unknown, but see Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 7 " Anthony Egllef Id." This recalls that Francis Eglesfield (the same probably 
 with Egliefild) was one of Herrick's publishers in Hesperides and Noble Numbers, 
 1648. 
 
 * " Edmunde Spenser." This is the first occurrence of the name of Spenser. See 
 on all the entries of Spensers, our Introduction and (in large paper) fac-similes. It is 
 to be specially noted that in the last entry here, all enumerated are described as " schol- 
 lers of the M'chante Taylers Schole." 
 
 8 " Ry chard Bitese" : unknown. 
 
 1" '^ George hnnte" : admitted to M. T. School as "son of John Hunt, yeoman 
 dec"" 30 Mar. 1565": Deniz. of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1571 ; Fellow, 1575-82; 
 Junior Dean of Arts, 1578; Rector of Collingbourne-Ducis, in the county of Wilts, 
 for 51 years; died in the 84th year of his age. His father was an early Reformer and 
 confessor, temp. ]\Iary, and owed his support at Oxford to Master D. Humfry in the 
 exhibitions of Bishop Pilkington and the friendship of the Kingsmill family. A 
 daughter of our " George hunte" was wife of the celebrated William Whately of Ban- 
 bury. (See Dr. Bloxam's Reg. of Magd. Coll., and Brook's Puritans, s.n., and 
 Wood's Athene?, by Bliss, vol. ii, p. 639.) Later in this MS., George Hunte, receiv- 
 ing 20s. in November, 1571, is described as "poore scholler of Magdalen Colledge in 
 Oxforde." 
 
 1' " Thomas Curley" : unknown. 
 
 '2 '■' henry Ive" : unknown. 
 
 '^ " Gregorie Dontthill." Probably the same with Georgius Downhall, whose name 
 occurs as the first of Archdeacon Watts' Exhibitioners to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge 
 — the second being Launcelot Andrewes, the famous bishop (on whom see onward, 
 and Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 " " APchante Taylers Scholle'' : see Staunton, as before, pp. 168-206, for many de- 
 tails on this School. It is to be regretted that the early i-egisters, &c., are extremely 
 fragmentary. Every effort has been made, not without success, to recover information 
 on the "schollers" of this School in the 71^.5". The following work has helped us con- 
 siderably: — Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the City of London, and of its 
 Associated Charities and Lnstitutions, compiled and selected by the Master of the 
 Company for the year 1873-4; being the five-hundred and seventy-fourth master in 
 succession. (Charles Mathew Clode, Esq.) Printed for private circulation (8vo, 
 pp. xxxi, 746). It is to be regretted that the Indices are so meagre, as to be practi- 
 cally useless as a guide to the abundant names and information of this most carefully 
 and laboriously prepared work. 
 
 29
 
 (Page 1 6 of the AIS., folio 25 verso.) 
 
 Rogere Thackwell' § 
 
 George Etheridge^ 
 John hodhe^ 
 George Tayler'* 
 Wyllm Adlington^ 
 Thorns harryson*^ 
 
 grammar 
 
 fchoUeres 
 fchole of S*^ 
 
 of the 
 Savyours^ 
 
 xij yardes & a half at vj^ the yarde §- 
 
 § iij^' xv8 
 
 yardes xij & a di. 
 
 horne^ § 
 
 hedge^ 
 
 Beamounte'" 
 
 Driwood'^ 
 Willoughbve^2 
 
 hackluyte'^ fchollers of Westm) 
 fchole'^ xij yardes & a half at vij^ the 
 yarde § 
 
 Gownes of the nevve \ 
 collore to poor ( .^j^ 
 
 fchollers as appereth T' ^ 
 [erasure] xxxj ) 
 
 § iiji' xv^ 
 
 xij & a di yardes 
 
 Clothe for the same ^ 
 gownes^^ [erasure] yxix^^x^vj** 
 yardes Ixv w'^^ coste j 
 
 30
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 '* "St. Anthonys School" : Formerly the Hospital of St. Anthony, and next became 
 a Church. Maitland tells of this "goodly Foundation" having a " Free School and 
 Alms-houses for poor men;" and that "one Johnson (a school-master here) became a 
 prebendary of Windsor, and then (by little and little) spoiled the Hospital." He adds, 
 "The School was commenced in the reign of Henry VI., and since also commended 
 above others ; but now it is decayed and come to nothing. The scholars of the School 
 used at a certain time of the year to go in procession. In the year 1562, on the 15th 
 day of September, there set out from Mile End, two hundred children of this St. An- 
 thony's School, and so along through Aldgate, down Cornhill, to the Stocks, and so 
 to the Fryers Augustines, with streamers and flags and drums beating." (Hist, of Land. 
 17JS, 2 vols, folio, vol. ii, p. 845.) 
 
 (16) 
 
 ' '^ Roger ThackivelV — a name in modern times rendered memorable by a dis- 
 tinguished General. 
 
 ^ " George Etheridge^' — query son of George Etheredge, Regius Professor of Greek, 
 Oxford, 1548, 1553? (See Le Neve, vol. iii, pp. 515-16.) 
 
 ' "John Hodiie" : * " George Tayler" : neither has been traced. 
 
 * " IVyll/n. Adlington.'" This was probably the Translator of Apuleius', The eleven 
 Bookes of the Golden Asse (1596), with its poetical preface " of the author to his sonne 
 Faustinius," &c. 
 
 ^ " Thorns, harryson'" : doubtless the Thomas Harrison associated at Merchant 
 Taylors School with John Thomas (1572). See Index of Names under John Thomas 
 for relative note. 
 
 7 " schollers of the grammar schole of St. Savyonrs" : i.e., St. -vSaviour's, Southwark, 
 London. Founded by inhabitants, under a charter from Queen Elizabeth, in 1562, 
 as a free grammar school, for the education, institution, and instruction of the children 
 and youths of the parishioners and inhabitants of St. Saviours only ; power was after- 
 wards given to the governors to admit others, so long as the whole number of scholars 
 did not exceed 100. By Chancery scheme, 1839, the school was thrown entirely open 
 without any restriction as to its numbers. By the statute of 1562, it was ordained that 
 each scholar should pay an entrance fee of is. 6d. per quarter, ' ' towards brooms and 
 rods." At present all scholars pay six guineas a year, which cannot be exceeded in 
 the case of parishioners, but may be raised if the governors think fit in that of non- 
 parishioners. Income 365/., with house. Exhibitions: one of 21/., and two of 50/., 
 tenable four years, at Oxford or Cambridge; also a first claim, under Marshall's cha- 
 rity, to four of 50/. each, tenable for four years, at Oxford or Cambridge. (Howard 
 Staunton's Great Schools of England, pp. 493-4, 1869.) 
 
 ^ "home." Charles Home was elected from Westminster School to Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, 1568; B.A. 1572-3; Fellow of Peterhouse 1576 ; M.A. I577; B.D. 1585; 
 one of the Scrutators 1587. In 1594 he was one of the senior fellows living in College, 
 and was alive in 1 595-6. He wrote Latin and Greek verses in the University Collec- 
 tions, e.g., on the death of Sir Philip Sidney, in Academics Cantabrigiensis Lachry^nce, 
 &c. (1587). See Alidiini U'estinonasterienses (1852), also Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ "hedge." Christopher Hedge; entered in Aliiinn. West. (p. 47) under 1568, but 
 omitted in Cole MSS. (vol. xlv. ) 
 
 '" " Beamonte." John Beaumont, was elected from Westminster to Trinity Col- 
 lege, Cambridge, 1568; B.A. 1572; Fellow of Trinity, M.A. 1576; resigned in 158 1 ; 
 B.D. 1583; rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1592, being then D.D. Buried at Hadleigh 
 27 April 1599. Author of a Latin Letter to William Camden, &c. (See Aluiu. 
 IVestm., p. 47; Blomfield's iVo/folk, vol. iii, p. 293; Ath. Cantab., vol. ii, p. 272; 
 Cole i\ISS., vol. xlv, pp. 237 and 254.) 
 
 " " Driwood." George Dry wood : took the degree of M.A. 1577, and became after- 
 wards B.D. ; rector of Mistley-cum-Manningtree, Essex, 1585-90, and of Trinity the 
 Less, London, 1603-5 ; of South Ockendon, Essex, 1590, and of Chadwell, Essex, 
 1605. He died possessed of the two last named livings in 161 1. He vacated his Fel- 
 lowship about 1594. Like Home {supra), he wrote Verses on the death of Sidney, 
 which were published in the collection Acad. Cant. Lachr. (1587). (See Alumn. 
 West., p. 47 ; Newcourt's Repertorinni, vol. i, p. 556 ; vol. ii, pp. 125, 422, 429 ; 
 Ath. Ox., vol. ii, p. 548; also Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 12 " Willoughbye." Thomas Willoughby is entered vsx Alnm. West. (p. 47) under 
 1569. 
 
 '^ " hackhiyte." The ever-to-be-remembered RICHARD Hakluyt, on whom see 
 our Introduction. He was elected from Westminster to Christ Church, Oxford, 1570; 
 B.A, 1573; Prebendary of Bristol and afterwards of Westminster. (Consult Wood's 
 Atheme., by Bliss, vol. ii, p. 186 ; Fasti, vol. i, pp. 193, 206 ; also Colonel Chester's 
 Westminster Abbey, p. 1 13; Alum. West., pp. 47, 48, 50, 81). 
 
 31
 
 Blacke coattes 
 geuen to gentellmen 
 frvantes' & plly 
 to the poore in numbr 
 64. 
 
 \6. 
 
 18. 
 
 19. 
 
 20. 
 
 (Page 17 of the MS., folio 26.) 
 
 Nicholas halsted ij yardes at x^ y^ yarde... xx^ 
 hynry Ryley of Lane, ij yardes at [erasure] \ xx^ 
 
 vijs viij*^ the yarde j iiij*^ 
 
 Thre mene of M"^ Secritorie cicilP | ^^—s 
 
 iiij yardes and a half at x^ ix^ the yard j ^ 
 
 two men of M"" Attourney general^ | xxxij" 
 
 iij yardes at x^ ix.^ a yarde j 
 
 viij beddelles* attendinge on the poor to"" 
 
 kepe them in order xij yardes at vij^ 
 
 ijd the yarde as apperethe by the bill Wiij^^ vj 
 
 nij* 
 
 nijd 
 
 figned w* the hand of M"^ cox M"" faulkes 
 and other officers of the hospitall J 
 
 two beddells Attendinge vpon the poore \ 
 
 of the hospitall iij yardes at vij^ ijd Ixxiij^ 
 eu''y yarde ,' 
 
 henry petssey of Chaldwell^ one yarde ) 
 iij q'ers at vij^ viij'^ the yarde j 
 
 Willm 
 
 iters 
 
 Garefforde 
 
 xnj* v" 
 
 j yarde iij q*^''^ at ) 
 
 xnjs V 
 
 at vij^ viij^ eu'y yarde 
 Rychard hudson one yarde & a half \ • 
 
 at viis viij'^ the yarde j ^ 
 
 22. James Thomson one yard & a half) 
 
 at vij^ the yarde j 
 
 A mane of my L. of London^ one yard ] .^ 
 
 & a half at x^ [x.^ the yarde j * ' 
 
 John Merry of my L. of Salysbury \ 
 
 21. 
 
 23- 
 
 VJ 
 
 i"(i 
 
 Vjc 
 
 j'l ob. 
 
 24. 
 
 25- 
 27. 
 
 28. 
 
 29. 
 
 30. 
 
 31- 
 32. 
 
 33- 
 24. 
 
 25- 
 
 mane7 one yard iij q^^rs at x^ the yarde j 
 
 xxij" vj^ 
 
 An other mane of my L. of Sarysbury ) -j-g 
 
 one yard & a half at xij^ the yarde j 
 
 two other mene or my L. of. --Ixxxijsiijd 
 
 Sarysbury iij yardes at x^ 
 
 Edmond claphame 
 quarteres at xij^ 
 
 Roberte pyckringe 
 poulls mane^ one 
 at x^ the yarde 
 
 Alexander 
 iij qters 
 
 Nycholas M^ deans 
 
 ixd ye yard 
 
 XVIJ^ VJ*^ 
 
 one yard iij ) [erasure] 
 
 the yarde j ^^j^ 
 
 M"" deane oi\ 
 yard iij quarters >xxijs vj'' 
 
 bradshowe^ one yard ] 
 
 at xs the yarde j 
 
 horskep'^ one ) ■■■^ -a 
 yarde iij q*®''^ at x^ ix^ ^"'""^ irni-ri^ ( J 
 Willm Bolton one yard 
 
 at viijs iiijd the yarde 
 
 John clapham one yard & a half at 
 
 viijs iiijd the yarde . j 
 
 Abraham fatterley one yard & a | •••5 -^ 
 
 half at ix^ the yarde j ''"^ ^^ 
 
 Arthur haywood ij yardes at vij^ \ 
 
 § xxiiij" vjs iiij' 
 
 yarde... j 
 a half ) 
 
 ob. 
 
 ,- xijs yf 
 \ xij« vjd 
 
 viijii the yarde j 
 
 §- 
 
 xv^ inj^ 
 
 I 
 
 Suma xxiiij'i vj^ iiij' 
 
 32
 
 Notes a?td Illustrations. 
 
 '•• ^' schollers of IVest/n. Schole" ; see Alumni Weslmonasterienses, and Staunton, as 
 before, pp. 94-132. 
 
 '5 " cloth for the same gownes.'''' Thirty-one poor scholars had here gowns a-piece, 
 for which were bought sixty-five yards of cloth, costing 19/. lo.c bd. The cost per 
 yard was about 6^-. , and each gown took two yards and a fraction. The cloth must 
 thus have been of ample breadth. It was of the " newe collore," which is likely to 
 have been either a blue or crimson. The cost per yard betokens no mean quality 
 of fabric for these gowns, one of which was worn by the fair-faced, star-eyed school- 
 lad, Edmund Spenser, poet in posse. See former notice on page 5. 
 
 (17) 
 ' " Blacke coattes geuen to gentelltnen Sn'aiites." The first two names, Nicholas 
 Halsted and Henry Ryley of Lancashire, were, in all likelihood, servants of the 
 Nowells and Townleys or other Lancashire notables who had homes in London at 
 this time. Nicholas Halsted may have been a connexion of the Halsteds of Burnley, 
 and Henry Ryley of a yeoman family of Ryley of the Green, near Hoghton Tower, or 
 else of the Ryleys of High Ryley in Accrington, in the county of Lancaster. A 
 Ryley is named among Bishop Jewel's favourite "servants" in his Will. These 
 " black coats " were made of fine broad cloth, varying from Js. to 12s. the yard, which, 
 considering the value of money then, must be reckoned a handsome price to pay for 
 cloth to be bestowed in coats upon "gentlemen servants." 
 
 * '■' thj-e mene of M?: Secrito7-ie Cicill.'" It has an odd look to find, as here and else- 
 where, the foremost men in the State and Church allowing their " servantes" to receive 
 gifts of "coattes" and the like. Cecil's name recurs. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ ''^ men of Mr. Attouriiey generall." This was Sir Gilbert Gerard, who filled the 
 office from 1558 to 1580. 
 
 * '^ beddellc's" : Maitland relates, that, in the year 1569, the city being "greatly 
 pestei^ed by sturdy beggars, and loose, idle, disorderly people of both sexes," "sixteen 
 Beadles were enjoined to take up all vagrants, and to carry them to Bridewell; all 
 sick, lame, blind, aged, and to carry them to St. Bartholomew's; and all children 
 beggars, under the age of 16, to Christ's Hospital." {History of London, vol. i, p. 257. ) 
 
 ^ " henry petssey of ChaldzvelV : the only known Caldwell (or Chaldwell) is a town- 
 ship in the parish of St. John, Stanwick, North Riding of Yorkshire, eight miles north 
 of Richmond. 
 
 ^ " A mane of my L. of London'" : again Grindall. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 7 '■' yohfi Merty my L. of Salysbiiry >?iatie" : again Jewell, and in next entries. See 
 Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * ^^ Roherte pyckringe Mr. Deane of poulls mane" : i.e., of Dean Alexander Nowell. 
 See our Introduction. 
 
 '■'■' Alexander Bradshoive.'" He, as well as Robert Pyckeringe last-noted, was a 
 personal servant of Uean Alexander Nowell. Both occur frequently in the later pages 
 of the RIS. as witnesses to gifts out of this trust. From their names I imagine they were 
 both Lancashire men. Alexander Bradshaw was still the Dean's servant in 1592, when 
 the Dean made his will, by which the said Alexander was to have a legacy of five 
 marks. 
 
 10 '' J^yckolas Mr. Deans horskep" = contraction for horsekeeper, or groom. 
 
 t> S3
 
 39- 
 
 (Page 1 8 of the MS., folio 26 verso.) 
 
 § 
 
 iiij Sarvantes of M"" Deanes of \ ...jj 
 
 Lytchfylde' vj* yardes at x^ ix*^ y^ yard / ^ 
 40. ffoLir fvantes of M'' Towenley^ vj'' yardes ) jjj^j 
 
 at x^ ix.^ the yarde 
 
 44. John ffletcher of hampsted^ one yarde , ^^^ ^^;^ 
 
 inj^ VJ' 
 
 nj^' nijs VJ' 
 
 45 
 
 and a half at vij^ the yarde j 
 
 James Woolton"* M'' Attourneis fvante | 
 j yarde & a half at xij^ the yarde 
 
 46. hughe allso M^ Attourney mane one 
 
 yarde & a half at xij^ the yarde 
 
 47. John Thorpe M'' Attourney fvante one 
 
 yarde iij quarters at x^ m']^ the yarde ... 
 
 48. Thorns Rayner M'' Attourneis fvante 
 
 one yard iij quarteres 
 
 49. John Wylkinsone^ M'' Attournies cooke 
 
 one yard & di at viij® iiij*^ the yarde ... 
 
 50. henry Osborne vnder cooke of graies 
 
 - X" VJ' 
 
 xvnj* 
 
 xvnj^ 
 
 xvnjs J' 
 
 xvnjs J' 
 
 xij^ vj' 
 
 Inneoneyard & a half at x^ ix'l the yarde I ^ ^ 
 
 ;d 
 
 vj' 
 
 VJ' 
 
 51. henry haynes panyermane^ of graies) 
 
 Jnne one yarde & a half at viij^ iiij'* / ■' 
 
 52. father paidge of henden^ one yard iij ] .. 
 
 qters at vijs ij*! the yarde j ^'■' 
 
 53. henry hindlie of henden one yarde) g ^^.^ 
 
 & a half at vij^ the yarde j 
 
 55. two of M^' ffrances bowyeres^ svantes ' 
 
 iij yardes at x^ the yarde 
 
 57. two of M'' Thoms bowyare men | 
 
 VJ' 
 
 xxx^ 
 
 59- 
 60. 
 
 'X« 
 
 XV'' 
 
 V yardes at viij^ iiij** the yarde j 
 
 two of M^' Cassyes Lowest v yardes ) 
 
 at viij^ iiij** the yarde J 
 
 Ranner brother to M"" Attournies ) 
 
 horskep one yard & a half at vij^ y"^ yard j 
 6i. John Towenley M^ Mills'" man one ) 
 
 yarde & a half at x^ the yarde j 
 
 John Brand myller of hadham'^ one ) 
 
 yard & iij q'^^''* at vij^ viij'* y« yard 
 Peter Adlington'^ cooke of 
 
 wardes j yard & a di at vij^ viij'' y 
 Cuthberd procter of holborne 
 
 yarde iij q*®''^ at vij^ iiij** the yarde j " ^ 
 
 henricke hooke one yard & a half | 
 
 xljs viij 
 
 id 
 
 xljs viij"^ 
 
 VJ 
 
 ;d 
 
 62. 
 
 63- 
 64. 
 
 65- 
 
 at 
 in all 64. 
 
 r xnj^ v" 
 one \ 
 
 x^ x'^ the yarde j 
 
 §- 
 
 xvjs f ob. 
 
 Suma xxiij'' ix*^ 
 
 j 
 
 § 
 
 xxnj 
 
 ;ii 
 
 ix'i 
 
 34
 
 Notes ajid Illustrations. 
 
 (i8) 
 
 ' " Sanmntes of Mr. Deanes of Lytckfylde'' : viz., of Laurence Nowell, who was in- 
 stalled "Dean" 20 March 1559-60. [Le Nez'e, vol. i, p. 562.) See Index of Names, 
 s.ii. 
 
 2 "Mr Toivenley": John Towneley of Towneley, in the county of Lancaster, Esq., 
 half-brother of the brothers Nowell, and an executor under Robert Nowell's will. He 
 was a "recusant" (Roman Catholic), and suffered greatly for his religious fidelity. 
 For an account of him, see Churton's Life of Dean Nozvell, and our Introduction. 
 
 ' "■ kainpsted" : then (1568) far removed from the city. 
 
 * " ya)iies Woolton" : see Index of Names, s.n. "Mr. Attournei" was, as before, 
 Robert Nowell ; and these "servantes" occur often. 
 
 * '■'John IVylkinsoiie'' : see former note and Index of Names, s.tt. 
 
 * "panyermane" = Y>^T\m.ex-'mQXi. " In the Inns of Court one who minds a horse 
 or rings a bell to call the gentlemen to dinner or supper, and furnishes mustard, pepper 
 and vinegar." (Bailey, /."'.) 
 
 7 " Father paidge of henden'" : "Father" like "^lother" is applied to aged persons 
 in the MS. For Nowell's connection with Henden, see our Introduction. 
 
 8 "ffrances bo^uyeres'" : see Index of Names, s.n., and former note. 
 
 ^ "Lowes" : unintelligible to the Editor; perhaps miswritten for "boyes." 
 
 10 " Mr Mills": An intimate friend of Robert Nowell, to whom the latter be- 
 queathed the price of a ring: — "I doe bequethe unto my goode freinde M' Henrie 
 Milles the some of vi'" xiij' iiij*^ to buye hym a ringe in remembraunce of me." (See 
 the Will, in our Introduction, and previous relative note.) 
 
 1' " hadham" : for Nowell's connection with Hadham, see our Introduction. 
 
 12 "Peter Adlington" : see Index of Names under William A., and former note. 
 
 ^ 2 35
 
 (Page 19 of the AIS., folio 27.) 
 to eighte of M'' Attorney kinsmen & fervantes^ 
 toby^ them blake hose & CapeSj^Thoms Nowell 
 Rychard Whitaker, willam whitaker, hughe 
 halsoe, John Thorpe, James woulton, & Thoms 
 Rayner J 
 
 y^^\^ ixs viij<J 
 
 Coattes geuen to 
 poor childrene 
 
 [ Verso — Blank.] 
 
 (Page 20 of the MS., folio 28.) 
 
 § 
 
 Mathewe Eaton' a poor minister sonne ) ^..g -^ 
 
 one yard & a half at viij^ Vn]^ the yard j •' ^ 
 
 Rycharde Overtone iiii childrene vj* yardes ) 
 
 f 11 4- •«••■•,! 4-1 J >xxxvnj* 
 
 of newe collor at vj^ nij"^ the yard j -^ 
 
 Goodwief Wylkinson sonne that was ) .., 
 the quyrester a yard & a di at j ^ 
 
 Goodwief Wylkinsone sonne that is p ) .g -^ 
 prentice j yard & a half at vij^ iiij*^ y® yard j 
 
 M' ffoxe ij children iij yardes at x^ | ^ 
 the yarde . j 
 
 M' ffoxe iij fonnes iiij yardes & a half) .-^ - 
 
 at viijs iiij'J the yard / ^ •' 
 
 John Medley one yarde & a ) --s -d 
 half at v\f m]^ the yarde | •' ^ 
 
 p<^ for vj yardes of ffreese for the \ 
 
 two poor [erasure] boyes coattes at r-vij® 
 xiiij*^ the yarde j 
 
 for two pair of showes^ S: ij payr of"] 
 
 hose to the fame boyes the xviij^^ >\f 
 of ffebruary j 
 
 p'^ for iij yardes of ffrese^ for a cote ^ 
 
 for a poor boye of Charles bradshawes [iij^ vj*^ 
 at xiiij'' the yarde j 
 
 § ..., . ., 
 
 buma vnj" vjs vj^ 
 
 [ Verso — Blank.] 
 
 iviij'^ vj'' vj<^iJ 
 
 36
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (19) 
 
 1 ^'by" =buy. See Index of Names, s.ii., for other references to all these "kins- 
 men and serv'antes." 
 
 * ^^ blake hose and capes." Each of these kinsmen in attendance upon Robert 
 Nowell and his brother the Dean of St. Paul's, had received black coats (see preceding 
 page), and money to buy them hose and capes (see page 3) ; and now they received 
 5/. 9,f. Zd. amongst them to procure "black hose and capes" = caps, to be worn 
 during the period of mourning for their deceased benefactor. 
 
 (20) 
 
 '■ ^^ Matthew Eaton" : One "Master Matthew Heton"' appears in the Register of 
 the Stationers' Company as certifying certain books in 1590 and 1591, e.g., "3 May, 
 1591, Ric. Jones, entred for his Copie in full court Bryton's Bowers of Delights, being 
 under the hand of Master Mathew Heton." (Arber's Transcript, vol. ii, p. 274.) 
 For the other names see Index of Names, s. ft. , for various references. 
 
 2 ' ' sho7ves " = shoes. 
 
 ^ "J^rese"= frieze or coarse woollen cloth. So before. On other names in tliis page 
 not here noted see the Index of Names, s. n. , for other references. 
 
 37
 
 (Page 2 1 of the MS., folio 29.) 
 66iH-,6-8^ And so the whole some of all the | ,,,,,,1 -h ^^. ^■■■, 
 
 Draperes bills j j j j 
 
 Wherof to Rychard Johnsonn, m^chante^ 
 
 Tayler^ as apperethe by his accquitances Vlix^^ xix^ i]^ 
 & bill of pcell lixii xix^ ijd j 
 
 Wittm Albaney^ hade as apperethe by ) li s 'd 
 
 his accquitance & percells j •' 
 
 my Lady white^ as apperethe allso byS 
 
 the accquitances & bill of pcells of willm j-xxj^' ij^ j^ 
 Nailer her mane j 
 
 John hudsonne Citizen & grocer \ 
 
 hade for two clothes apperethe Vxxx^' 
 by his accquitance j 
 
 Edwarde VValdraine hade for his^ 
 
 pcells as apperethe by his bills Vc^' iij^ 
 & accquitances j 
 
 M^ Spearke* as apperethe ^y ) ^j.^ ^jj.^ jjj.^ 
 
 his bill of pcells & accquitances ... j ^ ■• •' 
 
 WiWm hyndley hade allso as \ 
 
 apperethe by his bills of pcells j-clxix^i iij^ x** 
 and accquitances ) 
 
 WiHm Kymptone^ hade as allso \ 
 
 apperethe by his bills of pcells vcxxxvij'' xix^ ix<i 
 
 & accquitances j 
 
 Sume as appereth dclxj^' xvjs viij<* 
 
 [ F<?r.f^— Blank.] 
 
 38
 
 Notes and Illustratiojis. 
 
 (21) 
 
 ' ^^ Rychard yohnsonn JSPchante Tayler" : see Index of Names under Merchant- 
 Tailors, also relative Note on page 15, whereon several of these "Taylers" are 
 noticed. Richard Johnson is in the MS. also called " Johanson." (See Index, s.n.) 
 
 2 " JViiPni Albaney" : Mr. William Albany was one of seven " worshipfull men" 
 apj)ointed by a court of the Governors of Merchant Taylors' School on 19th March, 
 1572, to make suit unto Sir William Cordall, knt., Master of the Rolls, to procure the 
 observation of the statute of St. John's College, Oxford, providing for the nomination 
 to that College of forty-three scholars out of the Grammar School of the Merchant 
 Taylors' Company. (Clode's Metnorials of Merchmil Taylors'' Company, p. 407.) 
 
 ^ " 7ny lady White'''' : This lady was widow of Sir Thomas White, the founder of 
 Merchant Taylors' School and of St. John the Baptist's College, Oxford. Sir Thomas 
 White died nth February 1566. His relict here named was his second wife, Joan 
 Lake, daughter of John Lake of London, gentleman. Lady White died in 1573. By 
 her first husband. Sir Ralph Warren (twice Lord Mayor of London, in 1536 and 1543), 
 she was mother of Richard Warren. By her second husband. Sir Thomas White, she 
 had no issue. (See Clode's Memorials of the Guild of MerchaJit Taylors, p. 456.) 
 
 ^ "Mr. Spearke": This probably was the "John Sperck" who was one of a com- 
 mission of Merchant Taylors appointed, in 1567, to search and report on the names of 
 freemen of that mystery, keeping booths in Bartholomew Fair. (Clode, itt supra, p. 112.) 
 
 * " IVillm. KymptoJie^': William Kympton, Merchant Taylor, was, with others of 
 the fraternity, a witness in an inquiry in February, 1568-9, as to the means by which 
 a manifesto by the Spanish Ambassador had been circulated in London. (See Clode's 
 Memorials, pp. 650-1.) On March 24th, 1571-2, Mr. Robert Hulson, Mr. William 
 Kympton, and Mr. Nicholas Spencer were appointed to assist the Master and Wardens 
 of the Merchant Taylors' Company to select men to attend upon Queen Elizabeth in 
 military costume, on May-day, 1572 {Ibid, p. 140). "Mr. William Kympton, draper," 
 occurs further on in our AIS., where Edward Kimpton, also a draper, is mentioned on 
 the same page. Some years later, William Kympton is found an Alderman of the 
 City of London, and fell into trouble, as John Stow narrates: — "The 26 of Aprill 
 [1579] William Kympton Alderman of London, was by the lord Chancelor sent to the 
 fleete, about a letter late by him received, from the Vicar of Hadley in Middlesex 
 beside Barnet. This letter amongst other matters mentioned of a pale pulled down at 
 Northall, by the commons there, &c. , for concealing whereof, the said Alderman was 
 committed as aforesaid. And on the 15 of Maie, was in the Starred chamber con- 
 demned to pay 500 marks fine, and to remaine prisoner at the pleasure of his 
 maiestie." (Annates, p. 11 73.) A great penalty for a small offence, surely! 
 
 39
 
 The ffees of the 
 Pety Canons & 
 other officers of the 
 Quyer m pouUs 
 
 (Page 22 of the AIS., folio 30.) 
 
 §— 
 
 Paid to eleuen pete canons for attendinge^ 
 
 the Daye of the ffunerall at iij^ iiij*^ the Vxxxvj^ viij*^ 
 
 pece j 
 
 To vj* vicares at ij^ viij*^ a piece xvj^ 
 
 To x* children at xx"^ the piece xvj^ viij^ 
 
 To four vargeres^ and the sexten at ) .. -j 
 
 ijs vj'' the piece j •' •' 
 
 To ij bellringeres & the vnder sexten \ .^ 
 
 at ij^ the piece j •' 
 
 W*''^ pcells apperethe by their accquitances 
 
 signed w* their handes 
 
 To Wyllyam Lyde subdean^ & \ 
 
 John Lyke3 petye canone the xijti^ (^j.j. .j..^ 
 
 of february for the dynner of the i ■' ^ 
 
 ministeres & officeres of the churche ... j 
 
 To Michaell Shaler Verger xiij^ iiijd 
 
 To Thorns Wylloughby xiij^ iiijd 
 
 To Roberte Longethorne xiij^ iiijd 
 
 these by composition of the gownes as apperethe 
 
 by their accquitances 
 
 To the faid Michaell Shaller for) xxiij^ iiiid Sxiijiivd 
 
 the grave place & brekinge the ground j •• •* ^ 
 
 More geven to the said iij vergeres for ) ^ 
 
 other duties & their paynes iij^ iiij^^apiece. j 
 
 To John Staunton fexton of poulls v" 
 
 To John meeke & John Ower bellringers ] g 
 
 for tollinge the bell & other duties j 
 
 for ix bundell of Rushewes'^ at iij^i the bundell ij* iij'^ 
 
 for carriadge of the same from the warffe vj^ 
 
 for makinge clean the Quyer & carryinge | -^ 
 
 out of the rushowes j ^ 
 
 for hanginge vpe the coate armore "j 
 
 & pennon & tremynge & soderinge^ the /-xij<^ 
 
 same in the pylleres j 
 
 Geven to homfrey kerrie verger for ] ^g 
 
 his payne & travell^ j 
 
 Geven to M^ Mounte of the churche \ •■■^ -..-^ 
 
 of poulls j ■' ^ 
 
 To that mendethe ) ...g ....^j 
 
 the Orgaynes^ j ■' ■' 
 
 § 
 
 To the churche of poulls for the 
 
 funerall celebratinge & burienge of 
 
 the corpes, in the place called Sancta 
 
 Sanctor^ 
 
 for the pavinge of the grave agayn 
 
 & layinge of the allabaster 
 
 ftone vpon it, & the gravinge of the 
 
 fame^ . 
 
 40
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (22) 
 
 ' " eleven pete canons.'''' Four of the petty canons of St. Paul's of this date are 
 named later in the AIS. as having received each black cloth worth T.'js. ; their names 
 are: Mr. Leeke, Mr. Beckwith, Mr. Saywarde, and Rychard Crosse. The first, Mr. 
 Leeke, very likely was identical with "John Lyke, petye canone," so named on this 
 page. 
 
 1 "z/ar^t'r^j'" = vergers. 
 
 2 " Wylliam Lyde subdean " — unknown. 
 
 3 '^jfohn Lyke petye canone." (See above.) 
 
 * '^Riishnves" =i-Viiihes — used for strewing upon floors before carpets were introduced. 
 
 * ^' soderinge" = soldering. 
 
 ' " /rawe"//" = travail, pains-taking. 
 
 7 " mendetk the 07-gaynes.'''' The entry of Is. 6d. paid to him that mendeth the organs 
 suggests that the organ in St. Paul's had to be repaired for use at the funeral. 
 
 * '•'■ Sancta Sanctor'''' = the most consecrated place. 
 
 ' "paving of t/te grave," &c. — eheu ! the stone and "gravinge" have long since 
 perished ; but see our Introduction. 
 
 4'-
 
 Chardges to my- 
 nisters & officers 
 of futch pishes 
 whereof Mr. Robte 
 Nowell was pishioner 
 
 (Page 23 of the MS., folio 30 verso.) 
 To Raffe Whitline psonne of"^ 
 
 S* Andrewes in holborne', for him 
 selfe x^ for the church Avardens to 
 
 pishe churche 
 
 Vj5 Vllj' 
 
 the vse of the 
 
 for the clearke xx<^ as apperethe 
 by the accquitance of the said Raffe 
 Whithne 
 
 ^-xix^ iiijt 
 
 To Rychard 
 
 of henden 
 the clearke 
 for 
 the 
 the 
 
 Lawrance- V^icare 
 
 for hym self v^ for 
 
 vj^ whereof iiij^ was 
 
 of his wao-es & for 
 
 fexten xij*^ as apperethe by 
 
 accquitance of the said Rychard 
 
 arrerages 
 
 Lawrance 
 
 ^xij^ 
 
 The ffees of the 
 harroldes 
 
 (Page 24 of the MS., folio 31.) 
 
 Paid to M^ Robte cooke Esquier ats^ 
 Clarenceux Kinge of Amies' for hyme 
 & M'' Chester harrold, for all their ffees ^^xiij^ vj» viij*^ 
 by composition beforde made, as apperethe | § 
 
 by the accquitance of the said M'' cookej 
 
 Geven to M^ Clarenceux fervante for his payns 
 
 xiijii ix^ ij^ 
 
 The wagges of the 
 pajter^ 
 
 for the cote Armes xxvj^ viij'^ 
 
 for the pennon xxvj* viij<* 
 
 for vi'^i fcutchions in metall | 
 
 vpon buckrame j' -" 
 
 for ij dowsen of fcutchions in metall ) ^ , 
 
 vpon paper ryall ) 
 
 for vijt^ dowsen of fcutchion in collors ) ....,; ..„ ... 
 
 vpon paper ryall at xnj'' a pece j -" -^ ■' 
 
 for a Irne brase & a rodde ij" 
 
 for a staffe xij^ 
 
 Tow conditor staves xij^ 
 
 paid to the said paynter as apperethe ) ^^ 
 
 by his accquitance j 
 
 ix" xvij-
 
 Notes and Illusirations. 
 (23) 
 
 ' " Raffe IVhitVuie psonne of St. Andrewes in holbonte" : Ralph or Radolphus Whit- 
 lin or Whitling became "parson" of St. Andrew's, "8 February 1558 per mort Nic. 
 Burton" and John Proctor, S. T. P., succeeded 13 March 1578, "per mort Whytlin." 
 (Newcourt, as before, vol. i, p. 275.) He had been Vicar of Feltham, Essex (22 Sep. 
 1554) per priv. Ric. Permentory {Ibid. p. 603), but he only held this living a short 
 time, being succeeded by Edward Percival I October 1555, "per resig. Whitling." 
 He was also Rector of Coringham, Essex, " 10 October 1563 per mort Fisher," being 
 succeeded there 12 December 1578, by Robert Draper, "per mort Whitlin. " {Ibid. 
 vol. ii, p. 194.) 
 
 ^ *■' Rychard Lawrance" : see page I, No. 5, and relative Note; also Index of 
 Names for Thomas and Richard Laurence, and who were doubtless his sons or relatives. 
 
 (24) 
 
 ' '^ Mr. Rohte cooke Esquier als clarenceux ki?ige of Ariuts for hyme &^ Mr. Chester 
 harrold." Robert Cooke, Esq., Clarenceux King of Arms from 1566 to 1592, is stated 
 to have been, as a herald, " one of the most useful members that the College (of Arms) 
 ever had ;" and " left behind him vast collections of descents of the nobility and gentry 
 of this kingdom," with many ancient patents, evidences, ceremonials, books of tricks 
 of arms, writings, muniments, (S:c. He was deputed with the Earl of Derby to invest 
 Henry HI. of France, and received for the sei-vice two gold chains, one worth 120/., 
 the other of greater value. Queen Elizabeth on one occasion gave him 1,000/. His 
 marriage is not noted, but he had a daughter Catherine, wife of John Woodnote of 
 Sharington, in the county of Chester. He died in 1592, at Hanworth, in the county 
 of Middlesex, and was buried there. (See Noble's Iliit. of Coll. of Arms, pp. 16S-9. ) 
 The " Chester herald" who assisted Clarenceux King of Arms in the business for which 
 these fees were paid, was John Hart, Esq., who was made Chester herald in 1566, 
 and died 16 July 1574. He was author oi An Orthographie, published in " London, 
 by W. Seres, 1569" (ftlacft letter). (See Lowndes, p. 1006.) In Arber's Transcript 
 of the Stationers' Register, vol. i, p. 178, appears the entry of the fee paid by Master 
 Seres for his license for printing this book of John Hart's, which is there entitled 
 Orthographe, coiitayning the Due order of Reason. 
 
 - " IVagges of the payter." The armorial painter was paid 9/. I'js. for preparing the 
 heraldic insignia to be borne at the funeral and to deck the hearse withal. A reference 
 to the account of the great funeral of the Earl of Derby in 1573, as given by Seacome, 
 will show similar provisions of " scutchions in metall upon buckrame," and "paper 
 ryall," and "in collors upon paper ryall," as are here set forth. 
 
 43
 
 The ffunerall 
 Dynner' 
 
 To 
 
 (Page 25 of the MS., folio 31 verso) 
 
 §- 
 
 M"" Henry mylls grocer for fruet \ 
 Spyce^ & fuger^ for the funerall (••••!; •••g •■•^ 
 Dynner as pticulerly, by his bill C ^ -^ ■' 
 
 & accquitance for the same 
 
 
 payd more for v^i of course fuger | ...^ ....^ 
 at viijdtheli j ''J "'J 
 
 for foure poude of fyne fuger more ) ..--^ 
 atxijd theh r"J 
 
 § 
 
 iHlj'i XVJ' 
 
 o 
 
 paid for xxiij'i dosen of bread & a di^ 
 for xviij''^" dosen of trencheres* 
 
 § 1 
 
 f xxiij^ vj** I 
 I [erasure] §xxiijs vj"^ 
 . vj' x<^ 
 
 for A stande^ & a kelderkine^ of Ale v® iiij*^ 
 
 for iiij barrells of beir^ xvj^ 
 
 for Sacke a runlett^ v gallons ] ■••- • a 
 
 and a quarte j ■' 
 
 ffor A hoghead^ of Wyne iij'^ vj* xWy^ 
 
 for brynginge yt, in to the sellere'" ix"^ 
 
 for a gallon of malmesey" xx<^ 
 
 for tappes'2 for wyne & beir iiij^ 
 
 White Wyne gallones iiij^ 
 
 for iij quarters of byffe weyinge \ 1 -g 
 
 xlvj' stone & viji' at xij<^ the stone j ■' 
 
 
 §xjii 
 
 xiij* x^ 
 
 vnj' 
 
 for twoe porters to bryinge yt home vj" 
 
 To A butcher for cuttinge out the meate v]^ 
 
 more for a Ribbe of beyf'-* ij^ vj<^ 
 
 for iij muttons''* & a quarter xxxij^ vj^ 
 
 for iiij Calves ij loynes & ij breastes ^j 
 
 of veale'5 in all as apperethe by Vxlvij^ viij*^ 
 James bill j 
 
 AA
 
 Notes a?id Illustratio7is. 
 
 (25) 
 
 " The ffuneral Dynner'^ : many most curious details on ancient Funerals will be 
 found in Nicolas's Testamenta Vetiista (2 vols. 8vo, 1826). See Index Rerum, "Fu- 
 nerals and Religious Services for the Dead." There is also in Clodc, as before, a vei7 
 full account of a Dinner given by the Merchant Taylors' Company to the King (1607), 
 wherein many similar dainties, with those of the present, are detailed (pp. 164- 181). 
 
 - "■ Spyce.'' "The spiceres and pepper boxes were then [1472] usually made very 
 large, and set exactly in the middle of the high table. Their shape was that of a tower, 
 castellated and triple turreted, into which different kinds of spices were placed, of which 
 our ancestors were inordinately fond. They were of the finest wrought silver, parcel 
 gilt, and were sometimes called 'standing pieces'". {Test. Vet., vol. i, pp. xxxiv-v. ) 
 In agreement with this Ann Vere, Lady Cobham, bequeaths to her sister Shrewsbury 
 her "potts with castles." (Ibid. vol. i, p. 325.) So too much earlier Edmund Earl of 
 March [1382] leaves "to Friar John Gilbert, Bishop of Hereford, a plate of silver for 
 spices, enamelled with the amis of Mortimer on the bottom, and a ring with four ni- 
 bies, &c., and a diamond in the middle." (Ibid. p. 112.) Mr. Henry Mylls, grocer, 
 who supplied these articles, was a triend of the deceased Robert Nowell, who left 
 money for a memorial ring for him. (See Index of Names, s.ii., for other references 
 to this personage. ) 
 
 ^ ^^ Suger." It will be noticed that in the subsequent entries in this place "course," 
 i.e., coarse, sugar was "viij''" per pound and "fyne" was " xij"*". These represent now 
 respectively 6s. 8d. and loj-. per lb. See Cham'oers' Book of Days (vol. i, p. 489) for 
 account of the enormous quantities of "sugar" (and spices) used by John, king of 
 France, while captive in England. Contemporaiy "Household Books" likewise in- 
 form us on the extent and variety of ways in which "sugar" was employed. Even so 
 late as Richard Crashaw, "sugar" had not lost the romance of its far-off sources, and 
 so could be worked into poetiy without being de trop. 
 
 ■* '''' treneheres^^ = wooden platters. 
 
 ° " y4 stande" = frame-work or tressel. They are called in early wills " standards," 
 e.g., John Cornwallis (1506) bequeaths his "standards in the brewhouse and the bake- 
 house." [Test. Vet. vol. ii, p. 479.) 
 
 ^ '^ kilderkine of ale" : i e., kilderkin or small barrel, in opposition to the large 
 " tun" or hogshead. Dryden used it drastically thus : 
 
 "A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, 
 But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit." 
 Such provision at a Funeral was frequent, earlier and later, e.g. , Robert Fabyan the 
 famous "Chronicler" (1512) among other things specifies "a kylderkyn of good ale 
 with viij<' cheese, to refresshe all comers" to his "obite" {Test. Vet. vol. ii, p. 507), 
 and Andrews Lord Windsor says (1543), " I will that there be bestowed on the poor 
 
 people of the parish, two kilderkins of beer and malmsey as heretofore has 
 
 been named." {Ibid. vol. ii, p. 697.) 
 
 ^ " heir''' = beer. See last note. 
 
 ® " Saeke a runlett''' : "runlet" is the old name for a small barrel, holding various 
 quantities from three to twenty gallons. 
 
 ^ " hoghead'' = 'hogs\\tz.d, oxhead — now a cask of an indefinite quantity. The 
 origin of the odd word is contested by Philologists and Antiquaries. 
 
 •" '•'■ sellere'" = cellar : the payment of " ix'' " for " brynginge y' in to the sellere" was 
 liberal = 'js. 6d. It was probably a good-sized "cask." 
 
 ^' '''■ malmesey" : so named from Malvasia in Greece: Latin vimun an'isium : it is now 
 known as a strong and fine-flavoured sweet wine made in Madeira of grapes that have 
 been left to shrivel upon the vine. 
 
 '■■' "/rt//if.f" = spigots. 
 
 » " rt Ribbe of Bey f = roast. 
 
 '* ^^ muttons.'" I think that anciently this meant the dead and dressed sheep as dis- 
 tinguished from the living, much as "bacon" from the pig similarly prepared. Thus 
 William De Longespee, Earl of Salisbury [1226] bequeathed to the monasteiy of God's 
 House, " a thousand sheep, three hundred muttons, forty eight oxen, and fifteen bulls." 
 (Dugdale, vol. i, p. 177; Test. Vet. vol. i, p. 50.) With reference to the pig and 
 bacon they were long named "porks," e.g., in Sir John Davies' Observations to the 
 Earl of Salisbury (1606). See Fuller Worthies' Library edition of his complete Works, 
 vol. iii. 
 
 '» "veale" : from Latin vitellus. 
 
 45
 
 (Page 26 of the MS., folio 32.) 
 
 § _ 
 
 pd for xviij*^ maribons' at W]^ ob a piece v^ iij*^ 
 
 Suett Ix^i at iij^i the H xv^ 
 
 bringinge the maribons & suett ij*^ 
 
 viijt Lambes in all as apperethe by ) ^^^jj;., jjj.^ 
 
 James bill j 
 
 bringinge them home iiij*^ 
 
 Geven to M"" paynes mane that broughte ) ^g jj..^ 
 
 the dooe2 | -' 
 
 liiijtb capons of dyveres prices as | j; ^^ ^^.j., jjj., 
 
 apperethe by James blip j 
 
 Iv hennes of dyveres prices as by ) ^jj^^ ^^ p 
 
 James bill apperethe / " 
 
 xxix* partreges* xxvijs ix<i 
 
 two fesantes^ viij^ 
 
 xiiijten ^vod cockes^ xijs iijd 
 
 iiij dowzen of green ploveres^ xxxij^ 
 
 iij Curleyeus^ vj^ viij^ 
 
 xxvi dowsen & a half of Larkes^ xxix^ x'^ 
 
 viij blacke byrdes xvj*^ 
 
 xiiij Snypes iiijs viij^ 
 
 for bringinge the wyld fole^^ home ij"^ 
 
 § 
 
 In Wheate Meale a quarter xxj^ iij^ 
 
 § 
 
 Egges cciiij'^'' & vj^^ yj^ viij^ 
 
 butter one cjii xxxiij^ viij<^ 
 
 Salte A bushell xvij'^ 
 
 White falte a pycke^i viij<^ § 
 
 Veneger a gallone xij'i 
 
 Varges 12 iiijd 
 
 Orringes^^ an hundrethe ij^ 
 
 § 
 
 greate coole'* iij Loode vj fackes Iij" 
 
 Smale coale X sackes iijMiij"^ 
 
 prickes^s ,, ijd 
 
 xyj'^ X 
 
 xivs ix^ 
 
 46
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (26) 
 
 ' ^' maribons" = marrow-bones or bones containing marrow. 
 
 2 " dooe" = doe:. 
 
 ^ " jfames bill": "James," who bought these lambs, capons, and hens, was James 
 Wolton, servant to Robert Nowell, antl, after his death, to Dean Nowell. (See 
 former note on this kinsman-servant of tire Nowells.) 
 
 * "/rtr/ri;3-^f" = partridges (game). 
 
 * ^ ^fesantes " — transition-form of "pheasants." 
 
 * "wod cockes'''' = wood cocks. 
 
 1 "■' green pkweres" — also game or wild fowl. See "wyld fole " infra, 
 8 ' ' Ciirleyens " = curlews ? 
 
 * ''' I.aj-kes": This musical bird, the sky-lark or field-lark, was accounted of the 
 daintest of small game in the sixteenth centuiy. Larks must have been more numerous 
 then than now, when no fewer than twenty-six and a half dozen of them, or 318 birds, 
 costing 2()s. lod. of Elizabethan money, were consumed at this funeral dinner. 
 
 '" '^ -tvyld fole" = vfild fowl, as enumerated before. 
 » " pycke" = -p&ck. 
 
 12 <' prt;-ff^j-" = Verjuice — often spelled "varges" or "vergis" in the old household 
 books. It was used in sauces, and otherwise in cookery. In the account of things 
 provided for the dinner given by the Merchant Taylors' Company to the King and 
 Queen in 1607 (see Clode, ut supra), occurs the item: — "For vergis 5 gallons at %d." 
 
 13 << Orringes" = oranges. This exotic fruit sold in London, in 1568, at two shil- 
 lings the hundred. 
 
 " "^;ra/^ r^()/6'"= large coal. " Loode" =\o?iA. The amount hi' = ;^26 to-day. 
 15 "^;-/i;-/'^j- "= skewers (for fastening meat), e.g., "the wilde cherrie tree, the dog 
 tree : the tree of the wood whereof butchers make their pricks. " {Nomenclator, 
 Wright, s.v.) So too, Taylor the Water-Poet: — 
 
 " I next dwelt with a butcher, that had tricks 
 To live and thrive by mutton and by pricks " 
 
 {Workes, 1630, foho, s.v.) 
 
 47
 
 to Laboreres 
 
 (Page 27 of the MS., folio 32 verso.) 
 
 To Laboreres for placinge the tabhes iiij'^ 
 
 for carriadge of the tablies home ij*^ 
 
 bricks vj<= xvj^ 
 
 carriadge of them ij*^ 
 
 iij baskettes xij'^ 
 
 ij payles xiiij^ 
 
 A kyrchine brome^ j*^ 
 
 § 
 
 § 
 fifor XX*' m'che paynes^ at ij^vj'^apece hij^ iiij^ 
 
 §iiij* 
 
 To the Walters^ 
 at the funerall 
 Dynner, wt 
 other officeres 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 To 
 for 
 
 John Grafton for him & vij 
 other officers for waytinge at the 
 funerall dynnyer at iijs iiijd the )-xxvj^ viij^ 
 piece as apperethe by his accquitance | 
 in thende of the booke of clothe"* J 
 
 John Dale butler for him & ~) 
 vj mene attendinge at the funerall >-xiijs viij'^ § 
 
 dynner j 
 
 Dawson cooke w*^ his ^ 
 
 vnder cookes for dressinge the fJiij'^ 
 
 Dennr j 
 
 xxvij* Ells of Lockrame^ ^ 
 at the xiij<^ the elle for the Vxxx^ iiij*^ 
 cookes j 
 
 x^» iiijs 
 
 Offered to the poor at the offatory'^ 
 by M"^ Sackeforde^ chiefe morner & 
 by M-^ Deanes 
 
 To ccxl poor mene that hade 
 Gownes^ the day of the funerall vj<^ 
 apiece by thandes of M' Aske gold 
 smythe cheapesyed 
 
 -xij^ 
 
 ■VJ' 
 
 48
 
 Notes and I Uustrations. 
 (27) 
 
 ' ^' A kyrchine brojue" ^= a kitchen broom. 
 
 2 ^' m\hc paynes " = march-pane — a sweet biscuit, resembhng our present macaroons, 
 used much anciently for desserts. Gervase Markham in his Coiiiitrey Fan/ie, 16 16, 
 informs us that they were made "of very little flour, but with a greater quantity of 
 filberts, fine nuts, pistaces, almonds, and rosed sugar." It is to be noted that the 
 present value of the expenditure on this single item was even more than for the " great 
 coale," i.e., liij' iiij'' = 26/. 13^. /^d. now. 
 
 ' ' ' Waiters " = waiters, attendants. Their wage of iij' iiij"' was equal now to \l. \t,s. 40'. 
 
 * ^' booke of clothe" — the book wherein was entered payments for "clothe." 
 
 * " Lock7-at?te" = a kind of cheap linen. 
 ^ ' ' offatory " = off"ertory. 
 
 7 "Mr. Sackeforde''' — The writing at first deceived me to read here "Mr. Shackspere," 
 i.e., Shakespere: but a closer scrutiny resolved it into an unknown "Mr. Sackeforde." 
 
 8 "Mr. Deane" i.e.. Dean Nowell. 
 
 3 "■ poor mene that hade Gowiies": Many interesting details on such " Gownes " are 
 given in Nicolas's Test. Vet. as before, under "Gowns" in Index\Rernm^'^ This'item 
 of vj*^ a pece = vj", is equal now to 60/. Sir Thomas Gresham, knt., founder of the 
 Royal Exchange in London, and of many rich London Charities, died November 2 1st, 
 1579, and had a great funeral. By his Will, says Stow, "he gave to a hundred poore 
 men, so many blacke gownes of sixe shillings eight pence the yard, to a hundred poore 
 women the like gownes at the day of his buriall." {Annates, edition 1594, p. 11 75.) 
 Compare this with the 254 gownes given to as many poor men at Robert Nowell's 
 obsequies, the cloth for wliich also cost 6^-. 8(/. the yard ; and twenty-nine gowns of 
 more costly fabric to as many of the "poorer sort of women." Dean Nowell, by his 
 Will dated Sth January, 1592, directs " that at the time of my burial if that shall happen 
 to be in London, fifty poor men shall have every of them a gown of cloth of the price of 
 twenty shillings every gown of any color saving black for that is least durable." 
 (Churton's Life, appendix, p. 433.) 
 
 49
 
 (Page 28 of the MS., folio 33.) 
 To the marriage of a poor maid^ one margeret ^ 
 
 levere, at the sute of the curate of S'^ marie A'f w]'^ 
 
 Som^sh the xvij" of octob^ A^ 1571 J 
 
 To the mariage of a poore maid at the pishe ^ 
 
 churche w%in Alldersgatte, the xiij" of octob"" [-ij' 
 
 A" 1572 j 
 
 To the marriadge of Goughe a poor ^ 
 
 maden, one of M"^ Thorns Eatons fervantes at his --x^ 
 
 requieste xij° of novemb'^ A" i 5 /i j 
 
 To the marriadge of a poor maide, s'vante to ^ 
 
 m"" hudsonne, the vppholster, of the Pultrie- >vj' 
 
 the xij° of novembr A« 1571 J 
 
 Too the marriaige of a poore maide one"^ 
 a bHndemans Daughter in chiepsiede j 
 
 at the comendacions of m"" Coole of Bowe^, and I ••, -,1 
 
 of m"^ Randall"* one of the m" of the brydge howse^ [ ^ ^ 
 
 the seconde of Aprrell as appearethe by 1 
 
 Alexander bill A" 1573 J 
 
 To one willm maparley one of the Quens "j 
 
 chapell, towardes the mariadge of his Daughter \ -^ 
 
 Anne Maparley the xiij*^'^ of Aprell f ^ 
 
 Ao 1573 •• ••: : ; 
 
 Too the marriagge of a poore maide att lytle ) ^g 
 
 hadhame, the xj'^ of octob'' A" 1573 j 
 
 Too the marriage of the Daughter of wyddowe ) ^ 
 
 Irelande^ the xx*^ of februarye A" 1573 j 
 
 Too the marriage of one Barlowe daughter \ --^ ^.^ 
 
 the xijt'i of October A" 1574 : j" 'J ^'J 
 
 Too the marriage of father Cleare daughter ] ^ 
 
 the xvij^^ of October / 
 
 Too the marriage of father Reade his sonne | 
 
 the xxviiij*^^ of October A" 1574 : j ' 
 
 To the marriage of one of m"" leventhorpe ] ^ | 
 
 men the x*'' of October A" 1574 : | "^ 
 
 To a marriage at Standene^ the | , 
 
 r X 
 
 seconde of november j ' 
 
 To the marriage of good man Ha}aies \ ^ 
 
 sonne of the brocket the vij''^ of november j 
 
 To the mariage of one of the singinge men in \ 
 
 Powles the xxix*^^ of aprell 1575 : whose name is ^-v^ 
 
 Too the mariage of one poore maden one ") 
 fifoxes Daughter^ the xij^^^ daye of maye vxx^ 
 A° 1576: j 
 
 s ) 
 
 I 
 
 50
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (28) 
 
 * " To the 7}iaryiage of a poor maid" : There are many such items in this 7I/.S'. In 
 Testamenta Vehista, as before, will be found many similar legacies "to poor Virgins 
 for their marriage," e.g., Henry II. of England bequeathed "M marks of silver, to- 
 wards the marriage of poor and free women of England wanting aid " (vol. i, pp. 2, 3), 
 and "C marks" for the like in Normandy (vol. i, p. 4). Again, Agnes de Clifford 
 (before 1223) left "to thirty poor maidens, to their marriage xxx' " {ibid, vol. i, p. 45). 
 So too Sir Thomas Sackville, knt. (1432) "to fifty poor virgins (such as my executors 
 shall elect) xiij' iiij"* each towards their marriage " {ibid, vol. i, p. 222). 
 
 * ^^t/ie Pii/trie": The Poultry, a short street in continuation of Cheapside at the 
 east end, close to the Mansion House, the very focus of London retail trade, then as 
 now. 
 
 3 " wr. Coole of Bo7oe^^ : Mr. Robert Cole, vicar of Bow Church, London. See 
 Index of Names, s.n., for other notice of him. 
 
 ■• '■^ Mr. Randall," i.e., Randolph. The name of Thomas Randolph, Poet and 
 Dramatist, is often thus spelled, and also as " Randall." 
 
 » '^ Mrs of the brydge-howse" = one. of the "Masters" of the " Bridge-howse " — 
 formerly on London Bridge, so called as for long the only bridge in the city. 
 
 ^ " daughter of vyddozve Irelafide" : The mother. Widow Ireland, occurs again at 
 folio 68 of the MS., amongst " Poor women releved with money"; and at folio 91 
 verso is a gift to " Ellen Irelande a poore widowe, by th' handes of our cosine Irelande. " 
 The Irelands of Lancashire were amongst the Nowells' humbler kinsfolk. See Index 
 of Names, s.n. 
 
 7 ^' Standene": Standon here referred to is a parish and manor in Herts., adjoining 
 on the north Much Hadham, where Robert Nowell had an estate. Sir Ralph Sadler, 
 a soldier of note and M.P. for Herts., was lord of Standon manor at this date, and 
 died at Standon Hall in 1587. 
 
 * ^' brocke" — query brockman or horseman. "Brock" meant an inferior horse: 
 "brockman" in Kent, a "horseman"; or, as elsewhere in the MS., horse-keeper. 
 
 ' "■ ffoxes Daughter" : see Index of Names under ^'Yoxq" frequenter. 
 
 2 E 51
 
 (Page 29 of the MS., folio 33 verso ^ 
 Too one Grace Banaster*, a poore maden 
 towardes her marriage, the fyrste of Julye [-x^ 
 
 1576: 
 
 Too the marriage of a poore made svante to 
 meistres myddley wyddowe the third of )^v^ 
 Julye 1576: 
 
 To the manage of Elifabeth Norcrose ) g 
 270 Auguste 1576 I 
 
 To the marriage of \ 
 
 a poor mayde of Standon^ pishe 23 Sept. \-y^ 
 1576 J 
 
 To the mariage of ^ 
 
 a poore mayd of Hadham pishe 28 Septbris ^-x* 
 
 1576 J 
 
 Too the mariage of a poore made named ^ 
 Joh[a]n fute, the xxv* of februarie >-ij^ vj' 
 Ao 1576: j 
 
 Too a poore man one Gyllbarte, sonne 
 to wyddowe Gylberte towards his marriage J^x^ 
 the vjt^i of maie 1577 : 
 
 Too the marriadge of a made att hadham, the xxij* 
 of September, one phillippes mylles maid 1577 ., 
 
 Too the marriadge of the fmythe of wydfordes^ daughter \ ^ 
 the xxx*^ of September 1577: j 
 
 Too one margerett hickford a poore mades marriage ) ^ 
 the xij*^ of Julie 1577 : j 
 
 Too the marriadge of Anne Coleman, the ) , 
 xv'^ of Julye 1577 : in S*^ Gyles pishe j 
 
 Too the marriadge of twoe poore mades one servant ^ 
 to m'' hopkines, the other to m'' farrante the ^xv^ 
 xiiij*^ of Aprill 1577: j 
 
 Too the mariadge of a poore made, the' 
 v*^ of februarie, whoe was comended, by 
 m'' Thoms Eaton, gouner of the 
 marchantes* & his wieffe A" 1577 : 
 
 Too the mariage of a poore maid in hadham | ^ 
 the viij'^i of June 1578 : j ^ 
 
 Too the mariage of one whyfkarde^ the xv*^ \ ^ 
 Julye i578 of hadham j 
 
 Too the mariadge of Daniell Daughter I ^ 
 the XX vij'^ Julye j 
 
 To the mariadge of m'' kensey sonne ) ^ 
 the iiijt^ of October 1578^ : j ^ 
 
 Too the mariadge of Lawrance \ ^ 
 
 Clapham, the same fourth of October / 
 
 T 
 
 xs 
 
 52 
 
 ll
 
 Notes and Ilhistratiinis. 
 (29) 
 
 ' " Banasier." Banastre is the ancient, and correct, spelling of the surname of a 
 Lancashire family of great antiquity, and of numerous branches. The name is now 
 often found corrupted to Bannister. Grace Banaster, who had this gift of los. on her 
 wedding in 1576, albeit a "poore maiden," was, I opine, a well-connected maiden, 
 and a neighbour, if not somehow related, to the Nowells of Read. 
 
 ' " Standon." See note on the preceding page. 
 
 3 " Wydforde" : Widford is next parish to the south of Hadham, in the county of 
 Herts. 
 
 * '■^ Mr. TkojHS Eaton, gou^ner of the marchantes,^'' i.e., of the Merchant Taylors. 
 See Index of Names, s.n. Clode registers only a William and Henry Eaton or Heton. 
 
 ^ " IVkyskarde" — a singular surname. 
 
 * The entries on this, the preceding, and the next pages, be it noted, though com- 
 ing thus early in the MS., belong to a later period of the distribution of the money 
 under Robert Nowell's trust than many that follow. These marriage gifts, by the 
 dates given, extended over nine years, from October, 1571, to October, 1580. The 
 items in the book cannot, therefore, have been inserted always when the payments 
 were made ; nor can the pages have been written up sequentially. 
 
 5Z
 
 (Page 30 of the A/S., folio 34.) 
 
 Too the mariadge of one of maister heabane' ) ^ 
 Daughter, the v*^ of Januarie 1578 : j 
 
 Too the mariadge of John Ayre m'' Thorns ) ^ 
 Bowyeres man, the xxvij* of Aprill IS79'- ^ 
 
 Too the mariadge of one poore maid, one ^ 
 Anne Stryckland, the xij*^^ daie of Vxx^ 
 maie 1579: j 
 
 *Too the marriage of one wilkinsonn^, one"^ 
 of o'' brother Robte Kynswoomen, and of one of o^ | 
 coosin wylkinsonnes daughters, the xxix*^^ of ^^iiij^'vj^ viij^ 
 Novemb"" 1579: by thandes of o'' coosin | 
 Thorns noweli J 
 
 Too the manage of one Agnes Rawlyn ^ 
 daughter to wydoo RawHn, the xiiij'^'^ of ^x^ 
 auguste 1580: J 
 
 *Too the mariage of o^ coosin^ 
 Wylkinsonns towe daughters, Grace I -j; •••s----d 
 and Anne^ the xix^^^ of november C ^ ^ ^ 
 1580: J 
 
 Too the mariage of m^ Rychard neave^ 
 daughter, the xxx*^ of novembris Vx\^ 
 1580: the fyshmonger daughter 
 
 Too the mariadge of Anne Bowyear^" 
 my gode daughter [erased " for a ringe for 
 her mariadge"] the xxx'^ of novemb"" C^ 
 1580: J 
 
 for a cuppe, to her allso, the same tyme xxx^ 
 
 Too the mariage . of a poore coople ^ 
 fervante to my ladie langley^ VxV 
 the xi'l^ of Decembris i58o : j 
 
 Too the mariage of paule foxe^ ) ^^ 
 the xvij'^ of October i 580 : j 
 
 [ Va^so — blank.] 
 
 (Page 31 of the J/5., folio 35.) 
 Charges of the probacie* of his 
 testamet vt post fol. 41. 
 
 [ Verso — blank.] 
 except sum at bottom thu.s 
 
 "ante viiij" Ixi' xij* " 'f 
 
 54
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (30) 
 
 ' " maister heabane'" : I am not sure whether the appellative here is "maister"' or 
 " minister." 
 
 2 " wilkiitsonn.'' See note on page 5, and Index of Names, s.tt. 
 
 3 " Wylkinsonns towe daughtersy See as on last Note. 
 
 ■• " Rychard Neave {_thefysshtnongey) daughter": Richard Neave, or Neve, the Lon- 
 don fishmonger, was a connexion of the Nowells by marriage, having had to wife 
 Grace Nowell (if she was cousin or niece of Robert Nowell and Dean Nowell, I can- 
 not quite make out). These later entries relate to the same person: — "One Mr. Neve, 
 a fyshmonger, who married a kinswoman" ; "the old mane that married Grace Xowell 
 to his wief w'ch he hathenowe"; "our cosin Anthonie Neve, Sonne unto Rycharde 
 Neve, who marriedge {^sic\ Grace Nowell, w'ch said Ric. ys a fyshmonger"; "one 
 father Neve, who married o'' brother Robte kynswoman, a pore old man" — this last 
 entry is dated nth February, 1575, and there is a similar entry dated 26th April, 1576. 
 
 * ''Anne Boivyear my gode daughter" : See Index of Names, s.ft. The gift of a 
 "cuppe" also, value 30j-., testifies that this lady was a daughter of one oi the Bowyers, 
 previously noted as intimate friends of Dean Nowell. 
 
 6 ''ladie iangky": She was the wife of Sir Robert Langley of Agecroft, in the 
 county of Lancaster, whose name occurs in the Heralds' Visitations of 1533 and 1567, 
 and was Cicely, second daughter of Sir Edmund Trafford, knt. 
 
 ^ " paiile foxe" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 (31) 
 ' "/;'£/<5rtr/V"=probation or proving. 
 
 55
 
 (Page S3 oi MS., folio 36.) 
 Debtes of Roberta Nowell dischardged 
 & payd as hearhafter^ apperethe. 
 
 Imp] mis to John Seller^ the firste day ) ••^ 
 of maye J ^ 
 
 the ix*^ of martch payd to Robte^ 
 bradley whystone in the countie of midd 
 for beyr^ by the handes of his wef at paulls ^-xiiij^ 
 in the psence of John Nuttinge Nicholes 
 hindhe w* otheres the some of J 
 
 p*^ to M"" cooles of Devonshire by thandes of^ 
 
 his Sonne for one whole yeares boo^'d Vxj'iiiij^iij'^ob 
 of thurston mychell the Ouens warde'^ J 
 
 To a Karpenter in holborne for a presse^ ^ 
 
 w<=^' was maid, by the comandemente of Vxxiiij^ 
 
 the Testator 
 
 
 
 vs 
 
 The V* of martch to a Karpenter of 
 hendon for a weekes worke, for hyme 
 self & his man, when they booded^ the 
 p'lower flower at hendone 
 
 the xiiijtt day of Martche to M^s^ 
 
 Barnard vj^ w'^^ she lente my brother Vxij^ v]^ 
 to play at cardes" & vj^ w]^ owinge for nylls J 
 
 The xxij*^ day of martch to thel 
 fteward of grayes Inne, w<='i my [ 
 brother oughte^ to the howse as )>xxvjl^ vj*^ 
 
 Tresorer xxv^' & 
 
 w"^ 
 
 he 
 
 the stoward 
 Md9 that all the 
 before wrytten were 
 
 oughte 
 
 to I 
 
 xxvjsj 
 
 Leaffe ^ 
 
 I'li 
 
 for comons 
 debtes in this 
 
 p<^ and dischardged I 
 of the money w<^^ fyrste came to o'' 
 handes in read'*^ coyne 
 
 Y>^ more of the money beforsaid"^ 
 to Edlinge of henden, for his half 1 
 yeares rente dew at the anunciacion | ■' 
 ofo^Ladye 1569 ^ 
 
 p'^ to my L of penbrocke^^ for sylkes ) , -^ ■■■^ 
 fyldes rente dew at the said feaste | " ^ ^ 
 
 p<^ to Norwoodes wyef at sundry tymes xv^ 
 
 p^ to the same wyef the xxvj*^ day ^ 
 of maye by thandes of M'' fyshere j-xl^ 
 one of the sexe clearkes of the chancery) 
 
 §- 
 
 Ivijli vjs 
 
 IX" 
 
 The xvij*^ of maye to TodgilP^ w*=^ he clamethe ) ....g ^.^j 
 for servantes borde j' ^ ^ 
 
 [ Verso — blank.] 
 
 Iviijii [erasure] iij' 
 
 ^6
 
 Notes and Illustratio7is. 
 (33) 
 
 » "/iearM/fer"—t'he inserted "h" is to be noted. 
 
 ' "yo/ni Seller.'" He was akin to the Nowells. Some account of the family of 
 Sellers of Whalley will be appended to later references in the MS. See Index of 
 Names, s.n. 
 
 3 "(^i?}'r"=beer, as before. 
 
 * "warde," i.e., a ward in Chanceiy. Our Nowell, as Master of the Court of Wards, 
 had many such in his care. The ward here named, Thurston Mychell, for whose board, 
 for one year, ii/. 4?. Jf^d. was paid, would be some orphan whose wardship had been 
 committed to Robert Nowel), and was undertaken, at his decease, by Dean Nowell as 
 his executor. Mr. Cooles of Devonshire, who had the ward at his house to board, is 
 not known. Not improbably he was a clerg\'man. 
 
 * "/^YJ-Ji?" — probably a cup-board. Such are found in ancient Wills. See Test. 
 Vet., s.v. 
 
 * '■^ booded the f loiver flcnoer" =\i02.xA&A the parlour floor. As an illustration of the 
 pay of craftsmen temp. Elizabeth, be it noted that this village carpenter and his man 
 had 5J-. between them for a whole week's work in Robert Nowell's country-house, or, 
 say, 3.r. the week for master, and 2s. for man. Fourpence or fivepence a day was held 
 fair wages for skilled mechanics in the sixteenth century, and in what it would buy, 
 that sum went as far as four shillings might go now. 
 
 ' "cardes" : One can imagine the grave Dean's face in paying this "gaming" debt. 
 
 ^ ' ' cncgkte^^ = o wed. 
 
 ^ " I\Id"= memorandum. 
 
 10 *'read coyne" == red or gold coin. The use of "red" for the colour of gold has 
 led to the historical blunder of describing the gi'cat Elizabeth's hair as "red." A lock 
 remains at Wilton to prove it was golden and as it were flecked with sunlight. (See 
 Sir Philip Sidney's Poems in Fuller Worthies' Library, vol. i, p. 224.) 
 
 " "wj L of pefibrocke." Sir William Herbert, first Earl of Pembroke, died in 
 1569, and was succeeded by his son Henry, as second Earl. He died 19th January, 
 1601, his third wife having been .Sir Philip Sidney's sister Mary. 
 
 ^'^ "TodP!//." See Index of Names, J. «. 
 
 57
 
 > 
 
 (Page 34 of the JlIS., folio 37.) 
 theisepceiis ^qq ^\^q poorc ill tlic marshallsey^ the same ) ,^ -,1 
 
 were Laid out u r 11 r Xl Vl 
 
 aboutt thicse xxviij'ti* Daic of martch or ther abouttes 1577 : j •' 
 
 Too the poore att the white lyon the same daie xx^ 
 to the poore of the Kinges bench the same daie xxx^ 
 Too the poore of the counter in Southworke v^ v]^ 
 Too the poore of newe gatt the xxxj*^ of) •••g -j 
 
 martch 1577 : or theyr abouttes I ^ •' 
 
 Too the poore of the fleete xj^ vj<^ 
 
 Too the poore of the pishe of S*^ gregories"] [erasure] 
 visited of the plague,^ the xv]*^'' of October 1 577 : | x^ 
 the were v howsoldes, Richard, dixson ii* 
 wyddowe Robte ij^ Robte woode ij^ widdowe 
 
 Beswieke ij^ John chambares ij^ toto 
 
 Too the poore of the counter in wood strett^ the \ ^ ,g 
 
 xvj'^^ of October 1577 : the some of ) 
 
 To a poor presoner wiUiam Saunderes ) ^^ 
 
 the xiit'i of December 1577 j^ 
 
 Too one Lewes noUarde clerke*^ the xii*^^' ) ... .^ 
 
 ' ji» Vl 
 
 daie of December 1577 j ■' -" 
 
 Too one James langtree,^ a poor plsoner in^..^ -^ 
 the Kinges bench the xxviiij*i daye of november V ■^ ^ 
 
 1578 J 
 
 Too the poore of the pishe of S'*^ ) .^ ^^^ 
 Gregories, the x^'^ of December 1578:) ■' 
 
 Too a poore man, one webbes, a plsoner^ 
 in ludgatt the same xt^' of december :-ijs 
 A" 1578 i 
 
 Too the poore of christes hospital!^ the" 
 xix*^ of December 1578: by the handes of 
 m'' morgan, and m"" Elkyn, Citizens of 
 London J 
 
 Too the poore presoners, of evl ry preson in London^, ^ 
 
 & in South woorke the v*^^* of Januarie ; vi'' ij'* x'^ 
 1578: as appearcthe by theyr bill j 
 
 To one wyllforde of the counter in [erasure] thel 
 Pultree, the xx*^ of Januarie 1578: and att I , -.g 
 dyvers other tymes before sethence j ^ 
 Christmas J 
 
 Too the poore of the pishe of mutch ^ 
 
 hadham, the xvij''^ daie of februarye [-xxvj^ viiij'^ 
 1578: J 
 
 •xl 
 
 5^
 
 Notes ajid IiIusiratio?is. 
 (34) 
 
 ' " To the poore in the Diarshallsey," i.e., in the prison so named. As with marriages 
 of "poore maidens" this was anciently a frequent form of posthumous benevolence, 
 if.^., Joane, Lady Bergavenny (1434) bequeaths .''to the finding and deliverance of 
 poor prisoners that have been well conditioned xl'" (Test. Vet., vol. i, p. 226), and 
 Sir William Fitzwilliam, knt. (1534), leaves his wife a "mansion house" on "condition 
 of paying iv' per annum" to his executors, which he orders them "to bestow yearly 
 for the delivery of poor prisoners within the City of London, that shall be acquitted 
 and remain for their fees," (ibid, vol. ii, p. 667). John Hov/ard and Mrs. Fry had 
 modest predecessors in visiting of "poore prisoners." 
 
 * '^visited of the plague^'': For a most vivid description of the "Plague" in London, 
 two generations later, let the Reader, who is interested in such matters, consult John 
 Davies of Hereford's very remarkable Tfirimph of Death or the Picture of the Plague 
 appended to h\s Humours Heav'' 11 on Earth (iboT,) — in Chertsey Worthies' Library 
 edition of his Works. The plague was rife in London in 1578, but by this entry seems 
 to have been lurking in the city in October, 1577. 
 
 ' "counter ill -icood st)-ett" — another prison. In Literature it is memorable in 
 association with Humfrey Gilford, the "sweet singer" of the Posie of Gilloflowers 
 (1580), who held office in it. " See "Occasional Issues," reproduction of the "Posie," 
 with Memorial-Introduction. 
 
 * ^'clerke," i.e., cleric or clergyman. 
 
 * "James langtree.'" See Index of Names, j.«. 
 
 8 " Christes hospital!,''^ i.e., Christ Church Hospital for "poor children." The site 
 was granted on the Greyfriars Monastery, and it was (practically) founded in 1552. 
 Charles Lamb and Coleridge have immortalized this under its name of the "Blue Coat 
 School." 
 
 7 "pr-esoneis of ev' ry preson in London (5r= South luoorke": Here, and subsequently in 
 our MS., the several prisons and places of confinement for debtors in and about London, 
 temp. Elizabeth, are named. At folio 49 verso, the prisons enumerated are those of 
 "Newgatt, Ludgatt, the counter in wood streete, the counter in the pultery [Poultry], 
 Brydwell, bedlim [Bedlam, contraction of Bethlehem], the kinges benche, the 
 marshallsey, the whyte Lyon and the counter in Suthworke, the gate-howse and 
 byshopps preson in westm." [Westminster]. There was also the Fleet Prison, men- 
 tioned on this page. Particulars of the foundation of several of these prisons may be 
 found in Maitland's history of London, s.ii. 
 
 59
 
 (Page 35 of the MS., folio 37 verso) 
 Too the poore of the pishe of mutch ^ 
 
 hadham^ the xx^^'i daie of June Vxl^ vj*^ 
 
 1579: ) 
 
 Too the poore of the pishe of lytle^ 
 
 hadham, the xx* of auguste >-xxvjs x'^ 
 
 A° 1579: 3 
 
 Too one Sturton, a poore presoner^ 
 
 in the counter the xxi^^^ of Vif v]^ 
 
 auguste 1 579 : J 
 
 Too the poore of lytle hadham, the \ ^ 
 
 xxiiij*^^ of februarie 1579 : j 
 
 Too the poore of the pishe of mutch \ 
 
 hadham the same xxiiij*'^ of february vxxviij^ vj'^ 
 
 1579: ; ) 
 
 Too the poore of the pishe of lytle ) g 
 
 hadham the xx*^ of raaie 1580:/ 
 delySed the same, to the minister & to petzey^ 
 Too the poore of evlry presonn in ^ 
 
 London^, the xx* of martch {579 : Vv'^ 
 
 the some of v'' & odde j 
 
 Too one Thoms veale a poore ) ^ 
 
 presoner, the vii*^ of maie 1580J 
 Too the poore presoners of the \ 
 
 kinges Benche the xx'^ of martch [-xx^ 
 i58i j 
 
 60 
 
 II
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (35) 
 
 1 "mutch hadham." See Index of Names, s.n., and Introduction for Nowell's con- 
 nection with Hadham in Herts. 
 
 2 "petzey": This word is doubtful, and might be "pethcr" for Peter. 
 
 3 " rJry presonn in London": see note on page preceding. 
 
 6i
 
 (Page 36 of the MS., folio 38.) 
 Too one Nicholes Rignot^ a poore old frenchman | , ,g 
 
 the xix^^ of maye A" 1576: a preacher J 
 
 To one m"" Ruffell a poor fcottishe preacher^ ) ^ 
 
 the xxo of Julie 1576. |' 
 
 Too a poore pJsoner one henrie Whitaker, for his ) ..g ^-j 
 
 ffees the xvj*^ of Julie 1576 : j ^ ■' 
 
 Gyven towardes the redemption of a captiue ) 
 
 fonne, in the pi"sence of m"" Brecke of the court j 
 Geven to a poore larned frenchman, of the ) ^ 
 
 vnivjsitie of Cambridge, the fyrste of Maye {577: ... / 
 Geven to one m'" Barnes, a Larned fifrinchman,^ the ) g 
 
 vijt'i of martch 1577 : j 
 
 Geven to one mychaell, a poore frenchman, the xxiij'^ ) --g -j 
 
 September 1577 : att his gowinge into france j ^ 
 
 Too to m' Vellerious* a larned Straunger his \ , ^ 
 
 towe children the vij'^^ of december 1577 :. 
 
 [erasure] 
 Too one m'" Coranus^, a larned ftranger ) ^ 
 
 the vj*^^ of februarie 1577 : j 
 
 Too one m'' velerious daughter, the viij"^^ of ) g 
 
 maye 1578 : /' 
 
 Too one m"" Coosins wiefife, a poore ) --g -^^ 
 
 wyddowe ftranger... j •' 
 
 Too one musculus^ a poore larned strange'^ ] , 3 
 
 the xx*^ of male 1578 :. j 
 
 Too m^^ Corranus^ a larned ftranger, the ) ,g 
 
 viij^^ of Januarie 1578 : j 
 
 Too one m'' Peter Barrow^, docto'" of divinitie' 
 
 in Cambridge by thandes of Osmounde lake of 
 
 the kinges College their, the xxxj'tl^ of Januarie 
 
 1578: 
 
 Too one Jacobi a learned ftranger ) ^ 
 
 the xvij*'^ dale of februarie 1578 : j' 
 
 Too one Harmannus^ a reeder of the 
 
 hebrue lecter in Oxforde the xxvj'^ dale of 
 
 februarie 1578: 
 
 Too one Caffidorus^ the x^^ of martch 1578 : x^ 
 
 Too one. Coranus a poore learned ftranger, the ) , ^3 
 
 xxiiijtii of Aprell 1579 : j ' 
 
 Too one Pine his fervant the same ) . 
 
 tyme the xxiiij'^i of Aprell 1579: j 
 
 ^x^ 
 
 62
 
 Notes and I I hi str at ions. 
 (36) 
 
 ' " iVic/io/es /^ignoi": unknown. 
 
 2 " A/r. Russell a poor Scottislw preacher'''': There was a Jerome Russell who suffered 
 martyrdom in the year 1539. (See Knox's History, vol. i.) In the Book of the 
 Universal Kirk is found a Mr. David Russell, Bailie of St. Andrew's, accused before 
 the Assembly of writing a slanderous letter in 1583. A " Mr. Russell," who preached 
 on the Borders, comes up contemporaneously with Bernard Gilpin. Probably our 
 "Mr. Russell" belonged to these Scottish Russells. 
 
 3 "Mr. Barnes, a Lamed Jfrinc/unan" This entry and the one preceding may re- 
 fer to Peter Baro or Baron, on whom see note 8, infra. 
 
 * '''■ Afr. Vellerioiis.'" This was M. Villars, French preacher in London, on whom 
 see note upon a further reference onward in the MS., and Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 5 "Mr. Con'aniis"; znd'inivK " Corranus'''' awA " Coramis": see Index of Names, 
 s.ii., for notice onward of this learned Spanish preacher. 
 
 6 "one innscidus a poore lamed stranger'": Two letters of Laurence Humphrey, 
 printed by the Parker Society in Zurich Letters, vol. ii, pp. 29S-301, enable us to 
 identify this "poor larned stranger" as Wolfgang Musculus, y««/d?r, son of Abraham 
 Musculus, and grandson of the eminent German Reformer Wolfgang Masculus, at this 
 time but recently deceased. Our I\LS. shews that young Musculus received 20s. out of 
 the Nowell bounty on the 20th of May, 1578, and Mr. Humphrey's second letter to his 
 father, Abraham Musculus, is dated at London, 5th June, 1578, only sixteen days 
 later than the date of this entry, and commences: — "I have received your letter, most 
 learned sir, and am glad if I have been of any service to your son Wolfgang, or in any 
 way useful to you. Having been a stranger myself, I have learned to befriend 
 strangers." In the earlier letter, Mr. Humphrey, writing from Oxford, 3rd March, 
 1578, informs the elder Musculus that his son had left Oxford, and had staid some 
 months in London, to pursue his studies and to hear sermons. 
 
 7 "Mr. Peter Barro-iiK" "In the year 1576, July II, a Cambridge D.D. was 
 incorporated at Oxford, under the name of Peter Baro. In LLaag we find his true 
 name, Pierre Baron. He was a native of Estampes, and therefore designated by the 
 adjective Stempanus. He had been incorporated in Cambridge on 3'' Feb. 1575, on 
 presenting his French diploma as Licentiate of Civil Law of the College of Bourges. 
 He had been hospitably received by Dr. Andrew Perne, Vice-chancellor, and was 
 made Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in Cambridge. He drew his first stipend 
 in the year 1576; but probably he had been elected in 1574, for in a letter to Lord 
 Burghley, dated 1580, he speaks of his six years' labours. He wrote many volumes 
 and tractates, and unhappily signalized himself by combating the received opinions 
 concerning divine grace in the salvation of men, and in suggesting propositions for a 
 verbal and apparent harmonizing of Romish and Protestant doctrines on that subject 
 and on kindred points. The Lambeth Articles defining and elucidating the Reforma- 
 tion doctrines were sent down to Cambridge to promote peace, and commanded to be 
 held as statutory at least to the extent, ' that nothing should be publicly taught to the 
 contrary.' The only rebel was Dr. Baro, who on ii"" January 1595 preached a ser- 
 mon to the clergy {Concio ad Cleruni), re-asserting his own theorems. Queen Elizabeth 
 had heard of the Doctor's former irregularities, and communicated her warm displeasure 
 to Archbishop Whitgift, her Majesty being pleased to observe that ' Dr. Baro, being 
 an alien, ought to have carried himself quietly and peaceably in a country where he 
 was so humanely harboured and enfranchised, both himself and family.' Dr. Baro 
 was touched by this appeal, and also by the Archbisho])'s moderation; to the latter he 
 wrote a letter dated 13'" December 1595, expressing his adherence to his own published 
 doctrines, but making this promise — ' I will keep peace as long as I shall be here ' ; 
 as to the Queen he said, ' I wish it may be known at length to the (Queen's Majesty 
 what my piety and reverence is toward her; indeed for her, and for the defence of the 
 state of this church which she defends, I would shed my blood, if need were, with as 
 willing and ready a mind as her own faithful subjects ought to do, and as she would 
 have me do, since she has been willing to make me free of her kingdom, and my wife 
 & children, and to confirm it with her seal." The death of Dr. Whitaker had just 
 happened (viz., on 4th December), and Dr. Baro had desired to be promoted to the 
 Regius Prcjfessorship of Divinity thus left vacant. For the sake of peace, however, 
 he refrained from making any application for that chair; and in 1596 he withdrew from 
 Cambridge, having resigned his Lady Margaret Professorship. He settled in London, 
 living for many years in Crutched Fryers; there he died, and he was buried in the 
 parish church of S' Olave in Hart Street. The city clergy attended his funeral (by 
 order of the Bishop of London), and six Doctors of Divinity were his pall-bearers. 
 Strype informs us that he left a large posterity behind him, and that his eldest son, 
 Samuel Baro, was a Physician, and lived and died in Lynn-Regis, in Norfolk. 
 Anthony-i-Wood says, 'The Baro's, or Barons (as they are by some called), who do 
 
 63
 
 xx« 
 
 (Page 37 of the MS., folio 38 verso.) 
 Too one docto'^ Barowe^ a poore learned ftranger, ) 
 
 the xxvijtt dale of Aprell, 1579 : I 
 
 Too one a ftranger, whoe kepeth"] 
 
 att his booke in the Vniversitie of Oxforde, I ..-u -g ••■^ 
 
 who is an Earle in his countrie, the viij*^^ I 
 
 dale of June 1579: ^ 
 
 Too one Coranus^, a larned ftrangere ] 
 
 the viijt^ of Januarie 1579 : ) 
 
 Too one m"^ Docto"^ Barrowe, a larned ' 
 
 ftranger, the x 
 
 fent the same 
 
 of Cambridge 
 
 Too m'' Coranus^, 
 
 1580: 
 
 til of Januarie 1579: 
 by m^ Whitakers^ 
 
 the 
 
 XX 
 
 th 
 
 of niJtch ) 
 I 
 
 xnjs nij' 
 
 (Page 38 of the MS., folio 39 — gone.) 
 
 (Page 39 of the MS., folio 40 — gone.) 
 
 64
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 now, or did lately, live at Boston in Lincolnshire, and at King's Lynn in Norfolk, are 
 descended from laim.' But neither of these great antiquaries was able to give the date 
 of his death." (Agnew, as before, p. ill.) With reference to Dr. Baro's theological 
 opinions, they followed Arminius rather than Calvin. I lis case is discussed in 
 Hickman's Hutoria Qtiinquarticularis Exarticiilala (second edition, p. 209, et seq. ) 
 It is said (p. 212), alluding to the London clergy attending his funeral, "This plainly 
 shews, thinks he, that there were many of both universities that openly favoured Baro's 
 doctrines." (Heylin's Qiiinq. History, p. 90.) But do we indeed favour and plainly 
 declare that we favour, the opinions of those whose funerals we attend? If so, then 
 we must never go to the funeral of a Roman Catholic; then did Queen Elizabeth and 
 her Bishop, Grindal, plainly discover themselves friends to Popery, when they so 
 significantly celebrated the funeral of the Emperor. I am able to supplement above 
 by this record, that Barrow or Baro was buried in the Chancel of the Church {tit supra) 
 on 17th April, 1579. The entry in the Parish Register is simply "Mr. Docter Barrowe." 
 
 ^ "one Ilarmanmis'" : The reference is very likely to a foreign Protestant refugee, 
 named Herman, who is spoken of in several of Bishop Jewel's letters to continental 
 friends, printed in the Zurich Letters, vol. i. ; e.g., writing on loth August, 1562, to 
 Josiah Siniler, Jewell says : " Your Herman is at last become mine .... he reached 
 Salisbury on the 8th of July, having escaped with difficulty from the tumults in France." 
 His full name is not given in any of Jewel's allusions. 
 
 '" " 07ie C<7ssidorus." Cassiodoriis was a Spanish preacher in London at this period. 
 He is named in Grindal (Parker Society), pp. 310, 313. 
 
 (37) 
 ' "doctor Baro7ue," and infra. See note 8 on last page. 
 ^ " Coraniis," and infra. See note 6 on last page. 
 
 3 "J/;-. IVhitakeres," i.e., Dr. William Whitaker. See Index of Names and 
 Introduction. 
 
 65
 
 (Page 40 of the MS., folio 41.) 
 
 §- 
 
 >>XXXS 
 
 XS 
 
 is 
 
 >X^ VJ 
 
 id 
 
 The Chardges of the pbacye' of the 
 Testamente Anno 1569. 
 
 The xx*^ of maye to M"" Doctor hewycke- & 
 to M' harryson for their gowinge to grayes 
 Line, to thexyamynacion of certeyn witnesses 
 concerninge the testamte , 
 
 to M"" Orwell clearke to M^ Argoell 
 
 to one other clerke ij 
 
 to Mr Orwell for the ffee of the pbatt, the"] 
 othe, was paparators regestringe of the will 
 & to M*" Doctor hadons servante called ^xxxvjs viij<^ 
 Edward for his paynes & to M"^ Argoell | 
 clearkes for their paynes in the whole J 
 
 to M"" harrysonne at the same tyme xxx* 
 
 for the deposcicion & examynacion of 
 the fyrste wytnes [erasure] xviij'^ & for evly 
 of the other witnesses beinge in number 
 xij at ix*^ apece, in the whole 
 
 for the said testymoney vnder the seale ] 
 of the office j 
 
 To Docter he\vycke for examynacions \ 
 of certeyn wytnesses the xxvj*'i day of /-xiij^ 
 Maie j 
 
 To AP Orwell for wrytinge of the ] • ,, 
 Deposcicions j 
 
 To Docter hewicke at ij sev all tymes | ...^ ....^ 
 the 26 of maye 1569 j ^ ^ 
 
 to M'' harrisons allso at ye same time xlv^ 
 
 to M"- Orwell ij^ 
 
 To M'' harisonn the xxx*^ of maye A° 1572 
 for his ffee, for examyninge o'' brothe" 
 ynvintorie^, & for M"" Argoll his 
 fee 
 
 To M'' harrisonne clarke for wryttinge ^ 
 
 the fame ynvintorie in partchomente*, the Viij* iiij'' 
 same xxx^^^ of maye A" 1572 J 
 
 nij'^' 
 
 vj^ 
 
 [ Verso — blank.] 
 
 io^V6s/io<* 
 
 66
 
 Notes a?id Illustrations. 
 (40) 
 
 ' "/i5ar)v"= probation or proving, as before. The total of the charges incurred in 
 this proving of Robert Nowell's Will, is given in the MS., at the foot of the page, as 
 10/. 6s. \od. It is a few shillings less than that sum according to the items here 
 presented. 
 
 2 "Mr. Doctor hrcuycke" : a long forgotten Lawyer, as are all in these successive 
 entries. 
 
 •'' " examiitinge our brothers y7tviiitorie" : The two last entries on the page are of a 
 subsequent insertion, and do not belong to the charges for probacy of the will. They 
 are payments to the attorney, Mr. Harrison, and his clerk; the latter, for writing out 
 the inventory of Robert Nowell's goods, the former, for examining the same. 
 Apparently the inventory was not made out until the month of May, 1572, three years 
 after the Will had been proved. 
 
 * ' ' partchomenie " = parchment. 
 
 2 F 67
 
 (Page 41 of the MS., folio 42.) 
 Debtes devve to be p^ by Roberte Nowell 
 dischardged by his executors, w* sutch 
 somes of money, as thei received, aswell 
 of the debtes, as allso of the rentes revenues, of 
 the said Roberte, w''^ cam to their handes 
 from the fyrste of Aprell Anno / 1569/ and 
 after rces 
 
 Imp''imis p'^ to make vppe the halfe yeares^ 
 
 rente of my L. of Baythes Landes' dewe | 
 
 at the feaste of michalmes Anno 1568 \v'^ ^xlvji' xiijs vij''ob. qde 
 
 o"" brother lefte vpaid. into thandes of M^ 
 
 wood xlvjii xiijs vij*^ ob. qde 
 
 And so the whole rente dewe at the 
 
 feaste aforesaid beinge cvj'' xiij-^ vij^ ob. qde 
 
 ys fully paid as by accquitance therof 
 
 apperethe. 
 pd allso for the mychalmes rente dewe ) ^^..y^ .^^^ -^ ^^ 
 
 for sewall 1568 the some of f' J - ^J 
 
 allso for the rente of the same sewall ) ••];• = 
 
 dewe at thanunciacion of o"^ Ladic A" 1569 j -• 
 p'J for the whole halfe yeres rente of 
 
 my L. of baythes Landes into thandes 
 
 of M"" wood, beinge dewe at the 
 
 anunciacion of o"" Ladye A° 1569 
 
 pd the xxiiijt^ day of may to paule Gresham ' 
 
 for sundrye ingrossementes, dewe to the [■■■•n 
 
 xj<^ ob. 
 
 >cvji^xiij^vij'^ob.qdemi 
 
 Audytour of the courte of wardes. for all [ 
 
 3arJ 
 
 U" U= 
 
 the tyme o^ brother was Attourney thea 
 pd the XXV*'' daye of male to M'' 
 wood for the ffyne of Labornes 
 Landes v'' for an accquitance xij^ 
 
 } 
 
 of -x 
 
 v'* xij*^ 
 
 The xxvij*^'' daye of maye to M"" 
 Tucke for inrollinge the Leases of >-xvij' 
 Labornes Landes xv^ & to his clearkes ij^ j 
 
 To M"" bosvile clearke for writinge ) 
 
 of Labornes Lease j 
 
 the leasses of 
 
 To M'" bosvile for his ffee for a ^xl^ 
 
 Michell & Laborne 
 
 wrytinge the lease for 
 
 To the clearkes for a the bodie wi . 
 Mychell the third day of June j 
 
 pd the xv'^ of maye to peter~ 
 Courtney, by thandes of Rober flierrocke 
 for the rente of hendone devve for )>xv'' 
 ayeare & a half at the Anunciacion of | 
 o'' Ladye Laste paste J 
 
 § 
 
 ccxvjj 1^6/3 
 
 of -xx« 
 
 [erased]— Grac Nowell c'* for Michel warde c'^ 
 68
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (41) 
 
 ' "wjj' Z. of Baylhcs Landes,''' and infra: This was John Bourchier, Baron fitz 
 Warine, created Earl of Bath, July gtli, 1536. Extinct, 1654. Robert Nowell 
 bequeathed his lease of Lord Bath's lands jointly to his executors; and these were the 
 first payments of the executors on account of the rent of the same lands; the half year's 
 rent was 106/. 13^. ']\d., or 213/. 7^-. 3^^/. per annum. Seeing that the rental value of 
 land, 300 years ago, was not generally more than Zs. to 3J. an acre yearly, the above 
 estate, leased by Robert Nowell from the Earl of Bath, nnist have been an extensive 
 one of some 2,000 acres, less or more. 
 
 69
 
 (Page 42 of the MS., folio 42 verso.) 
 
 ;th 
 
 xxvj''" day of martch 
 Evanes^ Tayler to 
 
 w 
 
 '^^ he clameth as 
 
 Ovvinge 
 
 viij'^ 
 
 pd the 
 Thorns 
 brother 
 to him 
 
 pd to Thorns Nowell of Reade^ 
 the vj*'^ daye of Julye, fore the 
 chardge of the conveyance of the 
 enheritance of read 
 
 pd the xxx'^'^ daye of June for the 
 arrerages of Labornes Landes dewe 
 to be paid vnto the courte of wardes 
 for one yeare ended at the feaste of 
 S*. Marten in wynter laste paste | 
 the some of xlv'^ xviij^ xj*^ ob J 
 
 pd to John Seller for his chardges^ 
 in travalinge aboute Labornes Landes xiij^' 
 in my brothers tyme J 
 
 pd to the said John for his iorney 
 frome London to westmllande aboute 
 
 xlv^^ xviij^ xj<^ ob 
 
 rCb 
 
 the said Labornes Landes, \v 
 was paid to hym the xxvj*^^ daye 
 of June ... 
 
 Sente to willm Laborne^ by M' 
 dugdall, the xvj*^ of Julie 
 
 Geven more to the said willm | 
 beinge at Towenley j 
 
 >-xxiiij* 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 Xlj' 
 
 Sent more to him by one rye. collinsonne 
 Sent to the iiij doughteres of M*' 
 
 Labornes by the said M' dugdall vxx^" 
 
 the xvj*^ of Julie j 
 
 Givin to his svante at two tymes iij^ v\\]^ 
 
 Givin to Rychard collyson, one of M"" 
 
 Laborne svantes towardes his chardges ^xij^ 
 
 in gowinge to London 
 
 To Johan Laylande als Tottingham ^ 
 
 somtyme Landeres"* to M"" Attourney Vx^ 
 
 for iij qt'^i'Mvashinge j 
 
 pd to a karpenter in holborne for a prese^ ) ..... 
 
 w^t M"^ Attourney caused hym to make... ) ' ' 
 pd to M"" Coole for one yeares boord for'^ 
 
 Trustram mychell^ M^ Attourneys I .jj ■■■•^ ...^ , 
 
 warde as apperethe by yonge M^ coole f 
 
 his acquitance J 
 
 pd the forth of aprell to Rober walker \ 
 
 Carpenter, for myndinge^ the pulpett Vxiij^ iiij<^ 
 
 in poulls the day befor the funerall ... ) 
 
 § 
 
 Ixxiiijl' iiij^ iiij'^ 
 
 70
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (42) 
 
 ' " Thorns Iivajies.^^ See Index of Names, j. «. 
 
 2 " llwiiis A^cni'dl of Reade" : He was nephew of Dean Nowell and Robert Nowell, 
 Esq., being son and heir of their elder half brother, Roger Nowell of Read, Esq. 
 The sum of 8/. entered here as paid to Thomas Nowell is described to be "the charge 
 of the conveyance of the inlieritance of Read." The date is the 6th of July, 1569. 
 Roger Nowell, Esq., Thomas's father, died at Read Hall, on the 2nd of September, 
 1567, and was buried at Whalley Church, the 8th of the same month. It was found 
 at the Inquisition post j/iortem, taken on 14th January, 1567-8, that Thomas Nowell, 
 Roger's son and heir, was then aged forty years and upwards. Thomas Nowell, Esq., 
 had thus recently entered upon his inheritance in 1569, when his uncle, the Dean, out 
 of his other uncle Robert's estate, handsomely paid the charges of the conveyance. 
 In Churton's pedigree of the Nowells there are two errors in the entiy respecting this 
 scion. It is said that he died in "i56i,"and "without issue. " He had two daughters, 
 Grace and Elizabeth, by his wife Benet, daughter of Richard Towneley, Esq. He 
 had also a son John, who was baptized at Whalley, 8th February, 1571, and died 
 young. This son was by a second wife, Alice, whom Thomas Nowell married 
 before 1565, when Thomas Nowell of Reade, Esq., and Alice his wife, appear as 
 parties to a deed in which Thomas Willotte of Manchester, merchant, is the other 
 party. The loth Februaiy, 1575-6, the 3/S. records a gift of 43^-. 4;/. 
 
 "to o"^ cosin Alice jVoi.vell, inr. Thoins N'ozuells wieffe of Reade," and from the burial 
 register of Manchester Collegiate Church, I get this item: — 1590. Jan. 14. "Alyce 
 Wydowe to Thomas Nowell, of Read, Esquire, buried." Thomas Nowell, Esq., died 
 in 1576, after having held the family estates about nine years. 
 
 ^ " VVillin Labor ne." This explains that the " Lands " of preceding entries belonged 
 to this gentleman, who must have been resident in Westmorland. He was probably 
 of the family of Layborne of Cunwick, in the county of Westmorland, and a descendant 
 of Thomas Layborne of Cunwick, Esq., one of whose daughters (Isabel), manying 
 William Carus of Astwayth, was mother of Thomas Carus, Justice of the King's Bench 
 (living in 1567); and another (Anne), was wife of Leonard Langton, sixth son of Sir 
 Thomas Langton, Knt. 
 
 ■* "Z;7«a'i?;-t'i-"= laundress to Mr. Attourney, i.e., to our Nowell. 
 
 " In the MS., this entry down to "acquitance" is erased. See of the "presse" 
 before (p. 33, note 5). 
 
 ® " Trustrain mychelV : See a previous entry of payment for this ward at page 56. 
 
 ' "■ myndinge the pulpett in pouils": On occasion of the obsequies of the Dean's 
 brother, the pulpit of St. Paul's would be dressed with the emblems of mourning for 
 the dead; and the carpenter here named was employed to prepare the pulpit " the day 
 before the funerall." I am not sure if the word spelled "myndinge" in the MS. 
 means mending or fitting up the pulpit, or, w/;;rf';';/^= watching. 
 
 71
 
 Geuen 
 mane, 
 searchinge 
 
 his "I 
 
 (Page 43 of the MS., foHo 43.) 
 to graue M^' Auditour Tooke' 
 his clearke for paynes takinge in 
 thinges touchinge M^ Attourney 
 in his affayres in the couite of wardes^ 
 Geven vnto M*" Thorns bowyer in pte \ 
 
 recompence for his paynes takinge j 
 
 Geven to the stewed of grayes In7ic\ 
 tJie some of xxv^'^ w^"^ said some rem in 0^ I 
 
 XXX* 
 
 Jiandes at 
 
 J lis d eat he as j 
 
 27 ATay A" 15 69 J 
 
 for^ 
 
 XXV* 
 
 brother Robte 
 
 apperethe by the aecqnitance 
 To fysher of hendon w^^ he clamethe 
 
 wood due to him as appereth by ma ^.x 
 
 accquitance j 
 
 Robte pocter the xxij^i* of Aprell 1569) •••s"--d 
 
 as apperethe by his accquitances j 
 
 his 
 
 xij^ 
 
 Langton 
 
 Ao 
 
 the 
 1569 
 
 John 
 
 of aprell 
 
 accquitance 
 
 James powell 
 
 accquitance the xv 
 
 Novembere A" 1569 
 
 Thorns Evanes the 
 
 as 
 
 th 
 
 baker the xxj^^i ^ 
 as apperethe by his j^xiij^ iiij<^ 
 
 apperethe by his ^ 
 of ["Maye" — erased] )-xijs 
 
 ■th of .maye|.... ... 
 
 XXV^J' 
 
 1569 as 
 To Robte 
 skynner the iiii'^ of decemb. A" 
 as apperethe by his accquitances by 
 handes of M' Towenley 
 
 apperethe by his accquitance 
 Leeke of grayese Inne Loan a 
 
 the 
 
 •xx» 
 
 ds 
 
 To Thorns Bowyer^ the xij'^h of februarye 
 A" 1570 for drawinge apayr of Indentures 
 & makinge obligacions, & for sewinge^ for vs in the 
 courte of wardes 
 
 the xxiiij*^ of maye A° 1569 to M"^ paule Gresham' 
 to the vse of M"^ Audytore tucke' as apperethe 
 by the accquitance of the said M"" 
 Greshame. w'^^ was claimed of M'' Tucke for 
 Ingrossinge of certyn accomptes of wardes landes* 
 the iv*'^ daie of martche A^ 1568 to Robte"^ 
 Bradley. Brewer of Westone as apperethe J>xiiij' 
 by his accquitance J 
 
 To John feller the iiij'^ daye of martche A°^ 
 1568 w* he clamethe due to him by Robte )>vij'' 
 Nowell & as apperethe by his acq.^J 
 
 the iiij2 daye of June A° 1569 to Thoms 
 Dallydone, Smythe in hollborne for fliowing^ 
 
 To one blondworthe wief the xj'^ of June 
 A° 1571 whoe claymethe for 
 vj shertes of M'' Robte Novvells 
 
 mendinge 
 
 xs 
 
 .yS 
 
 xlvj^i ix^ [erasure] x*^
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (43) 
 
 ' ^^ Mr. Aiidiioiir Tooke''^ : William Tooke, Esq., of Popes in Hatfield rarish, in 
 the county of Herts, was auditor of the Court of Wards and Liveries from 1544 to 
 158S. He was the son of Ralph Tooke of Godington, Esq. lie married Alice, 
 daughter of Robert Barley of Bibbesworth, in the county of Herts, by whom he had 
 issue, nine sons and three daughters. He died 4lh December 1588, aged eighty, and 
 was buried, with his wife, in the church of Essendon, near his estate. His eldest son, 
 and successor in the office of auditor, was W^ alter Tooke, Esq. , of Popes, who, by his 
 wife Angelot (her epitaph is in Wormley church), had issue, eight sons and four 
 daughters. His eldest son was Ralph; his fourth son, John Tooke, succeeded his 
 father as auditor of the Court of Wards and Liveries in 1609; and he, again, was 
 followed in that office by his younger brother Thomas Tooke, who died in 1670. An 
 interesting account of the Tookes, several of whom later were of literary note, is 
 printed in Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, vol. ix, pp. 159-180. In Dean Nowell's letter 
 to Lord Burghley concerning Brasenose college endowment, dated 1596, he names 
 "Mr. Auditor Tooke, who in consideration of a lease of Esyndon in the countie of 
 Hertford, was contented to jiay me yerely xv'' for the space of xvi years, to assure the 
 same unto the college of Brasenose." (Churton's Life of A'(ni<ell, p. 422.) Robert 
 Nowell had a lease of Essendon from Mr. Auditor Tooke ; and in his Will bequeaths 
 it to his cousin John Nowell, if the lease prove good, but complains that Mr. Tooke 
 had "delte therein subtellie and extreamelie," in that he had insisted the lease was 
 forfeited for non-payment of the rent, although the rent had been offered to Mr. Tooke 
 before the day of payment by testator's sei'vant, Richard Whitaker. (See the Will, in 
 the Introduction.) 
 
 ' " Thomas Bowyer": Here, and ijifra on the opposite page. This member of the 
 Bowyer family was, it appears, a lawyer, and was employed by Dean Nowell to pre- 
 pare certain legal instruments necessary in a suit in the Court of Wards. He is once 
 or twice after named similarly as being engaged in lawyer's work for the Dean. 
 
 ^ " sewi)ige"=^sumg. 
 
 * This line is erased in the HIS. 
 
 * These three lines are erased. 
 
 ^ " shoiving,'" i.e., shoeing (horses). 
 
 73
 
 Termio Mich. A" 
 xiij" el xiiij" RRes 
 Alex, nowell iuier 
 Goodlaiide* 
 
 Termio hjll' A" 
 xiiij E RRes 
 
 (Page 44 of the MS.,"^ (olio 44 verso.) 
 To Mr Auditor Tooke for his ffee for the"! 
 ingroffinge the accomptes, of the^ earle of baythes' I g 
 Landes, Levesons Landes, & Laborne Landes 
 
 the seconde of J ulye A** 1 5 /i 
 
 To his clearke M^ VVebbe for writinge the ] , 
 
 accquitance / 
 
 To one fhoutte, that ^ broughte vpp an 
 
 th 
 
 his 
 
 & 
 
 money 
 for 
 
 XXX 
 
 to 
 his 
 
 an ^ 
 
 of V: 
 
 be 
 
 horse forthe of Som^shr^ the -^-— ... . 
 septembris A^ {57! j 
 
 To Wilhn longe for his chardges ij daies at ) ...g 
 
 Londone the xx*^ of Nover A" i57i j ^ 
 
 To Geninge towardes 
 
 estrenged^ into golde, 
 
 the xx'^ of Novembre A" is/i 
 To M^ woode for an 
 
 paymente of the rentes 
 
 A° is/i 
 
 nij' 
 
 accquitance for 
 
 .e) 
 fup I 
 
 the^ 
 
 ys 
 
 the xxv^^^i of 
 
 Octobre )-v« 
 
 wiUm Nycholles of heywoodhill in the"* 
 
 clamethe 
 o' brother 
 
 w 
 
 ch 
 
 he 
 by 
 
 >-xnj* 
 
 To one 
 
 pishe of henden xiij^ 
 
 for a lood of cooles, dewe to him 
 
 Robte, pd. the xx^^ of Aprell A" i572 
 
 for ap^vye feale for Geninges the xxvij*^^ of June A** 1572 ] ...-^ 
 
 ..^|inj 
 
 to M' Bosvile for his ffee iij^ vj*^ & for his clearkes ffee xij' 
 
 vj' 
 
 for 
 
 entrenge 
 
 an accion againste Jeninges in the ) 
 
 nij« 
 
 counter the xxiijt^ of auguste A° 1572 j 
 
 for dischardginge the said accion the xxv*'^ of) -^ 
 
 auguste A" 1572 j ^ 
 
 p narracioe xij'^ 
 
 p intrara hlo , xij*^ 
 
 p warrante attorn'^ iiij*^ 
 
 p fead atturn'^ iij 
 
 p intrad ij^iiij*! 
 
 p copiende viij^ 
 
 p warrante Attorn'^ iiij'^ 
 
 p fed. attorn^ 
 
 Too M' Dodmer scrivino', the tenthe of february 
 Ao 1572 for wryttinge acdveyance betwexte 
 M' Poole of Dalbcy in the woldes & my m'^ 
 Too the same M" Dodmer, more the same ] 
 tenthe of februarye A" 1572. for wry tinge [ 
 an accquitance betwexte the said M' Poole .' 
 
 & my M' the same tyme J 
 
 pd for a pees, w'^'^ was sent dowen for m layborne 
 
 s iiijd 
 
 lijs iiij'l 
 
 xnjs nij^ 
 
 r*xij^ 
 
 iiij' 
 
 xij' 
 
 VJ^ 
 
 and m^ Dugdall the xxx^b of m^tche A^ 1574 ...' j "'^ 
 
 for wryttinge the same againe vj'^ 
 
 Too M' Anslowe the Attourney for~] 
 
 his paynes for suettes in lawe againste the executor S-xIij^ iiij^ 
 
 of the Tenantes in lyncolneshire J 
 
 [erased figures] not accurat [erased figures] 
 
 [Folio 44 gone.] 
 
 74
 
 Notes and Illustratio7ts. 
 
 (44) 
 
 ' " earle of baytke^^ : see note i on p. 41. 
 
 ' " SonCshr "— Somersetshire. 
 
 ' " estn'uo-c'd"^ exchanged. 
 
 * " Akxr Nozvell inter Goodlajtde" (in the margin): The items opposite this mar- 
 ginal entry, refer to legal expenses incurred in the prosecution of a suit (the occasion 
 of which does not appear) between Alexander Nowell (the Dean) and one Goodlande, 
 heard at Michaelmas Term, 13 and 14 Elizabeth (1571), and at Hillary Term, 14 
 Elizabeth (1572). Perhaps the last enti-y on the page has reference to the same 
 litigation; the words at the end are obscure in the /IAS"., but seem to be " To Mr. 
 Anslowe the attourney for his paynes for suetts in lawe againste the executors of the 
 Tenantes in lyncolneshire." 
 
 ^ " a cd'veyance hetioexte 3Ir. Poole of Da! bey in the woldes and my ;«;-.'V^This item 
 is explained in a letter written by Dean Nowell to Lord Burghley, wherein he states, 
 that he had endowed Brazenose College with six scholarships by means of a rental 
 assured by Mr. Auditor Tooke, "in consideration of a lease of Esyndon in the countie 
 of Hertfoixl"; and what follows relates to the matter which occurs here in our MS. : — 
 " And I payed to Mr. Henrie Poole of Dal by in Leicestershyre who maide a title to the 
 said Esyngdon for his interest cxx''." 
 
 75
 
 (Page 45 of the MS., folio 45.) 
 ^rste of m^rtche 'Jq \\^q. ygg of ccrtcyn psonncs as appcrethe by theyre 
 handes Due to them for ther legacie, geven them in the 
 Laste Will & Testamente of Robte Nowell of grayes Inne 
 esquier deceased, In the p'^sentes of Mr Gylberte Garrardei 
 esquier, M'' Raphe Barton esquiere^, & M"" Thorns holcrofte-'' 
 servante to Mr Secretory Cicill as by the same bill apperethe. 
 Imp'^imis to hughe hallsall'* servante to ] ^ 
 
 M" Robte Nowell the some of one hundreth poundes J 
 To John Thorpe servante to the said M"" | 1 jj 
 
 Nowell the some of threscore poundes j 
 
 To Ellen hunte Cosine M"" Robte Nowell x'* 
 
 To Lamberte Langtree servante to the ) .jj 
 
 said M'' Nowell the some of twentie poundes j 
 
 To Thoms Reynere servante allsoe xx'' 
 
 To Thoms Nowell & Lawrance NowelP ) ,1; 
 
 for theyr Legacye j ' 
 
 To Rycharde Bowyer to the vse of ) j; 
 
 Roberte Casey^ the some J 
 
 To Robte pyckringe, to the vse of John "| ^^ 
 
 Todde j'^^ 
 
 these pcell were paid in the p^'sentes of the parties abouesaid. as apperthe 
 by theyr bills. 
 
 To one Rye. Browen'', one gowen one coate \ ^ 
 one dobbet & in gold xxxv^ j 
 
 To M"" Raffe Barton^ towe gowenes for his \ 
 Legacye of the price of xxvj^ xiij^ \n]^ as Miij* iiij*^ 
 apperethe by his bill j 
 
 The x*^. of martche to henry todgilP xl^ 
 
 The xjt^ of martche A'' 1568 to Agnes) . 
 Andrewes servante at hendone''^ j 
 
 To henry poole'^ to the vse of my Ladye \ jj 
 Pyrryne^^ x\^q xviij^^ of maye A^ 1568]^ 
 
 To M"" Kitchine^^ the xxij^'' day of maye \ 
 A" 1569 as apperethe by his bill the some vv^' 
 of fyve poundes & one gowen faced w'^ martens''* j 
 
 The seconde of martche to John fletchere'^ | ...,j .^ ...^ 
 A" 1568 as apperethe by his accquitance j ' •' ^ ^'-^ 
 
 To Mr Robte Towenley of bostone^^' the xxvj"^' 
 Daye of februarye, one gildinge, one fether bedd 
 one bolstere, ij pyllowes, & one tablie clothe, one )> 
 towell, xij Napkens of damask dyope the xxvj''^ ( 
 of februarii A° 1568 J 
 
 The vij^^ Dale of martche A" 1568 to humeffree ^ 
 Kerry & to Margery his wief as apperethe by Hiij^ iiij'* 
 their accquitance j 
 
 ccclxxxiij^i/xv^/ i 
 
 76
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (45) 
 
 ' "wr. Gylberte Garrarde, esqicier": Robert Nowell, in his Will, gives "to Mr. 
 Gilbcrte Gerrarde the queues INIa''^' genei-all attorney v" to make hym a ringe w' all 
 and iiij yardes of velvet for his coate," and makes him one overseer of the Will. It is 
 in the latter capacity he appears here upon the record of the payment of legacies under 
 the Will. Gilbert Gerard, Esq., was eldest son of James Gerarde of the Ince, in the 
 county of Lancaster, Esq., by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Holcroft, knt. 
 The Gerards of Ince descended from a second son of one of the ancieut stock of Gerards 
 of Bryn, in the county of Lancaster. He proceeded to London to study the law. 
 In 1537 he was admitted of Gray's Inn, and two years after was called to the bar. 
 In 1554 he was appointed autumn-reader by the Benchers of Gray's Inn; and in 1556, 
 joint-treasurer of that society with Nicholas Bacon, afterwards Lord Keeper. I'emp. 
 Mary, when the Princess P^iizabeth was summoned before the Council, Mr. Gilbert 
 Gerai'd defended her with so nmch spirit that he was sent to the Tower, and was not 
 liberated until the end of Mary's reign. On Elizabeth's accession, he was promptly 
 rewarded for his service to her by appointment as Attorney General, in December, 
 1558. He had taken the degree of Serjeant-at-Law in the same year. In the Will of 
 his father-in-law, Sir John Holcroft, dated 2nd December, 1559, he is named "Gylbert 
 Gerrard of Greis Inne," and besides one of testator's best horses and a ring of gold and 
 5/., he was to have after Sir John's wife's death, " his new house, with all the ground 
 belonging to the same," for his life. He was knighted in 1579, and on 30th May, 
 1 58 1, was appointed Master of the Rolls. Sir Gilbert Gerard was elected Member 
 for Wigan in 1553, and Knight of the Shire for the county of Lancaster, in 1585. He 
 died 4th February, 1592-3. He had married Anne, daughter and sole heir of Thomas 
 Radclifie of Wynmarleigh, Esq., and by that marriage acquired for his family the 
 estates of the Radcliffes in Clitheroe, Wynmarleigh, and in several townships of Black- 
 burn parish. He had two sons, Thomas, the heir; and Radcliffe, who was drowned, 
 but who founded the house of Gerards of Brandon, Earls of Macclesfield; also, daugh- 
 ters, Frances, wife of Sir Richard Molyneux, bart. ; Margaret, wife of Peter Leigh, Esq. ; 
 Catherine, wife of Sir Richard Hoghton, knt. and bart.; and Radcliffe, wife of — 
 Wingfield, Esq. Sir Thomas Gerard, son and heir of Sir Gilbert, was appointed 
 Knight Marshall in 1598, and was raised to the peerage, as Baron Gerard of Gerard's 
 Bromley, in the county of Stafford, 31st July, 1603. 
 
 - " wn Raphe Barton esqtiiere.'" This gentleman is named as a legatee both in the 
 Will of Robert Nowell and in the Codicil; in the former, testator gives " to M"' Raphe 
 barton my beste gowne and my beste chyste that he will chose and fyve m'kes [marks] 
 to make hym a ringe w'"; in the latter, testator says: — "I doe bequeathe unto M' 
 Rafe barton of graies Inne my good freinde the some of xl" & my best furred gowne & 
 my best other gowne faced w' velvet." In an entry below on this page of the MS., 
 Mr. Raffe Barton receives his " towe gownes for his legacye"; and the first entry on 
 the next page is a payment of 40/. to Mr. Raffe Barton as a legacy. Ralph Barton, 
 Esq., of Gray's Inn at this date, was second son of Andrew Barton of Smithells, in 
 the county of Lancaster, Esq.; he was brother of Robert Barton, Esq., and in con- 
 sequence of the latter having no male issue, Ralph Barton was his heir, and became 
 lord of the manors of Smithells and Blackburn, with other family possessions, on his 
 brother's death in 1580. At the date of his succession to the estates he was fifty-seven 
 years of age. He died in 1592. 
 
 ^ " Thorns hokj-o/te." This "servante to m"' Secretory Cicill " was no doubt of the 
 family of Holcrofte of Holcrofte, in the county of Lancaster; and might be a younger 
 son of Sir John Holcroft, knt., whose fourth son was named Thomas. Another con- 
 temporary Thomas Holcroft was the son and successor of Sir Thomas Holcroft, of 
 Vale Royal, in the county of Chester, brother of Sir John Llolcroft, and a great 
 speculator in sequestrated abbey lands. 
 
 * " Hughe I/allsali." He was a trusty man-servant of Robert Nowell, to whom 40X; 
 was bequeathed by his will; increased to the large sum of 100/. in the codicil; the dis- 
 charge of which is recorded by this entry. (See the name in earlier entries and sub- 
 sequent. ) Three other servants of Robert Nowell occur here as receiving bequests — 
 John Thorpe, Lambert Langtree, and Thomas Rayner. 
 
 * " TJioms Nowell and Laura7ice N'owell." These two are described in the Will 
 of Robert Nowell by the term "cosin," and to receive 20/. a-piece. Sons, probably, 
 of one of Robert Nowell's brethren. 
 
 ® " Roberte Casey." Robert Casey or Cassie was Robert Nowell's godson and a 
 grandson of one of his numerous sisters. I cite passages in Robert Nowell's Will re- 
 ferring to this legatee and his mother: — ■" I give to Roberte Cassie my godsonne a c'' 
 [ico/.] & further I give him my lease of the parsonage of tottingeham & yet I will that 
 bothe he & his parents toucheinge the p'sonage of tottingeham shalbe ordered by my 
 brother M"' Deane of Pawles," &c. " I give to mystris Casie my best ringes or other 
 
 77
 
 legacyes paid 
 in Lancashire 
 
 (Page 46 of the AIS., folio 45 vej'so) 
 The Laste Daie of februarye A" 1568^ 
 To M"" Rafife Barton ^ as apperethe by the VxV^ 
 accquitance of the said M'' Barton ) 
 
 the 
 
 vj 
 
 th 
 
 I 
 
 clayc of februarye A^ 1568 to M^^ 
 flieparde^ wyddowe, for her legacye as by ^-xl^i 
 her accquitance apperethe j 
 
 the Vf^ of februarye A" 1568 to M^^s wilkinsonneS 
 for her legacye^. as apperethe by her Vx^i 
 accquitance J 
 
 the xxjt^ of februarye A" 1568 to Thorns "j 
 meyres 8: Johanne his^ Daughter to Elyno"" Kay /-vij^' 
 for their Legacye, as apperethe by their accquitance J 
 
 the xx^ii of februarye, to M"" beddell for preachinge \ 
 of one fermone at hendon^ A° 1568 as apperethe >xxvj* viij*^ 
 by his accquitance as a legacye J 
 
 the xx^ii of februarye. A" 1568 to Rycharde^ 
 
 Whitaker,^ in pte of paymente 
 as apperethe by his accquitance 
 
 of his legacye Vxxxi^ 
 
 of maye A° 1569 to willm "j 
 Whitakeres, in pte of paymente of his legacye > vjl^xiij^ iiij** 
 as apperethe by his accquitance j 
 
 the 
 
 XXVlj 
 
 th 
 
 the 
 
 7th 
 
 Daye of Julie A° 1569 to Jennett '\ 
 Deane, daughter to John Dean of \ 
 tunworthe^ in pte of paymente of the said C 
 John Deane his Legacye ; 
 
 xx» 
 
 the 
 
 xij 
 
 th 
 
 Daye of Aprell 
 moore^, and 
 
 the said Nicholes, in 
 Legacye, as by their 
 
 Ao 1569 to 
 
 Ellen nowe 
 
 full paym'® 
 
 accquitance 
 
 yyjt 
 
 Nicholes 
 wief of 
 of their 
 apperethe 
 
 the xiijth daye of Aprell A" 1569 to Rycharde~ 
 Prestone, & Elizabethe nowe wief 
 of the said Rycharde^, the some of six poundes J^vi^* 
 due to the said Elizabethe for her 
 Legacye 
 
 the 
 
 ni^ 
 
 Daye 
 
 of Aprell A° 1569 to Thoms" 
 haymonde'" & Betteris Nowel wief of 
 the said Thoms, for a legacye due to the )>-xiii'' vi* viii'^ 
 said Bettiris as by their acquitance 
 apperethe 
 
 The 
 
 XXVJ 
 
 th 
 
 Daye of June 
 Deane of Tunworthc^^ in 
 as by his bill apperethe 
 
 the vjtJi 
 haworthe 
 daughter 
 of vij^' 
 legacye 
 
 of Aprell 
 
 wyddowe '2 
 
 of henry 
 
 due to the 
 
 as apperethe 
 
 A° 1569 to John j 
 pte of his legacye Vxx^ 
 
 A" 1569 to Alys" 
 of Ratchdall pishe 
 hopwood the some Vvij'' 
 said Alys for A 
 by her accquitance_ 
 
 cxxxviiji' vj^ viij'^ 
 
 78
 
 Notes arid Illustrations. 
 
 jewelles of myne that she will chose and the nexte to her mother my sister." (See the 
 Will in our Introduction.) 
 
 7 '■^ Kyc BrowenT His bequest was, according to the terms of the Will, "a gowne, 
 a coate, a doblet «Sc a paire of hose to browne y' was my servante." Besides the cloth- 
 ing, he got in money, as here apjiears, 35^. 
 
 ** "Mr. Raffe Barton.'''' See note 2 above. 
 
 8 "Henry Todgill.'" The item in the Will is:—" I give to Todgill xl'." 
 
 10 <■' Agnes Andretues servanie ai hejtdone'": Was she mother of the eminent Bishop 
 Launcelot Andrewes, whose name enriches this MS. elsewhere as a recipient of the 
 Novvell bounty? It is not unlikely; for in Robert Nowell's Will this " servant at 
 Hendon" is styled " Launcelottes wife," and if her husband was Launcelot Andrewes, 
 the identity of the Bishop's name with this suggests his filial relation to these humble 
 dependents of Robert Nowell. 
 
 " " Henry poole^'': See note on the preceding page. 
 
 '2 " my Ladye Pyrryne ": In the Will of Robert Nowell : — "I give to my good ladie 
 the ladie perion fyve poundes to make her a ringe withall & I desire her to 
 be goode unto John Nowell her sonne in lawe and fynde some meanes of agream't w' 
 hym." Lady Pyrryne or Perion must have been one of the wives of Sir William 
 Peryam (or Perriam), chief Baron of the Exchequor, who died in 1604, at the age of 
 seventy, and was buried at Islington Church. His wives were, first, Margery, daugh- 
 ter of [ohn Holcot of Berks, Esq.; secondly, Anne, daughter of John Parker of North 
 Molton, in the county of Devon; and thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas 
 Bacon, Lord Keeper. Perhaps it was the last whom Robert Nowell mentions in his 
 Will. 
 
 '^ " mr. Kitehine'''' — not known. 
 
 '^ "one goToen faced u'th wrt;-/^«j'"= martins. Sometimes the word is spelled 
 "marters" and "marterns," e.g.., In the will of Joane, Lady Bergavenny (1434) she 
 leaves her "best gown furred with marters " {Test. Vet., vol. i, p. 22S); and again, her 
 
 "second gown of marters and the remnant of gowns furred with marters " to 
 
 her son, Sir fames of Ormond, and to her two brothers {ibid, p. 229). So William 
 Bruges, Garter King at Arms, bequeaths (1449) " an half long gown of purple velvet 
 furred with niartivns" {ibid, p. 269). See further. Test. Vet., vol. ii, pp. 471, 658, 715. 
 
 '5 "Johnjletchere'": In the codicil to Robert Nowell's Will is this item: "I bequeathe 
 unto John Fletcher of hampsteade & his wife xiii'' vi' viii"*. " "John ffleetcher of 
 hampsted" is named elsewhere in the JMS. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^^ " mr. Robte Towenley of boitojie": In the Will: "I give to my cosen Roberte 
 Towneley of boston" sundry domestic articles and a "good gelding." To be a 
 " cosen "= kinsman of Robert Nowell, Robert Townely of Boston must hare been a 
 son of one of the Towneleys of Towneley. Possibly he was an unnoted younger son 
 of Charles Towneley, Esq., who was second husband of Robert Nowell's mother, and 
 whose eldest son, John Towneley, Esq., occurs in the MS. 
 
 (46) 
 
 ' " mr. Raff'e Bart07i." See note on page preceding. 
 
 ' " Sheparde.'''' See Index of Names, s.n.', and so for the other names of this page 
 not herein noticed. Robert Nowell had bequeathed "unto Elizabeth Shepparde, 
 widowe x''. " 
 
 3 "Mrs. Wilkinsonne for her /egaeye": Some clue to the connexion of these often- 
 named Wilkinsons with the Nowells is supplied by the following lines from the Will of 
 Robert Nowell: "I give xl" to be bestowed amongest the children of my uncle's 
 daughter y' married Wilkinson in London after the discrec'on of my executors & I de- 
 sire my executors to be good both to her and to them." And in the codicil: "I doe 
 bequethe unto Anne Wilkinson to th'use of her and her children onlie to be ymployed 
 upon condic'on y' her husband shall not have the same nor any p'te thereof. Item, I 
 bequethe unto Grace Wilkinson the some of vi" xiii' iiii"'." Robert Nowell had an 
 uncle Robert Nowell, not noted in the pedigree in Churton's book, and barely named 
 in the Visitation record of 1567. This Anne Nowell, described as an uncle's daughter, 
 was perhaps a child of the elder Robert Nowell; and marrying one Wilkinson of 
 London, whose conduct had evidently incurred the distrust of Robert Nowell the 
 testator, the latter gave money to Mrs. Wilkinson and her children, subject to the 
 condition that her husband might not touch it. The M.S'. contains references to John 
 Wilkinson, Robert Nowell's cook; to Good wife Wilkinson's son who was a chorister, 
 and another son who was apprentice; to marriage gifts at the marriages of Grace and 
 Anne Wilkinson, daughters of "our cousin Wilkinson"; to Thomas Wilkinson of 
 London, "our cousin," an elder son, probably, of Mrs. Wilkinson; and to legacies 
 paid to Grace Wilkinson, and Johann, her sister. These items suggest that Mrs. 
 
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 N'otes ajid Ilhistrations. 
 
 Anne Wilkinson had sons, Thomas, John, two younger sons, and daughters, Grace, 
 Anne, and Joan. 
 
 •* " Thorns Meyres and yohan his" [wife]: The word "wife" is accidentally omitted 
 by the scribe. Johanna or Joan Hopwood was daughter of Eleanor Hopwood (Eleanor 
 Kay before marriage), sister to Robert Nowell's mother. She married Mr. Thomas 
 Meyres (modern Myres). (See note hereafter showing in detail the family connexion 
 of the Nowells, Kays, and Hopwoods. ) Robert Nowell gave alegacy of 7/. each "to 
 everie one of my awnte hopwoddes children beinge alyve." One of them, Joan 
 Meyres, here receives her 7/. 
 
 * " nir. beddell for preachinge of one sertnone at hendon ": a legacy paid in accordance 
 with Robert Nowell's direction, that sums of money should be given to those ministers 
 who preached funeral sermons for him. (See the Will in our Introduction.) 
 
 ® ^^ Rychardc Whitakcr," and in the next entry " Willm IVhitaker": as nephews of 
 Robert Nowell, had legacies, thus ordered in the Will: "To Richard Whitakre & to 
 William Whitakre xl'' a yere w'"" S' Raphe Leicester hatiie graunted unto me oute 
 of M"' Leeghe landes in Chesheire duringe the mynoritie of younge AP Leeghe that is 
 to sale to ev'y one of them xx'' w"^*" xx" yearelie I will AP [Richard] Whitakre shall 
 recey ve streighte waies and bestowe hymselfe in some howse of courte or gett hymselfe 
 some good wife if he can & I will that the xx'' yearelie for William shalbe laide upp 
 and bestowed upon the buyenge of M' bruisters wyves daughter or otherwise as my 
 brother Alexander shall thincke conveniente untill he be able in yeares and discrec'on 
 to use it & order it hym " [selfe]. (See later annotation showing fully the family rela- 
 tion of the Nowells with the Whitakers of Holme, and an account of Dr. William 
 Whitaker in the Introduction.) 
 
 ' '^ Jendt Deanc, daughter to John Deane of tuinoorthc" : and lower on the page, 
 "John Deane of Tunworthe," &c. The Deanes were related to the Nowells of Reade 
 by marriage. Churton states that " William Deane of Tanworth in Warwickshire" 
 married a sister of Dean Nowell {Life of Dean Nowell, p. 141). There may be a 
 " Tamuorth " in Warwickshire, but the original place of the family of lesser gentry in 
 question was certainly TiDiworth or Townworth, in the township of Billington, parish 
 of Blackburn, in the county of Lancaster. Mr. W. A. Abram, in his History of Black- 
 burn Parish, prints a sketch of the descent of the Deanes, partly drawn from Lansdowne 
 MS. 205. Deane Hill and Tunworth, the ancient tenements of the Deanes, are 
 situate about two miles from Read Hall, the seat of the Nowells. John Deane of 
 Tunworth and Dounham, in the county of Lancaster, living temp. Edward IV. (1461- 
 1483), had to wife, Agnes, daughter of Richard Worsley of Mearley. Next appears 
 William Deane of Tunworth, whose son and heir, by his wife Agnes Wrightington, 
 was Henry Deane of Tunworth. His wife was Maud, daughter of William Ambrose, 
 and his son and heir was John. John Deane of Deyne-hill and Tunworth, a freeholder 
 in 1523, and a tenant of Abbey lands of Whalley in 1538, died November 24th, 1541, 
 seized of about 600 acres of land in Billington, Wilpshire, Mellor, Dounham, and 
 Twiston. His eldest son was William Deane, gent., who married Maud, daughter of 
 John Nowell, Esq., and sister of Dean Nowell and Robert Nowell. By her he had 
 three sons, John, William, and Nicholas. William Deane, the father, was dead before 
 1555. John Deane, his eldest son, is the "John Deane of Tunworth," of the entry in 
 the 3IS. here noted. He was taxed for his lands in Billington to a King's subsidy in 
 1570, and is described in the Shiittlezoo^-th Accounts, in 1587, as "John Dane of Town- 
 worth." He married a daughter of Holcrofte, who died in 1551, and by whom 
 
 he had a son Richard, who had a son John, bom in 1597- James Deane, holding 
 lands in Billington in 1610, was probably another son of John. He had also daughters, 
 Jennet, named here in the IMS., and Anne, who appears at a later page in the entry: 
 "To his [Nowell's] cosin Anne Deane daughter unto John Deane of Toneioorthe in 
 blakeborne parish" — a description which confirms our locality of Tanworth as against 
 Churton's. William Deane, second son of William and brother of John, is indicated 
 in the bequest in Robert Nowell's Will: " To William Deane my cosen servante to my 
 ladie Matrauvers my lease of weylonde & a cloke cote and doublet & x" in monnye. " 
 From being Lady Anne Maltravers' servant this fortunate yeoman's son from Lanca- 
 shire became second husband of that lady, "who," says Churton (p. 141) "enriched 
 him with her immense fortune as heiress of Sir John Wentworth of Gosfield." She 
 was then widow of Henry, Lord Maltravers, who died s.p., in the lifetime of his father, 
 Henry, eighteenth Eai'l of Arundel. By this lady, who died in 15S0, William Deane, 
 Esq., had no issue; but he married, secondly, Anne, daughter of Thomas Egerton, 
 Esq., of Reyne Hill, in the county of Chester, and by her had a son John, and two 
 daughters. He built a large mansion at Maplestead, Essex, called Deynes Hall, and 
 died there sometime before 1586. He made Dean Nowell and Dr. William Whitaker 
 his executors; and his son John being a minor at his father's death, became Dean 
 Nowell's ward, and the first codicil in the Dean's Will relates entirely to his settlement 
 
 80
 
 Notes mid Illustrations. 
 
 of the wardship of this youth. John Deane married, in 1600, Anne, daughter of Sir 
 D. Drury, and had issue. . {Life of Ncnvell, p. 361.) 
 
 ^ " iVicholas moore": One of a family of Moore of Fence and Whitelee in Pendle 
 Forest, not far from Read, wliose wife Ellen was a kinswoman of the Nowells. In 
 6 Elizabeth {if)6/\),*Nic/iolas Moore and Hugh Moore with others, were defendants in 
 a suit respecting a messuage called The Fence, with lands, in Pendle Forest. {Cal. 
 to Pleadings, vol. ii, p. 285. ) Sir Jonas Moore, a man of note a centui-y later (temp. 
 Charles II. ) was of the same family of Moores. 
 
 ' '^ Ryckarde Prcstonc and Elizabelhe now loief of the said Rycharde'''' : Richard 
 Preston married Elizabeth Singleton, daughter of John Singleton of Chingle Hall, in 
 the County of Lancaster; and this legacy came to his wife in fulfilment of Robert 
 Nowell's bequest: "I give to ev'ye one of Singletons wyves sonnes and daughters 
 excepte the heii^e w'^'* wife Anthony Laton married, vi''." There was evidently some 
 kinship, but it must have been remote, between the Singletons and Nowells. John 
 Singleton's wife was Alice, daughter of Richard Highton of Highton, in the county of 
 Lancaster, and his mother was "of Clitheroe," though her name is not stated in 
 Lieut. -Colonel Fishwick's pedigi-ee of the Singletons {History of Goosnargh). His 
 wife was evidently somehow related to the Nowells. The fact derived from the above 
 extract from Robert Nowell's Will, that the widow of John Singleton married, secondly, 
 Anthony Laton, is a fresh item for the genealogy of that family. Richard Preston, by 
 his wife Elizaoeth, had a son Thomas, living in 1587. 
 
 '" ^'^ Thomas haynionde QT' Betteri-s Noivel zi'ief of the said Thomas'''': "Betteris" is a 
 common spelling of the period of Beatrice. This entry is valuable as showing the link 
 of relationship (hitherto supposed but unverified) between the Nowells and the 
 Hammond family, of note in several members, and to which the celebrated divine. Dr. 
 Henry Hammond, belonged. Dr. T. D. Whitaker laboured diligently to make out 
 the connexion, and concluded that a Hammond of Whalley, whose first name he did 
 not find, married a sister of Dean Nowell. (See note by Raines in Journal of Nich. 
 Ass/ieton, p. 1 16.) We now have it clear that Thomas Hammond was the husband of 
 Beatrice Nowell, and she was verj' likely a sister of the Dean, and daughter of John 
 Nowell of Read, Esq. The period is too early for help to be obtained from Church 
 Registers, albeit those of Whalley Church begin exceptionally early (1538), and are in 
 admirable preservation. I submit below what I think is a nearly correct statement of 
 the descent of the Hammonds. Thomas Hammond of Pendleton, near Wlialley, 
 living in 1569, had by Beatrice Nowell, his wife, sons, Thomas and John. He 
 had a sister Agnes, wife of Robert Marsden, with whom Thomas Hammond had 
 a suit-at-law in 1555. Thomas Hammond, the elder son, succeeded his father in 
 tenure of the freehold near Whalley, and married, at Whalley Church, 30th Januarj', 
 1553-4, Beatrice Wolton, daughter of John Wolton of Whalley, and sister of John 
 W^olton, aftenvards Bishop of Exeter. By her he had a son Henry, baptized at 
 Whalley Church, 22nd September, 1567. Among many gifts to kinsfolk in Lancashire 
 enumerated elsewhere in the MS. (see Index of Names, s.7i.), occur the following 
 entries relating to this pair, and their infant son Hemy : — " To his [Robert Nowell's] 
 cosin Beteris Wolton maried to Thorn's haymonde, v'. To hemy haymonde her sonne 
 one yeard di woollen & one yeard di lynen xii''." This son was the Henry Hammond 
 of Pendleton, gent., who is on a list of local freeholders in 1610, and he, or a son 
 Hemy Hammond, was buried at W'halley Church, i8th November, 1642. Passing 
 to the junior branch, John Hammond, a son of Thomas, born in 1542, became fellow 
 of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and proceeded LL. B. in 1561. He was admitted an 
 advocate, nth jMay, 1569, and the same year received the degi^ee of L. L.D. In 1573 
 he was appointed Commissaiy to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, no doubt by his 
 kinsman Dean Nowell's patronage, and in 1575 was made Chancellor of the Diocese 
 of London. He held his fellowship of Trinity Hall until 1577; and the following 
 entries from our MS. seem to refer to him:— ist Januaiy, 1576-7. "To S" Haymonde 
 the same tyme v'." 20th November 1577. "To one Mr. hamond of the same howse 
 [Trinity] x"." In 1580-1582 Dr. Hammond is found engaged in disputation, on the 
 Protestant side, with Campian the Jesuit and other imprisoned Roman Catholics. He 
 sat in Parliament for Rye in 1585, and for Westlow in 1586. He was author of a 
 Latin Oration made when Queen Elizabeth went to Cambridge in 1564, and of certain 
 legal opinions preserved in the Harleian and Lansdowne MSS. Dr. John Hammond 
 died in 1589; and on the testimony of Recorder Fleetwood, "Mr. Doctor Hamonde 
 was delivered to the earthe uppon the laste mondaye" of December 1589. His Will is 
 dated 21st December, 1589; and Dean Nowell is an attesting paiiy. Testator's wife, 
 Agnes, is named sole executrix. He had one son, John Hammond, M.D., who was 
 a London physician. Dean Nowell, by a codicil to his Will dated 1601, gives, first, 
 "to his cousin Mr. Doctor Hammond and his wife five pounds. Item, to every one 
 of their children twenty shillings." He was appointed physician to Prince Henry, the 
 King's eldest son, after the accession of James I. in 1603; and his youngest son, Henry
 
 (Page 47 of the MS., folio 46.) 
 
 The xijth day of Aprill A" 1569 to 
 
 Nycholcs halstcd^ and Anne his wicf 
 
 the some of v^i due vnto the said Anne 
 
 for her legacye as apperethe, by their acquitances 
 
 of Aprell Ao 1569 to Lawrance 
 
 -V' 
 
 the xijt^ daye 
 Whitaker2 
 acquitance. 
 
 the some of v^^ as apperethe by his W^ 
 
 the xviijtii daye of Julye A'' 1569 
 Dean^ of Tunworthe the some 
 his Legacye as apperethe by his 
 
 to 
 
 the iij<^ daye of Aprell A" 
 
 apperethe by 
 of Aprell Ao 
 
 hopwoode* as 
 the iij*^ Daye 
 
 Whitaker^ for his Legacye 
 
 by their [sic] acquitance 
 the xiij^'^ 
 
 John \ 
 
 of v^^ for > 
 
 accquitance j 
 
 1569 to Rafife 1 
 
 his accquitance j 
 
 {560 to Robte'i 
 
 as apperethe > 
 
 v' 
 
 v\y 
 
 Daye of Aprill A° i569 to James 
 
 & katherine his 
 said katherine as 
 
 Bolton'', of Lacister shire 
 wief, for a legacye for the 
 apperethe by their acquitance 
 the " 
 
 •vi'i 
 
 7th 
 
 Day of Aprill A" 1569 
 Cronshey7 & Elizabethe his 
 their Legacye, as apperethe by their 
 
 the seconde of Aprill A** 1569 
 Crabtrye^ and Anne his wief for 
 due to the said Anne the some 
 by their acquitance apperethe 
 
 the iij^ daye of Aprill A'' 1569 
 Lawe & Elizabethe his wieP 
 
 to Leonarde ^ 
 wief for > 
 acquitances j 
 Thoms 
 legacye 
 
 XX 
 
 li 
 
 to 
 a 
 of 
 
 xx'^ as 
 
 ■XX' 
 
 to 
 the 
 
 Robte' 
 some 
 
 ;ii 
 
 xnj" vj* vnj' 
 
 legacy 
 
 as 
 
 of 
 for 
 the xij**^ Daye of Aprill 
 for his Legacye as 
 accquitance 
 
 ili 
 
 due to the [said] Elizabethe f 
 apperethe by their acquitancej 
 to Nicholes Deane^^ "j 
 apperethe by his )-x^' 
 
 ;;d 
 
 
 the v]^^^ daye of Januarye A" {569 to willm^ ^ 
 Whitakere" in pte of paymente of his legacye Mij^' 
 as apperethe by his bill J 
 
 the iV]^ Daye of Aprill A° i569 to Mylesi 
 Bancrofte'' & Ales his wief due to the 1 ..., 
 
 ^\ 111 
 
 said Alys for her legacye as apperethe [ •' 
 by their acquitances J 
 
 the vj^^h of Maye A" {569 to Jane Leaton'^"' 
 one of the daughteres of Alice Singlton ! .j; 
 the some of six poundes as apperethe by [ •' 
 her acquitance J 
 
 the ij'^ daye of Julye A" 1569 to christofer"] 
 harrys'^ of Garstange and to Jane harrys | 
 his wief daughter of John finglitone )>vj^' 
 the some of six poundes as apperethe by his 
 accquitance 
 
 the iiijt^ daye of martch A" 1569 to John 
 Sellere of Reade'* as apperethe by his ^x^' 
 acquitance , 
 
 VJ^ VI ij 
 
 Ui 
 
 i 
 
 82 
 
 cxxxiiij^V 
 
 xujs nij
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 Hammond, Ijorn in 1605, at Chertsey, was christened by the name of the Prince. 
 This son was the well-known Dr. Henry Hammond, the commentator, Vicar of Fen- 
 shoot, in the county of Kent, of which benefice he was deprived during the Civil War. 
 Dr. Henry Hammond died the 25th April, 1660. (.See the Life, by Dr. Fell.) Two 
 other Hammonds named in the MS., as students at Cambridge, viz., John Hammond 
 and Henry Hammond, were of this family, it is likely; but what was their relationship 
 to contemporary Hammonds noticed above is not evident. 
 
 '^ ^'■John Deane of Tiiiiworihe.'" See note 7 supra. 
 
 12 "^4iys Haivorth zvyddowe" : She is described as of " Ratchdale" (Rochdale) parish, 
 and as "daughter of Henry Hopwood." She receives her legacy as a kinswoman of 
 the Nowells, and I have little doubt her father was the Hopwood who married Eleanor 
 Nowell, sister of Robert Nowell. See a note on the Hopwood-Nowell connexion 
 hereafter, and Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ' NycJwles halsied.'''' See Index of Names, s.n., for this and other names on this 
 page not noticed herein. Nicholas Halsted was a member of one of several families of 
 Halsteds of the rank of lesser gentry, seated at High Halsted, Worsthorne, and Rowley, 
 on the north-east side of Burnley, in the county of Lancaster. One of them, Hugh 
 Halsted, married, some years before the date of this record, Grace, daughter of Richard 
 Towneley, Esq. A Nicholas Halsted occurs as a party in a suit in 1563, respecting 
 a tenement in Downham, which he and Richard Grymshey claimed by conveyance 
 from Richard Asheton. His wife, Anne Halsted, receives her 5/. for her legacy ; 
 and as this was the sum Robert Nowell left to each of the children of his sisters 
 minamed in his Will, I conjecture that Anne Halsted was daughter of one of those 
 sisters. Nicholas Halsted, being perhaps a younger son, seems to have been engaged 
 in trade ; for among a number of Lancashire "chapmen" from whom large quantities 
 of cloth were procured by the executors of Robert Nowell, as entered later in the 
 MS., the name of Nicholas Halsted several times occurs as having sold various sorts 
 of cloth to these executors. (See Index of Names, s.n., for other references.) 
 
 ' '^Laiirance Whitaker." Conjecturally a younger son of Thomas Whitaker of 
 Holme, by Elizabeth (Nowell), his wife, and a brother of Dr. William Whitaker. 
 
 ^ ^"jfohn Deanr See previous page for an account of the Deans. 
 
 * " Eaffe hopwoode" : One of Robert Nowell's aunt Eleanor Hopwood's sons, to 
 each of whom he bequeathed "jl. (See onward for an account of the Hopwoods. ) 
 
 * " Robte \Vhitakc7-'''' : Eldest son of Thomas Whitaker, gent., of Holme, by 
 Elizabeth, his wife, Robert Nowell's sister. 
 
 ^ '* ya?nes Bolton": Catherine, wife of James Bolton, who here receives her legacy 
 of 61., was a daughter of John Singleton, gent., to each of whom (save the heir), 
 Robert Nowell left 61. by his Will. James Bolton is described in the Singleton 
 pedigree as of "Salwic, in the county of Lancaster," but here he is spoken of as of 
 Leicestershire. His son and heir was Nicholas Bolton, living in 1587. 
 
 ^ " Leonarde CronsJuy cr^ Elizabethe his wief^'': Leonard Cronshey married Elizabeth 
 Whitaker, daughter of Thomas Whitaker, by his wife Elizabeth, sister of Robert 
 Nowell. (See later note for the children of this pair, and Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 ^ " Thoni's Crabirye'': His wife was Anne Whitaker, another of the daughters of 
 Thomas Whitaker, gent., and sister of Dr. W^illiam Whitaker. 
 
 ' ^' I\ob^te Lawe and Elizabethe his wief": The kinship of Robert Lawe and his vidfe 
 to the Nowells is thus made out: — Robert Lawe of Whalley, yeoman, married Elizabeth 
 W^olton, one of the daughters of John Wolton of Whalley, yeoman, by his wife 
 Margaret, daughter of John Nowell, Esq., and sister of Dean Nowell and Robert 
 Nowell. By his wife Elizabeth, Robert Lawe had issue, sons, Thomas Lawe his 
 heir, Robert, Henry, and James; and daughters, Alice, Isabel, Margery, and Catherine. 
 All these children are named as receiving gifts subsequently in the MS. (See Index 
 of Names, s.n. ) Robert Lawe, second son of Robert, will hereafter be specially noted 
 as a scholar at Brazenose, and eventually attaining the position of an archdeacon of the 
 Church of England. 
 
 10 " Micholas Deane": A son, I assume, of William Deane of Tunworth, by his wife 
 Maud (Nowell). (See supra, p. 80, for note on the Deanes. ) 
 
 " " IVilhn Whitakre": The future eminent theologian. (See Index of Names, j-.;/., 
 for other references to him, and our Introduction.) 
 
 '"^ " tnyles Bancrofte" : He married Alice Wolton, daughter of John Wolton of 
 Whalley, by his wife Margaret (Nowell). Myles Bancroft appears to have died very 
 soon after the date of this entry (April, 1569); for a later entry, dated I3lh July, 1569, 
 runs: — " cosin Alis wolton, late wief to myles Bancrofte, ■uyddoi.i'e," &c. 
 
 '^ " Jafte Leaton ": She is described as one of the daughters of Alice Singleton, but it 
 must have been by her second husband, who, as I have before noted from the MS. , was 
 Anthony Laton. " Leaton " in this entry stands for Laton, or, as usually spelt, Layton. 
 
 2G S3
 
 xxli 
 
 (Page 48 of the MS., folio 46 verso.) 
 
 the iiij'^ of martche to Lawrance feller ^ 
 
 as apperethe by his acquitance ^vj^i xiij^ iiij*^ 
 A" 15681 j 
 
 the Laste daye of maye A° {569 to the~ 
 church wardones of the towshipes of the 
 pishe of Whalley2, to be distributed to ^vj^^ xiij^ iiij<^ 
 the poor of the same pishe as 
 apperethe by their acquitance 
 
 the iiij'^ daye of June A^ 1569 to the \ 
 
 church wardenes, of the towenshippes f .jj ...^ -...j 
 of the pishe of brunley^, to be distributed I ^ -' •^ 
 to the poor of the same pishe ' 
 
 the viijtii of martch A° 1568 to Robte \ ,g 
 pyckyringe as apperethe by his acquitance j 
 
 To Nycoles Alexander the same time x* 
 
 the Day of to 
 Whitwhame"* & to his wief 
 Daughter vnto Elizabethe Nowell & Thorns 
 Whitaker, for their legacye T, J 
 
 To Charles Nowell^ for his Legacye \ ^ jj 
 
 the XK^^ Day of July A° 1569 j ^^ 
 
 o'' cosine 
 
 * To Thoms Wilkinsonne^ of London a 
 
 in pte of paymente of his Legacie as yi^ 
 appereth by his accquitances the vj^^ of [ 
 Julye Ao 1 57 1 J 
 
 * M^ y^ this Thoms Wilkinsone hade xl^ enterid before 
 
 fol 44. the xiiij*^ of february A" 1569 & xv^ enterd 
 fol. 90 the xviij*^^^ of Aprell A» {569 in the whole 
 
 To my Lorde Kep & my Ladie his wief^ the ) n g 
 
 firste of martch Ao 1568 j"^ ^ 
 
 To my Lady Cicill^ the same tyme iij'i x^ 
 
 To m"^ Chanselo^ of the Dutchy^ the same tyme iij^^ x^ 
 To fir waiter ) •••!; q 
 
 /• 111 X 
 
 mylde made^" the same tyme j ■' 
 
 To fargante manwoode^ ^ the same tyme xxx^ 
 
 84
 
 ^ (^ 
 
 el and Illustrations. 
 
 " "■' Chrisiofer harry s of Garsfans^e" &.C.: — He mavried, as here set forth, Jane 
 Singleton, daughter of John Singleton, gent. In 10 Elizabeth (1568), Christopher 
 Harris and Jane his wife, claiming under the Will of her father, John Singleton, were 
 plaintiffs in a suit respecting lands, tenements, and rents in Whittington, Goosnargh, 
 &c., charged with payments of money to the daughters of John Singleton. {Cal. to 
 Pleadings, vol. ii, p. 363.) 
 
 '* "yokn Sellere o/Reade": John Sellers was a kinsman of the Nowells, and served, it 
 would appear, both Dean Alexander Nowell and Dean Laurence Nowell. Three folios 
 later in the vl/^. will be found the entry: — "To Ann Seller [Sellers] wief to John 
 Sellers Mr. Roberte Nowell kinsmane dwelling w' m"' dean of Lytchfild." (See on- 
 ward for other notes on the Sellers family, including two young men, John Sellers and 
 Thomas Sellers, scholars at Oxford.) 
 
 (48) 
 
 ' See Index of Names, s.n., for the names on this page not noticed herein. 
 2 "ivhalley" : Robert Nowell by Will left to the poor of the parishes of Whalley 
 and Burnley, in the county of Lancaster, "fouretie niarkes to ev'y p'ishe xx nobles." 
 Read Manor, the place of testator's birth, is in the parish of Whalley. 
 
 ^ '^ brnnley," i.e., Bumley. See note above for Robert Nowell's gift to the poor of 
 Burnley parish. The old spelling of Burnley was " Brttn/ey," the name being derived 
 from the small river Brun, which traverses the township. Burnley is not strictly 
 a "parish" of ancient definition, but a parochial chapelry under Whalley, embracing 
 seven townships. 
 
 * '■' IVhitivhame" : It is stated here that the wife of Whitwhame was "daughter 
 unto Elizabeth Nowell," who was wife of Thomas Whitaker of Holme, gent., and 
 sister of Robert Nowell, Esq. , and of Dean Nowell. A later entry in the MS. supplies 
 the christian names both of the daughter of Whitaker of Holme who married this 
 person and of her husband: "To his cosin Jane Whitaker marled to John 
 Whitwham." Robert Nowell bequeathed to each of his sister Elizabeth's married 
 daughters 20/., and this is the sum here recorded as paid to her daughter Jane 
 W'hitwham.' 
 
 ^ " charles Nowell'^ : He was manifestly a kinsman of Robert Nowell and a legatee, 
 but his name I do not find in the Will, nor can I fix his place in the Nowell 
 genealogy. He was probably a son of one of Robert Nowell's "cosins" mentioned 
 in his Will. Charles Nowell subsequently receives a gift of 20/., and conveys gifts to 
 his brother John Nowell, John's wife, and daughters. (See Index of Names, s.ii.) 
 
 ^ " Thorns Wilki7iso7ine.'''' He was apparently one of the children of Robert 
 Nowell's "uncles daughter y' maried Wilkinson in London," to whom he bequeathed 
 40/. to be divided amongst them by his executors. (See a former note on the 
 Wilkinsons. ) 
 
 ^ "w_y Lorde Kep 6^ my Ladie his wief" : viz.. Sir Nicholas Bacon. He was 
 appointed Lord Keeper 22nd December, 1551, and retained the office, ranking as 
 Lord Chancellor, until his death, 20th February, 1578-9. Lady Bacon here named 
 was Anne, second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, and 
 mother of Francis Bacon. 
 
 ^ " tny Lady Cicill" : Probably wife of the Cecil; but there were several 
 contemporary. 
 
 ' " mr Chanselor of the Diitchy" : Sir Ralph Sadler, Knight, lord of Standon 
 Manor, in the county of Herts, was Chancellor of the Duchy from i6th May, 1560, 
 to 1577. The date here is the ist March, 156S-9, so that Mr. Chancellor means Sir 
 Ralph Sadler. 
 
 '" "«■;■ Walter viylde made" : An instance of the scribe's constant mis-spelling of 
 proper names. This is intended for Sir Walter Mildmay, Knight, founder of 
 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1584. He was fifth son of Thomas Mildmay, Esq., 
 of Chelmsford, in the county of Sussex ; was born [about 1522 ; knighted, 22nd Feb- 
 ruary, 1546-7, and died at Hackney, 31st May, 1589. Among many public 
 appointments, Sir Walter Mildmay was a commissioner with Mr. Robert Kelleway 
 to take order for the maintenance of granmiar schools which had pertained to dissolved 
 chantries ; and as an example, in the Records of Blackburn Grammar School it is 
 written that " S"" Walter Myldmay, Knight, and Mr. Kellewaye, by vertue of a 
 commyssion in Kinge Edwardes tyme to them directed, for the contynewinge of 
 Scoles and erectinge of Scoles, did allowe 4/. 1$. \d. yerelie for the better maynetenance 
 of the Scole in Blackburne." 
 
 ^' "fargante manwoode'''' : Born at Sandwich, in Kent, in 1525 : afterwards Recorder 
 and M. P. for his native town: Sergeant-at-Law in 1567 : Justice of the Common 
 Pleas, 1572: Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1578, and then knighted. He died 
 14th December, 1592. (See Foss's Lives of the Judges.)
 
 
 (Page 49 of the MS., folio 4/.) 
 To the poor of the pishe of S'^ Andrewes in \ .^^ ^^..^ jjj-, 
 
 holborne^ the xx* of martch A" 1568 j 
 
 To the poore of the pishe of heiidon the xx^^^ of ) -y, ^•••3 jjjjd 
 
 Martch A<> i568 J 
 
 To eu^y one of M^ Shinghtons wiefes children^ \ ^^-^n 
 
 excepte the heir vj^i the whole ys j ' 
 
 To the good wief Lancelette xl^ 
 
 Delyu^ed to AP Whitakers^ of Trinitie | 
 College in Cambridge the xij*^ of xi 
 December A^ iSJA-V^^^' 
 
 for pte of his legacie due by the 
 
 gyfte of Mr Attourney deceased. 
 
 Too Grace wylkinsonn^ the xx^^i 
 October 1580: for full paymente 
 her leracie. 
 
 =^Too her fyster Johann wylkinsonn^ \ ...ji 
 before the xx'^i of October i58o: j 
 
 iij" vj 
 
 s 
 
 [ Verso — blank.] 
 
 86
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 (49) 
 
 ' ^' Ste Andrcwes in holbonte" : See Maitland's London, s.n., and Newcourt, s.n., 
 for many details on this ancient Church and Parish — one of the few that escaped the 
 Fire. 
 
 ^ " Mr. Shinglitons wiefes children'''' : See the note on page 8i respecting the family of 
 Singleton and the legacies of these "children" of John Singleton, Esq., under Robert 
 Nowell's Will. The antique spelling of the local territorial name and surname of 
 Singleton is Shingleton, and the seat of the family was Shingle or Chingle-hall. 
 
 3 " IVhitaker" : Dr. William Whitaker, as before. 
 
 * " Grace Wylkinsomi''' : See Index of Names, s.n., and former note. 
 
 * " Johanji wylkinsonn •.''^ Ibid.
 
 thefe pcell vndcr are 
 entered in the 
 jo. leafe nexte 
 foUowinge' 
 
 (Page 50 of the MS., folio 49.) 
 Clothe and money geuen to certeyn of his 
 
 aboute London 
 kinrede' & poor A after the funerall by 
 
 and John Townley 
 Alexander & Lawrance Nowell a executors 
 of Roberte Nowell E'^^2 
 
 The 
 
 xxj 
 
 ah 
 
 Doughter 
 
 daye of february to Joane mey* 
 to Elyoner hopwood^, whoe was 
 fyster to Elizabeth Nowell. mother to 
 the said Robte Nowell deceased ij yardes 
 & a half of blacke at x^ the yarde _ 
 
 To hamlet Aston-* fonne^ [erasure] 
 
 in Lawe to John Nowell remaininge at 
 Lytchfild w* AP Lawrance Nowell 
 ayard & a q''^'' at x^ the yarde 
 
 The xxij* of february to Anne feller^ 
 VVief to John feller Mr Roberte 
 
 )>xxvs 
 
 XIJ* VJ' 
 
 Nowell Kinsmane 
 of Lytchfild 
 
 at x^ the yarde 
 
 dwellinge w* 
 ij yard 
 
 J 
 
 Dean 
 
 nter 
 
 •XXIJ^ VJ<^ 
 
 geven 
 
 The xiij'^ of m^tch 
 greet Doughter^, vnto 
 ij yardes & a half at viij^ 
 
 vnto Sarra 
 M"" houghton 
 the yarde & 
 
 >xxvj3 vnj' 
 
 vjs vuj*^ 
 
 geven 
 
 houghtonS" 
 of 
 
 of them ij yardes V 
 
 VJ 
 
 clothe 
 d 
 
 at ixs 
 
 the 
 
 brother 
 
 go wen e 
 
 Robertes 
 at viij^ 
 
 m money 
 
 vnto Elizabethe 
 
 Joan & Katherin the doug-hteres 
 M'' houghton to each 
 & a half of blacke 
 yard in the whole iij^' vij 
 
 To Christofere or 
 mane iij yardes for 
 iiij'i the yard , 
 
 To mother hunte'° the 6 of October 
 A° 1569 towardes her chardges in to 
 Lancashere 
 
 To one Nowell psonn of fpringe'^ in 
 Effexe & M^ Elyes fomtyme 
 
 registere the xiiij*^ of auguste 1569 
 
 To the wief of henry Spellar 
 
 of Edmunton beinge Doughter 
 
 to M''^ fheparde'2 the xvij^^ auguste 1569 
 
 jijli 
 vijs vj' 
 
 •XXV* 
 
 >x« 
 
 >xxs 
 
 >xx* 
 
 Th 
 
 IS 
 
 woman 
 
 had 
 
 the 
 
 xvij 
 
 th 
 
 on s 
 
 r V 
 
 maye before in poules church J 
 
 to John houghto'2 as appereth by his accquitance iij^i xvj^ iiij"* 
 
 to one Neve the 18 of A** 1570 xx^ 
 
 to the wyef of henry fpeller of E. doughter to M'"^ sheperd xx^ 
 
 the had in poweles the 22 of auguste v^ 
 
 88
 
 Notes and IlliLsti'ations. 
 
 (50) 
 
 1 '^ K'in7-ede,'" kc. The words "about London," and "John Townlcy," are in- 
 serted in the handwriting of Dean Nowell. 
 
 2 "^<r/i"=each. 
 
 3 ^^Elyoner hopwood" : This is a vahiable entry, as settling a moot point in the gene- 
 alogy of the Nowells, viz., as to which of the wives of John Nowell, Esq. (the first or 
 second), was mother of the two Deans, and of Robert Nowell, Esq. I refer the reader 
 to the details of the descent in our Introduction and to later annotations, s.n. Hop- 
 wood. 
 
 * ^'' hamlet Aston'''' : I have not identified Hamlet Ashton as a member of any of 
 several Lancashire families of Ashton or Assheton. I think he was of the Rochdale 
 Asshetons, and if he was son-in-law of John Nowell, as entered in the text, he must 
 have married a sister of Robert Nowell, perhaps Jane Nowell, for whom a husband is 
 not found in any pedigree of Nowells. Hamlet Ashton was, it seems, residing in 1569 
 at the deanery in Lichfield with his brother-in-law. Dean Lawrence Nowell. "Hamlet" 
 is to be noted as a curious christian name; yet it was of rather frequent use among the 
 Lancashire gentry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 
 
 5 After " fonne" the words " & hayre" are written and erased in the AFS. 
 
 « " A 7ine feller''' : See Index of Names under "John Seller," and note on page 85. 
 
 7 '■^ greet Dougkter'''' = grand-daughter? 
 
 8 'Oioiightoii" : I conceive that the Mr. Houghton named in this entry, whose three 
 daughters, Elizabeth, Joan, and Katherine, received the gift of money, was John Hoghton 
 of Pendleton, gent., whose wife Grace was aunt to Robert Nowell, Esq. He (John 
 Hoghton) was dead before the date of the A/S., but his daughters might then be sur- 
 viving. (For other references to Hoghtons, see Index of Names, s.?i.) 
 
 3 From this to close of page is crossed out in the A/S. 
 
 '" " mother /lunte": see Index of Names, j.w. 
 
 " " Nowell psonf I of Springe in Efexe''': Ths name here given Springe should be 
 Fering, in Essex, as correctly given in subsequent entries. (See Index of Names, s. n.) 
 This tninister, Edward Nowell, was a kinsman of the Nowells, and is so classed in 
 some entries onward in the A/S. 
 
 •2 " Shepartle": see Index of Names under ".S/^^T^/tz;-^*?." 
 
 1^ "yo/m /ioug/ito" = John Houghton. 
 
 89
 
 money Distributed 
 to tlie hospitalls & 
 to other poor pishes 
 10 febr. 
 
 Christes hospyt:iIl \ 
 ccc. children ) 
 
 19 febr. 
 
 h 
 
 St thorns 
 hospytall 
 
 13 febr. 
 
 Littlie Sle 
 Barthihiiewes 
 
 is febr. 
 
 3- 
 
 the p.suns 
 about londun 
 
 (Page 5 I of the MS., folio 49 verso.) 
 
 §- 
 The ->d^ of february to m*' John^ 
 
 Jackesonne, tresorer of the hospitall 
 
 Named Christes hospytall,' in the 
 
 p'^sentes of M"" Thorns Eaton & others 
 
 for the clothinge of the children in the 
 
 same, as apperethe by his accquitancej 
 
 The xiij^'i of february p^ to M""" 
 Edward Jackemane & otheres to the 
 Vfe of the poor harbored in the )»xxx^' 
 hospytall of S*^ Thoms^ as j 
 apperethe by ther accquitance J 
 
 The xiij'h Day of february to m""^ 
 Edward brighte & otheres to the vse j 
 of the poor harbored, in the hospytall I j; 
 of Lyttell S^e Bartholemeves^ f ^^ 
 in weste Smythfylde as j 
 apperethe by their accquitance J 
 
 The xviij*^ day of february delyued' 
 to James yonge'* of London, preacher 
 & ffrances bowyer^ grocer, to be 
 distributed in the prisones of new- 
 gatt. Ludgatt. the counter in wood- 
 ftrete, the counter in the pultery,^ 
 to anumber of fpanyardes, in bryd- )>^^?57J 
 
 §clxxxx" X* 
 
 5- 
 
 m 
 & 
 by 
 more 
 for 
 
 well,7 to the poor m 
 kinges bynche^ the 
 the whyte Lyon'' & 
 Suthwarke,'2 the 
 byfliopps preson,!'* 
 their accquitance 
 to the fame James 
 a poor fpanyard named 
 
 as by the 
 
 bedlim,^ the 
 
 marshallsey'° 
 
 the counter 
 
 gate houfe'^ 
 
 in westmr as 
 
 apperethe 
 
 yonge 
 
 vnj"^ 
 
 appereth by one note, to 
 U* bestowed in prefonesi 
 
 vnder 
 
 figned 
 
 ^v 
 
 accquitance 
 
 hande of the faid James 
 playnly apperethe 
 
 th 
 
 fame . 
 the ^"^ 
 yonge 
 
 as 
 
 is febr 
 
 more 
 ,-th 
 
 St. Andrcwes 
 in holborne. 
 
 The xviij*^!' day of february to M 
 Rogere Amyes, to be distributed 
 amongeste the poore of S* 
 Andrewes in holborne as by the 
 accquitance of the said Rogere | 
 apperethe J 
 
 §- 
 
 y 
 
 ili 
 
 ( vj* vnj 
 
 id 
 
 n 
 
 < 
 
 clxxxx^' xs 
 
 90
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (5t) 
 
 ^ ^' Chrisles hospyialV and "Air. Thomas Eaton'''': see Index of Names, s.7t. 
 
 2 "6V. 77^^wj"=St. Thomas's: see Maitland's Z(?;?(/i7«, as before, pp. 1322-3, for 
 the history of this renowned " Hospital." 
 
 2 ^^ Lytell Ste Bartholemeves" i.e., Bartholomew the Less. See Maitland, as before, 
 pp. 1069-70. 
 
 ■* " ya>?!es yonge, preacher": curiously enough no "James" Yonge or Young ap- 
 pears in Newcourt, or elsewhere, of the period. 
 
 * "■ffrances bo7uyer": see Index of Names, s.n., and former note on this merchant 
 "grocer," who did noble service to the Reformation by taking care of Alexander 
 Nowell and others in Mary's reign. Francis Bowyer, Esq., was one of the sheriffs of 
 the city of London in 19 Elizabeth (1576-7)- See also our Introduction for the 
 relationship (by marriage) of the Bowyers and Nowells. 
 
 * See Index of Names, s.n., for other notices of these prisons. 
 
 7 " brydivell,'" i.e.. Bridewell: Maitland, as before, s.n. 
 
 8 '^ b/dlim," i.e., Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital: see Maitland, as before, p. 1290. 
 ' ^' hinges bynche," i.e.. King's Bench: Maitland, as before, p. 1281. 
 
 ^^ '^ Marshallsey," i.e., the Marshalsea. The Marshalsea and King's Bench prisons 
 in Southwark existed in the fourteenth century. The Marshalsea was under the control 
 of the knight-marshal of the royal household — hence its name. 
 
 " ^'ivhytc I.yon": The old county jail for Surrey in Southwark was situate near St. 
 George's Church, and was called the "White Lion" because of its having once been 
 an inn, bearing that sign. 
 
 '■•' '■^ counter in Suthwarke''^ : to distinguish it from the "counter" in "wood-street." 
 
 12 ^'gatehouse'''': in Fleet street. Maitland, as before, p. 1242. 
 
 •^ ^' byshopps preso)!." " The building on the east side of the Dean's Yard Gate [in 
 Westminster] for the Bishop of London's Prison for Clerks convict." (Maitland, vol. 
 ii, p. 1342.) 
 
 9i
 
 (Page 52 of the AfS., folio 50.) 
 
 17 fcbr. 
 
 Si fopuleres 
 
 ig febr. 
 
 St Gylles wt out 
 Crepell gate 
 
 3. of martch 
 
 St butulpIiL-s & 
 Ste Galbroughes 
 
 8 of martch 
 
 St Katlieria 
 chrislu cliurche 
 
 5 of martch 
 
 St Gylls m 
 tile fildes 
 
 8 of martch 
 
 Ste OHves. 
 Ste Georges. 
 Ste Saviours. 
 Ste inaries in 
 Southwarke. 
 
 The xvijt^ of february To the churche" 
 Wardons and others of S*® Sepulcres 
 w* out Newegate^ to be distributed amonges )>iiij^' 
 the poore of the said pishe as more playnly 
 apperethe by their accquitance. . _ 
 
 The xix^li day of february Delyu ed to 
 Thorns Busby & others pishioneres of 
 S* Gylles w* out crepell gate^, to be 
 distributed their amongeste the poor 
 of the said pishe as by their 
 accquitance apperethe _ 
 
 The thirde of martche To James"^ 
 Yonge & other, to be distributed 
 amongeste the poore, of S*** 
 Buttulphes3 & S' Galbroughes* 
 in byfliopsgate warde as by their 
 accquitance apperethe J 
 
 The viij*^ of martch to James yonge^ 
 & others to be distributed amongste 
 the poore of the pishe of S'^'' Katherin 
 Christe churche w^ in Algate^ as by their 
 bill apperethe 
 
 To henry Antylls & other for the 
 
 relief of the poor of 
 of Ste Gylls^ in the 
 by their accquitance apperethe 
 To m"" crowley'' and others, 
 relief of poor pishes 
 Olives Sanct faviours. 
 
 & Sancte marie 
 
 Georges, 
 for ev of the 
 by their bills 
 accquitances 
 
 the pishe 
 fylde as 
 
 for the 
 
 of S* 
 
 Sancte 
 
 ma""delens 
 
 1 
 
 xxiiij' 
 
 said pishes xl^ as 
 apperethe & their 
 
 xxiiij^V 
 
 9-2
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (52) 
 
 ' '^ Ste Sepulc res iv' font Newegate''^: see Maitland, as before, pp. 1178, 11 80. 
 
 2 "St. Gylles xv' font crepell gate'": ibid, p. iioi. 
 
 ' " Ste Bnttiilp/ies''': ibid, s.ii., freijuentei- = St. Botulph's. 
 
 ■* '^ St. Galbroiighes," i.e., St. Gabriel's, ibid, p. iioi. 
 
 * ^' Sle Jiaiherin Chrisle C/tiircke w' fin A/gate": ibid, s.n., frequeitler. 
 
 8 "Ste. Gylls," i.e., St. Giles as in note 2. 
 
 7 "mr. croivley'' "St. Olaves": " Sancte Savioures," "Sancte Georges," 
 
 " Sancte marie magdallens " : Maitland, as before, has details on all these Churches . 
 and Parishes. Mr. Crowley, the minister»here named as almoner, was Robert Crowley, 
 long time vicar of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, though it should be noticed that not he, 
 but Thomas Busby, is mentioned above on this page of the A/S. in connection with St. 
 Giles's. He is again found in the MS. two pages onward. Other accounts of Robert 
 Crowley will be found in Anthony a-Wood, and (best) in Dr. Bloxam's Register of the 
 Presidents, Fellows, Demies, &'e. , of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, vol. i, pp. 
 78-84. He was boini in Gloucestershire, entered at Magdalen College, Oxford, about 
 1534; B.A., 19th June, 1540; an exile in Germany in the reign of Mary; returning 
 home in 1558, had subsequently several livings in London, among them, St. Giles's, 
 Cripplegate, of which he wrote himself vicar in 1566; and St. Lawrence, Jewiy, 
 presented in 1576. He was author of more than twenty printed books and tractates 
 (mostly controversial against the Church of Rome) enumerated by Dr. Bloxam. He 
 died iSth June, 15S8, and was buried in the Chancel of St. Giles's Church. 
 
 93
 
 9 of martch 
 
 St. bo.tulphes. vvt 
 out Alderssjate 
 
 g of martch 
 
 Tottenham 
 io of martch 
 
 Edmonton 
 
 St. Andrewes 
 
 Ste Gregori<i 
 
 Ste .Sepucre.s 
 
 I. To 
 
 2. To 
 
 (Page 53 of the MS., folio 50 verso.) 
 Wittm Stockfon & otheres fori 
 the rcHef of the poore of the pishe I ...jj ., 
 of S* botilphcs w* out Aldersgate' j -^ ^ 
 as appereth by their accquitancej 
 Robte Joner^ vicare of Totteham ] 
 in the countie of mictd. for the rehef 1 
 
 VI Ij' 
 
 xxs 
 
 Sxls 
 
 ;>xvs 
 
 of the same pishe as by his 
 accquitance apperethe J 
 
 3. To Rychard Langher vicer of 
 
 Edmunton^ for the rehef of the 
 poor of the said pishe as by 
 
 his accquitance apperethe 
 
 To John shrapshir the iiij*^ of 
 aprill 1569 ij yardes & di. of newe 
 coller to the vse of Willm Dixon 
 at vj^ a yarde* J 
 
 4. The iiij'^^ day of martch to the churche 
 
 wardens of the pishe of S*^ andrewes 
 
 in holborne^ A" 1569 Vvj'» 
 
 as appeirethe by the said church 
 wardons ther accquitance _ 
 
 5. To the pson and collecto" of the pished 
 
 of S*^ Gregories^ vnder poules the [ ^ 
 xiiij*^^ of October 1569 as appearethe ( 
 by ther accquitance J 
 
 6. To the churche of S'® fepulcres'' the xviij''^^ 
 
 of february A" 1568 as apperethe by 
 their accquitance 
 
 7. The xvjt^ of Novemb-^ A° 1569 to M''"] 
 
 heton^ & m"" Aske to be distributed 1 ^u 
 amongeste the poore afflictede as appethe [ 
 by their accquitance J 
 
 8. To certeine poor presoneres in wood ftret the"] 
 
 xiij^ nij 
 
 (I 
 
 xviij'^ of february A^ i568. by wihm 
 waginton & Robte Afke 
 
 Wii 
 
 XXX vij^* 
 
 [Six blank leaves appear to have been torn out of the MS. at this place.] 
 
 94
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (53) 
 
 ' '■^ St. botilphes 7!J't''oi{t Aldersgate'": ^laitland, as be ^"0 re, pp. 1075, 1078. 
 
 2 "■ Robte yoiier vicare of Toltehani^'' : He recurs in tlie MS., and at folio 80 the 
 name is spelled "Joyner," which is the correct form. 
 
 ' " Rychard Laugher vicer of Edmiuitott ": This name is mis-written, even by Dean 
 Nowell. As is proved by his Will (preserved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop 
 of London), his name was Richard Langherne (spelled by Newcourt, "Langhorne," 
 s.n.). His Will is dated loth August 1570, and proved 7th October in the same year. 
 He calls himself vicar of Edmonton. He left sons, Thomas, Richard and John; and 
 a daughter Katherine, wife of William Hayward. His wife Edith was his executrix. 
 He directed that he was to be buried in the Chancel of Edmonton Church. His 
 son "Richard" is the Richard of our ]\IS., linked with Edmund Spencer in an 
 important entry onward. For more of him, see our Introduction. 
 
 ^ The whole of this entry is crossed out in the MS. 
 
 * "^"/c. and7-nves in /lolborne": see Index of Names, s.v. 
 
 * "St. Grcgories itnder p02iles" : ibid. 
 
 7 " Stc- Sepulcres'' : ibid. 
 
 8 "Mi: heton": doubtless Mr. Thomas Eaton, as before. See Index of Names, s.fi. 
 
 95
 
 inutche hadham 
 parishe 
 
 lienden pishc 
 
 wryt before 
 but the day 
 diflfereth 
 
 I. To the 
 
 4- 
 
 5- 
 
 (Page 54 of the MS., foho 51.) 
 poor of the parishe of mutche^ 
 
 xvij 
 
 th 
 
 of februarye I ••••]} -^ 
 more pleanly apperethe f ^ ^^ 
 
 XllljS vj' 
 
 hadham.^ the 
 Anno 1569 as 
 by the bill therof the some of iiij^' xvj^^J 
 
 More to the poor of the same parishe 
 the seconde of October A" 1570 
 xv-'^-'^iij yeardes of white Kersey^ conteneinge )>xxiijii x» 
 xviijten peces of xvij'^" yeardes a pece wche 
 coste in the whole xviij^^ x^ 
 
 money geven to the poor of the same ) 
 parishe the same feconde of Octobr j 
 
 2. To the Church wardens of the" 
 
 parishe of henden^ the v^^ of martche 
 to be bestowed vppon the poor of the 
 same parishe by thandes of mr 
 
 of Litchfilde^ A» 1569 
 
 more to churwardens of the same parishe^ 
 the vj*^ of Octobere A" 1570 as )>iij'' 
 apperethe by a bill therof J 
 
 3. the seconde of martche A° 1568 to m"" Amyes"] 
 
 to be bestowed vpon the poore in the parishe of [....]; .g .... 
 S*'' Andrewes in holborne^ as apperethe by the f ^ ^ ' -^ 
 said m"" Amyes accquitance J 
 
 Deane 
 
 >-iijii vj 
 
 s viiij'' 
 
 vjs viij^ 
 
 xxxnj' 
 The seconde of Januarye Anno 1571 To the' 
 poore of the p^sones in Southwooke^ 
 
 named to by the poore 
 
 pfoners cooles^ to make them fier, by 
 the handes of m'' Croley p'^cheare^, & m"" yonge 
 [erasure] p'^cheare the 
 
 Daye & yeare fyrste abovesaid 
 
 the some of [erasure] fowertie shillinges _ 
 
 the xvjthof martch A° 1 571 to the poor pfoners of ] 
 
 r^ viij*^ 
 
 >-xls 
 
 Ludgatte, 
 
 byblie^ w<^^ coste )>xxiijs vj** 
 
 x^ 
 
 of the greate volum J 
 
 6. To the poor, of the hospitall,byfydesmy Lordeof ) 
 
 huntingtons,'o the xxiiij° of Julye A^ 1572... j 
 
 my m"" 
 
 7. Too the pfonercs of newe gate when a was w^^"] 
 
 one Seaton^^ a condemned mane the viij<' of )>k^ 
 martch A° 1573 J 
 
 90
 
 Notes arid Illustrations. 
 
 54 
 
 • " tnjitche had/mm" : see Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ '^ white kersey'''': Kersey was a coarse woollen cloth, manufactured then chiefly in 
 the counties of Kent and Devon. These eighteen pieces of seventeen yards the piece 
 cost 1 8/. \os., or a little more than \s. 2d. the yard. 
 
 ^ '■^ henden'" : see as in I. 
 
 * "yJ/r. Deane of Litchjilde": Dean Laurence Nowell. 
 
 * "Air. Atnyes" See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 • '^ Soiitkewooke"=^o\x\.'hv{2Lr\i, as before. 
 
 7 *' codes" = codls. A thoughtful seasonable gift, in the depth of winter (2nd 
 January, 1571), to the poor shivering prisoners cowering in the wretched unwarmed 
 Southwark cells of the period. 
 
 ® "Air. Croley fcheare" same as Crowley. (See note 7, p. 93.) 
 
 ^ "« (5)'/5/zV"= Bible. This copy of the Holy Scriptures, given in March, 1571, to 
 the use of the prisoners of Ludgate, is described as "of the greate volume" — a folio, 
 doubtless — and cost 23^. 6d., a sum that would be about represented by 12/. of 
 Victorian money. It was doubtless the (so-called) Bishop's Bible. 
 
 10 '■'■ my Lorde of hiintiitglons" : Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, born about 
 1534; succeeded to the earldom, June, 1561; married, at Durham-house, London, 
 2ist May, 1553, Catherine, daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, but 
 had no issue; and died at York, 14th December, 1595. 
 
 1' ' ' one Seaton " : The scribe speaks of the time of this gift to the prisoners in New- 
 gate as an occasion "when my m'' [Dean Nowell] was w'th one Seaton, a condemned 
 mane. " He could hardly be an ordinary felon who received this special visit from the 
 Dean of St. Paul's. Was Seaton a political prisoner, or a "recusant" in religion? 
 I do not see the name in Stow, or other contemporary chroniclers. 
 
 H 97
 
 (Page 55 of the MS., folio 51 verso.) 
 Too the p'^foners of the Kinges benche the ) .^ 
 
 xth of Aprill Anno 1573 J ^J 
 
 the xxii'jth of Delyu^ede by Alexander Nowell, Dean of powles in London, to mr 
 
 December Punte^ Allderman Deputie, & m"" farmer pson of S*^ Gregories^ to be 
 
 Distributede vnto the poore of the same pishe, w*^'^ is pd as follow*-^ 
 the xx*^ of december A° 1573 
 
 1. Itm Too the poore of the pishe of S*®" 
 
 Gregories in Barnardes Castell warde the >\^ 
 xxiijti of Decemb^' A" 1573 __ 
 
 2. Itm to the poore of S*<^ Andrew in y« Wardrop^ ) ....g 
 
 pishe ) •' 
 
 3. Itm to the poore of S*® fayeth'* pishe \ g .^ 
 
 the xxiijti^ of December A« 1573 jxxx vj 
 
 4. Itm to the poore of S*® martyns^ att \ ^...g 
 
 Ludgatt the xxiij* of Decemb'' Ao 1573 j^^'"-' 
 
 vj'^ xiij8 iiij<^ 
 
 5. Itm more to wydddowe ijs vj<^ ij^ yj"^ 
 
 Itm to m"" farmore pfon of S*® Gregories ) ..g -^ 
 for his paynes in Distributinge this monye j •' ^ 
 
 the whole vj^^ xviij^ iiij"* 
 * 6. Too the poore at yorke the xx* of Julye 
 Ao 1574: & to the poore of the p^sons^ 
 ther 
 
 7. Too the poore p'foners of the Kinges bench 1 ..-, ••••^ 
 
 the xti^ of aprill Ao 1575: J ^"J "^J 
 
 8. Too nv ffarmer psonne of S*^ Gregories vnder 
 
 powles, and to m"" Punte the Alldermans deputie 
 there, and vnto m'' Series Stafioner^, to be 
 distributed to the poore in the pishes of the said 
 S*® Gregories, S**^ ffaythes, S^® martyns, and 
 S^^ Androwes in the wardrope in the plague 
 tyme,^ the fyrste of October A^ 1575 : _ 
 
 9. The xij* of Decembe'' giuen to the pore ofl 
 
 christes hospitall, by the handes of mr morgan )>iiij'' 
 the xij'^ of december A^ 1575 J 
 
 10. The xiij*ii of februarie to m'' chambarlayn^ 
 
 of London^ and to m^ ffrances Bowyere, to ^xl^ 
 the redemynge of the poore p^foners in barbarie^^J 
 
 1 1. Too the poore p'^soners of the counter, in wood ftrett"^ 
 
 the x'^ of maye 1576 : as appereth by their >xl* 
 
 acquitance J 
 
 ^^Iblu°trtiie'da?es Too thepoorcpresouersof thecouutcr, iu wood ftrct the | ,3 
 
 w'thin wrytten. xxviij'^'^ of martcli 1 577 : as by theyr bills appereth... j 
 
 Too the poore of the counter in pultrie the ) ...g .^ 
 
 fame tyme, or theyr aboutes | xxxnj 
 
 [Three leaves following this have been torn out of the MS.^ 
 
 ^vj'^ xiij^ iiij*^ 
 
 98
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (55) 
 
 ' " Mr Piinte''^ : See Index of Names, s.n., and a previous note, concerning this 
 merchant taylor and " allderman deputie." 
 
 2 " Mr fanner" and infra: See p. I, and relative Note. 
 
 ^ '■^ Ste Aiidy-tw in ye IVardrop" : These words are substituted for "Gregories" 
 (erased) in Dean Nowell's own liand. 
 
 * " Ste fayeth" : Maitland, j.m. 
 
 * ^^ Ste martyns" : Maitland, j.«. 
 
 * "p'sons'": The contraction here — prisons. 
 
 7 " nir Series Stafioner" : William Seres was a licensed printer in London, temp, 
 Edward VI., and appears as one of the charter-men of the Stationers' Company in 
 their charter dated 1556. He was Warden of the Company in 1561-2 and 1565-6, 
 and Master of the Company in 1570-1, 1571-2, 1575-6, 1576-7, and 1577-8. He was 
 living in 15S4, when his son occurs as "William Seres, junior." The elder Seres 
 printed many books in Elizabeth's time; amongst the rest, in 1564, he had a license 
 for printing A Cathechessme of the County palyntyne. In Chr. Barker's report, in 
 1582, on the Printing Patents granted from 1558 to 1582, it is said that " Master Seres 
 hath the Psalter of David the primer for little children, with the same catechisme, and 
 all bookes of private prayer whatsoever in latin and english." Strj'pe says Mr. Seres 
 the stationer had these privileges of printing religious manuals in Edward's time taken 
 away by Queen Mary and restored by Queen Elizabeth by means of Lord Burghley, 
 with the addition of a grant to him and his son during life of the longest liver of the 
 twain. Seres the father in his latter years, not being well able to follow his business, 
 transferred his privilege with his presses, letters, stock and copies, to one Henry 
 Derham for a yearly rent, and this was the cause of a great contention as to the 
 terms of this monopoly. I gladly embrace the opportunity of above further items 
 from Mr. Edward Arber's Transcript to pay my meed of praise to this most laborious, 
 painstaking, and invaluable work. 
 
 ^ "?';? the plague tyme'" : Plagues were frequent in the sixteenth century, but Stow, 
 the annalist, does not allude to the plague-time in October, 1575, recorded in this 
 place. A more serious outbreak of the plague occurred in London three years later, 
 in the summer of 1578. 
 
 ' " wr chambarlayn of London'''' : "The Chamberlain of London," says Maitland, 
 "is an officer of great repute and trust, and though annually chosen on Midsummer 
 Day, yet not displaced, but continues during life." He "had the keeping of the 
 money, lands, and goods of the city orphans, or took security for the payment thereof 
 when the parties came to age. " Maitland does not supply the names of the succession 
 of chamberlains of the City of London, but I find that George Heton was chamberlain 
 in 1573, and doubtless still held the office, it being practically a life-appointment, at the 
 date of this record (1575). 
 
 •" " poore p''soners in barbaric'''' : Ancient Barbary embraced all the seaboard States 
 of North Africa, from Egypt on the east to the Atlantic on the west. English mariners 
 shipwrecked on the south coast of the Mediterranean not uncommonly fell into the 
 hands of the authorities in Barbary, and were treated with great hardship as captives 
 or slaves. 
 
 2 H 99
 
 i4 febr. 
 
 12 of febr. 
 
 17 febr. 
 
 14 febr. 
 
 1 4 febr. 
 
 17 febr. 
 
 17 febr. 
 
 27 febr. 
 
 25 febr. 
 
 (Page 56 of the MS., folio 52./ 
 money Gcven to the Italyan ffrench & dutche 
 churches, as hereafter apperethe. A" 1569. 
 & to certen p'sons of strangers allsoe 
 
 I. The xiiij*^^ of february Geven to Jeronimus \ 
 
 Jerhtus* Italyan minister as apperethe by Hiij^ iiij' 
 
 2. 
 
 •liijs iiijd 
 
 his accquitance 
 the xijth Geven to John Tawsin^ 
 Minister to the frenche churche 
 as apperethe by his accquitance 
 
 3. the xvij*^ of february Geven to rodolphus' 
 
 Chevalier^ minister of can in 
 Normandie, & nowe in exile & reader 
 of the Ebreue lycture in paulls, as by ^xx^ 
 his accquitances apperethe, over and 
 above his Gowen before entrede fol. 4 
 in money xx^ 
 
 4. the xiiijtii Day of february to Godfray"| 
 
 WyngyC*, the dutche preacher as by Miij' iiij*^ 
 his accquitance apperethe j 
 
 5. the xiiij*^ day of february p^l to~ 
 
 Anthonius Coranus^ fpanyshe 
 
 preacher over & above his )>xxv' 
 Gowen befor entered. fol. 4 in 
 money as apperethe by his accquitance 
 
 6. the xvij 
 
 th 
 
 Day of february to Vincen^ 
 
 ffrenche minister as vxx* 
 
 7- 
 
 B 
 
 9- 
 
 Basse® a 
 
 apperethe by his accquitance 
 
 the xvijt'i day of february to Ciprian 
 Valera^ apoor Larned fpanyarde as yynL^ 
 apperethe by his accquitance 
 
 The xxvij*^ day of february Geuen^ 
 to the feniours & Deacons of the j 
 Italian Congregation^ in London [ u 
 to be distributed amongeste the j 
 poore of their compayny as by theyr ] 
 accquitance apperethe J 
 
 A The 
 8. 
 
 XXV*** daye of february 
 
 To the 
 Seniors & Deacones of the ffrenche 
 churche, in London^ to be distributed 
 amongeste the poore as apperethe 
 by theyr accquitance 
 
 >>xlli 
 
 Ixij^Vv* 
 
 § Ixijli/V 
 
 
 TOO
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (56) 
 
 ' " ycronimus Jcrlitiis" : Minister of the Italian Congregation mentioned in another 
 entry, infra, on this page. On the fourth folio onward is another mention of this 
 minister where he receives 7,0s. as a gift for the marriage of Claude Landen, one of his 
 Italian communicants, doubtless. In 156S the minister of the Italian Church was 
 Hieronymus Jerlitus, who appears to have arrived in London in the year 1565. In 
 the Lansdowue MSS. (vol. x, art. 32), is a letter in Latin from him, in behalf of 
 Theodore Fuerwyn, a Dutch painter, who had fled hither on account of religion. (Burn, 
 as before, p. 229). An interesting account of a contention between Jerlitus and 
 Coranus (noted onward), and various facts of the life in England of these two refugees, 
 are printed in Stiype's Life and Acts of Grindal, foL, Edn. 1 7 10. 
 
 * "John Tawsifi^^ : untraced; the name perhaps was Jean Cousin, mistranscribed. 
 
 ^ " rodolpfnis Chefalicr" : I take the following from KgVi^vi\ Protestant Exiles from 
 France, &'c. (Index-volume, pp. 108-9): — " Raoul (for Rodolphe) Le Chevalier has 
 somewhat perplexed genealogists by having, unlike the refugees in general, assumed 
 another surname during his wanderings. In the lists of 1568, he appears in London, 
 as Anthonie Rodolphs, Professor of the Gospel in the house of Mr. Sherrington ; and 
 further on, he is again noticed as 'Mr. Anthonie.' Some authors, ambitious of great 
 accuracy, have therefore styled him carefully 'Antoine Rodolphe Le Chevalier ' ; but, 
 in fact, Antoine was not his name at all. He is usually spoken of as Rodolphus 
 Cavallerius. He appears to have been Hebrew Reader in the University of Cambridge 
 during the reign of King Edward VI., and Hebrew Tutor to the Princess Elizabeth 
 (afterwards Queen). Flying from Bloody Queen Mary, he seems to have exercised 
 his talents as pastor and professor in various places ; we find his name associated with 
 the Academy of Geneva, and with the Reformed Church at Caen. From King Edward 
 VI. he had received a patent, dated at Waltham, August 7, 1552, grantmg to him 
 naturalization, and also committing in trust to Sir Anthony Cooke, Knight, and George 
 Medle, Esq., that he should have the next prebend that should fall vacant in Christ's 
 Church, Canterbury. In 1568, he was again in England. In May, 1569, vSir Anthony 
 Cooke and Secretary Sir William Cecil (Chancellor of the university) had secured for 
 him the appointment of Professor of the Hebrew Language and Learning in the Uni- 
 versity of Cambridge, and he went down with good letters of introduction. Secretary 
 Cecil undertook to obtain a safe conduct into England for his wife and childi^en. The 
 following was a joint letter from Archbishop Parker and Bishop Sandys, 'To our 
 loving friends, Mr. Vice chancellor of Cambridge, and to the Heads of the same': 
 — ' Understanding of the good and godly affection that divers of your University bear 
 to the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue wherein originally, for the more part, was 
 wrytten the word of God. To the gratifying of the same, as we have in our former 
 letters commended our Trustie and Wellbeloved Rodolphus Cevallerius, otherwise 
 called Mr. Anthony, so we now send him unto you — a man, whom we have aforetime 
 not only known in the same university, but also have seen good testimony of his learn- 
 ing in the said tongue, and having more experience of his good zeal to exercise his said 
 talent toward all such as be desirous to be partakers of the same. Whereupon this is 
 to pray and require you to accept him as his worthiness for his learning and diligence 
 (as we trust) shall deserve. Whereby you shall not onely yourselves receive the fruit 
 to your own commendations ; but also give us occasion to devise for your further com- 
 moditie as Almighty God shall move us, and our liability upon any occasion shall 
 hereafter serve. And thus wishing to you the grace of God to direct your studies to 
 His glory, and to the profit of the Commonwealth we bid you all heartily well to fare : 
 from Lambeth this 20"^ of May. Your loving friend Matthewe Cantuar. Edm. 
 London.' On 27th January, 1569-70, he v/as presented to his long expected Prebend of 
 Canterbury — Le Neve calls him Ralph Caveler — he was (says Strype) 'admitted to 
 the Seventh Prebend in that Church.' The latter writer (in his life of Parker) gives 
 an abstract of his Will, from which it appears that his wife (who survived him as his 
 widow) was by name Elizabeth Le Grimecieux ; she was (according to other accounts) 
 a step-daughter of Emanuel Tremellius, the great Hebraist, who had preceded 
 Chevalier at Cambridge. Chevalier seems to have been in France at the time of the 
 St. Bartholomew Massacre, and to have hastened homeward. But fatal illness arrested 
 him in Ciuernsey, on which island he made his Will, dated 8th October, 1572. He 
 styles himself Rauf (or Rauol ? ) Le Chevalier. He speaks of the fidelity and constancy 
 which he always found in his wife in all his persecutions for the gospel. He gives 
 thanks to the ' Right Worshipful and Most Dear fathei's,' the Archbishops of Canter- 
 bury and York, for all the gentleness and favour which he had received at their hands. 
 He appeals for their kind offices to his widow and children, on the acknowledged 
 ground that ' he had taken pains according to his small talent in sundry churches and 
 schools, and had always been content with his food and raiment.' He names his only 
 
 10 1
 
 25 febr. 
 
 25 febr. 
 
 .8, of Martij 
 
 (Page 57 of the MS., folio 52 verso.) 
 7th daye of 
 
 The xxv*^ daye of february To the^ 
 Seniors and Deacons of the Dutch | 
 churche in London^ to be distributed ^xl^^ 
 amongeste the poor of the same churche I 
 
 as apperethe by their accquitance J 
 
 2. the xxv' day of february To Barthelmy ] 
 
 [erasure] Willelmi^ Minister of L , , -u "'d 
 the Dutch churche as apperethe by his | ^ ^ 
 accquitance j ; 
 
 The viij'^ day of martch to Jacobe 
 baelden & others to be Distributed 
 amongeste the poore of the Dutche 
 churche in Sandwich^ as by theyr 
 accquitance apperethe _ 
 
 To Adrianus De Lano a larned 
 brabander* 
 
 Ixxiji^ vj^ vi 
 
 3- 
 
 >xxi' 
 
 xxs 
 
 }" 
 
 'I 
 
 x^ 
 
 4. To the poor of the ftrongeres of the 
 
 churche of Southamptone^ the xx* of 
 Marche A° 1569 
 
 as apperethe by their accquitance 
 
 of the french & Dutche churche 
 
 5. To the poor strangcres a in Norwiche^ 
 
 the xviij^^ of martche A** 1569 >>xxxii 
 & wallones churche in lyme^ 
 A as apperethe by ther accquitances..._ 
 
 6. to the church of strongeres in madston^ ^ 
 
 the xxix*^ of martch A" 1569 Vv'i 
 as apperethe by ther accquitances j 
 
 7. The v'^ of December to Johannes de" 
 
 a godly poor fpanyearde t ^j 
 at the desire of m"^ Wenthorpe of 
 Corne hill Anno 157 
 
 T 
 
 cvij'7xr/Vuj« 
 
 8. Too one Selvius a poor, and larned ) ^^ 
 
 Dutchmane, the vij° of novemb"' A" 1575.. / 
 
 9. To one a poor ffrenchmane ] ^^ 
 
 a minister the viij*^^ of Novemb"" A" 1571.. j " 
 Too one Zachius a larned stranger \ 
 an Italian the xiiij*^ of June A° i570 by Vxl^ 
 
 thandes of m"" henrie knoles^ j 
 
 Too one fybestian levions'*' whose brother"] 
 
 10. 
 
 I T. 
 
 w*'^ his wiefife & children, were taken 
 p soneresby the Duke of Muschovie whoe 
 was fent to my m"" by the counsell the 
 xviij'ii of novemb'' A° 1570 
 
 >xl^ 
 
 102
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 son, Samuel, his daughters, Jael and Mary, and his nephews beyond sea, Robert, 
 Anthony and Oliver. He requests that Mr. Emanuel (Tremellius) Professor at Hei- 
 delberg might be informed of his decease — he "who gave me my wife." He had no 
 debts ; but the Church of Caen owed him two hundred and fifty livres for travelling 
 expenses. He trusted that our Queen will continue without deduction the grant made 
 to himself, and that she would deal with his family as King Edward VI. had done in 
 the case of the widow of Martin Bucer, whom his Majesty of blessed memory had 
 invited to remain in England, promising to see to the marrying of her daughters. He 
 addressed his requests to the two Archbishops, ' for God's sake, and for the sake of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, and for the love of the Holy Ghost,' and his concluding sentence 
 was, ' Lord Jesus, come for the defence of the poor churches.' He died at the age of 
 sixty-five. The son, the Rev. Samuel !e Chevalier, was French Pasteur in the City of 
 London in 1 591, and at Canterbury in 1595." De Thou's obituaiy notice of this 
 eminent man is given in Barksdale's Momiiiienta Liiteraria, 1640, p. 157. It will be 
 noticed that the entry in our MS. confirms in several points Agnew's account. 
 
 ^ ^'■Godfrey IVyno-ye." See appendix to Stiypc's Griiidal, where, in a list of the 
 members of the Dutch Church in London, returned to the Bishop of London, the 
 return is attested by "Gottfridus Wingius" as chief minister. 
 
 * " Anthonius Coranus^^ : see Index of Names, s.ti., for various references. 
 
 ^ Vincen Basse" : This name as "Vincent de la Barre" occurs in the Will of Anthony 
 Du Poncel (a Protestant refugee) as a co-executor with other fellow-countrymen and 
 exiles from France (Agnew, as before, p. 82). 
 
 7 " Ciprian Valera''' : Mention of him is made in the works of Thomas Rogers, 
 (Parker Society, pp. 266, 291). 
 
 * ^'Italian congregation" : In the Lord Mayor's return of " Strangers in London, 
 anno 1568" who did "resort to any of the strangers' churches" there were " 161 of 
 the Italian church." (Agnew, as before, p. 7). For a full and deeply interesting 
 history of the "Italian Church" see Burn's History of the Foreign Refugees ( Protestant); 
 1846. pp. 224-32. Ascham wrote in 1570 of those who came and went between 
 England and Italy: — "These men thus Italianated abroad cannot abide our godly 
 Italian Church at home. They be not of that parish (they say), they be not of that 
 fellowship, they like not the preacher, they hear not his sermons ; except sometimes 
 for company, they come thither to hear the Italian tongue naturally spoken, and not 
 to hear God's doctrine truly preached." (Strype's Annals, vol. ii, p. 29). 
 
 ' "fffenche chiirche in London " : "At the end of the year (1550) the chapel of St. 
 Anthony in Threadneedle Street was granted for worship in the French language for 
 Huguenots (Protestants from France proper) and Walloons (Refugees from French 
 Flanders). The first French ministers were Francois de la Riviere and Richard Fran- 
 cois. The death of Edward VI. dispersed their congregations. " (Agnew, as before, 
 p. 6). He continues : "Protestant rule returning with Queen Elizabeth, the charters 
 were restored, and Grindal, Bishop of London, became the superintendent of the 
 Churches. Under the patronage of Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, the celebrated 
 refugee congregation, assembling in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, was founded. 
 Thousands of refugees came over in this reign, especially from French Flanders in 1567 
 and 1568, from France in 1572, after the Massacre, Snd in 15S5. In the Pope's 
 (Pius V. )Bull of 1570, the Protestant Refugees were characterized as omnium infestis- 
 simi, but were defended by Bishop Jewel" [ibid). In the Lord Mayor's "Return of 
 Strangers, anno 1568," no fewer than 1,810 belonged to "the French Church" 
 {ibid, p. 7). See also Maitland's London, as before, pp. 485, 845, 854. 
 
 (57) 
 
 ' " Dutch chiirche ift London" : " The reign of Edward VI. witnessed the founding 
 of Churches for Protestant Refugees. John a Lasco a refugee Polish nobleman & 
 pastor at Embden in East Friesland applied to parliament in 1 541 for a charter for a 
 church, and was encouraged by Archbishop Cranmer, the Duke of Somerset, and 
 Secretary Cecil. Bishop Latimer supported his cause in a sermon before the King. 
 Many French refugees came over in 1549, whose case was represented in a memorial 
 signed by Bucer, Martyr, Alexander, & Fagius. In 1550 a royal charter granted to 
 Lasco a Refugees' Church in London, since known as the Dutch Church in Austin 
 Friars." (Agnew, as before, pp. 5-6.) Of 5,225 Dutch in London in 156S, "1910 were 
 of the Dutch Church," (ibid p. 7.) .See Maitland's London, as before, pp. 843-4. For 
 a most satisfactory account of the ancient and modern "Dutch Church," the Reader 
 is referred to Burn's Liistoiy of the Foreign Protestant Refugees {I'i^b) : pp. 185-195. 
 The following quotation from Strype is interesting in relation not only to the Dutch 
 Church in London, but also as giving the origin of provincial "refugee" congregations. 
 "In 1575 the condition of the people of the Low Countries was so sad, that great numbei"s
 
 Isic] 
 
 >xl^ 
 
 V9 
 
 (Page 58 of the MS., folio 53.) 
 
 1. Too fyve poore IngHshe mene Deliu^ede out of~ 
 the handes of the turcke,^ wTioe were out of apprell 
 and comended to my m"" by Dyvers woorshippfull 
 of the cittie ' of London, in the psence of 
 m^ ffraunces Bowyer, Rycharde Boweyer 
 w^ii others the xx*^ of novemb"^ A° is/o _ 
 
 2. To certen poore ftrangeres, disparsed for" 
 rehgion, frenchmen, the xx'^ of Novemb. 
 A° 1571. Geven by thandes of m"" )>-xx^ 
 henry Knowles whoe is one of the collecters 
 for the same , _ 
 
 3. To apoore frenche minister in the p^ fence ofj 
 m'' Coofyns^, the frenche p'^chere the xvj*^ of No- vx^ 
 vemb'A°i57i J 
 
 4. To an nother poor frenche p'^cher Named \ 
 the same xvijo of Novemb'" A" i57i j 
 
 5. Too a poore ftranger one RusselP, a larned ^ 
 Scootishe mane & verie poore the xx<> of Decemb' Vx.^ 
 A°i57i j 
 
 6. Too towe poor larned prechers frenche ^ 
 one m' fexton, the other fengreius"*, the viij° of aX» 
 Martche A" i573 j 
 
 7. To one frenche mane named mollenius the viij'' of ) , 
 Martche A« 1573 |^ 
 
 8. Too one claudius molenius^ the viij" of martche \ ,3 
 
 A° 1573 : j 
 
 9. To one vencentus^ Late minister of Cayne ) ^^ 
 
 the viij° of Martche A^ i573 J 
 
 10. To an Irishe byshoppe, named matheas^, the \ ,g 
 xx^'i of Maie Anno i573 j ^ 
 
 11. To Ant Corannus^ a poor Spaynishe preacher) ^ 
 the xxiij'^'^ daie of December A<* i573 j 
 
 12. To a poor fpanishe mynister w<=^ was w^^ the \ _g 
 faid Coroneius the sam xx'^'* of december j 
 
 13. To m'' vellyrious^ a larned preacher the) _g 
 xvjtb of februaryc A'' 1573 j ' " 
 
 14. Too m"" Coofynns'^ the frcnch preacher the \ ,g 
 xvj*^ of februarye A** 1573 ) 
 
 13. To maister Dallyfayus'' a larned S 
 
 frenche preacher the xvj''^ of februarye Vxx* 
 
 A" 1573 } 
 
 & 
 
 Isic} 14. Too Ant. Coranus the fpaynishe reader A an 
 other Larned Spanyarde the xvj'^^ of 
 february A^ {573 _ 
 
 -xx^ 
 
 104
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 of them had fled over hither & desired to join with the Dutch Church in London, & 
 to become members thereof. Yet so tender was the Queen of breaking with that proud 
 & powerful Prince, the King of Spain, that she would not" admit of this, nor give 
 countenence to such as fled away out of those countries under his subjection. For it 
 is remarkable what is set down & recorded in a journal of the Dutch church in London, 
 written by Simeon Ruytinck, one of their ministers in those times, & yet preserved in 
 their church. — That when divers foreigners had come hither on account of religion & 
 desired to be admitted in communion with the rest of the Dutch Church, the Queen hearing 
 of it, commanded the Lord Mayor to disperse them from London. Whereupon they 
 applied to the Bishop of London to represent their case to the Queen & Council ; who 
 did so, & the Council sent a letter in answer to the said church, June 29'^ 1 5 74, that 
 that church should advise those new members to depart from London (where they were 
 more obvious to be taken notice of by King Philip's spies) & to go to other parts of 
 the kingdom, where there were also churches of Protestant professors ; which that 
 church accordingly did." (Strype's Annals, p. 386). The Dutch Congregation- 
 Norwich — Burn, pp. 195-202 ; ditto, Maidstone, pp. 202-5 ; ditto, Sandwich, pp. 
 205-7; ditto, Colchester, pp. 20S-16; ditto, Yarmouth, pp. 216-18. See The History 
 of (he French, Walloon, Dutch and other Foreign Protestant Refugees settled in England 
 from the reign of Henry VIII. to th4 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, ^c. By 
 J. S. Burn, 1846, pp. viii and 284. 
 
 2 " Barthelmy Willelnn' : "Bartholdus Wilhelmi" is named as one of the ministers 
 of the Dutch Church in London, in the return of its members made to the Bishop of 
 London in 1566. 
 
 3 <■' Jacobe baelden Safidwich" : no doubt of the Dutch Church, Sandwich, 
 
 whereon see Burn, as before, pp. 205-207. 
 
 * " Adrianns De Lano a lamed brabander " : ibid. 
 
 * " chiirche of Soiithamptone :" Burn, as before, gives full details on this Church, s.n. 
 6 "■french &> Dntche chiirche in No7~iinche" : Burn, as before (pp. 195-202), gives 
 
 like details on this Church. 
 
 ' " wallones churche in lyme " : ibid. 
 
 ^ "church .... in madstoti," i.e., Maidstone, Kent: ibid, pp. 202-5. 
 
 9 " nir henrie knoles" : On the next page of the MS. this befriender of the strangers 
 is described as "Mr. Henry Knowles, who is one of the collectors" for the strangers 
 dispersed for religion. I take him to be the same Henry Knollys named in a letter in 
 Latin by Immanuel Tremellius to Archbishop Parker, dated lith Sept., 156S: — " et 
 cognoscat quid de illis literis egerint, quas a me ad C. T., ad Dominum Londoniensem 
 et ad D. Henr/cnm Knollinm preferendas acceperunt." {Parker Corresp., pp. 333-4-) 
 Henry Knollys was the son of Sir Francis Knollys, and an exiled Protestant at Frank- 
 fort with Dean Nowell and others, temp. iVIary. 
 
 10 " fybestian levions^'' : Unknown to history. 
 
 (58) 
 
 ' "fyve foore Inglishe mene delivide out of the handes of the turcke''': I rather think 
 the year given for this charity, 1570, was miscopied from the original memorandum of 
 the payment; for the next entry is dated 157 1 ; and it seems likely that these five 
 naked Englishmen were among the 12,000 Christians who had been galley-slaves to 
 the Turks, rescued after the grand victory of Don John of Austria over the Turkish 
 fleet in the sea-fight of Lepanto, Oct. 6th, 1571. Stow tells us that on the 9th of 
 November, 1571, "great rejoicing was made at London with banquetting and bone- 
 fires, for joy of the late come ncwes of a marvellous victorie obtained by the Christian 
 army by sea, against the Turkes, the sixt of October last passed," in which 230 Turkish 
 galleys were sunk, and 30,000 Turks destroyed, &c. {Annates, p. 1 144.) 
 
 ' Mr. Coosyns the frenche fchere": This was Jean Cousin who in 1562 became 
 "pasteur" of the French Church in London. " He was an able and influential man." 
 See Agnew, as before ; and after (p. I09)he observes : "A French minister, Mr. Cossyn, 
 is in the list of strangers in 1568; whether this is an Anglicised form of the surname 
 Cousin I cannot decide" (p. lio). Our entry shows it was the "Anglicised form of 
 Cousin." The following refers to him and his family, in the Lord Mayor's " Return 
 of Strangers in London anno 1568": — " Blackfriars : Mr. Cossyn, Frenchman, minis- 
 ter, and Brengen his wife, come for religion, with three boys, with two wenches, which 
 go to school, and are of the French Church" {ibid, p. 125). Bishop Grindal, writing 
 to Beza, in April, 1568, speaks of "Master John Cousins, the most faithful minister 
 of the French Church in this country, and my very dear brother in the Lord. " {Zurich 
 Letters, vol. ii, p. 176.) 
 
 ' '^ one Russell": See Index of Names, s.n., and relative Note. 
 
 * "Sexton" . . . "Sengreius" : Neither has been traced by Burn, Agnew, or Smiles. 
 
 105
 
 (Page 59 of the MS., folio 53 verso.) 
 Too one Hector* a french man at Oxforde ) ^ 
 
 the xviij*^ of februarye A° 1573 / 
 
 To m"" Benfiriuz^ a larned ffrenchman ] 
 
 Reader at Oxforde the xx*^ of februarye A° 1 573 j 
 Too vj'^i Learnede frenchmane by thandes of m'^ \ 
 
 Sampsonne,^ the ix*^ of februarye A^ 1573 vxxxvj^ 
 
 six french crowens ) 
 
 To one Drusius"* a learned Dutchmane "| 
 
 the xxjtb of februarye A^ 1573 whoe readeth Vx^ 
 
 the hebreue lecter in Oxforde j 
 
 Too one Bensiriuz the xx*^ of octob"" A° 1574:) ,g 
 
 a larned frenchman Reader at Oxforde j 
 
 To m'' Corannus^ a fpayarde the xiij''^ of 
 
 xx» 
 
 xx^ 
 
 X 
 
 Januarye A" 1574 j 
 
 To m'' vellerious^ a french preacher the ~| g 
 
 xiiij'^ of Januar}^e A° i574 : j 
 
 To one Drusius, a learned ftranger by thandes 
 
 of Docter homefrey^ the xxix*^^ of novemb'' . , . 
 To one Theophilus Robbeman,^ ats Garbrande 
 
 a poor ffrisian lerned the same xxix*'^ 
 
 of novemb'' A^ 1574: 
 
 To one Gulielmus fengurius^ the fame 
 
 xxix*^ of novemb"^ A° 15 74 : 
 
 To one Antonius Corannus, the x^^ of) g 
 
 Decemb"- A° {574: j ^^ 
 
 Too m"" Jarves*° a poore minister, a frenchman^ 
 
 at towe seu^all tymes, the fowrth of nr'tch vx^ 
 
 A°i574 
 
 Too a learned Irisheman travalinge out of^ 
 
 france into his cuntrie the vij^^ of Aprell >-xvjs iiij*^ 
 A° 1575 : J 
 
 Too m"" villirius a larned firenchman the ) y^^^s 
 xiiijt'i of maye A^ 1 575 : / 
 
 To mr Coranus, the Spanyshe^ 
 
 Preacher, towards the Christininge of his Vxvj^ iiij"^ 
 childe the Vi]^'^ of Auguste A^ 1575 : J 
 
 Too one Lamberte Rustine^^ a poore ^ 
 
 Learned ftranger, the ix*^ of november [-xij^ 
 Aoi575 j 
 
 Too m"" Coranus a larned Spanyard ) . 
 the viij'^» of Januarie A" 1575 j 
 
 Too m"" vellirius, the same tyme ... xx^ 
 
 Too one m'' Barrowe*^ ^ larned frenchman of) „ 
 Cambridge the x*^ of Januarie A° 1575 j 
 
 106
 
 2'^i/iv:) and illustrations. 
 
 * ^^chntdius molenitts": " jMoleukr" is the only Huguenot name at all resembling 
 this — of the family of Montolieu, Baron de Saint-Hippolite. (Agnew, as before, vol. i, 
 p. 111.) 
 
 * "■Vcucen fits'": Probably " \ incent Basseus, Frenchman, minister of the Gospel, 
 and by that name put in exile by commandment of the French King." (Lord Mayor's 
 Return, as before : Agnew, as before, p. 124.) 
 
 7 " an Irishe Byskoppc named Mat/was": Unknown. 
 ^ "•' A7tt. Coranincs": And infra, as before. 
 
 ' '^ Mr. Vellyrioits" : This is evidently intended for the latinized form of the name 
 (Villerius) of M. Villers, a French preacher who came to England, according to 
 Camden, in a threadbare cloak (away from persecution in his own countiy), and grew 
 rich here by a common collection for him, for reading a divinity lecture. Mr. William 
 Barlow, a London minister, writing to Josiah Sinkler, in Jan., 1575, says: — "Two 
 famous di\anes are now lecturing^ in London, the one a Frenchman, the other a 
 Spaniard. The Frenchman's name is Villers, a man of great learning and piety ; the 
 Spaniard's is Coranus, learned and eloquent, but some worthy men entertain great 
 doubts whether in respect of piety he is to be compared with Villers." {Zurich 
 Letters, Parker Society, vol. ii, p. 261.) 
 
 10 "^^_ Coosyntis": see note 2, supra. 
 
 " " Maistcr DaUyfaytis" : Probably a corrupt form of the surname De La Faye, 
 which is found among the French refugees (Agnew, s.n.); as also De la Fuye [ibid). 
 
 (59) 
 ' '^ one Hector": I fail to get a clue to the personality of this Frenchman at Oxford 
 
 in 1573- 
 
 * " J/r. Benfiriuz," and iiifra : I find no name this at all resembles among the 
 French Protestant refugees. 
 
 3 '^ Mr. Sainpsonne": Doulitless Thomas Sampson, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. 
 
 * "one Drusiits," and i7ifra : Of Merton College, Oxford. "The most noted 
 linguist and critic." (See Wood's Fasti Oxon., vol. 1, pp. 188, 193, 304.) His name 
 is inserted here in Dean Nowell's handwriting. 
 
 * " Mr. Corannus," and infra : See Index of Names, s. tt., for numerous other entries 
 concerning him. 
 
 ^ "Mr. Vdlerious," and infra: See Index of Names, s.n., for other notices of him; 
 and note in foregoing page. 
 
 ^ " Docter homcfrcy" : The eminent Dr. Lawrence Humphrey, Dean of Winchester, 
 the great Protestant polemic and author. Dr. Humphrey is mentioned in several 
 places in the MS. (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 8 " ThtcphilKs Robbeman, aVs Garbrande" \ Was Theophilus Robbeman a name 
 assumed by John Garbrand, a friend of Bishop Jewel, and legatee of Jewel's papers ? 
 In the text this recipient is described to be "a poor ffrisian lerned." 
 
 ' " Gulielmus Senguriiis" : Unknown. 
 
 10 ^' i\[r. yarves": A Mr, Gerves is named in Cranmer's works (Parker Socy. edn., 
 vol. ii. p. 258). 
 
 " ' ' Laniberte Rustine " : Unknown. 
 
 '2 " one 7nr. Barrowe": See Index of Names under "Peter Baro." 
 
 107
 
 ■x^ 
 
 (Page 60 of the^Jki o*";"'!'^.. 5 ^34.7"'^ ^ 
 Money Geven To Jheroni'mus Jcrlitus^ to gyve at ^ 
 
 MaSldgfofthe the marriadge of Claud landen as by Vxx« 
 
 pooremaides. his accquitancc apperetlic ) 
 
 the XXV* Daye of Aprell to willm' 
 parker Drap^ to the vse of a coopHe 
 of Newe married psones, namede 
 John Boughton & Dorethe Kempte 
 as apperethe by the said wiitm par- | 
 
 keres, his accquitance J 
 
 Thorns Bates^ the xxj*'^ of Aprell \ 
 1570 towardes the manage of Johann Vxx^ 
 
 Bates a poor maid j 
 
 to m' Allvey* towardes the marryage of) 
 apoor maid the xxvij* of Aprell 1569 vxl^ 
 
 as apperethe by his accquitance J 
 
 To the marriage of m'' Rychardsonne his | _g 
 
 Doughter, the xijo of auguste A" 1569 
 
 Towardes the Marriage of Anne fpringfilde ^ 
 at the fute of Adam Chaterton ^x* 
 the xxviij*^ of maye j 
 
 to a poor cooplie maried at Cashalton the } ^^ 
 xxiiij* of Aprell one goodmane Simones ... j ^ 
 
 To Thoms Bowyeare^ towardes the S 
 
 Marriage of Dorethe Treherone the Vvj^i xiij iiij*! 
 xvjth of Novemb"" A** 1569 j 
 
 To the marriage of Johann Battes a poor"! 
 maid at the sute & by thandes of m"^ Battes ! ^ 
 Bridg maister of London'^ the xxij'tl^ of aprell [ ' 
 Ao 1569 J 
 
 To the marriage of a poor maid in Bowe ^ 
 churche, by thandes of m"" coole preacher? Vxx' 
 ther, the xviij*^ of June A° 1569 j 
 
 To Sampsonn Walkaden to the marriage ^ 
 
 of a poor Maden the xxix* of June Vvj^ viij'^ 
 Aoi569 J 
 
 To the marriage of hughe Graves ^ 
 Daughter the x'^ of Septemb^ by thandes Vx^ 
 of m^ Sparrowe^ J 
 
 To the Marriage of Goodman Ryve ^ 
 Daughter by thandes of James wolton the vx* 
 xx^^^i of Septemb'' A" 1570 j 
 
 To the marriage of a poor maden by the 'j 
 
 handes of Shr. peter curet of Littcll hadham^ Viijs iiij^i 
 the xxj* of Octob^ A" 1569 j 
 
 /xvjiV'iijViiij'^/ 
 
 108
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (Go) 
 
 ' ^' Jheronimus yerlitus . . . Claud land en ^' : See note before. 
 
 • ^' IVillin parker Drap'" : One of the Benefactors of the Merchant Taylors' Company; 
 see Clode, Lxxvii. William Parker's Charity (1616) — pp. 310-312: and also p. 369. 
 
 3 " Thorns. Bates . . . yohan Bates'''': See note to second reference, infra. 
 
 ■• "y)/r. Allvey": He may be taken to be Richard Alvey, B.A., Master of the 
 Temple, 1559-1585; Canon of Westminster, 1560-1575. He died in August, 1584. 
 (Cooper's Ath. Cantab., vol. i, p. 491.) Mr. Alvey is named again two pages onward 
 in the MS., as commending for help Joan Hunt, a poor widow of Westminster. 
 
 * " Thorns Bowyeare . . . Dorethe Treherone": I cannot help thinking that the 
 maiden, to whom Dean Nowell gives here through Mr. Thomas Bowyer a handsome 
 marriage-gift of 6/. 13s. 4d. (equal to nearly 70/. of our money), was a daughter of 
 the notable Bartholomew Treheron, an able author on the Protestant side, and some- 
 time Keeper of the King's Library at Westminster, Dean of Chichester and Canon of 
 Windsor. He went into exile in Mary's time, and is believed to have died abroad 
 shortly before Elizabeth's accession. While sojourning at Frankfort in 1555 he would 
 be a constant associate of Alexander Nowell, who was there at the same time ; and 
 nothing is more likely than that Dean Nowell would befriend his family after his death. 
 The gift to Dorothy Treheron is very much larger than the other wedding-gifts entered 
 here. She had before a gift at Robert Nowell's funeral of a gown that cost 30s. 
 (See note, p. 8. ) 
 
 8 '■^ Johann Battes . . . Mr. Battes Bridg ma ister of London": We Have here unex- 
 pectedly the name of the " Keeper" of renowned " London Bridge." 
 
 7 " Bowe chnrche . . . Air. Coole preacher ther": Robert Cole, elected from Eton to 
 King's College, Cambridge, in 1541; B.A., 1546-7; M.A., 1550. Collated to the 
 rectory of St. Mary-le-Bow, London, 23rd Dec, 1559; and to the rectory of All 
 Hallows, Bread-street, 15th June, 1568-9. He died about April, 1577. (Cooper's 
 Ath. Cantab., vol. i, p. 364.) A stout Puritan, Mr. Cole held out for a time against the 
 Primate's orders in the matter of vestments, but in the end complied; and Archbishop 
 Parker wrote to Mr. Secretaiy Cecil, 12th April, 1566: — "As for mine own peculiars, 
 fourteen or fifteen be all in order. Some did refuse, but now they be induced, and 
 they be counted worthy learned with the best of them, as one Cole of Bow Church, 
 and one Beddell of Pancras." (Parker Corresp., p. 278.) Little consideration was 
 had in good Mr. Cole's day to scruples of conscience as to conformity. At Lambeth, 
 in March, 1564, all the London ministers being assembled before the Primate, the 
 Bishop of London, and others of the Ecclesiastical Commission, the Bishop's chancellor 
 addressed them : "My masters and the Ministers of London, the Council's pleasure is, 
 that strictly ye keep the unity of apparel like to this Man" (pointing to Mr. Robert 
 Cole, a minister likewise of the City who had refused the Habits a while, and now com- 
 plied, and stood before them Canonically habited) "as you see him, that is, a square 
 Cap, a Scholer's Gown Priest-like, a Tippet, and in the church a Linnen Surplice." 
 (Strype's Giindal, edition 17 10, p. 98.) It was not much to the credit of the two 
 prelates that they should have singled out this known Puritan minister to endure the 
 studied indignity of standing canonically arrayed, like the milliner's model of a full- 
 costumed priest, before his brethren the London clergy on this significant occasion. 
 
 ® "Mr. Sparrowe''^: John Sparrowe, rector of Chishall-parva, 14th March, 1586. 
 He must have died in 1620, as in that year (13th November) he was succeeded by 
 the learned Andrew Willet (Newcourt ii, 151). Cf Newcourt, vol. ii, p. 513. 
 
 ^ " Shr. peter caret of Littell hadhain''^: Not now to be identified. 
 
 109
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 (Page 6 1 of the MS., folio 54 verso) 
 Jhohann hawkes^ Daughter of 
 
 towards her marriage 
 Gylles hawkes, a poor mayden A at the 
 suet of the said Gylles hir father the 
 iiij* of Julye A° {$71 
 
 Mj' vj«l/ 
 
 of 
 
 Daughter 
 
 marriadge 
 
 homfrey 
 the 
 
 Johann Kerry 
 Kerry 2 toward es her 
 viij*^^ of Julye A^ {^fi 
 Geven to m"" Muncaster^ towardes the 
 marriage of his maid, and because he ys 
 fcholmaister to John Nowell & willm wylde 
 
 the xix^ii day of Julye A° i57i 
 
 the marriadge of a poor maid of goodH 
 wief Jacobe, by thandes of will™ haynes ^v 
 
 the fecond of Septembre A<^ 1571 
 
 the marriadcfe of a poor made at the 
 
 >xxs/ 
 
 >vs 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 the xxiij''' of 
 
 ^x^ 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 th 
 
 of 
 
 >X8 
 
 fuete of m'' Leventhrope 
 
 September A° i57i 
 
 the marriadge of a poor man 
 maid, of m'' Stopes the xxx 
 
 Septembre A" 157! 
 
 a poor cooplie married att Bedington the ) 
 
 xj'^ of maye A^* 1572 j 
 
 the marriage of clearke of 
 
 & made 
 the Stacioners,* a poor mane by thandes of 
 m"" Toye the xij of maye A° 1572 
 
 To the marriadge of Johanne a poor' 
 
 maden, fvante w* m'' Allderman myllnes^ the Sxx^ 
 xxiiijo of Julye A° 1572 
 
 To the Marriage of a poor maid at S^^ Gregories^ ] , 
 the xj*^ of auguste A'' i$'j2 J 
 
 to m''^ higforde towards the marriadge of her \ 
 
 Elisabethe > x* 
 
 Daughter a the xxv*' of auguste A" i572 j 
 
 To the marriadge of a poor made, at S'^ gregories \ 
 vnder powles, the x* of auguste A° {572 J 
 
 Too a poor maid one Rachell moyses7,her marriadge )^ ,g 
 by her mother, the xxvj'^^ of Auguste A° 1572 j 
 
 To the marriadge of goodwiefe woodes brother at 
 
 Cashoughton, servante to m"" hopkens ^x^ 
 
 the vVf^ of feptemb"" A** i572 
 
 fpenser at 
 a poor coople, Johanne A wallingforde^ 
 to her marriadge, the xij*^ of September, at ^ij* vj'^ 
 Wallinge forde by cashoughton^ in 
 
 Surrie 
 
 the marryadge of a poor coople at ' 
 Wallingforde by Cashoughton in Surry ^ij^ vj^ 
 the xij'ii of Septemb"" A° 1571 
 
 V* 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 1 10
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (6i) 
 
 ' '^ y/iohann hawkes Gylles hawkes" : Unknown. 
 
 2 " yo/iaftn Kerry hoiiifrey Kerry": The Kcnys were somehow related to 
 
 the Nowells ; and Robert Nowell names in his Will, among other kindred, Humfrey 
 Kerry and Margerie his wife, giving them a legacy of four marks. At page 8, Good- 
 wife Kerry and Katherine Kerry occur as getting black gowns ; and here 2.0s. is sent 
 on the marriage of Humphrey Kerry's daughter Joan. 
 
 ^ "il/;-. Mnncaster" : Mr. Mulcaster, Masterof Merchant Taylors' School. Here he is 
 spoken of as "scholmaister to John Nowell and Willm. Wylde," who wei-e two youths 
 of Lancashire, nephews, or more distant kinsmen, of Dean Nowell. William Wylde 
 is described afterwards as of Middleton School in May, 1571 ; so that he had been but 
 very recently placed under Mr. Mulcaster's charge at Merchant Taylors' School in July, 
 1571. Richard Mulcaster, M.A., elected Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, from 
 Eton, in 1548. Afterwards Student of Christ Church, Oxford, Head Master of Mer- 
 chant Taylors', Sept. 24, 1561 ; resigned, Nov. 8, 1581. He was afterwards Upper 
 Master of St. Paul's School. Died, April 15, 161 1. Mr. Mulcaster ranked high as a 
 Philologist, and is said to have been especially celebrated for his knowledge of Greek 
 and Oriental Literature. In his day, acquaintance with the Greek literature was an 
 unusual accomplishment ; so much so, indeed, that the earliest statutes of Merchant 
 Taylors' School provide that the " Head or High Maister shall be learned in good & 
 cleane Latine Lrature, and also in Greeke, yf such may be gotten." He commenced 
 instruction in Hebrew at the School, which has always been continued. Bishop 
 Andrewes, who was one of his early pupils, probably owed a good deal of his power as 
 a linguist to Mr. Mulcaster, whom he always held in great respect. Bishop Bucke- 
 ridge says, in his Funeral Sermon on that prelate, that "as if he had made Master 
 Mulcaster his tutor or supervisor, he placed his picture over the door of his study, 
 whereas in all the rest of his house you could scarcely see a picture." Fuller speaks 
 kindly of Mr. Mulcaster; and Warton {Hist. Poet., vol. iii. p. 345) commends one of 
 his works " as containing many judicious criticisms and observations on the English 
 language." (Clode, as before, p. 661.) 
 
 * " cUarke of the Staciout'res" : John Fayreberne was Clei-k to the Stationers' Com- 
 pany a number of years precedent to 1575. On 30th May in that year Richard Collins, 
 of the Goldsmiths' Company, was sworn the Clerk of the Stationers' Company, which 
 office he held for some 38 years, dying about 1613. ( Arber's Tra7iscript, pp. 208 b, 222. ) 
 
 * " mr Allderman Myllnes" : Conjecturally this alderman was the Mr. Henry Mills 
 already noted as a friend of Robert Nowell, and receiving a legacy by his Will. 
 
 ^ ^'' Ste Gregorics," and infra: see Lidex of Names, s.v. 
 
 "^ ^' Rackell incyses" : " Moyses," I suppose = Moses. Both first and second names 
 of this maiden being Jewish, her nationality may be guessed at. 
 
 ^ " fokannefpensc'r at zvalliiigforde'' : I do not know what connexion (if any) this 
 humble maiden, residing at Wallingford, in Surrey, might be to other Spensers named 
 in the MS. , of whom the poet is one. 
 
 ^ The preceding entry is crossed out in the MS. 
 
 ITI
 
 i8 febr. 
 
 i8 febr. 
 
 19 febr. 
 
 19 febr. 
 
 febr. 
 
 32 febr. 
 
 (Page 62 of the MS., folio 55.) 
 Geuen to poor ministeres w*'^ widdowes & 
 Diveres other poore as apperethe. 
 
 1. To Thorns roffe vicare of Luton' 
 
 by thandes of m'^ Amyas, & at a nother 
 ty me after 
 
 2. Gyven to Thorns Atherton^ a poor 
 
 Minister as apperethe by his accqui- 
 tance, knowen to m'" Dean of poulls him 
 felf 
 
 3. The xviij'^ of february Gyven to Johan' 
 hunte^ a poore wydowe of westm^. 
 comended by m' Alvey & others 
 
 ^xl« 
 
 >xxyj* vnj 
 
 I'd 
 
 Th 
 
 e XIX 
 
 th 
 
 of february Gyven to Johann 
 Marven of cassalton* a poor womane 
 burdened w* children as by here accqui- 
 tance apperethe 
 
 >V 
 
 >xls 
 
 5. The xix 
 
 '■i of february Gyven to~l 
 Thoms helme^ a poor mane ] 
 comended by Thoms Crocke as by J>vj^ 
 a byll of his hande fygned 
 apperethe , 
 
 viij^ 
 
 6. The xxj^^ of february to mother 
 
 fmythe of henden 
 
 } 
 
 7S 
 
 7- 
 8. 
 
 The xxjtli of february to Rychard ) --^ ^^.^ 
 
 Sanson of Albname^ j ■' 
 
 ;nes crooe of my mes ij 
 
 to m^-s Roffe v^ 
 
 to Agi 
 
 vj^ 
 
 8 vjl^ 
 
 !>iij!i 
 
 9. The xxjt^ day of february Gyven 
 vnto a gentelmane in decay & lackinge 
 Necessaries, by m"" Dean of poulles 
 & m"" Dean of Litchfyld an olde 
 velvete coate & an old ffattin dobliet^ 
 & in money iij^i _ 
 
 10. Geven to John Raynes fonne of m'' ) • 
 Gabryell raynes preacher^ j ^ 
 
 vnj^ 
 
 II. Gyven to n\^^ payne^ to relief here & here 
 
 necessitie 
 
 their extreni 
 
 / 
 
 xxs 
 
 12. 
 
 husbande, m 
 for the tyme.. 
 To towe contrymen that were fett ) •••; 
 
 vpo by proces | •' 
 
 13. Delyu^ed to m'' Norton'^ to pay the ^ 
 
 ffees of of John Bryckett & so to J-x^ 
 dischardge him out of the counter j 
 
 nij 
 
 id 
 
 xi'» xiij3 iiij* 
 
 /xili/xiijViii[j^ 
 
 112
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (62) 
 
 ' " Thorns, rojfc vicare of Luton . . . i\fi: Amyas": It is impossiljlc to distinguish 
 the "Luton" here designated. There are at least four vicarages thus named, and I 
 have failed to trace a Rosse in any of them. 
 
 ^ " 77io»is. Atherton'''' : Not in Newcourt nor in Le Neve. The surname is a 
 Lancasliire one, derived from the name of a township in that county; and this "poor 
 minister," wlio was " l<.nowen to Mr. Dean of Poulls," may have been serving some 
 poor cure in Nowell's native county. 
 
 ^ "Johan huiite . . . mr. Alvcy": Richard Alvey (Fourth Stall) was installed as a 
 Prebendary of Westminster l6th December, 1552, loco Anton. Bellicis (Le Neve, vol. iii, 
 p. 352). He was also appointed to the Fifth Stall by the Queen's patent, dated 21st 
 June, 1560 [ibid, p. 353). "Hunte": see Index of Names, s.7i. 
 
 * "yokaiu! Mai-veii of cassalton": An Edmund Marvyn, M.A., was installed Pre- 
 bendary of Winchester 20th September, 1554; Archdeacon of Surrey, circa 1556 
 (Le Neve, vol. iii, p. 32). He was Archdeacon during Queen ]\Iary's reign, but was 
 deprived by Queen Elizabeth {ibid, p. 30). It is probable this Johann was some poor 
 member of the family. 
 
 ^ " TJionis hdine . . . Thorns Crocke": Was this "Thoms helme" father of Christo- 
 pher Helme, Archdeacon of Derby: collated 3rd March, 160S-9: paid his first-fraits 
 7th April, 1609? 
 
 * ^'Richard SansoJi of Albnavie": Not in Newcourt or Le Neve: not to be con- 
 founded with Richard Samson or Sampson, LL.D., Bishop of Chichester, and later of 
 Lichfield, who died September 25, 1554. (Newcourt, vol. i, pp. 46, 47.) It is not im- 
 possible that our present Richard Sanson was a relative, as many of the Catholic 
 families were reduced to great straits. 
 
 ' " dob/icf," &c. : An old velvet coat and satin doublet suggest the materials used 
 for these garments by persons of position, as Dean Nowell and his brother, (emj>, 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 ® '^yohn Ray lies . . . Gabryelle 7-ayjtes freachcr'" : Not in Newcourt or Le Neve, 
 
 ^ " m7-s. payne" : Unknown. 
 
 JO "mr. Norton . . . JoJui Bryckett . . . coimter": An Edmund Brygotte, Brycotte, 
 Brickett or Brygate, S.T.P., appears as a Prebendary (London), 12th September, 
 1554, on the resignation of Palgrave. (Le Neve, vol. ii, p. 428.) See close of note 4, 
 supra. 
 
 "3
 
 (Page 63 o( MS., folio 55 verso) 
 
 §- 
 
 xx^ 
 
 > 
 
 ■Xl3 
 
 1. To henry houghton^ a Kinsmane of) 
 
 M"" houghtons of Durhame place j 
 
 2. To Thorns Aldersey and ffrances 
 
 Dodd marchantes. for the relief of 
 certeyn poor as by their accquitance 
 apperethe 
 
 3. To Gyffrey Palmer to relief him \ ^ 
 
 as by his accquitance apperethe j 
 
 4. To Willm Porther of Grantham \ 
 
 for the relief of Richard Porter i 
 p^soner in the kinges benche as by T 
 his accquitance apperethe ) 
 
 5. To Thorns currare of westrfu for ) ,g 
 
 his relief j 
 
 6. To Wilim Bowland screuener ) 
 
 for the relief of his sonn late in p''sonn j 
 
 7. To John Wade Carpinter as 
 
 by his accquitance apperethe 
 
 8. To John Maddockes as by his ) ^ 
 accquitance apperethe j 
 
 To John Dodsonne x^ 
 
 iijii vj3 
 viij'' 
 
 XX^ 
 
 10. To 
 
 margaret 
 
 II. 
 
 12. 
 13- 
 
 14. 
 
 hamley wyddowe ") § 
 
 of S* Gylls pishe w*oute [-xiij^ iiij^ 
 
 crepellgate j 
 
 To John Northinby of S* brides | ..^ .^ 
 
 pishe J -^ ■' 
 
 To John Keine v^ 
 
 To dyveres poor at seu'^all tymes"" 
 
 pticulerly & other necessarie chardges I Iviij^ 
 
 xxjii xiij' 
 
 as apperethe by a 
 
 Pyckringes^ accompte 
 
 of martch 
 
 bill of Robte 
 
 > 
 
 vnj< 
 
 The xxj*^^ Day 
 
 p*^ to dyvers " 
 
 poor at severall tymes ptyculer as 
 apperethe, by a byll of Alexander 
 bradshawes^ w*^^ bill is the some of 
 
 15. the same xxj*^ Day of Martche gyven^ 
 
 vnto Edwarde withes, some tyme 
 svante w* mr Attourney as 
 apperethe by his accquitance J 
 
 16. Gyven vnto Robte Cloudesley butler^ 
 
 of grayes Inne, as apperethe by [-x 
 his accquitance j 
 
 >XVJ9 x« 
 
 xxx^ 
 
 xxs 
 
 17. the xxj'^ day of martche p<i vnto m""^ 
 
 pcivall wyborne"*, to the vse of iiijr 1 ,g, 
 ftrangeres dwellinge in chambridge | ' 
 m"" Joltrin, m"" lucas 
 
 /xxi^Vxiij,'® 
 
 114
 
 Notes a?id Illustrations. 
 (63) 
 
 ' *' henry houghion" : This person I believe was Henry Hoghton, second son of 
 John Hoghton, of Pendleton, near Clitheroe, in the county of Lancaster, gent., by his 
 first wife Grace, daughter of Roger Nowell, of Read, Esq. Other members of the 
 Hoghtons of Pendleton, and named as such, will be met with in the MS. (See Index 
 of Names, s.tt. ) I do not know which of the Hoghtons of Lancashire had at this date 
 a residence at Durham Place, London, as named in the text. 
 
 ^ '■'■ Rohfe Pyck>-i)ige" : See Index of Names, s.it., for frequent references to this 
 servant of Dean Nowell. 
 
 ^ " Alexander bradshawe" : Ibid. 
 
 * " mr J>'eivaU layborne" : Percival Wyburne, D.D., was a conspicuous Puritan 
 preacher, and eventual Nonconformist, of the time of Elizabeth. Cooper (A //i. Contab. 
 pp. 449-450) furnishes an interesting sketch of his career. He was born about 1533 J 
 admitted of St. John's College, Cambridge, nth Nov., 1546; proceeded B.A. in 
 1551 ; was elected a foundation fellow of his college in 1552 ; was at Geneva te7np. 
 Mary, but came back to England on Elizabeth's accession ; proceeded M. A. in I559i 
 and the same year was appointed junior dean and philosophy lecturer of his college. 
 Receiving priest's orders in 1560, he was installed a canon of Norwich in Feb., 1560-1 ; 
 and elected senior fellow of St. John's College in 1561. He held a canonry of 
 Rochester from 1561 to 1589, and was installed a canon of Westminster in Nov., 1561. 
 He was instituted vicar of St. Sepulchre's, London, 8th Feb., 1563-4; but in less 
 than a year was deprived of the living for refusing subscription required by the 
 Primate. He had a license to preach in 1567, but was cited for nonconformity and 
 examined by the Primate in 1571 ; and again by an ecclesiastical commission in 1573, 
 when he was ordered to desist from preaching. ' A manuscript headed " The State of 
 the Church of England as described by Perceval Wyburn," is in the archives of 
 Zurich. {Zia-ic/i Letters, vol. ii. , pp. 358-362. ) The date of his receiving the degree of 
 D.D. is not apparent. Dr. Wyburne preached at Battersea towards the end of his 
 life, and died about 1606. 
 
 2 I 115
 
 The 
 
 (Pag-e 64 of the MS., foho 56.) 
 of martche 
 
 Sargente 
 
 )tie2 
 
 to 
 
 of armes 
 geue vnto 
 
 r 
 
 :13 
 
 xxij*-" day 01 martcne ijyven vnto 
 m'' Roffe, preacher^ w^'^ was sente Vxx» 
 vnto him by his wief he beinge sycke 
 
 Gyven the fame tyme vnto a doughter \ 
 
 of the said m' Rosses named abigall >-x' 
 colHnes ) 
 
 The xxij*^ day of martche delyu^ed 
 to m'" ElHs, 
 vnto the Ouens ma 
 certen poor peophe 
 
 Gyven vnto one other of the fargantes ) 
 
 of Armes. vnto the Ouens ma*^^ j 
 
 xxiiijt^ day of martche Gyven" 
 vnto waiter Nowell fvante vnto I 
 m' churcheyarde^ as apperethe [ 
 
 by his accquittance J 
 
 xxvj^^ of martche Gyven to 
 Thurlande p^soner in the fflet 
 greate necessitie. by thandes of ma ■ 
 wief 8: Thoms newporte Deputie [ 
 of the fflete as apperethe by his 1 
 byll J 
 
 Delyu ed to m'" Sethe ot thel 
 xxvij*^ day of martche, in the p'^sentes [ 
 of Rycharde Bowyere to [be] Sl^ 
 distributed amongiste certeyn 
 poor folke 
 
 The 
 
 The 
 
 XX8 
 
 •XXX^ 
 
 x^' 
 
 m'^ 
 in 
 
 xxx^ 
 
 >vf 
 
 delyu ed to John Morton"' a french crowene 
 for that m"" Robte Nowell had nott signed 
 awarrante w*=^ his brother fente to m"" 
 Attourney w*'^ a french crowen w*^ all ... 
 
 Willm Lockeyer minister^ the iij''* of 1 , 
 
 march A° 1569 as apperethe j' 
 
 x^i/xvjs 
 
 [ Verso — blank.] 
 
 116 
 
 I 
 
 i
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (64) 
 
 • *' mr Roffe, preacher": See Index of Names, s.71., and relative note. 
 "^ " mr Ellis, Sargente ofartiies," &c. : Unknowoi. 
 
 ' '■'-coalter Nowell fvante vnto mr chiircheyarde" : Some distant connexion of the 
 Nowells in a position of service in London. 
 
 ■* '''' John morion": A previous reference to John Morton will be found in the text 
 (p. 4) and relative note (p. 5). 
 
 * '■'■ IVillm Lockeyer minisUr'''' : I meet with nothing concerning this minister. Qy. 
 
 father of that venerable Puritan, Nicholas Lockyer ? 
 
 117
 
 (Page 65 of the MS., folio 57.) 
 Diveres poor Ministers releved w* Gownes 
 & money or bothe. w* the Goodes of the said 
 Robte Nowell Deceased w<='^ was delyu ed 
 vnto them the vij''^ viij''^ ix*^ & the x*^^ of 
 martche. Anno 1568. 
 
 M^ 
 
 "J ). 
 
 M 
 
 M' 
 
 J 
 
 - XXVIJ^ 
 
 Leeke petycanone of poulls' 
 
 yardes blacke at ix^ the yarde. 
 Beckw*'^ petycanone of poulls iij \ ^ 
 
 yardes blacke J " ^ 
 
 Sayvvarde Petycanone of ) , --g 
 
 poulles iij yardes blacke at ix^ the yard j ■' 
 
 Rychard croffe petycanone of poulls \ ^---g 
 
 iij yardes blacke at viij^ the yarde j ' •* 
 
 Mr Scarlet pfonne^ of S^^ Barthil- ) ^jjj.^ 
 meves iij yardes blacke at ix^ the yarde j ' -* 
 John holloway Curat of Stocknewington^ \ ....^ 
 
 iij yardes at viij^ the yarde j ^ 
 
 Sinckler Late curate of all ^ 
 hallowes, Staninge^ iij yardes at viij^ Vxxiiij* 
 
 the yarde j 
 
 Gatacre curate of S'' Edmondes 
 
 [sic] 
 
 Mj 
 
 xxij^» xj* 
 
 m' 
 
 in Luniberd ftrete^ in money j ^ 
 
 Wyllm martin^ iij yardes at viij^ the ) ....g 
 
 di' J^ X. 1111 
 e j ^ 
 
 Nycholes Creane^ iij yardes at viij^ ) .-..g 
 
 the yarde ) ■' 
 
 Seathe Jackesone^ iij yardes at viij* xxiiij^ 
 
 Thorns Ryley^ in money xij^^ and ) g 
 
 iij yardes at viij^ the yarde j 
 
 Richard Jeninges'*' iij yardes at viij» ) ...^ 
 
 the yarde | ^ 
 
 ffather ffrankeyn'^ iij yardes & ) 
 
 a q**^"^ at ix* the yearde j 
 
 Roberte Joner'^ vicare of Tottinham ) , ..-.g 
 
 iij yardes at viij'* the yarde j ' ^ 
 
 ffrances Rydall'^ iij yardes one ) 
 
 quarter at viij^ the yarde j 
 
 James Wharton iij yardes at viij^ xxiiij^ 
 
 Rychard Tayller Curate of S'° ^ 
 
 Thorns the Apostles in Suthwarke'"* ,-xxiiij^ 
 
 iij yardes at viij^ the yarde j 
 
 vnj' 
 
 xxix^ 
 
 xxvjs 
 
 "J 
 
 I'd 
 
 xjdl 
 
 /xxij^VxjVxj^/ 
 
 118
 
 Notes a?id Illustrations. 
 (65) 
 
 ' " Mr Leeke pety canone of poulls " : Nothwithstanding the willing researches of the 
 present Dean of St. Paul's and the Librarian, nothing has been found concerning these 
 •'pety canones" of St. Paul's ; nor do their names occur in Le Neve, Newcourt, or 
 other authorities. All, therefore, that can be done is to note their names here — "Mr 
 Beckwith " . . . " Mr Saywarde " . , . " Rychard croffe" . . . 
 ' ''^ Mr Scarrlet pfonne of Ste Bart/nlinez't's" : )tt i. 
 ' '■'■ John holLnvay Curat of Stocknrtviui^ton''^ :) 
 
 * ''''Mr Sinckkr Late curate of all hallowes, Staninge": Not in Newcourt or Le 
 Neve. 
 
 ^ *■' Mr Gatacre citrate of St Ednumdes in Ltanlhrd Strete'''' : This was Thomas Gat- 
 acre of whom Newcourt, under the Rectors of St. Edmond, Lombard Street (vol. i. p. 
 344), writes : " [He] was Batchelour of Arts of 0.xford, where he continued for 10 or 
 12 years, and was aftenvards of S. Mary-Magdal. College in Cambridge, where he 
 continued for the space of 4 years or thereabouts. He was half a year at Lovain, at 
 the beginning of Q. Mary's reign. He was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of London 
 Aug. 4, 1568, and Priest by the same Bishop, Oct. 21 following. He was admitted 
 Vicar of Christ Church in 1576, which he resign'd in 1578 [Keg. Lond.] He was 
 Rector of 'S'Edmondes' from 21 June 1572. He died in 1593, having been succeeded 
 2 June 1593 by Balgay 'per mort Gatacre.' " 
 
 ® " IVyllm martin ": Not in Newcourt or Le Neve. 
 
 ' " Aydioles Creane'''' : This was a notable minister of the Puritan party — Nicholas 
 Crane, of Christ's College, Cambridge, respecting whose career and tribulation see 
 Cooper's Athena: Caiitabrigienses (vol. ii, p. 39), and Brook's Lives of the Puritans 
 (vol. i, pp. 362-3). Mr. Nicholas Crane was silenced by Bishop Grindal for his non- 
 conformity; and is said to have lain in prison more than a year prior to 1569, when 
 he was licensed conditionally by Grindal. He must therefore have been in durance at 
 the yery time when this gift came to him from Dean Nowell (in March, 1568-9); and 
 it is to be noticed that iu the text no cure is assigned to this minister. Strype, in the 
 Life of Grindal, prints an ample account of the Bishop's dealings with William Bonham 
 and Nicholas Crane, who, he says, were in 1569 the "chief teachers" of the Separa- 
 tists in London. Mr. Crane had received a special license from the Bishop to preach 
 on giving his verbal promise not to assail the rites and ceremonies of the Established 
 Church; but the Bishop wrote to the Privy Council in January, 1569-70, that these 
 preachers of late "did keep no promise," and advised that twelve of the most despe- 
 rate Separatists, both ministers and laity, should be again imprisoned, not in London, 
 where they "found great supportation and comfort," but in the common jails of Cam- 
 bridge and Oxford. In 1572, Mr. Crane is found taking a leading part in setting up 
 the Presbyterian Church in Wandsworth. In 1577 and in 1583 he signed, with others, 
 letters of encouragement to Cartwright, the champion of the nonconforming Puritans. 
 He was again imprisoned in Newgate, and died in prison in 1588. He was author of 
 Exceptions taken against Absolute Subscription to tlie Book of Common Prayer and Book 
 of Articles. 
 
 ^ " Seathe fackesone'''' : Not in Newcourt or Le Neve. 
 
 ' " Tho)?ts Ryky" : ibid. This was probably a preacher connected with Lancashire, 
 where the name of Ryley is common. I find him again in the MS. as " Thorns. Ryley 
 scholler of Broodgattes in Oxforde." 
 
 '" " Richard Jeninges'' : ibid. 
 
 " " father ffrankeyn " : Possibly the John ffrankleyii who is named earlier in the 
 MS. (Seep. 10.) 
 
 '■^ " Boberte yoner" : See Index of Names, s.n., for other entries concerning him. 
 
 '3 " frances Bydall" : Rector of Read 21 May, 1569: died 1613, as on i6th Jan., 
 1613, he was succeeded by Willet. (Newcourt, vol. i. p. 755.) 
 
 '* "Rychard Tayller, curate of .Ste Thorns the Apostles iji SuthivarJce^'' : A Richard 
 Taylor became Prebendary in Lincoln (Caringham) in the year 1572 or 1573, vice 
 Aylmer — afterwards Bishop of London — resigned. (Le Neve, vol. ii. p. 134-) 
 
 119
 
 Rychard 
 at 
 
 (Page 66 of the MS., folio 57 verso) 
 
 §- 
 S*^^ benettes ") 
 
 iij yardes at [-xxiiij^ 
 
 John 
 
 VI ij 
 
 I'J 
 
 harwood of 
 
 poulls warffe' ..j ^. ^., 
 
 the yardes j 
 
 ffoxe curate of Easteham^ ) ^ ....^ 
 yardes at viij^ eu ry yarde /" ' -' 
 
 i"d 
 
 the >-xs 
 
 m'' Ruddocke iij yardes one qt^r at ) _ ^^^ 
 
 ix^ the yarde in the holl j^' ' ■' 
 
 Wyllm Benham iij yardes at viij^ xxiiij* 
 
 Toe m'^' hooke vicare of ) „ 
 
 r X 
 
 in money j 
 
 Toe Robte fcollmaister^ of the^ 
 poorer forte of children in the \ 
 hospitall j 
 
 Gyven to Willm Longe minister* ij3 
 
 To John Tayler Minister of 
 
 Allhallowes in the wall^ xij*! & iij yardes 
 
 clothe at viij^ the yarde 
 
 m"^ John Phillpott minister's \ ....^ 
 iij yardes blacke at viij'* the yarde j ■' 
 
 To Thorns Wyllcockes Minister^ ... xiij^ iiijd 
 
 The xxij'^ day of martche To 
 
 XX v^ 
 
 To 
 
 m' 
 
 1 
 
 To 
 
 The 
 
 The 
 
 Crowley^ Preacher iij yardes & a Vxxxix» 
 
 half at xjs the yarde j viij*^ 
 
 m"" Yonge^ preacher iiij yardes ) ,g ...-^ 
 
 at xjMiij^i the yarde j "'■• 
 
 xxx*''^ day of martche 1568^ 
 to willm Lockyer^° Minister as [-x^ 
 
 apperethe by his accquitance -j 
 
 second of Aprell to John"^ 
 fordroof curate to M' Samwell j 
 p^fon of Goodman chestere", and at )^xvjs viij*^ 
 his rcquistc ij yardes & a half of | 
 newe collore J 
 
 Geven to one m' Alexander^^ ^ poor^ 
 mynister the v^"^ of maye A*' 1569 >-xl3 
 as apperethe by his accquitance j 
 
 To Edward Nowell pson of fpringe in"^ 
 essex'^ & to Elys^* somtyme vnder register I g 
 fallyn into greate poverty eather of them x^ '"'^^ 
 xiiij^i^ of auguste Ao 1569 
 
 To Rychard Glover'^ 
 xiij''^ of decemb'' A'' 1570 
 
 minister 
 
 the 
 
 nj^ 
 
 iiij<i 
 
 xiiij'^ xvij^ iij' 
 
 xviij^r viij*^ 
 
 120
 
 Notes and Illtisirations. 
 (66) 
 
 ' ^'' RycJiard hanvood of Ste benettes at poidls warffe^^ : Richard Harwood, Preben- 
 dary of York; Rilton succeeded yih July, 1614. (Le Neve, vol. iii. p. 173.) 
 
 ' " yoh)i ffoxe curate of Eastchain'" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ " Toe Kobte fcollmaister" : " Schollmaister " doubtless designates not a surname, 
 but the office of some unknown " Robert " in some (now) imknown "hospitall," 
 
 ^ " IVi/lin Longe mi/lister" : Unknown. 
 
 * "John Tayler Minister of Allhalloives ill the luaU" : No account of him is to be 
 found. 
 
 ^ "■ yohn Phillpott minister'''': John Philpot, of London, was ordained by Bishop 
 Grindal, at the same time with Percival Wiburn and others, 25111 January, 1559. 
 
 ' " Thorns wyllcockes Minister " : Thomas Wilcox, a noted Puritan minister and 
 writer, one of the authors of the celebrated Admonition to Paj-liament. (See two pages 
 onward, for note on him and his associate John Field.) 
 
 * '^ mr Crowley Preacher" : See Index of Names, s.n., for other entries concerning 
 him; and note on page 93. 
 
 ^ " ;«;' Yonge preacher" : ibid. 
 
 1" ^'w'dhn Lockyer Minister" : See last page and relative Note. 
 
 1' " John fordroof ctirate to Air Samwell pfon of Goodman chestere" '. Unknown. 
 "Goodman Chester" means, of course, Godmanchester in Huntingdonshire. 
 
 '* "■ vir Alexa7ider" : See Index of Names, s.n., for other entries. 
 
 " " Edward Awuell pson of fprin'ge in essex" : See Index of Names, s.n., for other 
 entries. 
 
 " " Elys somtyme vnder register" : See Index of Names under " Ellis." 
 
 ^ '■^ Rychard Gloz'er minister" ; Not traced. 
 
 121
 
 (Page 6-] of the MS., folio 58.) 
 To hughe Bowname a poor Minister of | 3 
 
 Buntingforde^ the xxviij^'^ of October j 
 
 To the poor indetted vicare of Tanborne^ the ) ig 
 
 xv^'^ of Novembr j 
 
 To m'' Alexander^ a poor Ministere the \ . 
 
 xv'h of Novemb''. A" 1569 j 
 
 To one m'" Blunte'* a poor minister of S*^ 
 
 & Late vniustly caste into psonne v „8 
 
 & tried by queste 
 
 the vjtli of Jcnuarij 
 
 To one m'' Sparrow a poor minister oi\ 
 
 hadham^ the xviij'^ of februarye to j-xxiij^ iiij<i 
 
 by him wood for the fyere j 
 
 To m^" hillyarde fome tyme of calleces^ ^ 1 ys 
 
 poor Minister the xxviij*'^ of maye A" {569.. j 
 To m'' Payne preacher of Litchfilde^ \ 
 
 at the sute of m"" dean of Litchfilde A^ Vx^ 
 
 1569 \ 
 
 To m'" Aboot a poor Minister^ the | . 
 
 seventhe of June A" i569 j' 
 
 To m^ Bhmte a poor minister \ g 
 
 the viij'^'^ of June j 
 
 To m'f hillyeard the xxj*^ of Octob"^ \ g 
 
 A° i569 a poor minister of calHce j 
 
 To m'' Bhmte the xx*'l* of aprell x.^ 
 
 To m'' porder the same tyme preacher x^ 
 To Rycharde Turner^ psonn of ^ 
 
 \\\ Essex the xij'^ of may A^ 1569 Vxxx* 
 
 as apperethe by his accquitance j 
 
 To Raphaell Kyen at the sute of m"" ) 
 
 Deane of Litchfild the viij*^ of maye A" 1 569 j 
 
 /x^Vviij* iiij"^ 
 
 to m"" Wetheres'° the xiiij*^ of martche ") 
 a poor preacher x^ & x^ more w*^^ he hade Vxx^ 
 before A" is/o . j 
 
 To m'' Goughe,'' fallen into the palssye & in ^ 
 greatenedethe vj'^of JuneA°i57ibythandes > xxx^ 
 of m'' eatone ) 
 
 To m"^ ffoxe, curatt of Putney^^ the vj^^ of"^ 
 June,A°i57ichardgedwtchildrenebythandes vxx^ 
 of m"^ Eaton ) 
 
 Geven to one m^ Gee of Chester, beinge dep'vid ) ,g 
 of his Levinge'3 the xxvj* of may iS/i j 
 
 To one m'' wharton^* a poor minister the \ -g 
 xxiijt^ of Auguste A« is/i j ^-^ 
 
 122
 
 Notes a?id Ilhistrations. 
 (67) 
 
 ' " hughe Bcnvname . . . of Buntingforde": Unknown. 
 
 ' *^vicare of Tanborne": Unknown. 
 
 ^ *'»ir Alexander": See last page and relative Note. 
 
 * "Mr Bliinte tried by qtwste" and inf-a : The name spelt " P.lunt " was very 
 
 likely Blount ; and this poor imprisoned minister may have been connected with the 
 Thomas Blount who was a prior husband of Dean Alexander Nowell's second wife, 
 and who was buried at St. Lawrence's Church, London. (Churton's Lfe of A'ozvell, 
 pp. 370-1.) 
 
 ' "nir Sparroiv hadham": Unknown. 
 
 * "wr hillyarde fome ty?ne of calleces," and hif-a ; Unknown. 
 ' ^'mr Payne preacher pf Litchflde": Unknown. 
 
 8 ' ' ?nr Aboot a poor Minister " : Unknown. 
 
 8 " Rycharde Turner": Richard Turner comes to light as a preacher in the early 
 years of the Reformation and an exile during the Marian persecutions. 
 
 10 "mr IVetheres": It was about the date of this entry that George Withers, the 
 learned puritan preacher and author (who I feel sure was the "poor preacher" who had 
 these benefactions at the hands of Dean Nowell), returned to England from the Con- 
 tinent, whither he had gone about 1565, on being forbidden to preach by the Primate 
 for his uncompromising objection to Roman symbols in the Church of England. Sub- 
 mitting to the ceremonies for the sake of peace, he was made Archdeacon of Colches- 
 ter in Oct., 1570, and obtained the rectory of Danbury, Essex, in Nov., 1572. He 
 died in April, 161 7. 
 
 " "mr GoHghe nir eafone": The minister thus liberally helped in his "great 
 
 need "being "fallen into the palssye" was doubtless John Gough, ordained deacon in Jan., 
 1559-60, admitted rector of St. Peter's Cornhill 15 Nov., 1560, but deprived of that 
 living for nonconformity in 1567. He was author of several published books, one 
 of which is a Sermon preached in the Tower of London in Jan., 1570-I, a few months 
 before the date of this reference in our MS., which is 6th June, 1571. lie is named in 
 a letter of Archbishop Parker to Lord Burghley, dated llth June, 1571. (Parker 
 Corresp. p. 3S2. ) 
 
 '- " nirffoxe curatt of P/itney": See Index of Names, j-.m. 
 
 13 "_^/;- Gee of Chester, beinge Defvid of his Levinge": Edward Gee, of Brasenose 
 College, 159S, Proctor. Inquiry from Cheshire antiquaries well versed in the eccle- 
 siastical records of the county has failed to discover any facts about this minister, or 
 the benefice at Chester of which he was deprived in 157 1. 
 
 " " fnr wharton " : " James Wharton, minister, " had a son John, registered as having 
 been admitted a scholar of Merchant Taylors' School on 2Sth April, 1567. 
 
 12
 
 (Page 68 of the AIS., folio 58 verso.) 
 
 m p son 
 Minister a Named 
 
 Ric^ 
 of 
 
 To a poor 
 
 Bagge, of heathfilde^, the xx*'^ 
 Novembre A*' is^i 
 
 To m' weytheres'^ a poor ministere the ) 
 v*'^ of Novembre, A"* i57i j 
 
 To Richard Bagge a poore minister at his 
 
 more 
 delyuerie out of p^son a 27. Novebr. 1571. 
 
 To one Edwarde Nowell clarke & \ 
 vicar of fifearinge, in Essexe^ apoor suter Vx^ 
 in the Lawe the xxiiij'^i of Decembre j 
 
 To Davide Dee* a poor Minister havinge 
 but one legge, the fyrste of Januarye 
 A° 1571 
 
 To a poor minister, one Nicholas Clearke, by'^ 
 thandes of Goodman Kerrie^ the xvij^'i of Januarye yv^ 
 A°i57i j 
 
 To one, Elles Pollerde a poor Minister^ 
 borne in Lancashire^ the viij* of februarye A° V 
 
 iijs iiij*^ 
 
 ys 
 
 iij3 iiij*^ 
 
 v9 
 
 1571 : : 
 
 To m'' hayles7 a verie poore minister, 
 
 vj'h of martche A° 1571 
 
 To one m'" wylsonne curatt 
 beinge fodenly warnede out 
 the xviij* of Aprill A^ {572 
 
 of 
 of 
 
 the I 
 
 Cashougton^ \ 
 his fervice > 
 
 xs 
 
 To a poor minister one Nicholes Pettiseer, 
 dwellinge in sermone leane^, tovvardes his charges 
 in sewinge out an resiginiacion, and in ^-x^ 
 mistakinge cheswieke for chelsey the xix^i of 
 Maij j 
 
 To a poor minister, the xix° of June A° 1572 
 Named Thoms hodgson, dwellinge by crane- Yv^ 
 broke in Kent^", whoe hath loste his sighte 
 
 To one Thoms hodsonne a poore blinde 
 Minister, of Kente, cominge for healpe for his 
 eyes, at ij seu^all tymes ix^ viij'i, the xxviij^* 
 of June Ao 1572 . . 
 
 To m'" filde^i & his fellowes, beinge in ne"^gatt 
 the xxviijt^ q{ June A** 1572. by ther wives 
 
 To one Elles pollarde^^ ^ poor Minister, born in"] 
 Byllington in Lancashire, whoe servithe cure I 
 in Kente, at the xviij*'^ of [ 
 Septemb' Ao 1572 J 
 
 To m' Machett a poor minister of 
 norffolkei^ the ij^^ of Julye 1575 : whoe |-xx« 
 is p^soner in the Kinges Bench 
 
 ■ix^ viij*^ 
 
 4 
 
 } 
 
 x^ 
 
 x^ 
 
 124
 
 Notes and Illicstrations. 
 
 (68) 
 
 ' ^* Rd Bag^e of heatkjilde," Tixid Infra : Unknown. 
 
 ' " mr weytheri's " : See last page and note lo. 
 
 ^ ' ' Edward Ncni'dl clarke &= vicar offfeari7ige in Essexe" : See Index of Names, s. n. 
 
 * " Davide Dee" : This poor minister, whose special claim for consideration was 
 that he had "but one leg," is noticed onward mider another reference. He, or 
 another David Dee, appears in 1575 as Vicar of Dean, in the county of Lancaster, to 
 which he was presented in that year by the Queen as patron. (Baines' Hist, of Lane, 
 Edn. of 186S, vol. i. p. 536). 
 
 * " Goodman Kerrie" : Humphrey Kerry, probably. (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 ^ " Elles Pollerde borne in Lancashire " : There are two entries on this page 
 
 relating to him. In this he is described as a " poor minister borne in Lancashire ; " 
 and in the entry near the foot of the page as " Elles Pollarde, a poor minister, borne 
 in Byllington in Lancashire, who servith cure in Kente." He was of a family of Pollards 
 who held a small freehold or leasehold estate in the township of Billington (near 
 Whalley, but in the parish of Blackburn). They were connected by marriages with 
 the Braddylls of Braddyll and Portfield, who rose to a position of great affluence and 
 note in the county palatine, William Pollard of Billington, gent., living temp. Henry 
 VIII, had a daughter Emota, who was wife of John Braddyll, Esq. A later William 
 Pollard, of Billington, paid the King's subsidy tax in 1523 ; and John Pollard, senior, 
 and John Pollard, junior, of the same family, were tenants of Whalley Abbey in 
 Billington at the survey of Abbey lands in 1538. Ralph Pollard, another member, who 
 died before 1563, by Alice his wife had a son Christopher Pollard and a daughter Agnes, 
 wife of Nicholas Lache. Ellis Pollard the minister may have been a son of this Ralph, 
 or else of John Pollard, senior, living in 1538. There are no traces of this minister in 
 local records. Two or three later members of this yeoman family may be named. 
 Edward Braddyll, Esq., married Elizabeth Pollard, i6th Dec, 1596. John Pollard 
 married, loth Feb., 1615-16, Eliz. Peele. Edward Pollard married, 3rd Sept., 1619, 
 Ellen Potter. Ellen Pollard, widow, gave, in 1684, £10 to the Poor Stock of Billing- 
 ton. Ellis Pollard of Billington (namesake of the minister) was buried at Blackburn 
 Church 3rd April, 1623 ; and another Ellis Pollard, probably his son, had sons, James, 
 born in 1633, and Ellis Pollard, born in 1635. The latter died in May, 1683. A 
 later entry in the MS. shews another member of this Lancashire family going to the 
 University : — "To one George Pollarde, the 8th of October [1572] who ys allso latly 
 comen out of Lancashire who is about Brasynose in Oxforde, l6s. 8d." 
 
 '' " mr hayles " : I am not certain if Christopher Hales, M. A., fellow of St. John's 
 College, Cambridge, an exile at Frankfort for his religion in Mary's reign, was still 
 living in 1571, at the date of this entry. If he was, he may have been the recipient 
 of this gift. 
 
 * ' ' mr wylsonne ctiratt of Cashingktofi " : ") -r j 1 
 ' " Nicholes Fettiseer Seniione leane" : j 
 
 '". " Thames hodgson cranebroke in Kent," and next entry : Even the local 
 
 historian of Cranbrook (Mr. William Tarbutt) has failed to discover this " Hodgson." 
 
 " " mrfilde" : This minister, a "prisoner in Newgate" in 1572, was John Field, 
 a leader of the Puritan movement, and minister of the Aldermary parish, London. 
 He and Mr. Thomas Wilcox (see ante., p. 66), were joint authors of the Puritans' 
 Admonition to Parliament, which they presented in person to the House, and for 
 which they were sent for into custody, and by the influence of the Bishops committed 
 to Newgate, Oct. 2nd, 1572. The imprisoned preachers addressed a memorial to 
 Lord Treasurer Burghley, and also wrote a confession of their faith, dated from 
 Newgate, 4th Dec, 1572. The parishioners of Aldermary signed two petitions 
 praying for the liberation of their " valuable pastor, and learned and faithful preacher," 
 as they styled Mr. Field ; but he was kept in durance until the penalty imposed was 
 paid, though in extreme poverty. Subsequently, Mi". Field was suspended for 
 nonconformity, 4th March, 1584. He endured much persecution on account of his 
 reforming zeal in religion. 
 
 '2 " Elles Pollarde''' : See note, j///ra. 
 
 13 < i jji). Machett norffolke " : For a notice of this ' ' poor minister of Norffolke " 
 
 s&q\\\q Correspondence of Archbishop Parker {Vo.vktx'iocy.), pp. 456-7. Mr. Matchett 
 was parson of Thurgarton, in the county of Norfolk, and to him Parker addressed a 
 missive dated 25th March, 1574, instructing him to go to his ordinary, Bishop Park- 
 hurst, and take the Primate's command to suppress certain "vain prophesyings " in 
 that diocese. How Mr. Matchett came to be, as mentioned in the text, a "prisoner 
 in the Kinges Bench " in July, 1575, cannot be explained. 
 
 1-5
 
 wydowes releved 
 wt. money. 
 
 (Page 69 of the MS., folio 59.) 
 [Mynisteres^] wyddowes releifved w* clothe 
 & money, the vij'^'^ viij*^ ix*^ x*'^ and xj^^^^ 
 of martche as folow'^^e. of the Goodes 
 of m' Robte Nowell deceased before 
 said, delyu^ed by thandes of m"^ ffrances 
 bowyer, m^" Thorns bowyer, and m^ 
 Rychard bowyeare 
 
 xxvnjs 
 iiii'i 
 
 M" Allyn^ wyddowe Latewief to m"" 
 Allyn electe byfhope of rochestere 
 in money iij^ iiij*^ & ij yardes & a half ot 
 blacke at x^ the yarde 
 
 wyddow brighte in money ij^ & ij yardes ~j 
 
 a half of newe collore at vj^ the !-xvijs 
 yarde J 
 
 wyddowe harvey^ in money ij^ and ij ^ 
 
 yardes and a half of blacke Vxxij^ 
 clothe at viij» the yarde j 
 
 wyddowe pemberton ij yardes & a half ) „^::3 
 at viij^ the yarde & ij^ in money j •' 
 
 Katherin Dewishe* ij yardes & a half \ ^-^ 
 at viij^ the yarde & in money ij^ j ^ 
 
 Wyddowe harte in money ij^ and | „„::a 
 ij yardes & a half at viijs the yarde J •' 
 
 Wyddowe mergattes^ in money xij'i" 
 
 newe collore 
 
 & ij yardes & a half 
 
 th was curat at i ■' 
 
 x^ 
 
 Late Mergates wief, 
 
 S*^® Sepulcrees 
 To [erasure] Monepenys^ wief] 
 
 in money | 
 
 Toe Katherin bell xiijMnj 
 
 To nurse peterell xvj^ 
 
 To Dorothe Patensone xiij^ iiij 
 
 ;d 
 
 I'd 
 
 wydow 
 wieP 
 
 walker 
 
 Late 
 
 Ministers ) ,g 
 
 To the wief 
 preacher^ 
 
 of m'' Turnere ) 
 
 To Ales Althorpe wyddowe v'f viij 
 
 i"d 
 
 §xiji\ij^ 
 
 /xij^V'xviiJVviij"^/ 
 
 To m''^ zagere^ a poore 
 fycke, the xxxj*^ of 
 fome of iij^ iiij*^ 
 
 wyddow, beinge ^ 
 Julij A° is/i the J-iij^ iiij*^ 
 
 126 
 
 ^
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (69) 
 
 ' " \]\Fy)usleres\ " : This word is crossed out in tlie A/S. It was doubtless so done 
 because some at any rate of the " wyddowcs " were not of " meynisteres. " It is utterly 
 hopeless at this late day to recover anything concerning these " wyddowes " on this 
 and next page beyond the little that follows. For the Bowyers by whom these and 
 succeeding gifts were distributed, see Index of Names, s.7t. 
 
 ' "Mrs Allyii'''' : She was the widow, as described in the text, of a deceased bishop 
 elect of Rochester, namely, of Edmund Allen. He was a native of Norfolk ; a Fellow 
 of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1536; IM. A. 1537. Later, he travelled 
 abroad for the sake of study, and is found at Landau in March, 1 545-6. In 1549 
 he was in England, and chaplain to the Princess Elizabeth, who, on her accession, 
 made him a royal chaplain. He was nominated Bishop of Rochester, and was elected 
 under a conge, ct elire dated 27 July, 1559, but died before consecration, and was buried 
 iu the church of St. Thomas Apostle, London, 30 Aug., 1559. He was author of a 
 Catechism (1551), and of several translations, &c. {^Ath. Cantab., vol. i. p. 198. ) Cut 
 off at the very instant of his preferment to a bishopric, Mr. Allen left a widow (whom 
 here we meet with eleven years after her husband's death i-eceiving substantial help out 
 of the Nowell Bounty) and eight children. One of the children, namesake of his 
 father, was entered at Merchant Taylors' School the 6th April, 1571, as recorded in 
 the School Register: — " Edmund Allen, son of Edmunde, late clerk, Bp. of Rochester." 
 
 ^ " wyddo've harvey " : Probably " wyddowe " of Lewis Harvey the "pore preacher" 
 who appears early in the MS. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " Katherin Dcwishe'''' — a curious surname: queiy=Dewhurst ? 
 
 ' " Wydd<nve niergdttes cin-ate at Ste SeJ>i<lc>-ees" : Unknown. 
 
 ' ^'' Monepenys'''' : A singular surname. 
 
 7 " zcydmv 7i>alkcr Late 7ni>i!sters laief'' : Very possibly she was widow of Richard 
 Walker, Dean of Chester, 1558, who died in 1569; and by his Will, proved llth Nov. 
 in that year, desired to be buried in Lichfield Cathedral, of which he had been Pre- 
 bendary. His widow would doubtless be well known to Lawrence Nowell, Dean of 
 Lichfield. 
 
 8 " mr Tnrnere preacher " : Doubtless this was the widow of the " Rycharde Turner 
 psonn " of an un-named place (p. 67, note 9.) 
 
 ' " mrs zagere" — apparently a foreigner, most likely a Protestant Refugee. 
 
 127
 
 (Page 70 of the MS., folio 59 verso.) 
 
 To a poor blinde wyddowe, of Carlyll', whoe ys' 
 broughte into greate povertie, by the laste 
 rebellion in the Northe, for that her husbande then ^xxx* 
 beinge alyeve, kepte maney foygeresin army againste 
 the said Rebells, the xxi'^ of June A" i572_ 
 
 To a poor ministers wyddowe hathe fuettes in the lawe ) ^ 
 the xxij'''^ of June A» 1572 dwellinge Applilbye^ j 
 
 To one wyddowe herron of rochester by her ) •••g •■■■^ 
 Daughtere, the vVf^ of octob'' A" 1572 j "-^ "'■' 
 
 To m" zager-"* a Poore wyddowe, the vj*''^ ofl -g ...^ 
 Decemb"^ A" 1573 j ^^ ^"-^ 
 
 Too m''^ zager more a poore wyddowe the xx^'* of 
 february A" 1573 
 
 Too meistres Turner the xxiij"^ of January ) ^ 
 
 A«i573 I"" 
 
 To meistres medley a poore Wyddowe ] ..g .^j 
 
 the xiiijtii of martch A° i573 ) -^ ^^ 
 
 To one good wiefF Kenyon, the fowerth of) ..g .^ 
 
 Januarye A^ 1574 : j 'J TJ 
 
 To one goode wieffe bartlef* the v*^ of January | ..g .^ 
 
 Aoi574 ; i'J ^^ 
 
 To one James lawes wyfP the vj'^* of)..g -^ 
 
 Januarye A" 1574 : j '-^ ^•' 
 
 Too meistres higforde^ a poore wyddowe 
 
 the viij^^ of Januarye A" i574 : 
 
 Toe mestres higforde the xvij*^ of maye ) , 
 
 A** 1575 : a poore wyddowe j 
 
 Too Alice hayborne a poor wyddowe by theS 
 
 handes of our m"" whashe the xxx^i^ of December Vx* 
 
 A°i575: J 
 
 Too meistres higford, a poore wyddowe, the | ^ 
 
 xxx^'^ of December A^ 1575 : j 
 
 Toe Guye Eyton' his wieffe the third of Januarie ... v^ 
 Too wyddowe Pyrrin a poore old blind woman \ ^ 
 
 the third of Januarie A^ 1575 : j ^ 
 
 Toe meistres lytley the iiij^^ of Januarie 1575 : v* 
 
 Too one meistres Strange, the xxiij^li of ) ^ 
 
 June 1576: j ^ 
 
 Too one goodwieffe bolton a poore wyddowe \ .., .j 
 
 the fyrste of Julie 1576 : j ■' •* 
 
 Too one Bartlettes wieff, the xi^^ of februarie ) ... .., 
 
 i576: };J "J 
 
 To one Rawcrofte wieffe the same tyme ij^ vj<^ 
 
 Too one Johan walker of westm the same tyme iij® 
 
 vS 
 
 ther are poore wyjdowes 
 enlred ful. 69. 
 hf.areafter more 
 plainly apperethe. 
 
 I2i
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 (70) 
 
 * " a poor bliiide ruyddowe 0/ Carly/l lasU irbellion" : The reference in this 
 
 sorrowful instance must be to the rebellion in 1569, headed by the Earls of North- 
 umberland and Westmoreland, during the military measures for the suppression of 
 which, Carlisle was held by a large force for the Queen. The soldiery would be 
 quartered upon the citizens, and thus the husband of this poor blind widow, being 
 then living, had "kepte maney soygeres in army againste the said Rebelles." His 
 widow could expect no compensation from the government; so Dean No well sent the 
 poor creature, out of his brother's bounty, a sum (30J. ) equal to 15/. of modern money. 
 
 ^ "■' AppUlbye" = k.\>\t\th^ in Westmoreland. 
 ' ^' i?i)-s. zager'^ and infra: see last page. 
 
 * ^'goode wieffe bartld": On this page, we have two entries of payments to this 
 widow, in the years 1574 and 1576. She received again money in 1578 and 1581. I 
 think it probable that several of these recipients were the widows of Puritan ministers 
 deceased, whom Dean Nowell cared for out of his respect for the memory of pious 
 preachers who had been known to him during life. This Mistress Bartlet may have 
 been the wife of a Puritan preacher named Bartlett, who is referred to in Grindal 
 (Parker Society), as having taken upon him to read his divinity lecture at St. Giles's, 
 Cripplegate, though suspended by the Bishop. 
 
 * '"''James lawes wieff": Perhaps one of the Lawes of Lancashire, before noted. 
 (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 * " meistres higforde" and infra: She is named thrice on this page, and in each entry 
 is described as a "poor wyddowe." A few folios onward she again appears as 
 recipient of four more gifts of money in 1579 and 1580, and in one entry is called "a 
 poore decayed wyddowe. " Dean Nowell kept his charitable eye upon many examples 
 of honourable poverty, and acted the "friend in need " with prompt relief. Mistress 
 Higford had a former gift in August, 1572, towards the marriage of her daughter 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 "> " Giiye Eyton": The name, Guy Eaton, is the same with that of the then Arch- 
 deacon of Gloucester, who is mentioned twice further on in the MS.: — "To Gye 
 Eaton, Archdeacon of Glocester, to the use of a poor schoUer," &c. 
 
 K 129
 
 (Page 7 1 of the MS., folio 60.) 
 Poor men releeved w* Gownes coates and 
 money of the Goodes of m"" Robte. Nowell 
 deceased, the vij*^ viij*^ ix"^ x*^ and xi*^^ 
 of marche Anno 1568 by thandes of m'' 
 fifrances bowyer, m'^ Thorns Bowyere 
 and m'' Rychard bowyeare./ as herafter 
 folow*^^ ^ 
 
 . ^~ 
 
 Imp mis Jhon watson in money xijf^ \ ^ -^ 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of clothe at vj^ y« yarde j " ^ 
 
 John Barnarde in money xij'^ & ij ] .g 
 
 yardes & a half of blacke clothe at vj^ y® yarde j ■' 
 
 John green in money xij'^ & ij yardes } -^ 
 
 & a half of blacke clothe at vj^ y® yard | ^ 
 
 Gylls fowler in money xij<^ & ij yardes ] .^ 
 
 & a half of new collor at vj^ the yarde j ■' 
 
 Leonard camparte in money xij'l \ .^ 
 
 & ij yardes. di. new collor at vj^ the yard j -' 
 
 Rye. Throlt. in money xij'^ & ij yardes )^ .^ 
 
 of new collor at vj^ the yarde j ■' 
 
 George wyllamsonne v^ in money & ij yardes \ ^, 
 
 & a half of newe collore J ' 
 
 Thomas preste in money xij"^ & ij yardes ) .g 
 
 & a half of new collore at vj^ the yarde j ^ 
 
 Thoms Daye in money xij^ and ij \ .3 
 
 yardes & a half of new collor at j ■' 
 
 John wardiner in money xij'^ and ] .g 
 
 ij yardes & a half of new collore at | •* 
 
 Alexander hamerton^ in money xij<^ ) .^ 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore at ) ^ 
 
 Rychardes Bygges in money xij*^ and ) _ .^ 
 
 ij yardes & a half of new collore at j ^ 
 
 Roger Nycholes in money xij*^ & ) •, 
 
 ij yardes & a half of newe collore j " 
 
 henry fifarrer in money xij'^ & ij ) -^ 
 
 yardes & a half of new collor at j ' 
 
 Rychard Stanton in money \ -^ 
 
 xij*i & ij yardes & a half in new collor | ^ 
 
 Goodman Eglies in money xij'i & ij ) ., 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore at / ^ 
 
 ffather wilkin in money xij"^ & ij ] -^ 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore / •* 
 
 John Lewes in money xij"^ & i] \ -^ 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore at j -^ 
 
 § — :.:t-7 
 
 /xiiij'*/xij' 
 
 xiiij^* X 
 
 rnS 
 
 130
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (70 
 
 ' For the Bowyers here named see Index of Names, s.n. These "poor men " it is 
 again hopeless to seek to illumine now. They were all of the obscurest, albeit some 
 of the names tell of good lineage. The whole of the names will be found incorporated 
 with the Index of Names, and as such they add to our list of English surnames. As 
 the distribution of this category of gifts was entrusted to the three Bo\\7ers, citizens of 
 London, the parties receiving the benefactions would be resident in or near London. 
 
 * "Alexander hat}ierto}i" : This is a North of England surname, the only one on the 
 page that strikes us as such. Families of Hammertons were seated at Hellifield Peel, 
 in Craven, and at Hollins, near Burnley, in East Lancashire, and the surname of 
 Hammerton is of rather frequent occurrence in those localities. Of the Hollins branch 
 of Hammertons is Mr. Philip Gilbert Hammerton, the accomplished contemporary 
 artist, poet, and essayist. 
 
 K 3 131
 
 (Page 72 of the 3IS., folio 60 verso.) 
 
 § 
 
 John Grice in money xij"^ ij & a half \ -^ 
 
 new collor at vj^ the yarde j ' •' 
 
 Robte habarde in money xij*^ & ij yardes ) -g 
 
 & a half of clothe of new collore at j ■' 
 
 Olyver Bryster in money xij<^ & ij yardes \ -g 
 
 & a half of new collore at vj* the yarde j ' •' 
 
 Anthony hutson in money xij<l & ij yardes ) ^ .^ 
 
 & a half of new collor at vj^ the yarde j ' •' 
 John crean in money xij<^ & ij yardes & a di. ) . -^ 
 
 of newe collore at vj^ the yarde j ^ 
 
 John Bramsgrave in money xij^ and \ 
 
 ij yardes & a half of newe collore at vj^ >xvj^ 
 
 the yarde j 
 
 Willm wryghte in money xij'^ & ij yardes ) ^ .^ 
 
 & a di. of clothe of new collore at y ^ 
 
 Thoms fampsonn in money v^ & in ) ^ ^ 
 
 clothe ij yardes & a half at j 
 
 henry gray in money xij*^ and in ) .^ 
 
 clothe ij yardes & a half j ' ^ 
 
 fifrances fymball in money xij'' & ) .^ 
 
 in clothe ij yardes & a half at | ' ■' 
 
 Nycholes Chester a fcollyon' of my ) ^ 
 
 Lord of London ij yardes & a di. at y 
 
 henry hibby in money xij'i & in ) .^ 
 
 clothe ij yardes & a half j •' 
 
 Olyver pagge Late somner to \ ^ 
 
 the Dean & chapter^ one yard & a half j 
 Rychard ftilton in money xij^ ) ^ .g 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of clothe at j " 
 
 charles ffrise in money xij'i & ) ..^ ...j 
 
 one yarde quarter of clothe j ^ ^ 
 
 George holte in money xij'^ & in ] ^ -^ 
 
 clothe ij yardes & a half at j' ■' 
 
 Robte fmythe in money xij*i ij | ^ ^.g 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore j ^ 
 Wyllm hygges in money xij*^ ) .g 
 
 & in clothe ij yardes & a half at j -' 
 
 money ij" & \ 
 
 James hakins of westm^ a ij yardes >-xvjj8 
 
 & a di. at vj^ the yarde j 
 
 Wyllm barlow m"" mychelle junre^ 
 
 & money ij^ ^ xvjj'^ 
 
 ij yardes & a half at a 
 
 ixv''/: nf viij*^ 
 
 /xviViij®/Viij<^ 
 
 13'
 
 Notes and Illustratio7is. 
 
 ' "Scollyon of my Lord of Londoji": The men named in this hst were probably 
 most of them in some kind of petty official or domestic service, and here is one who 
 was the Bishop of London's scullion. His master was Bishop Grindal. 
 
 ^ " Olyver pagge Late Somner to the Dean c^ Chapter^'': " Somner" is an old abbre- 
 viation of the word summoncr, which denotes the office performed by the person who 
 is so described. 
 
 3 "j'loire": This word is unintelligible, but the letters in the MS. can be made into 
 nothing else. 
 
 J33
 
 (Page Ti of the MS., folio 6i.) 
 
 § 
 
 To m"^ Applieyarde iij yardes new collor & ) , ., 
 
 xx^ in money at vj" the yarde j ^ 
 
 Thorns Trindell iij yardes & a di. of) .g 
 
 new collor & x^ in money j •' 
 
 John Blocke in money xij^ & ij ] -^ 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore j ^ 
 
 John ffreman in money xij'i & ij yardes \ -^ 
 
 & a half in new collore j ^ 
 
 Rychard Lante clearke of S' peters ) .g 
 
 in chipe^ ij yardes & a di. & in money xij'^ / ■' 
 
 Rychard atkins ij yardes & a half and xij'^ | • 
 
 money / ^ 
 
 henry marten ij yardes & a half & xij<l in ) .^ 
 
 money j ■' 
 
 Wyllam Doughty in money xij'i & ij yardes \ .^ 
 
 & a half of new collore J •' 
 
 Wyllam parkinson in money xij*^ & ij yardes ] -g 
 
 & a half of new collore j ^ 
 
 Willm Watson in money xij<i & ij yardes ) .g 
 
 & a half of new collore j ^ 
 
 father brandenfwood^ in money xij*^ & 1 's 
 
 of newe collor ij yardes & a half at j •' 
 
 James Ryeston in blackeborne^ in money \ -g 
 
 xij*^ & ij yardes & a half of new collore j ^ 
 
 George & John hyllyarde the fonnes ^ 
 
 of John hyllyearde minister'^ iij )-xviij* 
 
 yardes at vj^ the yarde j 
 
 John hayr Tayler in the wayhouse^ "j 
 
 in money xij"^ & ij yardes & a half of Vxvj* 
 
 new collore at j 
 
 henry Jeninges in money xij'i & in new ) .g 
 
 collore ij yardes & a half j ' •' 
 
 Nycholes Kyllingworthe in money ) , -g 
 
 xij*^ & ij yardes & a half of new collor j " ^ 
 
 Raffe Johnsonn in money xij'i & ij \ .g 
 
 yardes & a half of newe collore at . . . j ^ 
 
 Robte ffyshman in money xij*! & ) ..g 
 
 ij yardes iij quarters of new collor j ^ 
 
 father rowland xij'^ in money ) .g 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore . . . f •' 
 
 xviij'' \\f vj' 
 
 vj' 
 
 xviij'' iij' vj"^ 
 
 ^3(
 
 Notes ajid Illustrations. 
 (73) 
 
 ' " Ryckarde Lan/e clearke of Si feters in Chipe" : Unknown. 
 
 "^ " Bmndenfwood": This surname, shortened to Brand wood, is of local occurrence 
 in East Lancashire. 
 
 ^ " yanh's Ryeston in blackeborne" : The name of this Blackburn man who received 
 money and cloth of the value of i6s., spelled " Ryeston " in the iMS., would be, cor- 
 rectly, Rishton, or Rushton. In Blackburn, in the township of Risliton, which lies 
 next to Blackburn on the east, and in two or three adjoining townships, the surname 
 of Rishton was that of several families of gentry and yeomen of former time, and is still 
 common among natives. James Rishton of Blackburn I do not identify. Being classed 
 among "poor men who had gowns and money," he was a person of no standing, 
 doubtless. 
 
 ■* ^'George ^'John hyllyarde yohn hyllyearde ttiinister": Of these two sons 
 
 of John Hyllyard, minister, one at least was a scholar at Merchant Taylors' School. 
 25th May, 1565, "John Hiliard, son of John Hiliard, minister," is enrolled upon the 
 register of the school as being then admitted. 
 
 * "John hayr Taylor in the -vayhoiise" : The "wayhouse" refers to the "King's 
 Weigh House" in the City of London. For what was done there, see The White 
 Book of the City of London, p. 248, where we read, that ' ' whereas merchants do feel 
 aggrieved by reason that the weights in the hostels and in the selds of citizen merchants 
 of London, by which they sell, do not agree with the weight by which they buy, — it is 
 accorded that the King shall have his weights in a certain place, or in two places, or m 
 three or four if necessary, within the city; and that all merchandize sold by weight that 
 exceeds 25 pounds shall be weighed with the King's weights in weighing for the custom 
 that pertains unto," &c. 
 
 135
 
 Poor women 
 releved wt. money 
 & clothe. 
 
 (Page 74 of the JUS., folio 6i verso.) 
 
 xvj^ vj' 
 
 I 
 
 r 
 
 Anthony Rychardson of S* margettes "j 
 
 in westm ij yardes iij quarters of new '--v^^^i^ 
 collore 
 
 WiHm Brodgate at the sute of m'' ^ 
 
 palmer preacher' ij yardes & a half j'xvj^ 
 of newe collore 
 
 Rychard Lewes^ at the sute of m 
 
 Walgrave in money xii*^ & ij yardes & >xvj 
 a half of new collore j 
 
 Thorns beson in money xij^^ & ij yardes ] -g 
 
 & a half of newe coller at / •' 
 
 Carter of wansworth^ 1 
 
 j yard & a half of new collore ) -' 
 
 father budd in money xij^ & ) -g 
 
 ij yardes & a half of new collore /^ ^ 
 
 John Kingston in money 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 & 
 
 ij yardes & a half of new collor 
 ffather Ludforde a blynd man in" 
 money xij"^ & ij yardes & a half of 
 
 new collore 
 
 Goodman palmer in money xij<^ 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore 
 
 xij-i ■) 
 ■' '- xvj* 
 
 >-XVJ^ 
 
 XVJ^ 
 
 To good man 
 
 Digges 
 
 in money xij<J ) 
 
 To 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore j " ■" 
 Wyllam Dyxon by thandes ofS 
 John flirappshire. svante to m'' I . ^.^ 
 Secretory* ij yardes & a half of^*' •' 
 
 new collor & xij^ in money ... ; 
 
 § 
 
 metres 
 
 Sisley 
 Anne 
 John 
 Alyce 
 
 §- 
 
 medley blacke clothe ij yardes & a 
 half at ix^ the yarde & ij^ in money 
 
 Samson^ wyddow in money ) ^.^ 
 
 xij*^ & ij yardes & a half of new collor j •' 
 Swefwell in money xij*^ & ij 1 , ;-s 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore at ) ■* 
 
 Warde in money xij*^ and in ~| -g 
 
 new collore ij yardes & a half j ■' 
 
 § 
 
 VUj" xvjs VJ' 
 
 xxiiij^ vj*^ 
 
 hawarde^ in money xij^ and ] 
 
 Margerett 
 
 ij yardes & a half of new collor at / •' 
 
 newman in money xij^ & in ) . ^• 
 
 new collore / ' ^ 
 
 Elizabethe hinchley in money 
 & in new collore ij yardes & a half 
 
 § 
 
 xjd 
 
 XVj" 
 
 vj'Vvj 
 
 •id 
 
 I 
 
 xnij", xvij= 
 
 ^36
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (74) 
 
 ' " JVillrn Brodgate inr palmer preacher'''' : Mr. Palmer, "preacher," ot 
 
 this entr)', dated 1568, synchronises with William Palmer, born about 1539; of Pem- 
 broke Hall, Cambridge; B.A., 1559-60 ; elected a fellow of that house in 1560; 
 commenced M.A. 1563. He was chaplain to Grindal, bishop of London, who 
 collated him to the prebend of Mora, in St. Paul's, 24th Sept., 1565 ; and on 20th 
 Dec, 1566, he was instituted to the rectory of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London. Li 1570 
 he was collated to the prebend of Riccol, in the Church of York ; and in 157 1 was 
 under chancellor of the Church of York. He had other preferments later. Mr. 
 Palmer was in attendance at the execution of the Earl of Northumberland, at York, 
 22nd Aug., 1572. He was created D.D. in 1598 ; and died 23rd Oct., 1605, at 
 York. \x\ the Farmer MS. are notes of a sermon he preached at St. Paul's Cross, 
 London, nth Aug., 1566. (Cooper's >4M. Cantab., vol. ii., p. 413.) 
 
 ^ " Rychard Letves": Educated at Oxford, where he proceeded B. A., 1575-6; 
 M.A., 1579; B.D., 1584. 
 
 3 " /F(7«j^<;w//2 " = Wandsworth, Surrey; a suburb of South London. 
 
 * "jfohn Shrappshire rjaiite to mr Secretory^'' : i.e., to Mr. Secretary Cecil. 
 
 * ' ' Sisley Samson " = Cecilia. 
 
 ^ '^ A/yce Ha'ivarde": Hawarde is an old Lancashire spelling of Haworth ; and 
 Alice Hawarde here I think isthe same with Alice Haworth of Rochdale, widow, a 
 relative of the Nowells whose receipt for a legacy of 7/., as entered in the MS., has 
 previously been noted. (See Index of Names, s.7i.) 
 
 m
 
 (Page 75 of the MS., folio 62) 
 
 madwell wief 
 
 \^ and 
 
 in money xij^ and ij ^ ^ 
 
 & a half of new color at j" ^ 
 
 Agnes watersall in money xii^l & 
 
 .__ money xij^^ & ij yardes . 5 
 
 & a half of new collor at vj^ the yarde j ■' 
 
 yardes \ 
 
 } 
 
 mary ionge in money xij^ & ij yardes . ^ 
 
 & a half of new coUore |" 
 
 Martha Andrewe in money xij'i & ij yardes . ^ 
 
 & a half of new collor at vj^ the yarde f •* 
 
 } 
 .... I 
 
 Anne pere in money xij^ & ij yardes & a ) ^ 
 
 half of new collore at vj^ the yarde | ^ •' 
 
 Ellen Thomson in money xij*^ & ij yardes ) -^ 
 
 & a half of new collore j ■' 
 
 Alice collet in money xij'^ & ij yardes & a ) , ^.g 
 
 half of new collore at vj^ the yarde j ■' 
 
 Thomasin woodmall in money xij*^ & ij ) -^ 
 
 yardes & a half of newe collore j ■' 
 
 Barbara Linman for her & her children | .g 
 
 & ij yardes & a di. of new collore at ... \ •' 
 
 vj^ 
 
 A poor woman & ij poor children at myle 
 
 end 
 Ellen cotton in money xij^^ & ij yardes & a 
 
 !} 
 
 ende^ iijs iiijd & ij yardes di. new collor at 
 ;i cotton in money xij*! & ij yardes & a ) 
 half of new collore at I' ^ 
 
 xvnj3 iiij 
 
 Elizabethe holmes in money xij<^ & 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore j ^ 
 
 '] 
 
 ] 
 } 
 } 
 
 Margery swyngeled in money xij' 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore J •' 
 
 Dorothe hayborne in money x' 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore at 
 
 Alyce Carter in money xij'i & ij yardes 
 
 & a half of newe collore j 
 
 Johan Kerry in money xij^^ & ij yardes ) 
 
 & a half of new collore at j 
 
 mother Walkeres doughter in money^ 
 
 xij*^ & ij yardes & a half of new collore 
 
 Mother Gylberte Todd in money xij 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore j 
 
 Rose marfton in money xij^^ and 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore at 
 
 John hyckson^ in money xij*^ & ij yardes 
 
 & a half of new collore j 
 
 Joyneres mother vicar of Tottinham*1 
 
 xij'^ in money & ij yardes & a di. of new collor j 
 Roberte ffoxes^ wief in money 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore at 
 
 >-xv 
 
 } 
 
 XV 
 
 V' 
 
 xijti 
 
 ■XV 
 
 XV 
 
 ;d 
 
 xviiji' viij 
 
 s iiijd 
 
 xviijiVviij'/iiij'^ 
 
 138
 
 Notes a?id Ilhistratioiis. 
 (75) 
 
 * " wffa'w.f// wc-j/^"— a noticeable surname. 
 
 2 "77iylee,ide": Mile-End is the well-known designation of a district at the East-End 
 oi IvOndon. 
 
 » ''yohttJfyckson": "John" here is a contraction for Johan, for this list of reci- 
 pients are females. 
 
 « "Jj^y^'o-s mother vicar of Tottenham ": See Index of Names under " Toner " 
 
 * "iV^^^r/'fTfbr^": See Index of Names under "Foxe." 
 
 139
 
 VJ 
 
 ;d 
 
 (Page ^6 of the MS., folio 62 verso) 
 
 mother Anger in money ij^ & iij yardes\ 
 of new collore _) 
 
 Wyddow pursott in money xij"! & ijlxvi^ 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore j •' 
 
 Joh'n hardwycke^ in money xij^ & ijlxyjs 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore j 
 
 margett Benett wydowe in money ^U*^l.xvis 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore f 
 
 Agnes fcarlett in money ij* v\^ & u"\xvii» 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore j •' 
 
 Joh'n freeman in money xij^ & U 1 j^js 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore j •* 
 
 Elizabethe wood in money xij'J ^Tx m^ 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore J ^ 
 
 Elizabethe Joans in money ^^i*^\v \% 
 
 ij yardes a half of new collore J ^ 
 Joh'n Barton in money xij^ & ij 1 ■ 
 
 yardes & a half of newe collore j ^ 
 
 Wyddowe martin of Christchurch xij^l .^ 
 
 ij yardes & a half of new collor J •' 
 
 Alice Gybson wyddow xij^ & ij yardes I -^ 
 
 & a half of new collore at j ■' 
 
 Elizabethe margett in money xij'^^ -g 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore J ^ 
 
 Alice haynes in money xij<^ & ) .5 
 
 ij yardes & a half of new collore / ^ 
 Julyan Amiredithe ij yardes & a half) -^ 
 
 of new collore & xij'J j ■* 
 
 Wyddowe frythe^ in money xij<^ & I .^ 
 
 ij yardes & a half of new collore at • ■' 
 
 Stowe Boddington in money xij'^'l .^ 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collore at... J ^ 
 Goodwief ballarde in money xij*^ &! , .^ 
 
 & ij yardes & a half new collore at J ^ 
 
 Rafife Johans in money xij*^ & ij\ _ .^ 
 
 yardes & a half of new collorej •' 
 M""^ Thorpe wyddowe xij'^ & ij"\ . 
 
 yardes & a half of new collore at j •'^ 
 
 Rose a poor old womane xij^ & ij~l -^ 
 
 yardes & a half of newe collore J •' 
 
 Tomason Bartley in money xij^'l , ^.^ 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of new collorej"' ^ 
 Adree fpenser^ in money xij*^"\ -^ 
 
 & ij }'ardes & a half of new collore J ^ 
 
 Mother [wytheres in money xij*i \ 
 
 & ij yardes & a half of clothe of [-xvj* 
 
 new coller at vjs the yarde j 
 
 xviij^' xiijs \'] 
 (Page J"] blank.) 
 
 xviiji^ 
 
 xnj vj 
 
 140
 
 Notes a?id Ilhistrations. 
 (76) 
 
 ' "yokn l/ardioycke": "John" here, as in a previous instance, is "Johan," the 
 female name, shortened. 
 
 ' " IVyddowe fiythe at Shnve Boddiiigton": One instinctively pauses over 
 
 this entry on recollection of the venerable martyr John Frith. 
 
 ' " Adree /penser": Her connexion with other Spensers in the MS. cannot be 
 defined — as yet. 
 
 141
 
 (Page 78 of the MS., folio 63 verso.) 
 The some of all the~l 
 draperes bills of the [ 
 clothe bestowede the vii*^ I . ^ ...g ....^1 
 of martch and the [ * -^ ■' 
 
 daies foUowinge amonteth 
 
 to the some of J 
 
 Wherof paid to m'' heughe hendley^ \ -.u ...g -^ 
 
 as apperethe by his accquitance -'_______ 
 
 To Rychard Johanson^ as apperethe \ ■•■x^ •••g 
 
 by his accquitance j ^ ^ 
 
 To m'' Willam ChivalP as ) ,; ...g .^ 
 
 appereth by the accquitance / ^ •' 
 
 To m' Cape-i as apperethe by the ) m; ., .^ 
 
 accquitance & bill of pcells | -" ■' ^ 
 
 To m"^ Johanson as apperethe by his ) xxiiij^i 
 
 accquitance & bills of pcells | xvj^ vj<i 
 
 To m'' bragden^ as apperethe ] .jj s ••••(! 
 
 by his accquitance j ^ ' ^ 
 
 m"" Edward Kempton^ as apperethe by | • li •••s d 
 
 his accquitance & bills of pcells j ^ 
 
 To m'' Brathwate' as apperethe \ ..jj .^ 
 
 by his accquitance & bills of pcells ... j ^ ^ 
 To m"" Willm Kimptonn^ as apperethe \ ...u .g .,j 
 by his accquitance & bill of pcells ... j ^ ^ ^ 
 
 the fome above as ) . ,; .... ...., 
 
 apperethe is j ^_ ^ 
 
 Boughte more the xxj'^ of martche of" 
 M"^ Kimpton Drap vij yardes & a half 
 of blacke clothe at xj^ iiij^ the yarde ^iiij^' v* 
 
 for ij gownes, for m"^ crowley & mr yonge 
 
 preacheresS , 
 
 money Disbursed'" for clothe the xxv*^^ 
 
 of may A° 1569 as apperethe by Vxxx'Mj* v'^ 
 a bill of m"" Towenly hande^ ' j 
 
 clxiij'>/xVix<^ 
 
 142
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (78) 
 
 ' '^ heugke hendley": Not recorded by Clode in his Memorials of the Merchant Taylor 
 Company, as before. From tlie name, I conjecture he was not a London but a Lanca- 
 shire trader in cloth. 
 
 ' '* Rycha?-d jfohattsoit'''': This was no doubt the " Richard Johnson" who appears 
 along with Bragdon (note 5 infra) at the Feast of Sir Thomas Rowe. He was one of 
 a goodly number " appoynted to dyne at the Table appoynted for the Salters. " (Clode, 
 p. 117.) 
 
 3 " Willam Chefall": Not in Clode, as before. 
 
 * "Mr. Cape": ibid. 
 
 * " Mr. Bragden ": This was John Bragdon whose name occurs as one of the " Sur- 
 veyors at the Dresser in the Hall" at a Feast under the Mayoralty of vSir Thomas Rowe 
 Citizen and Merchant Taylor, 1568. (Clode, p. 116. ) 
 
 ' " Edward Kempton ": No doubt a relative of William Kimpton infra. 
 
 ^ "Mr. Braihwate": Not in Clode, as before. The name belongs to Westmore- 
 land and Cumberland. 
 
 ^ "Mr. Willm Kimptonn" and infra: See Index of Names, s.n., for other entries 
 concerning him, and a note at p. 39. 
 
 ' " vir crowley &" nir yonge preacheres" : See a note on Mr. Crowley at p. 93. 
 
 '" " Disbursed''' — an early use of this now familiar verb. 
 
 " " mr Towenly ha>ide"\ These cloths had been purchased by John Towneley, Esq., 
 as one of Robert NowelFs executors. 
 
 143
 
 (Page 79 of the MS., folio 65.) 
 Poore men releved w*^ money. 
 
 § 
 Gyven to Edward Shande a poor man kin to 
 
 m^ pvste of Eaton^ 
 
 Thoms hinche poole 
 
 Adam preston an old blinde mane 
 
 George Kerbey veiy poore 
 
 George Robertes 
 
 Willm Lucas shrvante w* m'^ Apliyarde 
 
 John farmere 
 
 Roger Carver of S* Botolphes 
 
 John Simons a poor man 
 
 Ry chard Gay e 
 
 Christofor bell 
 
 Rychard Dickinson 
 
 Wyllam Stryngere 
 
 henry mundaye 
 
 Wyllam Morrise 
 
 ffrances Wytheres^ 
 
 *Thoms Wilkinson 
 
 Thoms Angell 
 
 John Lawe 
 
 henry Rogeres a poor fatherles child 
 
 Edward claye a poor decayed mane 
 
 A poor man in fletstret in popery alley 
 
 John hollingham in the marshallsey 
 
 Raffe Gills of S olyves in silver ftret 
 
 Robte read Late my L. of London cooke^ 
 
 George bryan of S*^ botolphes 
 
 John White 
 
 Ludloo marcke 
 
 John Tydinge 
 
 John Johansone 
 
 John page 
 
 Wyllyam Roolande 
 
 Rychard bradge 
 
 Rychard blaidge of wood flreate 
 
 Olyver bolton 
 
 Alexander Davis 
 
 ffrances bothe 
 
 John Smythe Tayler 
 
 Audeley, poor olde & lame* 
 
 h' 
 
 
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 xvj^ 
 
 x^ 
 
 
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 v^ 
 
 
 x^ 
 
 
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 x^ 
 
 
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 xx^ 
 
 
 VJs Yujd 
 X^ 
 
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 x'^ 
 
 
 xiij^ iiij"^ 
 xl^ 
 
 
 XX* 
 
 
 iij^ iiij*^ 
 x^ 
 
 
 ^^\ ... § 
 
 xxjli xijs viij* 
 
 x'' 
 
 
 X5 
 
 
 vj* viijd 
 
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 vj* viij<* 
 vj= viij*^ 
 vj= viij^ 
 
 
 x^ 
 xs 
 
 xiij^ iiijd 
 
 XX* 
 
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 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (79) 
 
 • " Edivarde Shaude . . . . mr pvste of Eaton": " P'vste "= provost. The Provost 
 of Eton at this date was WilHam Day. He was elected Provost 5th Jan. 1561-2, and 
 Dean Nowell was one of the candidates for the post recommended to the Queen, but 
 Day was selected as being a single man, and in that respect more eligible. William 
 Day was born at Newport in Shropshire, in 1529; educated at Eton; admitted at King's 
 College, Cambridge, in 1545; proceeded B.A. in 1549, and commenced M. A. in 1553; 
 appointed Fellow of Eton in 1560; Canon of Windsor 1564; Dean of Windsor 1572; 
 Bishop of Winchester 1595; died 20th Sept., 1596. He published Latin verses (1560), 
 and an account of his conference with Campion the Jesuit in the Tower (1581). 
 
 ' ^^ ffrances Wytheres" : A "Mr. Withers" appears as one of the Examiners along 
 with Dean Nowell, &c., of Merchant Taylors' School in 1572. (Clode, p. 408.) 
 
 * "■ Robte 7-ead Late viy L. of London cooke": The Bishop of London's servants were 
 well kept in mind by Dean Nowell in his periodical distributions of trust money in 
 charity. From Mr. Ratclief, the Bishop's head-man, who had cloth for a gown which 
 cost 45J. (he is described in Grindal's Will, dated 1583, as "Richard Ratcliff gent., 
 my comptroller"), to his cook and his scullion, this bounty extended. 
 
 '' '■' Audelty poor olde and lame": The descriptions of several of the recipients here 
 are pathetically pitiful, such as, "an olde blindemane," "verypoore," "a poor father- 
 less child," "a poor decayed mane," and this last and saddest case of all, "poor olde 
 and lame." Upon Dean Nowell the distributor, and his benevolent brother Robert 
 the bestower of these far-reaching benefactions, "the blessing of them that were ready 
 to perish" must have been pronounced numberless times during these twelve years or 
 so (156S-1580) of the expenditure of the funds of this noble charity. 
 
 L 145
 
 15 martch 
 A" 156S 
 
 21 May 
 
 23 martch 
 
 24 
 
 (Page 80 of the MS., folio 65 verso.) 
 
 § 
 
 James Sheries ftaytionere' vj* viij'^ 
 
 Thorns hewes of S^ fepulcres x^ 
 
 Rychard Jacson v^ 
 
 Thorns Coup xiij^ iiij<^ 
 
 John Wryghte xiij^ iiij'^ 
 
 Goodman beinge a pote carie^ xiij^ iiij'^ 
 
 Wyllam Nycholsone v^ 
 
 Willam baker for him his wief & iiij childrene... x^ 
 
 Phillip Garscia^ vj^ Vn]^ 
 
 Jeffrey brockefmouthe x^ 
 
 ffather penbrocke^ x^ 
 
 Peter bakere v^ 
 
 Christofor Laxstere iij^ iiij<^ 
 
 Robte Chriftepeney of Thorns apotle v^ 
 
 To Edward meyle & vj other poore iij^ xf^ 
 
 To John Stantone iij^ iiij*^ 
 
 Thorns hovill vj* viij*! 
 
 Coop of westm vj^ viij'^ 
 
 paterson of westm^ vj^ viij*^ 
 
 p^ to Reynold of pishe Garden x^ 
 
 pd Albrighte of pishe Garden x* 
 
 p<^ Barnley of Towere hill x^ 
 
 p'^ Tramsan of the Spittell x* 
 
 p"^ vnto John Tayller of henden ' v^ 
 
 pd vnto George Thornanbey a poorman ) ...g ....^ 
 
 at his owen suette j ^ ^ 
 
 p<i to George Cawdvvell of cheswieke xx'^ 
 
 ptl to Randall worsley^ at the suete of ) .g 
 
 m'^ yonge preacher^ as appereth by his acq'tes j " ^ 
 p"^ to Clemente & Thorns bernher^ to \ 
 
 cache of them xx^ the sonnes of j-xl^ 
 
 Augustine bernhere J 
 
 To Bryan of darken well iij^ iiij"^ 
 
 To Phillipp ffirman in money iijMiij'^ 
 
 to Christofor harr^'son iijs iiijd 
 
 To Anthoney button v* 
 
 To henry nuttinge vj^ viij'i 
 
 To father willson of nettellbedd in the \ ^ 
 
 Countie of Oxforde^ j 
 
 To baringenius a poor frenchmane^ x^ 
 
 to ffather Ledsonne vj^ viij'^ 
 
 To . goodman panke in whitechapcll \ -g •••^ 
 
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 To James Cruce^° at the requieste ofS 
 
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 his accquitance j 
 
 to Thorns Wilkenes^i fermar at harrowe hill ) 
 
 beinge fallen in greate decaye & debte j 
 
 To John Collines of S'^ brydes beinge \ 
 
 a lame mane, by thandes of his wief & >-xx' 
 
 Robte collines his sonne. , j 
 
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 146 XVlllj" IX^ 
 
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 I
 
 Notes and Illustratio?is. 
 (80) 
 
 ' "James Sherirs JIaytionere" : One of the family of stationers of whom the head was 
 WilHam Seres, long Master of the Stationers' Company, on whom and his sons and 
 successors see note at p. 99. 
 
 ' ' ' Goodman beinge a pote carie " = apothecary. 
 
 ' "Phillip Garscia" — foreign name, probably a Protestant Refugee. 
 
 * " ffi^thcr Penbrocke'''' : Pembroke was usually so spelled then. 
 
 * " Randall worsley'''' = '^?iVLdLo\T^\\: see Inde.\ of Names under "Randall." 
 
 * " mr yonge preacher'''': See Index under "James Yonge." 
 
 ' "Clemente &> Thorns bernher'": Three folios onward is an entiy of gifts to two 
 daughters of Augustine Bernher, whose two sons Clement and Thomas here receive 
 benefactions. There I add a note upon the father, Augustine Bernher, a Swiss, and 
 the friend of Bishop Latimer. 
 
 ^ "father willson of nettellbedd in the Countie of Oxfo?-de": Not known. 
 
 ^ " To baringeniiis a poor frenchmane": Not known. 
 
 '" "James Cruce mr palmer'''': See Index of Names, s.n., for note upon Mr. 
 
 Palmer the preacher, at whose suit Dean Nowell gave help to certain poor persons. 
 
 " " Thofnas IVilkenes fer»iar at harro-cve hilV : "Fermar" is old spelling of farmer. 
 Harrow Hill, Middlesex, has long been a familiar name as the site of the great public 
 college of Harrow, and of the church and churchyard where Byron composed some of 
 his earliest published verses in 1S07. 
 
 1.2 147
 
 24 martch 
 Anno 1568 
 
 2S 
 27 
 
 30 
 
 10 Aprill 
 
 ii Aprill 
 15 Aprill 
 
 17 Aprill 
 
 18 Aprill 
 28 Apn'll 
 
 (Page 81 of the MS., folio 66.) 
 
 To Edward burtbey plasteur by thandes of m'' | ^ 
 Clowley as apperethe by his accquitance j 
 
 To Rychard Walle a poor maa comended by^ 
 iustice Southcoate^ his wief as apperethe )-xv* 
 by her letter N« 258 J 
 
 To John Christe a strangere at the^ 
 comendacion of m"^ Dean of westm^^ {-^s 
 as apperethe by his quitance j 
 
 To Robte Kale dwellinge in poulls church "j 
 
 yarde. 
 
 w'=^ he hade for a presoner of Vxx^ 
 Newgatte. as apperethe by his lere N° 262 j 
 
 To John Botterell at the suett of m' Sargante 
 Carus^ his wief, as apperethe by here lere 
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 pd to Docto'' Speringe a duch phefcion"^ ) "s • 
 to distribute amongeste certeyn poor folkes ... j •' ■' 
 
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 4Apreii p*^ to bolte groccr A poor man and ffallen 
 
 in greate decay at the requieste of m^' mills 
 
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 pd to Rychard Neue^ of newefyshe ftreet & a 
 fyshmonger fallen in Decay & beinge a poor 
 
 old mane 
 
 8. fifather browen of -Westminster beinge a poor ) ^ 
 
 old man forescore yeares of age j 
 
 p"^ to roland Meniver as apperethe by \ -^ ---^ 
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 is N" 266 j 
 
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 is No 269 
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 comendacions is No 270 
 
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 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (8i) 
 
 ' " instice Soicthcoate" : John Southcote of Southcote, eldest son of William, younger 
 son of Nicholas Southcote of Chudleigh, in the county of Devon, born in 151 1; and 
 being sent to the Middle Temple, rose to be reader in 1556; he is named as under- 
 sheriff and (in 1553) one of the judges of the Sheriff's Court in London; nominated 
 judge of the Queen's Bench, loth February', 1563, and fulfdled his judicial ofhce with 
 high repute for tweoty-one years, resigning 29th May, 1584; he died l8th April, 1585, 
 and was buried under a stately monument in Witham Church, in the county of Essex. 
 Justice Southcote's wife, wdio wrote this letter for a charity to Dean Nowell, was Eliza- 
 beth, daughter and heir of William Robins of London. (Foss' Biogr. Did. of the Judges 
 of England, p. 625.} 
 
 ' "yohn Christe mr Dean of IVestni' r'" : Unknown. 
 
 ' "Mr Sargante Carus hiswief": Mr. Sargante Cams was Thomas Carus of Kirby 
 Lonsdale, Esq., son of William Carus of Astwaith. He was "one of the Justices of 
 the Queen's Bench " — so described in the Carus Pedigree in the Lancashire Visitations 
 of 1567 a-iid 1664. He purchased the manor of Halton in Lunesdale, in the county of 
 Lancaster, and this estate was held by his family until the i8th century. Justice Carus's 
 wife — the lady who wrote the letter to Dean Nowell referred to in the entry on behalf 
 of John Botterell — was Katherine, daughter of Thomas Preston of Preston Patrick, in 
 the county of Westmoreland, Esq. His eldest son, Thomas Carus, was of Kirby Lons- 
 dale; and a younger son was Christopher Carus of Halton. The date of Justice Carus's 
 death is not ascertained by Foss, the historian of the English Bench; but my friend 
 Col. Chester has found his Will, and made for me an abstract of it. The Will is dated 
 I June, 1569; and testator, " Thomas Carus, one of the Justices of our Sovereign Lady 
 the Queen of the Pleas," appoints as his executors, his wife Catherine, and Thomas, 
 his son and heir apparent; gives to his said wife, half his estates, except his office of 
 Keeper of the Park of Quernmore, in the county of Lancaster; the other half and the 
 said Keepership to Thomas, his son, and the whole to him at testator's wife's death; 
 to his daughter Griselda Carus 200/. to her marriage; to his cousin Cicillie Thorn- 
 burghe and to Katheryn Ellis, each 10/. to their marriage; to Christopher, his son, 20/. 
 per annum as already provided by deed; appoints brother, Master Christopher Preston, 
 supervisor; Will not to extend to those lands that were late the inheritance of Anne 
 Carus, wife to testator's son, Thomas Carus, and which were by fine conveyed to 
 testator. The Will was proved by both executors, nth July, 1571; so the Judge must 
 have died early in 1571. 
 
 * " Doctor Speringe a diich phescion" : Not traced. 
 
 * ^'' Richard Neue": See Index of Names, s.n., for other references, and a note on 
 this fishmonger. 
 
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 (82) 
 
 * ^^ Richard Wylkynson": The entry is in Dean Nawell's handwriting, and the 
 recipients were of a family noticed before as akin to Nowells. Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * This fragment of a scroll-letter was probably inserted some years later by a scribe 
 who wrote the later inserted matter at folios 95-96 of the MS., dated 1614. It is in 
 a different and later style of handwriting from the original manuscript. In 1. i, the 
 word "all" is erased before "doon"; 1. 6, "fauore" erased after "kyndnesse"; 
 1. 8, the words "notyes thireof of youre " erased. 
 
 151
 
 (Page 83 of the MS., folio 68.) 
 
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 Poor women releved w* money^ 
 
 Anne Bolton wief to John bolton prisoner 
 
 in the marshallsee 
 
 Joan plume widdoo 
 
 Elizabeth Dychell for her and here children 
 
 Eme^ beyson 
 
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 Widdowe hardinge 
 
 Widdowe facye^ 
 
 Widdowe Irlande 
 
 Widdow Lane 
 
 Widdow Newton 
 
 Widdow Greene 
 
 Widdow hunte^ 
 
 Widdow Adames , 
 
 Widdow Leonards 
 
 Widdow marklame 
 
 Widdow rapesede^ 
 
 Widdow bushe 
 
 Widdow Bounded 
 
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 marsley hawell'° of Lithe S* Barthilmew 
 
 margeret Bulden Widdow 
 
 Anne Adishede of S* Annes in forster lean 
 
 Joan Commat of S* chrestoveres 
 
 Johan powell and ij litlie poor children 
 
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 margery Carnot^ ^ 
 
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 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (83) 
 
 ^ "Poor ivomen releved wt money": Some of these names suggest relationship to 
 others, which the Index of Names, s.n., will shew. I only notice a few in the suc- 
 cessive pages (pp. 83-86). 
 
 ' "Erne bey son," i.e., Emma. 
 
 ' "John Beaj-dmore," i.e., Johan or Joan. 
 
 * "Agnes badgler" — a noticeable surname. 
 
 ' "Wyddow churchyard'''': See Index of Names under Thomas Churchyard. 
 
 ^ " Widdowe facye" : As in Note 4. 
 
 7 *' Widdoi.0 hunte": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ " lViddo7t' r(?/<:'j-^(/t'" = rapeseed — as in Note 4. 
 
 ' " Widdoiv Boiuide": See Index of Names under Nicholas Bond. 
 
 1° "marshy /uuvell" — a singular Christian name. 
 
 'margery Camot" — probably a foreign (Protestant) refugee. 
 " Landere[fe to nir aitonrney," i.e., to Robert Nowell, as before. 
 
 ^3 "Anne Basket"— xexmwds of the early publisher of the English Bible. 
 
 11 
 
 13 
 
 ^53
 
 (Page 84 of the AfS.. folio 68 verso.) 
 
 §—- 
 
 To Widdow Thomsonn ij^ vji^ 
 
 Goodwief Slatere iij^ iiij<* 
 
 Goodwief Smithe iij^ iiij*^ 
 
 Alice Northinge ij^ vj<^ 
 
 margeret howell xx^ 
 
 margerett Phillippes x^ 
 
 Goodweyf Gylls vj^ viij<^ 
 
 Joan wiese^ ij^ 
 
 Agnes Lewsonne ij^ iiij*^ 
 
 Joan Woolley of S' Gylles pishe in the fildes ... x^ 
 
 pd Mother priste x^ 
 
 15 martch pd to Amyes Gylles of S* martins ^ s 1,^^ kmi ^ 
 
 1568 pishe in the vintrie at the sute of m^ V - ■vT^/2r2/ 
 
 yonge of chambridge j I I 
 
 pd vnto Jane Gury of S^^ margrettes pishe ^ 
 
 in fridday strete^ comended by the said j-Xs 
 
 m' yonge No. 253 J 
 
 i6 pd to Goodwief Lawson at the sute of) ^ 
 
 m^ poredge | 
 
 pd to widdowe fliarpe at his fute v^ 
 
 Widdow deodmane^ vj^ viij'^ 
 
 widdow cater vj^ viij^ 
 
 i8 Geuen vnto widdow hunte'* a poor old \ ..^ 
 
 woman j ^ 
 
 2i Geven to Elizabethe Swane by thandes \ 
 
 of Thorns Swane as apperethe by his yx"- 
 
 accquitance j 
 
 geuen Amis gilstorpe^ widdowe at the \ 
 
 sute of w. Stantone & Thoms ( xvij^ vj*^ § 
 
 currer as apperethe by their lere ^ 
 
 N« 256 3 
 
 To vrsulay & Katherin bernehere the ) ,^ 
 
 doughters of augustine bernehere^ / 
 
 To widdowe grimes in money vj^ viij*^ 
 
 To mother pynner vj* viij*^ 
 
 To willm Smythes wief & iij children ) 
 
 in money j 
 
 To wyddow Stannage yjs viij'^ 
 
 23 To Joan hilton at m^ clapham requieste ij^ vj"^ 
 
 Geven to a poor old woman of S"* 
 
 marteins pishe named at . 
 
 the suete & in the psence 
 
 beinge of the same pishe 
 
 24 To mary Tomkins wydow by thandes ^ 
 
 of m"" crowley7 as appereth by his Vv' 
 accquitance j 
 
 26 To ma''gery brassett by thandes of m^^ ^ 
 
 harrysonne of chipsyed^ as apperethe Vxs 
 
 27 marth by her bill N" 259 j 
 
 1569 To Anne Sabothe^ wyddow of the pishe) i^t t f-- 
 
 of S* mary Somsytt her bill of comdacions / ^ 
 ( Con tin iied on p. 156.^ 
 154 
 
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 xiiijli iij*
 
 Notes a7id Illustrations. 
 (84) 
 
 ' '■"jfoaii wiese" — as in Note 12 on last page. 
 
 '^ "friJday strete" — for ever associated with Milton. 
 
 3 " IViddow deodmane''' : " Deodmane " is old provincial etymology for Dead-man. 
 
 * "widdow hunte" — see Note 7 on last page. 
 
 ' "Amis gilstoj-pe," i.e.. Amy — both Christian and surname noticeable. 
 
 <> "vrsiday &^ Katherin bernehere the Daughters of augiistine beriiekere" : Augustine 
 Bernher, a Swiss, whose two daughters thus receive a kindly present from Dean Nowell, 
 fills a modest niche in the fabric of the English Reformation as the loyal friend of 
 several of the most eminent divines of the Protestant era, and notably of the martyrs 
 Latimer, Ridley, and Bradford, and of Bishop Jewel. His association with Latimer 
 is most intimate ; for he took down during their delivery a series of sermons preached 
 by Bishop Latimer in the last year of Edward's reign, and published them ten years 
 later, after the succession of Queen Elizabeth. He dedicated the edition to the Lady 
 Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, before whom Latimer had preached the sermons in 1552, 
 and speaks of the preacher as the "reverend father and most constant martyr of Christ, 
 Dr. Hugh Latimer, my most dear master"— the last words indicating Bernher's minis- 
 trant relation to the good bishop. He published, also, eight additional discourses, 
 entitled "Certayn other Sermons preached by the right reverend father in God, Master 
 Hugh Latimer, in Lincolneshyre, the year of our Lord 1553 [1552]. Collected and 
 gathered by Augustine Bernhere, an Helvetian," &c., 1562. Many interesting refe- 
 rences to Bernher are found in the works of Bradford, Ridley, Jewel, and in other 
 volumes of the Parker Society's publications. The date of this portion of the entries 
 in our MS. proves that Augustine Bernher and his family were living, in London 
 probably, in 1569. 
 
 7 "mr Crowiey": See Index of Names, s.7i., for previous notice of him. 
 
 * " 7nrs harrysonne of chipsyed": This lady, and Mrs. Clapham, named three entries 
 higher upon the page, are both included amongst the "women of wealth," kindred 
 and near friends of the Nowells, who received black gowns at Robert Nowell's funeral. 
 (See ante, p. 6 of the text. ) Dean Nowell, by a codicil to his Will, bequeathed "to 
 his cousins Mr. Harrison and his wife 6/. 13J. 4^?." 
 
 ' "Anne Sabot/ie" — a very noticeable surname = Sabbath? "comdacions"=com- 
 mendations, i.e., recommendations. 
 
 155
 
 4 Aprile (P<^g^ §4 of the MS. continued from p. 154J 
 
 f 1 569 Laid out in apparelinge Dorethe haborne ) 
 
 a poor maid J 
 
 To Dorothey Egerton widdow by thandes \ 
 of m' Docter west falinge^" as appereth Vx^ 
 by his accquitance j 
 
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 (Page 85 of the MS., folio 69.) 
 The 29 of Septebre 1576 ^ 
 
 To a poore Wydowe of Ware named as she saith, | 
 
 Marie Nowell\ who was goyng to dwell in the ^^ g 
 North w*'^ her fone Nowell now servat 
 
 w*^ S'" John Cunstable^ as she saithe, vnto y® 
 -^ych j^jgj- fone I have before gyven m'nie often ... 
 Too a poor wyddowe, named Anne holton aliz houghton^ ) ..^ .^ 
 
 the xj'^ of Julie 1576 j ^■' ^^ 
 
 Geven to one Tetlowe wyddowe, the fecond of february | g 
 
 i577: r 
 
 Too one wyddowe Kent in Paules churche yarde whose \ 
 
 house is visited w* the plague, the v*^ of Vx^ 
 
 October 1577 : , j 
 
 Too one meistres fifoxe*, the xx*-^ of decembe^ ) 
 
 A01577: /^^ 
 
 To the same M^''^^ Fox wydowe & her neece ) •• -^ 
 the 29 of marche 1578^ j ^^J' ^J 
 
 Too the buriall of meistres Caton, apoore wyddowe ^ 
 
 the xijtii dale of december {578 : by the handes Mij^iiij^^ 
 of one dwellinge in the old bay lyfif^... j 
 
 Too one mestres Overton^ 
 
 Too one meistres Bartlett, the x*'^ of martch ) 
 
 i578: r^ 
 
 Too one m'' Rawcrofte the x* of martch i5 78 : x^ 
 
 Too one Clapham wyffe att hadham the ) 
 
 xxijt^ of martch 1578 : | ^^ 
 
 Too one meistres higforde^, apoore wyddowe, the | , 
 
 xx^ii of Aprell 1579 : j ^^'^ 
 
 Too one wyddowe hearron, a poore wyddowe, the ) 5 
 
 xxiiijt^ of Aprill i579 : 3 
 
 Too meistres higford more, the x^^^ of maie ) , 
 
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 1579: i 
 
 Too meistres higforde apoore decayed \ 
 wyddowe, the v^ of Januarie i579 : j 
 
 Too one Reedfearne^ wyddowe, by"] 
 the handes of John wowsenden, the | 
 xxij'^ of Martch 1579 : the said />Xs./' 
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 lancashire J 
 
 156 
 
 I
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 10 *'mr Docter7i'estfa!i)!ge": Herbert Westphaling, D.D., of Christ Church College, 
 Oxford, About eleven months after the date of this allusion to him, Dr. Westphaling 
 was spoken of in connection with the bishopric of Oxford, then vacant. Archbishop 
 Parker wrote to Sir Wm. Cecil, on 30th March, 1570: — "As for Oxford bishoprick, 
 .... Mr. Westfaling is a wise sober man, but because he is but a prebendary, and 
 not master of a College, he is peradventure the less meet because the bishoprick 
 wanteth a house." {Parker Corresp., p. 360.) In Jan. , 1579, Bishop Hilles, writing 
 to Gaultier, states that he has sent certain books to Oxford, "to Master Hei-bert West- 
 phaling, canon of Christ Church." {Zinich Letters, vol. ii, p. 305.) Dr. Westphaling 
 was made Canon of Windsor in 1577; Bishop of Hereford in 1585, and died 7th 
 March, 1601-2. 
 
 (85) 
 
 * "Marie NowelV : .See Index of Names, s.7i. This entry is in the handwriting of 
 Dean Nowell. 
 
 ' ".Sr John Ctinstable" : Probably Sir John Constable of Kinalton, in the county of 
 Nottingham, who was fourth son of -Sir Marmaduke Constable, knt., of Flambrough, 
 in the county of York, by Joyce, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford, knt. 
 
 ' '■' holtoji aliz honghton^^ : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " meistres ffoxe" : ibid. 
 
 * " Marche, 1J78." This entry is inserted by Dean Nowell himself. 
 
 ' "old bay lyff": The original etymology ol the name "Old Bayley," given to the 
 street branching from Newgate Street in which is the portal of Newgate Prison. 
 
 ^ " Overton ": This line is erased in the MS. 
 
 8 " meiitres higforde^' : See Index of Names, s.n., for prior references in MS. and 
 note. 
 
 ^ ^' Reedfearne wyddowe" : Widow Redfearne, her sons James and John, and other 
 members of the family, described as "cousins" or kindred of the Nowells, occur onward 
 in the MS . frequenter. (See Index of Names, s.n., for these references, and annota- 
 tion thereupon.) 
 
 isr
 
 (Page 86 of the MS. folio 69 verso.) 
 Too meistres Drante^ apoore wyddowe ) ^ , 
 
 the fecond of maie A'^ 1 5 80 : | ^ •/ 
 
 Too meistres medley a poore wyddowe, \ 
 
 and meistres higforde the xxj^^^ of [-xij* 
 
 november 1580 j 
 
 Too m''^ helbrone the xxvj*^ of martch ) 
 
 i58i the fome of = . j 
 
 Too m"^ Bartlett, the same tyme ij^ 
 
 Too m^s Stowarde and her mother^ ) ..^ 
 
 the xxvijt'i Martch i58i I'-' 
 
 Too m""^ Rowcrofte, the fame ) ...g 
 
 xxvjt^ of martch is 8i / ^ 
 
 x^ 
 
 lS 
 
 ;s 
 
 I ;S 
 
 158 
 
 i
 
 Notes and Illustralions. 
 
 (86) 
 
 ' "meistres Drante": I fear this may have been the "poor wyddowe" of Thomas 
 Drant, a man of no common note hi his generation. The following details are of inte- 
 rest and add pathos to the present entry: — Thomas Drant, son of Thomas Drant, was 
 born at f lagworthingham, in the county of Lincoln, and after receiving a good gram- 
 matical education was matriculated as a pensioner of S. John's College iSth March, 
 1557-8. He proceeded B. A. 1560-1, and was admitted a fellow of his college on Dr, 
 Thimbleby's foundation 2ist March, 1560-I. He commenced M.A. 1564, and on the 
 Queen's visit to the University in August that year, celebrated the event in English, 
 Latin, and Greek verses, which he presented to Her Majesty. At the commencement 
 of 1565 he performed a public exercise on the theme Corpus Christi non est ubique. 
 He proceeded B.D. 1569, and on 2nd July in that year was admitted to the prebend 
 of Chamberlainwood in the church of S. Paul. This preferment he obtained from Dr. 
 Grindal, Bishop of London, our Nowell's friend, to whom he was Domestic Chaplain, 
 and who also appointed him divinity reader at S. Paul's. It seems that Richard 
 Curteys, then dean of Chichester, and afterwards bishop of that place, was his favourer 
 in Cambridge, and helped to procure him the readership of S. Paul's. We find Drant 
 preaching before the court at Windsor 8th January, 1569. He selected for his text, 
 "They were both naked, Adam and Eve, and blushed not." On this he engrafted 
 searching doctrine, clothed in language at once striking and original, with frequent 
 allusions to the vain attire both of men and women. He was admitted to the following 
 preferments on the presentation of the Queen in 1569-70, the see of Chester then being 
 void; The prebend of Firles in the church of Chichester 21st January; the rectory of 
 Slinfold, in the county of Sussex, 31st January; the archdeaconry of Lewes 27th 
 February. In the latter dignity he was installed on the 4th March following. He 
 preached at S. Mary, Spital, London, on Easter Tuesday, 1570, sparing not to raise 
 his voice against the sin and sensuality of the great city. Alluding to the poor scholars 
 in the universities he remarked: "These be the noble sons of the prophets, and most 
 apt of all others to be builders of God's temple : yet have I seen many a good 
 wit, many a long day kept low and lean to be made broken with hunger and abject 
 with poverty. I do not know the liberality of this city towards both these places ; 
 only this I can say, that less than the tenth part of that which is nothing but surfeit and 
 sickness to the great excessive eaters of this Town, would cherish and cheer up hungry 
 and thirsty Christ, in those his hunger-starved members, right well." On or before 
 20th April, 1570, he resigned his prebend at S. Paul's. He again preached at S.. Mary, 
 Spittal, on Easter Tuesday, 1572. His theme was charity, but his discourse was of 
 the most discursive character, abounding in proverbs and quaint and singular conceits 
 and allusions. He thus contrasted the mode of travelling in that day with the simpli- 
 city of the patriarchal ages: "In olde time, father Jacob and Judas travailed farre 
 journeys, with a stafife on theyr backe : In these new times we cannot travailefrom one 
 village to another, but we have a Sword & a buckler, a Tucke and a Targette, a 
 Dagger and a Raper, a Musket, a Caliver, a Currier, a Hargabuske, and an halfe 
 
 hacke, a Pistole, & a Pistollet, a Dagge, and a Snapehanche In olde time my 
 
 Lady Rebecka came ryding to her new husband on a Camelles backe. In new tyme, 
 our Ladies have waggins, coutches, and horselitters, soft, silken, & sewtable. " Drant 
 unfortunately made himself conspicuous by the bitter hostility he displayed to Dr. 
 • William Overton, treasurer of the church of Chichester and ultimately Bishop of Lich- 
 field and Coventry, who had been an unsuccessful applicant for the archdeaconry of 
 Lewes when Drant obtained that office, and who had probably given further offence 
 by his efforts to obtain the deanery of Chichester when it was vacated by the elevation 
 of Drant's friend, Richard Curteys, to the bishopric. Drant evinced his dislike of the 
 Doctor by an attack upon him in the pulpit. He in no measured terms charged him 
 with hypocrisy, derided his learning, stigmatised him as a dolt, alleged that he was 
 covetous and ostentatious, and related that, being on one occasion in Overton's house, 
 he had purposely spit upon one of his cushions in order to reproach his pride. 
 Dr. Overton made a complaint of Drant's rude and unseemly language, and also stated 
 objections to another sermon which he had preached in the church of S. Giles, Cripple- 
 gate, London. What resulted we know not. His death appears to have occurred 
 shortly before 17th April, 1578. It is presumed that he was only about 37 years of 
 age. (Cooper's AtheiicB Cantabrigienses, vol. i, pp. 3S4-6, 556. and the numerous 
 authorities therein given. ) Of his Works these may be recorded — Thonuv Drantiv 
 Shakloki Epigrainmatis in Diortem Cttthherti Scoti Apo)naxis : 1565: A Mcdicinable 
 
 Morall, that is the two Bookes of Horace his Satyres, Euglyshcd the IVailyitgs of 
 
 the Prophet Hiereiniah done into Englyshe verse. Also Epigrammes 1 566 : Horace his 
 arte of Poetrie, pistles and Satyrs Englished, 1567 : Greg. A^azianzen his Epigrams and 
 spiritnall sentences, 1568: &c., &c., &c. Spenser and Harvey in their Letters fre- 
 quently allude to rules and precepts of art in making verse which Drant devised and 
 
 '59
 
 (Page 87 of the MS., folio y\.) 
 Geven to poor Schollers of Dyvers gramare 
 Scholles. 
 
 To Amos bedforde^ fcholler of Eatone x^ 
 
 To Wyllyam StirilP fcholler of chambrige xiij'^ 
 To Danyell hoper^ apoor fcholler w* 
 
 m'" Crowley . 
 
 To Ambrose Rogeres"* xx^ 
 
 To henry Palmer in S* Thoms of 
 
 nij"^ 
 
 XX' 
 
 acres ichole^ ■' ■' 
 
 To Thoms Aubrey^ fchollere x^ 
 
 T Thoms Leonard^ Late fcholler of chambridge ... xiij^ 
 To Nycholes Gyffe^ fcholler of 
 
 27 
 1569 
 
 14 Apiill 
 
 28 Aprill 
 
 Westm'^ 
 
 xnj* nij' 
 
 To 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 hillyard^ a fchollere ij^ vj' 
 
 £aton^° a fchollere ij* vj"^ 
 
 horne^' fcholler of westm 
 
 4 Aprill Xo 
 
 in the p sence of his father at his gowinge ^x 
 
 to chambridge . 
 
 Roger bickwithe fcholler of the free 
 
 fcolle of Kingstone^2 by thandes of his father 
 
 beckwith petecanon in poulls 
 
 his bill is N" 264 
 
 m' 
 
 A Jervis, chaplin to my L. of cantur 
 buryi^ to the vse of apoor fchoUore as 
 
 apperethe by his accquitance 
 
 Edmond fpensore'* fcholler of the 
 m^chante tayler fcholK at his gowinge 
 
 to penbrocke hall in chambridge 
 
 Geven to fex poor fchollers of the 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 yj- 
 
 X" 
 
 nv'chante 
 gownes . . . 
 
 tayler fchole w 
 
 -ch 
 
 hade 
 
 vj^ 
 
 'xiij^i; iiij^ iiij^ 
 
 to m"^ yard^5 fonne of Tottenham at the fute of ^ 
 
 m"" bowyer the i6 of maye A" 1 569 
 
 to Johne button' ^ the I2' of maye A" 1569 xx^ 
 
 Lawrance Washington^' xx* 
 
 John wemster^s comended by my L. of 
 
 farisbury 
 
 Raynold weston^" x 
 
 to a nother 
 
 xx"" 
 
 Willm Drywood^o 
 Stithe 
 
 m 
 
 the p sence of 
 
 nT^ 
 
 vj^ viij<^ 
 
 x^ 
 
 xij'i xj 
 
 160
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 Sidney augmented with his observations. {Ath. Can(a6. , ashefore.) It is to be feared 
 that one " result " of the Overton-Drant strife was a premature death of the latter, and 
 his " widowe " left in poverty. All too many such sudden calamities in clerical house- 
 holds through the death of their head are found earlier and later. 
 
 * "furs Stowarde and her mother" : Might not these be female kindred of the Pro- 
 testant exile of Mary's reign, Thomas Steward, M. A., who returned to England about 
 1559, and was appointed canon of Ely in 1560, along with which he held the rectory 
 of Downham, Isle of Ely? He died 2nd Dec, 1568. 
 
 (87) 
 
 ' '■^Amos bedforde fcholler of Etoue'': ) 
 
 * " Wyllyam SUrill": \ Unknown. 
 ' "Z»ff«>'///5(7/^;-"= Hooper: ) 
 
 * ^'Ambrose Kogeres": This was a younger son of the illustrious John Rogers "The 
 Compiler of the First Aitthorised English Bible; the Pioneer of the English Reforma- 
 tion; and its First Martyr" — as Colonel Chester describes him in his admirable 
 Biography (186 1, i vol. 8vo, Longmans). This entry is a new bit of infonnation con- 
 cerning this younger son, who is only passingly named even by Colonel Chester, pp. 
 223, 226, 230. 
 
 * '■^ henry Palmer in St Thorns of acres fchole": See various Palmers in Index of 
 Names, s.7i. 
 
 « ''Thoms Aubrey": ) Unknowm 
 7 " Thoms Leonard" •.\ 
 
 * "Nyeholes Gyffe fcholler of Westm'": One of sorrowfully many Westminster 
 "scholleres" not found in Alumni Westmonasterienses, as before. 
 
 9 "hillyard": See Index of Names for several '' Hilly ards." This " Hillyarde a 
 schollere " would be either John Hillyard of Merchant Taylors' School, or George his 
 brother, sons of John Hillyard, minister. (See a former note.) 
 
 »« ''Eaton": ibid. 
 
 ^ "-home": See a note of this afterwards famous name onward. 
 
 " " Roger bickivithe free scolle of Kingstone" : The present Head-master has 
 
 done his best — in vain — to recover notices of this "schollere"; and the authorities at 
 St. Paul's have equally failed to come on his father. 
 
 13 ^' Mr Jervis, chaplin to my L. of canturbiiry": Unknown. 
 
 '■* "■ To Edmond fpensore" : On this all-important entry on the Poet of Poets see 
 Introduction. 
 
 '5 " }nr yard Sonne" :\ tt , 
 
 ^^''Johnehutton-: (Unknown. 
 
 '^ '' Lazurance Washington" : This early possessor of a name destined to become of 
 supreme fame in American history, was a native of Lancashire, and was admitted a 
 scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, on Constable's foundation, 27th July, 1559. 
 He proceeded B.A., 1563-4, and was admitted a fellow of his college on Mr. Austin's 
 foundation, iith April, 1565; commenced M.A. 1567; admitted a Fellow on Lady 
 Margaret's foundation, 15th March, 1569-70; B.D. 1574. He was li\-ing in 1603, 
 when his name appears in the high commission for causes ecclesiastical within the 
 province of Canterbui7. {Ath. Cantab., pp. 387, 554.) 
 
 '^ "John wemster my L. of Sarisbury" i.e., by Bishop Jewel, as before. 
 
 " " Raynold lueston" : Unknown. 
 
 ^ "Willm Drywood": See Index of Names, s.n., and relative Note. 
 
 M 161
 
 (Page 88 of the MS., folio 71 verso) 
 to Gabraell Marsden' the xvij*^^ of | 
 
 Novemb"" {570 my cosin fliepard >-x» 
 
 Nephie J 
 
 Nicholes hamon^ fonne fcholler in ) , 
 
 canturbune j 
 
 to one ffrances in the p'^fentes ) ...^ ...-^ 
 
 of m'' wylforde i569 | ^ ^ 
 
 to mathew fpringham^ in the p^ fence of) , g 
 
 m^' Samsonne j' ' 
 
 to m' polsted"* to geue a poor fcholler \ 3 
 
 the xtii of maye A^ 1570 j ^^ 
 
 to John hutton^ the xx^^ of may A'* 1570 xx* 
 
 to James greyns^ the fame tyme xx* 
 
 Robte Sharped xiij^ iiijd 
 
 to Richard bretherton^ the xv^i^ of June ) ^ 
 
 1569 as apperethe by his bill j 
 
 Willm Gore^ the iiij'^ of maye 1569 x^ 
 
 Robte fmythe scoller at the sute of) ^ 
 
 henry Garvey^o ]^\^q xiiij of march 1569 j 
 
 John haughton accquitances fervante'^ ) ...j; -g-'-c 
 
 to m' Towenley as apperethe j ^^^ xvj nij 
 
 To Thoms Lawrance^^ fonne in lawe" 
 
 to m' yard of Edmuntone 
 
 the xxiiijt'i of auguste A^ i569 j' 
 
 & to his father in Lawe before for himj 
 To John wymherste'2 poor fcoller ) ^ 
 
 of Westminster the v^^^ of Novemb'' j- xx 
 
 To Richard Bretherton^^ the xxvj^ii Qf^ 
 
 Decemb'^ Anno 1570 Vsher in the m^chante vv' 
 
 Tayller fcolle j 
 
 To Willm Coxe^5 apoor scoller my ^ 
 
 M" godsonne the viij'''^ of februarij >-xs 
 
 Ao i569 j 
 
 To one Richard Bretherton vsher in ^ 
 
 the m^chante Tayler fcolle Vxxx* 
 
 ytb of July Ao 1569 j 
 
 To a poor fcoller comended by 
 
 Geven by Robte Pyckringe^^ the xxi'^^ of Vx^ 
 
 Octob' Ao i569 _ 
 
 To one Smithe of New berie fente ) ^ 
 
 by mr Dolmane'7 the xxjti^ of Octob"- A" 1569 |^^ 
 To Robte pettit's fcholler of Tunbrige the ) g 
 
 xviijt^ of februarye A" 1 570 j ^ 
 
 xiij'i vj* viij*^ 
 
 •xv^ 
 
 162
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (88) 
 
 ' ' ' Gabraell Marsden my cosin JJifpard Nephie " : Of this scholar, who, by 
 
 his connexion with the Shepards was distantly related to the Nowells, I have nothing 
 beyond what appears in our JMS., where, in a second entry, he is included among 
 persons of wealth who had money; this entiy runs: — "To Gabraell Marsden the 
 xvii"» of Febraary 1569, x'." His father, I conjecture, belonged to Lancashire, where 
 Marsden is a common surname. His relatives, the Shepards, were of Rochdale 
 Parish. (Index of Names, s.ii.) 
 
 ' *^ Nicholes hamott canturburie" : There is a second reference to him two 
 
 folios onward. 
 
 ' " Mathc'iv Springkam^^ : Possibly brother of Richard Springham, of Magdalen 
 College, Oxford, also named in the MS. and noted hereafter. (See Index of Names, 
 s. 11. ) 
 
 * "■ Mr. pohted" : Unknown. 
 
 * ^'' John hiitton''^ : See last page. 
 
 * " ya/nes Greyiis''^ : Unknown. 
 
 7 " I\obte Sharpe " : Robert Sharpe recurs a few folios onward in a list of Cambridge 
 scholars who had gifts. 
 
 * "Richard brethtrton " : I can add nothing respecting the humble personality of this 
 Usher of Merchant Taylors' School, who is named thrice on this page as receiving so 
 many gifts of money, in 1569 and 1570. His surname belongs to Lancashire; and I 
 have little doubt he is identical with "Richard Bretherton scholler of Cletherall" 
 (Clitheroc), so named near the end of the MS. (Index of Names, j-.;/.) 
 
 ^ " IVillm Gore'''' : Intended, I imagine (but mistranscribed), for William Gace, noted 
 elsewhere. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 '" '■'■ Robte Sinythe hairy Gan'cy" : A Robert Smith son of Robert Smyth, 
 
 stirrup maker, was admitted a Scholar in Merchant Taylors' School 28 Feb. 1568-69. 
 
 '' This entry is crossed out in the AIS. 
 
 12 " Thorns Laivrance'''' : This scholar I identify with one of Dr. Bloxam's demies 
 at SSagdalen College, Oxford, thus named in the College Register: "Lawrence, 
 Thomas, aged 17 (on admission in 1576) ; of Berks ; res. 1580. Matriculated at 
 Trinity College, 22 Oct. 1572. Of Hertford, //d-;^. //. Prob. Fellow 1580-88. B.A. 
 15 Nov. 15S2. M. A. 22 June, 15S7." S&eB\o\a.ms Register of Fresidaits, Fello^vs, 
 and Demies of Magdalen College, vol. i, p. 200. And see the name of a Thomas Law- 
 rance among a list of students and scholars of St. John's College, Cambridge, to whom 
 money was sent by Dean Nowell, some pages onward. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 '^ "John -cvyinherste" : As in preceding page, note 8. 
 
 1* " Richard Bretheiion,^'' and supra : Not in Clode's Memorials, as before. 
 
 15 '« IVillm Coxe . . my Mr's godsonne" : In subsequent allusions in the MS. this 
 godson of Dean Nowell is described as being then (1573, 1575, and 1577) of Magdalen 
 College in Oxford. 
 
 ^^ " Robfe Pyckringe" : See Index of Names, j-.??. 
 
 '^ "o7ie Smithe Dolmane''': ) -m ^ 1 
 
 '3 "Robtepemr-. ^ ^<^^ '^"°^^"- 
 
 M 2 16 
 
 J
 
 (Page 89 of the AfS., folio 72.) 
 To Edmonde Spensere^ the xxiiijt'^ of aprill \ ..^ .^ 
 
 Aoi57i r^ ^J 
 
 To George Norcrosse^ a poor fchollere S 
 
 when he was admyttcd Minister the Vvi' viij*^ 
 fyrste of June Anno i57i j 
 
 To Willm haymon^ poor fcholler of canterbury \ ^g 
 by thandes of his father, the xiiij*^ of June 1571 j 
 
 To the yonger of m^ harrysonns fonnes'* S 
 
 fcholler of eaton o' cosine, the kv^^ of wij^ iiij'^ 
 June A*^ 157! J 
 
 To Richarde haul^ Late fcholler of Newe ^ 
 colledge in Oxford e, cominge vpp to London Vv* 
 to be a fchole m'^ the xvij*'^ of June A^ 1571 j 
 
 To one Rogere Bradshawe^ the xij^^ of^ 
 Julye Late of westm^ A" i57i & borne ^v^ 
 in Ludlowe j 
 
 To one m^ of Arte of"^ 
 
 in N at the comendacions vij^ vj^ 
 of the said m"^ of Arte j 
 
 To one Rogere Bradshawe of Ludlaw~ 
 Late fchollere of westm^ the xij^ii of 
 Julye A° i57i at the comendacions W^ 
 of John Crucke7 m'' of Arte of Kinges 
 colledge in Cambridge ^ 
 
 To John Davidge^ a poor fcholler Latel 
 
 m^ Hyll & I 
 
 of Taunton, at the suete of A Geninges 
 the xiiij^^ of novembre A° i57i 
 
 To one Robte holden^ a poor fcholler of" 
 Cletherowe in Lancashir, gowinge to 
 Cambridge the xxviij*^ of Septembris 
 AM57i 
 
 To John whealwrighte^° the 6 of) 
 
 octobre A" i57i a poor fcholler of viijs iiijd 
 yorkshire, gowinge towardes Cambridg j 
 
 To m" wymchirste to the vse of her sonne^ 
 John wymchirste. Late poor scoller of westm^^^ I ^ 
 the xxvij*^ of Novembre A° 1571 I 
 & nowe of Churche in Oxforde J 
 
 To Brian eyten a poor fcholler of canturburie^^ ) ^ 
 the xvij of Novembre A^ i57i J 
 
 ■x 
 
 >-xnj3 nij' 
 
 i 
 
 (64
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (89) 
 
 * ' ' Edmonde Spensere " : See Introduction and Index of Names, s. n. 
 
 * " George No7rrosse admytted 7ninisler'''' : Nothing has come to light respect- 
 ing him. A contemporary Henry Norcrosse was instituted Vicar of Ribchester, in 
 the county of Lancaster, 9th Marcli, 1573; and one David Norcrosse died seized of 
 lands in Alston and Ribchester about 1594; so that a family of Norcrosse would seem 
 to have been connected with that district of Lancashire. 
 
 •'• " Willm haymon " : Mentioned again on the next page. 
 
 * "■ yonger of Mr. Harry son^s sonnes": This kinsman of the Nowells is here 
 described, in June, 1571, as " a scholar of Eaton" (Eton.) \x\. Ath. Cantab, (vol. ii, 
 p. 222) I find:— "John Harrison, born at London in 1553, and educated at Eton, 
 whence he was elected to King's College (Cambridge), whereof he was admitted a 
 scholar 24th Aug., 1570, and a fellow 24th Aug., 1573. He proceeded B.A. in 1574, 
 commenced M.A. in 1578, and vacated his fellowship in 1579, and in 1581 he was 
 appointed Head Master of St. Paul's School. He was incorporated M.A. at Oxford 
 iithjuly, 1585. His death took place in 1596. He is said to have possessed no 
 inconsiderable knowledge of ancient coins." In a codicil to Dean Nowell's Will 
 (after 1592), occur the bequests : "To his cousins Mr. Harrison and his wife 6/. 13^-. 4d. : 
 to every one of their children 20.r." A little further on in the MS. young Harrison is 
 entered as "Mrs. Harrysones sonne wch. went frome eatone to chambrydge." 
 
 * " Richarde haiiP^ : The erased entry gives the only information to be had about 
 Richard Hall, that he was a scholar at New College, in Oxford, and went up to 
 London in 1 57 1 to become a schoolmaster. A later entiy in the ]\IS. is to the same 
 purport. 
 
 * "■' Roger e Bradshawe," and infra: Another Westminster " schollere " not found 
 in Alumni Westmonastericnses. It is doubtful if he proceeded to any university. 
 Ludlaw, i.e., Ludlow, his birthplace, is in Salop. 
 
 These two entries (5 and 6) are crossed out in the MS. ; also that which follows 
 tlxem. 
 
 7 " yohn Criicke " : This was doubtless the son of John Croke, son of Richard Croke, 
 alias Le Blount, esquire, of Easington, co. Bucks. He became Sir John Croke. 
 His father translated " Thirteen Psalms and the first chapter of Ecclesiastes," 
 published by the Percy Society, 1844. See Ath. Cantab., vol. i, pp. I18-I19, 545. 
 
 * " Joh7i Davidge " : The name should perhaps be Davies or Davis. 
 
 ^ " Robte holden Cletheraive" : There were two or three families of gentry 
 
 and yeomen named Holden in North-East Lancashire in the i6th century. Robert 
 Holden, who had this gift on his going to Cambridge in 1571, was a member of one 
 of these families, and he had received his early tuition at the Free Grammar School of 
 Queen Mary, in Clitheroe. 1 hazard the supposition that he was either a son or 
 kinsman of " Sir " Thomas Holden, curate of Haslingden, named at the beginning of 
 our MS., and noted at p. 5. 
 
 "> "yohn W/iealwrighte" : Unknown. 
 
 n " Wymchirste'''' : Not in Alum. West, as before. The entry is erased in I\IS. 
 
 " ^^ Brian eyten " : Not recorded at Canterbury School. But "Brj'an Eyten " in this 
 entry is probably meant for "Biyan Exton," who is named anon in the MS. as "sonne 
 to Mrs. ffynche," and "scholer in Magdaline Hall in Chambridge." (Index of 
 Names, s.n.) 
 
 165
 
 (Page 90 of the MS., folio 72 verso) 
 
 To a poor fchoUer of Cranbroke in Kente \ 
 
 Named John Brj^gge^ the viij'^ of >ij^ vj*^ 
 Januarye A" i57i j 
 
 To Gye Eaton, Archdeacon of glocester^, to the 
 vse of a poor fcholler, & fatherles childe, one Arnolde 
 Oldesworth^, by thandes of Rychard Browen the i i---8--"d 
 
 said j •' ^ 
 v^^ of martch A" 1571 as by the bill of the A | 
 Gye more pleanly apperethe J 
 
 To m^ heyton'* a poor Mynister for a token ^ 
 
 to his Sonne a poor fcholler the xvij*^^ of wj'vj'* 
 Martch A^ 1571 j 
 
 To John Thoms^, a poor fcholer of m'^ ) ^.-^ 
 Muncaster schole^ the ix*^ of Julye A° 1572 | ^ 
 
 To willm haymon^ a poor fcholler of Canterburie \ 
 by the handes of his father Nicholes haymon Vx^ 
 the x^h of Julye A" 1572 j 
 
 To one m'' Lyttons^ fonne a poor fcholler the ^ 
 xxiiij° of Julye A° 1572 by thandes of his >v^ 
 mothere j 
 
 Too one Arnalde oldisworthe a poor fcholler at' 
 glocester, the xxix" of Octob"". A° {572. by the 
 handes of Gye heton, Archdeacon of )*liij^ iiij'* 
 Glocester, to the vse, & bringinge vppe of 
 the said Arnalde Oldisworthe 
 
 Too one martine Reade of powles fchole^ 
 the viij" of Aprill A° 1573 
 
 Too one Thomas Bradockes,^*^ the xxix** dale ^ 
 of Male Ao 1573 at the suete of his father Vv^ 
 Citizen and gyrdler of london ) 
 
 Too a poor fcholler, the vicare of Staple- ^ 
 forde^^ brother one the \\f°- of j-v^ 
 October A" 1573 j 
 
 Too a poore fcholer one Anthony Dodde,i2\ .^ ...^ 
 late of the fchole at Christes churche > •^ ^ 
 the iiijt^ of maye A^ 1574 j 
 
 Too Nycholes hamone^^ fonne, by thandes of^ 
 his father, the xx*^ of Aprell >x* 
 
 A" 1574 j 
 
 To one m''^ Lytley^*, to gyve her sonne the ) ^^ 
 Vf^ of December A° 1574: ) 
 
 jvij^ 
 
 J 
 
 166 
 
 J
 
 M'-'i'otes and Illustrations. 
 (90) 
 
 ' " John Brygge of Cranbrokf" : Though most dihgently helped by the Historian of 
 Cranbiook (Mr. \V. Tarbutt), nothing has been recovered concerning either tliis or 
 otlier Cranbroolc names. 
 
 * " Gye Eaton, Airhdeacon of gloccsfer" : Guy Eaton, S.T.B., Prebendary of Glou- 
 cester 1559, resigned 1571; Archdeacon of Gloucester, presented 15th September, 
 1559, and held until after 1571. (Le Neve's Fasti, vol. i, pp. 446, 447.) 
 
 3 "■' Arnolde Oldesworth," and infra: See Index of Names, s.it., and note on the 
 next page. 
 
 * " w;-. heyton": Probably same as Eaton or Heaton. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " yohn Thorns, a poor scholer": TY^^wj- = Thomas. John Thomas, here named as 
 a scholar of Merchant Taylors' School on the 9th of July, 1572, had, a month 
 previously, on the loth of June, 1572, been chosen by Dean Nowell, Archdeacon 
 Watts, and by the President and a senior Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, as one 
 of four boys out of the whole school, after a severe examination, who were "meteste 
 as well for learninge, personage, poverty, and years, to be presently preferred to 
 Colledge." The four youths were, " fohn Thomas, John Rickesmond, William Lee, 
 and Thomas Harrison. " (Clode's RIeiiiorials of the Guild of Alerchant Taylors, p. 408. ) 
 In the record of admissions of scholars to Merchant Taylors' School I find the entry : 
 "1564. 28 April. John Thomas, son of Ralph Thomas, Merchant Taylor." The 
 entry proves the parentage of this forward scholar. He probably owed his support at 
 the University to Dean Nowell's goodness ; for in another entry in the J\IS. he is 
 referred to as "John Thomas of King's College," "whom mymr. {i.e., Dean Nowell) 
 did kepe in his place." 
 
 ® ";;/;-. Miincastcr schole": The name is misspelt for Mr. Mtdcaster, and the school 
 is Merchant Taylors', of which Mr. Mul caster was Head Master from 1561 to 1581. 
 At the first meeting of the Court of the Company after the foundation of the School, 
 held on the 24th September, 1561, statutes were enacted for its regulation, and Richard 
 Mulcaster of Christ Church, Oxford, M.A., was appointed "high Master." Mr. 
 Clode, in his ample "Memorials" of the Merchant Taylors' Guild and School, sup- 
 plies interesting facts respecting Mr. Mulcaster (Appendix, p. 661). (See Index, s.n., 
 for other references. ) 
 
 7 " Willm haymon ": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ " 3Ir. Lyttons sonne": Again referred to more precisely as "Thomas Lytton" on 
 the next page. 
 
 ^ ^^ marline Reade of poiiiles fchole" : Unknown. 
 
 '" " Thomas Bradockes gyj-dler": I assume this scholar to be Thomas Bra- 
 dock, subsequently of Christ College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1576; 
 in 1578 was elected a fellow of his college, and in 1580 commenced M.A. He served 
 the office of proctor in 1584. In 15S8 he was elected master of the Grammar School 
 of Reading; and on 8th April, 1591, was presented to the vicarage of Stanstead Abbots, 
 in the county of Herts., which he resigned in 1593. He look B.D. in 1593, and died 
 about 1604. In 1600 he published a Latin translation of a defence of Jewell's Apology. 
 {Ath. Cantab., vol. ii, p. 395.) Our IMS. in this entry gives new information of the 
 paternity of this scholar, stating that his father, living in May, 1573, was a "citizen 
 and gyrdler of London" — "gyrdler"=girdle-maker. They were incorporated in 
 1448. Their Hall is in Basinghall Street, and their motto "Give thanks to God." 
 (Cf. Bailey, s.v.) 
 
 ^1 " Vicare of Stapleforde" : Unknown. 
 
 ^' '^ Atithony Dodde Christe chinrhe'": Unknown. 
 
 '3 " JVycholes hafnone": See Index of Names, s.n. He is mentioned two folios be- 
 fore this. 
 
 '* "Mrs. Lytley'": Unknown: qy. — Lylton, z?, snpra} 
 
 161
 
 (Page 91 of the MS., folio jso) 
 To the exibetion of one Arnolde Ol^s^.ilttn' 
 Guye Eaton, the x*'^ of decemb^ 
 
 Oldsworth, 
 
 fent by m' 
 
 AM574: 
 
 md. To the fame 
 three yeares 
 hijs n\]^l that 
 A" 157! liijs nij 
 Hijs iiijd and for 
 
 hijs iiijd/ toto 
 
 Thorns 
 
 s-hij'^iiij 
 
 i"d 
 
 Arnolde 
 laste befor 
 
 IS 
 
 ;;d 
 
 To 
 
 injd/ 
 one 
 
 for 
 paste ev^y 
 to saye for the 
 for the yeare A« 
 the yeare A^ 
 
 this 
 yeare 
 yeare 
 
 iS72 
 
 1573: 
 
 -7-7 r-v"J 
 
 lytton^ a poore fcholler \ 
 
 the xijtli of decemb'" A*' {574 : j' ^^ 
 
 Too one Lawrance Parkynsonne^, a poore | 
 
 fcholer of Lancaster, towen, att his gowinge >iij 
 
 to Cambridge the iiij*'^ of June i575 : J — 
 
 Too one S"' waddington^, of Clayer hall in 
 
 Cambridge the iiij*^^ of June at the comendation 
 
 of Docter Bynge A" 1575 
 
 To certeyn poore fchollers att wenchester ) ^ 
 
 the xx'^ii of Julye 1575 : j^ 
 
 Toe one Parveis^ fcholler of west Chester, the \ 
 
 xx*'! of December A° 1575 : ^-xx^ 
 
 vj^ 
 
 3 vjd 
 
 Yycii he said he wold butt borrow of my m'' 
 
 
 Too one Christofor neman^ fcholler of wenchester | 
 
 the xxt'i of fabruarie A° 1575 : j ^J' 
 
 Toe the fchollars of paulls fchole the 
 
 XX 
 
 th 
 
 of December A" 1575 : j ^^"J 
 
 ;d 
 
 Parkins" fonnes the xx*^ 
 
 XX* 
 
 >\\f nij' 
 
 To one of m'' Docter 
 
 of Decembre A" 1575 : 
 
 Toe one Thoms Bellamye^ a poore fcholler" 
 whome the Byshoppe of Sallisburie relevid 
 whilles he lyvid the xx* of deccmber A« 1575 : ... 
 
 Too one needham^, a poore Citizens of 
 London his sonne, the x*^ of martch 1575: fcholler )»xxs 
 att the mercers hall 
 
 Too one Nichols hellewell'", of mydleton futter") 
 
 to be of Brasyn noose, the xix*'^ of maye >-x 
 
 hP 1576 : J 
 
 Too one fcofylde'^, of the same fchole of mydleton 
 
 when my m"" was in Suffex. A° 1575 : 
 Too one 
 
 Election 
 
 X8 
 
 Isacke Colffe^^^ whoe came to the )_ .- 
 to western^, the v^^ of Julye 1576 : j ^■' 
 Too dyveres fcholleres of paules fchole, \ 
 
 the x^ii of november 1 576 : '. j ^ 
 
 Too one Richard NowelP^ fcoUare by 
 the handes of John nowell his father . , 
 whoe was borne in Cletherowe in lanca- '^ 
 fhire 1577 : the vij of June 
 
 vj^ 
 
 168
 
 Notes and Illusirations^ 
 
 ' '■' Arnolde Oldsworth" and iiif?-a : See Index of Names s.it., for various entries. 
 I have nothing positive respecting this poor scliolar, whose maintenance seems to have 
 been undertaken by Dean Nowell, as trustee of his Ijrother's bounty, and whose bringing 
 up was entrusted to Guy Eaton, Archdeacon of Gloucester ; but it has struck me that, 
 as he is described as a "poor fatherless child," and as Dean Nowell manifestly took 
 peculiar care for him, be might be the orphan son of Robert Holdesworth, LL. D., 
 Vicar of Halifax, in Yorkshire, who was slain by thieves who broke into the vicarage 
 in the night-time, and was buried in Halifax Church, loth May, 1566. (Whitaker's 
 History of Leeds, p. 384.) Dr. Holdesworth's violent death was a tragedy which must 
 have caused a sensation in Yorkshire and Lancashire. He is likely to have been well 
 known by the Nowells, whose seat at Read is about 30 miles from Halifax. Dean 
 Nowell paid, according to the four entries in relation to Arnold Oldesworth (or Holdes- 
 worth) on this and the preceding page, 53J. 4^. yearly for three years towards his 
 support. 
 
 ^ " Thorns lydon": See last page. 
 
 ^ " Laivrance Parkynsonne . . . . 0/ Lancaster" : This Lancashire scholar who went 
 to Cambridge in June, 1575, is not found in any published record of Cambridge 
 University. He was perhaps a member of the Parkinsons of Ellel, near Lancaster, of 
 whom Lawrence Parkinson, gent, (possibly father of this scholar), was representative 
 in 1554 and 1574, and Christopher Parkinson, gent., in 1585. One Lawrence Parkinson, 
 M. A., presented to the Vicarage of Ospringe, I2tli June, 1582, occurs in the records of 
 St. John's College, Cambridge, and it is not unlikely was the same person as the 
 "poor scholar" of our A/S. seven years earlier. 
 
 ■* " Sr laaddiiigton Doctor Bytige" (this entry is erased in MS.) : See onward 
 
 for another mention of Sir Waddington, B. A., of Clayer Hall in Cambridge, and his 
 patron Dr. Bingham. 
 
 * '^ Parvies scholler of west Chester": Qu — Winchester ? 
 
 " " Christofor nemaii": Christopher Newmane a "poor scholar of Cambridge," 
 will be met with hereafter. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 7 "Doctor Parkins sonne": Probably Samuel Parkins elsewhere named in the MS. 
 and voted as a scholar at Cambridge. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 8 " Thorns Bellamy e By shop pe of Salishnrie" : Jewel died 23rd September, 
 
 1571, four years before this reference to his help of a poor scholar. 
 
 !* " necdham .... mercers hall" : Unknown. 
 
 10 " /Yic holes hellrcuell of mydleton": Of this scholar of Middleton School, Lancashire 
 (Nowell's Foundation), I have no information. 
 
 " " one Scofylde of the same schole": Of the Schofield family of Rochdale parish, 
 in the county of Lancaster, others of whom are named in the MS. (Index of Names, 
 s.n.) This scholar is twice mentioned subsequently, when he was sent to Oxford Uni- 
 versity: — " Edmunde Scolfylde scholar of Mydleton School, who came with his father 
 to me [Dean Nowell] into Sussex, and had my lettre to the principal of Brazenose" 
 (September 1575); and in June 1577: "To Edmund Scofeild, att his gowinge to 
 Oxford" — "of Brazenose College." No doubt it was the same scholar who is also 
 named as "Scofylde," who conveyed a sum of money from Dean Nowell to Mr. 
 Oliver Carter of Manchester. 
 
 12 '\lsacke Colffe" — a famous name among those who care for the quaint old 
 theology of the period. 
 
 '3 '■'Richard N'owell" : He must have been brother to Roger Nowell of a subsequent 
 entry, and there described as " Roger Nowell, a poore schollar [at Cambridge] borne 
 in Cletherall [Clitheroe] in Lancashire, coosin to [Edward] Nowell the vicare of fearinge. " 
 These members of junior branches of Nowells of Read who came in for shares of Robert 
 Nowell's bounty are too numerous for me to attempt identification and connexion with 
 the family genealogy of each individual mentioned. A subsequent entry in Dean 
 Nowell's own handwriting relates a circumstance in the college career of this Richard 
 Nowell : — " To one Richard Nowell who for povertie dep'ted [departed] from 
 Ca'bridge, 21 Febr., 1577." 
 
 169
 
 (Page 92 of MS., folio 73 verso.) 
 Too one Thoms Abbotte^ a poore fchollare by the "^ 
 handes of his father the fyrste of Januaiye > 
 
 1576: J 
 
 Too one John ffoote,^ comendid by Sergeante | 
 
 Hanes fchollar of western'^ the second of July 1 577: j 
 
 Too Certen poore fchollares of paules fchole | 
 
 the x*^ of October 1577: j 
 
 Willm _ i 
 
 Too one A clerke^ of powles fchole, comendid [^ 
 comendid by m'' malyine./ the thirde 
 
 daie of June 1579 
 
 Too Thorns Sorocold,'* fcholare 
 
 Manchester, comendid by certen 
 
 & 
 Lancashire a of m) Carter, 
 
 of December 1579 : 
 
 one Edwarde Claton comendid by ^ 
 John Southworth knight^ the Vj 
 
 xij''^ of februarie 1579: j 
 
 Too one Lyllie'', of Canterburie 
 
 ys 
 
 V' 
 
 vjd/ 
 
 ys 
 
 Of^ 
 
 gent 
 
 of 
 
 th( 
 
 Too 
 
 ;th 
 
 YK- 
 
 xs 
 
 martch 
 
 m 
 
 the viij*'^ of 
 
 by the handes of 
 
 preacher of Canterburie^ ... 
 Too xv*'''^ fchollars of 
 
 the xix^h of november i58o 
 
 Too a poore fcholare of wakefeild, 
 
 Richard fysher^, the xxvj'^'^ of Aprell 
 
 1579: 
 Symsonne 
 
 •xs 
 
 paules fchole, 
 
 one 
 
 vijs vj*^ 
 
 V8 
 
 my duty remembred good m^^ this is to let you vnderstand 
 that I haue takne feue fwarme by reason the weare not 
 well prouided of hony to keep the all winter so that 
 
 that w^h the had 
 I thought it better to take A now the to the 
 haffard gott ne the loose all, all so I haue takne fyue ftockes 
 of tooe yeares owld w*^^ I thought would haue proued 
 fumAvhat better the the did for I haue not tooke 
 note past fyue gabandes of hony from the all waxe 
 thire is good ftore for thire is full aleve [eleven .'] pound thire 
 is yet remaning of this yeare x fwarmes and 
 of the last yeare seaven^ 
 
 170
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (92) 
 
 ' '^ Thorns A bbotie" : Unknown. 
 
 - " yo/iiiffoote . . . . Sergcante Hants''^ : Not known. 
 
 ' " IVillm ch'i-ke" : As this scholar was at St. Paul's School in 1579, he could not 
 be the William Gierke of Trinity College, Cambridge, who matriculated in 1575, and 
 was author of The Triall of Baslardie, &c. 
 
 * " Thorns Sorocold" : Thomas Sorocokl, the Manchester scholar, who by this 
 record had a gift of ten shillings from the Nowell Bounty on 7th Dec, 1579, was of a 
 good Lancashire family, the Sorocolds of Barton-on-Irwell. who entered a descent and 
 displayed arms at Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire in 1664. Thomas Sorocold was 
 born at INLinchester about the year 1561, and probably w^as brother of Ralph Sorocold 
 of Manchester, merchant, and son of Tliomas Sorocold of Manchester. Here, as a 
 scholar of Manchester School in 1579, he is commended to Dean Nowell by Mr. Oliver 
 Carter, Fellow of Manchester College. His University was, I think, Oxford, and 
 his college Brazenose. He took the degrees of B. A. and M.A. ; and in July, 15S7, 
 " Mr. Sorrocolde pretched at Lathom House, in the private chapel of the Earl of 
 Derby," as recoxdedmihQ Sfajihy Papers (vol. ii, pp. 32 and 142). On 22nd Oct., 1590, 
 Thomas Sorocold, M.A., was instituted to the Rectory of St. Mildred in the Poultiy, 
 London (Newcourt's Repcrt., vol. i, p. 502). He was living in 1594, and was author 
 of Supplications of Saints, a Book of Prayers and Praises, &c., a book which went 
 through many editions. 
 
 6 " Ed'.oarde Claton .... Sr John South7vorth Knt. ": This scholar, also, like the 
 preceding, was of Lancashire. Nothing responds to our inquiry concerning him, but 
 he was doubtless a son of one of the families of Clayton, gentry and yeomen in the 
 parish of Blackburn, where Sir John Southworth, of Samlesbury Hall, had his seat, 
 and was a personage of importance. Sir John Southworth was a stout "recusant" 
 (Roman Catholic), and it is curious to find him commending a scholar to a Protestant 
 chief like Dean Nowell. Sir John Southworth's troubled career on account of his 
 religion is recounted in various narratives. Strype {Grindal, p. 138) states that 
 Sir John was one of a number of Catholic gentry who made a rendezvous at Bath in 
 1569. He "tarried at Bath twenty days, during which time he was a great leader of 
 that Ring, and no little doer in those parts, remaining in great admiration. He had 
 been but the year before sent up from Lancashire, and committed to the Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, for his harboring Romish priests in his house, and relieving them, 
 though in his hearing they had spoken against the present state of religion established, 
 and the state of the realm. " After being sent to the house of the Bishop of London to 
 be conferred with, but in vain. Sir John was transferred to the house of the Dean of 
 St. Paul's (Nowell), where, says Strype, "he continued stiff in his principles, and 
 refused to come either to prayers or sermon ; which made the Dean weary of him," &c. 
 Sir John Southworth was at home in Lancashire at the date of this entry, but he was 
 imprisoned for " recusancy " in 15S1, and he died in 1595. Respecting Edward 
 Clayton, the scholar named in this entry, it occurs to me that he might be the person 
 named in a codicil to Dean Nowell's Will, which reserved "four pounds to be an- 
 nually delivered to Mr. Edward Clayton, of Brazenose College." 
 
 • " Lyllie " : See Index of Names, s.n., for other references. 
 
 7 " Mr Symsonne preacher of Canterhurie " : Unknown. 
 
 8 " Richard fysher": Unknown. 
 
 ' This fragment of a scroll-letter, like a previous one, belongs to a later date, and 
 is the casual writing, on blank leaves, of some servant of the Towneleys who had 
 custody of the J/6', gabandes = gabions (Ital. gablnoni) or baskets — but usually a 
 military term. 
 
 171
 
 3 Apreil 
 
 Aprell 
 
 52 Auguste 
 20 of auguste 
 
 7 Novebris 
 1570- 
 
 (Page 93 of th& 3IS., folio 75.) 
 To Scholleres of the vniv'"sitie 
 of chambridge. ' 
 
 XX s.^ 
 
 To John Kempe fchoUer of Katherin hall 
 in chambridge 
 
 To Robte Cottesforde^ & Samwell Cottesforde ) ^j, 
 fchollers of chambridge / 
 
 To John Punte^ for the Exhibition"! 
 
 of a poor fcholler of Trinitie colledge in >xls 
 chambridge J 
 
 To John pressed of peter house bacheler 
 of arte, in chambridge, by thandes of John 
 chapemane m^chante tayler&m^crowley* 
 as appereth by their acquitance 
 
 r 
 
 whitgifte^ 
 
 mM 
 bestowed >1^ 
 
 To m'^ Docter 
 
 flieparde & otheres to be 
 
 vpon poor fchollers in chambridge J 
 
 To m^ Whitakers for exebytion ^ 
 
 for Law & hamonde^ 
 
 to henry Rushton fcholler of| 
 
 Cambridge j 
 
 to Sh'' whitakers for teachinge 
 
 hamonde & La we 
 
 To m' Whitgifte brothere x^ 
 
 To John Nycolson bachler of 
 
 Arte of christes colledge in caml 
 Toe one Thorns morre poore ) . 
 
 fcholler of christes colledge in Cambridge j 
 To Shr 
 
 } 
 
 j" 
 
 } 
 } 
 
 xx^ 
 
 v" 
 
 XX* 
 
 xxs 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 To 
 
 at 
 for 
 
 towe 
 
 teachinge 
 
 tymes 
 Lawe 
 
 XXX' 
 
 xs 
 
 fill' Whitakeres 
 wherof xx^ was 
 
 & haymonde 
 
 Shr Byrde^ a poor younge mane of 
 
 the same house 
 
 m^ harrysonnes fonne^ W^^ wente | 
 
 frome eatone to chambrydge J " 
 
 Richard Laugher and Edmond 
 SpenferS towe poore fcholars of 
 Pembrock haule vj^ a peace in 
 the whole xij^ by the handes of , 
 M'' Thomas Newce felow of the j 
 fame howfe J 
 
 J>xij^ 
 
 (VJ 
 
 ;ii 
 
 Ui 
 
 XUIJ" VIJ 
 
 172
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (93) 
 
 ' " Robte Coitesforde," i.e., Robert Cotesford, Magdalen College, B.A. 1568-9, 
 M.A. 1572. 
 
 2 "John Fiatte." See notes on pp. 15, 25, 27, and Index of Names, s.n., for 
 several references to this merchant-taylor. 
 
 3 "yoknpresse," i.e., John Press, Teterhouse ; B.A. 1565-6, M.A. 1569. 
 * "Mr. crowley": See Index of Names, s.7i. 
 
 5 "Docter Wh'itgifte'' : Ibid. 
 
 ^ See Index of Names under William \Vhitaker, Lawe and Hammond for other 
 references and relative notes. 
 
 ^ " Sr Byrde": Collate this "poor yonge mane" with " Rychard Byrde" three 
 pages onward in the MS. Richard Bird matriculated as a sizar of Trinity College 
 ("the same howse" with William Whitaker as mentioned in the text), in February, 
 1564-5; was chosen as a scholar of the house in 1568; and went out B. A., 1568-9; 
 was afterwards elected a fellow; in 1572 commenced M.A. ; and proceeded B.D. in 
 1580. Later he travelled as tutor with William Cecil, son of Sir Thomas Cecil. He 
 became Archdeacon of Cleveland in 15S8-9, and Canon of Canterbury in 1590; was 
 created D.D. in 1608; and dying in June, 1609, was buried in Canterbury Cathedral. 
 His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John May, Bishop of Carlisle. (Cooper's Ath. 
 Cantab., vol. ii, p. 521.) Among several things Richard Bird was author of Latin 
 verses on Whitaker s translation against Harding, 1578. 
 
 8 " mr. harrysones so?ine" : See previous entry refemng to him on p. 89, and rela- 
 tive note. 
 
 9 ' ' Richard Langher and Edmotid Spenser " : See Index of Names, s. n. , and relative 
 notes. This very interesting entry is in the handwriting of Dean Novvell himself. 
 
 173
 
 (Page 94 of the MS., folio 75 verso.) 
 8 Novebr. 1570 Too m"^ Smith a Lancashire p'acher 
 late of Peter howse in Cabrige^ 
 
 The distribution of m^ Robte Nowells Goodes, to certeyn poor fchollers 
 
 in the vniu^fitie of cambrige, by m^' Docter Whitgifte & m'^ docter 
 
 3 Apr. Longworthe^ fubscribied w*^^ the said fcoUers handes, seu^ally 
 
 1569 whate eu^y one receyved \\^^ theyr owen handes seu ally fubscribed 
 
 the som pi/ 
 as apperethe by a bill of the fame. A whereof laid out as folow'^^e. 
 
 Receyved of the Goodes abouenamed by Casper | ,g 
 
 ■« habryus the some j 
 
 « To Willm pemb^'tone , x^ 
 
 -"t to Edwarde whitakeres^ x^ 
 
 3 
 
 to Roeere carre x 
 
 Id 
 
 Georges Barnes vj^ viij 
 
 to John Bentleye v^ viij'^ 
 
 to Roberte wright* x^ 
 
 to Joell Doughtie x^ 
 
 to John pounde x^ 
 
 to Tobyas waltwoode \djs viij'^ 
 
 to Willm Dysone vj^ viij^^ 
 
 to Willm Thornehill vj^ viij^ 
 
 to Christofor greene vj^ viij*^ 
 
 to Samwell ftallon vj^ viij*^ 
 
 to henry abotte vj^ viij*^ 
 
 to Johannes minister x^ 
 
 to Anthony dobsone x* 
 
 to Robte cottforde^ vj^ viij*^ 
 
 Anthony Sparre vj- vn]^ 
 
 Edward Digby^ vj^ viij"^ 
 
 Rychard Birram vj^ viij*! 
 
 Rychard fidlinge vj^ viij^ 
 
 John Bayne vj* viij'^ 
 
 W^illm boie vj^ viij"^ 
 
 Nocholes Browen vj^ viij<^ 
 
 John Kitchine vj^ viij"^ 
 
 Nathayell treheyron'' vj^ viij'^ 
 
 Edward Cotton^ vj^ viij*^ 
 
 xij^* xjs viij*^ 
 
 174
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (94) 
 
 ' "Air. Smith a Lancashire pracher,^' &c. This entry is in the easily distinguishable 
 hand of Dean Nowell. Out of many Smiths, I am unable to select the one who is 
 here described as a Lancashire preachei". An Alexander Smyth occurs as vicar of 
 Bolton in Lancashire in 1582. (Baines' History of Lancashire, edition of 1S68, vol. i, 
 
 P- 553-) 
 
 2 "■Mr. Doctor L^ongworthe'''' : Richard Longworth, born at Bolton in Lancashire 
 
 about the year 1533; matriculated as a pensioner of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 
 November 1549; proceeded B.A. 1552-3; elected fellow of Queen's College 1553; 
 commenced M.A. 1556; resigned his fellowship at Queen's, 1557; " Rd. Longworth 
 of Lane.," admitted fellow of St. John's College, 27th July, 1559; elected senior fellow 
 28th February 1560-I; ordaineil priest by Bishop Pilkington 9th March, 1561-2; 
 proceeded B.D. 1563; master of St. John's nth May, 1564; created D.D. 1567; 
 Canon of Durham 1567, resigned 1572; Dean of Chester 28th February, 1572-3; died 
 1579; Will proved 8th July; author of Letters, &c. For further particulars of Dr. 
 Longworth, see Baker's History of St. John's College, Cambridge; and Cooper's Athence 
 Cantabrigienses. 
 
 3 " Edivarde IFhitakeres": See Index of Names, sji. 
 
 * Robert IVrighte": Robert Wright matriculated as a sizar of Trinity College, 2nd 
 May, 1567, and became a scholar of that house; B.A. 1570-I; afterwards a fellow; 
 M.A. 1574. He was tutor of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and was living in 
 1596. But there was a second contemporary Robert Wright of Cambridge, who may 
 have been the scholar named in the text, and who matriculated as a pensioner of Tri- 
 nity College in 1571; B.A., 1574; M.A., 1578. {Ath. Cantab., vol. h, p. 223.) 
 
 * " Robte Cottforde": See the name on preceding page, and relative note. 
 
 ' " Ed'cCiard Digby" : Edward doubtless should be Everard Digby, matriculated as 
 a sizar of St. John's, 25th Oct., 1567; proceeded B.A., 1570-1; admitted a fellow on 
 nity College in 1571 ; B.A. 1574; M.A. 1578. {Ath. Cantab, vol. ii, p. 223.) 
 
 7 " Nathayell treheyron'" : The name of Nathaniel Treheron occurs twice in these 
 Cambridge lists, the second time two pages onward, where he is classed a scholar of 
 St. John's. He is not found in the Athena: Cantab. Was he son of the notable Barthol. 
 Treheron, the Puritan minister who died in exile ? See a subsequent note showing the 
 marriage connexion between the Treheron family and the Bowyers and the Nowells. 
 (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 8 " Edward Cotton'' : Of St. John's College, Cambridge. B.A., 1571-2; M.A., 
 
 1575- 
 
 175
 
 (Page 95 of the MS., folio 76.) 
 
 Christofor adderton 
 
 Thorns walbey , 
 
 Raynolde boswell 
 
 Roger Dighton 
 
 fy nkell 
 
 John I rtone^ , , 
 
 Thorns pylkinton^ 
 
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 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (95) 
 
 • "John Trtone''^: John Ireton, sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1564; B. A. 
 1568; fellow of Christ College ; commenced M.A. 1572 ; proceeded B.D. 1579; and 
 the same year admitted Lady Margaret's preacher, which office he held until 1583; 
 rector of Kegworth, in the county of Leicester ; died 28th June, 1606, and buried in 
 Kegworth church. {Ath. Cantab, vol. ii, p.441.) 
 
 5 " Thorns Pylkinton": Thomas Pylkington, a native of Derbyshire, was admitted 
 a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1580. (Register of St. John's, printed 
 in Baker's History of St. yohn's College, edited by Mayor, vol. i, p. 290.) 
 
 ' " AndreiD Bordman": Andrew Boardman, a native of Lancashire; matriculated 
 as a pensioner of St. John's College, 12th November, 1568 ; B. A. 1571-2 ; admitted a 
 fellow on Lady Margaret's foundation, 12th March, 1572-3; M.A. 1575; elected a 
 college preacher 1580; proceeded B.D. 1582; and was in that year appointed 
 minister of St. Mary's at Bury St. Edmunds ; subsequently beneficed near Warwick ; 
 D. D. in 1594. He wrote The Fan of the Faithfill to trie the truth in controversie, and 
 other pieces. Lixnng in 1597. {Ath. Cantab, vol. ii, p. 238-9.) 
 
 ^ ''jfohn Himte": Perhaps a kinsman of George Hunt, son of John Hunt, previously 
 noted. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 * '■^ Rychard Swale''' : This was a notable man, afterwards Sir Richard Swale, knt., 
 and M. P. for Higham Ferrarsin 1588-9. Born in Yorkshire about 1545 ; matriculated 
 as a sizar of Jesus College, Cambridge, in June 1566 ; B. A. 1568-9 ; fellow in 1571 ; 
 M.A. 1572 ; fellow of Caius College, 1577 ; president of that College before 1581 ; 
 LL. D. and a master in chancery in 1587 ; rector of Elm, Isle of Ely, with Emneth in 
 Norfolk, 1591 ; knighted by King James, 23rd July, 1603; died about June, 1608. 
 {Ath. Cantab, vol. ii, p. 492.) 
 
 ^ " Thomas felle" : See a second reference to him and relative note three folios 
 onward. 
 
 "^ " Nicholes Bonde^'' See Index of Names, s.n. He became the venerable and still 
 honored defender of the Christian Sabbath, as well told by Dr. James Gilfillan on The 
 Sabbath, s.7t., Nicholas Bownde. After leaving Cambridge, where he took his 
 degrees. Dr. Bound was beneficed at Norton, in the county of Suffolk. An account 
 of him is in Brooks' Puritans, vol. ii, pp. 171-3. 
 
 ' " Willm Ashbye": William Ashby was son of Everard Ashby, Esq., of Loseby, 
 in the county of Leicester, a fellow commoner of Peterhouse; M.A. 1566. He was 
 M.P. for Grantham in the parliament which met 29th October, 1586; and in 1588 was 
 sent as English Ambassador to the court of Scotland. He died in January, 1589-90. 
 
 ^ " Robte Sutton " — A Robert Sutton is named later in the MS. as of Christ Church, 
 Oxford. 
 
 N 177
 
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 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (96) 
 
 ' " Rychard Smytke" : He matriculated as a pensioner of St. John's College, 
 l8th Dec, 1560, and removing to Trinity College, became a scholar of that house ; in 
 1564-5 proceeded B. A. ; was soon afterwards elected a fellow; and in 1568 com- 
 menced M.A. In 1575 he proceeded B. D. Author of Verses published in 1574, 
 1575, and 1594. {At/i. C(H!tal>.,yo\. ii., p. 176.) Richard Smith recurs in the J/i". 
 two pages onward, under Trinity College list. 
 
 2 " John Kobynson " : Of St. John's College, as entered on the next page, and noted 
 on page 181, note 23. 
 
 * " IVillni IMiddliton " : William Middleton, a native of Shropshire, matriculated as 
 a sizar of Queen's College, Cambridge, in Oct., 1567; proceeded B.A., in 1570-1 ; 
 elected a fellow in 1571. Being denied permission, in 1574, by the president and 
 fellows to proceed M. A., he went to Oxford and took the degree there. The 
 authorities of Cambridge then deprived him of his fellowship, but he appealed and 
 was reinstated by command of Lord Burghley, chancellor of the University. The 
 documents relating to this arbitrary treatment of William Middleton at Cambridge are 
 printed in Cambridge University Transactions, &c., edited by Hey wood and 
 Wright (vol. i., pp. 177-1S4. ) He proceeded B.D. in 1582, and vacated his 
 fellowship about 1590. He held the rectory of Hardwick, in the county of Cambridge. 
 He wrote Papisto Maxtis, or the Protestant Religion defended, &c. {Ath. Cantab., 
 vol. ii., p. 446. ) 
 
 * " IVillin Wyiiinsofine" : Of Queen's College, Cambridge, at which he matri- 
 culated as a sizar, 12th Nov. , 1568; proceeded B. A. 1571-2, and commenced M.A. 
 1575; B.D. in 15S2. He was a schoolmaster in Cambridge in 1579; and in 1580 
 was living in London. Author of several books published between 1579 and 1591. 
 (At/i. Cantab., vol ii. , p. 179-) 
 
 s •■' HtigheBronghtone'' : Of St. John's College. " Hugh Broughton, of Salop," 
 admitted a fellow of the College, i6th March, 1569-70; translated thence to Christ's 
 College. Canon of Durham. "It may be said to Mr. Shepherd's honour (Nicholas 
 .Shepherd, 13th Master of St. John's) that he preferredmen of learning, as appeared in his 
 first choice oi Hugh. Broughton, the famous Hebrician, by his next selection of Andrew 
 Downes, the noted Grecian, and after them of Everard Digby, John Palmer, &c. 
 But Broughton, who did not stay long in a place, removed to Christ's, nowilhstanding 
 the kind and advantageous offers made him by Mr. Shepherd." (Hist, of St. John's 
 College, vol. i., p. 167.) 
 
 ^ " Gyles Fletcher": For a full life of this illustrious man see his Licia as edited by 
 me in the Fuller Worthies' Library Miscellanies, and since, separately, in my Occa- 
 sional Issues (1876). The Memoirs in both fill up a hitherto unwritten chapter of our 
 literature, &c. He was father of the two poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, whose 
 works are included in the Fuller Worthies' Library. 
 
 "^ " Robt. Lilcffe" : Robert Lylesse, born at Nottingham, in 1550; educated at 
 Eton; elected thence to King's College, 1567; fellow, 23rd Sept., 1570; B.A., 1571 ; 
 M.A, 1575; Proctor of the University, 1581. Later in life he followed the medical 
 profession. Supposed to have been author of Diella ; Certain Sonnets adjoined to the 
 amoroiise poein of Doin Diego and Gineura. By R. L., gentleman, 1596. But I lean 
 to the conclusion that Richard Linch, and not Robert Lilesse, was the author of this 
 book. See my edition oi Diella, &c. (Ath. Cantab., vol. ii., p. 223.) 
 
 * " Robert Sharpe" : See former mention of him. (Index of Names, j.;?. ) 
 
 ' " Will in Brathivhate" : William Braithwaite occurs as a fellow of Immanuel 
 College, Cambridge, in 1589. ( Cainb. Univ. 7;-«;/j-., vol. i. , p. 567.) He was, I think, 
 of the Braithwaites of Furness in Lancashire. A later William Braithwaite, "of Lan- 
 cashire," was admitted a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 3rd April, 1601. 
 (Baker's History of St. John's College, vol. i., p. 292.) 
 
 '" " Robt Chitrche" : Born about 1549 ; a sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 
 1565 ; B.A., 1567-8; fellow of Caius College; M.A., 1571 ; B.D., 1578, and one 
 of the University preachers ; in 1595, Lady Margaret preacher. He wrote verses on 
 the death of Dr.' Wm. Whitaker, 1595. 
 
 " '■'■ Alexander Keye" : Of St.- John's College. " Alexander Kay, of Lancashire," 
 admitted a fellow of the College, nth April, 1565. " Cczcus natiis Regr.acad., 1564. 
 Cczcus et tamen concionator." (Register of .St. John's College, in Baker's History of 
 the College, edited by Mayor, vol. i., p. 2S8. ) 
 
 '* '■'■ Rycharde Byrde'^: See^another reference and woiQ ante at p. 173, and again two 
 pages onward. 
 
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 * " Haly heron:" He matriculated as a sizar of Queen's College in Nov., 1565; 
 proceeded B. A. 1569-70. He wrote A N'eiu Discourse of rnorall Philosophie, &c., 
 1579. (Ath. Cantab., vol. i, p. 452.) 
 
 ' " Thomas Bro^vene: " He matriculated as a pensioner of Christ's College in May, 
 1559; B.A., 1563-4; M.A., 1568; LL.D., 1579; and was admitted an advocate 
 5th June, 1599. (Ath. Cantab., vol. ii, p. 2S2.) 
 
 ' " mr. shepparde :" Nicholas Shepperd, who at the date of this record was mastca- 
 of St. John's College in Cambridge. He was a native of Westmoreland ; admitted a 
 scholar of St. John's, on Sir M. Constable's foundation, 4th July, 1549 ; proceeded 
 B.A., and was admitted a fellow of St. John's, 25th March, 1553 ; ejected temp, 
 Mary, and reinstated in his fellowship on the accession of Elizabeth; proceeded M.A., 
 and elected a senior fellow, 15th Jan., 1560-I ; about that date was presented to a 
 canonry of Peterborough; 5th Sept., 1561, he was collated by Bishop Sandys to the 
 rectory of Hartlebury, in the county of Worcester; 14th Nov., 1561, appointed one of 
 the university preachers ; subsequently made fellow of Trinity College ; ser\ed the 
 office of proctor in 1566 ; elected master of St. John's College, admitted 17th Dec, 
 1569. He had in succession several church preferments. Relinquished his mastership 
 in 1574. Died July, 1587. (Ath. Cantab., vol. ii, p. 15.) 
 
 * See Index of Names, s.7i. 
 
 * ^' La7urance Stainton :" " Lawr. Staynton, of Westmoreland "; admitted a Fellow 
 of St. John's College 28th March, 1572. Subsequently Dean of Lincoln. 
 
 ^ "■Janus JVj'Jit/orde," i.e., James Wilford, St. John's; B.A. 1571-2 ; M.A. 1575, 
 From the register of Merdiant Taylors' School I find that a James Wilford, son of 
 Thomas Wilford, merchant taylor, was admitted a scholar of the school 7th May, 
 1569 ; but although the name corresponds, I doubt if this lad at Merchant Taylors' 
 in 1569 could have been one with James Wilford who took B.A. at St. John's College, 
 Cambridge, less than three years afterwards. "Janaes Wylford, of Kent, " was ad- 
 mitted a Fellow of St. John's College 12th March, 1572-3. 
 
 ' " John palf/ur" : Of St. John's; Morton scholar, 9th November, 1568; B.A., 
 1571-2 ; M.A., 1575 ; S.T.P., 1595 ; admitted fellow, 12th March, 1572-3 ; Decanus 
 Petroburg, an. 1597; Coll. Mag. Praef., 1595. John Palmer was a native of Kent, 
 and he died in 1607, being at the time in prison for debt. Dr Palmer was autkor of 
 Latin verses on the death of Sir Philip Sydney, 1587 ; and of a letter to Lord 
 Burghley, 1590. (Ath. Cantab., vol. ii., pp. 457-8.) 
 
 * "Andrezue Doivens," i.e., Andrew Downs, of St. John's; B.A., 1570; M.A. 
 ^574 ; S.T.B., 1582. See Baker's History of St. John's, by Professor Mayor, for full 
 details on this pre-eminent scholar. 
 
 * " George fawcete," i.e., George Fa wcett, of St. John's ; B.A., 1587-8. 
 
 '" " Marteyn Bridges'": Meant perhaps for Martin Briggs, "of Yorkshire"; ad- 
 mitted a fellow of St. John's College, 30th March, 1599. 
 
 " '' Edwarde Burton" : Of St. John's ; B.A., 1572-3. 
 
 '2 " Edzvarde Cotton" : Of St. John's ; B.A., 157 1 -2 ; M.A., 1575. 
 
 " " homfrey Clearke," i.e., Humphrey Clark, of St. John's : B.A., 1571-2. 
 
 » " Wilhn Bennet" : Of St. John's; B.A., 1570; M.A., 1574. 
 
 " ''■ Sam-well iVorcoti," i.e., Samuel Norcot ; B.A., 1572-3. 
 
 " " IVillm fleminge," i.e., William Fleming, of St. John's; B.A., 1572-3; M.A., 
 1576 ; sizar. May 20th, 1569. He was admitted a fellow of his college on Dr. Fell's 
 foundation in 1577 ; so he was probably a native of Furness in Lancashire. He 
 became rector of i5eccles, in the county of Suffolk, in 1583. He was deprived of his 
 benefice by the Bishop of Norwich, 23rd July, 1584. (Ath. Cantab., vol. i., pp. 
 508-9.) He is again named in the MS. as " S' fflemyinge." 
 
 '^ "James Smithe," i.e., James Smith, of St. John's; B.A., 1571-2 ; M.A., 1575. 
 
 '^ " John Sharppsparroiae," i.e., John Sharperowe, of .St. John's; B.A., 1573-4- 
 
 '5 " Robte Lewes," i.e., Robert Lewis, of St. John's; B.A., 1571-2; M.A, 
 (Caius) 1575. 
 
 =» " Peter porter" : Of St. John's; B.A., 1571-2 ; M.A., 1576. 
 
 '' " Nieholes IVatken," Le., Nicholas Watkins, of St. John's; B.A,, 1571-2, 
 
 ^ ''^Thorns habraham Watken": Not known. The "habraham" is inadvertently 
 inserted from next entry evidently. 
 
 "^ " John Robynson," i.e., John Robinson, of St John's; B.A., 1571-2 ; M.A., 
 "575 ;• S.T.B., 1582 ; Fellow, 1577 ; Senior Fellovv, 3rd December, 1588. College, 
 Preacher, St. Mark, 1584. 
 
 ^-i "Steven Smythe," i.e., Stephen Smith, of St. John's; B.A., 1573-4; M.A., 
 1578. 
 
 ^ "Richard Vaghan," i.e., Richard Vaughan, of St. John's; B.A., 1573-4; 
 M.A., 1577; S.T.P., 1589; Episc. Bangor, i595;Cestr., 1597; London, 1604; died. 
 
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 il
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 1607. He was born at Neffryn, in the county of Carnarvon, and a nephew of John 
 Ayhner, bishop of London, who made him one of his chaplains. He was matriculated 
 as a sizar at St. John's College, Cambridge, i6th Nov., 1569, shortly before the 
 date of this entiy (1570). (Ath. Cantab., vol. ii., pp. 450, 452.) 
 
 26 '^ £fyan Marley,'" i.e., Bryan Marley, of Sl John's; B.A., 1572-3; M.A., 
 »576. 
 
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 » " Willm Tylson,'" i.e., William Tilson, of St. John's ; B.A., 1571-2; M.A., 1575, 
 ^ " Thorns Geffrt'ves'''' Thomas Jefferay of St. John's, admitted Fellow 6th April, 
 1560, on Asheton's foundation. 
 
 3 " Matkew Wattes,'" i.e., Matthew Watts, of St. John's; B.A., 1571-2 ; M.A., 
 
 1575- 
 
 ■* " Thorns Wylso}7n ' : Thomas Wilson, a native of Westmoreland, educated at 
 
 'St. John's College, Cambridge, was admitted a Fellow in March, 1547-8 ; and a Senior 
 
 Fellow in 1552. He had a license to preach in 1552, but was an exile at Frankfort in 
 
 Mar)''s reign. Returning to England in 1558, he was admitted a Senior Fellow of 
 
 St. John's, 22nd July, 1559; and ordained deacon the same year. He obtained a 
 
 canonry of Worcester in 1560 ; and was made Dean of Worcester, 4th May, 1571. 
 
 Admitted D.D. in 1575 ; died 20th July, 1586. {Ath. Cantab., vol. iii., pp. 5-6). 
 
 * "Edward Dighye," i.e., Everard Digbye, of St. John's; Keyton School, 
 9th November, 1570; B.A., 1570; M.A., 1574; S.T.B., 1581 ; admitted Fellow, 
 1 2th March, 1572-3; Senior Fellow, loth July, 1585. 
 
 ® ''■ A'icholes Broiven,'''' i.e., Nicholes Brown, of St. John's; B.A., 1 571 -2. 
 
 7 " Willm ivebbe," i.e., William Webb, of St. John's; 1 5 72-3. He was author of 
 A Discourse of Etiglish Poetiy, 1586, &c. 
 
 8 " Christofer JachesoJt,'' i.e., Christopher Jackson, of St. John's; B.A., 1 5 73-4 ; 
 M.A., 1577. 
 
 ' J' John Lainge," i.e., John Lang, of St. John's ; B. A., 1 5 72-3 ; M. A., 1576. 
 
 '" " George Tin-nere," i.e., G&orgeT\xm&Y,oi^i.]o\m's; B.A., 1572-3; M.A., 1576, 
 Subsequently he took the degree of M.D. in some foreign University. He became a 
 Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1588. Dr. Turner died in March, 1609-10. 
 {Ath. Cantab., vol. ii., pp. 526-7.) 
 
 " " heiiry tvebster," oi^X. ]o\-i\\?,; B.A., 1572-3. 
 
 '^ "Thorns Lawrance," i.e., Thomas Lawrence, of St. John's; B.A., 1571-2 ; 
 M.A., 1576. His name recurs in the MS., and once he is described as son-in-law of 
 iMr. Yarde of Edmonton. 
 
 '3 " Rychard Byrde," i.e., Richard Bird, of Trinity ; B.A., 1568; M.A., 1572; 
 S.T.B., 1580; S.T.P., 1608. (See previous note.) 
 
 u «« lYiiim Edtvardes,'" i.e., William Edwards, of Trinity ; B.A., 1571-2 ; 
 M.A., 1575. 
 
 15 "Thorns. ^//z«^«," of Trinity ; B.A., 1573-4; M.A., 1577; S.T.B., 1589. 
 
 16 " Thorns ffelle," i.e., Thomas Fell, of Trinity ; B.A., 1571-2. 
 ^ " Willm bate'' : Of Trinity ; B.A., 1571-2: M.A., 1575. 
 
 ^* " Rychard Smythe" : A note on him will be found at page 179 ante, note r. 
 
 '9 "J?ychardeyorhe": Of Trinity ; B.A., 1571-2 ; M.A., 1575. 
 
 ^ " Abraham hartiveW : Of Trinity College ; B.A., 1571 ; M.A., 1575. See fur- 
 ther note on p. 189. 
 
 ^' " John chapemane'''' : Unknown. 
 
 22 " Robte Gybsonn," i.e., Robert Gibson, of Trinity ; B.A., 1572-3; M.A., 1576. 
 
 ^ " Rychard merydethe" : Perhaps Richard Meredith installed Dean of Bath and 
 W^ells 2ist November, 1607; died 15th August, 1621. (Le Neve, vol. i, p. 154.) 
 Later occurs another Richard Meredith of Trinity ; B.A., 1616; M.A., 1620; S.T.B., 
 1627 ; S.T.P., 1634. 
 
 '^* "6"/<?zwz?wa'fl'()/t',"7>,, Stephen Medope, of Trinity; B.A., 1571-2; M.A., 1575; 
 Sizar, 22nd Nov., 1566. 
 
 25 ^'Charles home'" : Of Trinity ; elected from Westminster School, 1568; B.A., 
 1572-3 ; M.A., Peterhonse, 1577 ; S.T.B., 1585. He was living in college in 1595-6. 
 He was author of Latin verses on the death of Sir Pliilip Sidney, 1587 ; and o{ 
 In obitum ornatissitni z'iri Guilielvii Whitakeri, Doctoris in Thcologia, &c., 1596. 
 
 i«3
 
 (Page 99 of the MS.) 
 the xxvij*^'^ of martch to one Thorns Busfilde^ ) ^ 
 
 poor fcholler of in Cambridge 1573 / 
 
 Too one Samwell^ the xxvij of martch A'' 1573.) .3 
 
 at the suet of his mother j 
 
 To willm Danyell^ of Penbroke hall in Cambridge \ 3 
 
 the xxvij° of martche A" 1573 J ^ 
 
 Too one Lancelet Androwes* poor fcholle^'S 
 
 of Penbroke hall the xxviij" of martch A" i573. [-x^ 
 
 at the sute of m'' Lewes my Lorde of Lacester gent. J 
 Too one Samwell Parkens,^ poor fcholler of) 
 
 in Cambridge by thandes of his [-x^ 
 
 father the xxviij*^ of martch A" 1573 J 
 
 Too one Samwell ffleminge^ poore fcholler 'J 
 
 of the kinges colledge in Cambridge Vxx* 
 
 the xx^t of Aprill Anno i573 j 
 
 To one m^ Stear the xiij'^ of June A° 1573 of) g 
 
 Peter howse in Cambridge j 
 
 Too one bryan extonn^ sonne to m" ffynche, scoller \ 
 
 in magdaline hall in Cambridge, the xvj*^ of >-xs 
 
 June Aoi573 j 
 
 To one John Milforde of penbroke hall in Cambridge ) g 
 
 A" 1573 : the xxiiij of maye j 
 
 To one m*" Yearde of Edmunton his sonne \ 3 
 
 the -K^^ of June Anno 1573 : j 
 
 To Charles horne^ of Trinitie College in ) -g 
 
 Cambridge the xx^'' of maye A" 1573 : ) ^ 
 
 Too one John medley^ of trinitie College in 1 ^ 
 
 Cambridge by his mother the xxvj^^ of June A° 1 573 j 
 Too James Stoopes, the iiij'^ of Septemb"" ) ^ 
 
 A° is 73 of Penbrocke hall in Cambridge J 
 To Willm Danyell''^ the iiij of September ) g 
 
 A° 1573 of Penbrok hall in Cambridge J 
 
 Too S"" PanelPi of College in "| ,, 
 
 }. 
 
 Cambridge the xvj^^ of Septemb"^ 
 
 Too one halldisworth of S*^ . 
 
 Johnnes college in Cambridge the xvj*^ of W^ 
 
 Septemb j 
 
 Too one Busfilde^^ sonne to m' Busfilde ^ 
 
 is 
 
 the preacher in London, whose sonne A of S*® Johns 
 
 College in Cambridge, the xxx*'^ of October A^ 1573 ) 
 To mr whiteheade sonne^^ fcholler of Trini-|..g 
 
 tie colledge in Cambridge the xi^^ of octob"" A" 1573 j ^ 
 Too one Robte Parker of S'^ Johanns in | ^j 
 
 Cambridge the xij*^ of octob A^ 1573 j ^^ 
 
 V.VS 
 
 184
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (99) 
 
 ' " Thorns Bicsfilde''^ : He was of Merchant Taylors' School, and his parentage is 
 supplied by the School Register, which records the admission, 23rd June, 1563, of 
 "Thomas Bousefielde, son of Harry, merchant taylor." He attained "the position of 
 head scholar at Merchant Taylors, and entered at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 
 1568, where he obtained one of the Watts Greek scholarships. He proceeded B.A. in 
 1574-5. On the 23rd May, 1577, he was incorporated at Oxford, and the same year 
 commenced M. A. in that University. 22nd July, 1581, he was admitted principal of St. 
 Edmund's Hall, Oxford, and in 1582 had the prebend of Grimston and Yatminster, in 
 the church of Sarum. He resigned the headship of St. Edmund's Hall, 26th February, 
 1600. He partially re-built St. Edmund's Hall. The date and place of his death are 
 unknown. {Ath. Cantab., vol. ii., p. 302.) 
 
 * "one Saimvell" : query Samuel Cotesforde? See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 3 "■ Willm Dattycll," i.e., William Daniel, of Pembroke; B.A., 1575-6; M.A., 
 
 1579- 
 
 * " Lancelet Andi-owes'''' : Lancelot Andrewes, D.D., P.ishop of Winchester. Dr. 
 Watts scholar in 1571, and afterwards Fellow and RIaster of Pembroke College, 
 Cambridge, to which he was a great benefactor. One of the first Fellows at Jesus 
 College, Oxford. Prebendary of St. Paul's. Dean of Westminster in 1601. One of 
 the Commissioners for the Church at Hampton Court. "One of the four preachers 
 before King James, in 1606, for the reduction of the Presbyterians to the Church 
 of England ;" and one of the translators of the Bible. Bishop of Chichester, 
 1605; of Ely, 1609; of Winchester, 1618. Wood writes of Bishop Andrewes, that 
 " he was the most eminent divine of our nation in his time." He is said to have been 
 master of at least fifteen learned and modern tongues. His Manual of Private 
 Devotions, his " Sermons," and controversial works are well known. Baker, in his 
 Chronicle, at the end of the reign of James the First, writes thus: — "Of men of note and 
 learning, as being in the time of the most learned Prince, there never was greater 
 store, of whom, these for example, in curiousness of preaching, there was Dr. 
 Andrews, Bishop of Winchester, who hath left to posterity a century of such golden 
 Sermons, that shows he has well deserved the name of Chrysostom, as he that had it." 
 \sic !^ Fuller declares that " King James stood so much in awe and veneration of him, 
 that in his presence he refrained from that mirth and levity in which he indulged him- 
 self at other times." Lord Clarendon asserts that " If Archbishop Bancroft had been 
 succeeded in the See of Canterbury by Andrews, or any man who understood and 
 loved the Church, that infection would, without difficulty, have been kept out, which 
 could not afterwards be so easily expelled." Milton wrote an eleg>' on his death, in 
 which the following distich occurs : — 
 
 "At te prcecipue luxi, dignissime Prsesul, 
 Wintonieeque olim gloria magna tuse." 
 His Funeral Sermon was preached by Bishop Buckeridge. He is buried in the 
 " Lodge Chapel " of St- Saviour's, Southwark. His monument has been recently 
 restored by the Merchant Taylors' Company. Born, 1555 ; left school, 1571 ; died, 
 1626. (Dr. Hessey's Fasti, as quoted in <Z\<y^e!?,Me}norials, as before, pp. 664-5.) The 
 Rev A. T. Russell, M.A., has written a large Life of Bishop Andrnivs (i vol., 8vo). 
 It is to be feared that his " curiousness of preaching," as shown in his extant sermons, 
 has long passed out of living remembrance ; but his " Preces " will keep his memory 
 fragrant. 
 
 ' ^^ Samzvell Farkens" : Of St. John's College ; B.A., 1570-1 ; removed to Corpus 
 Christi College, M.A., 1574; presented to the vicarage of St. Lawrence, Jewry, 
 London, by John Woolley, Esq., 25th September, 1578; died, November, 1581. 
 {Ath. Cantab., vol. ii , p. 21.) 
 
 ' '^ Saniwell Jtetninge," i.e., Samuel Fleming, of King's; B.A., 1569; M.A., 
 1573; S.T.B., 1580. 
 
 ' " bryan extoiin," i.e., Brian Exton, of C.C. ; B.A., 1575-6; M.A., 1579. (See 
 Index of Names, s. n. , for other references. ) 
 
 ® " Charles home'" : See note to reference on the precedent page of the text. 
 
 9 " John medley" : Of Trinity ; B.A., 1575-6; M.A., 1579. 
 
 '" " 7villm Danyell" : See note 3, supra. 
 
 '' " Sr. Fanell," i e., T\iom3.s Pannell ; Catherine College; B.A., 1572-3; M.A., 
 1578. 
 
 " " Busfilde " : This was Francis Bowsfield, son of Bartholomew Bowsfield, 
 minister, so described in the Register of Merchant Taylors' School, where he was 
 admitted a scholar, 8th September, 1570. 
 
 '3 ''Mr. Whitehead Sonne" : Samuel Whitehead, of Trinity ; B.A., 1575-6. 
 
 185
 
 (Page looof the MS) 
 Too one Thorns Strasham, of S*® Johannes ^ 
 
 in Cambridge the xviij*^ of february at the suet >xx^ 
 
 of m'' Docter BarnsdalP. A" {573 j ...^ ... 
 
 To one John Walsh a poor fcholler in Cambridge "J "*J 
 
 Too one Thoms Strausham of MagdaHn "^ 
 
 College in Cambridge at the suete of m>- Docter Ixx^ 
 
 Barnsdall the xx'^ of Januarye A° 1573 ) 
 
 Too one Abraham Johansonne, lat of^ 
 
 Trinitie College in Cambridge, whose I ^ 
 
 name as it is thoughte . is Collecloth the iij*^ C 
 
 of martch A° 1573 ) 
 
 Too Bryan extonne^, sonne, to m""* ffynche ^ 
 
 of Magdaline hall in Cambridge, the xxx'^^ of >v'f 
 
 ■ Martch A" 1574 j 
 
 Too one Anthony Doode late of the ^ 
 
 hospitall at christes churche the x.^'^ of Vv^ 
 
 MayeAoi574: j 
 
 To wyllm DanyelP the xij''» of ) ^ 
 
 November 1574 of Pembrocke hall j 
 
 Too James Stoopes of Pembrocke hall ) ^ 
 
 the same xij*^^> of november A^* 1574 j 
 Too John medley* the xx*^ of October ] 
 
 A° 1574 : beinge of Trinitie college j 
 Toe John Keltridge of Trinitie college in ) .5 ■■•^ 
 
 Cambridge the fowerth of Januarye A" i574 j ^ 
 
 Too one Roberte Lylies^, of Kinges College in ) ^ 
 
 Cambridge the v*^^ of Januarye A° 1574 : j 
 
 To one Thoms, Thomes^ of the same howse ) 
 
 the same v^^^ of Januarye A" 1 5 74 : / 
 
 To one Thoms Dove^, the xiij*^ of Januarye ) --s -j 
 
 Aoi574: 1'^ ^\, 
 
 To one George durden the same xiij*^ of ) iij* iiij^ 
 
 Januarye A° 1574: j 
 
 Too fower poore fchollers, of Pembroke \ 
 
 hall in Cambridge, whome m"" wattes gyveth )-v^ vj*^ 
 exibetion vnto the xiij^ii of Januarye A^ 1574) 
 
 Too one Bryan Exton^ fcholler, of^ 
 Magdaline hall in Cambridge, the viij^^ of (^ ^ 
 februarye A^ {574: by thandes of his mother T 
 M« fynch ) 
 
 To John medley^ the xx^^ of Januarye ) iij^ iiij^ 
 A° 1574. when he wente to Cambridge) 
 
 Too a fcholler sonne to m"" Patente, the \ 
 xxx*i^ of Aprell A° 1575 : vx^ 
 of m'' muncaster fchole'" j 
 
 Too one Roger nowell'^ a poore fcholler, born in 
 Cletherall in Lancashire, the xxx^^ of aprell 1575 ^v^/ 
 coosyn to nowell the vicare of fearinge 
 
 1S6
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 ( loo) 
 ' " mr Docter Bamsdall," i.e., William Barnsdell or Barnesdale of St. John's: B.A., 
 1554-5; M.A., 155S; M.D., 1568; admitted Fellow, 1556; Senior Fellow, loth 
 January, 156 1-2. 
 
 * "Bryan ex/oniie": See preceding page, note 7. 
 
 3 "lVy///;i Daiiyeir'' See preceding page, note 10. 
 ^ "yokn Alcdley": See preceding page, note 9. 
 
 * ' Roberte Lyiies": See a reference four folios back, and relative note. 
 
 ^ "■Thorns 'jytonu's," i.e., Thomas Thomas was educated at Eton, whence he was 
 elected to King's College m 1571; he proceeded B.A. 1575, and commenced M.A. 
 1579- Oi'' y^ May, 1582, he was appointed printer to the University, and about 
 1 58 1 had begun to print a book, by Mr. Wm. Whitaker, when the Stationers' Company 
 seized his press; but an appeal of the University heads to the Chancellor, Lord Burghley, 
 procured for Mr. Thomas authority to resume his printing for the University. Martin 
 Marprelate calls him the Puritan Cambridge printer; and Acres enumerates seventeen 
 works which came from his press. He was author of a copious Latin Dictionary, in 
 the production of which he worked so hard as to induce a disease which proved fatal. 
 He died in August, 1588, and was buried in the church of St. Mary the Great, Cam- 
 bridge, August 9th. {Ath. Cantab., vol. ii, pp. 29, 30 ) 
 
 7 "Thorns Dove'': OfC.C.;B.A., 1574-5; M.A., 1578. Thomas Dove, son of Wil- 
 liam Dove, was admitted a scholar of Merchant Taylors' School, 24th January, 1563-4. 
 
 * "B?yatt Exton": See note 2, supra. 
 
 9 "John RIcdLy'": See note 4, siipra. 
 
 10 <'j/,-_ Aluncasier fchole''' : Merchant Taylors' School, of which Mr. Mulcaster was 
 Master. (See other allusions, Index of Names, s.n.') 
 
 " "Roger N^orvdV: Perhaps a brother of Richard Nowell who was also of Clitheroe 
 in Lancashire. Roger is said here to have been "cousin" (a wide term) to Edward 
 Nowell, Vicar of Fearing in Essex, who is several times named in the MS. 
 
 187
 
 (Page loi of the A/S.) 
 To Abraham hartwell' batchler of arte of^ 
 Trinitie college in Cambridge the xij^'^ of maye > xxs 
 
 A° 1575: J 
 
 To Robte lylies Batchelare of arte of Kinges") 
 
 College in Cambridge the same xij* of maye |-xxs 
 
 A°i575: J 
 
 To diaries horne'^ batchelare of arte of ^ 
 
 Trinitie College in Cambridge Vx^ 
 
 the xij*'^ of maye A" iS/S : j 
 
 To one S'' Kyrke^ Bacchelare of arte ofS 
 Gonwell & Gains college in Cambridge the ^x^ 
 xiiij* of maye i575 : j 
 
 Too hyme more the fame tyme ij^ vj** 
 
 To one S"' fflemynge* Batchelare of") 
 arte of S*^ Johannes in Cambridge the xiiij^^ of Vx^ 
 Maye A^ 1575 : j 
 
 To one S'' hutchinsonne^ Batchelar of arte of^ 
 the Quenes college in Cambridge the xij*^ of Vx^ 
 maye A" 1575 : j 
 
 To one Busfilde^ fcholare of penbroke ) ^ 
 hall in Cambridge the xvj''^ of maye i575 : j 
 
 To one Bacheler ofS 
 arte before m"" mulcaster whoe was some tyme ( . .s/ 
 his fcholmaister, gyven more the xix*^ of T ' ' 
 maye A" 1575 : ) 
 
 Too one S"" Waddington^, Batcheler of arte ofS 
 Clayer hall in Cambridge, att the comendations of vxV 
 m"" Docter Bingham the iiij'^ of June 1575 j 
 
 Too m''^ Smythe to giue her sonne, h harrysonn ^ 
 of the Kynges College in Cambridge the Vx^ 
 
 xj'^ of June 1575 j 
 
 to [erasure] Cambridge \ 
 
 m^ fent A the vij* of november Anno 1575 : by m"" Still^ ( --u 
 to the vse of S'' willm Pickringe Knighte^ his fcholers C ^ 
 for theyr exhibition due at ; 
 
 Delyu^ed to meistres Smith, to the vse of her"^ 
 h harrysonn 
 sonne A of the Kinges College in Cambridge 
 the viij^'^ of november 1575: 
 
 Itm fent vnto one S"" Doue,^" of Pembrocke 
 hall in Cambridge the ix*^ of november 1575 : }-x 
 by thandes of mr Docto"" yonge 
 
 Too one S" medley, of Trinitie College in } iij^ iiijd 
 Cambridge, the seconde of december 1575 : / 
 
 Too m'^ leaver' ' for a poore fcholer att Cambridge \ ^ 
 the x'^ of December A° 1575 : |xxx . 
 
 >xxy 
 
 188
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (lOl) 
 
 ' ^'Abraham hartwelV : There were at least two persons named Abraham Hartwell 
 connected with Cambridge. One of them, and the best known, was sometime secretaiy 
 to Archbishop Whitgift. He was a Fellow of King's College. The other was of 
 Trinity College, and therefore is the person described in the text. He proceeded B.A. 
 in 1571, and M.A. 1575. {Ath. Cantab., vol. ii, pp. 383-4.) 
 
 * "Robte lylics^' and '■^Charles Hor7ie''^: See Index of Names, s.n., for other refer- 
 ences and relative notes. 
 
 ^ ".Sr — ■ — • Kyrke" i.e., Edward Kirke of Caius: notable in Elizabethan literary 
 history as the college friend of the poet Spenser, and the editor and glossarist of 
 Edmund Spenser's first published important poem, the Shepheardes Calendar. Edward 
 Kirke was born in 1553, and matriculated as a sizar of Pembroke Hall, in November, 
 1571; he afterwards removed to Caius College, and proceeded B.A., 1574-5. It will 
 be noticed that in this entry of our MS. he is described (in May, 1575) as "Bacchelore 
 of Arte of Gonwell and Caius College." He commenced M.A. in 1578. In 1579 he is 
 found in London; and Edmund Spenser writing to Gabriel Harvey from Leicester 
 House, i6th October, 1579, says: "Maister E. K. [Kirke] hartily desireth to be com- 
 mended unto your worshippe, of whom, what accompte he maketh, yourselfe shall here- 
 after perceive, by hys paynefuU and dutiful! verses of your selfe." The reference is to 
 Kirke's "Epistle to the most excellent and learned, both orator and poet, Maister 
 Gabriel Harvey, his very speciall and singular good friend," &c , inserted by Kirke in 
 the first edition of Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar, and dated from his lodgings at 
 London, 10 April, 1579. The later career of Edward Kirke has been long obscure, 
 but the editors of AthencB Cantabrigieiises searched out and communicated to Notes 
 and Queries (third series, vol. vii, p. 509), the following facts: "On 26th May, 1580, 
 he was instituted, on the presentation of Sir Thomas Kytson, to the rectory of Risby, 
 Suffolk, as he was on 31 August, 1587, to the rectory of the adjacent parish of Lack- 
 ford on the same patron's presentation. He died 10 Nov., 1613, aged 60, and was 
 buried in the chancel at Risby, where he is commemorated by an inscription. By his 
 Will, which bears date three days before his death, he gave ^30 to the poor of Lack- 
 ford. It is observable that his patron, Sir Thomas Kytson, in his account book 
 under date of April, 1583, has the following entry: 'For a Shepheardes Calendar ii'.'" 
 
 * "Air. ffleniynge'': William Fleming of St. John's, previously noted. (See Index 
 of Names, s.n.) 
 
 * " Sr hiitehinsonne,'" i.e., William Hutchinson of Queen's; B.A., 1572-3; M.A., 
 1576. 
 
 ^ "Bnsjilde^^: For previous allusion and note, see Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 7 "Sr IVaddington," i.e., Henry Waddington of Clare: B.A., 1572-3; M.A., 1576. 
 
 8 "mr. Still": John Still, born at Grantham about 1543; only son of William Still, 
 Esq. "John Styl, son of William Styl, merchant taylor," is so registered as admitted 
 in Merchant Taylors' School, 26th March, 1563. He matriculated as a pensioner of 
 Christ College in 1559; B.A., 1561-2; elected a Fellow, and commenced M.A. in 1565; 
 B.D., 1570; in 1570 was appointed Margaret professor of Divinity; collated to the 
 rectory of Hadlington, 30th July, 1571; and other preferments; and on 14th July, 1574, 
 was elected Master of St. John's College; created U.D., 1575; Master of Trinity, 1577; 
 Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1592; died 26th February, 1607-8. {Ath. Cantab., vol. ii, 
 pp. 467, 468.) Most of all celebrated as the author of Gainiiier Gartoji's Needle — 
 among the earliest, as it is of the raciest of English native comedies. 
 
 " "Sr IVilhn Pickringe Knighte'" : Sir William Pickering died a few months before 
 the date ef this entry, and after his death a scheme was projected for settling parts of 
 his estates for the foundation of a free school and the endowment of scholarships at the 
 Lhiiversities; but the purpose was not fulfilled. Dean Nowell's gift of 7/. lOj.here re- 
 corded to the use of certain scholars of Sir William Pickering was probably connected 
 with this scheme. Sir William Pickering was born about 15 17; knighted in 1547; 
 and died 4th January, 1574-5. His estate was at Oswaldkirk in Yorkshire; and he 
 had also a mansion called Pickering House in London. {Ath. Cantab., vol. i, pp. 
 325, 326.) 
 
 '" "6";- Done''': Possibly John Dove, who was a scholar of Merchant Taylors' 
 School, admitted 25th May, 1565, described as son of Robert Doue, merchant taylor. 
 He may have proceeded to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; but I find no trace of his 
 University career. 
 
 " "wr. leaver": The celebrated Puritan author and divine, Thomas Lever, born at 
 at Little Lever in Lancashire; died at Ware, in July, 1577. For his history %qq Aik. 
 Cantab., vol. i, pp. 366-368, and many other authorities. 
 
 1S9
 
 (Page I02 of the MS.) 
 Too one barefoot of Corpus christie colledge in ) ^ 
 
 Oxford the xxj^ii of december A^ 1575 ) 
 
 Too m"" Allveyi for his sonne a poore fcholler xx^ 
 
 Too Br>^an exton^ a poore fcholler of Cambridge ) ..^ .^ 
 
 the xxij'^ daye of December A° 1575 j ^ ^ 
 
 Too m' TurnebulP m' of Arte of Corpus ) ...g ....^ 
 
 christie collegge the same xxii^h of December j ^ ^ 
 Toe one Willm hutchinsonn**, fchollar of the 
 
 Ouenes colledge in Cambridge the xx^^ of 
 
 Januarie A° 1575 : 
 
 Too one m'' Lewen^ againste his p'cedinge Docto' ) ....^....^ 
 
 the xth of Januarie A^ i575 : j ^ "^^ 
 
 Too one Bryan Exton*' of Benett college^ 
 
 in Cambridge, by the handes of m'' docto"" whit [-xx^ 
 
 gifte the xx*^ of februarie A° 1575 : j 
 
 To one willm Daniell^ of Pembrocke hall ) 
 
 Cambridge the same xx^"^ of februarie 1575 : j ' 
 Too one John meddley^ of Trinitie colledge ) ^ 
 
 in Cambridge the xxiiij*'' of februarie 1575 : j 
 Too one Robte willamsonne^, the xxvij'^ of ) ^ 
 
 februarie A° i575: j 
 
 Too S"" horne^° of Trinitie college in Cambridge \ ^ 
 
 the xiijth of martch A" {575 : j ^^ 
 
 Too one mathewe, Shalfoot, some tyme of the ) ..g .^ 
 
 Kinges College in Cambridge, the xviij'^ of martch j -^ •' 
 ToooneGersonne wyldford,''apoore fcholler,of Cambridge v* 
 Too one JohnThomas^^of KingesCollege in Cambridge 
 
 the xix* of maye iS76: whom my m'' did kepe in 
 
 his place : 
 
 in lawe Thorns Lawrence 
 Too m"^ yardes sonne a scholler in Cambridge J>xx 
 
 the seconde of Julye 1576: 
 
 To wyllyi" Daniell'^ of pebroke hall 24 
 
 Septb'' 1 5 76 
 
 Too one Thoms Lawrance^* fcholer of Cambridge ^ 
 
 the xv*^ of Julie 1576 j 
 
 Too one Robte wyllmote'^ poore fcholer of the S 
 
 Ouenes colledge in Cambridge, the third [-x 
 
 of auguste 1576: j 
 
 Too one Thoms hall, fcholler of S*^^ ) 
 
 Johannes in Cambridge, the xxiiij'^ of november j 
 Too one Richard Smyth'^ fcollare att leedesl 
 
 att his gowinge to Cambridge, the seconde >xiijsiiij<J 
 
 of December i576: J 
 
 x 
 
 :S 
 
 I go
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (102) 
 
 ' ^' mr. allvey'''' : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ ^' Bryan exton'^ : See Index of Names, s.n., for various entries respecting this 
 scholar. 
 
 3 ''Mr. TurnelmlV : Ibid. 
 
 ^ " IVillm hiiichinsonft" : On the foregoing page is another reference to William 
 Hutchinson, of Queen's College. 
 
 * "Mr. Leiven," i.e., William Lewin, of Christ's; B.A., 1561-2 ; M,A., 1565; 
 S.T.P., 1576. An account of him is m. Athena Cantab., \o\. ii, pp. 245, 246. He 
 was a proctor of the University in 1569; in 1576 he was created LL. D., and admitted 
 an advocate. He represented Rochester in three Parliaments from 1586 to 1594; was 
 made a master in chancery about 1595; and died in London, 15th April, 1598. 
 Author of Latin and English Epistles, &c. 
 
 * " Bryan exton" : See snfra. 
 
 ' " Willni DanieW : See Index of Names for other references, and relative note. 
 
 8 '<■ John meddley" : Ibid. 
 
 ' " Robte willatnsonjie," i.e., Robert Williamson, of Christ's; B.A., 1574-5; 
 M.A., 1578; S.T.B., 1578; S.T.R, 1598. 
 
 '" " Sr ho7'ne" : See supra. 
 
 " "■ Gersomie wyldford'^ : This scholar came from Merchant Taylors' School, where 
 I find, from the School Register, "Gerson Wilford, son of John, merchant-taylor," 
 entered as admitted Sth Januaiy, 1569-70. 
 
 '2 " jfo/in Thomas" : Respecting this protegf of Dean Nowell, see a note to a 
 previous reference in the AI.S. at p. 165, note 5. 
 .13 'i IVyllyni. Daniell" : See supra. This entry is in Dean Nowell's handwriting. 
 
 " " Thorns lawrance" : See Index of Names for reference to previous note on 
 Thomas Lawrence. 
 
 '5 " Bobte wyllmote," i.e., Robert Wilmot, of Queen's ; B.A., 1576-7. "Robert 
 Wylmot, son of Richard, merchant taylor," was entered as a scholar at Merchant 
 Taylors' School, 28th April, 1563. 
 
 '8 " Richard Smyth," i.e., Richard Smith, of Clare ; B.A., 1569. A " Rychard 
 Smythe, son of Robert," was entered a scholar at Merchant Taylors' School, 2nd 
 October, 1564; but this Richard is said, in the text, to be a " scollare at leeds " (Leeds, 
 in Yorkshire), going to Cambridge in 1576. 
 
 tgi
 
 (Page 103 o{ the MS.) 
 Too one Samuell Gootsford^ of the Ouenes colledge ) , , 
 
 in Cambridge the xxij**! of Januarie iS7^ '• j 
 
 To one Thomas Gierke^ of pembrocke hall in | . 
 
 Cambridge the xxx*^ of Januarie 15/6 : j 
 
 Too one Edward higgen, a poore fcholar of]...^....^ 
 
 Cambridge. 1576 : the 9. of februarie j ^ ^ 
 
 Too one S'' Williamson^ Batchlar of arte 
 
 Cambridge the x* of februarie 15/6 : j 
 
 Too one m"" home*, of Pembrock hall in \ 
 
 1576 V 
 
 Cambridge the x*^ of Januarij a by m"" chrokej 
 delyu^ the same m'' home the xxiij^^^ of| ^ 
 
 Aprill 1577: the some of j 
 
 xx^ 
 
 Too one hamlett Carter^ the vij^^i of) ••3 ^^;d 
 Geven to one Smyth^, a poore schollare of Pembrocke ) 
 
 June 1577 Late of Cambridge | ^^ 
 
 vj' 
 
 hall in Cambridge the xiij'-^ of June 1577 j 
 
 V, 
 
 s 
 
 Too one S"" DannyelP m'' of arte of Pembrocke hall \ ...^ ....^ 
 
 in Cambridge the fyrste of Januarie 1576 : j •' -^ 
 
 Too one Richard Parkines fcollare of the same howse ij^ 
 Too m"" whitakars of Trinitie colledge in Cambridge \ ^ 
 
 the same fyrste of Januarie 1576 : j 
 
 Too S'' haymonde^ the same tyme v^ 
 
 Too one Smyth of christes college the same tyme ... iij^ iiij*^ 
 Too S"" medley^ of Trinitie colledge in cambredge \ ^ 
 
 the xiij* of Aprill {577 : j ^^ 
 
 Too John Ludham^'' m"" of Arte of Cambridge the ) 
 
 xiijtb of Aprill : J ^^' 
 
 Too willm Gace'^ of clare hall in Cambridge ) 
 
 the seconde of Julie 1577 : j 
 
 Too christofore newman a poore fcholler of Cambridge ) ..g .^ 
 
 the xxvj'^i of auguste 1577 : j ^ ^ 
 
 Too Bryan Exton^^ of Cambridge the xxx^^ of auguste xx^ 
 Too John medley^^ of Trinitie college in Cambridge ) .-^ .^ 
 
 the xxx*^^ of auguste 1577 : j ^ ^ 
 
 To one m^ willam Whitaker^-*, of Trinitie \ ^ 
 
 College in Cambridge the xx^^ of november f 
 Too one m'' hamonde'^ of the same house the ) , 
 
 xx''^ of november 1577 : j 
 
 Too a poore fcholare w"^^ brought a booke \ .-^ .j 
 
 frome mr Whitakers j ^ ^ 
 
 To one S"" Kaies'^ of Colledo-e in ) 
 
 Cambridge the x^'^ of Januarie 1577 : j ' ' 
 
 Too o'' coofyn, harrysonn^?^ of the Kinges \ 
 
 College in Cambridge the x*^ of february Vx* 
 
 A° 1577 j 
 
 1577 To Speede^^ Late of Cambrige 20 Febr. ij^ vj<^ 
 To one Richard NowelP^ who for povertie 
 depted fro Cabrige 21. P'ebr. 1577 
 
 ys 
 
 192
 
 Notes a7id Illustrations. 
 (103) 
 
 ' " Samuel Coofsford" : See Index of Names under "Cotesford." 
 - " Thames Clerk " : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 ^ "Si Williamson" : Ibid. 
 
 * " mr home " : Charles Home, who received several gifts, and has previously been 
 noted. (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 * '' hamlett Carter" : Unknown. 
 
 6 "one Smyth" : Ibid. 
 
 7 " one Dannyell " : Probably the William Danyel of former entries. 
 ^ " Sr haymonde" : See Index of Names, i'.;?. 
 
 5 " Sr medley " : John Medley, previously noted as of Trinity College. (See Index 
 of Names, s.n., for other references.) 
 
 '" "John ludham": Oi St. ]ohn's; B.A., 1563-4; Pensioner, 12th Nov., 1561. 
 
 " " IVillm Gace" : William Gace, matriculated as a sizar of Clare Hall, in 
 Nov., 1568; proceeded B.A., 1572-3. He was an author of some repute, and edited 
 two volumes of select writings of Luther, which he had translated into English, 
 published in 1578. His first translation, of Heminge's Latin Commentary on the 
 Epistle of St. James, was published in 1577, and is dedicated to Alexander Nowell, 
 Dean of St. Paul's. [Ath. Cantab., vol. ii., pp. 22-3.) 
 
 '* " Bryan Exto7i" : Numerous entries refer to him. (Index of Names, .r.«.) 
 
 '3 "■John medley": See the reference snpj-a. 
 
 » " William Whitaker" : The celebrated William Whitaker. (See Introduction.) 
 
 15 ^^ Mr. hamond" : For notices of several Hammonds see former note. (Index of 
 Names, s.n.) 
 
 's " one Sr Kaies," i.e., Francis Key, of Christ's ; B.A., 1575-6. 
 
 ''' '■'■ coosyn harrysonn," i.e., John Harrison, of King's ; B.A., 1574-5 ; M.A., 1578. 
 
 '« " Speede," ie., Oswo. Speed, of Pembroke ; B.A., 1575-6. 
 
 19 " Richard Noweir : Of Clare ; B.A., 1575-6 ; M.A., 1579. I take him to be the 
 same JRichard Nowell before referred to in the MS. as son of John Nowell, and a 
 native of Clitheroe in Lancashire. His connection with the Nowells of Read is 
 not apparent. His father, if living, must have been straitened in means when he 
 had to withdraw his son, as stated in the text, from the University, on the ground of 
 poverty. This entry and the one above it respecting Speed are in Dean Nowell's 
 handwriting. 
 
 193
 
 (Page 104 of the MS.) 
 
 Too one S'' modfley^ the xxviij'^ of Aprill i5 78:' 
 of Trinitie College in Cambridge, /in the p'sentes >xx» 
 of m"" whitakers and others 
 
 Too one John Spenfer^, the xxix^^^ of Aprill " 
 {578: the fome of of Pembrock hall V-v^ 
 in Cambridge J 
 
 Too one S"" Atkinsonne,^ Batchler of arte"] 
 of S*^^ Johannes College in Cambridge, j 
 att the suete of m' howland* [erasure] vicie ^^xx^ 
 chaunceller of the the vniu^sitie of Cambridere 
 the x'}^^ of maie 1578: 
 
 Too m'' DanielP of pembrocke hall 
 
 *t>^ 
 
 Cambridge the xxj'^^ of maie 1578: 
 
 '"} 
 
 v« 
 
 Too one Robte willamsonne^, of christes churche^ , 
 in Cambridge the xvj*^^ of June 1578: J 
 
 Too o"" coosin harrysonne^ of Kinges College in '\ 
 Cambridge, the xx*^ v* dale of martche i578: > xl^ 
 att the sute of his mother j 
 
 Too m'" horne^, the xiij*-^ daye of Julye' 
 1578: att hadham psonage delyu*^ed to hym yxx^ 
 selffe ^ 
 
 Too one fifrances Keies^, of christes \ 
 
 College in Cambridge, the xxviij*^ ofwjsvj*^ 
 november 1578: J 
 
 To one Samuell Athertonn^*^, of Pembrocke' 
 hall in Cambridge, the xxv*'^ of februarie >xs 
 1578: _ 
 
 Too one Barthelmewe chaple, the xxvij'^ } ..^ .^ 
 dale of Aprell, i579:/ yijjvj^ 
 
 Too one m' Eannam, the x'^ dale of 
 
 x^* 
 maie 1579: j 
 
 Too one Bryan Exton^^, of pembrocke hall ) g / 
 in Cambridge, the vij'^ of June i579: j 
 
 Too m' mydley^^ againste his pcedinge \ 
 m^ of Arte, the seconde of June i579: l-xx.^1 
 of Trenitie college in Cambridge j 
 
 To one m"" harrison'-^ of Kinges Colledge ") „ , 
 
 r X^ / 
 
 in Cambridge the sixt of June 1579: j '' 
 
 To one S'" francies Kaye^'* of Cambridge x^./ 
 Too one Ellies Reedfearne fcholare ) „ 
 
 of S*^ Johannes college in Cambridge j 
 Too one Clarke, comendid by mO 
 
 Malyn, the xx*^^ of februarie '579: I'xx* 
 
 att his gowinge to Cambridge J 
 
 Too one Ellis Reedfearne,^^ ^he xx^'^"^ 
 
 of martche 1579: of S^^ Johannes ViijMiij'^ 
 Cambridge J 
 
 in 
 
 194 
 
 i
 
 Notes and I llustrations, 
 
 (104) 
 
 ' *' Sr. Mod/lty" : Perhaps meant for Maudsley. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 » ">/^« ^^-w/iT," z>., John Spencer, of Pembroke; B.A., 1577-8. It is exceed- 
 ingly likely that John Spenser was a kinsman of Edmund Spenser, the Poet. He was 
 educated at the same school, Merchant Taylors', and was admitted a scholar there 
 3rd August, 1571. He is described in the Register of the School as "John Spenser, 
 son of John Spenser, gent." He would be a few years younger than Edmund Spenser, 
 who left the school, as our MS. evidences, for Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in April, 1569. 
 It we had any better ground than possibility for imagining John Spenser might be 
 younger brother of Edmund, the furnishing of his father's name in Merchant Taylors' 
 Register would also give us the important fact of the Poet's paternity. But if John 
 were not brother of Edmund, he might be cousin. His father, be it observed, was of 
 the rank of lesser gentry indicated by the abreviation "gent." 
 
 3 '' Sr. Atkinsonne,'' i.e., John Atkinson, of St. John's; B.A., 1571-2 ; M.A., 
 1575- 
 
 ■• ''Mr. how!a}td," i.e., James Howland, of Trinity ; B.A., 1576 ; M A., St. John's, 
 1580. Admitted Fellow of St. John's, 1577. He was a native of Richmondshire, in 
 the county of York, and son of Richard Howland, Bishop of Peterborough. He matri- 
 culated as a Pensioner of Peterhouse, 3rd December, 1572 ; and removed to Trinity. 
 He had a canonry in the Church of Peterborough, and was installed Archdeacon of 
 Northampton, 12th November, 1587. He died 20th March, 1607-8. (Atk. Cantab., 
 vol. ii., pp. 235-6.) 
 
 ® '" ^ : See Index of Names, s.n., for other references and relative notes. 
 
 'o " Samuell Athertonn" : Of Pembroke ; B.A., 1578-9; M.A., 1582. 
 
 " t° '3 : See on 5 to 9. 
 
 ^* "f?-ancies A'aye" : See note 16 on preceding page. 
 
 '* "Ellis Reedfearne" : This scholar I connect with a family of Redfeame in Lanca- 
 shire related by marriage to Dean Nowell and his brother Robert. (See Index of 
 Names, s. n. , for other mention of the name and relative notes. ) 
 
 O 2 195
 
 (Page 105 of the MS., folio 80.) 
 diuers other 
 
 Toe A SchoUers of the Vniv'^sitie 
 Oxforde./ 
 
 of 
 
 To 
 
 of Tottenham' 
 of christes churche 
 
 To 
 
 larned 
 wattes m'' 
 
 Irishe 
 Carte 
 
 21 
 
 Robte Joyner vicar 
 for John powle'^ fcholler 
 
 in Oxforde 
 
 Nicholas welshe a 
 man, comended by m^ 
 
 wrighte & m'' brickbecke^ 
 
 Martch pd to willm wood preachear 
 vse of Thorns Newell 
 christes churche in Oxforde 
 forde* scholler of 
 Oxforde as apperethe by his 
 19 Aprill pd to Rychard wattes 
 
 tayler to the vse of his sonne John 
 Wattes of christes colledge in Oxforde^ 
 the some of seven shilling-es as appereth 
 
 to the' 
 scoller oi 
 and John 
 
 accquitan 
 of London 
 
 in I 
 cej 
 
 xxs 
 
 xx' 
 
 ^xl^ 
 
 nijli vijs 
 
 w 
 
 by his acquitance 
 full of XX* for he 
 Docter coop^ befor 
 money that m'" Docter 
 
 ch 
 
 is to make upe 
 hade xiij^ of 
 the tyme of 
 
 had to bestowe . 
 
 the 
 
 m"- 
 
 the 
 
 >-vij^ 
 
 The names of those schollers of Oxforde to whom the money sente by m'^ Nowell 
 Dean of pouUs of the Goodes of Robte Nowell deceased distributed by m"^ D 
 homfrey^ presidente of magdalcn colledge Docter Coop Dean of christe churche 
 the Laste of marche A° {569 
 
 firste to christe Geffrey Lewes^ m'' of arte xx^ 
 
 churche John Buste^ xx* 
 
 Robte Sutton^o xx^ 
 
 ^ John Gloveri' xx^ 
 
 John Wichham'2 xx^ 
 
 John fpeyre'3 xx» 
 
 Thoms hixon'* xiij* 
 
 Thorns Coke's xiij' 
 
 Abraham fowler"^ xiij^ 
 
 John wattes'7 xiij^ 
 
 John Balmye xiij* 
 
 John plomtonn xiij* * 
 
 henry Lydsam xiij^ 
 
 Georges Dickens'^ xiij^ 
 
 John paule'9 xiij* 
 
 Thoms Blocke m' of Arte xx^ 
 
 magdalen colledge 
 
 Thoms Brasbridge^o xx^ 
 
 ffranccs Bunneye^' xx^ 
 
 hopkins22 xx^ 
 
 xx^^ iiij^ 
 
 196 
 
 &
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 ( 105 ) 
 
 * "■ Robter Joyner, vicar of Tottenham'''' : See Index of Names, s.n., for various 
 notices of him and relative note. 
 
 ^ " Jokn powle . . . . christes churche, in Oxford'''': This was probably John Powell, 
 rector of Cantreffe, Brecnock, fatlier of the more famous Thomas Powell. (Wood's 
 Athena, by Bliss, vol. iii, pp. 507-S. ) A John Powle (Wood's Fasti, vol. i, p. 105) 
 was too early. 
 
 ^ ^^ Nicholas ivelshe . . . . Dir wattes, tnr Carteivrighte (Sr* Mr. brichbecke^' : 
 *' Welshe " is unknown; " m'^ wattes " : See Index of Names, s.n., frequenter; 
 *'\\\^ Cartewright ": The illustrious Thomas Cartwright, Scholar and Reformer — See 
 our Introduction ; " brickbecke " = Birckbeck : Wood noticesonly a Simon Birckbeck, 
 of Queen's College, Oxford, author of The Protestants Evidence (1634), and otlicr 
 Theological-controversial works. He died in 1656. (Wood's Athciuc, as before, vol. 
 iii, p. 421 : cf. also the Fasti, vol. i, pp. 302, 321, 366.) 
 
 * " Willatn Wood preacher .... John Norfell . . . . christes churche in Oxforde, 
 atid John forde." — "William Wood preacher": He was author of a Form of 
 Catechising, consisting in Questions and Answers, with observations thereon, &c. , 
 1581 ; from the Fasti we learn he became B. D. 24th April, 1561 (vol. i, p. 159). 
 See other notices of other Woods of (probably) the same family, the Fasti, vol. i, 
 pp. 226-7, 240. "Thomas No well ": See Index of Names, i'.;/., "John forde" — not 
 traced. 
 
 * " Rychard wattes .... tayler . . . . John Wattes, of clwistes college, in Oxforde^^ : 
 The latter son of the former. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ "Mr. Docter coop''^ : Thomas Cooper, D.D., became Dean of Christ Church in 
 Hillary Term, 1566 ; and he relinquished the Deaneiy of Christ Church in 1570, on 
 being made Bishop of Lincoln. (See Index of Names, s.n., for other references.) 
 
 ^ "Mr. D. homfrey": See Index of Names, s.7t. 
 
 ^ Chniste chiirche : " Geffrey Leaves": I find no Geoffrey Lewis in the authorities, but 
 ■"Lewis" is a Welsh surname, and "Geoffrey" is English, so I think the scribe in this and 
 other entries has miswritten "Geoffrey" for "Griffith," and^that this "Master of Arts," 
 was no other than Griffith Lnvis, who was collated Prebendary of Hereford, iu 
 Feb., 1575-6, and was installed Dean of Gloucester in 1594 ; he died in 1607 ; and 
 was buried (7th June) in Hereford Cathedral. (Le Neve's Fasti, vol. i, pp. 443 
 and 515.) 
 
 ' "John Biiste" : Proctor, April 20th, 1574. (Wood's Fasti, voL i, p. 195; 
 spelled "John Bust," of Christ Church.) 
 
 '" " Robte Sutton (noi in Wood's Athena): A Robert Sutton was installed Pre- 
 bendary of Denet Parva, iSth Feb., 1578-9; of Stopford, i8th Oct., 1579; both 
 in Lichfield Cathedral. 
 
 " "John Glover" : John Glover, of St. John's Coll., Proctor, April 17th, 1577. 
 {Fasti, vol. i, p. 205.) 
 
 '' "John Wickham'^: In Wood's MSS.in Ashmolean Museum, William Wickham, 
 Bishop of Winchester, is described as son of John Wickham, of Rotherfeild, ia 
 Sussex, but descended from the Wickhams of Swaclyve. (Life in Athena, as before, 
 vol. i, p. xxvii. ; cf. also Athena, vol. i, p. 832.) He also mentions a John 
 Wickham who was Prebendary of Westminster, in 1592. {Fasti, vol. i, p. 324.) 
 Wicham = Wickham. 
 
 " " John Speyre " : Not in W^ood's Athena or Fasti. 
 
 " " Thorns hixon ": The notorious John Lilbourne's mother was Margaret, dau. of 
 Thomas Hixon, of Greenwich, Kent (Wood's Athena, vol. iii, p. 358J ; but I suspect 
 ■"hixon "here is miswritten for "Higson." See Index of Names, j.;?. Not other- 
 wise in Wood. 
 
 >* " Tho/ns Coke ": Not in W^ood. 
 
 1^ " Abraham foioler'''': Known only as having prefixed an alliterative poem to 
 Thomas Rogers' Anatomy of the Mind (1576), along with Camden and others, entitled 
 AWdeles Hcedcra (Wood's Athena, vol. ii, p. 163). His name recurs on the very 
 last page of the MS. as " Abrahame fowler, late of Christes College, in Oxford." The 
 entry is dated 27th Dec, 1571. 
 
 '7 "John Wattes'": Not in W^ood. The same John W^atts named above as son of 
 Richard W^atts. 
 
 '8 "Georges Dickens": A George Dickins, M.A., was installed Prebendary of 
 Harleston, 2nd April, 1591 ; of Hoxton, nth Dec, 1585 ; both in the Cathedral of 
 London. 
 
 " " Johnpaule": Index of Names under "John Powell." 
 
 2" "Magdalen College: Thorns Brasbridi^e" : County of Oxford, aged 16; 
 res. 1558; B.A. All Souls', 1 8th Nov., 1558; M.A. 20th Oct., 1564; Prob. F. 
 15th Nov., 1561-1575; Bursar 1565,1571 ; Juu. D. of Arts 1566, 1568 ; Sen. D. of 
 Arts 1567, 1569; V. Pres. 1572, 1574 ; Pral. Hebr. 1572; supplicated for B.D.
 
 New colledge 
 
 corpus Christie 
 Colledge. 
 
 (Page 1 06 of the MS., folio 80 verso) 
 
 John Savage^ 
 
 Walter ruderby^ 
 
 Nicholes gremold^ 
 
 Rychard Cave* 
 
 Rychard Boughton^ 
 
 John morgan^ 
 
 Anthony Lynnie^ 
 
 Willm Ludethes 
 
 John Traveres^ 
 
 Nathayell Baxterio 
 
 Willm Jnkforleye^^ 
 
 Raphe'2 
 
 Willm powelP^ 
 
 Christofore Wade^* 
 
 hughe floyd'^ 
 
 Thoms Bylson^^ 
 
 John pryine^' 
 
 vniu^sitie 
 Brodgattes 
 
 Brasnose 
 Alborow hall/ 
 
 all solne colledge 
 
 Marten colledge 
 
 Thoms Wattes^^ , 
 
 Willm Napper^9 
 
 Rye. Allyne2o 
 
 Thoms^^ 
 
 Christofor ramson22 
 
 John chamblere^^ 
 
 colledge receyved by 
 
 ffor S' Batten24.... 
 
 James greye^s 
 
 John poprell"^ , 
 
 Thoms peperell27 
 
 Edward Shacros^s 
 
 John Lawrence^s 
 
 henry greye^^ 
 
 rec more^' the same tym by 
 Robte Lovenden^2 
 
 John Coldinge^^ 
 
 John Whytcombe^* 
 
 Docter humfrey 
 
 xxs 
 
 XXS 
 
 xxs 
 
 xiij» 
 
 xiijs 
 
 xiij* 
 
 xiij3 
 
 xiijs 
 
 xiijs 
 
 xiijs 
 
 xx^ 
 
 xiijs 
 
 xxs 
 
 xxs 
 
 xx* 
 
 xxs 
 
 xiij^ 
 
 xiij' 
 xxs 
 xx^ 
 xx^ 
 xxs 
 xx^ 
 
 XX3 
 
 xxs 
 
 xiij3 
 
 xiijs 
 
 xiijs 
 
 xiij^ 
 
 xiij^ 
 
 xiij" 
 
 xxs 
 
 xxs 
 
 xx^ 
 
 xxviijl' viij^/ 
 
 198
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 27th May, 1574, but was not admitted. Wood states, (At/i. Bliss, vol. i, col. 526) 
 that Thomas Brasbridge, a Northamptonshire man born, was elected Demy of Mag- 
 dalen College, by the endeavours of Peter Morwyng, anno 1553, aged 16, whence 
 after he had continued a sedulous student for some years, he was elected Probationer- 
 Fellow of All Souls' College in 155S; thence also he returned to Magdalen College, 
 of which he became Fellow in 1562, and, soon after proceeding in Arts, applied his 
 mind partly to Divinity and partly to Physic. In 1574 he supplicated to be admitted 
 to the reading of the Sentences, but whether he was really admitted appears not. The 
 next year he resigned his Fellowship, having a spiritual cure, or both, conferred on 
 him at, or near to, Banbury, in Oxfordshire, where, as it seems, he practised physic. 
 His works are : — The Poor Man's Jewel, viz., a Treatise of the Pestilence, to which is 
 annexed a Declaration of the virtues of the herbs, Carduus, benedictiis, and Angelica, &^c. 
 8vo., Lond., 1578, 1580, and 1591. Quastion^s in Officia, M. T. Ciceronis, coin- 
 pendiarium totius opnsculi efitomen continentes. Oxon., 8vo., 1615. Dedicated to Dr. 
 Lawrence Humphrey, President of Magdalen College, an. 1586. What other things 
 he published I cannot yet tell, nor anything of his latter end. Dr. Bliss tells us that 
 "he published also Abdias, the Prophet. Interpreted by T. B., Fellow of Magdalen 
 College, in Oxforde. Lond., by Binneman, 8vo., 1574. Dedicated to the Earl of 
 Huntingdon." (Note to Ath.) Mr. Beasley, in his History of Banbury, mentions 
 (p. 25) that Brasbridge was born probably at Banbury, about the year 1537, and cer- 
 tainly lived there in his childhood, and became Vicar of that place in 1581. In 1581 he 
 was inducted to the Perpetual Vicarage of Banbury, by Jonas Wheeler, Schoolmaster, 
 the Bailiff and other Elders of the town being then present and consenting. Bras- 
 bridge ceased to be the Vicar in 1590, on grounds of conscience taken by the early 
 Puritans. He was, however, residing in 1592. Brasbridge died in 1593, at the age 
 of 56 years. (Dr. Bloxam's Magdalen College Register.) 
 
 '' " ffratices Bnnneye'': 1599. Bunnye, Francis, res. 1561 ; B.A., loth July, 1562; 
 Prob. F. 1561-1572 ; M.A. 9th July, 1567 ; Preb. of Carlisle, 2nd July, 1585 ; 
 res. 1602-3; Coll. Archdeacon of Northumberland, 20th Feb., 1573-4 ; res. 1578. 
 "Francis Bunney," says Wood, [Ath., Bliss, vol. ii, col. 200) " younger brother to 
 Edmund Bunney," was born in an ancient house, called the Vache, in the parish of 
 Chalfont St. Giles, in Bucks, on the 8th of May, 1543, and became a student in the 
 University in the latter end of the reign of Queen Mary, in 1558, and Perpetual Fellow 
 of Magdalen College in 1 562, being then Batchelor of Arts. Afterwards proceeding 
 in that faculty, he took Holy Orders, and began to preach God's Word on the ist 
 Nov., 1567, whose sermons being noted among many, he became soon after 
 Chaplain to the Earl of Bedford (in 1570) ; but continuing with him not long, he left 
 his Fellowship in 157 1, and retiring into the north parts of England, where he preached 
 the Word of God very constant, as his brother Edmund did, was inducted into a Pre- 
 bendship of Durham, 9th May, 1572 ; made Archdeacon of Northumberland, on the 
 resignation of Ralph Lever, 20th Feb., 1573 ; and on the nth Sept., 1578, he was 
 made Rector of Ryton, within the Bishopric of Durham. This person was very 
 zealous in the way he professed ; was a great admirer of John Calvin ; a constant 
 preacher ; charitable, and a stiff enemy to popery. He hath written and published 
 A Survey and Trial of the Pope's Suprcmacie. 4to. Lond., 1590, 1595 (Madg. Libr.) 
 By Valentine Simmes. Written against Cardinal Bellarmine. Coiiparison betiveen 
 the auncient Fayth of the Romans and the neiv Romish Religion. 4to. Lond., 1595. 
 (Madg. Libr.) By R. Robinson. This is commonly called Truth and Falsehood. 
 Ansiver to a Popish Libel, called A Petition to the Bishops, Preachers, and Gospellers. 
 8vo. Oxford, 1607. Exposition on the 2%th verse the third chapter of the Epistle to 
 the Romans, ivherein is /nanifestly proved the Doctrine of Justification by Faith. 4to. 
 Lond., 161 6. A Guide unto Godlinesse, or, a plain atid familiar Exposition of the 
 Ten Commandments by questions and ansiuers. 8vo. Lond., 1617. In Joelis pro- 
 phetiam enarratio, written by the author, anno 1595, and by his epistle dedicated to 
 Tobie, Bishop of Durham, in which he saith he hath preached sermons at Berwick 
 about twenty years before that time upon Joel, of which this book is the sum and 
 if printed, for it is in MS., it- would contain about three quire of paper. He died at 
 Ryton, i6th April, 1617, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. (Dr. 
 Bloxam, as before. ) 
 
 '■^ " hopkins": This scholar, whose Christian name is not inserted, must have been 
 Hemy Hopkins, of Magdalen College, Oxford. Admitted, 1565; res. 1568; Prob. 
 Fell. 1568, 1571 ; B.A. 12th Oct., 1568. (Bloxam, p. 164.) 
 
 (106) 
 
 1 "John Savage'': County of Warwick, res. 1567; Prob. F. 1567-1573; B.A. 
 I2th Oct., 1568; M.A. 24th March, 1571-2. (Dr. Bloxam, as before vol. ii, p. 164). 
 5 "Walter ruderby": Miswritten, plainly, for Walter Enderbye, of Magdalen, 
 
 199
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 admitted, aged i6, in 1562, of the county of Lincoln; res. 1567; prob. F. 1567-1575 ; 
 B.A. I2th Oct., 1568; M.A. 24tli March, 1571-2; jun. D. of Arts 1574; Vicar of 
 Eulkington, in the county of Warwick, 1575; Vicar of Findon, in the diocese of Chi- 
 chester; 1597-1609. (Bloxam as before, vol. iv, p. 161). 
 
 ^ ^'- Nicholes ^remold":} -kj ^ ■ wj a t at„ .„ <?„ 
 I iL^^ 1 J /- >! ' Not m Wood or Le JNeve &c. 
 
 * "Ry chard Cave : ) 
 
 * " Rychard Boiighton'''': Bachelor of Divinity, Dec. 15th, 1597, of Magd. coll. 
 On the 6th March, 1605, the said Boughton was admitted chaunter of the cathedral 
 church of Wells in the place of Jam. Cottingham, deceased. (Wood's Fasti, as before, 
 vol. i, p. 265.) He was dead in 1616, for Edward Abbot, on Jan. 13th, 1616, suc- 
 ceeded to his office at Wells (//vrtf p. 306). Dr. Bloxam adds these farther details: 
 "aged 20, in the county of Buckingham, res. 1572. Matr. 8th Oct. 1571. pleh. fil. 
 B.A. April 1st, 1573. Prob. F. 1573-1606. Sen. D. of Arts, 1579, 1580, 1587. 
 Bursar, 1582, 1583, 1588, 1590, 1591, 1593, 1594, 1596, 1601, 1604. Vice-President 
 1584, 1585, 1586, 1592, 1602, 1603, 1605. Dean of Div. 1590, 1595, 1597. Vicar 
 of Selborne, 1595, M.A. nth June, 1577. B.D. 15th Dec. 1597. Adm. Chaunter 
 of Wells Cath. 6th March, 1605. res. 1613. Pd. to Findon, 27th Dec, 1605. Died 
 1613." (As before vol. iv, p. 174). 
 
 ^ "■John morgan": Not in Wood or Dr. Bloxam. 
 
 7 "Anthony Lynnie": Ibid. 
 
 8 " Win>n Ludethe": Ibid. 
 
 9 "John Traveres": Res. 1569, aged 17, of the county of Nottingham; Prob. F. 
 1569-1589; B.A. 23rd Oct., 1570, matriculated 8th Oct. 1571; M.A. 1574; Pra;l. 
 Log. 1 572-1 574. In 1576 leave of absence was given to Mr. Traveres ad conimo- 
 randitin apud Comitcm Bedfordii. V. P. Reg. (Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 170). 
 
 ° "> ''NathRyell Baxter": Query— the Poet of "Ourania" and friend of Sir Philip 
 Sidney ? Strangely nothing seems to have been transmitted of one who must have 
 been very noted in his day. His "Ourania" was long mis-ascribed to Nicholas 
 Breton. 
 
 " " Willm /«/yy;-/(y'<f" = Inkforbye. Res. 1565; Matr. 1564; born in the county of 
 Suffolk; B.A. 29th July, 1566; Elected Prob. F. for the diocese of Norwich, 1565-, 
 1581; M.A. loth July, 1570; Prrelector of Rhetoric, 1569, 1571; Bursar, 1573; 
 Vice-President, 1580; Vicar of Selborne, 1596-1606; Obiit. 1606. (Dr. Bloxam, as 
 before, vol. ii, p. 40). 
 
 12 "Raphe": Not in Wood or Dr. Bloxam. 
 
 13 "IVillm Powell": Doctor of Divinity, July 14th, 1585. Will. Powell of Magd. 
 coll. — In 1578 he was made reader of divinity in St. Paul's cathedral church, and 
 was afterwards archdeacon of Bath, and canon resident of Wells. He died on the 
 I2th of March, or thereabouts, in 1612, and was buried in the choir of the cathedral 
 church at Wells. (Wood's Fasti, as before, vol. i, p. 232.) He was admitted fellow 
 of Madg. coll. 28th July, 1564; B.A. 17th April, 1564; Matriculated 1564; Divinity 
 Reader 1574; D.D. 14th July, 1585; Expelled 1575. He was instituted to the 
 Vicarage of St. Mary's, Reading, 1571. He married Mary, second daughter of 
 Edward Butler of Reading. See Dunker's Oxfordshire, vol. vi, p. 310. Rymer's 
 Fadera, vol. xv, p 439; and for a long account of his e.\pulsion as Fellow, Johnston's 
 King's Visitatorial Po7oer asserted, p. 227." (Dr. Bloxam to the Editor.) 
 
 '■' " Christofore Wade": Admitted Fellow of S. M. Magdalen College, 2lst July, 
 1561 ; resigned 1588; matriculated 1564; B.A., lOth July, 1563; Born in Warwick- 
 shire ; Proelector of Logic, 1566. Per di lit u mam Christ: Wade absentiam privatus est 
 turn societate, turn onuie etnolumenti collegii. (Coll. Reg. 1585. Dr, Bloxam to the 
 Editor.) 
 
 '* "N'ezv Colledqe: hughe Jloyd": Newcourt's Repertorium, as before, thus annotates 
 his name: "A most admir'd Grammarian of the age he lived in; was born at Linn in 
 Carnarvanshire ; educated in Wickham's School near Winton ; admitted Perpetual 
 Fellow of New College, in 1564; promoted to the Chancellorship of Rochester, in 
 1578, being then Bachelour of Civil-Law ; afterwards he was made chief Master of 
 Wickham's School aforesaid (was collated to this Prebend [Newington] in 1584, as 
 above;) w^as admitted Doctor of his Faculty in 15S8, being noted then to be not only 
 eminent in Divinity and the Civil Law, but also for his admirable sufficiency in the 
 Greek and Latin tongues. He died Oct. 17th, 1601, and was buried in New College 
 outward Chappel" (vol. i, pp. 188-9.) Dr. Sewell, Warden of New College, supple- 
 ments to me thus : "Hugo Floyd or Lloyd: admitted Scholar of New College, Jan. 
 3rd, 1562, and Fellow, Jan. 3rd, 1564; Chancellor of Rochester, 1578; Head Master 
 of Winchester College, 1580. See Wood's Ath. Ox. s.n. I have a note of his having 
 been one time Rector of Islip. He vacated his Fellowship in the College, on his 
 appointment to the Chancellorship of Rochester." 
 
 200
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 '^ "Thorns. Bylsoii": The venerable Bishop of Winchester, of whom says Wood — 
 "He was as reverend and learned a prelate as England ever afforded, a deep and 
 profound scholar, exactly read in ecclesiastical authors, and with Dr. Rich. Field of 
 O.Kon. (as Whittaker and Fulkc of Cambridge) a principal maintainer of the Church 
 of England, while Jo. Rainolds and Tho. Sparke were upholders of Puritanism and 
 nonconformity." (Athena:, as before, vol. ii, p. 169.) Born 1547, Died 18 June 1616. 
 Wood's "Life" is full and interesting [Athena, vol. ii, p. 169-172); and all the 
 biographical authorities contain notices of him. I found an unprinted letter of his 
 among the yV6'6". at Hatfield. Admitted Scholar Sep. 3, 1563; Fellow, 1565; Head 
 Master of Winchester, 1571; Preb. of Winchester, 1576; Warder of Winchester Col- 
 lege, 1580; pjishop of Worcester, 1596; Bishop of Winchester, 1597. (See Wood's 
 Athena, vol. ii, p. 169.) 
 
 '^ "John pryine" : I suppose him to be John Pryme of Hallowell, Oxfordshire ; 
 admitted scholar of New College, 23rd Feb., 1568, and fellow, 23rd Feb., 1570; 
 presented to the Vicarage of Addesbury, in the county of Oxford, loth Dec, 1589, 
 where he died in April, 1596. (See more of him in Wood's Athena, Oxon. vol. i, 
 p. 652.) 
 
 '* "■corpus Christie: Thorns Wattes''^: Adam Squire was admitted Archdeacon of 
 Middlesex 12th June, 1577, ''per mortem Tho. Watts S.T.P." (Wood's Fasti, as 
 before, vol. i, p. 202.) Thomas Watts again occurs onward. (See Index of 
 Names, s.n.) 
 
 « "Willam Napper": Not in Wood. 
 
 ^ "Hyc AUyne": Probably the Rector of Dicheat, or Dichet, in Somersetshire, 
 and father of the saintly " Richard Allein." Wood [Athena, as before, vol. iv, pp. 
 13-15) does his bitterest best, very scandalously, to dishonour the son, and tells 
 nothing of the father. 
 
 -' " Thonis" name left un-filled up. 
 
 ■^ " Christofor ramson": Not in Wood. 
 
 ^ ''John Chamblere'' : Ibid. 
 
 °* " Vniii^sitie colledge Docter humfrcy Sr. Batten^'': On Dr. Humfrey, 
 
 see Index of Names, j.w., freqjtenter. "Batten": A "Ralph Batten" is incidentally 
 named by Wood in his memoir of Dr. John Owen {Athena, as before, vol. iv, p. 99.) 
 
 '5 "Brodgattes . . .James Greye": Not iu Wood. 
 
 26 "Johnpoprell": Ibid. 
 
 27 "Thorns peper ell": Ibid. 
 
 28 "Edward Shacros": See Index of Names, s.n., Shawcrosse. Not in Wood. 
 
 2^ "Brasnose: John Lawrence": Not in Wood. He is named again onward in the 
 MS. among the Brasenose scholars. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 ^ " Alboroiu hall : henry greye": Not in Wood. 
 
 ^' "rec. mo7-e": Ibid. 
 
 '2 "all solne colledge: Rohte Lovenden" : Ibid. " Solne " or " soulne " was the old 
 English spelling of "souls." Dr. Richard Astley, warden of All Souls College, in his 
 Will, dated 27th Nov., 1635, desires to be buried in the choir of " our Colledge Chapel 
 of All Soiihte." 
 
 ^ "John Coldinge": Ibid. 
 
 3« "Marten colledge: John Whytcombe": Ibid. 
 
 201
 
 Magdalen 
 hall. 
 
 1 6 february 
 1569 
 
 (Page 107 of the MS., folio 8i.) 
 
 Willm Littelltoni xiij^ 
 
 John Kington ministere^ x* 
 
 Summe 
 
 at the sute of my L. of Salysbury^"! 
 
 dd 
 
 dd 
 
 dd 
 
 dd 
 
 to 
 
 to 
 
 dd 
 
 to 
 
 to 
 
 whoe refused money for 
 
 Rychard 
 
 fcholleres 
 
 Sermon to one 
 vnto fyve other 
 
 xx"" apece 
 
 to Docter humfrey^ by 
 
 the funerall 
 
 xx^ 
 wattes^ A and 
 at his fute } 
 
 J 
 
 his fervante 
 
 w 
 
 Rychard Keye to be bestowed on iiijr 
 poor fcholleres Robte Templie,^ Rolande )>xl» 
 Denkine7, willm Lyttellton^, & John | 
 
 morgayn^ J 
 
 to mr Docter haddon^o the vij^^ of^ 
 maye to bestow vpon poor fchollers at W^i* 
 his discrecion A° 1569 j 
 
 it femethe to m'^ Docter humfrey^ 
 to bestowe vpon other iiij poor fchollers yy^^ 
 by his lettere the xx^^^ of marche j 
 
 Anthony bettonus^^ by mJ Docter 1 
 
 homfrey / " 
 
 a fcholler comended by m"" Stowell \ 
 as apperethc by his letter the xvj of October >-xxs 
 A" 1569 named Trevett'^ J 
 
 to one m^' fyld at the fute of m' 
 Docter humfrey & m'' Tremayne'^ 
 
 the xvij of Aprell 1 569 
 
 poor fcholler to 
 to Oxforde the xx^^ r 
 
 George hunte'* a 
 
 healpe to 
 of maye 1570 
 
 bringe 
 
 him 
 
 xxs 
 
 ■x*^ 
 
 to 
 
 George hanson^^ & Samwell ^ 
 
 becke^^ at the sute of the psidente of )-xiij» 
 Corpus Christie coUedge the 29 of Jenuary j 
 one Thoms holden^^ the x^^^ of October A° 1569 ) j-s 
 
 of brasnose j 
 
 John Dodd^^ a poor fcholler v^ 
 
 to John Barneys of christe churche in oxforde ij^ vj 
 to John fford scoller of Oxford at^ 
 
 the sute of willm wood^o the xxj of vxx^ 
 marche A" 1569 j 
 
 This wold be 
 in cambrifre 
 
 mj* 
 
 i*d 
 
 Thoms holden of 
 february A" 1569 
 
 brasnose the xij^^^ of 
 
 xx^ 
 
 xxnj 
 
 ;ii vd 
 
 202
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (107) 
 
 ' " Magdalen hall, Willm. Littellton": Not in Wood. 
 
 * '^ yo/ni ICiiigton fiiinistere": Unknown. 
 
 ' " my L. of Salyslutiy," i.e.. Bishop Jewel, who, we are thus informed, preached 
 the "funeral sermon" of our Robert Nowell, but would not have the fee provided. 
 The Will (in our Introduction) shews that he expected a number to be preached. 
 
 * '^ Hyckard -oattes^'': Wood [AlheiitE, vol. iii, p. 434) incidentally names a Richard 
 Watts of Trinity College, Cambridge, M.A., Vicar of Harworth, in Notts. 
 
 ® " Docter huinfrey" and infra: See Index of Names, s.n., for various other notices 
 of him. 
 
 " " Robte Tcmplie": "M.A. of Magd. coll. He hath published A Sermon concern- 
 ing the Abuses of the Church, preached at Paul's Cross; on i Cor. xiv. i., London 1592, 
 he being then chaplain to John bishop of London. What else he hath written or pub- 
 lished, I know not, nor any thing besides, only he was an Oxfordshire man born. 
 Admitted 4 July, 1588, Batchelor of Divinity " (Wood's Tv/j//, vol. i, p. 243). Wood 
 previously enters him along with Thomas Spark and Richard Turnbull (of whom see 
 Index of Names, j.«.,) as B. A., May 30, 1570 i^Fasti, vol. i, p. 185). Dr. Bliss adds the 
 following: — "Rob. Temple S.T.B. coll. ad. preb. consumpt. per mare, 9 Oct. 1592. 
 cui succ. David Dee, A.M. 27 Jun. 1598. Resignavit eccl. S. Nicholai Aconi, Lond. 
 mense Julii 1592. Coll. ab e'po ad preb. de Harleston 19 Mar. 1593, quam resign, 
 ante 24 Mar. 1596. Reg. Lond. A Semion teaching Discretion in Matters of Religion 
 and touching certain Abuses in the Church, preached at Paules Crosse the 21 of Nov. 
 by Rob. Temple bachelor in divinitie sometime of Magdalen college in Oxford. 
 Imprinted at London for Edward Aggas, 1592 8^". Ep. ded. to John bishop of 
 London ; dated at your lordships mannor house at Fulham. Apr. 22. Kennet. Rob. 
 Temple, A.M. inst. ad vie. de Tyckenham (dioc. Wells) 9 Jan. 1593. Tanner." 
 (Fasti, vol. i, p. 243.) 
 
 7 " Rolande Denkine ": Not in Wood. 
 
 * *' willm Lyttellton^'' : See note I, supra. He and Morgan are previously entered 
 as scholars of Magdalen College. 
 
 ' " jfohn morgayn" : See Index of Names under John Morg'^in, frequenter. 
 
 '" " mr Docter haddon" : Walter Haddon, LL.D., Fellow of King's College and 
 Master of Trinity Hall, 1550; Regius Professor of Civil Law. (Le Neve, vol. iii, p. 657.) 
 
 " "Anthony bettonus" : Not in Wood. 
 
 1* ''Mr. Stmvell Trevetf': Unknown. 
 
 '•'' " mr fyld Tremayne^'': See Index of Names under "Field." ''Tre- 
 
 mayne": "Rich. Tremayne B.D. Feb. 15, 1565. He was afterwards of Broadgate's 
 hall, the seventh vicar of Mayhenet in Cornwall, and treasurer of the Cath. church at 
 Exeter." (Wood's Fasti, vol. i, p. 168.) 
 
 '■• " George htmte" : See Index of Names, s.n., for other notices. Dr. Bloxam (as 
 before, vol. iv, p. 188) has these details : " Hunt, George, aged nineteen, in the county 
 of Berks, res. 1575. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School; matriculated 8th October, 
 1571; Pleb. Fil.; B.A., 27th April, 1573; Preb. Fel., 1575-1583; Jun. D. of Arts, 
 
 1578, 1579" 
 
 ** " George hanson ": Not ia Wood. 
 
 '« " Samwell becke" : Ibid. 
 
 ^"^ " Thorns holden" 2.nA itifra. See Index of Names, s.n. Not in Wood. He 
 was, by his name, one of the Lancashire contingent at Brazenose; perhaps brother of 
 Robert Holden, who occurs elsewhere. 
 
 '8 "John Dodd" : Not (probably) the "Decalogist" famous "John Dod"— on 
 whom see Wood's Fasti, vol. i, pp. 232, 233. 
 
 " "John Bartie of christe churche": Not in Wood. Was John Barnes, prebendaiy 
 of Lincoln, collated 30th December, 1587, of Christ Church, Oxford? (Le Neve, 
 vol. ii, p. 112.) 
 
 ^^ " John fford 7villm ivood^': See Index of Names, s.n. Not in Wood. 
 
 203
 
 (Page io8 of the MS., folio 8i verso.) 
 M.^ that where m^ Nowell Dean of S*^ paule in London 
 Lefte w* m"" Docter Coopi, Commissarie of the vniu^fitie of Oxford 
 m^' Docter homfrey, m^ Docter bickley,^ m"^ Docter westfaHnge^ 
 & m^ Cole^, three fcore pondes to be Distributed to poor 
 fcolleres in the faid uniu^sitie of the Goodes of his brother 
 
 Robte Nowells Deceased w^ii said pties names ar hereafter 
 subscribed./ to the receiptes foUowinge./ 
 Christe churche 
 
 To ni'" Geffrey Lewys^ xx^ 
 
 To m^ Ric. pyckaner^ xx^ 
 
 To m"" John Glover'' xx^ 
 
 To m'' Geffrey Lewys to thuse of] 
 
 S"" powell^ I 
 
 To John paule^ x^ 
 
 To Thorns mathewe^" x* 
 
 To Justinian baldwyne^^ x^ 
 
 To Abraham ffowler^^ x^ 
 
 To Rye. Colfe^3 x» 
 
 John plumstone^'* x^ 
 
 Mathew heaton'^ x»' 
 
 Rye. Calsehill>6 x« 
 
 John willoughby^7 vj^ viij'^ 
 
 Marteyn Colledge 
 Thorns 
 
 M^ A Willfon^s xx« ■ 
 
 M^ Rychard favelPs x^ 
 
 Rychard Ratcliffe^o x^ 
 
 m"" Byckley to the vse of m'' hurlstore^i x^ 
 
 to m"- xs 
 
 John Byrche^-' x^ 
 
 Nicholes Whithalghe23 x^ 
 
 Nicholes morice^** x* 
 
 m"" Byckley for yearth sylke^^ xs 
 
 willm \vylkes26 v' 
 
 Auborne hall. 
 
 S"" peter Byngleye27 x^ 
 
 Cristofor Baghshawe'^^ x'* 
 
 Ennis Johns^s v^ 
 
 John Browen^o v* 
 
 Thorns Cabell^^ ... v» 
 
 xiiij^^ xvjs. viij*^. 
 
 ao4
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (io8) 
 
 * '^mr. Docter Coop" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " mr. Docter bickley" : For a full account of this learned and excellent man, see 
 Wood's Athena, vol. ii, pp. 839-841. He died Bishop of Chichester, 30th April, 1596- 
 
 ' " im: Docter westfaliiige = Herbert Westphaling, of whom an interesting memoir 
 is given by Wood, with additions by Dr. Bliss {Athencs, vol. i, pp. 719-722.) His 
 "gravity" was as the myth of our Lord ; for according to Goodwyn, during a familiar 
 acquaintance with him for many years, he never saw him once laugh. Nunquam in 
 risiim viderim sohitiiin (De prasulibits, edit., 1616, 4to, p. 546). 
 
 * '^ Mr. Cole": William Cole, D.D., President of Corpus Christi College ; after- 
 wards Dean of Lincoln, and died in that city in 1600. (See Index of Names, s.n.y 
 for other references. ) 
 
 * " Geffrey Leiciys" : Not in Wood. See former note on Griffith Lewis. 
 « " Kic . pyckaner" : Ibid. 
 
 7 "John Glover": Of St. John's College, Oxford; Proctor, 17th April, 1577. 
 (Wood's Fasti., vol. i, p. 205). See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 8 ''SrpoivelV : See Index of Names under "William Powell." 
 
 5 "■ John paide" : See Index of Names, s.ti., and under "John Powell." 
 
 '» " Thorns. Mathrwe" : Not in Wood. 
 
 '1 ^'' yitstinian baldwyne" : Ibid. 
 
 " ^^ Abraham ffowler" : See Index of Names, s.n., for other references and relative 
 note. 
 
 '3 "Hyc. Colfe" : D.D, 30th May, 1608; of Christ Church. He was now 
 prebendary of Canterbury, and dying 7th Oct., 1613, aged 63, being then subdean 
 of that church, was buried therein three days after, at which time Thomas Wilson, a 
 member thereof, preached his funeral sermon, entitled, Chrisfs Fareioell to yeriisaletii, 
 on Luke xxiii, 27, 28, 29. &c. To which a testimony is added concerning the said 
 Richard Colfe, of his good piety and leaniing. ( Wood's /v?^//, vol. i, p. 327.) He 
 was€ldest son of Edmundus Colfe mentioned in the Athence, vol. i, p. 590, In 1585 
 (13th July) he was vicar of Milton, Kent, and after of Heme, in the same county. 
 He married three wives. (Hasted's Kent, vol. i, p. 76; vol. iv, p. 611.) He was 
 eldest brother of the more famous Isaac Colfe. (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 " '''John phunstone": Occurs before as John Plomtonn. See Index of Names, j.«. 
 
 » " Matheiu heafon'' : Ibid. 
 
 '« "Rye. CalsehilV : Not in V/ood. 
 
 '^ " John wilknighby" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 '^ " Marieyn Colledge: Mr. Thorns Will/on": Has not been identified v/ith any 
 Thomas Wilson of Oxford. ■♦ 
 
 '9 ' ' Rychard .Savell " : Not in Wood. 
 
 20 "Rychard Ratclife" : See Index of Names, s.n. Not in Wood. 
 
 21 "Mr. Byckley Hurlstore" : See under Dr. Bickley ; but the present 
 
 imkno\\'n. 
 
 22 "John Byrche": Not in Wood. 
 
 ^ " Nicholes Whilhalghe'" : " Nicholas Whithalk, a Theologist of Losanne, studied 
 severalyears in ISIerton College, for the sake of the warden thereof. Dr. Bickley, with 
 whom he had contracted an acquaintance while he was an exile in the time of qu. 
 Mary, but whether he took a degree, though supplicate he did for one, it appears not. 
 He hath written ChristiantE fidei ac verce religionis .... 1575, Oct., dedic. to Sir 
 Will Cecill lord Burleigh. No doubt there is but he hath published other things, 
 but such I have not yet seen. In 1577, I find him Sacrist of Corpus Christi Coll., 
 but how long he continued there I cannot tell. He was also alive in 15S2; much 
 respected by Mr. Camden and Tho. Saville for his learning." (Wood's Athena;, vol. 
 i, p. 425.) 
 
 •* " Nicholes niorice" : Not in Wood. 
 
 "^ " . . . . th sylke^': A prebendary, "master Silke" is casually named by Wood 
 {Athena, vol. i, p. 272.) Le Neve writes under 5th stall, Bristol: "Thomas Sylke, 
 A.M., admitted (after the death of Williams) 4th June, 1546. How long he lived 
 after 1571 is uncertain" (vol. i, p. 231.) This may have been his son. 
 
 =8 " in/lm 7vylkes" : B.A., Dec. 2nd, 1572, of Merton ColL [Fasti, vol. i, p. iSS); 
 M.A., June 25th, 1577 {ibid, p. 206); B.D., Dec. 17th, 1583 {ibid, p. 224); D.D., 
 June, 1585 {ibid, p. 232). 
 
 '7 " Anborne hall : Sr peter Byngleye" : Not in Wood. 
 
 '^ " Christofer Baghshawe" : A'oi (probably) the notorious Dr. Bagshaw of the same 
 name — of whom see Wood's Athence, vol. ii, pp. 389-90. He was Fellow of Balliol 
 College, and sometime Principal of Worcester College ; but the person named in the 
 text more likely was Christopher Bagshaw, collated Prebendary of Lichfield, 29th 
 Aug., 1578. (Le Neve's Fasti, vol. i, p. 608.) 
 
 205
 
 (Page 109 of the MS., folio 8i.) 
 
 {sic =82.) 
 
 Corpus Christie College 
 
 Samwell Becke^ ... xx^ 
 
 Willm Mane2 xx^ 
 
 John feller^ xx^ 
 
 Charles Bencham'* x^ 
 
 Rychard Turnebull^ v^ 
 
 John Cole^ v^ 
 
 Georges hansone^ x^ 
 
 Thorns wattes^ v* 
 
 Thorns Cole9 x^ 
 
 homfrey cole^^ v, 
 
 Willm Leche'i x^ 
 
 Willm meatcalfe^- Vs 
 
 Rychard hoocker'^ xxs 
 
 Magdalen colledge 
 
 M-- Crickei4 x^ 
 
 M"^ Willm Inckforbye^s xs 
 
 d Christofor gregorie^^ x' 
 
 s 
 
 d Inckforbye^7 Xs 
 
 d hopkines^^ x^ 
 
 John Traveres^s Xs 
 
 Thorns fparke^*' x* 
 
 Samwell ffisher^^ x» 
 
 John Barbon^- x^ 
 
 John Batemane"^ x^ 
 
 Samwell Cranmer--* x^ 
 
 Theoder Tanseye^s Xs 
 
 Samwell Allen"6 xl^ 
 
 Willm Judsonn-7 xs 
 
 John ffarrer^s x^ 
 
 Rye Boughton"9 vj^ viij*^ 
 
 Brasen Nose colledge 
 
 m"" Richard harries^" xx* 
 
 mr Mylls whitworthe^^ xx^ 
 
 Rafife Tompson33 xx^ 
 
 m'' Thorns holden^^ xx^ 
 
 m' Thorns Knowles^* x^ 
 
 rS 
 
 xxji> vj^ viij*^ 
 
 206
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 » " Ennis Johns" : Not in Wood. 
 
 ^John Bro7c>t'u"=]ohn Brown — impossible of identification among the many 
 Browns, Smiths, Joneses, and Robinsons. 
 31 " 7'/io//is Cabell" : Not in Wood. 
 
 (109) 
 
 * ^' Corpjis Christie College. Sainwell Becke" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 2 " Willm Mane'' : Not in Wood. 
 
 3 " John Seller" : July 5th, 1610, M.A. John Seller of Corpus Christi College, 
 a minister's son of Kent, was admitted batchelor of arts l8th February, 1611, and 
 master 2nd July, 16 14. Being a learned man, Mr. Richard James numbered him 
 among his learned acquaintance, and therefore wrote divers epistles to him. He be- 
 came clerk of Corpus Christi College 1608, and chauntor 1613. See Wood's Basil, 
 vol. i, p. 339; also our Index of Names, s.7t. He was no doubt of the Whalley family 
 of Sellers, connexions of the Nowells, and often named in the A/S. 
 
 * " Charles Bencham ": Not in Wood. 
 
 ^ " J^y chard Ttirnebitir': "was born in Lincolnshire, admitted scholar of Corpus 
 Christi College, 9th November, 1566, aged thirteen or thereabouts, and was afterwards 
 made fellow, 20th August, 1569; master of arts and a priest. At length being beneficed 
 
 in London he was much followed for his edifying way of preaching" (Wood's 
 
 Athencc, vol. i, p. 751, where is a note of books published by him). Dr. Bliss adds: 
 " Ric. Turnball A.M. admiss. ad eccl. S. Panerasij Soperlane, Lond. 26 Sept. 1582, 
 per mort. Will'i Knight, ex coll. ar'ep'i Cant. Reg. Grlndall. Abraham Fleming cler. 
 ad eund. eccl. 19 Oct. 1593 per mort. Ric'i Turnball. Reg. IVhltglft" {ibid). 
 Kennet notes that his Exposition "upon the xv Psalm" (1592) is dedicated to Henry 
 Voele, Esq. This is a mistake. It is Henry Noell. The present Plditor has virgin 
 copies of all Turnbull's matterful writings as published by himself. 
 
 « ''John Cole": Not in Wood. 
 
 ' ," George hansone"'. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 8 ''Thonis Wattes": Ibid. 
 
 ^ ^^ Thorns Cole": See Index of Names under "Thomas Wattes," j?<'/rrt. A Thomas 
 Cole, A.M., is noted as "coll. ad. archid. Essex, per privat. Tho. Darbyshire " 
 in the same place in the Fasti (vol. i, p. 147) with Thomas Wattes. The double 
 occurrence of the two names together is curious, but neither (probably) was of our 
 names. 
 
 1" " hovifrey cole" : Not in Wood. 
 
 " "WlllmLeche": ibid. 
 
 " " Willm meatcalfe" \ ibid. 
 
 13 " Rychard hoocker" : //^^ "judicious Hooker." See our Introduction. 
 
 '^ " Magdaie7i col ledge 7nr Crlcke" \ Cricke, Richard, of the county of Suffolk ; res. 
 1564; matr. 1564; B.A., 26 April, 1566; Prob. F. 1564-1571 ; M.A. 30 April, 1570; 
 B.D.andD.D. 12 July, 1578; Greek Lect. 1567, 1568, 1569, 1570; Sen. D. of Arts, 
 1571. " Richard Cricke was Chaplain to Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, andmuch com- 
 mended for his learning and sobriety. In the year 1573 he preached at St. Paul's 
 CrooS, and having in his Sermon commended Cartwright's reply to Whitgift, a special 
 messenger was sent from Archbishop Parker to apprehend him. Thougli at that time 
 he escaped the snare, he afterwards fell into the hands of the High Commissioners, by 
 whom he was deprived of his preferment in the Church of Norwich. Dr. Cricke 
 being silenced, and many of his brethren in the same Diocese, they united in pre- 
 senting a Supplication to the Council that they might be restored to their beloved 
 ministry, and allowed again to preach the glad tidings of the Gospel. This Supplica- 
 tion was dated Sept. 25, 1576. Afterwards he and many of his brethren, being the 
 silenced ministry in that Diocese, presented their humble submission to their Diocesan, 
 dated Aug. 21, 1578. In this submission they request to be restored to their ministry, 
 promising to subscribe to the Articles of Faith, and the Doctrine of the Sacraments, 
 according to the laws of the Realm. They profess at the same time that the ceremonies 
 and government of the Church are so far to be allowed, that no man ought to withdraw 
 from hearing the Word, and receiving the Holy Sacraments on account of them. They 
 also offer to the Bishop their reasons for refusing to subscribe, requesting to have their 
 difficulties removed, without which they could never subscribe in the manner required. 
 This excellent Divine therefore remained a long time under deprivation. Though he 
 was afterwards restored to his ministry, yet upon the publication of Whitgift 's three 
 Articles he was again suspended, with many others, for i-efusing subscription." 
 (Brook's Lives of the Puritans, vol. i, pp. 278, 450. See also Strype's Archb. Parker, 
 book iv. chap. 35, p. 451.) — (Dr. Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 163.) 
 
 207
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 15 " iVillm Inckforbye" : See Index of Names, s.fi. 
 
 '" "(f Chrisfofor gregorie" : Entered at Magdalen in 1562, aged 14 ; of the county of 
 Warwick ; re5. 1567 ; Prob. F. 1567-15S5 ; B.A. 12th Oct., 1568 ; M.A. 14th July, 
 1572 ; Rector of Cornwall, in the county of Notts ; Prebendary of Ampleford, Cathedral 
 of York, 15th Aug., 1577 ; Archdeacon of West Riding, York, 1597 ; died, 1600; Will, 
 dated 8th Sept., proved 20th Oct. (Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 161.) 
 
 '7 "a' Iiickforbye" : Roger Inkforby, of Magdalen, son of Andrew Inkforby, mer- 
 chant, of Ipswich, and brother-indaw of President Humfrey. Res. 1 567 ; Prob. F. 
 1567-1578; B.A. I2th Oct., 1568; M.A. 24th March, 1571-2; B.D. 24th Jan., 1579- 
 1580; D.D. 9th May, 1597; Rector of Stanlake 1581-1599; died 1599. (Bioxam's 
 Reg. of Mag. Col., vol. iv, p. 161.) 
 
 '* " d hopkines ": = Hopkins, but not to be identified. 
 
 '^ '* yohn Traveres": " John Travers," previously noticed. 
 
 ™ ^'Thorns Spa)-ke": Sparke, Thomas, of the county of Lincoln. Res. 1569; Prob. 
 F. 1569-72; B.A. 23rd October, 1570; M.A. June, 1574; B.D. 8 July, 1575; D.D. 
 1st July, 1581. Coll. Archdeacon of Stowe, Cath. Lincoln, 25th Jan., and installed 
 6th March, 1575-6; res. March, 1581-2. Coll Prebendary of Sutton in Marisco, 
 Cath. Line, 7th March, 1 581-2; installed 26th September, 1582. Died 1616; buried 
 17th October, 1616. " Thomas Sparke," says Wood (/^/'/^. vol. ii ; Bliss, col. 189), 
 "received his first breath in Lincolnshire, at South Somercote, as it seems ; became 
 Perpetual Fellow of Magdalen College in 1570, in which year he was admitted 
 Bachelor of Arts. Soon after, by the favour of Arthur, Lord Grey, he was preferred 
 to the parsonage of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, where he was held in great esteem 
 for his piety. In the year 1575 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences 
 without ruling in Arts, and about that time was Chaplain to Dr. Cooper, Bishop of 
 Lincoln, who that year bestowed the Archdeaconry of Stow upon him. In 1581 he 
 proceeded in that of Divinity, being then in great renown for his learning. But his 
 Dignity being remote from his cure, which he could not therefore well attend, he 
 gave it up out of conscience sake in 1582, and contented himself only with Bletchley. 
 This Dr. Sparke was the person who, being noted for a great Non-conformist and a 
 pillar of Puritanism, was, by Letters from the King's Council, called to the Conference 
 at Hampton Court, A.D. 1603, where appearing in the behalf of the millinaries, as it 
 is said, or rather with John Rainolds, as a Proctor for the Precise Party, not in a 
 Priest's Gown, or Canonical Coat, but such as Turkey merchants wear, received then 
 so great satisfaction from His Majesty's most ready and apt answers to the doubts and 
 objections there and then proposed, that he, though he spoke not one word, did not 
 only for the time following yield himself in his practice to universal conformity, but 
 privately by word or writing, and publicly by his brotherly persuasion. He was a 
 learned man, a solid Divine, well read in the Fathers, and so much esteemed for his 
 profoundness, gravity, and exemplary life and conversation, that the sages of the 
 University thought fit, after his death, to have his picture painted on the wall in the 
 School-gallery among the English Divines of note there, viz. , between that of Dr. John 
 Spencer of Corpus Christi College, and that of Dr. Richard Eedes of Christ Church." 
 [After enumeration of his various books, there follows this.] " Our author also had in 
 Queen Elizabeth's time written a Book of Succession, for which, being brought into 
 trouble. King James, who before had received intimation of the matter, sent for him 
 the next day after the Conference at Hampton Court, and talking with him about it, 
 the King at length was so well satisfied with what he had done, that he then gave him 
 his most gracious countenance. He died at Bletchley before-mentioned, in the winter 
 time, in 1616, and was buried in the Church there, leaving then behind him three 
 learned sons, who then or soon after had been trained up in the Schools of the Prophets, — 
 Andrew of Peterhouse in Cambridge; Thomas, Fellow of New College in Oxford; 
 and William Sparke of Magdalen College, whom I shall mention hereafter." (Dr. 
 Bioxam's Rtgister of Magdalen College. ) 
 
 "^^ " Saimuell ffisher" : Aged 17 ; in the county of Oxford; res. 1569; Prob. F. 
 1569-1575 ; B.A. 23rd Oct,, 1570 ; M.A. 20th July, 1574; died, 1575. (Dr. 
 Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 171.) 
 
 -- " yokn Barlwn" : John Barebone, of Magdalen, 1567; aged 16: of the county 
 of Gloucester ; res. 1571 ; B.A. 23rd, Oct., 1570 ; Matriculated, 8th Oct., 1571 ; 
 Prob. F. 1571-1578 ; M.A. 9th July, 1574 ; Vice-Principal, 1578 ; described in 1574 
 as " a noted and zealous Romanist." (Dr. Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, pp. 170-I.) 
 
 ^ ''John Batcmane" : Aged 16 ; of the county of Warwick ; res. 1571 ; B.A. 
 23rd Oct. 1570. (Dr. Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 166.) 
 
 2* " Sannvell Cj-anmer": Aged 17; of the county of Kent; res. 1572; Matri- 
 culated, 8th Oct., 1571 ; Prob. F. 1572-1576 ; B.A. 1st April, 1573. (Dr. Bloxam, 
 as before, vol. iv, p, 173.) 
 
 "* " Theoder Tanseye'" : " Theodore Tansie, aged 16, of the county of Kent ; res. 
 
 208
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 1571 ; B,A. 23rd Oct,, 1570 ; Prob. F. 1571-82 ; M.A. 21st June, 1574 ; Prob. 
 Log. 1572; First Rector of Horsington, in the county of Lincoln, ist Alay, 1581, 
 (Dr. Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 164.) 
 
 '^ " Sa?nwc'll Allen": Allen or Allyn ; Demy 1585 ; of the county of Berks; 
 Fellow 1571-1582 ; B.A. 28th Oct., 1570; Dean of Divinity, 1578. (Dr. Bloxam 
 as before, vol. i, p. 165.) 
 
 *^ "IVillm yiidsonn": "Judson, William, aged 16, London; res. 1571; Matr. 8th 
 October, 1571 ; B.A. 22nd October, 1570; Prob. F. 1571-5; Prx-l. Rhct. 1572, 
 1573, 1574; Sen. D. of Arts, 1575. Died 25th April, 1575; Buried in the Chapel. 
 On a plain white stone in the Antechapel was the following inscription: Anno Domini 
 1575, cstatis Slice 2^, Aprilis 25, ledissimo jnveni Gitlidmo yudson, Londinensi, hiijits 
 Collegii Socio, Artimn Magistro, Moriifn Censori, TheologicE imprimis stitdioso, in Jlore 
 cstatis extiiuto non sine luctu. His death was the occasion of the expulsion of several 
 scholars from Magdalen College in 1575." (Dr. Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 118 
 and p. 170.) 
 
 ^^ ^'Jolut ffarrer": "Farrer, John, aged 19, Cheapside, London; res. 1575; Matr. 
 8th October, 1571; B.A. 27th April, 1573; M.A. nth June, 1577; Prob. F. 1575- 
 1591; Bursar, 1581, 1582, 1584, 1587, 1589; Sen. D. of Arts, 1583; Vice-President, 
 1588, 1590. He was presented to the Vicarage of Washington, in the county of 
 Sussex, in 1581, but resigned it the same year. (Dr. Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 173. ) 
 
 29 ** Rye, Bonghton ": See former notice. Index of Names, s,n. 
 
 ^ " Brasen Nosecolledge : mr. Richard harries": Richard Harris, Principal in 1574. 
 A Richard Harris, A.M., was installed Prebendary of Worcester 6th May, 1576 ; and 
 another Richard Harris was collated Prebendary of Hereford 13th Nov., 1575. (Le 
 Neve, vol. i, p. 517, and vol. iii, p. 84.) 
 
 ^' " Afylls whihvorihe" : Not in Wood. This surname is indigenous to Lancashire. 
 
 3' " Bajfe Tompson": D.D. March 27th, 1579. Ralph Tomson, of Brasen-n-coll. 
 He was now one of the chaplains to the queen, and dying i8th Aug., I59lj was 
 buried in the Church of Settrington (of which he was rector), in Yorkshire. (Wood's 
 Fasti, yo\. i, p. 213.) 
 
 ^ " Thorns holden ": See Index of Names, s.n., for other references, and a note on 
 this Lancashire scholar. 
 
 ^ " Thorns Knowles " Not in Wood. 
 
 209
 
 (Page no of the MS., folio 8i, sic 82 verso) 
 
 d Thorns fperme^ x^ 
 
 d Josias pope^ x^ 
 
 d Thorns barker^ x^ 
 
 Rychard hollande'i vj^ viij'i 
 
 George NycoUs^ vjs viij^ 
 
 Thorns Scarboroughe^ ^f '^lU"^ 
 
 Rye. harries for James rifleye^ vj^ viij'^ 
 
 Thorns Stonnes vj^ viij^ 
 
 Thorns BankesS vj^ viij'i 
 
 Raffeheye^o vj^ viijd 
 
 Edward Belcherei^ vj^ viij^ 
 
 Thorns powelli2 vj^ viijd 
 
 Raffe Dyckinesi3 vj^ viijd 
 
 Robte Cotton^^ vj^ viijd 
 
 Rychard holkere^s vj^ viij<i 
 
 John Bullockeis Vf viij-i 
 
 WiUm Chitam'? vj= viijd 
 
 henry fliawe^s : vj^ viij** 
 
 New colledge 
 
 John pryene^9 Xs 
 
 Trinitye colledge 
 
 Thorns Wylkes20 x^ 
 
 Oriell colledge 
 
 S^ Rye. Kerbye2i Xs 
 
 S^ Strowede22 vj^ viijd 
 
 Thorns petyfyer23 vf viij^ 
 
 Willm Bennete2-i x* 
 
 Allsoll colledge 
 
 m"" Raynoldes^s x^ 
 
 S^ Goldinge-^6 x^ 
 
 m' howeden~7 x^ 
 
 S*® Johanns colledge 
 
 S-- Kinge^s x^ 
 
 S-^ Shingliton29 vj^ viijd 
 
 S-- holden^o vj^ V\\f 
 
 xi^* xvjs viij' 
 
 210 
 
 1
 
 1 
 
 Notes a?id Illustrations. 
 
 (no) 
 
 ' " D Thorns Spcrme''':'^Q\\n^ooi\. 
 
 « "D Jos ins pope": Ibid. 
 
 3 " D Thorns barker'': (See Wood's Fasti Oxon, vol. i, p. 196). 
 
 * " Rychard Hollande" : This Richard Hollande (or Holland), not in Wood. 
 
 6 " George Ny colls " : Not in Wood. 
 
 ® ^' Thorns Scarboronghe'^ I Ibid. 
 
 ' ^^ Kyc harries for Jatncs risleye'" : Ibid. James Risley was probably of the Risleys 
 of Risley, in the county of Lancaster, but being a younger son, does not appear in Mr. 
 J. Paul Ryland's full pedigree of the Risleys (privately printed 1876, 4to.) 
 
 8 '' Thorns Slonne": " Tho. Stone, Proctor, of Christ Church, Oxon, 1 3th April, 1 580. 
 [He] was afterwards parson of Workton in Northamptonshire, and a great promoter of 
 presbytery. He died there 1617" (Fasti, vol. i, p. 215). 
 
 » " Thorns Bankes ": Not in Wood. 
 
 '» "A'afeheye": Ibid. 
 
 " "Edward Belchere": Ibid. 
 
 '* " Thorns poweir^ : This Thomas Powell not in Wood. 
 
 '3 " Kafe Dyckines'' : Not in Wood. 
 
 " "Bobte Cotton''': This Robert Cotton not in Wood. 
 
 '* ^^ Rychard holkere" : Not in Wood. Holker is a localised surname about Read 
 (Nowell's Lancashire estate), Whalley, and Blackburn. 
 
 '6 "■ John Indlocke" : Not in Wood. 
 
 '^ "■ IVillm Chitani" : Not in Wood. Chitam stands for Chetham— a Lancashire 
 surname. 
 
 '* " henry JJiawe" : Perhaps the following: "Henry Shaw [of St. John's College], 
 M.A., April 8th, 1570. He afterwards went beyond the seas, changed his religion, 
 was made a priest, and returning into England, was taken and committed to custody in 
 Wisbich Castle, where, with several others, he endured a tedious imprisonment, and 
 therefore by those of his profession accounted a confessor" (Wood's Fasti, vol. i, p. 186). 
 Bishop Bilson is entered in same month with him {ibid). But see Index of Names, 
 s.ti., for a later mention of Henry Shawe of Brasenose. 
 
 " "■ Neiu colledge: jfohn pryene" : See Index of Names, s.n., for a previous reference 
 and relative note on John Piyne. 
 
 20 " Trinitye colledge: Thorns IVylkes" : See Index of Names, J-. «. 
 
 2> "Orie-l I colledge: Sr Rye. Kerbye": Not in Wood. 
 
 33 ''Sr Strowede" : Ibid 
 
 =» " Thorns petyfyer" : Ibid. 
 
 3< " IVillm Bennete'^: This William Bennete (or Bennet) not in Wood. 
 
 ^ ^^ Allsoll colledge: mr Raynoldes" : Not to be identified. 
 
 2" "Sr Goldinge": This Goldinge (or Golding) not in Wood. 
 
 27 ^' mr ho^veden" : "Robert Hovedeen (or Hoveden), B.A. July 5th, 1566; M.A. 
 April 28th, 1570; B.D. July 1st, 1581, and Warden of All Souls' College; D.D. and 
 Vice-Chancellor July 12th, 1582. (Wood's Fasti, vol. i, pp. 171, l85, 21S, 220.) 
 
 "■'' ^''Ste Johanns colledge: Sr Kinge"; Not identified. 
 
 *' ^'Sr Shingleton'": (See Index of Names, s.n.) This was Robert Shingleton of 
 St. John's College, M.A. and Fellow, who died in the college in 1577 ; and on the 
 wall of the college is a brass plate with the effigy of a man kneeling, over whose head' 
 is this inscription : — " Robertus Shingletonus natus Lecestri;^, honesta familia, Magis- 
 ter Artium, Socius hujus Collegii, mortuus est Julii 29, anno 1577, cum vixisset annos 
 29 et 7 menses." 
 
 ^ "6"; holden": .See Index of Names under "Thomas Holden. " 
 
 P 2 211
 
 (Page 1 1 1 of the MS., folio 83.) 
 
 Magdalen hall 
 
 Thorns Rawlensi vj^ viij"^ 
 
 Willm Lyttliton^ x^ 
 
 Willm Shortred3 vj^ viij^ 
 
 Magdalen CoUedge 
 
 Ambrose Rogeres'^ vj^ vnj 
 
 d 
 
 John morgan^ xx 
 
 George hunte6 xx^ 
 
 Rowland Duberye^ vj« viij** 
 
 Rychard Cove^ vjs viij^ 
 
 Anthony Lynne'^ vj^ viij^ 
 
 ffraunces fflower^o vj'' viij<i 
 
 Brodgattes. 
 
 Edward flialcrofteii x* 
 
 John Ballamye'3 x^ 
 
 Vniu^fitie Colledge 
 
 S' meadfordei3 x» 
 
 Reteyneres at Christes chirche 
 
 Thorns ffarmeri* vjs viij^ 
 
 Rychard munde^^ vj^ vn]^ 
 
 Peter ffenner^fi vj= viij'^ 
 
 Thorns Torperleye^7 vj^ viij^ 
 
 Georges Dyckins^s vj^ viij^ 
 
 Reteyners at corpus christie colledge 
 
 hughe Barnarde^9 vjs viij*^ 
 
 Mylles Smythe^o x^ 
 
 S*« Mary hall. 
 
 SMiyde^i vj^viijd 
 
 S'-Dee-^ vj^viijd 
 
 Resorteres to Lincolne Colledge 
 
 Thorns Burche23 vj^ viij<l 
 
 Bayley colledge 
 
 John Prestmane^-' vj^ viij'^ 
 
 xi^ iij8 iiij*^ 
 
 21:
 
 Azotes and Illustrations. 
 
 (ITI) 
 
 1 '' Magdalen kail : Thorns Rawlens'": Thomas Rawlins, in the county of Oxford ; 
 res, 1572 ; Chorister 1564; Prob. F. 1572-1579 ; B.A. ist April, 1573 ; Bursar 1578. 
 (Dr. Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 165.) 
 
 2 " Willm Lyttliton ": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 3 "■ Wilhn Shorlred" : Fellow 1574-1584 ; Vicar ot Washington, Sussex, 1581 ; 
 died 1638. (Dr. Bloxam to the Editor.) 
 
 ^ '■^Magdalen College: Ambrose Rogers'''': Not in Wood, nor in Dr. Bloxam; but 
 see Index of Names, s.n., for relative note earlier. Ambrose Rogers recurs near the 
 end of the MS. as a scholar at Salisbury in 1569. 
 
 * " John Morgan ": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " George hnnte " : Ibid. 
 
 7 ^^ Rowlan Diiberye": Not in Wood. 
 
 * " Ry chard Cove " : This I should very willingly have accepted as mis-^vritten for 
 Rychard Gove, one of the sweetest of our Puritan Writers ; but the date is too early 
 for him, as he was entered " Commoner of Magdalen Hall in Lent term, an. 1604 ; 
 aged 18 years." (Wood's AthencE, vol. iii, p. 822). Not in Wood. 
 
 9 ^^ Anthony Lynne": Not in Wood or Dr. Bloxam. 
 
 10 " ffrances J/lo7tier " : Aged 14; of the county of Kent ; res. 1566; Prob. F. 1565- 
 1568 ; B.A. 29th July, 1566. (Dr. Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 157.) 
 
 " "Brodgattes: Edward Jlialcrofte" : Not in Wood. Evidently the "Edward 
 Shacros" of an entry five pages earlier in the MS. Index of Names, s.n., will give 
 other references. 
 
 " " John Ballamye" : Not in Wood. Called " Balmye" in a pre\dous entry six 
 pages earlier in the MS. 
 
 '3 " Vniiisiiie Colledge: Sr meadforde": Ibid. 
 
 " " Reteyneres at Ch7'iste chnrche : Thorns ffarmer": See Index of Names, j.«. 
 
 15 ^' Rychard mj(ttde'": Not in Wood. 
 
 »6 -*' Peter ffenner"" : Ibid. 
 
 17 " Thorns Torpei-leye'''' : Ibid. 
 
 '8 " George Dyckins": See Index of Names, s.n., for an earlier reference and rela- 
 tive note. 
 
 '9 " Reteyners at corpus christie colledge: hughe Barnade": Not in Wood. 
 
 20 " Mylles Smythe" : The venerable Bishop of Gloucester, who was one of the 
 translators of our authorized English Bible, and author of the Epistle-dedicatory of it 
 to King James. " He began with the first, and was the last man in the translation of 
 the work ; for after the task of translation was finished by the whole number set apart, 
 and designed to that business, being some few above forty, it was revised by a dozen 
 selected from them, and at length referred to the final examination of Bilson, Bishop of 
 Winchester, and this our author, who, with the rest of the twelve, are stiled in the 
 History of the Synod of Dort, ' vere eximii et ab initio in toto hoc opere versatissimi,' 
 as having happily concluded that worthy labour" (Wood's Athence, vol. ii, p. 359). 
 He died in November 1624. See Wood (as before, vol. ii, pp. 359-61) for a full notice, 
 and all the biographical authorities. His " Sermons" (1632 folio) are still quick. 
 
 2' ".S/t? Mary hall : Sr hyde^'': Not identified. Possibly Thomas Hyde, Prebendary 
 of Chester, 1575; or Thomas Hyde, Prebendaiy of Salisbuiy, 15885 died 1618. (Le 
 Neve, vol. ii, p. 652.) 
 
 22 " Sr Dee'": See Index of Names under "David Dee." 
 
 2* " Reso7-ters to Lincolne Colledge: Thorns Burche^'': Not in Wood. 
 
 " ^' Bayley colledge: John Brest mane": Ibid. 
 
 213
 
 (Page 112 of the MS., folio 83 verso.) 
 Sutch as be Nather of Colledge nor hall. 
 
 Adraye whytker^ vj^ viij'^ 
 
 Willm ffrythe^ vj' viij*^ 
 
 Thorns Morrey3 x^ 
 
 Westfalinge* iij^ iiij<^ 
 
 Sume tota Ix'^ 
 
 In wittnes that the pties before written haue received futch fomes of 
 money as their Names are fubscribed unto wee whose Names doe 
 followe, haue pute to these p^fentes o' handes the xxix^^^ of Julye 
 1570 the twelfte year of the reigne of o' sou^aigne Lady Elizabeth/ 
 
 Thorns Coop 
 
 Lawrance humefrey 
 
 homfrey westfalinge 
 
 Thorns Byckley 
 
 Willm Cole.5/ 
 
 To Rychard fmythe^ scoller of magdalen '^ 
 
 College the xxvij*^ of Novemb by thandes Vxx^ 
 
 of m' Chamberlean A^ 1570 j 
 
 To habraham fowler' of Christes churche ^ 
 
 in oxforde & to his father to his Iviij^ iiij'^ 
 
 vfe the xxyt'^ of auguste j 
 
 To Rychard waringe^ of the vniu^fytie ^ 
 
 college by m' Rychard Gremkares the >xs 
 ;th 
 
 xij''" of December A'' {570 ) 
 
 >-xx* 
 
 To John Lylly fonne of Peter lylly ' 
 by thandes of m"" henry Sythe^ the 
 xxijtii of December A" 1570 
 as apperethe by his accquitance 
 
 Geven the vij*^ of January to Mathewei 
 Eaton, '0 fcholler of christe churche in 
 Oxforde and fonne to m'' Eaton pfonne of >xs 
 S*** Leonardes in Easte chipe 
 A° i570 ^ 
 
 To one Glover^i in Oxforde by Robte '^ 
 the xxviijt^ of October as apperethe by Vx' 
 an abstracte j 
 
 To the vsher of poules fcolle^^ ^q geuei 
 
 to his cosins in Oxforde as apperethe >xx' 
 by an obstracte of the xxviij*^ of October j 
 to iiij poor fcholleres the xiij*^ of february \ , 
 {569 of Magdales colledge , j ^ 
 
 viiji^ v»/ 
 
 214
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 (112) 
 
 » ''Adraye Whvtker": Not in Wood. 
 
 2 '' Willm ffryi'the'' : Ibid. 
 
 ' " Thorns Morrey" : See Index of Names, s.n., for other mention of him, 
 
 * " Westfaliiige": See Index of Names, s.Jt. 
 
 * "Thorns Coop: Lawrance hiimfrey: homfrey westfalinge: Thonis BycMey. Willm 
 Cole": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " Rychard Smythe scoller of magdalen College''': Richard Smith, bom at Abingdon, 
 Berkshire, son of Richard Smith, and grandson of Richard Smith, gentleman-usher to 
 Queen Elizabeth. Admitted of Magdalen College, aged 17, in 1571 ; res. 1576; 
 matr. 8th October, 1571 ; B.A. 17th December, 1576. He died at Stilton, 28th 
 August, 1638. By his ■w'ife Martha, daughter of Paul Dayrell, Esq., he had a son 
 Richard Smith, an author of repute. (Dr. Bloxam, as before, p. 186.) 
 
 ' "■habraham fowler '': See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ® " Rychard waringe tnr Ky chard Grenakares''' : Neither in Wood. 
 
 ' "John Lylly sonne of Pttcr lylly mr henry Sythe": This was undoubt- 
 edly John Lylie, or Lylly, known as "The Euphuist," from his EupJmes : tli£ 
 Anatomy of Wit (1581). He became "a student in Magd. coll. in the beginning of 
 1569, aged 16, or thereabouts" (Wood's Ath., vol. i, p. 676; and see his full notice, 
 pp. 676-7S). He was born in the Weald of Kent in 1553 or 1554; but the name of 
 his father, before unknown, is supplied by this entry in our I\IS., viz., Peter Lilly. 
 He died soon after 1601. See also the biographical authorities. " Henry Sythe " has 
 not been identified: perhaps " Smythe." 
 
 '" " Mathrtve Eaton'" : Described as scholar of Christ Church, son of Mr. Eaton, 
 parson of St. Leonard's in East Chepe. 
 
 " "Glover'''': See Index under John Glover. 
 
 " "vsherof paules scolle": See under St. Paul's. 
 
 215
 
 (Page 1 1 3 of the MS., folio 84.) 
 Foular^ "1 
 
 To Abraham a scholler of Christe I „ 
 churche in Oxforde the xvj^^ | 
 Jenuary A^ 1570 J 
 
 To Docter homfrey the 16 of februarye xl^ 
 to be bestowed of Gideon Kam^, Anthony 
 Morebreade^, Jeninges^ and heley^ Vi'j'' 
 Itmxxs for John Morgen^, Rychard fpringhani'' | 
 A" {570 J 
 
 Geven to m*' Samsone, to the vse of Rychard ^ 
 Gilbie^ scoller in magdalen colledge vxx^ 
 the 16 of february Ao i570 j 
 
 to m'' Ashton of Whallaye^ to the vse of S'' ) ,g 
 Seller^° of corpus christie colledge in Oxforde j ' 
 
 Geven more to m'' Docter homfrey the 13 of 
 februarye, to iiij"^ fcholleres of Magdaline 
 colledge Namede 
 
 xxs wch m"" Smarte ^ 
 fwardebearerof London^^gaveme,/&xx*ofmy Vxl^ 
 
 brother Robtes goodes j 
 
 vijli x^ 
 
 To Willm Massye^^ a poor fcholler of brodgattes | ^ 
 in Oxforde the xxvij'^i of Aprill A" i57i ... j ^ 
 
 To John Bridgman^^ fcoller of all Soulls colledge \ 
 in oxforde by thandesofm'^henywoode in Kente^* Vx^ 
 Esquier./ 10 of May A** i57i j 
 
 To one Edwarde Browen^^ bachlere of^ 
 arte of the vniuJfitie colledge in oxforde, the Vv^ 
 xiij*^ of maye A° i57i j 
 
 To m' Evelieghe fonne'^ the xij*^^ of maye ) . ..-j 
 of Oxforde A" i57i } ^"^""'^ ^'"^ 
 
 To one John Smythe^^ a poor fcholler of^ 
 
 Magdalyne colledge in Oxforde the viij of Viij^ iiij*^ 
 June A" i57i j 
 
 To one Davyde Dee^^ the xj*^^ of June A° 1571 \ ...g ....^ 
 of S*^® Mary haull in oxforde j ^ ^ 
 
 To one Thoms Daye^^ of Magdalen Haule ) ...g ....^ 
 the xijth of June j ■' ^ 
 
 To one Edwarde Shawecrose^^ a poor fcholler ' 
 of christes church in Oxforde, the xxv^'^of June >-v* 
 
 1571 . 
 
 To Rycharde hauU^^ Late fcholler of Newe 
 
 colledge in Oxforde comynge vppe to be ^v* 
 
 a fcholem'' the xvijt^^ of June 
 
 To m'' Gee22 of Chester beinge dep^ved of ) ,g 
 his Lyvinge, the xxvj''^ of maye i57i /' 
 
 216
 
 Notes and IlliLstrations. 
 ("3) 
 
 ' "Abraham Foular ': See Index under "Abraham Fowler." 
 » ''Gideon Kam": Not in Wood. 
 
 * "■ Anthotty Morebreade''^ : From Dr. Bloxam I get these items: "Anthony More- 
 bread, aged 17, of the county of Kent; res. 1577; chorister 1567; matr. i^"]!; pkb. Jil. 
 Devon; Prob. F. 1577-1620 ; B.A. 3rd July, 1579; M.A. 24th Oct., 1583; Prael. 
 Gr£Ec. 1586; Bursar 1589, 1595, 1608, 1609, 1612, 1614, 1617 ; Dean of Div. 1590, 
 1593, 1596, 1602, 1610; V. Pres. 1591, 1615 ; died 1620; Will proved 1st Feb., 
 1620-1." Heylin the Diarist writes : "1620. Aug. 14. My good friend Mr. Mor- 
 bread died." He was author of certain Latin lines on the death of Wm. Grey, 1606. 
 
 * " jfenfiings": See Index of Names, j.w. 
 5 "/leley": Ibid. 
 
 * "John Morgan'''': See Index of Names under "John Morgan." 
 
 7 " Kychard Spyinghatn^'': Dr. Bloxam notes, in his record of Demies of INIagdalen, 
 respecting this scholar : " Richard Springham, aged 18, of the county of Middlesex ; 
 res. 1578; matr. 3rd March, 1573-4;//^/^.//.; Prob. F. 1578-1589 ; B.A. 1st Feb., 
 1577-8; M-A. 7th April, 1581 ; presented to Selborne 2nd Aug., 1588; res. 5th 
 June, 1594." 
 
 * "Mr. Samsone .... Rychard Gtlhie": Richard Gilby, of the county of Lincoln, 
 aged 19, 1572 ; res. 1577 ; matr. 8th Oct., 1571 ; pJcb. ftl. ; B.A. Lincoln College 9th 
 Dec, 1578; M.A. Exeter College 2nd July, 1582." 
 
 ' " mr Ashton of IVhallaye": Richard Ashton of Whalley, Esq., third son of 
 Ralph Ashton, of Great Lever, Esq., wus the first of the family settled at Whalley 
 and Dowmham. In 1553 Richard Ashton acquired half the manor of Whalley, sold 
 by the Crown, being part of the escheated estates of Whalley Monastery. His pur- 
 chase included the abbey buildings, and there he resided in the Abbot's house. In 1550 
 he purchased the neighbouring manor of Downham. In the Herald's Visitation of 
 Lancashire in 1567, Richard Ashton, Esq., is entered as "Receiver to the Queen." 
 He died in 1578, seized of Whalley manor and monastery, Downham manor, and of 
 lands^in Blackburn, Billington, and Gaynforth, in the county of Lancaster ; Malham, 
 Fountains Fells, and Staynton, in the county of York ; and in Sledwitch, in the 
 county of Durham. He had no son, and his estates passed to his great-nephew and 
 namesake, Richard Ashton, of Downliam. The schollar, Sellers, for whom he re- 
 ceived this gift, was a son of one of Mr. Ashton's tenants at Whalley. 
 
 '" " Sr Seller''^: See Index of Names under "John Seller." 
 
 " " mr Smarte fivorde bearer of London'''' : Unknown. 
 
 '2 " Willin Massye .... brod gattes" : "B.A. Feb. 3. 1573 Will. Massie of Brasen- 
 nose coll." (Wood's ^(7J-/'/, vol. i, p. 193); "M.A. June 25, i^Tj" (Ibid, p. 206); 
 " B. D. July 4. 1586. He was bom in Cheshire, and was at this time chaplain to Sir 
 Edmund Trafford of Trafford in Lancashire. He hath published A Sermon preached 
 at Trafford in Lancashire at the Marriage of a daughter of Sir Edm. Trafford, Kn' 6 
 Sep. 1586. on Ps. 128. I, 2. Oxon. 1586. Two years after he was removed from his 
 fellowship, and perhaps did publish other things." {Ibid, p. 237. ) There are other 
 entries in the 3IS. relating to this scholar, in one of which he is designated " Willm. 
 Masseye, at Manchester," who had 20J-. " towardes the apparalinge and bringinge of 
 him to Oxforde about Julye the xx"" dale A" 1569 when my mr. was in Lancashire." 
 (See the next page, and Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 '2 "John Bridgman .... allfonlls": Probably kinsman of Dr. John Bridgman, 
 Bishop of Chester, who died in 1652, aged 77 years (Wood's Athence, vol. iv, pp. 
 863-4). He was incorporated B.A. 1597 {Fasti, vol. i, p. 276). He had been rector 
 of Wigan, Lancashire, and of Bangor {ibid, p. 286). He was father of Sir Orlando 
 Bridgman. See later references and relative note. 
 
 '* " fiir henyiuoode in Kente^^: This name was abundant in Kent. 
 
 '" " Edwarde Broaven v)iiz'\ilie colledge": This Edward Browen (or Brown) 
 
 not in Wood. 
 
 1^ "mr Evelieghe": A John Evelegh of Exeter College was Proctor April 29, 1590 
 (Wood's Fasti, vol. i, p. 250). 
 
 '' '■'John Smyt/ie .... Magdalyne" : "John Smith, aged 18, of the county of Suf- 
 folk ; res. 1572; matr. 8th Oct., i^^ji ; pleb. fiL; B.A. 1st April, 1573; Preb. F. 
 1575-1579; ^I--A- 8th July, 1577." (Dr. Bloxam, as before, vol. iv, p. 1S7.) 
 
 18 " Davyde Dee .... Ste Mary hanll": " Of Shropshire, Rector of Great S' Bar- 
 tholomew's Church, London. Dav. Dee A.M. coll. ad preb. consumpt. per mare 27 
 Junii 1598, quam resign, ante 13 Dec. eodem anno; admiss. ad eccl. S. Barthol. 
 magni Lond. 15 Jun. 1587 eadem deprivatus ante 8 Dec. 1605. Kennet." (Wood's 
 Fasti, vol. i, p. 300.) 
 
 " " Thorns Daye of Magdalen Haule": This Thomas Daye not in Wood. 
 
 ^ " Edwarde Shawecivsf . . . . christes church'''': See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 21 "Rycharde Haidl . . . . m-weco/iedge": This Richard Haull (or Hall) not in Wood. 
 
 * "?nr Gee of Chester " (this entry is erased in the MS. ) See Index of Names, s.n. , 
 for a former similar entry and note thereupon. 
 
 217
 
 To 
 
 (Page 1 14 of the MS., folio 84 verso) 
 Rycharde Smithe & Georges hunt^ 
 poore fcholleres of Magdalen colledge in 
 Oxforde, by Docter humfrey xx^ a pece 
 
 the xnij'ii of Novembre i57i 
 
 To m"^ Callmadye, to the 
 
 ■xls 
 
 vse 
 
 of 
 
 m' 
 
 Evelieghe 
 
 vnj' 
 iiij' 
 
 & to the 
 
 the 
 
 xxnij 
 
 th 
 
 X 
 
 >VS 
 
 fonne^ xxvj^ 
 vse of his tuttor xiij^ 
 
 of Novembre A" i57i 
 
 To willm Turnebull^ of Corpus christie^ 
 colledge in Oxforde, the xxx^^ of Novembre 
 Ao i57i: 
 
 To m^s wemehirste fonne^ & Late poor fcholler.of ^ 
 Westm^, & nowe of christe church in Oxforde Vx^ 
 the 27 of Novembris Ao i57i J 
 
 To Abraham fFowler^ fonne to m'" fowler "| 
 the barber, the seconde of Januarii A° i57i >v^ 
 
 of christes churche in oxforde J 
 
 xv^ "^ 
 
 Is 
 
 more to the said Abraham fowler A 
 
 aganste 
 
 his procedinge bachler of arte, beinge a I 
 very poor & towardie fcholer & hathe but l 
 
 XXS 
 
 poore frendes, beinge allfo of christe churche 
 in Oxforde, the said feconde of JenuaryeJ 
 
 To John hillyarde^ poore fcholler of christes '^ 
 
 church in Oxforde the fowerthe of Jenuarye Vvj^ viij^ 
 A° i57i j 
 
 To John ffarrare^ the x'^'^ of Januarye A \ 
 poor fcholler of magdalen colledge in Oxtorde >v* 
 by thandes of m"^ Garbrande j 
 
 To Willm massie a poor fcholler of brodgattes 
 in Oxforde the xv'i^ of October A^ 1569 w^^ 
 more pleanly appearethe in m' Swetes letters )>xxx8 
 amongestes m"^ Swettes accomptes for yonge 
 Tristram michell^ and in the letter. / G _ 
 
 To the said willm masseye at machester"" 
 towards the apparralinge & bringinge of 
 him to oxforde about Julye the xx^^^ dale 
 A° i569, when my m"^ was in Lancashire^ ...^ 
 
 1 
 
 >-xxs 
 
 318
 
 Notes and Illiistratioiis. 
 
 ' ^^ Rycharde Smithe Qt* Georges hunt'''': See Index of Names, s.n., for both. 
 
 ' ^^ Mr Callmadye iur Evdieghe sonne": The former not in Wood : for 
 
 " Evelieghe" see Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ ' ' ivillm Ttirnebidl .... corpus christie" : This WilHam Tumebull not in Wood ; 
 but see Index of Names under " Richard Turnbull." 
 
 ■• " nirs 7ve»te/iirsU so9!ne": See Index of Names, j-.«. 
 
 * '■'■Abraham ffoT.oler .... the ba?-ber" and infra: Ibid. Be it noted here that "the 
 barber " would similarly have been required for the illustrious Jeremy Taylor, whose 
 name in the college has after it "pauper schola7-is"- — noi ignobly. 
 
 * '■^ John hilly arde . . . . chrisles chnreh": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ " John ffarrare Rlr Garbrande'": See for "ffanare" Index of Names under 
 
 "John Farrer." " Mr Garbrande" was John Garbrand, alias Herks, son of Garbrand 
 Herks, a Dutchman and a bookseller and the friend of John Foxe. He was a protege 
 of Bishop Jewel whose "Remains" he collected and edited in various volumes. He 
 died in 1589. See Wood's Athena, vol. i, pp. 556-7 for a full notice. 
 
 ^ " Mr Swete Tristram micheW'': The former not in Wood : The second 
 
 name is that of a ward of Dean Nowell's ; of whom Churton writes: "In the 
 beginning of 1570 he [DeanNowell] was appointed guardian of Tristram Mitchell, son 
 and heir of Richard Mitchell, Esq., of the county of Somerset," the patent for which 
 "gave him seven years' arrears of an annuity of 13/. 6s. 8d. reserved in the royal coffers 
 since the death of his ward's father" {Life of No7oell, p. 150). This ward has been 
 named twice previously in the AIS., on payment of his yearly board to one Mr. Coole 
 of Devonshire (see p. 56 and p. 70 ante). 
 
 ^ ' ' when my mr. was in Lancashire." This allusion informs us that Dean Nowell 
 made a journey into his native county in the- summer of 1569. Many of his charities 
 in Lancashire probably were dispensed during this sojourn. Churton refers to the 
 Dean's preaching tour in Lancashire in 1568, before his brother Robert's death, but 
 does not mention any visit in 1569, of which most likely he had no evidence. 
 
 219
 
 yxi^ 
 
 J 
 
 } 
 
 VS 
 
 (Page 115 of the MS., folio 85/) 
 
 To m'' Docter Cole^ p^fydente of Corpus christe' 
 Colledge in Oxforde, to the vse of tow poor fchollers 
 the one ys Named Thorns Cole'^, the other Rychard 
 hooker^ the xxx^^ of Januarye A" {^ji & Thorns 
 Coole hade xxx* of theys p^cell & thother 
 xs, as appeareth by m'' Coole bill 
 
 To Edmunde fhawecrose^ of magdalen colledge 
 the xij*^'^ of februarye Anno 15/1 
 
 To Richard hooker of Corpus christie colledge 
 
 the xij*^^ of februarye Anno 157! to bringe ^-ij v]^ 
 hym to Oxforde j 
 
 To John Hopkins^ of brodgattes, whoe wente w*^^^ 
 Willm Wilde^ to Oxforde the xij''^ of februarye >-xs 
 A« 1571 j 
 
 To Fetter Shakerley^ of Magdaline collidge in ^ 
 Oxforde the xij*^ of februarye A" 1571 m"" V-x^ 
 fliakerley of grayes Inne, his sonne j 
 
 To one Davyde Dee^, batchler of arte, of S*® marie hall '^ 
 
 in Oxforde the v'f°- of Martch A" 1571 to bringe Vxf vj*^ 
 him to oxforde j 
 
 To one higfonne^ of 
 
 To one Thorns hixon'^ of Christes church in Oxforde, \ 
 the vij'^ of martch. Anno i57i by thandes & at [-xx^ 
 the requieste, of m'^ Archdeacon wattes^i J 
 
 To Rychard fmythe and Georges hunte'^^ 
 towe poor fcholleres in magdaline colledge in 
 Oxforde, by thandes of m"^ Docter humfrey 
 xxs a pece, in the whole ^ 
 
 To one homeffrey Coole, fonne vnto m"" Coole of") 
 
 Bowe'^, a poor fcholler of Corpus christie colledge Mij^ iiij*^ 
 in Oxforde, the xxij^ii of Maij A" 1572 j 
 
 To Thoms Coole^'*, of Corpus christie colledge 
 in Oxforde the xiijt'^ of June A'' i572. whoe 
 Delyu ed my m"" an apistlie'^ 
 
 To one willm Coxe^^ a poore fcholle"^ of Magdalen 
 colledge, the xvj° of June A° 1572 
 
 To one John Bridgman^^ a poore fcholler of , g 
 all fowles Colledge the same xvj of June A^ 1572' j 
 
 To one John TatterfalP^ a poor fchollereS 
 of brasnose in oxforde the xxiiij" of Julye V-v' 
 
 A° i57i j 
 
 To willm massie^9 a poore fcholler of brod gattes "^ 
 
 in oxforde the xxiiij'^ of Julye, A" {572 ( .. ^ 
 sent by Rycharde Tattersalpo father of the f ^"•'' "^J' 
 said John aforesaid the some of xiij^iiij"^ I saye ) 
 
 ^xl3 
 
 >\f vjd 
 
 lv3 
 
 -I'i'is WVA 
 
 220
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (115) 
 
 ' " mr Cole": See Index of Names under "Doctor Cole." 
 
 ' " Thorns Cole": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ '^ Ryckanl hooker," and infra : The "judicious Hooker": See Index of Names, 
 s.n , and our Indroduction. This and another entry below relating to Hooker I have 
 had produced \vl facsimile for the large paper edition. 
 
 * "■ Edinunde Shavoecrose" \ See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 8 '■^John hopkins of bjvdgattes" : Ibid. A John Hopkins was collated 10 May, 1576, 
 to a Prebendal stall of Hampton episcopi, in the Cathedral of Hereford. 
 
 ^ "IVillm ivilde": Not in Wood ; but see our Index of Names for various Wilds or 
 Wylds, kinsfolk of the Nowells, among whom this scholar several times recurs. 
 
 7 "Fetter Shakerley of Alagdaliiie collc'dge": Not in Wood or Dr. Bloxam. Geoffrey 
 Shackerley of Lancashire, gent., had a son Piers, named in Flower's Visitation (1567), 
 but I cannot pronounce as to whether the Peter Shackerley here entered was the 
 same person or a kinsman. Peter Shackerley's father is said in the text to have been 
 "of Grayes Inne." 
 
 8 "Bavyde Dee" See Index of Names, s.n. 
 3 " higsonne''' (this entry erased). 
 
 ^^ "Thorns hixon of Christes church": See Index of Names under "Higson" 
 
 " "Archdeacon wattes": Thomas Watts, A.M., Prebendary of Totendale, was 
 collated (as Archdeacon) 31st Jan. 1560-1 : void by the resignation of Nowell. He 
 died before 28th May, 1577 (Le Neve's Fasti, vol. ii, p. 380). 
 
 '- " Rycharde Stnythe and George himte''^: See Index of Names, sm., for both. 
 
 ^ "homefrey Code . . . . of Bo7ve" : Not in Wood, His father, Mr. Robert Cole, 
 Vicar of Bow Church in London, has pre\'iously occurred in the MS., and been noted 
 as a leader of the Puritans. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 " "Thorns Coole of Corpus christie": See Index of Names under " Thomas Cole." 
 
 •3 "apistli" = epistle or letter. 
 
 '^ "'■wilhn Coxe . . . Afagdalen eolledge": Not in Wood or Dr. Bloxam. 
 
 '7 "John Bridgman": See Index of Names, j.??. 
 
 '^ " Johji Tatlersall . . . . of bra^nose": This surname belongs to East Lancashire; 
 his father, named at the foot of this page of the text, was Richard Tattersall. Several 
 Tattersalls of Burnley, Habergham, Read, &c., occur onward as receiving gifts ; among 
 them, a Richard Tattersall, veiy possibly the father of this scholar. 
 
 '' "-willm ?iiassie": See Index of Names, s.n., for various references and relative 
 note. 
 
 20 "Rycharde Tattersall": See note supra. 
 
 221
 
 >-VlJ° 
 
 (Page ii6 of MS., folio 85 verso.) 
 
 To one henry mawdesley^ poor fcholler of Brasen' 
 nose in Oxforde, the iiij*^ of auguste A° i572" 
 in pte of paymente of michalmas q^^i" 
 
 To m"^ holden^ ffellowe of Brasen nose the "i 
 fame iiij''^ of Auguste A" 1572 >-vij* 
 
 towardes the chardge of the faid madisley, & him to oxforde j 
 
 To one a poor fcholler, of corpus- S 
 Christie colledge, who was in ther compaynes the >-iij^ 
 fame iiij'' of Auguste A° 1572* J 
 
 To John Seller^ Bachler of art, the iiij'^ of^ 
 Auguste A<' i572' of corpus christie colledge by Vvij^ 
 thandes of m'^ holden of Brasenose in oxforde J 
 
 Willm 
 
 colledge 
 
 Gairstane*, a 
 in Oxforde, 
 
 resorter 
 
 the 
 
 XIX 
 
 th 
 
 auguste 
 
 To 
 
 a 
 
 Bameforde^, a 
 in oxforde 
 
 To one 
 Exciter 
 
 A° 1572- 
 one Randall 
 battler in 
 
 A° 1572- 
 
 To one Willm pennington^, 
 Braysenose in Oxforde the, the x* of 
 
 Attourney generally A" 
 
 by m'' Docter wythyer ?s... 
 
 greatrackes^, a poor 
 
 fcholler of Christes churche in 
 
 auguste 
 
 poor 
 
 rth 
 
 resorter 
 the xix*'^ 
 
 fcholler 
 
 & comendide by m'' 
 
 1572" & comendid allso 
 
 To 
 
 and 
 
 auguste 
 
 xx= 
 
 fifrances 
 very towarde 
 
 r 
 
 Oxforde the xij*^ of Septemb"^ A°- 1572 and 
 
 comendid by m"^ Docter Cradocke^", J 
 
 To one John feller a poor fcholler of co''puschristie ) 
 
 Colledge in Oxforde, the xij**^ of 
 Ao 1572- 
 
 September Vvj' 
 
 to one 
 
 Thoms 
 
 m'" A hoolte'i 
 ;th 
 
 >xxs 
 
 r 
 
 xvj^ viij*^/ 
 
 when he wente to Oxforde 
 the XV j^^ Day of September A° 1572 whoe is 
 
 allso of Brasynoose colledge in Oxforde 
 
 To one Thoms Seller^^ a poor fcholer latly"! 
 come forthe of Lancashir, and beinge in oxforde >x« 
 at the xviijt^ of SeptemiD'' A^ 1572- ...J 
 
 To one Lawerance Towenley^'^ whoe ys 
 Latly comen out of lancashire, the viij'^ of 
 October A° i572- whoe remanethe 
 
 aboute oxforde 
 
 To one George pollarde^* [erasure] 
 
 [erasure] the viij*^ of October \vhoe ys allso 
 Latly coiiien out of lancashire A" i572' 
 
 whoe ys about Brasynnose in oxforde 
 
 To one willm Gregsonn'^ the ^ 
 
 fame viij^^^ of octob"^ A" i572- whoe Vxvj' viij<i 
 
 aboute Brafyn nose in oxforde j 
 
 fame George Pollarde lawrancei 
 & Willm Gregsonne, to bringe i ..^ 
 to ■ Oxforde T^ 
 
 •xvjs ynj*^ 
 
 ys allsoe 
 Too the 
 Whitaker,'6 
 
 them 
 
 the same 
 
 viij*!' of octob"^ A" i572- J
 
 N'otes and Ilhistrations. 
 (ii6) 
 
 ' '■'henry marvdesley Brasen nose'''': Not in Wood. I conjecture he was a 
 
 Blackburn youth, of a family of small freeholders in that town, some of whom, later, 
 are described as "gent." in the Parish Register and records. With these Blackburn 
 Mawdsleys, Henry and Thurstan were favourite names for several generations. 
 
 2 "wr holden Brasen nose": See Index of Names under "Thomas 
 
 Holden." The item of "js. was given to Holden towards the charge of Mawdsley and 
 himself, when travelling in company from Lancashire to Oxford; and the next 
 unnamed scholar of Corpus Christi is stated also to have been in the company of 
 Holden and Mawdsley on this journey — probably often performed on foot by poor 
 scholars in those times. 
 
 3 '■'■JoJui Seller," and infra: See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " JVillrn Gairstane, a resoter to Exciter colledge" : Not in Wood. The name should 
 be Garstang, a Lancashire surname, so spelt four pages onward. 
 
 ^ " Randall Bamcforde battler": He is named twice or thrice onward in 
 
 the MS., once as Raphe Bamford of Brazenose, to whom \os. was " sent by his unckell 
 of Manchester"; upon \vhich I rest the surmise that he was a nephew of William 
 Bamford of Bamford, near Manchester, whose wife, a daughter of James Shepherd, 
 was very likely connected with the Shepherds mentioned in the MS. as kinsfolk of the 
 Nowells. (Index of Names, s.n., for other references.) 
 
 * " IVillm pennington Braysenose'": The surname is a territorial name in 
 
 Lancashire, and this scholar is likely to have been at least related to the Penningtons 
 of Pennington, in that county, of whom William Pennington died in 1652. See Index 
 of Names, s.n., for later reference and note. 
 
 ^ "Mr. Attonrney generall," i.e.. Sir Gilbert Gerard, as before. 
 
 ^ " Doder wythycr'": George Wythers, S.T.P., was collated (as Archdeacon of Col- 
 chester) nth October, 1570; void by the death of Calfehill. He died in 1617. (Le 
 Neve, vol. ii, p. 342.) 
 
 3 "ffrances greatrackes Christes church'''': See Index of Names, s.n., for 
 
 later mention. 
 
 *" " Docter Cradocke" : Among numerous Cradocks in Le Neve's Fasti, the only 
 one I can connect with Dr. Cradocke nanjed here, is Edward Cradocke, M.A., 
 appointed Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, 24th October, 
 1565; resigned 1594. He was created D.D., but the pi'ecise date of this diploma is 
 not known. 
 
 " " Thorns hoolte Brasy noose'''': Not in Wood. He recurs in the MS. 
 
 '2 "■ Thorns Seller'''' : See Index of Names under " Seller." Thomas Sellers and John 
 Sellers (Note 3 supra) were probably sons of John Sellers, of Whalley, a kinsman of 
 the Nowells. (See ante, p. 85, Note 15.) 
 
 '* " Lawerance Towenley": This Lawrence Towneley, who, in October, 1572, was 
 "latly comen out of Lancashire," and remained about Oxford, I take to have been 
 Lawrence, third son of Lawrence Towneley of Barnside, near Colne, a collateral 
 branch of Towneleys of Towneley, our Lawrence's great-grandsire being Lawrence, 
 second son of John Towneley, Esq. 
 
 '■• " Geoi-ge pollai-de,''^ and infra: See Index of Names, s.n. Very likely he was 
 brother of Ellis Pollard previously noticed, and perhaps a son of George Pollard, a 
 Lancashire chapman, of whom, as we shall find onwaixl, Robert Nowell's executors 
 purchased several parcels of linen cloth, in 1569, for charitable distribution. (See 
 Index of Names, s.7i.) 
 
 IS " IVilltn Gregsonn'''' : Not in Wood. He was a Lancashire scholar, and is so 
 classed in a subsequent entry; doubtless from Whalley or the neighbourhood, where a 
 family of yeomen of this name (Gregson) were settled, from which a Lancashire 
 antiquary of the last generation, Mathew Gregson of Liverpool, author of Fragments 
 relating to Lancashire, descended. This William Gregson, it will be noticed, came 
 up to Oxford in 1572 with George Pollard, a native of the same locality, who is 
 described above as "latly comen out of Lancashire. " 
 
 '^ " Lawrance Whitaker" : See Index of Names for various Whitakers of Burnley 
 and Whalley districts, whence sprung the parent stock of all the Lancashire Whita- 
 kers — of High Whitaker, Holme, Symonstone, Healey, Broadclough, &c. Law- 
 rence Whitaker, I think, was a younger brother of Dr. Wm. Whitaker, and a nephew 
 of Dean Nowell. He received a legacy of 5/. under Robert Nowell's Will. (See 
 ante, pp. 82-3.)
 
 >-iijs viij*^ 
 
 (Page 117 of the MS., folio 86.) 
 
 Too one Rycharde Cove^ Late Bachler 
 of arte of magdelyne Colledge in oxforde the 
 viij° of octobr A" i572- _ 
 
 To one Thorns merrie^ of Christe churche ) g 
 in Oxforde the viij° of octob^' A° i57i- j ^ 
 
 Too one Smithe a poor fcholler ] 
 of Brasynnoose in Oxforde, by m"^ Docter coole i 
 p^fydente of corpus christie Colledge in Oxforde , 
 the xxixo of Octob"^ A^ {572^ J 
 
 To one Willm Slyfolde* fcholer of magdahn ^ 
 hall at his gowinge to Oxforde the x*^ of Vx^ 
 December A« i572" j 
 
 Too one Lewes Ambrose^ of Colledge in \ 
 
 Oxforde, at the suet of m'' Coole psonn of Bowe church liijs iiij< 
 in London the xxv* of martch A^ 1573- j 
 
 Too Edwarde fhawcrose^ of newe college) .. 
 in Oxforde the viij* of Aprell A'' 1573 ]^^ 
 
 Too one John Litle^ of Magdalin colledge in Oxforde \ 
 the xxvdij'^ii of martche A^ i573 j^* 
 
 Too Abrahame fowler^ of Christes churche | 
 in Oxforde the xxviij" of martch A° 1573 j ^ 
 
 Too John Sandes^ poor fcholer of Orriall \ 
 Colleddge in Oxforde at the sute of f"" Thoms Vx^ 
 heskethe''' the xxviij''^ of martche A^ i573" j 
 
 To one Rycharde hooker'^ fcholler of corpus-christie | ...g ....j 
 Colledge in Oxforde the viij° of marthe A" 1573" j"-' "'•' 
 
 Too m' Raynarde Woulffe^^ {q^ Cathachis- ^ 
 mies in greake & Latten, to gyve poor fcholers Iv'i 
 the xiijt^ of Martche A** i572- j 
 
 Too one Willm Coxe'^ the xx'^ of maye A" i573" ) 
 of Magdalen Colledge in Oxforde ^^^^ 
 
 Too one Willm Crane comendyde by m' \ 
 ffarrington of Lancashire** the xx*^ of aprill I x^ 
 Anno i573- of Oxforde j 
 
 Too m'' Rogeresi"*, yonge fonne, fcholler ofS 
 Oxforde, by m"^ peter the xxvj'^ of aprill lxx» 
 
 A« 1573 J 
 
 To Thoms Achley'^ fcholler of Broodgattes ) ...g ....^j 
 
 in Oxforde the v'f^ of June A" i573 : |iijsiiij 
 
 Too John Brigmanei7 the vj^^^ of June | - 
 
 A" 1573: ^J' 
 
 Too one Samuell Beeke'^, of Corpus Christie'] 
 College in Oxforde, the :s.-x^^ of februarye I ^ , 
 Ao 1573 at the suet of m^ Docter Coole ^^^"'^ 
 pfydente of the same Colledge 
 
 224
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 (IT7) 
 
 ' '* Rycharde Cove'''''. See Index of ^Cames, s.n. 
 
 ^ " Thorns nierrie . . . .». . christe churche": He recurs in the MS., and in one 
 instance, in the handwriting of Dean Nowell, is entered — "To Thomas Morrie 
 of Christ Church in Oxforde whom he entred into the ministerie toward the charges, 
 29 Martii, 1578, x'." Quite possibly he was a kinsman of Dean Nowell's first wife, 
 who was a daughter of Robert Mery or Merry. Meriy and Morrie may have been 
 convertible names ; and it is to be noted that, while Dean Nowell's amanuensis 
 writes the name "Merrie," the Dean himself writes it "Morrie." (See Index of 
 Names, sn.) 
 
 3 ^^Too one Sf/iithe^': This whole entry is crossed out in the MS. See Index 
 
 of Names under "John Smythe." 
 
 * ''VVillm Slyfolde magdaHn": Not in Wood. 
 
 * "Lewes Ambrose mr Cook psonn of Bozve church : Ibid. For Mr. Coole 
 
 (Cole), see Index of Names, s.7t. 
 
 ^ " Edivarde Shawcrose'": Ibid, but see Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 1 ''John Liile of Magdalin" : Not in Wood or Dr. Bloxam, 
 
 ^ ^^Abrahamefozvler": See Index of Names, j. ;;. 
 
 ' "John Sandes Ori'iall": Not in "Wood. Probably of the I.ancashire 
 
 family of Sandys, which gave to the church Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, 
 1576-1588. 
 
 10 c^j, Thorns heskeihe": Sir Thomas Hesketh, knt, of RufiFord, in the county of 
 Lancaster, whose favourite residence was at Martholme (the manor-house of Great 
 Harwood), which he rebuilt in 1561. This mansion was nigh to Read Hall, the 
 seat of the Nowells, the two parks being only separated by the river (Calder). Sir 
 Thomas Hesketh was knighted in 1553 ; sheriff of Lancashire 1563; died 20th June, 
 1588. 
 
 '^ '■^Rycharde hooker'''': See Index of Names under Hooker, and our Introduc- 
 tion. , 
 
 '* ''Rayitarde Woulffe": Not in Wood. 
 
 '^ " IVillm Coxe": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 '* "JFi/l/n Crane Mr ffarrington of Lancashire'''': Crane not in.W'ood. 
 
 His patron was William ffarrington, Esq., of Worden Hall, Pa. Leyland, and Audley 
 Hall, Blackburn, a gentleman of excellent repute in Lancashire, whose interesting 
 biography is well written by Canon Raines in his Introduction to the Stanley Papers 
 (Chetham Society). William ffarrington, Esq., died 3rd July, 1610. The scholar, 
 William Crane, would also be a native of Lancashire. The surname is local in Preston 
 and the Fylde of North Lancashire. A John Crane of Eccleston, near Mr. ffarring- 
 ton's estate, occurs in 1561 ; and John Crane is a witness to Dame Anne Langton's 
 Will in 1572, of which Mr. William ffarrington was an executor; so this William 
 Crane may have been son of John Crane. 
 
 15 '■^ Mr Roger es": See Index of Names under " Ambrose Rogers." 
 
 ^^ " Thorns Achley Broodgattes": Not in Wood. I am inclined to think 
 
 this was that son of Thomas Achelly, the translator of Bandello's History of Didaco 
 and Violenta (1576), to whom Mr. J. P. Collier conjecturally assigns the "Massacre 
 of Money" (1602) in his Bibl. Account. 
 
 '^ '■^'John Brigmane'": See Index of Names under "John Bridgeman." In a pre- 
 vious entry he is described as "a poore scholler of all sowles colledge. " Bearing the 
 same name with John Bridgeman who became Bishop of Chester in 1619, it is not 
 unlikely the John Bridgeman of All Souls' in 1573 was of the same stock (the Bridge- 
 mans of Devonshire), but a generation earlier. Was he the John Bridgeman, brother 
 of Thomas Bridgeman, the bishop's father, who is named on the Bridgeman pedigiee 
 as living in 1571 ? 
 
 '8 ^'Saviuell Beeke'": Not in Wood. 
 
 "5
 
 • VS 
 
 >v* 
 
 (Page 1 18 of the MS., folio 86 verso.) 
 To one Showcrose,^ the xj^i" of Decemb'" \ ^ 
 
 A° i573 of Christe church in Oxforde ) 
 
 To Abraham fowler^ late of Christe church | g 
 
 in Oxforde the xij^^ of December A^ 1573 j ' * 
 
 To John Thorpe,^ Sonne in Lawe to m""" 
 escoate, fcholler of magdaline College in I 
 Oxforde, by his mother the xx^^ of februarye j 
 
 Aoi573 J 
 
 Too Willm farmer^ a fcholler in Oxforde ij^ vj^ 
 
 To one John Brigman^ fcholer of Allfowles \ 
 
 College in Oxforde, the xx*^ of februarye A" Vvj^ vj^ 
 
 1573 3 
 
 To one Thorns* Morre^ of Christes^ 
 Church in Oxforde, the xvj'^ dale of I 
 Martch A*' i573 at the comendacion | 
 of m'^ Docter CadwelT J 
 
 To one James lyllys^, fonne to m" lylly' 
 of Canterburie the xxvj* daye 
 of maye A" i574 : 
 
 Too one wylliam hicksonne^, of College 
 in Oxforde the xxiij^i^ of november A^ 1574: 
 
 Too John Bridgman, of all foules college 
 in Oxforde, the vj*^ of februarye A° {574: 
 
 Too one Thoms hollande^" of Ballyoll" 
 
 college in Oxforde, the xxxj*^ of niltch A** 1575 ^ ^ 
 at the comendation of m"" allderman Langlay j •' ^ 
 & m'^ ffrances Bowyeare^^ ..J 
 
 sent more to the said Thoms hollande, by mj ) g 
 squier^^^ of baylioll College the xxvj*^ of aprell 1575 j 
 
 Too f"" huker'2 of Corpus christie college in ) g 
 Oxforde, the xxviij'l^ of aprell 1575 : j 
 
 Too Richarde WignalP^ ofl 
 
 magdalin hall in Oxforde, the xxviij*^ Aprell >xx* 
 
 A« i575'-- J 
 
 Too one Willm Coxe'^ the xxx*'^ of aprell ^ 
 
 Ao 15 75- n^y Nowell godfonne Vx^ 
 of magdalin College in Oxforde j 
 
 Too one Robt fForte,'^ poore 
 
 Bachler \ 
 
 Too one f"" Barker' 7 a of arte of the ( g 
 
 Newe college in Oxforde, the xi*^ of maye C 
 
 A° 1575: ; 
 
 To one S"" hakeluite'^ ^ 
 Bachler of arte of Christe college in oxforde /-xV 
 the xijtii of maye: by Docter humfrey j 
 
 226
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (ii8) 
 
 ' '^ Shower ose'''': See Index of Names, j.;/. 
 
 ^ ^' Abraham foioler'": Ibid. 
 
 ^ "-yo/iii Thorpe. . . i?ir escoate" (this entry is erased in the i1/^. ) John Thorpe was 
 a servant of our Nowell. See Will in our Introduction and Index of Names, s.it. 
 " Mr Escoate " — not identified. 
 
 * " IVaim. farmer": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * "John Brigman" and infra : See Index of Names under "John Bridgman." 
 
 ^ " Thorns Alorre Christes Chtnrh": See a note about Thomas Morrie on 
 
 the previous page. 
 
 7 "-Doder Cadzvell" : Probably Richard Caldwall, or Chaldwell, Dr. of Medicine, 
 who was educated at Brasen-nose College, Oxford. His "Tables of Surgery" {1585) 
 is still remembered. He died in 1585. (Wood's .^//^(?««-', vol. i, pp. 5, lo-il.) 
 
 * " fames lyllys CaiiterburiL'" : No doubt same as Lillye or Lillie, and of 
 
 the Euphuist's family. See Index of Names under "John Lilly." 
 
 3 " IVylliaiit hicksoime''': Not in Wood. 
 
 •" " Thorns hollandc of Bally oil college" and infra : "He was born at Ludlow in 
 Shropshire, and was elected Socius Sacerdotalis, commonly called chaplain-fellow of 
 Baliol College, 13th Jan., 1573, being then B.A. and a most noted disputant in that 
 house, and in 1575> proceeding in that faculty, he became a rabid preacher." (Wood's 
 AthencE, vol. ii, pp. 111-112.) He died 17th March, 1611. For a full notice of 
 him see Wood as supra. 
 
 '^ " allderman Langlay and mr ff ranees Bonyeare" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 •' " mr sqiiier of baylioll College": Adam Squire, M.A., of Balliol, elected Master 
 of the College 13th May, 1571 ; afterwards D.D.; collated to the Archdeaconry of 
 Middlesex, June, 1577; died before 26th Oct., 1588. Said to have been "a learned 
 but very fantastical man." 
 
 '^ "6"r //«/'(?r" = Richard Hooker: See Index of Names, s.n., and our Introduction. 
 
 " "'jRicharde Wignall of magdaUn hall" [" Brasynoose hall" is written and erased 
 in the MS.\ : Not in Wood. 
 
 15 " lyi/if/i Core": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 '^ '' Robte fforte" (this entry is erased in the MS.) : Not in Wood. 
 
 •'' " Sr Barker": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 '^ "6>- /ia/^t.'//^zV^"= Richard Hakluyt : See Index of Names, s.jt., and our Intro- 
 duction. 
 
 227
 
 To 
 
 f' 
 
 (Page 119 of the MS., folio 87.) 
 hunte^ Batchelare of 
 
 arte 
 
 of masfdalin 
 
 college 
 
 in Oxforde the xij^t of maye 
 
 A° 1575 : comendid by Docter humfrey & sent 
 
 the same allsoe by hym 
 
 To one f"" hackcluett^ the iiij^i^ 
 of Christes churche in Oxforde 1575 :. 
 
 i'XXX.s. / 
 
 of June 
 
 whiller, 
 ,9 Y^ 
 
 m 
 
 Bowyer,' 
 Collecters 
 
 } 
 
 ijs vj< 
 
 Toe m'^ Alldersaye, m 
 
 m' Backhowse and to m' Yonge^ 
 appoynted, for the getheringe of certeyn money of ,^ ^ 
 the vniu^fities of Oxforde, and for the poore fcollers [ 
 of bothe the vniu'^fities of Oxforde, & Cambridge, 
 the fyrste of June i575 _^ 
 
 Too Edmunde Scolfylde* fcholer of mydleton" 
 
 whoe 
 and 
 
 cam 
 hadd 
 
 w 
 
 .th 
 
 my 
 
 his 
 Ire 
 
 noose, the xx*^^ of 
 
 fcole in Lancashire, 
 to me into Sussex, 
 principall of Brasyn 
 
 A° i575 : : 
 
 Too martyn Read^ fcholer of Poules fchole 
 
 to Oxforde the fyfte of October i575 
 
 To m^ Docto"^ coole, to the vse of 
 
 Spenfer^ of Corpus christie 
 
 father 
 to the l>xxs 
 
 Septemb'" 
 gowinge 
 
 nj^ nij 
 
 ;d 
 
 Oxforde the vij* of november Anno 1575 
 
 Colledge 
 
 md fent the same tyme the 
 
 vijth 
 
 of novemb'' 
 
 m''' docf coole, the some of vij^' x^ for the exhibition of Wij'i. x^ 
 
 one James Bell^ latt of Oxforde 
 fyrste of December A'' 1575 
 
 } 
 
 To , 
 
 the fyrste of December A'' IS75 : j "^^ 
 
 Too one m' Seller^ of Corpus christie colledge \ g 
 
 in Oxford the xvj'*^ of februarie A° 1575 : j 
 
 Too one Bare foot'*^ a poor fcholer of cor ) j, 
 
 pus-christie colledge in Oxforde the xxj*'* of Decemb' J 
 Too one TurnebulP^ of corpus christie 
 
 in Oxforde the xxijt'^ of December A" 1575 
 Too one Tathane^^^ a poore fcholler of marten | 
 
 colledge in Oxford the xx*^ of December 1575 : j 
 
 Too one Rogere Browen^^ when he went 
 
 to Oxford the xx* of december A^ 1571 
 
 Too m"" Beasleyi* of Sainct 
 
 nij*- 
 
 colledge 
 
 jiij^ 
 
 mj' 
 
 ,-9 
 
 nj* nij' 
 
 Oxford the xviij*^ of 
 
 hall in 
 
 A° 1575 •••••••. 
 
 To one m Springham'^, 
 
 fonne, fcholler of 
 
 Oxford the xx*^ of December 1575 
 Too one Willm nealsonne^'' 
 
 hall in Oxford, the xx*^ of 
 
 to 
 
 fcholer, 
 martch 
 
 mane- ^ 
 December Vx^ 
 
 send to his "| 
 Colledge in Vxl^ 
 
 of S**^ marie ^ 
 1575 : att the y-s.^ 
 
 sut of m^ ffrances Bowyere, & m'^ Sellare^^ j 
 
 228
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (119) 
 
 ' " Sr hiinte''' : See Index of Names under "George Hunte." 
 ' " Sr HackclneW : See /^/a' under "Richard Ilakluyt." 
 
 * "Mr Alldersaye: mr whiller : nir Bowyer ', mr Backhowse &' Mr Yonge •" See 
 Index of Names, s. n. 
 
 * '■^ Ednmnde Scolfylde mydleton scale": See Index of Names, s.n., for 
 
 earlier reference and relative note respecting this Middleton scholar. 
 
 * " 7?iartyn Read of Ponies Sckole"\: Not in Wood, and as before one has to deplore 
 the loss of the School's Register. See another reference to him at p. 166 ; and Index 
 under " St. Paul's School." 
 
 5 "John Spenser^': John Spenser of Corpus Christi, born in Suffolk about 1560; 
 he became first Clerk of the College; then, being but Bachelor of Arts, Greek Reader 
 in 1578; and the next year a Fellow; subsequently D.D. Dr. John Spenser was 
 sworn President of Corpus Christi, 9th June, 1607. He died 3rd April, 16 14. A 
 mural monument to him is in the College Chapel. 
 
 7 " Sr Willm Pickringc Schollers''': See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 8 "James Bell": A James Bell translated John Fox's De oliva Evangelico : Concio 
 in baptismo &fc. 1578. (Wood's Athena:, vol. i, p. 532.) 
 
 9 "mr Seller": See Index of Names under "John Seller." A George Seller, Fel- 
 low of Corpus Christi, and perhaps a brother of John, died in College in 1619. 
 
 '« "Barefoot": John Barefoot, of C. C. Coll.; D.D. Jan. 19th, 1578; chaplain to 
 Ambrose, Earl of Warwick. In 1581 he became Archdeacon of Lincoln, in the place 
 of Dr. John Robinson. He died in 1595. (Wood's Fasti, vol. i, p. 210.) There was 
 a John Barefoot, M.D. July nth, 1581 [ibid, p. 218), who may have been our name. 
 " " TurnehiilV: See Index of Names under " Richard TurnbuU." 
 '2 " Tathame . . . . marten colledge": This was John Tatham of Merton College, 
 admitted M. A. Oct. 30, 1567. He was afterwards Rector of Lincoln College (Wood's 
 Fasti, vol. i, p. 179). He was Proctor April l, 1573 {ibid, p. 192). 
 
 13 '^ Ro'^ere Browen": A Roger Browne (1601) is casually named by Wood {Athena:, 
 vol. i, p. 745) B.D. as Canon of Windsor ; sometime of King's College, Cambridge. 
 1* " mr Beasley ofSainct marie hall": Not in Wood. 
 i» " w' Springham" : See Index of Names under " Richard Springham." 
 i« " Willm nealsonne" : Not in Wood. This name recurs. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 '^ "ffrances Bozvyere ^ m' Sellare": See Index of Names, s.7t. 
 
 229
 
 (Page 1 20 of the MS., folio 87 verso.) 
 Too m'' Barfott' m^ of Art, of corpuse "^ 
 
 Christie college, and to m.^ Seller^, of the Vk.^ 
 
 same college, the xj'^ of maye 1576: J 
 
 Too one Willm Nealsonne^, the xxxjt'^ of maye ] ^ 
 
 1576: att the comendation of m'^ Sellare j 
 
 Too one Olyver hallowell* of magdalin hall \ ^ 
 
 in Oxford the xxxj*^ of maye 1576 j^ 
 
 Too m^ Sellare** of Corpuschristie Colledge ) ^ 
 
 the vth of July 1576: j^ 
 
 To one Richard harnons^, a poore fcholer, of \ 
 
 magdalin Collige in Oxforde the iiij*^^ of [-x^ 
 
 Juliei576: .j 
 
 To one Beseley^ poore fcholer of Oxforde \ ^ 
 
 the xiiij'^ of Julie 1576: |^ 
 
 more to the same Beseley v^ 
 
 Too one Rychard Springham^, of magdalyn "i 
 
 college in Oxforde the xvj*^ of februarie )-xxs 
 
 1576 j 
 
 Too one Willm Coxe*^ of magdalin \ ^ 
 
 Collegge in Oxford the xxx*i^ of Aprill 1577: j^^ 
 
 Too f'' Ofboston^, of the vniu^sitie college \ ^ 
 
 in Oxforde the xxvj*^ of June 1577: J^ 
 
 Too one Crane^" of S*^ marie hall in Oxforde \ ^ 
 
 the xii^^ of aprill 1577: j^ 
 
 Too one Garstange" a poore fcholler of Oxforde the) ^ 
 
 } 
 
 xxijt^ of June |^^ 
 
 Too one John Spensore'^ the ix'^ of October 1577:") 
 
 of magdalyn colledge in Oxforde the daye [-v^ 
 
 aforesaid j 
 
 Too m'^ wygnall'^ of magdalyn hauU in Oxford \ ^ , 
 
 the xx*^ of november 1577 J 
 
 To m"" Kynge preacher^* hys wieffe iourneynge towardes | ^ 
 
 her husbande by Doctor Humfrey 29° Martij 1577... j ^ 
 Too one hughe Ortonn^^ comended by m^ mullins | ^ 
 
 the fyrste of male iS 78 : j ^ 
 
 Too one m' Nycollson^^ dwellinge ab*0 
 
 of Corpuschristie college in Oxforde \^^^ 
 
 att the comendacions of m^ doctc 
 
 Coole, the xxiiij^i^ of auguste 1578 : 
 
 Too one Thoms Pye'^ of colledge 
 
 in Oxforde the fyrste of Januarie i578 :. 
 
 the ij'ti of Januarie 1578 : 7.. j "^ ^j'^ 
 
 Too one m^ Barefoote of Corpuschristie \ ...jj .^ ...^ 
 
 College the xxvij^^i of martch 1579: j ^'-^ ^■' ^'^-^ 
 
 Too one Pye, Servant to Coranus^^, the xxiiij*^ \ ~, 
 
 of Aprell 1579 : j ^'' 
 
 
 7'XO
 
 Notes and Illustratiois. 
 {120) 
 
 ' " mr. Barfott," and infra : See Index of Names under "John Barefoot," and note 
 on preceding page. 
 
 - "mr. SW/ar," and iii/m : Hid under "John Seller." 
 
 ' " Willm A^ealsotme" : Ibid, s.n. The name is now spelled Nelson. 
 
 * "Olyverkallozvellofmagdalin hall" : Not in Wood or Dr. Bloxam. From the 
 name, I suppose he came out of Lancashire. A Nicholas Hellewell (Halliwell) of 
 Middleton, Lancashire, a suitor to be of Brasenose College, is named on p. 168, ante. 
 
 * " Richard harmons'" : Ibid. 
 
 6 " Beseley''' : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 7 " Rychard Springhain" : Ibid. 
 
 8 " IVillm Coxe'' : Ibid. 
 
 9 " fr Osboston" : Osboston is a local contraction for the Lancashire surname of 
 Osbaldeston ; and the Sir Osboston named in the text as of University College, Ox- 
 ford, in 1577, may have been Robert Osbaldeston, a native of Blackburn parish, in 
 the county of Lancaster, who was instituted to the vicarage of Whalley in that county 
 9th October, 1581. He is described as "preacher of the Word at Blackburn" on 
 7 August, 1599. He died, it is conjectured, about 1609. (See note by Canon Raines 
 in Chetham Miscellanies, vol. ii, p. 42.) 
 
 1" " Crane" : See Index of Names, s.n., William Crane. 
 
 " " Garstange" : See Ibid, under "Gairstane." 
 
 '•• "John Spensore" : See Ibid, under "John Spenser." 
 
 '3 "mr. Wygnair : See Ibid, under " Wignall." 
 
 '^ "Air. Kynge preacher" '. Not identified. 
 
 '5 "hughe Ortonn" : Not in Wood. 
 
 ■5 ";;;;-. Nycollson" : Not identified. 
 
 '7 " Thorn's Pye," Tind infra: [This] is one that had learning enough to be a dean or 
 a bishop, yet could never rise higher than a vicar and a pedagogue. He was born at 
 Darlaston, near Wednesbury, in Staffordshire, educated for the most part in logicals 
 and philosophicals in Merton College, of which he became one of the chaplains in 
 1 58 1, being then esteemed among the learned to be one of them. Afterwards taking 
 the degrees in divinity as a member of that house, he became vicar and schoolmaster 
 of Bexhill, near Hastings, in Sussex, about 1590, being then, and before, accounted an 
 eminent linguist, excellent in sacred chronology, in ecclesiastical histories and polemical 
 divinity." (Wood's Ath. , vol. ii, pp. 59-60 — where is a note of various books by him.) 
 He died in 1609. See Wood, as supra, for a fuller notice. 
 
 18 "Coranus": See Index of Names, s.n., for frequent entries of this name. He 
 was Anthony de Corro, or Antonius Corranus or Corrano. He was a native of Seville, 
 in Spain, " educated there from his childhood in the Roman Catholic religion, and was 
 at length an Ascetic, but whether a monk or fryer, I know not. Afterwards he left 
 his order and religion, and being desirous to embrace the reformed doctrine, fled from 
 his country, went into England, in 1570 [1568] or thereabout, and at length to London, 
 where he became a frequent preacher." (Wood's Athena, vol. i, pp. 578, 579; where 
 is a full Memoir, pp. 578-81.) He died in 1591. The Parker Society books furnish 
 various interesting notices of this remarkable if somewhat stormy-natured Polemic, eg., 
 Grindal, p. 309, &c.; Parker, p. 340 n.; 2 Zurich, pp. 254 n, 261; his contest with 
 one Hieronymus, Grindal, p. 309, &c. ; the Bishop's judgment on the case, ibid, pp. 
 313, 314; reader at the temple of divinity, &c., ibid, p. 312 n.; thought to preach 
 erroneous doctrine, Parker, p. 476; Grindal, p. 353 n.; 2 Zurich, pp. 254, 255, 261; 
 disliked commentaries, Rogers, p. 196; his death, Grindal, p. 312 «.; his books, Parker, 
 P- 339 «•; letter from him to Bullinger — a very fine one, 2 Zurich, p. 254; letter to 
 him, Parker, p. 339. The entries of our RIS. give us pathetic glimpses of this refugee, 
 and he is only one of many who "endured straits" for "conscience sake" contem- 
 poraneously. The Editor possesses his " Notse in Concionem Solomonis" (1579) — 
 and it is a very penetrative book. 
 
 231
 
 (Page 12 1 of the MS.) 
 Too one John Batner^ of S'« Johannes college") 
 in Oxforde, the xv*'^ Dale of februarye Vx^ 
 anno 1578: J 
 
 Too one Rychard lateware^, and ffrances^ 
 Cooke,3 late fcholars of the marchant 
 Talo"" fchole the xvj*^ dale of June 
 A° 1579 : W* said fcholars are fent 
 from the said fchole to S*® Johannes ^iij^' vj^ viij*^ 
 
 Colledge in Oxforde, 
 
 some 
 ,9 
 
 of 
 
 "J 
 
 I'li 
 
 and 
 vjs 
 
 w*^^ said money 
 
 vnj' 
 the 
 
 was 
 
 dd 
 
 exchaunge 
 
 the 
 
 to m^ Radclief* by 
 
 to theire vse 
 
 Too one Thorns Knight,^ of Corpus christie 
 college in Oxford the x^^ of Januarie 
 1579: whoe was comendid by one 
 of the closett of the Queenes chapell 
 one John of the closett 
 
 Too one Gierke^ of Corpus christie 
 
 College in Oxforde, comendid by m' martyn 
 
 >>xs 
 
 the 
 1579 ., 
 Too one 
 
 xviij*^^ 
 
 of 
 
 februarie 
 
 >xx' 
 
 Pullyn7, of Corpus christie Collegge' 
 
 m 
 
 Oxford the xx*^ of februarie 1579 
 
 >xs 
 
 comendid & by m^ docto' coole, presidente of 
 
 the same house 
 
 Too one leonard Gressett,^ Comendid by m^ 
 
 Docto'' weste falie^, the xx'^ of februarie !^iii* iiij^ 
 
 1579: of Christes church in Oxforde. 
 
 Too one 
 college 
 1580: .., 
 
 Too 
 
 Ste 
 
 the 
 Too 
 
 ni'' Sellar^" of Corpus christie 
 in Oxforde, the x'^ of Aprell 
 
 >xx3 
 
 one John Yorke^', 
 marie haull in 
 
 xxiiijt^i of October 1580. 
 one 
 
 late of 
 Oxforde 
 
 00 one Latham '2 comendid by 
 Sankey • M'' Attournes man 
 xxvj*!^ of martch i58i 
 
 I 
 
 m^ 
 the Vv'S 
 
 IjS Vjc 
 
 [Verso — blank.] 
 
 232
 
 hJoies and IlliLstrations. 
 
 (121) 
 
 ^ '^jfokn Batner^': He recurs twice in the MS. He is here described as of St. 
 John's College, in February, 1578-9; but he had been previously of Magdalen, and 
 Dr. Bloxam notes: — "1572. John Batner aged 18, in the county of Sussex; res. 1574; 
 matr. 8th October, 1571; pleb. fil.; Prob. F. I576-I579; B.A. 25th June 1577; M.A. 
 31st May, 1581; ejected 1578." {Magd. Coll. Regr., vol. iv, p. 188. At p. 171 of 
 the same work the cause of his expulsion is recorded.) Our LIS. in this entry shews 
 that Tohn Batner, after leaving Magdalen in 1578, betook himself to St. John's, and 
 was there entered; and while there, received money from Dean Nowell. 
 
 * '■^ Rychard lateware": "A Londoner bom, educated in Merchant-Taylors' school, 
 became scholer of S' John's coll. 1580, and eight years after M. of arts, and a noted 
 preacher. In 1593, he was elected one of the proctors of the university, being about 
 that time rector of Hopton in Suffolk. Afterwards he became rector of Finchley in 
 Middlesex, D. of D. and at length chaplain to the illustrious hero Charles Lord 
 Mountjoy, lieutenant of Ireland. He was a most ingenious Latin poet, as his epigrams 
 & copies of verses, occasionally printed in books published in his life-time do shew." 
 (Wood's y^//?. vol. i, pp. 709-10, where is a luller notice.) He died in 1601 and is 
 buried in the church at Armagh, where is a monument to him in still excellent 
 preservation. There is another monument on the north wall of the chapel of St. John's 
 College, Oxford, inscribed to " Richardo Latewar, Londinensi, hujus Collegii olim 
 Socio et Academise procuratori," &c., on which the date of his death is given as 27th 
 July, 1601, when he was aged 41 years. His father, Thomas Latewar, erected this 
 mojiument. 
 
 '^ "-ffrances Cooke": Not in Wood ; but from a Register of Merchant Taylors' School 
 I find that "Francis Cooke, son of Thomas Cooke, cloth maker," was entered as a 
 scholar of that foundation 8 Sept., 1570 ; he had therefore been nine years at Merchant 
 Taylors', when he was sent thence to Oxford as here i-ecorded in 1579. The sum 
 granted by Dean Nowell to the use of the scholar and his fellow Lateware was 
 considerable. 
 
 * "■' m' •Radclief'': See Index of Names, s.n. 
 s " Thorns Knighf: Not in Wood. 
 
 ' " Gierke'' (this entry is erased in the AIS.): See Index of Names under "Thomas 
 Clarke." 
 
 7 "Piillyn": Not identified. 
 
 8 '' h-onard Gressett": Not in Wood. 
 
 » '^Doctor Westefalie": See Index of Names under " Westfalinge." 
 
 w ";«' Sellar": See ibid wnAtr "John Seller." 
 
 " "John Yorke'': Not in Wood. 
 
 12 « Latham .... ;«' Sankey Mr Attournes man " : Unknown further. 
 
 "^U
 
 Bachlers 
 
 (Page 122 of the MS) '^^ 
 
 A note^ of sutch money as is bestoweae m c.^v, 
 Colledge of Brasynoose sethence o"" broth"" 
 
 Julye 
 Robte depted vntell the xxiiij't'^ a of A" 1572. 
 
 John Lawrance xiij^ 
 
 Thorns hoolden^ viij^ 
 
 to the same Thoms holden more xx^ 
 
 Rps Rycharde harries xx^ 
 
 Myles Whytworthe xx^ 
 
 Rauffe Thomsonne xx^ 
 
 Thoms hoolden xx* 
 
 Thoms Knowles Bachlere x^ 
 
 Thoms Sperme x^ 
 
 Josyas Pope x* 
 
 Thoms Barker x» 
 
 fchollers Rycharde hollande v 
 
 Georges Nicholes v 
 
 Thoms Scarboroughe y 
 
 Rycharde harries for James risleyj y 
 
 Thoms Stonne y 
 
 Thoms Banckes y 
 
 Rauffe hey v 
 
 Edwarde Bylcher y 
 
 Thoms Powell y 
 
 Rauffe Dickens y 
 
 Robte Cottone y 
 
 Rycharde holkere y 
 
 John Bullocke y 
 
 Willm Chythame y 
 
 henry fhawe y 
 
 more to m*^ hoolden by his brother the \ 
 
 3 vnj'i 
 s viijd 
 
 s viijd 
 * viijd 
 s viijd 
 3 viijd 
 s viijd 
 s viijd 
 » viijd 
 s viijd 
 8 viijd 
 =* viijd 
 s viijd 
 s viijd 
 s viijd 
 
 xiij'^ of februarye A*^ 1572' 
 
 xnijii 
 
 Geven to fchollers of Brassynnose sethence the 
 the xxiiijt'i of Julye Anno i572" as hear^fter 
 follow* 
 
 To Willm massie xvjs viijd 
 
 To John Tattersall xvj» viijd 
 
 To henry mawdisley xvj* viijd 
 
 To Randall Bameforde xvj^ viijd 
 
 To Willm Lee xvj' viijd 
 
 To Stanley xvj^ viijd 
 
 ^ot^fT^rjose To Lawrance Towenley xvj' viijd 
 
 To Georges Pollarde xvj* viijd 
 
 To Willm Gregsonne xvj* viijd 
 
 Too m"" holden, fellowe of Brasynnose vij^ 
 
 Too m"" holte when he wente to oxforde xx^ 
 
 laste 
 
 To the same iij A scholleres of lancashir when they went \-\f & viij^' xix* 
 
 to Oxforde towardes ther chardges 
 
 234
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (122) 
 
 1 ^' A note,'''' &c. The names that follow on the present and succeeding pages occur 
 in the foregoing entries. Therefore each name may be traced with relative Notes by 
 the Index of Names, under each. It would serve no end to repeat prior notices in this 
 summary of the Names. A very considerable proportion of these Brasenose scholars 
 can be recognised by their names as from Lancashire, and they were chiefly scholars 
 from Middleton, Burnley, Whalley, and Clitheroe grammar schools, for the benefit of 
 which Dean Nowell, partially out of his brother's estate and partially also out of his own 
 estate, founded a number of scholarships at Brasenose. These Lancashire men in the list 
 on the present page of the MS. may be enumerated, most of whom have been noticed 
 in precedent annotations : John Lawrence, Thomas Holden, Miles Whitworth, Rauffe 
 Thomsonne, Thomas Barker, Rychard Holkere, Wyllm. Chythame [Chetham]; Henry 
 Shawe, a second Holden [Robert] brother to the former ; Willm. Massie, John 
 Tattersall, Henry Mawdisley, Randall Bameforde, Willm. Lee, [Thomas] Stanley, 
 Lawrence Towenley, George Pollarde, Willm. Gregsonne, T. Holte. To the last 
 names on the page the entry is attached : "To the same iij late schollers of Lancashire 
 when they went to Oxforde towardes ther chardges," &c. John Lawrence and 
 Thomas and Robert Holden were of Clitheroe School ; Richard Holker, Thomas 
 Barker, George Pollard, and William Gregson probably of Whalley School ; 
 John Tattersall, Henry Shawe, Ralph Thomson and Lawrence Towneley, from the 
 Burnley School ; Henry Mawdsley from Blackburn ; William Massie and William 
 Chetham from JNIanchester ; and Randal Bamford and Thomas Holt from Middleton 
 or Rochdale ; Lee and Stanley I cannot locate, but they were Lancashire surnames. 
 The Christian name of Stanley is here left out ; but from .a later^entry 1 find it was 
 Thomas. 
 
 2 " Thofiis koolden" : This Thomas Holden probably became a sers'ant to Dean 
 Nowell, and was the person named in the following item of Dean Nowell's Will : 
 " To his sen-ant Thomas Houlden five marks." 
 
 ^35
 
 the names certen 
 schoUers, sutlers 
 to be of Brassyn- 
 nose, 
 
 fuetters to be of 
 Brasynnoose 
 
 (Page 123 of the MS.) 
 
 To Willm Garstaine x^ 
 
 To Willm Pennington^ at the suet \ ^^3 
 
 of m'' Attourney j 
 
 To ffrances Greatracke x« 
 
 To Thorns Seller2 x^ § 1^ 
 
 all these fchollers of Brasynnoose in this leafFe before named are 
 entred allso before in this Booke amongste the fchollers of the 
 vniu^sitie of Oxforde more planl}^, the Daye, & allsoe the yeare./ 
 and these that are hear after named are not entred before, 
 in any pte of this booke, and so the whole some w*'^ ys bestowed vpon the 
 fchollers of that howfe ys xxv^^ ix^ as nexte before apperethe./ 
 
 Too mylles Smythe^ the xij'^ of octC A"^ 
 
 is 7 2' at the comendacion of m'" Doctor yxvj^ viij*^ 
 homefrey ) 
 
 Rycharde Wylde^ at the comendacions^ 
 
 of the psonne of Middliton^, the fcholmaster, ( ^^^ ^-.^ 
 & the ushere, the same xij'^ of Octobere f , •' 
 Ao 1572- 3 
 
 To the said myles Smythe, & Rycharde S 
 
 Wylde, towardes theyr chardges toe Oxforde the > i'f v}^ 
 fame xij'ii of October A<» 1572- J 
 
 Too one hughe Whitakers^ [erasure] \ 
 the xvij« of Octobe' A° 1572- j 
 
 To one Robte Jacksonne^ the same xvij" ) 
 of octob"^ A« i572- j 
 
 To one Rychard wylde before named 
 
 vij yeardes & iij qt^rs of ffrise^ at xviij^^ i ^-^ .^ ^^ 
 the yarde, the xvij" of octob''. A^ 1572-'^'^ ■' 
 to be the same wylde a gowen 
 
 for two eiles & a half of locoram^ to be 
 
 the same Rycharde wylde a flierte the same . •••g --a 
 xvijo of octob' Ao 1572- at xu}^ the '^ ^ ^ 
 eile in the whole 
 
 for clothe to be ruffes for the same flierte \ .-^ 
 for makinge of the same sherte j 
 
 for ij eills & a halfe of Locarome at ^ 
 
 xiiij*^ the eille for one myles fmyth viij" i}^ 
 the xvii" of octob'' A" 1572- j 
 
 for clothe to be ruffe & for makinge of) --^j 
 the same sherte /
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 {123) 
 
 ' " Wilhn Penington": Connected, very likely, with the Lancashire family of Pen- 
 nine-ton, and related in some undefined degree to Dean Nowell, who by his Will be- 
 queathed to his "cousin" Robert Pennington and his son Robert 10/. each. See Index 
 of Names, s. n. , for a prior reference to this scholar. 
 
 ' " Thorns Seller" : For other references and notes on the Sellers family, see Index 
 of Names, s. n. 
 
 * "Myles Sniythe": Afterwards Bishop of Gloucester, on whom see our former an- 
 notation. In the previous reference in the MS. Myles Smith is placed among several 
 "retainers of Corpus Christi College." Here, however, he appears among "suitors 
 to be of Brasenose" College, in October, 1572. Both items usefully fix dates to events 
 in the college life of this eminent dignitary of the church — his entrance of Corpus 
 Christi, and his removal to Brasenose. Before are other items of money given to 
 Myles Smith out of the Nowell bounty, among them, of payments for locoram for a 
 shirt for him, and for other cloth for a ruff to the same shirt. 
 
 * " Rye hard Wylde": Various other references to him, and note, will be found by 
 means of the Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 » '■' psonne of Middliton, the fcholmaster, and the ushere" : The parson (rector) of 
 Middleton Parish at this date was John Asheton, instituted in 1563, died in 1584. The 
 schoolmaster of Middleton School in 1572 is unnamed; but the usher is mentioned 
 onward in the MS. : "Edmund Blumley usher of Middleton Schole." 
 
 « '■'■Hughe Whitakers" : Doubtless of the Lancashire tribe of Whitakers. 
 
 ' ^' Robte Jackso7ine'" : A "Robert Jackson of Edinburgh in Scotland" was incor- 
 porated B.A. 14th Nov., 1629 (Wood's Fasti, vol. i, p. 452), but he would be too late 
 for identity with this scholar. 
 
 8 "■ffrise" : Frieze was a coarse woollen cloth, supposed to have derived its name 
 from its having been first produced in Friezeland. Shakespeare uses the word in 
 Merry Wives of IVindsor, where Falstaff asks : — "Shall I have a coxcomb oi frize?" 
 meaning a fool's cap made out of Welsh cloth or frieze. 
 
 9 '■'■locoraju . . . . a skerte": Locoram or lockram was a coarse linen cloth, used for 
 under-raiment by the poorer classes at this period. Shakespeare has it in Coriolanus 
 (act ii, scene l):— " The kitchen malkin pins her richest lockram 'bout her reeky neck." 
 The outfit of this Lancashire lad, paid for by Dean Nowell, furnishes a good illustra- 
 tion of the dress of a poor scholar at an English university three centuries ago — a gown 
 of frieze, at 18^, the yard; a shirt of lockram; and ruffs of some finer kind of linen 
 cloth. 
 
 237
 
 (Page 124 of the MS.) 
 
 Too one Alexander Aspinall^ a poore" 
 fcholer, the xxv" of Octob'" A° 1572- at the sute 
 
 of Brasynoose 
 & comendacion of the vice principall A m"" ^xiij* iiij*^ 
 Rycharde harries^, m"" James whitakeres^, ande 
 WiUm Clowther'* fellowes of the same house of 
 Brasynnoose colledge in Oxforde _ 
 
 Too frances Greatracke^ more the xxviij^i of octob''"] 
 A<> 1572* by thandes of fir James Bachler ! ^^ 
 of arte, of Christe church in Oxforde, w<=^^ said | 
 ffrances is belonginge to the said James^^ 
 
 Too one Smithe^ a poor fcholer oP 
 Brafynnoose in Oxforde, by thandes of m^ 
 Docter Coole p^fydent of Corpus christie W^ 
 Colledge, in Oxforde, the xxix° of October | 
 Anno 1572' J 
 
 Too one Thoms Lawe^, late of pishe of Whalley^ 
 & sethence of lincolne Colledge in Oxforde, & I --s 
 as he sayethe at this tyme, of Brasynnoose f ^ 
 the xij*'^ of februarj^e A'' 1572 J 
 
 Too one Rycharde hollande^ an other poor fcholler"^ 
 at the comendacionsofm'' Docter wytheres^^thesame >ij* 
 xij*^ of februarye A** i572* to bringe him to OxfordeJ 
 
 M<i that my m^ dyde wrytte his ire to the principall & nT's of Brasynnoose that 
 these towe fchollers fliall haue at the handes of m^ whitakeres, and the reste 
 of the m''^ there the some of xiij^ iiijd apece. the xij* of februarye A<» 1572- 
 
 viij" of martch 
 A" 1573- 
 
 Too 
 
 llj 
 
 fchole" of Brasynnoose Colledge in"] 
 
 geven 
 
 A note of all sutch 
 femes of money 
 as my m' hath 
 laid out for 
 Brasyn noose 
 sethence the 
 foundation of 
 mydleton fchole. 
 A" 1573: over 
 & besydes certen 
 money gyven to 
 Schollers of that 
 house, sethence yt 
 tyme afore said./ 
 
 Oxforde, by thandes of m'"' harries vice p'cipall I ^^ 
 one henry Smythe,'^ Rycharde hollande Thoms | 
 
 Lawe xiij" iiij<^ apece in the whole J 
 
 ven more to the said Lawe & hollande to^ 
 bringe them to oxforde the viij of martch )>iiij« 
 
 A-^ 1573 J 
 
 M*^ that my m^ hathe sente at iij severall tymes 
 
 to the vice p'^ncipall & fellowes of Brafynnose 
 
 college the viij*'» of martche A" 1573 at )>lxi' 
 
 michalmes, Christenmas, & at o"" ladies daie 
 
 A° 1573 at eu^ tyme or feaste xx'' _ 
 
 to willm kirkame'2 poor fcholler of brasynnose ) ...g jj-.^ 
 
 college in Oxforde the viij of martch A° 1573 / 
 
 To Rycharde ffynche^^ poor fcholler of] 
 
 Brafynnose Colledge in Oxforde at the fute I _,,;:;= :::;d 
 
 c r^ ^ ^ c o 9T-^I. 1 >XXlljS Ulj'* these pcells 
 
 of mr Docter humfreye, & m Docter cole f are entred 
 
 by m"" harries, & iij^ iiij'^ to him selfe _ 
 
 Too one Robte Jacksonne^* the xxij*'^ of novemb"" 
 
 A" 1573 J ^ ■'^ 
 
 are 
 
 in the iijd 
 
 leaf nexte 
 
 after./ 
 
 238
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (124) 
 
 ' ^'Alexander Aspinair': In the Matriculation Book of Brascnose this scholar is 
 described as "of Lancashire." I dare say he belonged to the Aspinalls of Standen, 
 near Clitheroe, for "Alexander" has long been a favourite Christian name in that 
 family. There was another branch of Aspinalls, yeomen, in Blackburn, of whom was 
 Miles Aspinall, a Lancashire minister, in 1590, and, probably, Richard Aspinall, named 
 further on in this MS. (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 * " Rycharde harries, vice priiicipall of Brasy noose," and infra: Richard Harrys, 
 M.A., born in the county of Hereford; elected Principal of Brasenose i6th February, 
 1573; resigned 22nd August, 1595, being then Bachelor of Divinity. He was installed 
 Prebendary of Worcester 6th May, 1576; and died at Worcester. 
 
 » "James IVhiiakeres" : Of the Lancashire Whitakers, doubtless; of whom see 
 Index of Names, s.n., for many notices. 
 
 * ''VVillm Cloivther" : Unknown. 
 
 * "frames Girairacke" : His name appears also on the preceding page, and before 
 in the MS. (See Index of Names, s.n,) 
 
 6 "Sir James'': Not known. 
 
 7 ^'■Smithe": Either Myles Smith, noticed on the previous page, or Henry Smith, 
 who is named infra. 
 
 8 " Thorns La^oe," and infra : See Index of Names, j.k., Lawe family of Whalley. 
 5 '^Rycharde hollande," and inf-a : I have no doubt this poor scholar was from 
 
 Lancashire, where are numerous branches of a family of Holland. He is linked with 
 Thomas Lawe (of Whalley, in Lancashire), as joint recipients of favours from Dean 
 Newell. I cannot trace Richard Holland's subsequent history. 
 
 '" " Docte? wythe)-es": See former reference and Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 " " Henry Smythe" : Among numerous Henry Smiths in Le Neve and the other 
 authorities, the only one who can be conceived to be identical with this scholar is 
 Henry Smith, Prebendary of Lincoln in 1611 ; and this is doubtful. 
 
 ^ ^^Willm Kirkame'': All from this crossed out in the MS., and the reason of the 
 erasure is given in the right-hand margin, because "these parcels are entered in the 
 third leaf next after." William Kirkham's name recurs. I think he belonged to 
 Lancashire. (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 13 " Rycharde ffynche" : Unknown, but see Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 " " Kobte Jacksonne": Unknown. See the name also on preceding page. 
 
 239
 
 w'thin the pishe 
 of Gyllingham./ 
 
 (Page 125 of the MS.) 
 
 vse of the 
 
 Itm paid more to the A college of brasynnose to 
 
 m"" henry Poole of Dalbye^ in the countie of 
 
 Lacester esquier the xxviij° of Aprill 
 
 A° 1573- the some of cxx^^ for an 
 
 )>cxx 
 
 r^Ax 
 
 annuytie of 
 
 a year for xvj^ea yeares. 
 
 Itm paide or gyven into the handes of m'' willm 
 Tocke the elder & yonger", one Annytie of 
 
 v^i ayeare for -iZ-vf^ yeares yet to come 
 
 W 
 
 ch 
 
 >lxxxii 
 
 Annuytie amontethe to the fome of Ixxx^i 
 Item to the fcrevener at feu^all tymes, 
 
 wrytinge the same wrytinges the some 
 Itm for the knoledginge of a recognisance 
 
 xxx' 
 
 ■x« 
 
 '■\ 
 
 nli 
 
 for ) 
 of I 
 be-i 
 for a nr' of the chancery the some of | 
 x« at seu'all tymes A^ 1573- aboute the xxviij" 
 daye of Aprill in the same yeare, all this 
 money on this syde the leaffe aboue wr}^ten 
 was disbused by my m^ as more planly appereth^ 
 Too a fcrevener forwritingethe bookes betwextthe"! 
 College of Brasynnoose, and m^ Cotton^ the xj*^ >-xx' 
 
 of June Anno 1573: J 
 
 pd the xx*^ of June to father howe \v<=^ was"^ 
 fente to Londone the m^-s and principall 
 and fellowes of Brasynnoose to the vse 
 
 the poore scholleres J 
 
 pd to my Lorde Cheney*, for certen"' 
 called Vpbuiy in Kent 1 , 
 
 Landes A to the vse of the Collegeof Brasynnose j 
 
 the xxij* of December A« i573: ccccccccc J 
 
 pd to mr leech^ to the College of Brasynnose~] 
 
 ^ych niy L, Cheney did giue to be devided ^-xxx^^ 
 
 emonges the fchollers J 
 
 gyven to m"" Solifciter xlv' 
 
 gyven to mr Docter hamonde xx^ 
 
 to ij of m^ Bowyer^ men for wrytinge x^ 
 
 to one of M^ Anslowe^ men for wrytinge vj^ vuj' 
 
 for partchmente iiij^ 
 
 the chardges of fuenge out of the letter pattens ) xxxixli xij' 
 
 & ij Duplicattes | 
 
 to m"^ fowle mane 
 
 other fees for the same bookes x'* viij^ iij"^ 
 
 xvj" xnj" uij 
 
 vcccc^' 
 
 ;d 
 
 nd 
 
 Vllj' 
 
 m' booke"^ 
 
 yS x<J 
 
 Too m'' Yellverton for penninge my 
 
 betwen my L. Cheney and hym the xx'^i ^x^ 
 of December A" 1573 J 
 
 my Chardgs into Kente to see Gillingham 
 the xx*^ of december. A^ 1573 
 
 for a lycence of AUynacion for my L. Cheyne 
 yt he A shall sell & assure certen landes called vppbury 
 
 & Gyllingham in the countie of Kente, to my m"" ^xij 
 m"" Alexander nowell Dean of powles & 
 to the college of Brasynose in Oxforde 
 to m"^ Docter hucke for his paynes 
 
 ili 
 
 XX*! 
 
 240
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (125) 
 
 ' '^ henry Poole of Dalbye" : A previous note at page 75 will be found to explain this 
 reference. This item records the payment of the veiy sum of 120/. to "Mr. Henry 
 Poole of Dalbye in the countie of Lacester esquier" which is specifically named in Dean 
 Nowell's well-known letter to Lord Burghley respecting the Brasenose Scholarships, 
 written twenty- three years afterwards (in 1596). The object of the payment was, as 
 here expressed, to secure to the use of Brasenose College an annuity of 15/. for six- 
 teen years upon the estate of Esyngden in Norfolk, in which Mr. Henry Poole had an 
 interest. 
 
 ' " IVillin Tocke the elder S;* yonger": The reference is to William Tooke, Esq., 
 Auditor of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and his son, on whom see a former note 
 at p. 73. 
 
 * " ;«' Cotton " : Probably William Cotton, who was a witness to Dean Nowell's 
 will in 1594; subsequently Bishop of Exeter ; elected 6th Sept., 1598; consecrated 
 1 2th Nov. ; died at Silverton, in Devonshire, 26th August, 1621. 
 
 •• "Lorde Cheney," and infra: Reduced to plainer English, the item would read : 
 " Paid to my Lord Cheney, for certain lands called Upbury, in Kent, within the 
 parish of Gillingham, to the use of the College of Brasenose, the 22nd day of Decem- 
 ber, 1573, 900/." Collate this with the statement of Dean Nowell in his letter to 
 Lord Burghley already mentioned, which runs: "I purchased in reversion of the 
 Lord Cheney the manor of Uppeburj', with the parsonage of Gyllyngham, in the 
 County of Kente, which is worth one hundreth marks or more yerely ; for the which 
 I payed my Lord ix'= '" (900/.) and x" (10/.), with a purse of xl' to my ladie for her 
 consent." Thus the Upbury estate, with Gillingham advowson, cost the Nowell trust 
 912/. sterling, which would equal at least 9000/ of our money, for the endowment of 
 scholarships at Brasenose. 
 
 * ' mr leech," &c. : It would seem that out of the purchase money Lord Cheney 
 handed back to Dean Nowell 30/. as a gift to Brasenose, to be divided amongst the 
 scholars there. His almoner, Mr. Leech, would be William Leech, of Brasenose, 
 Proctor of Oxford University in 1566. 
 
 * '•'■ mr Boivyer" : Mr. Thomas Bowyer, of the Inner Temple, Dean Nowell's kins- 
 man. 
 
 7 " mr Anslowe" : All these later entries on this page refer to legal charges in the 
 preparation of title deeds and conveyances between Lord Cheney and Dean Nowell. 
 
 8 "Docter kiicke": Like Crucke for Croke, this was "hucke" for "Hooke" or 
 "Hoake." 
 
 241
 
 (Page 126 of the AfS.) 
 To nir fysheri for enrolinge the wrytinge ) •■•■^ 
 
 between my L Cheney^ and my m^ j '^ 
 
 for enrolinge the recognizance xviij'i 
 
 for wrytinge the recognizance twyse xviij"^ 
 
 these pcells are 
 entred in ye second 
 leaf nexte after. 
 
 To one Rycharde wylde^ of Brasynnose 
 
 College in Oxforde, the xxx^^^i of m^tch A° 1574. 
 Too m"" hoolte* fcoler of Brasynnose 
 
 College in Oxforde, the xx*^ of m^tch A" {573 
 Too one Edmunde blumley Vsher of 
 
 medleton fchole^ the xx^^i of maye A*> 1574 
 
 to one that cam w'^ him the same tyme 
 
 Too one Rycharde wylde of Brasynnose 
 
 the xx*^ of September 
 
 } 
 
 xs 
 ij« 
 
 X8 
 
 xij"^ 
 xs 
 
 M<^ that my m^ dide dischardge, and paye all thinges for the 
 College of Brasynnose, and of the fchole m'^ and vsheres 
 wagges of meddleton fchole, vntell the Annuciacion of the 
 blessed virgen S'® marie, W^^ was in the yeare of o"" Lorde Godde 
 A thousande fyve hundrethe threescore & fowertenn, vnto m^ 
 Leeche^, and vnto the fcholemaister, & vsher of mydleton fchole 
 as by their seu all acquitances appereth./ 
 
 Itm my 
 
 ,9 
 
 m 
 
 fente 
 
 more 
 
 by"! 
 
 the some of v^* W* 
 michaell A'* i574j 
 the fcholemaisters' 
 
 hathe allsoe 
 m' Docter humefrey^ 
 at the feaste of S*® 
 and my m^ sente 
 of medleton scole 
 & vshers A accquitances by m^ flowed^ 
 p^rencipall of Jesus College to Oxforde 
 the w<=^ schole maisters & vshers wagges 
 due at michalmes A° i574- my 
 m sente by m^ Banester^ of 
 
 th nf nrf-nVi^t- Ao iC74" 
 
 Altam. the xx^i^ of October A° 
 
 > 
 
 a ^ O 
 o2 w 
 
 o y 
 
 m^ receyved of m^ Archdeacon wattes^i the xxvj*^ of aprell A° 1575: 
 the some of s)^ w'^^ said some was receyvid of the Deane & Chapter 
 of powles, to the vse of the Principall, fellowes, & Scholleres, of 
 Braysynnoose college in Oxforde. and receyvid more the same tyme of 
 hyme the some of xlvj^ viij*^ for the moytie of Boyton hall, wherof 
 paid of the fame to the fcholmaister^^ of the Quenes ma^i^s free schole of 
 myddleton, for his half yeares stypende due at the Annunciation of the 
 blessed virgin S<^® marie laste paste vj'^ xiij^ iiijd and iij^i vj^ viij^^ to 
 the vsher due at the same tyme. and gyven more to the said vsher of 
 free will xiijs iiij^. & so rem in my m"" handes xxxiij^ iiij<^ of the sum recepd. 
 
 242
 
 Notes and IlhLstratious. 
 (126) 
 
 ' *■' mr. fysher'''' : An officer of the law who had his fees for enrolling the deed of 
 conveyance, &c., between Lord Cheney and Dean Nowell. 
 
 2 "Z Ckejiey" : See last page. 
 
 ' "Rychard ivylde, " and infra (these five entries are crossed ourin the MS.): See ante 
 and post for this scholar, who was one of a family of Wilds in Lancashire, many of 
 whose members received gifts from the Nowell bounty as kindred of the Nowells. 
 
 * '■' inr. hoolte'" : This surname is meant for " Holt." See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 5 " Ediiiiinde blmnhy Vsher 0/ ynedleton fchole" : See Index of Names, s.n., for a 
 prior allusion to him. 
 
 s " jnr. Leeche" : See the previous page. This is an important record of Dean 
 Nowell's large responsibility as refounder and supporter of Middleton School, and of 
 the scholars from that school sent to Brasenose, from some time previous to the year 
 
 '574- 
 7 " Doder kuvtefrey" : See Index of Names, s.n., for frequent notices. 
 
 * '^ ?nr. flozued" : The scribe has apparently miscopied "Flowed" for "Lloyd" in 
 his master's memorandum. No Mr. Flowed was Principal of Jesus College, but Dr. 
 Griffith Lloyd was Principal of that college from 1572 until his death in 1586. 
 
 ' " mr. Baiiester of Altam" : Nicholas Banaster of Altham Hall, parish of Whalley, 
 in the county of Lancaster, who carried this money from Dean Nowell to Middleton 
 School, was a near neighbour of the Nowells of Read Hall, his hall and estate at Al- 
 tham being about a mile from Read Hall, on the opposite or south bank of the Lanca- 
 shire Calder. Nicholas Banaster died in August, 1612. His great-grandson, Natha- 
 niel Banaster, Esq., married a Nowell (Mary, daughter of Roger NowelL, Esq., of 
 Read). 
 
 "> "John ivorstoncrofte of Burr ie Cotton man''' : This is a very early instance of the 
 description of a Lancashire maker or dealer in textile fabrics as a " cotton-man." John 
 Worstoncrofte was "of Bury," in Lancashire. 
 
 " " A>rkdeaco7i 2vaites" : See Index of Names, j-.«. 
 
 " '^fcholmaister," &c. : These items supply the information that the stipend of the 
 master of Queen Elizabeth's Free School at Middleton, as paid by Dean Nowell, in 
 1575, was 13/. 6j-. 8(/. per annum, paid half-yearly ; and the stipend of the usher 
 61. ly. ^d. 
 
 2 R 243
 
 entered in 
 the fecond leaf 
 nexte after 
 
 (Page 127 of the MS.) 
 Too one henry muncke\ of Brasynnose college! 
 in Oxforde, comendid by m"" Norries, mr Gylberte )>x8 
 Garrarde Clearke^, the x*^ of februarye A^ {574: J 
 To one m"" Lytley L for the fyne of the"^ 
 
 [erasure] write of Covenante {■■•n 
 
 the Thursdaye the Daye the xvij*^ of februarye [ ^ 
 
 A" 1574: J 
 
 the mr "] 
 
 for the Dedymus Potestatem to a of the rooles^ I ■•^ --^ 
 clarke one m"" meacalf the xxvj*^ of february [ 
 AM574: ^ 
 
 wryttinge 
 
 for A the wrytt of Couenante the fame tyme ij^ vj^ 
 
 To Rycharde wylde* of Brasynnose college"^ 
 
 viijo yardes of frysse at xvj<i the yarde the Vx^ viij*^ 
 xxvij*^ of februarye A** {574: J 
 
 To one of the nr' of the Rooles clarkes"^ 
 for fearchinge of the dyschardge of the ( ..... 
 
 tenthe of vpburie the xxvjtii of february j •' '-^ 
 
 AM574 ...•: J 
 
 for the coopie of the grante of the tenth o 
 
 vpbery to Rycharde fullmystone,^ by Thorns 
 Bowyeare^ the xv* of martch A" 1574 
 
 m'' Applegarthes handes to the same ij* 
 
 the fearch of the Kallander viij'^ 
 
 to pratte iiijd 
 
 The fearche of the Kallander of Kynge^ 
 henry the vij'^ tyme. & Kynge Edwardes 
 tyme if ther mighte any dischardge 
 be fonde, from fullmyfter to f Thoms 
 
 Cheney^ 
 
 pd to my Ladie cheney^, for her goodewilH 
 at the knoledginge of the fyne & recovirie, the )>x^' 
 
 xv*^ daie of martch A° {574: in golde J 
 
 pd for a purse to putt the same in, the same tyme ... xl« 
 To f'" Smith9 of Brasymnose College ) ^ 
 
 in Oxforde, the xxviij^'i of Aprell A" i575: f ^^ 
 
 Too one Robte ffbrte^°, a poore fcholer 
 of Brasynnose college in oxforde at 
 
 n'd 
 
 >xvj 
 
 id 
 
 the comendacion 
 preacher 
 
 of 
 
 m Crowley'^ 
 
 "X= 
 
 244
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 * " hettry ftmncke" : This entry is crossed out in the MS. A Henry Munckes is 
 named in the Will of Robert Ravalde of Kersall in Manchester, dated 20th Feb., 
 1577-8, as owing testator ^y. 4d. {Aanc. and CJies. Wills, vol. iii, p. 44.) 
 
 * " Gylberte Garrarde Clearke": i.e., the clerk or secretary of Gilbert Gerrard, Esq., 
 the Queen's Attorney-General. 
 
 ' "w;- of the rooks ( = Master of the Rolls) OJie nir Meacalf" : Unknown. 
 
 * " Rycharde wylde''^: See the item four pages earlier of a gift of frieze for a gown to 
 this scholar at Brasenose, a relative of the Nowells. 
 
 * '■^ Rychai'de fullmystone'" : This name is spelled "fullmyster" in another entry 
 lower on this page. 
 
 ^ '■^Thorns Bozvyeare^'': See a notice of him onward, and Index of Names, s.tt. 
 
 "> ^'fidlmysier to Thorns Cheney'": See Lord Cheney in Index of Names, s.n., and 
 see Note 5 supra. 
 
 ^ '■'■ Ladic cheney'''': Lady Cheney having some interest in the estate conveyed by her 
 husband to the Nowell trustees, receives a sum of 10/. (in a purse which cost 40j-.)from 
 Dean Nowell, for her goodwill, at the acknowledging of the fine and recovery of the 
 estate, 15th March, 1574-5. 
 
 ' -'fr Smith'' (these two entries are crossed out in the MS.): See Index of Names, 
 s.n. 
 
 '" '^ Robte fforte" : Not known. His name recurs. 
 
 " "■ mr C7-oiijley preacher''' : See Index of Names, J. w. 
 
 24:
 
 Laid out for the 
 ffees of the exem- 
 plification. 
 
 (Page 128 of the MS.) 
 Too m'' ffarrande^ & m^ lytley^ w*^ otliQr for' 
 the fyne of the wrytte of the recoverie the xxx*^ of 
 
 Aprell A° {575. in the 
 Bowyeare^ beinge a doble voucher 
 
 p^sence 
 
 of m Thorns 
 
 J 
 
 X' 
 
 Clerkes of the "| 
 
 To m'-' Beale, to gyve to the 
 
 fignett & p^vie feale, the xxx*^ of aprell 1575 : W 
 for ther fees for wryttinge the booke for mortemane j 
 
 Toe m^ poole^ Clearkes, for wryttinge & enro-"^ 
 linge the fame booke for mortemayne, & for enrolinge 
 the fame the ffees of the greate seale beinge 
 gyven by my Lord 
 as the feale xl^ vij*^ writtinge & 
 xlvj® vij'^. waxe lease & examynacion 
 the dockette xij'i toto iiij^i xij^ iiij*^ 
 
 Too m^ Thorns Bowyere the xi'^ of"^ 
 June, the some of fyftie shillinges w<=^ was 
 
 Gryffytt, m^ Justice 
 
 for pte of the chardges 
 
 x^ 
 
 inrolinge 
 
 iiij' 
 
 Thorns 
 some 
 paid to m'" 
 Southcoate^ clearke 
 for the recoverie 
 
 M^ 
 
 laid out the laste 
 
 terme. A" i575 J 
 
 Bowyer, the 
 Laste paymente 
 
 fyfte of^ 
 of the fyne, ! |.. 
 m^ Greffett, m^ Justice South- 
 the daye 
 haymon7 a 
 
 in Oxforde x^ and to 
 
 liiij^ iiij 
 
 ;<i 
 
 aboue faid A° 1575:, 
 poore fcholer of 
 
 colledge 
 
 Too m Thorns 
 
 December, for the 
 
 w*=^ was paid to 
 
 coattes Clearke 
 Too one Willm 
 
 Brasynnose 
 
 hym and to one James Stacie, pore fchollers y-iC 
 
 of the same howse, towardes the chardges of theyr 
 
 iorney to Oxforde the x^*^ of January A" 1575 _ 
 
 The great Seale xx^ iiij^ 
 
 The Lorde Kep for towe pattentes xiij^ iiij"* 
 
 The m'' of the RoUes vj^. viij^ 
 
 The xamynacion iiij* 
 
 The Sealer ij*^ 
 
 The kep of the bookes for the roolles viij*^ 
 
 The Dockett xij^ 
 
 The writtinge xvj* viij' 
 
 Laid out for the 
 ffees of the vidimus 
 
 Ixijs 
 
 X" 
 
 The great Seale xx^ iiij' 
 
 The examynation iiij^ 
 
 The Sealer ij"^ 
 
 The Dockett xij<l 
 
 The writtinge xxvj^ viij 
 
 lijs ijd 
 
 ii'id
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (138) 
 
 1 ";«;-. ffarrande'^ : With one exception, all the entries upon this page refer to pay- 
 ments of legal charges incurred in the necessary processes of law for the conveyance of 
 the estate of Lord Cheney at Upbuiy to Dean Nowell for the use of Brasenose College 
 as a new endowment. See ante for particulars of this purchase. 
 
 * "wr. lytley" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ' " Thorns Bowyeare," and infra : See Index of Names under " Bowyer." 
 
 * " mr. poole" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " my Lord A7j>" = Sir Nicholas Bacon. See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " mr. Justice Sonthcoate," and infra : See Index of Names, s.7i., for a previous 
 reference to this Judge and a relative biographical note. 
 
 7 " Williti Iiaymon'" .... "James Stacie''' : These two poor scholars of Brasenose 
 are not found in any published record of the College or of Oxford University. 
 
 ■47
 
 (Page 129 of the MS.) 
 m'' Thorns Bowyere^ when he wentel 
 London about my L. chene busynes 1 ,3 
 the College of Brasyn '^ 
 
 noose 
 
 the f 
 
 Too 
 
 to 
 
 for 
 
 xx*^ of december 1576 
 Too one John haywoode,'^ fcholare of Brasyn 
 
 noose colledge in Oxforde, the xxj^^^ of Januarie 
 
 1576: 
 
 Too one John Batner^ of S'® Johannes in 
 
 the 
 
 XXV 
 
 th 
 
 daie of februarie 
 
 r 
 
 XS 
 
 Oxforde 
 
 A" 1578: J 
 
 Too one Talbott Sonne in lawe to"] 
 m"^ Corbett*, att his gowinge to Oxforde )>xs 
 the xix of Aprell isSo: J 
 
 Too henry Parraye^, fcholare oi~\ 
 Corpus Christie college in Oxford )>x* 
 the xij*^ of December 1580: .J 
 
 Too one Arthure hoppwood^ poore 
 
 fchollar, of midleton fchole, when 
 
 he went to Oxforde the x*^ of j 
 
 novembris 1580: -.J 
 
 Too John Ryve of m' mulcaster fchole^^ 
 
 )>xV 
 
 when he went 
 November i58o: 
 
 to Oxforde the xv 
 
 th 
 
 of Wja 
 
 2 A.
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (129) 
 
 ' '*Tko»is Bozuyere": See Index of Names under " Bowyer," and also under "Lord 
 Cheney " (same as " Chene " here). 
 
 2 "yokn hayivoode^' (this entry is crossed out in the MS.): I conjecture John 
 Heywood might be of the family of Heywood of Hepvood, in the county of Lan- 
 caster, to which belonged a later John Hej^vood, rector of Walton-on-the-Hill, near 
 Liverpool, who died in 1664, aged 48. His grandfather, Peter Heywood, who died 
 about 1600, had a younger son Peter Heywood, described as "of the city of West- 
 minster." 
 
 ' "yo/in Bmfner": This entrj' is erased in the AfS. John Batner appears elsewhere. 
 He was first of St. John's College, later of Magdalen. (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 * "Talhott Corbet f': Unknown. 
 
 * "henry Parraye": This was the notable Henry Parry, afterwards Bishop of 
 Gloucester and Worcester in succession. He was, as here stated, of Corpus Christi 
 College, Oxford, and was a benefactor to the library of the college, as recorded in 
 Wood's history of the college: — "Mr. Hen. Parry, sometime Fellow, gave divers 
 [books] in his lifetime, and in the year of his decease, an. 1627, of which some were 
 choice A/SS." He was installed Dean of Chester 1st August, 1605 ; elected Bishop 
 of Gloucester 12th June, 1607 ; confirmed 9th July, and consecrated I2th July, 1607 ; 
 translated to the see of Worcester, elected Bishop of Worcester, 13th July, 1610 ; 
 confirmed 5th October following. He died I2th December, 1616, and was buried in 
 his own cathedral. His Will is in the Prerogative Office of Canterbury. (Le Neve, 
 vol. iii, p. 66, &c.) 
 
 ' "Art/uar hoppwood^': A scholar of Middleton School. Arthur Hopwood 
 belonged to one of the branches of the Hopwood family, kindred of the Nowells, who 
 appear in the MS. as dwelling at Rochdale, Oldham, Manchester, and other places in 
 South Lancashire. (See Index of Names, s.n., for other Hopwoods. ) 
 
 7 ''jfokn Ryve vir mtdcaster SchoW'': Probably this was the "John Reve, 
 
 son of John Reve, fletcher" (=arrow-maker), entered at Merchant Taylors' School 
 (Mr. Alulcaster named in the text being head-master) 9th December, 1569. Reve, 
 Reves, and Ryve, are merely various spellings, common at this date, of the sAue 
 surname. 
 
 249
 
 >xxiij3iiij'i 
 
 ) 
 
 y iij' iiij' 
 
 } 
 
 x^ 
 
 IJ^ 
 
 ■(Page 130 of the MS.) 
 anoteofcerten Xqo ottc Willm Kirkam,^ a poore fcholler of^ 
 nt:!T.^c°hhaThTad Brasyii noose colledge in Oxford, the viijtb of Vxiij^ iiijd 
 
 wd^d^Sl^on martchAM573 • ••••••• J 
 
 fchoie^ / Too one Richard fynch of Brasyn noose 
 
 college in Oxforde, att the sute of m^ Docto' 
 humfrey, m^ Docto"" Cole, and m^ harries 
 xx^ & iij* iiij*^ as putt in by him self ^ 
 
 Too one Robte Jacksonne, the xxijt^ °^l ;;,-s ;;;,-d 
 november A^ 1573 
 
 Too one Richard wild of Brayfyn noose 
 college, the xxx'^ of martch 1574: 
 
 To nr' holte of Brafynnoose the 
 
 same tyme i574- 
 Too one Edmund Blumeley^ vsher of] ^^ 
 
 mydleton fchole the xx.^^ of maye {574: j ^ 
 To Richard wild of Brasyn noose the \ 
 
 xx^h of September i574 } 
 
 Too one muncke of Brasyn noose college S 
 
 the x*^^ of februarie comendid by m^ Vx^ 
 
 Norries, m^ Garrard mane J 
 
 Too Richard wyld of Brasyn noose college^ 
 
 the xxvijth of februarie 1574: for viij^h Ix^ viij'^ 
 
 yardes of frisse'* j 
 
 To S"" Smith of Brasyn noose college } 
 
 in Oxford, the xxviij*^ of Aprell i575: ) 
 
 To one Robte forte a poore fcholler of \ 
 
 Braysynoose colledge in Oxforde att { 
 
 the comendation of m'^ Crowley the preacher f' 
 
 the xx*!^ of Aprell 1575: ) 
 
 To one Richard Wild the xxx^li of martch ) 
 
 A° i5 76: of Braysyn noose colledge j 
 
 Too one Raphe Bamford the kx^^ of ) 
 
 Januarye 1574 j 
 
 • x^ 
 
 Too the same Raphe more the xij^^^ of] 
 
 Aprill Anno 1576: j 
 
 Too one Robte Lawe^ of Brasyn noose college ] 
 
 X 
 
 the xii of Julye att hadham 1576 / 
 
 Too Rauffe Bamford^ more, fent by his ^ 
 vnckell of manchester the xix*^ of maye /-x' 
 
 i576: j 
 
 To one Willm nealsonne, the xxx*^ of June 
 
 i576:7 
 
 fente to Brasyn noose, att the comenfement \ 
 
 & w^^^ a bucke, & for wyne*^ w^b the keps fifee, by Vxxx^ 
 
 m^ norton, the vj'^ of Julye 1576: j 
 
 Too one Lawrance mawdisley, the xxviij'^ ] ,, 
 
 of June i576: ) 
 
 Too one Robte lawe of Braysyn noose } ^ 
 
 the x*^^ of Januarie 1577 : the some/' 
 
 250
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (130) 
 
 ' " sethence the fowidatmi of mydleton fckole" : Most of the names in this page 
 have aheady occurred. Therefore let the Index of Names, j.«., be consulted for 
 each and relative notes. 
 
 "^ " IVillm lurkaiii" : By a manuscript without date, in Lansdozvne MS., No. 107, 
 cod. 116, one William Kirkham, a minister, imprisoned in the Gate House, West- 
 minster, humbly petitions Queen Elizabeth for his liberty, and shows how he has been 
 wronged by the persons who brought his calamities upon him. 
 
 ^ " Ediinind BhiDiehy^' : There is a previous allusion to this usher of Middleton 
 School. Index of Names, 5. «. 
 
 * "frisse^^= frieze. See note on this fabric, p. 237. 
 • * *■' Robte La7oe" : On this and the next two pages of the AIS. there are the follow- 
 ing entries relating to this Lancashire scholar at Brasenose : " To one Robte Lawe, of 
 Brasynose college the x"' of Julye att Hadliam 1576, x'." " To one Robte Lawe 
 of Braysyn noose the x"" of Januarie 1577 the some xv'." "Too one Robte Lawe 
 poore schoUare of Brasynnoose the xxth daye of September 1578, iii''." "Too 
 Robte Lawe of Brasynnoose college in Oxforde, the xx"» of februarie, 1578, towarde 
 his p'cedinge Batchelare the same tyme xx*. To the same Lawe more att Christmas 
 laste, the xx"" of December, 1579, x'." "Too the yonger Lawe of Brasyn noose 
 College in Oxforde the xxx"" of Aprell 1581 wich is entred in another booke, xx'." 
 These entries cover five years of Robert Lawe's university career, from 1576 to 1581. 
 But he has before been named (see ante, p. 172) as at Oxford in 1570, and as then 
 under the tuition of the learned William Whitaker. Onward in the MS. gifts to 
 several members of this scholar's family at Whalley are mentioned, and where I 
 add a note on the genealogy. An elder brother, Thomas Lawe, was at Brasenose at 
 the same time as Robert Lawe. (See ante, page 238.) Robert Lawe was a younger 
 son of Robert Lawe of Wiswall, near Whalley, yeoman, by his wife Elizabeth, 
 daughter of John Wolton, yeoman ; thus he was nephew of John Wolton, Bishop 
 of Exeter (whom I notice hereafter), and sister's grandson (great-nephew) of Dean 
 Nowell. Robert Lawe appears to have been at home in 1569, but in that year or 
 early in 1570 was sent to Oxford and entered at Brasenose. Our JIIS. shows the 
 frequent pecuniaiy assistance afforded to this youth by Dean Nowell during eleven 
 years he was at the University; and supplies the fact that he proceeded B.A. in 
 1579-80. Afterwards he took the M. A. degree. On leaving the University, about 
 1582, he became beneficed at Ashwater. Being taken under the patronage of his 
 uncle John Wolton, who had been created Bishop of Exeter in 1579, Robert Lawe, 
 M.A., was collated to the archdeaconry of Barnstaple in that diocese the 7th January, 
 1582-3. On the 3rd December, 1584, Robert Lawe, Archdeacon of Barum, was 
 collated Treasurer of the see of Exeter (Le Neve, vol. i, pp. 407, 416.) He held the 
 office of Treasurer until his death. In 1585, among other charges made against 
 Bishop Wolton by certain spiteful adversaries, it was represented that he had given 
 " the archdeaconry of Barnstaple to one Lawe, his kinsman, who by his own con- 
 fession had but 20/. by the year out of the same, and the benefiee of Ashwater." To 
 this Wolton's answer was : — "I gave the archdeaconry of Barnstaple to my cousin 
 [nephew] Mr. Lawe, a Master of Arts of three years' standing ; a man of as great 
 towardness in the tongues, liberal arts, and divinity, as any is of his time in England ; 
 and is so at this day reported in Oxenford ; who now resideth in Exeter as divinity 
 lecturer in the latin tongue to the ministers of this diocese, that list to repair to it. I 
 suppose he had not above 20/. yearly out of the same, the which [arch]deaconry, together 
 witii the house, being before his time let out to lease, and the portion he had out of 
 Ashwater, which benefice was given him by Mr. Arscot, I think could not be much," 
 &c. Robert Lawe died before June, 1629, when Robert Hall was appointed Treasurer 
 of Exeter, vacant "per mort Lawe." 
 
 ® '■'' Kauffe Bamford" : He occurs thrice on this page, and see Index of Names, s.ii., 
 for a previous reference and relative note. 
 
 ^ This entry is erased in the MS. 
 
 ^ ^ biicke &^for ivyne" : A frequent aristocratic gift at the period. 
 
 2?T
 
 (Page 131 of the MS.) 
 Too the exhibition of the towe Glovers' ) jj 
 
 in Brasyn noose colledge the xx^^^^ of novemb'' J ^ 
 Too one John haywoode,^ fcollar of Brafyn noose ) g -^ 
 
 College in Oxforde. the xxj'''^ of februarie 1576:/^ ^•^ 
 Too one Willm hamon^, a poore fchollare, the ) g 
 
 xxviij*^ of februarie. A'* {576: j ^ 
 
 Too one Thorns Stanley* of Brasyn noose, \ g 
 
 colledge in Oxford the vj*'^ of maie i577:j^ 
 Too one Edmund fcofeild^ att his gowinge S 
 
 to Oxforde the vij^^i of June 1577: ^x^ 
 
 of Brasyn noose college j 
 
 Too Rycharde Parkes'' poore fchollare of] g 
 
 Braysyn noose, the x^i^ of June iS 77 :j 
 Too one S'' Gredgsonn^, of Brasyn noose colledge 1 
 
 in Oxforde the xv*^ of Julye 1577: j^ 
 
 Too one Rauffe husson^, a poore fchollare ) ..g -^ 
 
 of Oxforde the xxij^t of June 1577 : j ^-^ ^^ 
 
 Too one William hamon, fchollare of Brasyn S 
 
 noose college in Oxforde, the v*^ of October Vx* 
 
 A" 1577:. J 
 
 Too one Richard dalton^ of Braysyn noose colledge ) 
 in Oxforde the xxx'^ of december 1577 : j ^ 
 
 To Thoms Morrie'o of Christes churche in S 
 Oxforde whan he entred in to the ministerie >-x» 
 toward his charges 29 Martij 1578 j 
 
 Too one willm hamon the xxviij^^i of Aprill 1578 "j 
 late of [Trinitie College in Cam — erasure] Braysyn Vxij^ 
 noose in Oxforde, the some of xij' j 
 
 To one John Crowther^^ a poore scolare ) 
 of Brasyn noose the xv^^ of June 1578/^^ 
 
 To one Robte Lawe'^ poore schollare 
 of Brasynnoose the xx^'^ daye of 
 September 1578 
 
 Too one Richard Taller'^ of Brasyn noose ] ..g .^ 
 colledge in Oxford the v^^ of martch i578 : | 'J ^'J 
 
 Too one Crowther''*, of Brasyn noose 
 college in Oxford comendid by m^ 
 Attourney of the Dutchie,'^ the second 
 of maie 1579: 
 
 Too one Richard AspinalP^ of" 
 
 Brasyn noose college in Oxforde, 
 
 comendid by m^ farrington'7, of 
 
 Lancashire, the seconde of Julie 
 
 1579: J 
 
 Too one Robte Lawe'^ of Braysn ^ 
 noose college in Oxforde the xxj^^^ of februarie Ix^ 
 
 Ao 1579:/) 
 
 
 xx* 
 
 x^ 
 
 2^3
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (13O 
 
 ' " totve Glovers" : Laurence Nowell, Dean of Lichfield, brother of Dean Alexander 
 Nowell, married a Mrs. Glover, who had two sons by her former husband, named 
 Daniel and Edward Glover ; and these two step-sons had each a bequest of lo/. by 
 Dean Laurence Nowell's Will. The Dean of Lichfield died about October, 1576; 
 and it will be seen that this entry is dated November (1576). Dean Alexander Nowell 
 here pays 5/. for the exhibition of Daniel and Edward Glover at Brasenose College. 
 
 * '^yohn hayivoode^'' : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ' " IViUm /laiiion," and infra : Ibid, and again infra. 
 
 * " Thorns Stanley" : Noted previously as a Lancashire scholar. 
 
 * ^' Edmund fcofeiUV : He is named before (see page 228) as a scholar at Middleton 
 School in 1575, and here occurs ongoing to Oxford in June, 1577. He belonged, it 
 may be assumed, to a branch of Schofields seated at Stakehill, in Middleton. Canon 
 Raines has contributed the following items concerning this family : "The Schofields 
 of Stakehill (the house now a good old yeoman's house in Middleton, belonging to the 
 Buckleys) often occur in the Middleton Parish Books. They seem to have been wealthy 
 yeomen. At Rochdale Manor Court, 17 March, 37 Eliz. (1594), Edmund Schofield 
 of Stakehill, in Middleton, and his wife surrendered 21 acres and one messuage in 
 Hundersfield to the use of Jennet Wolstenholme of Wolstenholme, widow. The 18 
 March, 40 Eliz. (1597), Edmund Schofield of Stakehill, gent., and Anne his wife sur- 
 rendered a messuage and lands to the use of Jennet Wolstenholme, widow, and then 
 in her occupation. This Jennet was daughter of Mr. Edmund Schofield of Stakehill, 
 and had married John Wolstenholme of Wolstenholme, gent., who died in 1555. She 
 was buried at Rochdale, 14 June, 1598." 
 
 * " Rycharde Parkes" : Unknown. 
 
 ^ "fr Gredgsonn" : See Index of Names under " WiUiam Gregson." 
 
 ^ " Ranffe hiisson" : Unknown. 
 
 ' " Richard dalton" : It is not improbable he was Richard Dal ton. Prebendary of 
 Bullingham in Hereford Cathedral, collated i6th January, installed 6th February, 
 1 60 1 -2. 
 
 ■" " Thorns Morrie" : See page 225, Note 2, for previous notice of him. 
 
 " " yohn Crowiher" : He is named again below, and on the next page. 
 
 " '•'■ Robte Lawe,^' and ittfra : See preceding page for biographical notice of him. 
 
 " "Richard Taller" : Not known. 
 
 " " CrowlAer" : See supra. 
 
 ^ " mr. Attoiirney of the Dictchie^' : See Index of Names under "Sir Ralph Sadler." 
 
 '* " Richard Aspinall" : Mr. William Farington of Worden, and Audley Hall, 
 Blackburn, had among his Blackburn tenants a family of Aspinalls ; and one of them. 
 Miles Aspinall, was at Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1580, when he wrote a letter 
 (published by Canon Raines in the Stanley Papers) from college to his patron, Mr. 
 Farington. He was a minister in Lancashire in 1590. I think it veiy likely that this 
 Richard Aspinall, at Brasenose in 1579, and commended by the same gentleman, Mr. 
 Farington, was a brother of Miles Aspinall, the minister, or at least of the same 
 family. 
 
 '7 " mr. farrington" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 '8 " Robte Lawe" : (This entry is crossed out in the MS.) 
 
 253
 
 (Page 132 of the MS.) 
 t?,;s scholar ^00 OHC of Brasvii noose Colle^e^ 
 
 isoicorpuse ^-\ /- 1 1 •••*!, r t • • 1 I 
 
 Christie college. ^ Oxforde the viij*" 01 Januane 1579: whoe I 
 Avas comendid to my nr' by one of | 
 the clofett the same daie aforesaid' J 
 
 Too Robte Lawe^ of Braysn noose college in \ 
 
 Oxforde the xx*^ of februarie i57o: towardes Vxx^ 
 his pcedinge Batchlare the same tyme j 
 
 Too the same Lawe more at Christmas 
 laste, the xx*^ of december {579: 
 
 Too one Crowther^, of Brasyn noose in oxforde "j 
 
 att the handes of S"^ George bromley knight"* Vxx^ 
 the •s}^ of auguste 1580: j 
 
 Too the yonger lawe^, of Brasyn noose ^ 
 
 College in Oxforde the xxv*'^ of Aprell Vxx» 
 i58i : w<=^ is entred in an other booke J 
 
 ixs 
 
 [ Verso — blank.] 
 
 254
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 ' This entry is crossed out in the MS. 
 
 ' " Robte lawe" and i>ifra : See biographical note two pages antty and Index of 
 Names, s.n. 
 
 3 " Crowther" : Ibid. 
 
 * ^'' Sr George Brouley, Knight": Sir George Bromley, Knt., Justice of Chester, 
 temp. Elizabeth; he was son of George Bromley, Esq., of the Inner Temple, and elder 
 brother of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor. In "Two Curious Lists of Land- 
 owners, temp. Queen Elizabeth," from Lansdow>ie MSS. No. 613, under date "June, 
 1576," in an enumeration of "The names of certayne lawyers in euery of the foure 
 Innes of Courte," under "Th'inner Temple," occurs " Mr. George Bromley, Attorney 
 of the Duchie. " {Notes and Queries, 5th S., vol. vii, p. 23.) 
 
 * "yonger lawe" : See supra. Robert Lawe is here styled "yonger" to distinguish 
 him from his elder brother Thomas, who also was at Brasenose. 
 
 *55
 
 (Page 133 of the 3IS., folio 88.) 
 money Lente to certen [nedy & poor 
 peoplie, — erased] to be repayed agayne 
 Lente to Raffe morries of Bekesborne^ in Kente' 
 as appereth by his bill dated the xxj*^ day 
 of february A° xj° Elizabethe to be repayed )>v^^ 
 \v*hin eight dayes after the feaste of the 
 
 Nativitie of S*« John babtiste 
 
 John Satterley2 havinge eighte' 
 to ftore his fearme as apperethe 
 accquitance dated the 
 A" xjo Elizabethe RRes 
 at michallmes nexte after 
 
 Lente to 
 children, 
 by his 
 martch 
 repayed 
 
 day 
 to 
 the date 
 
 be ^^ 
 
 to 
 
 herof 
 
 To Thorns Bowyer^ 
 againe the some of tene 
 of Octob'' Ao {569 
 
 Lente to one Roger Edwardes'* 
 
 Thys beyng 
 pte payed by 
 Spryghm the 
 is forgyven. 
 
 be 
 
 repayed 
 
 Uh 
 
 agame 
 
 Lente to him 
 Anno is 70 to 
 
 more the 
 be repayed 
 
 poundes, the xxvnj 
 
 to be repayed) j3 
 third of Jenuarye ) 
 
 x^^ Repayed v^i 
 
 agame 
 
 XS 
 
 xxvij^' x^ 
 
 To one Rycharde Coattes^ the viij*'^ daye of decemb'^ 
 A" 1572' w*^'^ fholde be repayed agayne at the 
 feaste of S*® John Babteste nexte 
 
 ■xs 
 
 shoulde be 
 Ao i572- 
 
 to the vicare of Crowedone^, w'^'^ 
 
 repayed at Christemas nexte 
 
 vl* as I rememb'" 
 
 Toe one John wade of coventrie^, the xij* of) 
 
 December i575 : w'^^ he pmysed to paye againe / 
 
 Too one Anne Astley^ a poore wyddowe 
 
 It is repayed 
 
 xs 
 
 xls 
 
 vppon towe ringes was pawned, by her 
 
 faid ringes are not worth paste xxvj^ viij*^ 
 
 Too one m"^ Carter^, a preacher att manchester 
 
 w 
 
 ch 
 
 xl^ gyve XX' 
 
 m 
 
 to be repayed 
 
 agame 
 
 the xxti» of y xls 
 
 gyven 
 
 Lancashire, 
 
 martch A" 1575 
 Too one of the tenantes of Manchester the same time xx^ 
 
 Delyu^ed to them more the same tyme xx^ 
 
 To one m'' henry Goldinge^^ the same tyme xx^ gyve 
 
 More to M'' Carter of Machester as by hys bylle ) ,^ 
 
 appeareth xl» & so in the whole iiij^i j ^ 
 
 lent to 
 
 XX 
 
 th 
 
 (Page 134 of the MS., folio 88 verso) 
 Olyv^er Carter^ of manchester 
 
 the ) 
 
 of november {576 j 
 
 v»> 
 
 Lent to one Anthony Irbye^, to be repaied againe 
 
 the xxti» of novembe'' i577:;=-x» 
 Wch was sente the Laste of October 1577 
 
 lente to m"^ Knesse,^ the xx'^ of maie 1578' ") 
 to be paid againe the fyrste of December nexte J 
 
 [Next leaf is left blank in the MS. No page 135.] 
 
 x'./ 
 
 256
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 ( 133) 
 
 ' " Raffe morries of Bekeshorne^^ : Not traced. 
 
 ' ^' yo/ut Satterley" : See Index of Names, s.it. 
 
 ' " Tho77is Bmvyer" ; Ibid. (This entry is crossed out in the MS.) 
 
 * " Roger Edzvardes^' : Unknown. 
 
 * '^Rychard Coattes" : Unknown. 
 
 ^ " vkare of Cro7vedone" : Crowedone = Croydon, in the county of Surrey. 
 ' ^^ yohn -wade of coventrie'''' : Unknown. 
 
 * ^^ Anne Astley" : This widow, from her name, may have belonged to Lancashire. 
 ' ";«r. Carter" and infra: Oliver Carter, Fellow of the Manchester College. 
 
 There are two entries relative to Mr. Carter on this folio of the MS. , the record at the 
 foot of the page being in the handwriting of Dean Nowell himself; and at the top of 
 the next page is a third reference. Oliver Carter was a native of Richmondshire, in the 
 county of York; was admitted a scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, on the Lady 
 Margaret's foundation; admitted a fellow, i8th ISLirch, 1561-2; appointed humanity 
 examiner, 5th September, 1563 ; junior bursar, 9th January, 1564-5 ; senior bursar, 
 1 6th January, 1567-8; sacrist, 24th Januaiy, 1568-9; B.A., 1559-60; M.A., 1563; 
 admitted senior fellow, 28th April, 1564 ; became college preacher, 25th April, 1565 ; 
 university preacher, 1567; B.D., 1569. Mr. Oliver Carter was elected a Fellow of 
 Manchester College under Queen Maiy's foundation, about the year 1570. Canon 
 Raines ( 6"/(Z«/£j /'(?/<?rj-, vol. ii, p. 128) says : "j\Ir. Carter was the preacher alluded to 
 by Strype, who riding to preach in a chapel in Manchester Parish, about the year 1574, 
 was set upon by a parishioner, who seized his horse by the bridle, drew his dagger, 
 and inflicted three wounds upon the preacher, and might have slain him had not the 
 horse broken away." Ow: MS. shows Mr. Carter, in March, 1575-6, and November, 
 1576, receiving 9/. from Dean Nowell by way of loan. In 1578, he, along with Dean 
 Nowell, was again nominated a Fellow of Manchester College, under Queen Eliza- 
 beth's Charter. In 1579 he wrote and published An Anyivere made by Oliver Carter, 
 Bac/ieler of Divinitie, unto ceriaine Popish Questions and Deiiiandes, dedicated to 
 Henry, Earl of Derby. According to Hollingworth, Mr. Carter "fell sick in the 
 pulpit, as he was preaching of God's providing a succession of godly ministers," and 
 his discourse was arrested, but was taken up by another preacher, Mr. William 
 Bourne. He died in March, 1604-5, and was buried in Manchester Collegiate Church, 
 2ist March. In his Will, cited by Raines, dated 22nd February, 1604-5, ^^^ names his 
 wife Alice, sons, Abraham, and John ; daughters Mary and Dorothy ; grandchildren, 
 John Carter, Alice Carter, and Alice Smith. His son John Carter was Prebendary 
 of Christ Church, Dublin, from 1607 until 1613, when he was deprived for Noncon- 
 formity. 
 
 (134) 
 
 ' " Olyrer Cat ter" : See the note j«/m. 
 ' " Anthony Irbye" : Unknown. 
 ' " mr Knesse " : Unknown. 
 
 257
 
 (Page 136 of the MS., folio 90.) 
 Money Gcven to certen of his 
 Kinsfolke aboute London 6 octob'' 
 A" 1569. 
 
 To Mother hunte^ the vj'^'^ of octob^ towardes ] ^g 
 
 her charges in to Lancashire | _' 
 
 to one Nowell psonne of fcaringe in Essexe^ ] ^^^ 
 
 the xiij*^^ of auguste | '_ 
 
 To the wief of henry fpeller of Edmundton^ S 
 
 beinge daughter to m^^ fliepparde the xvij^^ of yx\\ 
 
 Auguste A° {569 J 
 
 this woman hade the xvij*'^ of maye before vV 
 
 to John haughton* as apperethe by h's | j.-jj ^^^-g jjj-^ 
 
 accquitance the Day o( ) J_J_J__J_ 
 
 To one neve^ the viij*'^ of Novemb'^ a fyshe | , 
 
 mongere } 
 
 To mr Thorns Nowell of Reade^ the vj*^"^ 
 
 daye of Julye w*^^ he clamethe as debte l^jjju 
 
 due to him by Robte Nowell the some of | ^ 
 
 viiji' as apperethe by his accquitance J 
 
 To m" Anne Towenley of Royle^ ij Jewels that^ 
 
 she clamethe as hers as apperethe by her V I 
 
 accquitance j 
 
 To o"' Cosin wilkinsonns wief^ at new years \ , 
 
 tyede the fyrste of Jenuarye A^ 1570 j I 
 
 To o^ Cosin Rogere Irlande^ Nowe dwellinge'1 
 
 at in Cornewellby thandesofm*Bodley'° I ij i 
 
 m^chante,apooroldepresteiHhexiiij*^of Aprell | 
 
 A° 1569 J 
 
 To Rycharde & Willm witakeres^^ at the' 
 
 delyu^y of their writtinges, iij'' iij» iiij^ & 
 
 for the Indentures maid betwen [erasure] the 
 
 xxijt'i of Aprell A^ 1569 
 
 To Charles Nowell'^the xij'^ of June of o"" brothers ~| ^j 
 
 goodes A" 1569 xv'i & to him before v^i j ' 
 
 fentc by him to o"^ Cosin John Nowell'"* his brother ) ,g 
 
 the same xij^'^ of June A" 1569 | ^ 
 
 fente to the faid John Nowells wief xv" 
 
 fente to eather of the sam John Nowells "| -s ^-.-.u 
 
 daughters xiijMiijd apece the tyme / ' ■' ■* 
 
 To Goodwief fliepard'^ the xix*'^ of June ) ,3 
 
 Aoi569 j "" 
 
 To willm Whitaker'6 the xx*^ of Septemb'' {570 x^ 
 To wilde of Midliton'7 parishe in Lancashir ) ^..g 
 
 the xtii of Octob'-. A" 1569 ]' ^'^ 
 
 To his mother wyddow wilde vj^ 
 
 To his fyster Isabell wilde'^ v* 
 
 ^lij^i iij* iiij'^ 
 
 xllx^' iiij^ iij<* 
 258
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (136) 
 
 * '^Mother hmte" : See Index of Names, s.n. She was a relative of the Nowells. 
 
 * " Aunvell psoJineoffMringein Essex" : This minister is previously named as Mr. 
 Edward Nowell, Vicar of Fearing in Essex. (See pp. 120, 124, and elsewhere, by 
 the Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 ^ " henry Speller of Edmimton'''' '. This recipient and his wife will be found else- 
 where named. (Index of Names, J.«.) Mrs. Speller was a Sheppard, as this entry 
 shows, and the Sheppards are named in Robert Nowell's Will among his kinsfolk. 
 
 * ^'■JoJin hoiighton" : Perhaps John Hoghton, gent., of Pendleton, near Clitheroe, 
 who was related to the Nowells. 
 
 * ^^ one Neve" : Richard Neve, whose wife was a Nowell. (See ajite, p. 31, Note 4.) 
 ® " Thoins Nowell of Ileade" : See Index of Names, j.w., and for biographical 
 
 notices of this squire of Read, nephew of Dean Nowell, see page 71, Note 2, and the 
 genealogical record of the Nowells in the Introduction. 
 
 7 "■' mrs. Anne Toivenlcy of Royle" : The Towneleys of Royle, near Burnley, in 
 Lancashire, were a branch of Towneleys of Towneley. Mi's. Anne Towneley here 
 named was the wife of Nicholas Towneley, of Royle, gent., and daughter of Hugh 
 Vaughan, Esq. Her husband, Nicholas Towneley, was sometime reader and bencher 
 of Gray's Inn, and died about 1545. The entry here refers to the handing over to 
 Mrs Anne Towneley of two jewels she claimed as hers, that had apparently been left 
 in the keeping of the late Robeil Nowell, Esq. 
 
 ^ "or Cosin zoilkinsonjis zvief' : See Index of Names under Wilkinson. 
 
 ' '■^ Rogere Trlande" : See Index of Names for others of the Irelands. 
 
 '" "w;- Bodley, tu'chante" : Was he father or kinsman of Sir Thomas Bodley, 
 famous as the founder of the Bodleian Library ? 
 
 ^' ^^ a poor olde presfe" : Doubtless Roman Catholic, and I for one like the "charity" 
 that did not distinguish between Protestant and Roman Catholic in need. 
 
 13 " Rycharde tS-' Willam ivitakere" : This item refers to the delivery of certain legal 
 documents, to which William Whitaker and his brother Richaixl were parties, in 
 regard to which I imagine the explanation is found in the tenns of the bequest to these 
 two young men in Robert Nowell's Will, which left to them jointly the 40/. a year 
 which Sir Ralph Leicester had granted to Robert Nowell out of Mr. Leigh's lands in 
 Cheshire during the minority of young Mr. Leigh. (See the Will in the Introduction.) 
 
 '^ " Charles Nowell" : He is described as brother of John Nowell in the next entry, 
 who is styled a "cosin" of Dean Nowell. This sum was paid in 1569. Charles 
 Nowell, cousin of the Dean, is again named as having a gift of money in December, 
 
 1578. 
 
 '* " yohn Nowell" : I am not positive as to whether John Nowell here named was 
 the same person as John Nowell, son of Andrew Nowell, who occurs as a legatee in 
 Robert Nowell's Will. Both John Nowells are similarly described as " cousin " of 
 Dean Nowell and his brother Robert Nowell. The elastic term of " cousin " as then 
 employed confnses family relationships that would have been clear if a definite meaning 
 had at this period attached to the word. The father of Dean Nowell and Robert 
 Nowell had several brothers named in no pedigree of the family. (See the descent 
 given in the Introduction.) 
 
 '^ " Goodzvieffltepard" : See Index of Names, s.n, 
 
 " " Willm Whitaker " : See supra. 
 
 " " m'lde of Midleton " and infra : 
 
 '^ " syster I.mbell Wilde" : See onward for some genealogical notice of the Wildes. 
 (Index of Names, s.n. ) 
 
 2 S 559
 
 (Page 137 of the MS., folio 90 verso.) 
 To one Goodwief Tode^ the x*'^ of Octob'' ^ 
 
 who sayethe she was one Nowell daughter vij^ vj** 
 
 & of kine vnto o' brother A^ 1569 j 
 
 To one wilkinson^ who married o^' kinswomane ... x^ 
 
 To Elizabethe Marsten^ the yS^ of maye A° 1569 ) .^ ...j 
 
 as appereth by her accquitance j •' ■' 
 
 To one m'' Neue* a fysh Monger the xx*^ of) g 
 
 Novemb^ 1570 who maried o' kinswoman / 
 
 To Thoms Nowell of Runcton^ the xvj*^ of|.-.-ii 
 
 Novemb^ A« {569 j "'J 
 
 To him more the same tyme xxx^ 
 
 To him more at another tyme xl^ 
 
 To Alexander feller^ the xvij''^ of] ^ 
 
 July Ao 1569 j^ 
 
 To m"" ftarkey-' who broughte John Nowell \ 
 
 John hamond, & John Law forth of Lancashir Vx* 
 
 the xvj'^ of maye ) 
 
 To wilkinsonne the xviij'^ of aprell A*^ 1569 .^ xv* 
 
 To the old mane that married grace Nowell^ \ 
 
 to his wief w'^'^ he hathe nowe )-x» 
 
 the xv*^ of Jenuarii 1570 J 
 
 To m" fliepparde^ the xxiij*^^ of Jenuarye \ ,g 
 
 by thandes of James wolton A<> 1570 j 
 
 To m' Thoms Nowell & to m"^ Thoms bowyere^° \ 
 
 the xiijt'i of februarye A" {570 at ther gowinge )-x» 
 
 into fuffexe ..J 
 
 xij^ xiiij^ ij' 
 
 To wiHm \vylde, the x*^ of maye A" 15 /i^ 
 v^ to Lawrance Turnere ij* vj'*, to Robte Vx' 
 hudsonne ij^ vj'^ as apperethe by ther bill j 
 
 fente vnto James reedfearnes mother ^^ the ) g 
 fyrste of June A" 157! ,. / 
 
 To Lawrance wylde^^ ^he x*^ of June )...,, .•..^, 
 Ao i57i : |"jVmj'^/ 
 
 To John Dean^3 o'' cosine fervante to my ) ^g, 
 Ladye metreveres the fyrste of Julye A° i57i ... ) 
 
 To John Reedfearne C cosine the iiij'^ oi\ 
 Julye, A° i57i whoe dwellethe in Worcester >-xxV 
 & brother to James reedfearne J 
 
 To Wyllm wylde fcholler of myddliton 
 fchole by thandes of Edmonde Dunstere of the 
 fame pishe in the p'fence of Robte clayton 
 fervante as he sayethe to the psonne of 
 Middliton the vj*^ of Julye A" i57i 
 
 Wl 
 
 o»' kinsmane 
 
 260
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (137) 
 
 * " Goodwief Tode": She is described as having been daughter of a Nowell, and of 
 kin to Robert Nowell, Esq. She is the " Joane Todd " of Robert Nowell's Will, unto 
 whom he left a legacy oi aps. The kinship was not very near, I suppose. 
 
 ^ ^'7i'ilkinso9i" and infra : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * " Elizabeths Marsten ": Perhaps mother of Gabriel Marston, named elsewhere, s.n. 
 
 * " vir JVeiie afysh Alonger'''': See /;?/rrt', Note 8. 
 
 * " Tkoms Auncidl of Runcton": Thomas Nowell, of Runcton, in the county of 
 Sussex, who here receives 7/. lOi-. in three items, was a first cousin of Dean Nowell 
 and Robert Nowell, Esq. I do not rest the assertion of his exact relationship upon 
 the use of the word "cousin" in the MS., which might signify almost anything in 
 remote kinship ; but by considerable trouble in searching for evidences to eluci- 
 date the numerous obscure ramifications of the Nowell connexions indicated in the 
 MS. (in which I have had the valuable help of Colonel Chester and Rev. C. J. Robin- 
 son), I have made out everything about this Thomas Nowell that is needed, excepting 
 only the name of his father, which is nowhere to be met with. That he was first 
 cousin of Robert Nowell is proved in this way : In his Will, cited m abstract below, 
 Thomas Nowell gives to "hisj/>/c';- Anne Wilkinson" a legacy of 5/. This Anne 
 Wilkinsoa was wife of one Wilkinson, living in London, and Robert Nowell, in his 
 bequest to her children, describes them as "the children of my nncle's daughter that 
 married Wilkinson," and also names the mother "Anne Wilkinson." She being 
 Robert Nowell's uncle's daughter, her brother, Thomas Nowell, was uncle's son = 
 cousin to Robert Nowell, Esq., and so to Dean Nowell likewise. Thomas Nowell's 
 father was one of the several younger sons of Dean Nowell's grandfather, Roger 
 Nowell, Esq., who are not mentioned in any printed pedigree of the Nowells. (See 
 the genealogy in our Introduction.) To him, as his "cousin Thomas Nowell," Robert 
 Nowell, Esq., left a legacy of 20/., and Thomas Nowell was a \\atness to the codicil to 
 the Will. Subsequently, Thomas Nowell married, about the date of this entry (1569), 
 Joan Cassie, widow of George Cassie, citizen and grocer of London. (He had died 
 20th August, 1568 ; a son, Robert Cassie, is referred to elsewhere in the AIS.) Her 
 name before her first marriage was Joan Bowyer, and she was daughter of Thomas 
 Bowyer, citizen and grocer of London, by his wife Jane, who after his death (13th 
 Sept., 1558), became the y?;-i-^ wife of Alexander Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's. Thus, 
 singularly. Dean Nowell manied Jane Bowyer, widow, the mother of Joan Bowyer, 
 whom the Dean's cousin Thomas married for her second husband. After his marriage 
 {by which he had no issue) Thomas Nowell settled at Runcton, in the parish of 
 North Mundham, in the county of Sussex, upon an estate of the Bowyers' which he 
 heldy«;r uxoris. It will be noted that in another entry upon this page of the MS., 
 "Mr. Thomas Nowell and Mr. Thomas Bowyer" (his brother-in-law) had money on 
 14th Feb., 1570, "at ther gowinge into Sussexe"; and on the following page is ano- 
 ther allusion : " To our cosine Thomas Nowell when he came from Lathorne," in 
 Oct., 1571- (Lathorne, or Leighthorne, is another estate in the same parish of North 
 Mundham, then the seat of Thomas Bowyer, Esq., the son.) Thomas Nowell lived about 
 a dozen years longer, and died at Runcton, 5th Sept., 1583. Rev. C. J. Robinson 
 kindly furnishes the entry of his burial from the North Mundliam Parish Register : 
 " Anno 1583. Uppon Thursday being the fift day of September in the year 1583 de- 
 ceased Mr. Thomas Nowell of Runcton, seconde husbande to Jone Nowell sister to 
 Mr. Tho: Bowyer, anno Elizabethe 25, and was buried the 7 day of the said moneth 
 being Saturdaye anno eodem." The Will of "Thomas Nowell of Rounghton Co. 
 Sussex," is dated 4th May, 1583. Testator gives to his brother, Charles Nowell, 20/.; 
 to his cousin, Hamlett Ashton (see ante, p. 89, Note 4) 20/. ; to his (testator's) two 
 sisters, Elizabeth and Jane, each 10/., and to each of their sons and daughters 5/.; to 
 
 his godson, Cundlyff, son to his sister Grace, 40J-. (Grace Nowell married, at 
 
 Whalley Church, 22nd June, 1539, Christopher Cunlyfe); to his sister, Anne Wilkin- 
 son, 5/., and each of her sons and daughters 20s.; legacies to servants; to the poor of 
 North Mundham 40^-., and of Heyshott 20s. ; to Marmaduke Christopher 3/. 6.f. 8(/. ; to 
 "my wife Jone my house at Petworlh called Norman Place, for life, and after her death 
 the same to Robert Cassye and the heirs ot his body; also to my said wife my lands at 
 Heyshott which I purchased jointly with my brother Richard Bowyer, and after her 
 death the same to the said Robert Cassye "; residue to Jone, testator's wife, and ap- 
 points her executrix ; overseers, "my loving good cousin Mr. Deane of Powles, and my 
 brethren-in-law Mr. Thomas Bowyer and Mr. Richard Bowyer." — i^A'w. that the Will 
 was found 5th Sept., 1583, presently after testator's death. Proved i6th Sept., 1583, 
 by Jone Nowell, relict and executrix. The widow, Jone Nowell, died just a year after 
 her husband, on 21st Sept., 1584. The Will of Jone Nowell, of Rounghton, in the 
 county of Sussex (in margin "widow"), is dated 8th Aug., 1584. Testator to be 
 buried "near my husband "; gives to the high church of Chichester 20s.; to the church 
 
 261
 
 (Page 138 of the MS., folio 91.) 
 To one Wylde^ a poore maiden of" 
 
 Midliton pishe in Lancashire, o'" kinse 
 
 woman the xiiij*^'^ of Novembre A" \^ji 
 
 To my fyster Elizabethe' by John ^ 
 
 Seller the xxiij'^ of Auguste A" Vxx^ 
 
 1571 
 
 To John 
 
 wief by 
 
 feller 
 James 
 
 wief, 
 wolton^ 
 
 & 
 the 
 
 Robte 
 same 
 
 Lawe "I 
 xxiij*^^ \-x^ 
 
 * To 
 
 of Auguste Ao i57i v^ a pece 
 Willkinson* 
 
 o 
 
 cosm 
 
 To 
 
 of 
 
 as he cam 
 the xxiiij*^^ of Auguste A<> 
 a poor maid whoe sayethe she 
 
 Nicholes wilde^ of the wood howse 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 from 
 
 157 
 cam ^ 
 
 •A' 
 
 1J»VJ 
 
 I'd 
 
 01 iNlCIlOieS WllUC" Ul LIIC VVUUU llUVVbC r 
 
 at the sute of m' frende^ the x*^ of octob' J 
 
 To o"" cosine Thoms Nowell when he \ 
 
 If vjt 
 
 Lathorne-' the xxvj*^ of octobre W" 
 
 Neve x^ fonne vnto ] 
 
 marriedge \sic\ grace I 
 
 xxv*^ of Novemb"" ( 
 
 xx^ 
 
 cam frome 
 
 A" is/i 
 
 To o"" cosin Anthonie 
 
 Rycharde Neve, whoe 
 
 Nowell^ other x^ the 
 
 Anno i57i w*^^ said ric ys a fyshmonger J 
 
 To henry fpeller of Ediiinton^ his wieffe "1 
 
 beinge of kyne to my brother Robte & vs the >v^ 
 
 27 of Novembre A" i57i j 
 
 To one Willam Irelande fonne to James Irelandei""^ 
 Sonne whose father 
 
 a poor man, a dwellinge by the in 
 
 London, and beinge o"" brother Robte kinsmane & o'"^ yVf v']^ 
 
 fayethe 
 hade 
 
 the fyrste 
 allso ij 
 
 of Jenuarye ij^ vj*^ 
 
 eills of locarom 
 
 as he 
 whoe 
 
 A" i57i ; 
 
 To one Rycharde Readfearne, a poor kinsmane of o"") 
 
 brother Robte, dwellinge in Bewdley^' the vij* of ^-x^./ 
 
 Martch A^ 1571 j 
 
 To one Janne Teytlowe'^ a poor agede woman 1 
 
 & beinge of longe forsaken of her husbande I ^g , 
 and as she sayethe o'' brother Robte kinswoman [ '' 
 the xxv^t of Aprell A" 1572 J 
 
 To one ffrances hopewoode one of the daughters of^ 
 "^^ hopewoode as she fayethe whoe married one ^ 
 
 m^ 
 
 Robte fowler'^, the iiij*'* of maie A" {572 
 Geven to one NowelU* whose mother dwelleth 
 in ware, beinge him felf borne in Yorlce 
 fliire fervante to the Earle of Rutlande, the 
 same v^^^ of maie A" 1572 ....; 
 
 W«./ 
 
 262
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 of North Mundham, 6s. Sd.; to the poor of North Mundham 20^'., of Ileyshott los.; 
 to "my brother Mr. Thomas Bow'yer, a gold bracelet tliat was my mother's that hath 
 T B on it, and to my sister Bowyer his wife the other bracelet that hath T B on it"; 
 to said brother 40i-. to be bestowed on the chancel of North Mundham; to brother 
 Richard Bowyer 5/.; to cousins Emma llanbery, Ainie Dawkes and Timothie Milles 
 each an angel ; cousins Catherine Aston and Elizabeth Malyn each 6s. 8d. ; to each 
 god-child in Sussex I2r?'. ; to Richard Cassye 40s.; to " my brother Charles, my cousin 
 Ashton, and my sisters Elizabeth and Jane in Lancashii^e each an angel ; to Grace 
 daughter of my sister Wilkinson 20^. ; to my cousin Overton that was my cousin Shep- 
 herd's daughter ^os. ; to my cousin George Chatfield 30^-. ; to my cousin Paul Fox 4.0s. ; 
 to my cousin Jane Payne, my cousin Catherine Rocroft, my cousin Susan and my cousin 
 Robert Fox each 20J'.; to my cousin Jane Bartlett 20s.; to Alice Carter in Mark Lane 
 6j-. 8d.; to servants, &c. ; to my cousin Margery Sutton of Petworth lOj. "; executors 
 '' to pay the legacies yet to be paid which my good husband Thomas Nowell left in his 
 last Will; residue to my son Robert Cassye," and appoints him sole executor; over- 
 seers, "my good brethren Mr. Thomas Bowyer and Mr. Richard Bowyer." — Mem. 
 that testatrix died 2ist Sept., 1584. Will proved 2lst Nov., 1584, by Robert Cassye 
 the executor. 
 
 ^ ^'' Alexander feller'''' : Anothername of the family of Sellers. (Index of Names, j.«.) 
 
 ^ " f?tr. Jiaj'key" : Probably Edmund Starkie, of Huntroyd, Esq., a near neighbour 
 of the Nowells, of Read. The three youths he brought up to London out of Lanca- 
 shire were members of local families noted elsewhere. (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 8 " the old 7nane that tnarried Grace Nowell" : Richard Neve, the fishmonger, is the 
 "old man" referred to. (See ante, p. 31, Note 4.) 
 
 ' " mrs. Shcpparde'" : See Index of Names, s.7i. 
 
 '•' " Thorns No%oell &= to mr. Thorns boioyere'''' : See note supra. 
 
 '• ^^ James reedfearnes mother," and infra: An attempt to connect the various 
 Redfearnes named in the MS. in a family gi"oup will be found at a subsequent page of 
 our annotation (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 '2 '^ Laura nee zvylde" : See post for a genealogical note upon the Wilde family, 
 (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 '^ "■John Dean'" : It was William Dean, not John, who elsewhere occurs as servant 
 to Lady Maltravers. (See p. 80, Note 7, for an extended sketch of the Deane family.) 
 
 (138) 
 
 ' "wylde" : See Index of Names, s.n., frequenter, 
 
 ' " 7)iy fyster Elizabethe" : Dean Nowell's sister, Elizabeth Whitaker, mother of 
 Dr. William Whitaker. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 3 "■ John Seller" : " Robte Lawe" : " James woltoti" : See Index of Names, s.n., 
 frequenter. 
 
 * " Willkinson" : Ibid. 
 
 ^ ^^ Nicholes wilde of the wood hoavse" : See Note i, supra. 
 
 ^ " mr frende" : Unknown. 
 
 7 " Thoius Notvell . . . . Lathorne" : See biographical note on Thomas Nowell of 
 Runcton on the preceding page. 
 
 8 '■'■ Anthonie Neve Rychard Neve grace NozvelV : See ante, p. 55, 
 
 Note 4. 
 
 9 ^' henry Speller of Edmunton'" : On the next page it is mentioned that this Henry 
 Speller of Edmunton had married a daughter of Mrs. Shepherd. (See, for other allu- 
 sions. Index of Names. ) 
 
 '" ""ivilliam Irclande James Lrlande" : See post for note on the Ireland 
 
 family. (Index of Names, s.7i.) 
 
 11 '■'■ Rychard Readfcarne .... Bewdley'" : A sketch of the Redfearnes will be given 
 hereafter. 
 
 12 '■'Jaime Teytknue" : It is not possible to prove the degi-ce of relationship of this 
 aged forsaken creature to Dean Nowell. The Dean probably did not know it himself, 
 but took her word for it, and gave her 20^. 
 
 " "ffrances hopwoode Robte fowler" : See Index of Names, under " Hop- 
 wood." 
 
 14 « Nmvell" : (This entry is crossed out in the MS. ) 
 
 .63
 
 XX" 
 
 (Page 139 of the MS., folio 91 verso.) 
 
 Geven to one John Nowell, whose mother dwelleth' 
 in Ware, beinge borne in yorkeshire him self 
 fervante to the Earle of Rutlande 
 
 brother Robte 
 whoe saycth he ys o'' f^ kinsmane' 
 the vj*^ of maye Anno 1572 
 
 To one Thoms Trusse of Northamton'^ ^ 
 the xxj^i of maye AP 1572* whoe fayethe ys Vx* 
 o'' kinsmane J 
 
 To olde father Neve^ that married o'' fyste'' \ g 
 the xxiiijo of Julye A" 1572- j ^ 
 
 To Ellen Irelande* a poore wydowe, by thandes 
 o'^ cosine Irelande her Nephe the xxiiij° of j-v^ 
 Julye Ao i572- 
 
 Too one Anne wylde Daughter of James wylde 
 the xix*^ of auguste A» i572' at the suet & 
 comendacione of hughe takington^ of manchester )'Xxx' 
 & others, & whoe allso sayethe she is o"" brothe 
 Robte kinswomane _ 
 
 To my Syster Elsabethe whitaker '\ 
 the ix*'^ of September by my ( g 
 Brother John Towenley^ his mane C 
 w'5 broughte the nagge A** i572' ) 
 
 Too one John Nowell f^'vante to myS 
 Lorde of Rutlande^, whose mother dwellethe f . 
 in wayre, the xv]*"^ of Aprill A° i573 C 
 who sayethe he ys o' kynsmane ' 
 
 To one Elis Readfearne^ o"" kynsmane the ") ...g ....^ 
 xvjt^of Aprell A" 1573 /"J "^J 
 
 To one marie haughton borne at pendltonS 
 
 in Lancashire, the viij^' of martch A^ 1573' Mj^ v]^ 
 by thandes of m^" chapmane of londone^ j 
 
 To m^s Shep'de'^ a poor widdowe the x*^ of) , 
 Maye A" {573 j ^' 
 
 To one Robte Wylde, to the vse of John \ 
 Wylde'' his sonne, a fcholler the ix*'* of Julye yi]^ 
 
 A*> i573 ; ) 
 
 Too one willm Wylde the xxvj* daie of) g 
 
 Auguste Ao i573 j ^ 
 
 Too one wilde father to the vse 
 
 of one Thoms wylde his sonne fcholler 
 at Berrie'- in Lancashire, the xvj^'^ of 1 
 
 Septemb"' A^ 1573 Ju 
 
 Too one henry fpcller wieff daughter ^ 
 to meistres flieparde'^, the xxix'^ of >-v' 
 Januarye A^ 1573 j 
 
 264
 
 Notes and Ilhish^ations. 
 (139) 
 
 ' "■ he ys or brother Rohte Mnsmane" : See last page for the same entry (crosscl 
 out.) 
 
 * Thorns Tncsse of Northa?nton" : Unknown. 
 
 ^ father N'eve" : See Index of Names, s.n. This entry proves that Richard Neve 
 married a "sister" of Dean Nowell, and an entry on the preceding page proves her 
 name to have been Grace Nowell. 
 
 * "Ellen Irelande" : Index of Names, under "Ireland." 
 
 ^ '^ Anne wylde . . . . hughe talcington of manchester'''' : Unknown. 
 
 * '^ Elsabethe 7vh!taker John Toiuenley" : Dean Nowell sent this gift to his 
 
 sister Elizabeth Whitaker at Holme in Cliviger by the hands of a man-servant of John 
 Towneley, Esq., who had brought a "nag" up to London from Towneley Hall. 
 
 ^ "jfohn A^O'well , . . . Ridlande" : This John Nowell (who is evidently a different 
 person from the John Nowell, son of Andrew and brother of Charles, named elsewhere 
 in the MS. ) is thrice mentioned on this and the preceding pages, and in each instance 
 is described as a sen'ant to the Earl of Rutland. It is also repeated, that his mother 
 (Marie Nowell) was living at Ware in 1572-3, and that he was "born in Yorkshire." 
 His relationship to Nowells of Read was not very apparent, for it is merely said that 
 "he sayeth he ys our brother Rob'te kinsmane." One of a branch of the Nowells 
 settled somewhere in Yorkshire, of which we have no information. The Earl of Rut- 
 land, to whom John Nowell was servant, was Edward Manners, third Earl of Rutland, 
 who succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1563, and died in 1587. His 
 wife was Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Holcroft, knt., of Vale Royal Abbey, in the 
 county of Chester. His only child, Lady Elizabeth Manners, was wife of Sir William 
 Cecil (Lord Burghley). 
 
 * " Elis. Readfearne" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ' " marie haughton . . . . mr chapmane of londone" : Mary Houghton was the eldest 
 of two daughters and co-heirs of John Houghton of Pendleton Hall, near Clitheroe, in 
 the county of Lancaster, gent. RIary Houghton was unmarried in 1573, but afterwards 
 became the wife of George Singleton of Staining, gent. 
 
 10 "^/;-j-_ Shepharde''^ : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 " " Robte Wylde .... John PFylde," and others of the same name infra : Ibid. 
 
 " " Berrie" = Bury, in Lancashire, where, it would seem from this entry, there was 
 a public school in 1573. 
 
 '^ ^^ henry fpeller . . . . meistres JJiepharde" : See Index of Names, s.n., and note on 
 the page preceding. 
 
 265
 
 (Page 140 of the MS., folio 92.) 
 To Johanne Wylde', Daughter to Rycharde 
 Wylde or brother Robte kynswomanc the xxx'^'^ Y'^^-l 
 
 of m^tch A" 1574: j 
 
 Too mestres fhepparde the xx*^ of m'^tch A° ] g , 
 
 1574: by thandes of Reedfearne j 
 
 To m^s fhepparde the xx'^ of maye ] , 
 
 Ao 1574 r, 
 
 * ToomeistresWylkinsonn o'' brother Robte kynswoman ) vj^ viij'^ 
 
 the xij**^ of Januarye A^ 1574 : j 
 
 * Too her daughter grace wylkynsone the sam tyme xx*^ 
 Too m'' neve, the fyshmonger the xiij* of"i 
 
 Januarye whoe married o"" brother Robte Vx^ 
 kynswooman ; A" 1574: J 
 
 Too goodwyff Spyller of Edmunton ) ..g -^ 
 
 the seconnde of Januarye A^* i574: j 
 
 the fyshmonger his \ 
 
 Too m"^ chnt^ A Daughter, Or brother Robte kyns- ( ...|; .g ...^ 
 woman towardes her marriadge the xiij*^ of {_________ 
 
 Aprell Ao i575 : ; 
 
 Too one Reedfearne of Budley the ] .--g ....^j 
 XXX* of aprell A" 1575 : j" "-* "'•* 
 
 To one Rycharde wylde, whoe cam vppe forS 
 the suet of the vicare of Sylke ftonne in >-xxs 
 
 Yorke fliir^ the xxx^i^ of Julie i575 : j 
 
 coosin ^ 
 
 Too o'' A alice nowell"*, m^ Thorns nowells >-xliijsiiij<^ 
 wiefife of Reade, the x* of februarie A" iS7S'-) 
 
 Too one father neve whoe married Or brother ^ 
 Robte kynswoman the xj* of februarie A" i575 : Vvj^viij*^ 
 a poore old man j 
 
 Too the wiefife of one henry Speller of} .-g -^ 
 Edmundton, the fyrste of martch A^ i575 : j 
 
 Too one fifather neve a poore old man the^ 
 whoe married Or brother Robte kynswooman, the >v* 
 xxvjtii of Aprill A" 1576: J 
 
 Too one meistres overton^, Or brother Robte ^ 
 kynswooman, to one of her children, the xx*^^ >-xxx* 
 of Aprell 1576: J 
 
 Too o"" Syster, Whitaker, by her sonne in | , 
 Lawe m'^ Smythes, the fyrste of Julie i576 : j 
 
 Too one Reedfearne the xvj* of Julie 1576 x^ 
 
 Too m"" John woulton^ of Exciter, the ) ...jj 
 xxv*'^ of June 1577 . . j "-^ 
 
 Too m VVhitaker of trinitie colledge in Cambridge } ...jj 
 to paye for his p'bend'' the xxv*^ of Aprill 1577 ... j "■' 
 
 TooAlexanderHarrysonne^mygod sonnei577: 14 Julie v* 
 
 266
 
 Notes and Ilhistratio^is. 
 (140) 
 
 ' " Johannc JVylde" : In this page names before and frequently recorded and noticed 
 occur. For each see the Index of Names, s.?z. 
 
 ' " A/r. rlini" : It seems Mr. Clint was remotely akin to the Nowells, but the nature 
 of his connexion is not apparent. 
 
 ' '''' Rycharde ivylde , . . . vicare of Sylke Jlontie in Yorke JJiir" : Unknown. 
 
 * *^ Alyce Ncnuell" : See ante, p. 71, and Introduction, for notices of this second 
 wife of the lord of Read, Thomas Nowell, Esq. 
 
 * "meistress Overton'''' : She was a daughter of Mrs. Shepherd, widow, and is again 
 named on the next page. Her husband, Richard Overton, is mentioned on page 36, 
 ante; and the wife also is named on page 8, as " Mrs, Overton Sheparde daughter." 
 
 5 "mrjohn Woolton, of Exciter'" : This was John Wolton (or Woolton) Bishop 
 of Exeter. By this entry Bishop Wolton had a gift of 3/. from Dean Nowell on the 
 25th June, 1577 ; and eight years before (in September, 1569,) according to other 
 entries on the last leaf but one of the MS. there had been given to "John Wolton and 
 his father in lawe xxxj-." John Wolton, the Bishop, was a near kinsman of the 
 Nowells of Read. He was born near Whalley, in Lancashire (not at Wigan, as 
 repeated in several accounts of him), about the year 1535. His father was John 
 Woulton or Wolton, who held lands in Wiswell, about a mile north of Whalley 
 village, in leasehold. His mother was Isabella, one of the younger daughters of John 
 Nowell, Esq., of Read Hall, and sister of Dean Alexander Nowell and of Robert 
 Nowell. James Wolton, his brother, is noticed in the Introduction as servant or 
 secretaiy to Robert Nowell, Esq., and to Dean Nowell in succession, and as proba- 
 bly the Scribe of the AIS. By his wife Isabella Nowell, John Wolton, the father, also 
 had daughters, Elizabeth, who was wife of Robert Lawe of Wiswell, yeoman, and 
 mother of Robert Lawe, Archdeacon of Banstaple (see Index of Names, s.n.); Bettris 
 (Beatrice), whomamed, in 1553, Mr. Thomas Hammond, of Whalley (/«a'), from whom 
 descended the celebrated Dr. Henry Hammond ; and Alice, who was wife of Myles 
 Bancroft, and is described in the MS. s.s " widow" in 1569. In 1552 and 1553, 
 "Uxor John Woulton" (mother doubtless of the future Bishop) contributed to the 
 assessment on Wiswell to the Easter Roll of Whalley Church, of those years {Cheth. 
 Miscel. vol. v, pp. 7, 17.) It was, I think, her son James Wolton, brother of John, who 
 occurs in 1568 as " James Woulton," plaintift'in a suit in the Chancei-y Court of I>ancas- 
 ter, claiming by the grant of Sir Thomas Hesketh, knight, as seized in fee, against 
 Anthony Watson and others, trespassers, in breach of promise of a grant, upon a 
 tenement and lands in Wiswell Town and Fields, in Lancashire {Cal. to Plead. 
 vol. iii, p. 373.) John Wolton, the son, entered at Brasenose College, Oxford, 
 at the age of 18 years, the 26th October, 1553 ; and he supplicated the degree of B.A. 
 26th April, 1555. His religious opinions compelled him to quit England temp. 
 Mary, when he betook himself to his uncle at Strasburg. On Elizabeth's accession 
 the Protestant exiles returned to their native countiy. Wolton was ordained deacon 
 by Bishop Grindal, the 25th April, 1560; and priest on 4th June following. Tlie 
 name is entered in the Bishop's Register as " John Wolton, born at Whaley [\Vhalley] 
 in Cheshire, aged 23 ; " but the word " Cheshire " refers to the diocere, not to the 
 county. The same year Wolton was made Prebendary of St. Paul's and Canon 
 Residentiary of Exeter ; he was admitted to the rectory of Spaxton, diocese of Wells, 
 in 1563 ; and on the 4th May, 1570, to the vicarage of Braunston, diocese of Exeter ; 
 the 28th July, 1578, he was constituted by charter a warden of Manchester Collegiate 
 Church. "John WoUon, S.T.P., was elected Bishop of Exeter 2nd July, 1579, con- 
 firmed on the 26th of the same month, and consecrated the 2nd of August following." 
 (Le Neve, vol. i, p. 379.) Wolton appears to have been a stout opponent of the 
 Puritan party within the Church, and did not escape the attacks and misrepresentations 
 of personal enmity. In 1585, a series of articles accusatory of Bishop Wolton were 
 drawn up by one Paget, and sent to the Primate. Among fifteen distinct charges, it 
 was said that he had never visited the whole diocese ; that he preached seldom, and 
 " would be in his stable among his horses, or in his kitchen among his servants, when 
 there 'were sermons in the church hard by his house ; " that he sold the vicarage of 
 Newbye for 100/. and bought for his son a benefice in Somersetshire for 100 marks ; 
 that he gave the archdeaconry of Exon, in marriage with his daughter, to one Barrit 
 (Thomas Barritt, instituted 14th January, 1 582-3, on the presentation of James Wol- 
 ton, gent., and another: died 23rd November, 1633, aged 82), who had been "an 
 ordinary serving man, and unlearned ; " and gave the archdeaconry of Totnes to one 
 Cole (John Cole, collated 24th November, 1580 ; died 1583), who had little or nothing 
 from it, and died in debt ; that he gave the archdeaconry of Barnstaple to one Lawe, 
 his kinsman (see ante, Robert Lawe, page 251, note 5); that he made his own son 
 minister, being but 18 years old ; that he made his first wife's father a minister, who 
 had been the Duke of Somerset's cater, and unlearned, &c. Wolton received these 
 articles with a letter from the Primate, 29th April, 1585, and answered them fully ; 
 both in respect to the neglect of visitation, and to the charges of nepotism. The 
 
 267
 
 '579 
 
 Too 
 
 (Page 141 of the MS., folio 92 verso) 
 one of m^ weekes^ clerkes the v^^ of September ") , 
 for wrytten, a draughtc of an obligacion, 1577 : J 
 
 houghton^, 
 
 Too one of o"" coosins 
 
 December 1577: 
 
 Too one Jane, 
 
 Ao 1577 : 
 
 Robte 
 Too yonge a Lawe'^ 
 
 x^ii of Scptemb^ 1578 
 
 this of Lawe 
 Theise pcell A are entreed in 
 
 accomptes. 01 my m kynsmen 
 To 
 
 Irelandes fonne- the xiij^'i of) 
 
 / 
 
 the x^h of february ) 
 
 x« 
 
 of Brasyn noose, 
 
 the bookes 
 
 IX 
 
 th 
 
 Too 
 the 
 
 o'' 
 
 daie 
 
 o^ 
 
 nowelH 
 
 daughter 
 o' 
 or 
 
 xth 
 of 
 
 coosyn Charles 
 
 of December 1578 : 
 
 coosin, meistres Anne 
 of November 
 
 John Townley, esquier 
 coosin Katherin nowcll^ 
 brother of lytchfield 
 
 november {578: 
 
 coosine Shephardes daughter, 
 one Overton^, the ix*^ of 
 
 Townley^ ' 
 1578: 
 
 >-x' 
 
 Too 
 
 to 
 
 of 
 To o'- 
 
 maried 
 
 i578: ;... 
 
 To o"" coosin 
 
 daie of 
 
 daughter ] 
 the xxtJi \ X 
 
 whoe I 
 
 whitakers of 
 
 xxx*^ 
 
 nr wmtaKers 01 Cambridge^ 
 Januarie 1578 : when he 
 
 Januarie 
 tiie' 
 
 ■I 
 
 went to r'^v* 
 
 the 
 
 Cambridge . 
 Too o^ coosyn Irelande 
 
 daie of June i579 the some of ... 
 Too his fonne the v*^ of June 1579 
 Too o"" coosin wilkinsonncs 
 
 second 
 
 J 
 
 daughter^" the 
 
 [erasure] 
 
 xxix*^ of november 1579: by thandes of o"" coosin Viijii vj^ viij 
 
 nij' 
 
 tiiiii' 
 
 Thomas nowell 
 Too o"" coosin 
 
 Whitakers of 
 
 J 
 
 the fyrste 
 
 fell owe 
 
 of 
 
 IS 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 Januarie 
 Trinitie 
 of Brasyn noose [erased] 
 
 the daie aforesaid 
 
 coosin whitaker the 
 i579 : iiij yardes & a 
 
 Cambridge"^ 
 
 1579 
 A whoe I li 
 
 % 
 
 college 
 
 in 
 
 Too o"" 
 
 Martch 
 
 london broode clothe att 
 Robte 
 Too o'' coosin A Ratclief the 
 
 i58o: fcholemaister of RatchdalP' 
 To Sara nowelP^^ the 
 
 i58o: or brother daughter 
 Too one Anne Bowyere'^, 
 
 th 
 
 ^rth 
 
 Daughter 
 
 my good ) 
 the iiij'^^ of maye J 
 
 x^ 
 
 m 
 
 all received f|i> - 10' - lo'^ / 13^^ 13s 
 
 268
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 Bishop showed that he had given Newbye vicarage to a grave learned minister, Mr. 
 Blewit, wlio gave in excliange another benefice, which the Bisliop gave to his son, 
 aged 23, a student tlien in Cambridge ; that Mr. Barrit, who had the archdeacom-y 
 of Exeter, liad been trained up in learning at both Universities, and was a 
 giaduate ; and married Wolton's daughter a year after he had tire archdeaconry ; 
 that Mr. Cole, a master of arts of eiglit years' standing, had lived in the Bishop's 
 house, with his family, for two years before he had the archdeaconry of Totnes ; that 
 he made not his father-in-law a minister, for he had been admitted ten years before 
 Wolton was a bishop, and he had not his benefice from him ; and " touching my son, 
 whom I made minister, he being two-and-twenty years of age, and one that was to 
 procede batchelor of arts the next act, and at that time of sober and honest disposition," 
 but " became intractable afterwards," when "I removed him immediately from that 
 calling and from his little living ; and for his lewdness myself layd him in a common 
 jayle, with irons upon him," &c. The bishop added this personal reference: — "I 
 was, in the later days of trouble, an exile in Germany ; and have been a preacher, 
 admitted and exercised therein, these twenty-three years. I read the Divinity lec- 
 ture in Exeter twice weekly for years, and preached twice every Sabbath. I only, 
 with one other, remained here in Exeter in the Great Plague time, preaching pub- 
 licly, and comforting privately such as were infected with the plague. This last 
 summer Ijing at my commendam in the country, I preached every Sunday, and 
 elsewhere have had a dutiful care of my charge." The account of Bishop Wolton's 
 death, which happened in his 56th year, 13th March, 1 593-4, furnishes an interesting 
 illustration of his character. His complaint was asthma; and two hours before his 
 departure he was dictating a letter on important business, when being admonished to 
 be careful of his health, he replied with an adaptation of the well-known words of the 
 Emperor "Vespasian, that a bishop " ought to die standing ;" (Suetonius, Vesp. c. 24.) 
 Soon after which, as he was walking in his chamber, he suddenly fell, and expired in 
 the arms of those who hastened to his support, at the age of 58. Besides his Christian 
 Manual (1576) he published these little works : («) "An Armour of Proufe : very 
 profitable as well for princes, noblemen, and gentlemen, as all others in authoritie, 
 showing the firm fortness of defence and haven of rest in these troublesome times and 
 perilous dayes," 1576, Svo. {b) "A Treatise on the Immortalitie of the Soule ; 
 wherein is declared the origine, nature, and powers of the same, together with the 
 state and condition thereof, both as it is conioyned and dissolved from the bodie," 
 1576, i6mo. {c) " A Newe Anatomic of the Whole Man, as well of his Bodie 
 as of his Soule, declaring the condition and constitution of the same in his first crea- 
 tion, comiption, regeneration, and glorification," 1576, Svo. (d) "The Castell 
 of Christians and Fortress of the Faithfull beseiged and defended, now almost six 
 thousand years," 1577, Svo. (e) Discourse of the Conscience, wherein is declared 
 the unspeakable joys and comfort of a good conscience and the grief of an evil con- 
 science," 1576, Svo. I have not seen any of these; but the titles promise more 
 than the "Manual" which, forsooth, is more scholastic than spiritual. Bishop 
 Wolton was buried on the south side of the choir of Exeter Cathedral, and a Latin 
 epitaph upon his tomb is said to have been written by his son John Wolton. The 
 Bishop's Will is in the Prerogative Office. It is dated l6th July, 1593, and was 
 proved 20th May, 1594; testator names his son Mathew, daughters Alargaret Bar- 
 ritt, Susan Godwin, Mary Baber, and Hester and Alice Wolton ; son-in-law Thomas 
 Barritt ; and eldest son, John Wolton, late fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, then 
 dwelling at Exeter, who was sole executor and residuary legatee. John Wolton, the 
 Bishop, was twice married ; his first wife was daughter of a clergyman and died about 
 1581. His second wife also apparently predeceased him. I do not know the names 
 of either of the Bishop's wives. His children, all by his first marriage, were, sons, John 
 Wolton, sometime fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, and a graduate in physic ; 
 and Matthew Wolton, living in 1593 ; daughters, Margaret, wife of Thomas Barrett, 
 archdeacon of Exeter, 15S2-1633 ; Susan, wife of Francis Godwin (collated sub-dean 
 of Exeter, nth June, 1587 ; consecrated bishop of Llandaff 22nd October, 1604 ; trans- 
 lated to the see of Hereford, loth November, 1617 ; died in April, 1633) ; Mary, wife 
 of — Baber; and Helen and Alice, both under twenty years of age at the bishop's 
 death. 
 
 ' "w' IVhitaker . . . . to pay e for his f bend'''' : See our Introduction and Index of 
 Names, s.n. The prebend William Whitaker had about this date, of which Dean 
 Nowell paid the charges, was the sixth stall in Norwich Cathedral, in which he was in- 
 stalled 3 February, 1577-8. (Le Neve, vol. ii, p. 501.) 
 
 8 " Alexander I/aryysonne" : A member of the family of Harrison, in some way 
 akin to the Nowells, of whom Mr. Harrison and his wife were legatees under Dean 
 Nowell's Will. (See ante, p. 155, Note 8.) 
 
 (141) 
 • ^' nC weekes" : Unknown. 
 » " Irelandes sonne" and infra : See Index of Names, s.n.,frequmter. 
 
 269
 
 (Page 142 of the MS., folio 95.) 
 [These entries under 161 4 have been written on blank leaves of the MS. 
 properly belong to it. Yet, as they are here, and have curious details, it has 
 well to give the whole.] 
 
 The ix*^^ of may 1614 receued of my unckle 1 
 
 fordiging lareijdayes 
 hedging in the more 
 Close one day and 
 thorning the graing 
 close ditch ij dayes 
 
 % 
 
 They do not'i 
 been deemed ji 
 
 Christopher Townlcy' the sum of vj' 
 
 Imprimis the xv*^ of may paid vnto Preestley and ffoster 
 
 for other of the fiue dayes Work at vj^ the daye fyue fliiling &c. 
 
 eodem paid vnto Georg Liming iij dayes diginc^ 
 
 for catching of 
 moles 
 
 for ditching in 
 the lane adioyning 
 to the dufcot close 
 
 Sturley his quarters 
 waiJges 
 
 for seruing the 
 
 thatcher 
 
 for Thatching 
 
 for ditchin tooe 
 dayes in the more 
 Close and the rest 
 easting lere 
 
 for grauing and 
 dressing of 
 turnes 
 
 for weading 
 
 Corne 
 
 lor mawmg. 
 
 day 
 for 
 
 Edward dicon fonnes garth for 
 
 catcher 
 more wch 
 
 lare at vj"^ the 
 Ite one shilling 
 
 to boule in 
 
 The xvij of may paid vnto The mole 
 for three moles iij'^ itc receued one mole 
 was due vnto you and beefore paid fore 
 
 The xxj^'^ of may paid vnto Preestley and ffoster 
 for other of the vj dayes worke at vj*^ the day 
 foure dayes ditching and the other seruing the 
 Thatcher 
 
 The xxix^i^ of may 
 fwinerd his quarters wais'e 
 
 Paid vnto Preestley 
 them vj dayes worke 
 the day 
 
 ite et code 
 Worke 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 Paid vnto fturley the 
 
 and 
 
 scrumg 
 
 ffoster 
 
 the 
 
 for ether 
 Thatcher at 
 
 ot 
 
 VJ 
 
 id 
 
 paid to 
 the last 
 hee haueing to Waig x'^ 
 
 one 
 
 the Thatcher 
 weeke and the 
 the day 
 
 paid vnto 
 
 for 
 rest 
 
 vij 
 this 
 
 dayes 
 weeke 
 
 The x*^ of June 
 ffoster the one for fiue 
 day and the other for six dayes at 
 
 Paid vnto Preestle and 
 
 Preestley 
 
 ;d 
 
 and 
 the 
 
 dayes worke at vj 
 
 the fame rate 
 
 foster for graue 
 
 
 4150 roods at iiij'^ viij^ the hundreth 
 
 paid the xxix*^ of June 
 
 The xxix'^ of June paid 
 and her doughter for 
 at iiij'^ the day iij^ 
 ffoster and her daughter 
 at iij<^ the day iij^ 
 Daubney for six dayes weading at 
 vnto Elizbeth Daubney for foure 
 
 Preestley 
 
 Ite^ 
 at 
 for 
 Ite^ 
 
 ij^ the daye viij^ 
 fyue dayes weading 
 vn to Jenet ftore 
 iiij^ the day ij^ vn 
 dayes weading at the sa 
 Tvlathew dawfones manne and 
 
 vn to vxor 
 a leauen dayes 
 viij'^ It^ vn to 
 for a leauen dayes 
 
 d Ite^ vn to Mary 
 
 the same rat ij* 
 
 dayes weading 
 
 weading 
 Vxore 
 weading 
 
 vnj' 
 
 eode^ 
 at 
 for 
 
 vnto 
 
 nd 
 
 to 
 
 ,9 
 
 vxor fturley 
 nij" the day js viij*^ 
 six dayes weading at 
 vxor Pell for foure 
 Ite^ vnto 
 
 dayes at iij'^ the 
 Paid the xx^i^ 
 Coepteners for 
 
 day 
 of 
 
 July 
 
 mawmg 
 
 medowe at xij*^ the acker 
 
 to 
 
 XX j 
 
 rat j« n\f 
 
 maid for other three 
 
 ij3 sa^ xvij 
 
 Preestley and 
 ackers on the new 
 
 his 
 
 270 
 
 vs .. 
 
 o ... Y 
 
 j» ... VJ^' 
 
 idl 
 
 o ... o .. llj 
 
 O ... VJs... QdJ 
 
 j 
 
 o ... iij^..iiij'^ 
 
 ... J 
 
 o .. nj^ . Qd^ 
 O ... V ... x"^ 
 
 1 
 
 O ... V ... V^' 
 
 o ... 27... vj^ 
 
 O ... 21 .. O
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 * ^^Jane ko2(ghton" : I am not sure of the identity of this recipient with any Jane 
 Hoghton, unless the name l)e meant for Joan Hoghton, named ante, p, 88. 
 
 * Vot/gd Robte Lazut'" : See Index of Names, s. it., frequenter. 
 
 * " Charles nowell" : He has before been named in the A/S., and noted as brother 
 of John Nowell, and, probably, also of Thomas Nowell of Runcton, and a cousin of 
 Dean Nowell. 
 
 * ^'- meistres Anne Tcnvniey" : Anne Towneley, fourth daughter of John Towneley 
 of Towneley, Esq.; she aftenvards married, first, William Middleton, Esq., and 
 secondly. Sir Edward Osborne, knt. 
 
 7 " Katkei-in nowell" : A daughter of Lawrence Nowell, Dean of Lichfield. (See 
 our Introduction for account of the Dean's family. ) 
 
 8 '' Shephardes daughter . . . . Oz'erton" : See Index of Names, s.n., frequenter. 
 
 * " w' zahitakers of Cambridge,'''' and infra : //'/(/. 
 
 'o " wilkinsonnes daughter'''' : The gift was sent by her uncle, Thomas Nowell of 
 Runcton. (See Index of Names, s.7t.) 
 
 " " Robte Ratclief . . . Scholcmaister of RatchdaW' : Canon Raines very kindly supplies 
 the following note on this Rochdale schoolmaster : Robert Radcliffe of Rochdale was the 
 third son of Charles Radcliffe of Todmorden Hall, Esq. (J. P. ), by his first wife Margaret, 
 daughter of Thomas Savile of Exley, Esq., and grandson of Edward Radcliffe of Tod- 
 morden Hall, by his wife Matilda Maria, daughter of Roger Nowell of Read, through 
 whom he was first " Coosin" to Robert Nowell, the testator. He was appointed the first 
 Master of Rochdale Grammar School, by Archbishop Parker, the founder, in the year 
 1565, Charles Radcliffe of Todmorden being a principal agent of the Primate in the 
 building of it. He had probably resigned the office of Head Master before June 6, 15S9, 
 in which year another master seems to have been a])pointed. He married Katherine, 
 daughter of Arthur Assheton of Clegg Hall, gent, (an attorney), and sister of the Rev. 
 William Assheton, M.A., Rector of Middleton (the presentation to which was pur- 
 chased for him). He was the father of Samuel Radcliffe, D. D., Principal of Brase- 
 nose College, Oxford, who names in his Will that he was brought up in the house of 
 his grandfather at Todmorden, but was born at Rochdale. Robert Radcliffe, who 
 being styled "gentleman" and not "clerk," was probably a layman, was buried within 
 Rochdale church, i November, 1605, and his widow on the 12 May, 1609. Her Will 
 is dated 7 April, 1609, ami was proved at York, 2 August, 1612. (Canon Raines's 
 Lane. MSS., vol. xiii, pp. 225, 227 ; and Aleinorials of Rochdale Gramtnar School, 
 I2mo, 1845.) 
 
 ^ ^' Sara norvelV : Sarah Nowell is described in the entiy as "our brother's daugh- 
 ter," i.e., Dean Lawrence Nowell's. This daughter of the Dean of Lichfield was about 
 ten years old when she had this gift. (.See Introduction.) 
 
 '^ ^^ Anne Bowyere" : See Index of Names, s.7i. 
 
 (142) 
 
 ' The scribe of this interpolated writing, which is dated 1614, names his "unckle 
 Christopher Townley." Some loose scraps in the same handwriting found witli the 
 MS. (but which I do not print), prove that the scribe's name was Robert Sherburne, 
 e.g., "the ix"" of May 1614, received of my unckle Christopher Townley the sum of 
 six pounde by mee Robte Shirburne." The "uncle" must have been Christopher 
 Towneley (a younger son of John Towneley, Esq. , the executor of Robert Nowell), 
 who died at Pcndle Hall in 1623. His niece Ellen married Henry Sherbiurne, 
 but she could not have been mother of Robert Shirburne. Probably a sister of 
 Christopher Towneley may have married a Sherburne not named in the Towneley 
 pedigree. Robert Sherburne was evidently a farm bailiff at Towneley. The fact 
 that he wrote these entries in the MS. proves that it was left in possession of the 
 Towneleys in 1614, six years after the death of John Towneley, Esq., the co-executor 
 with Dean Nowell. 
 
 27 I
 
 for thatching 
 
 for seruing the 
 thatcher 
 
 (Page 143 of the MS.) 
 July i6i4. 
 
 The xxviij'^ of July Paid vn to 
 Preestlcy and his Coepteners for maw- 
 ing the bondmon inges being 14 ackers at 
 xij<i the acker o 
 
 for on pynt pot of Incke o 
 
 the viij*^^ of August Paid vn to the fmithes 
 maid for three dayes working at the hay 
 and one day raking after the wayne o 
 
 Ite vn to Preestleys wyfe and her 
 dou^fhter for other of the tooe dayes 
 
 working at the haye. 
 
 o 
 
 for the borowing of vi calves wch weare 
 pine at dunstone o 
 
 The xxviij"! of August Paid vnto the thatch- 
 er for viij days Avoorke at x<i the day o 
 
 Ite^ vn to Charles Hutchane sone for viij dayes 
 feruing the thatcher at viij<^ the day o 
 
 eode^ Paid vn to vxor Preestley vxor ffoster 
 and other of the one doughter for each tooe 
 dayes at vj*^ the day o 
 
 ite^ vn to vxor browne vxor flurley and daubneys 
 doughter for euery of the tooe dayes at vj*^ the day o 
 
 ite^ vn to vxor pell for one day and a halfe o 
 
 ite' et eode'^ Paid vnto oure folkes for dyuers 
 and general! tymes borowing of oure horses 
 and sheepe o 
 
 The iiij'^ of September Paid vn to the 
 thatcher for vj dayes thatching at x*^ 
 the day o 
 
 Paid vn to Preestley for seruing | 
 
 the thatchers iiij dayes at x<i the day j 
 
 ite' paid vn to the Smithes boy for three 
 
 o 
 
 dayes working at the hay at vj*^ the day... 
 
 to"! 
 
 for I 
 
 o 
 
 vd 
 
 of 
 allj 
 
 y o 
 
 The xxvj*^ of September Paid vn 
 Preestley ffoster and Georg Leeming 
 euery of the tooe dayes mawing at 
 the day v' Ite^ vn to euery 
 
 the fo' one halfe dayes worke iij'^ in 
 
 eode vn to vxor ffoster vxor Pell and ^ 
 
 fturley for euery of the' three y o 
 
 vxor 
 dayes 
 
 w 
 
 orke 
 
 at 
 
 VJ' 
 
 the 
 
 day. 
 
 14 
 o 
 
 2 
 o 
 
 Vjs 
 
 3^ 
 O 
 
 J^ 
 
 VS 
 
 iij' ... ii^ 
 
 j' ^' 
 
 vjs 
 
 iiijs y\ 
 
 272
 
 (Page 144 of the MS., folio 96.) ; .^r^ 
 
 September 1614 i'v^; 
 
 Ite^ vn to Preestleyes doughter for three dayes"^ 
 worke at vj'^ the day xviij<l {•■■^ 
 
 vn to vxor Preestley for three dayes at vj*^ [ ^ 
 
 the day J 
 
 Ite^ vn to Margret ffoster for tooe dayes at vj^ the ^ 
 day j3 Ite^ vn to Lyuthan sonnes mayd V]^ XJ"^ 
 
 for one day vj<^ j 
 
 The xxvj*^ of September paid for one stacke of) ....^ ...^ 
 
 wheat foure shillinges viij*^ j ^'^J ^"J 
 
 eode^ for foure scuttles x^ 
 
 ite^ for three quarters of ry at xxix^ iiij<i the quarter iiiji' viij^ 
 paid vnto cristopher Sladell for packe wch 
 
 hee bought at lincoulne iiij"^ iiij*^ 
 
 citing peayes Paid vuto uxor Pell and Charles hutchane sonnes | ..g 
 maid for ether of the tooe dayes worke at vj^^theday j ■' 
 Ite^ vnto Charles ffosters wyfe and her doughter for ] ..g 
 
 ether of the tooe dayes worke at vj^ the day | ^ 
 
 Ite^ vn to ftorleys wyfe for tooe dayes at \]^ the day j" 
 Ite^ vnto Preestley wyfe for tooe dayes at v]^ the day j^ 
 Ite^ vn to her doughter for one day at the sa^ rait * vj*^ 
 -nding "I Paid vn to Preestley and ffoster for working"! 1311 vij"! 
 at the breeke kill the one tooe dayes at vj^^ the I -g • j 
 day and the other one day and a halfe at the f-' 
 
 fame rait 
 
 The viij*^ of Nouember paid vn to the Thatcher 
 , . worke . ^jjj, j^d 
 
 atching ^Qj. ^gj^j^g dayes and a halfe at x*^ the day : v: dayes f •' 
 
 at the Abey and the rest at the hall in noc'ktone'. J 
 
 [ Verso — blank] 
 
 ' Nocton in Lincolnshire, probably. 
 
 373
 
 as Vvi" xiij^ mj"^ 
 
 (Page 145 of the MS. folio 104) 
 Money geven to certeyn psonns of 
 wealthe^ as hearafter apperethe 
 To rrJ Dyer the iiij*^ daye of maye A° i5^9):;-;ii 
 
 as apperethe by his accquitance / ^ 
 
 To Thorns hohiay^ the xj'^'^ of maye Anno 
 
 1569 to his wiefes 
 
 appereth by his accquitance . 
 To the Towen of Bridgwatter^ the~l 
 
 xxvij^^ day of September 1569 as I ^ 
 
 apperethe by the mayer & alldermene [ 
 
 accquitance J 
 
 To m"^ Wyborne* the xxii* of^ 
 
 march 1568 as apperethe by his VsX^ 
 
 accquitance to the vse of iiij ftrongeres j 
 
 To Robte ClowdleyS the xx* of marche \ _ 
 
 A** 1569 as apperethe by his accquitance j 
 
 To Edward wiese^ the same tvme as 
 
 apperetlie by his accquitance. 
 
 hirlls^ xxx^^i 
 
 iiij 
 
 li 
 
 Kerrie 
 
 & 
 
 as 
 
 the xvij 
 
 To Willm 
 
 A" 1569 
 
 humfrey 
 
 le're 
 
 Willm Calthorpe^ 
 
 Ao 1568 
 
 to, one Alice 
 
 of June 
 
 to marie Nowell'° the 
 
 1569 as apperethe by 
 
 to Gabraell marsden^^ 
 
 of 
 
 sente to him 
 apperethe by 
 
 martche"! 
 
 ;th 
 
 of 
 
 Allsthorpe^ the x 
 
 martch j ^^3 
 
 X8 
 
 th 
 
 vn 
 
 th 
 
 her 
 the 
 
 february 1569 
 
 accquitance 
 
 To hollnay who 
 
 as apperethe by 
 
 of maye 
 accquitance 
 of 
 his 
 
 xvii 
 
 th 
 
 vjs viij"* 
 
 i 
 
 >X8 
 
 marled Treheron 
 
 the 
 
 XXX 
 
 th 
 
 doug 
 
 hter ] 
 
 To [erasure 
 the therd 
 towards their 
 
 of auguste J 
 
 •ij Childr] Geffrey Shircom^^^'1 
 day of Decemb'' A'' 1570 I 
 
 ofr 
 
 j 
 
 charofes 
 
 m 
 
 out 
 
 a lease of the psonage of 
 
 sumge 
 bridgwater. 
 
 xx"- 
 
 J 
 
 Geven to m' Ketchine^^ of graies Inne, o' brother^ 
 Robte olde frende, towardes his chardges when 
 
 he was reder in 
 
 graies 
 
 Inne, the v'^ of 
 
 >xlV 
 
 Martch Anno i57i J 
 
 Too one m^ Randall worsley^* the xxiiij'i of) g 
 Novembr A^' i573 : gent husher / 
 
 274
 
 N^otes and Ilhcstrations. 
 (MS) 
 
 ' '^Certeyn p'sonns of wealthe": The description in the heading only applied, I 
 fancy, to a portion of the recipients named below. 
 
 * "T/io7}ts kolnay", and infra i A second reference inf7-a infonns us that this 
 Thomas Holnay married a daughter of "Treheron." I believe the father of his wife 
 was the eminent Puritan minister, Bartholomew Treheron. Dorothy Treheron had a 
 handsome marriage gift from Dean Nowell in November, 1569; but it was perhaps 
 a sister of hers who married Thomas Holnay about May of the same year. (See ajtle, 
 pp. 108-109.) 
 
 ^ ^^ Tcrweji of Bridgwaiter": Bridgewater, in the county of Somerset, an ancient 
 corporate town. Dean Nowell was making a tour in the west countiy in the autumn 
 of 1569, visiting his kinsman John Wolton, of Exeter, and other friends. The Dean 
 tarried some days at Bridgewater ; and besides the 10/. here entered as given to the 
 town, he gave 6/. to " the mene of Bridgewattere," and 10/. to "the mendinge of the 
 way at Bridgewatere," as entered in the last leaf but one of the 3IS. 
 
 * ^'tnr IVyliorne'"'. Dr. Percival Wybume, on whom see note at page 115 ante. 
 ' ^^Robte Clcnudley"', Entered before (see page 4) as third butler of Gray's Iim. 
 ' " £dzua7'd iviese" : Not known. 
 
 7 "IVillmhirHs": Not known. 
 
 8 «' Willm Calthorfe" : Not kno^vn. 
 ' "■Alice Alhthorpe'" Not known. 
 
 *" '■'marie NcnvelV : Mother, I think, of John Nowell, named in the text four pages 
 earlier, and elsewhere. (See Index of Names.) 
 
 " "gabraell Marsden": See for a previous reference Index, j.«. 
 
 '* " Geffrey Skircoiu" : Not known. 
 
 '^ "mr Ketchine of graies Inne": This old friend of Robert Nowell is named before 
 (p. 76) as receiving, in jNIay, 1569, 5/., and a gown faced with martens. In a list of 
 "certayn lawiers in euery of the foure Innes of Courte," dated June, 1576, occurs, 
 under " Greis Inne," among the "Double Readers": — "Mr. Kitchin of the counsel! 
 of t-lie Citie of London, of good wealthe." {N'otes and Qnenes, ]:\.n. 13, 1S77. ) 
 
 " "m Randall 7aorsley" — l<^ni\\\\Yih.: He occurs in other places in the iJ/J. (See 
 Index of Names, s.ti.) He is here described as "gent husher," i.e., gentleman usher. 
 
 2T 27 s
 
 (Page 146 of the MS.) 
 for a Byble^ w^ the service geven to 
 the children of one Chadwieke in Lancashir ^ix^ 
 
 sviij'i^ of Januarye A° i573 
 
 ffather Neue,^ a poor old mane ) .^ 
 
 xx^^ of January A^ 1573" } 
 
 o"" Coosyn Wylkinsonne a poore ) 
 
 the 
 To 
 
 the 
 Too 
 
 woman, the xxth of februarye A" 1573 | ■' 
 
 Too o'' coosyn Christofore Irelande^ whoe ^ 
 
 nij' 
 
 hadde his child chrestened the xxij*'^ of Vxlvjs viij*^ 
 
 November 1576: j 
 
 To the childe w*='^ was christenned xiij* iiij*^ 
 
 Too one mestres wylkynsonne, the xx*^ of) ...„ ....o 
 
 a learned gent 
 
 / 
 
 xl3 
 
 februarie A° 1576 
 Too one Jeffrey fenton'* 
 
 the fame xx*'^ of februarie . 
 
 Too one W^^ m^ Barnabie^ comendid v^ 
 
 Too one Barthelmewe holney^ a Sussex"* 
 
 :} 
 
 mane 
 
 beinge 
 
 m 
 
 futes 
 
 m 
 
 lawe >x^ 
 
 ;th 
 
 the 
 Too 
 
 in 
 
 1580 .... 
 Too one 
 
 in some 
 
 iS8o: .... 
 Too 
 
 xxj''! of februarie 1576 : 
 one m'' flowed^ 
 
 wante, the ^'^'^^^ 
 
 Richard 
 distres, 
 
 xij 
 Cotton^ 
 
 a 
 
 of 
 
 gentleman 
 Decembris 
 
 ■xxs 
 
 the 
 
 xnj 
 
 th 
 
 being 
 xiij* 
 Too 
 his 
 iSSo 
 
 one Thoms 
 
 in some 
 
 of October 1580: 
 
 Alexander 
 mother, the 
 
 a gentleman ^ 
 of October Vx^ 
 
 Church yeard ^ 
 
 distress the >x^ 
 
 wyclief by 'I 
 
 viij^^ of martch >xs 
 
 I 
 
 276
 
 Notes and Ilhistratioiis. 
 (146) 
 
 ' *'Byble": This Bible and service was given by Dean Novvell to the children of a 
 kinsman in Lancashire — one Chadwick, probably a son of his sister, Mrs. Chadwick. 
 
 * "ffather A''cHe" : For this and other frequently occurring "kindred" names on 
 this page see Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 2 '■'■ Chrisiofore h-elande'''' \ See Index of Names, under "Ireland." 
 
 * ^' Jeffrey fonton''' : This was the author of the following (now) excessively rare 
 books':— (rt) "Certaine Tragicall Discourses written oute of Frenche and Latin, by 
 Geoffraie Fenton, no less profitable then pleasaunt, and of like necessitye to al degrees 
 that take pleasure in antiquityes or forreine reaportes. 1567." 4to. (Another edition 
 1579.) {I/) "Monophylo, done into English by Geffray Fenton. A pliilosophical 
 discourse, and diuision of love. 1572." 4to. 
 
 * "/« Barnabie": Unknown. 
 
 * "■ Barlhehiieive holney'''' : Brother, perhaps, or near kinsman, to Thomas Holnay, 
 noted in the preceding page. 
 
 7 "fui'flcTcved": Unknown, probably Floyd. 
 
 8 "J\ic/iard Cotton'''': Unknown. 
 
 ' "Too one Thorns church yeard beinge in some distres" : This entry presents an 
 interesting circumstance in the life of an Elizabethan poet of no mean reputation — 
 Thomas Churchyard. He was born at Shrewsbury, about 1520, and therefore was 
 aged 60 at the time of receiving from Dean Nowell this succour in his "distress." 
 The accounts of Churchyard say that at the age of 17 his father gave him a sum of 
 money, and sent him to court, where he lived freely while his means held out. He 
 was sometime servant to the Earl of Surrey; tlien turned soldier, and fought in several 
 campaigns in Ireland, Scotland, and Flanders. Once he was taken prisoner, but was 
 assisted to escape by a lady of rank. In 1569 he gave information to the Government 
 of a rendezvous of Roman Catholic gentry at Bath. Strype records {Life of Gnndal, 
 p. 138) : " Thomas Churchyard (in that age an excellent soldier, and a poet), a man 
 
 of honest principles, gave the Secretary notice of all this from the Bath He 
 
 told the Secretary, that he suspected these troops of gentlemen of some dangerous plot 
 a-hatching." An extraordinary shock of earthquake was felt in England on 6tli April, 
 1580; and Churton [Life of Noivell, p. 268) mentions that "Churchyard the poet 
 * set forth in verse and prose ' a book of the earthquake, addressed to the good Deane 
 of Paules, which his fertile muse produced in two days." The title of this production 
 is : "A warning to the wise, a feare to the fond, a bridle to the lewde, and a glass to 
 the good ; written of the late Earthquake, for the glory of God, and benefit of men, 
 that warely walke, and wisely can judge." It may have been in acknowledgment of 
 the dedication of this piece to him, that Dean Nowell sent the sum here entered to the 
 poet somewhat later in the same year (15S0). Churchyard lived to be a very old man 
 (eighty-four), and is spoken of by Isaac Disraeli, in his Calamities of Authors, as "one 
 of those unfortunate men who have written poetry all their days, and lived a long life 
 to complete the misfortune." Thomas Churchyard died in London, in 1604, and was 
 buried in the church of St. Margaret, Westminster, 4tli April, 1604. The Tragcdie of 
 .S/^i??-/ J- wz/i' (enlarged 1593), and his Worthinesse of I Fates (i$So), are considered the 
 best of his numerous poetical works. A complete collection of his Works is an urgent 
 desideratum. Only crass ignorance speaks lightly of his unique genius — as I hope 
 some day to shew. 
 
 277
 
 T 9 • 
 
 Inp mis 
 
 Boughte 
 
 (Page 147 of the MS., folio iio.) 
 Boughte Lynnen clothe frome the 
 3° of July 1569 vntcU the tenthe 
 Day of the same monthe to be 
 bestowed vpon the poor of the pishes 
 of Whalley Brunley & other pishes 
 in Lancashire^ 
 
 at preston^ the thirde of July of 
 the prices of v^ ob. and vj** the yarde 
 the some of cclxx yardes paid for the 
 Carriage of the fame frome prestone to 
 
 Towenley _ 
 
 Boughte of Leoner[d] BertweselP the' 
 
 same tyme at vj*^ the yard cij yardes. 
 and v^ the yarde liij yardes, and at iiij<^ 
 
 ob. the yarde, xv yeardes 
 
 Rycharde haworthe* 
 
 Boughte of Rychard hayworthe ccxvj*^'^ yeardes at 
 
 v*i ob. the yearde iiji> 
 
 xix^ 
 
 more of him cxxxviiij yeardes 
 
 iijli ixs 
 
 more of him Ixxxiii yeardes at V^ the yearde xxxiij^ 
 
 more of him Ivj yeardes at iiij'^ ob. the yeard xxj^ 
 
 James Buterworthe^ clxv yeardes di. at vj<^ the yearde iiij^' ij® ix'^ 
 
 more of him xl yeardes at v^ the yearde xvj^ wn]^ 
 
 Nicoles Lache^ xxxix yeardes at vj^ the 
 
 ^vj^i iij3 vj"^ 
 xiid 
 
 Viiijli xj'J 
 
 vj 
 
 'A 
 
 m 
 
 the 
 
 savmge 
 
 more of him xv yeardes at iiij^ ob. 
 
 yearde 
 
 whole 
 y® yearde 
 
 d 
 
 ^xjl' iijs vij"* 
 
 f- iiij^> xix^ v^ 
 — xxxiiijsviij*^ 
 
 } 
 
 injs iji 
 iijs ix'^ 
 
 >xvjs ijd 
 
 James whitheade^ by John Seller xvj yeardes di. at v]'^ \ -..^ 
 
 the yearde j ^"-^ ^ •' 
 
 more of him x yeardes at v<^ the yearde. . . 
 more of him x yeardes at iiij*^ ob. a yearde 
 
 Willm*^ Lache® boughte of willm'^ Lache xx*i yeardes at vj<^ 
 
 Nicoles fagere^ booughte of Nicholes Sagere Ixxx 
 yeardes di. wherof xvij*> di. of vij y^ yearde 
 xxxiiij yardes at vj'^ the yearde and xxix yeardes 
 at v^ the yeard in the whole 
 
 iij*^ of Julij 
 
 John Smith'" boughte of John Smithe xiij*^^ yeardes at xvj<^ 
 the yearde abatinge i]^ in y« whole 
 
 George pollarde'i boughte of George pollere xxvij yeardes ... 
 
 Willm^ Kinge'2 boughte of willm kinge firste xvj* yeardes 
 xvij yeardes di. xviij yeardes xv*^'^ yeardes iij 
 qters xvij'^i yeardes xviij *^° yeardes and 
 
 Edwarde Inghame'^ Qf i-^ji^ jyj yeardes Di. at xvj'^ the 
 yearde 
 more of him xv yeardes j qt«r at xiij*^ the yeard 
 
 James Whitaker xxvi* yeardes at xviij<^ the yearde 
 
 Thomes Ingham xxxix^ii yeardes di. at xvj^ the yearde 
 
 John Narram'* viij yardes at xvj"^ the yearde 
 
 more of the said John viij yeardes at xiij"^ y° yeard xix^ iiij^ 
 
 278 U'/xixs iiijd 
 
 ■vjii xvj» iiij<^ 
 
 iiij^i xj^ x^ 
 
 xxxix^ 
 
 lijs viij*!
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (147) 
 
 ' " Whalley .... Bninley ^r' other pishes in Lancashire" : It was during the month 
 of July, 1569, when Dean Newell was down in Lancashire (see ante, p. 219, Note 9), 
 that he purchased these quantities of linen and woollen cloth of the chapmen of that 
 county for distribution among the poor of Whalley, Burnley, and other parishes. The 
 distribution of this cloth is entered in detail onward in the 1\1S. 
 
 ^ ^^ Boiighte at Preston,'''' &c. : Most of the goods were bought from traders in Black- 
 burn, Harwood, Burnley, and other places in Blackburn Hundred, but this first pur- 
 chase was made at Preston, and the cost of carriage of the parcel from Preston to 
 Towneley (where the Dean was sojourning with his half-brother and co-trustee John 
 Towneley, Esq.) was \2d. The distance from Preston to Towneley is about twenty 
 miles. This manufacture of strong linen cloth was a considerable one in Lancashire 
 temp. Elizabeth, and for two centuries onward, until the present cotton manufacture 
 sprang up and displaced it. Most of the small farmers, as well as the cottagers in the 
 hill-country of East Lancashire, had the spinning wheels and hand-looms set up in their 
 houses, the spinning being done by wife and daughters and the weaving chiefly by the 
 men and lads of the household. These entries in our JMS. afford a better idea of the 
 largeness of the trade of the local chapmen in these wares and of the prices of the 
 Lancashire cloths in the middle of the sixteenth century than any other published re- 
 cord of that period. By purchasing all this cloth on the spot, the Nowell trustees 
 reveal their wish to encourage a useful local industry and manufacture, at the same 
 time that they bestowed upon the families of all the poor inhabitants of the district the 
 material for clothing. It was in both respects more thoughtful to do this than it would 
 have been to have given an equal sum away in money-gifts. 
 
 3 " Leoner Bertiuesell" : The Birtwistle family were of Huncoat Hall, near Accring- 
 ton. A Leonard Birtwistle was a younger brother of Oliver Birtwistle, gent. ; and 
 Leonard Birtwistle of Hapten, Jenet his wife, and their children, are named subse- 
 quently in the MS. in the distribution of cloth in that township. (Index of Names, 
 s. n. ) 
 
 * " JRychard haywortke'''' : The Haworths of Green Haworth, Acci-ington, of Craw- 
 shawbooth in Rossendale, and of Blackburn and Lower Darwen, all traded in linen 
 goods and checks from an early period. 
 
 * "James Bittotvorthe": Perhaps of a clan of Butterworths of Rochdale parish. A 
 Katherine Butterworth occurs later in the MS. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 * " Nicholes Lac he" : Nicholas Lache has been named ante (p. 125), as having 
 married Agnes, daughter of Ralph Pollard of Billington. 
 
 ' "James whithcade" : A James Whitehead of Habergham Eaves (among other 
 Whiteheads) is named onward in the statement of the distribution of gifts of cloth. 
 
 8 " Willm Lache'" : A kinsman, perhaps, of Nicholas Lache sKpra. Both William 
 and Nicholas Lache may have been related to Edward Lache, who married Elizabeth 
 Shepherd, {^qs post, by Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 " " Nicoles fagere" : Sagar was then, and is yet, a localised surname in Burnley and 
 its outlying townships. The most considerable family of Sagar was of Catlow, midway 
 between Burnley and Colne by the old road. 
 
 *» "John Smith" : Perhaps he was a John Smythe of Burnley whose wife had a gift 
 of cloth in the distribution of these cloths. (See Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 I' " George pollarde" : The Pollards were small freeholders and chapmen at Whalley 
 and Billington. (See ante, p. 125, Note 6.) There was also about this date a George 
 Pollard of Hapten, near Burnley. 
 
 13 " Wittm King" : He recurs two pages onward. 
 
 13 "Edzvarde Inghame," "James Whitaker," " Thomes Ingham": Inghani and 
 Whitaker are Burnley names. Several Inghams of Read occur in the distribution of 
 cloth later in the record. 
 
 " "John JVarra7ti" : John Narram of Read township occurs in the Easter Roll of 
 Whalley for 1553. {Chetham Miscellanies, vol. v, p. 16.) He married Jane Sellers of 
 Whalley, " cousin" of Dean Nowell. (Index of Names, s. n. ) 
 
 279
 
 (Page 148 of the MS., folio iio verso.) 
 Willnv' wigen.* boughte of willm wigen xlj yeardes di. at xiiij^ 
 
 yearde 
 
 a 
 
 the yearde xvij yeardes di. at xvj*^ 
 
 xvij yeardes j q^er at xvj'^ a yearde xvj yeardes 
 
 at xvj'* a yearde ix yeardes at xij'^ a yearde. 
 
 >vjii vs 
 
 vij 
 
 I'd 
 
 Winm.Ducksburie.^bought of willm Ducksburiexviij*^° yeardes q^^^'at xxij^ x^ 
 
 more of him viij yeardes at xviij^ the yearde xij^ 
 
 Willm. wiggen. boughte of willm wigen xviij yeardes q*"' at ^ xxvij^ iiij^ 
 
 Richarde Ingham^ boughte of Richard Ingham xviij *^^ yeardes atxvj'^' 
 a yearde favinge vj** in the whole iiij"^ peces 
 more contevnina;e xxviij yeardes apece lackinge 
 
 conteynnige 
 vj"i in eu^y pece at xvj"^ the yearde iij peces 
 
 >-ix*i xvj*i 
 
 contemmge 
 
 iten 
 
 XVIJ ^"^^ yeardes 
 id in eu y 
 
 apece at xvj" y« 
 
 more 
 
 yarde favinge vj" m eu'y pece 
 Thorns Childers^ boughte of him xvj yeardes iij q*®'^^ at xij^ayearde xvj 
 Nicholes hallsteade^ boughte of him xviij'*=° yeardes at xiij^ a yearde ^ 
 
 ix° 
 
 xnj' 
 xiij< 
 
 a yearde >\v\f ix^ ob 
 a yearde J 
 
 more of him xviij yeardes at 
 
 more of him xvij yeardes di. at 
 iij peces more of him conteyninge xviij^^'i yeardes ) ..-li 
 
 apece at xvj** a yearde J ^ 
 
 vj peces more of him conteyninge xviij'^'^'i yeardes 
 
 }vjii 
 
 xijs 
 
 xv° 
 
 •lvj3 iiij^ 
 
 apece at xv** a yearde. 
 Willm wigen. boughte of willm wigen xiiij'®" yeardes of geliflower \ -^ ••••^ 
 
 collor at xvj** a yearde j 
 
 Ric Shorocke^ boughte of Ric. Shorocke v yeardes at xij^ a yearde v^ 
 Nicholes Lache? boughte of Nicoles Lache xviij** at xv** y^ yearde" 
 
 savinge six pece in the whole pece 
 
 more of him xvij yeardes di. at xviij** y® yearde 
 
 more vj yeardes at xvj** the yearde 
 Robte hutchine^boughteof Robte hutchinxvij'*'"yeardes at xvij** yearde xxxviij^ iijd 
 
 Christofor Jackson^ bought of Cristofor Jackson xvij yeardes at xvj** ] ~ ...j 
 the yearde j-xxi^^viij^ 
 
 Cristofor hindlie'°boughte of Christofor hindlie xxiiij* yeardes at xvj**^ 
 y® yearde more of him ij peces conteyninge 
 xviijten yeardes apece, at xv** ayearde xvj'*^" yeardes 
 at xxs vj** xvj<^^° yeardes at xij** the yearde 
 
 George Ingham^i boughte of George Ingham xxvj yeardes at xxxiiij^ iiij** 
 
 Ric^ Ingham boughte of Richard Ingham xvij^^i yeardes q^" ^t" 
 
 ■v** xiiijs v^ 
 
 xvij ten 
 
 Nic. 
 
 xvj** the yearde, 
 
 a yearde xvij yeardes 
 
 xvij yeardes di. at 
 
 yeard q}-^^ xvij^e" yeardes qt*^'" 
 
 iiij yeardes di. at xij** a yearde 
 
 yeardes q^^'' at xvj** 
 
 iij qt^" at xvj** ayearde 
 
 xvj** a yearde xvij 
 
 iten 
 
 )»VJ" XVIJ^ ix*" 
 
 at xij** ayearde 
 
 halsted'2 bought 
 
 xvj** a yeard. 
 
 of Nicoles halstead xvij'e° yeardes at' 
 more xvij yeardes at xvj** a 
 
 yearde. more of the same Nicholes xviij^^n yeardes 
 c^'^^ batinge xij** in the whole, more xviij^^n yeardes 
 
 iter 
 
 abaitinee 
 
 XIJ* 
 
 m 
 
 the 
 
 whole 
 
 xvijten yeardes iij qters at xvj** ayearde xvj'en yeardes 
 qter at xvj** ayearde, xvij'^n yeardes at xvj** a yearde 
 
 ^x** iij3 j<* 
 
 xxxiiijt* yeardes 
 the yearde 
 
 di. of fhepes Russette at xv** 
 
 280 
 
 Ixiiij'* v' j** ob.
 
 Notes and Ilhtstrations. 
 (148) 
 
 1 " Willm Wigen," and infra : A century later, a namesake of this chapman, and 
 doubtless a descendant, William Wigan, was pursuing the same trade of a clothier in 
 the neighbourhood of Blackburn. 
 
 2 " Willm DHcksburie" : He would belong, I think, to a family of Duxbury, small 
 gentry and traders, in Great Harwood. He sold a finer kind of cloth than some of 
 the chapmen, being valued at 18^. the yard. He is again mentioned at the foot of the 
 next page of the MS. 
 
 3 " Richarde Ingham" and i7ifra : Richard Ingham of Cliviger occurs onward in 
 the list of persons to whom gifts of cloth were made. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 * " Thorns Childers" : His name recurs two pages onward. Childers is not a local 
 surname in East Lancashire. 
 
 6 " Nic hole's hallsteade," and infra: See Index of Names, s.n. The measurement 
 of the pieces of Lancashire cloth woven in 1569 is given in this and other entries. The 
 pieces are said to have mostly contained 18 yards the piece; but some were of 17 yards 
 and lyi yards the piece; and one of John Narram's pieces measured 19 yards. The 
 shortest pieces were some of 1 5 yards the piece, sold by Nicholas Lache. 
 
 * " Ric. Shorocke" : The Shorrocks occur early as yeomen and chapmen in Eccles- 
 hill, near Blackburn. 
 
 7 " Nic holes Lache": See last page, Note 5. 
 
 8 " Robie hutchine" : Named again two pages onward. 
 
 9 '^ Chnsiof or Jackson" : He is again named two pages onward. A Christopher 
 Jackson of Ightenhill ]\Ianor is met with in 1563; and a Christopher Jackson of 
 Burnley appears among the names hereafter in the record of the distribution of these 
 cloths. This Christopher Jackson also occurs in a list of freeholders in Cliviger in 1558. 
 
 '" " Christofor hindlie" : Some Hindles or Hindleys of Great Harwood and Rish- 
 ton in Blackburn parish occur once and again as local traders in the sixteenth and 
 seventeenth centuries. This Christopher Hindle was one of the earliest chapmen in 
 his famUy. About a century later than the date of these entries, i.e., between 1660 
 and 1670, Laurence Hindle, John Hindle, William Wigan, Robert Pollard, John 
 Pollard, and others, descendants and successors, doubtless, as the names suggest, of 
 the men who sold their cloths to Dean Nowell in 1569, describing themselves as 
 "clothiers" in Great Harwood, Billington, Whalley, and Rishton, petitioned the 
 county justices for redress of injuries sustained by them from the monopolist trading 
 companies of Preston. (Abram's History of Blackbjirn, p. 202.) 
 
 ^' " George Ingham" : He was related, no doubt, to Richard Ingham and Edward 
 Ingham, also named among these traders in Lancashire cloths. 
 
 '- ^' N'ic. halsted," and supra : Among the present parcel of cloths is named 344 yards 
 of woollen fabric called "shepes msette," selling for \^d. the yard. "Russet" cloth 
 was a cheap woollen fabric worn by the common people, and is said to have derived 
 its name from its colour, a dingy brown. Nicholas Halsted of Padiham occurs in 
 1552, in the assessment of the Easter Roll of Whalley Church. (Cheth. Miscel., vol. v, 
 V- 3-) 
 
 281
 
 (Page 149 of the MS.) 
 Tho. Childres^ boughte of Thomes Childres xviij*^^" yeard(^ at xvij*^ y^ yearde xxv^ 
 Nicoles Lache^ boughte of Nicoles Lache xviij*®° yeardes at \ ...jj ^ TT^^ 
 
 more of him xxxv*i yeardes at xvj^ the yearde j ^J ^ ^^^J 
 Robte hindhe^ bought of Robte hindHe x peces eu^y pece \ ..j^ ...^ 
 
 xviij'^'^ yeardes at xvj<^ a yearde & ij yeardes more j "^^-^ "•* 
 
 more of him xviij'®° yeardes di. at xyj*^ a yearde xxiiij* viij"^ 
 
 Jenkin hindHe* boughte of Jenkin hindhe ij peces of xviij^en \ , ...g ::t^ 
 
 yeardes apece di. eu J •' ■' 
 
 Willm. Wigen^ Boughte of willm wigen ij peces the one of^ 
 
 xviijten the other of xvij'e'i at xvj^ the yearde {■■■•\\ • g ••••a 
 
 more of the same mane ij peces, of xviij*^*^ t ^ 
 
 yeardes apece at xvj^ the yearde ; 
 
 Christofor Boughte of Christofor hindhe xiiij^^n peces" 
 
 hindhe^ in eu^y pece xviij*^'^ yeardes. at xxiijs a pece I --li ••••g 
 
 more of the same mane xviij*'^'^ yeardes at xviij^ \ 
 
 the yearde & iiij yeardes q*" at xv<l the yearde J 
 
 Robte hindhe Boughte of Robte hindhe ij peces the one^ 
 
 xviijten yeardes di. at xiij'i the a yarde ^xljs xj<^ 
 
 the xviijt^ii iij qt"^ at xiiij*^ the yard j 
 
 John heape^ Boughte of John heape ij peces at xxxv^/ 
 
 Edwarde Boughte of Edward BertwesiU xij peces | ..-u . ^g 
 Bertwesill^ eu^y one, xviij*^'^ yeardes, at xxijs viij'l a pece ] ^ ^ 
 Nicoles Boughte of Nicoles haworthe xiijt^° yeardes"] 
 haworthe^ at xv"^ the yearde of John Naron a pece j 
 John narham^° of xix^^^^ yeardes at viij^ the yearde of ^xlij^ x^ 
 Nic^ Lache Nicoles Lache iiij yeardes at xviij<i the I 
 
 yearde J 
 
 John Smithe'i Bought of John Smithe xiij*™ yeardes at \ ..g ..^ 
 
 xvj'i the yearde batinge i]^ in y® whole j ^ ^ 
 
 George pollarde^^ Boughte of George pollarde xxvij yeardes xxxvj^ 
 Willm Kinge'3 Boughte of Willm Kinge xvj'^'^ yeardes xxvij^^n 
 
 di. xviij*^'^ yeardes xv*®ii yeardes iij c^^"^^ xvij*^"^ J>vj'* xv^j^ iiij' 
 
 & xviij*^'^ yeardes 
 
 Edmunde Boughte of Edmunde Ingham Ivj*^ yeardes "I ...,: . , ^ 
 ^ - ^ ■'•'.., Mil" xix^ X' 
 
 Ligham^* at xvj<i the yearde, xv^^'^ yeardes q*^'^ at xiij' 
 
 James whitaker^^ Boughte of James whitakere xxvj*^ yeardes xxxix^ 
 
 Tho. Ingham^^ Boughte of Tho. Ingham xxxix*' yeardes di. at lij^ viij<i 
 John Norrham Boughte of John Narram viij yeardes^ 
 
 at xvj<^ the yearde & viij* yeardes at xiij^ j-xxxix^ xj^ 
 
 more of him xix^^n yeardes at xiij"! the yearde j 
 
 Willm Wigen Boughte of willm wigen xlj yeardes di. at xiiij'^ \ 
 
 y^ yearde, xvij'^'^ yeardes di. at xvj<^ y^ yearde xvii*'^" ( -u ^ ..^ 
 
 yeardes q*^'^ at xvj<i y® yearde xvjts'i yeardes at xvjd T 
 
 ix yeardes di. at xij'^ the yeard ) 
 
 more xviij*^'^ yeardes at xviij*^ the yearde xxvij^ viiij"* 
 
 more xiij^^i^ yeardes at xvj"^ y® yearde xvij^ iiij^ 
 
 more ij peces xvij*^'^ & xviij^^'^ yeardes at xvj<^ y® 
 
 yeard & ij peces more at xvj<^ ayearde p-iiij^^ ix^ viij^ 
 
 & xviij*®° yeard a pece. 
 
 xvijii xi;' 
 
 Willm Ducksburiei7 Boughte of Willm Ducksburie xviij<^en n yij** 
 
 yeardes \ at xv"^ the yearde xijs x"^ J-xxxiij^ x'^ 
 
 . _\: 
 
 more viij yeardes at xviij<^ the yearde xiij^ ) - 
 
 282 Ixxxxvij'^ xxij^
 
 . , Notes and Illustrations. 
 ( 149) 
 
 > " Tho Ckilders" : See last page. 
 ' " Alcoles Lache," s.rvd infj-a : Ibid. 
 3 " Robte Ju'ndlie," zxiA infra : Ibid. 
 
 * " Jenkin hindlie^' : One of the family of HindJes to which Robert and Chris- 
 topher belonged. 
 
 * " Will III Wio-en" : See Index of Names, s.n., and previous page for reference and 
 relative note. 
 
 * " Christofor hindlie" : See last page. 
 
 ^ " yohn kcapf" : See a second mention of him two pages onward. 
 
 * " Edwarde BerhvesilV : James Birtwistle, gent., of Huncoat Hall, who died in 
 1597, had a younger brother, Edward Birtwistle, who may have been the chapman of 
 this entry. 
 
 ^ ^' Nicoles haworthe" : This trader may have been Nicholas Haworth of Black- 
 bum, a governor of Blackburn grammar school, who was taxed on his goods to a 
 queen's subsidy in 1570, and died in 1597. 
 
 1" '■^ yohn narham" and infra : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 '' "yohn Smithe^'' : See a prior allusion two pages ante. 
 
 '' " George follarde" : See reference and note two pages ante. 
 
 13 «« Willm Kinge''^ : See previous mention of him two pages ante. 
 
 '^ " Edimtnde Ingham" : Named two pages before as " Edwarde Ingham." 
 
 •* " yaines Whitaker" : James Whitaker occurs before in this category of Lancashire 
 clothiers, two pages ante. He married Isabel Sellers, kinswoman of Dean Nowell. 
 (See Index of Names, s.n., for other mention of James Whitaker.) 
 
 '^ " Tho. Ingham'''' : A Thomas Ingham of Habergham Eaves, near Burnley, is 
 named afterwards in the account of the distribution of these cloths. (Index of Names, 
 s.n. ) 
 
 '7 " IVillm Ducksbune" : See a reference on the page preceding, and relative note. 
 
 283
 
 Richarde Ingham' 
 Boucrhte 
 
 (Page 150 oi the MS.) 
 of Richarde Ingham 
 
 xvnj 
 
 ten" 
 
 yeardes at xvj<^ the yearde batinge vj*^ 
 more iiij paces of xvij^en yeardes di. apece at 
 xvjd ayeard batinge yj' 
 
 m 
 
 9 
 eu y 
 
 pece 
 
 i-xxii xix9 j"i 
 
 more iij peces of xvij'^eu yeardes apece at xvj<i 
 a yearde batinge vj^ in eu^y pece ix^i xvj'^ 
 more xvij*^^ yeardes q*^"" at xvj'^ the yearde 
 more xvij^^° yeardes q*^'' at xv]^ the yearde 
 xvijten yeardes iij q^^''^ at xvj<^ the yearde xvij'^'^ 
 yeardes di. at xvj'^ the yearde, xvij^^" yeardes q*^"^ 
 xvijten yeardes at xviij"^ the yearde iiij _ 
 
 Tho. Childers Boughte of Thoms Childers xvj^«»i yeardes iij qte-'s 
 
 at xijd the yearde xv^ ix^ ^xhjMijd 
 
 more xviij*e° yeardes at xvij'^ the yearde xxv^ vj'^ 
 
 Nic. halstede Boughte of Nicoles halstede xvij'^n yeardes" 
 
 I'd 
 
 at xiij'i the yearde, xviij*«" yeardes at xvj 
 
 xviij^^'i yeardes at xvj*^ iij'^ xij^ 
 
 more vj peces of xviij'®- yeardes apece at 
 
 xv*^ the yearde vj^i xv^ 
 
 more xvij*®'^ yeardes at xvj<i the yearde xvj*^^ 
 yeardes q*®"" at xvj^ a yearde, xvij^en yeardes 
 at xvjd the yearde xxxiiij^^ yeardes di. at 
 xv<^ a yearde, ij peces of xvij'^'i yeardes 
 apece at xvj 
 
 >-xxiij^i viijs jd 
 
 ;d 
 
 yearde, ij peces of 
 xviij*®*^ yeardes q*^'^'' apece at xvj<i a yearde 
 - batinge xij"^ on eather pece of these 
 
 ij laste peces xiixiijsj<i_ 
 
 Ric. Shorrocke Boughte of Rychard Shorrocke v yeardes at_ v^ 
 Nic. Lache Bought of Nicoles Lache xviij'^^i yeardes 
 at xv*! the yearde batinge vj'^ in y^ whole 
 more xvij' " yeardes di. at xviij<^ ayearde vj* 
 
 yeardes at xvj<J the yearde Ivj^ iij'^ 
 
 more xviij*^^ yeardes at xvj'i the yearde )> 
 xxxv^i yeardes at xvj'^ a yearde, iiij yeardes 
 
 at xviiij'i the yearde iijii xvj^ viij<i 
 
 more x peces of xv*^'^ yeardes a pece at 
 
 xv]^ and ij yeardes old plons xij^^ iij^J 
 
 Rofcte huthin2 Boughte of Robte hutchin xxvij^i yeardes at xxxviiijMii'^ 
 Cristofor Jacksonn-"^ Boughte of Christofor Jacksone xvij^^n yeardes at xxij^ viij<^ 
 Cristofor hindlie* Boughte of Cristofor hindlie xxiiij^i yeardes"' 
 at xvj*^ the yearde, ij peces of xviij'^'^ yeardes 
 apece at xv^ ayearde & vj<^ more in y^ whole 
 
 XVI iji* xvs xj" 
 
 XVJ 
 
 ten 
 
 yeardes at xx^ v^ xvj^^n yeardes at xij'J 
 
 a yearde in the whole v'i xiiij^ v*^ 
 
 more xiiij*^^i^ peeces of xviij*^^ yeardes apeece at 
 xxiijs apece, xviij*^^" yeardes at xviij^i y® yearde 
 
 iij yeardes at xv^ the yearde xvij^i iiij^ 
 
 George Ingham^ Boughte of George Ingham xxvj*i yeardes iij q*®''^. .. 
 
 {Contiimed on p. 286.) 
 
 >xxijii xviij^ v< 
 
 xxxnijs jiijc 
 
 284
 
 Notes and Illustratiofis. 
 (150) 
 
 ' "Richarde Ingham": See his name two pages ante. 
 
 ' "Robfe htithin ": See two pages ante for other reference to him. 
 
 ' *' Cristofor Jacksonn" : Previously named two pages a«/:?. 
 
 * '^Cristoforhindlie"; Named on the two preceding pages. 
 
 * " George Ingham" '. Named two pages aw/^. 
 
 285
 
 {Page 150 of the MS. continued from p. 284.) 
 Robte hindlie Boughte of Robte hindlie xviij'e'* yeardes 
 more of him ij peeces the one of xxiiijs viij'i 
 xviijten yeardes di. at xiij*^ the yearde the other 
 xviijten yeardes iij q^^''^ at xiij'^ the yearde 
 John heape^ Boughte of John heape ij peces the 
 one of xviij*^'^ yeardes the other xvij^^'i yeardes 
 at xijd ayearde 
 
 ■ lijli vjs 
 
 >-xxxvs 
 Ixxxxiij^ 
 
 vij 
 
 id 
 
 \ 
 
 ys vij' 
 
 (Page 151 of the MS., folio 112.) 
 Edwarde Boughte of Edward Bertwesill' xij peeces ^ 
 BertwesilP of xviij*'^^ yeardes apece & at xxij» viij<^ the >xiij^i ix* 
 
 peece savinge in the whole ij yeardes di. ... J 
 
 Nicoles Boughte of Nicoles haywoorthe^ xiij^ei^ ") .^ ...^ 
 
 haywoorthe yeardes at xv*^ the yearde /_______ 
 
 Willm hindlie Boughte of willm hindlie xlj*' yeardes ) r -, , ^ ...^ 
 
 iij q*ers at xvj"^ the yearde \\ \ ^ 
 
 Ric. Sager Boughte of Richard Sagere^ xviij^^'^^ 
 
 yeardes at xviij^ the yearde xvij*™ yeardes vxliiij^ 
 
 at xijs the yearde J 
 
 Robte hodshin^ Boughte of Robte hodshin'* ij peeces ) , ...g 
 of xviij*®'^ yeardes apeece at xvj"^ the yearde / ^_ 
 
 xxj^^ xij 8 xj^ 
 
 this note I fonde of 
 my m' hande. / as 
 followtii./ 
 
 Suina totalis of wollen clothe./ mrn.ccccl yeardes ) , ...ji .^ ...^ 
 
 whiche Amonteth vnto clsiijii vjs viij*i J J J J^ 
 
 Suina totalis in Lynen clothe amontethe } , ^ 
 
 m. viij^ yeardes / w*^^ in money amontethe j 
 Suriia^ tota^ of bothe wollen & linen in money... ccviij'^ vj^ viij*^ 
 these pcells are as I haue caste them cccxxvij^' iiij^ ix<^ ob, 
 
 the fome of the clothe boughte ) .^^^^^jju jjij, j^d ob. 
 m Lancashire^ j •* ■' 
 
 [ Verso — blank.] 
 
 a86
 
 Notes and Illush'atioiis. 
 
 ' '■'John heape": This surname is now met with in some parts of South-East Lan- 
 cashire. Altogether I find the names of about thirty of the local chapmen to whom 
 Dean Nowell and John Towneley, Esq., gave a share of this patronage ; a circum- 
 stance which sliows that the manufacture and merchandise in linen and woollen cloths 
 were rather extensively diffused in the Blackburn and Burnley districts of East Lanca- 
 shire to which these traders chiefly belonged, in the first years of Elizabeth's reign. The 
 thirty names are these: Leonard Birtwistle, Edward Birtwistle, Richard Ilaworth, 
 Nicholas Haworth, James Butterworth, Nicholas Lache, William Lache, James 
 "Whitehead, Nicholas Sagar, Richard Sagar, John Smith, George Pollard, William 
 King, Edward Ingham, Thomas Ingham, Richard Ingham, George Ingham, John 
 Narram, William Wigen, William Duxbury, Thomas Childers, Nicholas Halsted, 
 Richard Shorrock, Robert Hitchine (Hutchine or Hodshin), Christopher Jackson, 
 Christopher Hindlie (Hindle), Robert Kindle, William Hindle, John Heape, James 
 Whitaker. 
 
 (151) 
 
 ' "Edwarde BertiuesilV: See two pages ante. Note 8. 
 
 ' ''^Nicholas Baywoorthe": See previous entry and relative note'two pages ante. 
 
 ' '^ Ricka)-d Sagere'': See note on Nicholas Sagere, p. 279 ante. 
 
 * '^Robte hodshin": Probably this is the person named Robert Hutchin in fore- 
 going entries. 
 
 * ' ' Stune of the clothe boiighte in Lancashire " : The total sum expended in this instance 
 in Lancashire upon cloth for charitable distribution by Dean Nowell and his co- 
 executors was 327/. 4^-. '^\d., which would be equal to about 3,500/. in modern money, 
 computing that a shilling of Elizabethan coinage was worth from ten to twelve shillings 
 of Victoria, on the basis of the relative rentals of land and rates of artizans' wages 
 then and now. In quantity there was stated to have been purchased 2,400 yards of 
 woollen cloth, and 1,800 yards of linen cloth. 
 
 387
 
 (Page 152 of the MS., folio 113.) 
 Geven by the executo''3 of Robte Nowell esquier 
 deceased, Late of grayes Inne to his poor 
 Kynsfolkes in Lancashire in clothe and other 
 wiese of the Goodes of the said Rofete as 
 hearafter follow^^ Anno Dni 1569 
 
 et regni regine Elizabeth undecimo 
 the xx^^ of June. 
 
 21° Junij 
 
 23" Junij 
 
 27 Junij 
 
 30 of Junij 
 
 } 
 
 VS 
 
 >-xviij« 
 
 To his Cosin Oliver hawoorthe ot" 
 
 Manchester^ havinge many children xxx^ 
 in the psentes of George berch^ m"^ DanyelP b>xxx8 
 M"" haule* & others of Manchester & m^^ 
 Langlaye^ 
 
 To his Aunte Elizabethe reedfearne at 
 Towenley haule 
 
 To Anne reedfearne^ her doughter v' 
 
 To or brother John Towenley^ iiij"" children ] 
 
 and Thorns Whitaker and willm Thomson I ...jj 
 vij yardes & a di. of brood new coUered clothe . ^ 
 at viijs the yarde in the hole J 
 
 To his cosin James Bri^ge^ havinge iij"^" 
 children, iij yardes in brood London clothe 
 of the pishe of holdam 
 
 To his cosin James Bridges wiefe of 
 Robte heyley9 havinge one childe of the pishe 
 of Ratchdale iij yardes of brod London clothe 
 To Thoms Casson"' husband to Elizabeth^ 
 Bridge, his cosin havinge ij Children of 
 the pishe of Ratchdale, iij"" yardes of brode 
 
 London clothe. & in money v]^ apece _ 
 
 these brought the Testimonies of Cuthberd Scofild^^ 
 
 Roger Garshead^^ ^nd Arthur Ashtonn of RatchdelP^ gent- 
 
 men And delyu ed in the p sentes of willm Barcrofte 
 
 John Seller, Thoms Jackson, James woolton^* 
 
 To his Cosin Richard hardman of middliton'^ \ ij» 
 whoe hathe v children, iij'' yardes of brood I 
 London clothe & ij^ in money, aud vij yardes f 
 Lynen J 
 
 To John hopwoode of Ratchdale^^ pishe ^ 
 one yarde & a halfe of London clothe & Vvj*^ 
 v]^ in money J 
 
 Delyu^ed in the pfentes of vs whose names are heyr subscribed 
 George Seller John Seller. '^ 
 
 v'J iiij*./ in money 
 
 288
 
 Notes and Ilhisti^ations. 
 (152) 
 
 ' " Olwer hatvorthe of Manchester" : I cannot fix the connexion of this person with 
 the Nowells, unless he was a son of John Havvorth named on the next page, whose 
 wife Alice was a Hopwood, and daughter of a sister of Dean Nowell's mother. 
 
 ' "George berch" : George Birch, gent., of Manchester, younger son of George 
 Birch, Esq., and brother of Thomas Birch of Birch, Esq. 
 
 3 "■ fur Daiiyell" : Nicholas Daniel, or, as he described himself, Nicholas ap Evans 
 Daniel, B.D., was Fellow of the Collegiate Church of Manchester 1568. He was 
 vicar of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, but apparently deprived for nonconformity 
 (Newcourt's Reperl., vol. i, p. 687). He afterwards became vicar of Preston-in- 
 Amounderness, and in a long and singularly interesting letter addressed by him to 
 Bishop Downham, dated Preston " dominica in albis, 1574," he details the griefs and 
 difficulties he had encountered in his parish. (Canon Raines's Lane. MSS., vol. xxii, 
 pp. 150-154.) Various charges were brought against him, chiefly for nonconformity 
 and heterodoxy, before the Archbishop of York's commissioners, in the Chapter House, 
 Manchester, in 1571, and as he is not named in the Charter of 1575 it is not quite clear 
 that he was at that time a member of the Collegiate body. Archdeacon Mullins of 
 London, one of the Marian exiles, was his friend. [Ibid, vol. xli, pp. 127-9.) 
 
 ■• "Mr haitle'': Richard Hall, younger son of Thomas Hall, by his wife Alice, 
 daughter of John Valentine, and brother of Thomas Hall, priest, the friend and 
 correspondent of John Bradford the martyr (Bradford's Letters, p. 10). Richard Hall 
 was ordained deacon by John, Bishop of Chester, 23rd December, 1541, on the title of 
 Peter Warburton of Arley, knight; and priest, loth March, 1542, on the same title. 
 (Bishop's Liber Ordin. Ceslr.) He was a Fellow of the Collegiate Church, Man- 
 chester, 1559, and appears to have professed Theology, Philosophy, Physic, and 
 Medicine. He laboured under the suspicion of not being a hearty Protestant and ably 
 defended himself. He was bursar of the college and deputy or curate for Dean Nowell, 
 which is the strongest argument that could be adduced for the soundness of his creed, 
 his learning, ability and character. In October, 1584, he records "Mr. Allex. Nowell, 
 Deane of Paules owes mee for Wages xxx'','' and various other persons were indebted 
 to him. {Inventory of Debts. ) He is the " Sir Hall " who had an annuity of x" granted 
 to him out of the Collegiate revenues, and which Lord Burghley advised Bishop Chad- 
 derton "to stale the pajmient thereof," and adds, that if he should repair to the Bishop 
 for the same, his Lordship was to direct him to apply to Burghley for an answer, who 
 says, "being such a man as you describe I cannot favour him." This was written on 
 the I2th September, 1581. His "annuitie and arrearages" were probably paid, and 
 the warden was found to be the culprit. (Peek's Desid. Cur., vol. 1, lib. iii, p. 37.) 
 He lost his Prebendal stall at Worcester, but retained that of Manchester until his 
 death. His Will is dated 22nd October, 1584, and he was buried in the Collegiate 
 Church, in January, 1584-5, and his widow Margerie, on the 5th January, 1588. 
 {Lives of Fel/ows of iManch. Coll., Lane. JIISS., vol. xli, pp. 129-30 ; — communicated 
 by Canon Raines.) 
 
 * "Mrs Langlaye'''' : May have been Cicely Langley, widow of Robert Langley 
 of Agecroft, Esq. He died early in the reign of Elizabeth. 
 
 ® '■'■Elizabethe and Anne reedfearne": See, for numerous Redfearnes, Index of 
 Names, s.n, 
 
 7 " JoJui To7uenley": The four children of John Towneley, Esq., named in this 
 entry would be Richard, born in 1566 ; John, born in 1567 ; and Jennet and Frances, 
 his two eldest daughters. All the other sons and daughters, ten in number, were born 
 after this date (June, 1569). 
 
 ^ *' yames Bridgge" : The relation of the Bridges to the Nowells is indefinable. 
 Some of them are named again some pages onward. 
 
 ^ " Robfe heyley" : Thomas Healey of Lower Healey, in the manor of Rochdale, 
 gent., holdeth by deed dated 22nd April, 4 Phil, et Mar., made by Thomas Healey, 
 father of the said Thomas, to Robert Buckley of Buckley, gent. ; John Wolstenholme 
 of Wolstenholme, gent. ; Arthur Whitehead of Dearnley, gent. ; and others as feoffees 
 in trust for the use of Robert Healey his eldest son, and Elizabeth his ivife, and the heirs 
 of their two bodies lawfully begotten, and for default of such issue, to remain to the 
 said Thomas and his right heirs, a faire house in Healey, and divers lands worth 20/. 
 a year adjoining to the lands of Abel Buckley of Buckley, Esq. (Note by Canon 
 Raines, from Lane. MSS., vol. xxi, p. 210.) 
 
 '" " Tho7ns Casson": Thomas Casson held copyhold lands at Wroe, in Spotland, 
 paidsh of Rochdale, 12th June, 1571; and on the 30th April, 4 Jac, Thomas Holt of 
 Stid, near Ribchester, Esq., conveyed lands in Spotland, near Rochdale, to Caleb, son 
 of Wilfred Casson. (Raines's Lane. MSS., vol. vii, p. 26.) Samuel Casson held 
 these lands in 1695, and John Casson in 1706. {Ibid, pp. 265, 27S. ) 
 
 " "CiithberdScofild": Cuthbert Schofield was the son of James Schofield of Schofield 
 Hall, in the parish of Rochdale, gent. He died without issue, and the family descent 
 
 U 289
 
 30 Junij 
 
 1569 
 
 Delyu^'ed 
 John 
 
 To his 
 
 pishe 
 
 Dothe 
 
 London 
 
 (Page 153 of the MS., folio 113 verso.) 
 Cousin Elys Reedferne of Ratchdale' ^ 
 
 o'" Aunte Elysabethe Reedfearne { ^ . 
 
 one yard & a half of brood t ^ 
 
 v^ in money ) 
 
 in the p'fentes of vs ^ 
 Seller^, Gylbarte Towenley, V 
 
 w' whom 
 remayn, 
 clothe & 
 
 Robte pyckringe, Alexander bradshayj 
 
 ' Julij 
 
 To his Cosin Ales wilde nowe wief to 
 
 Edward Turnall ij yardes & a half, and to 
 
 her husbande, one yard & a half, and to 
 their Doughter Catherin Turnall,^ ij yardes 
 
 & a half of London brode clothe, for a gowen yVi']^ in money 
 
 at her mariage in the whole vj yardes & a half 
 
 and in money to his faid Cosin & her husbande 
 
 ijs & to her doughter to be delyu^ed by them 
 
 at her marriage v* of the pishe of Ratchdale 
 
 ,9^ J • ^i_ ") 
 
 Delyu ed in the p sentes of vs Thoms haymons, Robte Pyckringe 
 Thoms Jackeson henry Coney* & others. 
 
 a" Julij 'po his Cosin Agnes Turnall wiefe to Rychard' 
 
 Myller,^ ij yardes & a half of brod London clothe 
 
 Sonne 
 brood 
 
 Rafife 
 clothe 
 
 Miller, 
 and to 
 
 and her eldeste 
 yarde & a halfe of 
 one of her other 
 Number ij^ apece 
 money in the pishe 
 Delyu^ed in the p'^sentes of vs. Robte Towenley, John houghton 
 Robte whitakers, willm huntington, Thoms Jacksone^/ 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 1 
 
 Children 
 in the 
 of holdam 
 
 beinge 
 whole 
 
 feven 
 xiiijs 
 
 one 
 
 eu^y )>xiiij8 in mone; 
 in 
 in 
 
 4» of Julij 
 
 M'i that Ales hopwoode wiefe to John haworthe^ mother | 
 to the iij nexte followinge, hade the xxv^^ of Junij in I vi 
 Towenley v^ for her self, & for eu^y of her children xij*^ | " 
 besyde the somes nexte vnder written in the whole viij^.. ^ 
 
 To his Cosin John haworthe havinge a 
 sore legge, & for his wief, of Burry 
 parrishe havinge one childe, xxx^ in money 
 to by them a cowe^ w'hall _ 
 
 To his Cosin Rychard haworthe his wief^ 
 one child, havinge noe house to dwele 
 
 ij3 m 
 money. 
 
 * 
 
 >xxxs m mone^ 
 
 havinge 
 
 in 
 
 haworthe 
 To his 
 
 remainmge 
 
 rth 
 
 W 
 
 Delyu^ed 
 
 pishe 
 
 in the 
 
 w 
 
 mother 
 
 their 
 
 of Ratchdale pishe 
 
 cosin margerett haworthe 
 mother Ales haworthe in 
 
 Ales 
 
 
 xxx^ m mon< 
 
 John houghton, James 
 otheres./ 
 
 p sentes of vs. 
 
 dwellinge "i 
 
 Rachdale >\^ in money 
 
 Gylbarte Towenley 
 
 woulton Robte pyckringe^ w* 
 
 v^i iiij^ in mo^; 
 besydes clot:. 
 
 290
 
 Notes aitd I llustrations. 
 
 was continued in the issue of his brother Alexander Schofield, who succeeded him in 
 the estate. Canon Raines has a note respecting a suit pursued in the Bishop's court, 
 in 1561, by Cuthbert Schofield of Schofield, gent., for a divorce from Anne his wife, 
 who was a natural daughter of Sir John Byron, on the ground of adultery, committed 
 by her with one Michael Goodrich, gent., in the house of her husband, called 
 Schofield Hall. On being discovered in her infidelity, Mrs. Anne Schofield fled with 
 her paramour to Rochdale, thence to Ireland. " Cuthbert Scholfild of Scholfild, buried 
 June 5th, 1605," at Rochdale. {Reg. Bk.) 
 
 '2 ''Roger Gai-s/u-ad": This is meant for Roger Gartside, gent., of the family of 
 Gartside of Gartside and Oakenrod, in Rochdale and of Ewood Bridge, near Haslingden. 
 
 '=' "-Arthur Ashtonn of Ratchdale, gent.'" : Canon Raines, in a note to the Chetham 
 Society's edition of Nicholas Assheton's "Journal," supplies information respecting 
 this personage and his descendants. Arthur Assheton of Rochdale, attomey-at-law, 
 was father of William Assheton of Clegg Hall, Esq., and of Edward Assheton, M. A., 
 Rector of Middleton from 1584 to his death in June, 1618. Arthur Assheton, gent., 
 had also eleven daughters. He died in 1593 ; and in his Will, dated 15 May, 33 
 Eliz. (1591), gives a legacy to his son Edward, "parson of Middleton," and 
 nominates him and testator's dear friend Robert Holt of Ashworth, gent., and Robert 
 Holt, his son, overseers of the Will. In 4 Elizabeth (1561), Richard Midgeley, clerk. 
 Vicar of Rochdale, was against Arthur Assheton, Richard Holt, and others, in a suit 
 as to glebe lands belonging to Rochdale Vicarage. {Cal. to Pleadgs., Due. Lane.) 
 
 " "IVillm Beirerofte, John Seller, Thorns Jciekson, James -woolton'^ : (See Index of 
 Names, s.n., for other occurrence of these names.) 
 
 '* "Riehard hardnian of niiddliton" : Nothing appears on inquiry to enable me to 
 identify this Richard Hardman of Middleton, described as "cousin" of Dean Nowell. 
 Some other Hardmans, also "cousins" of the donor, are named two pages onward. 
 The name frequently occurs m the Middleton Registers. 
 
 '" "John hopwoodc of Ratchdale'": He may be connected with other Hopwoods 
 named two pages onward. 
 
 17 * ^George Seller, John Seller": See Index of Names, s.n., for numerous "Sellers." 
 
 (153) 
 
 ' " Elys Reedferne of Ratchdale" : See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ "John Seller, Gylbmte Tozoenley, Robte fyekringe, Alexander brad s hay" : John 
 Sellers, Robert Pickering, and Alexander Bradshaw are heretofore named and noted 
 as servants of Dean Nowell. Gilbert Towneley may have been a kinsman-dependant 
 of John Towneley. I see no Gilbert of this period in any of the Towneley pedigrees. 
 He was in holy orders, for he is named four pages onward in the text as " Gylberte 
 Towenley, clerke." 
 
 ' " Ales wilde Edward Turnall . . . . Catherin Turnall": See some pages 
 
 onward for notes on Wyldes and Tumalls. 
 
 * " Thonis hayvions, Robte Fyekringe, Thorns Jackeson, henry Coney": These witnesses 
 of the payments, as those above, were either servants or kinsmen of Dean Nowell and 
 John Tojvneley, Esq. 
 
 « "Agnes Turnall. . . . Rychard Myller Raffe Miller": Richard Miller of 
 
 Oldham Parish had, it appears, married Agnes Turnall, whose mother was a Wylde, 
 and a relative of the Nowells. Richard Miller in 1569 had eight children, Ralph 
 being his eldest son. 
 
 ® "Robte Towejiley, John honghton, Robte Whitakers, wilhn huniitigtoft, Thovis 
 Jaelisone": See Notes 2 and 4 supra. 
 
 7 " Ales hopwoode . . . John haworthe": These Haworths of Rochdale and Bury, 
 who seem to have been in poverty and misfortune at this time, evidently owed their kin- 
 ship to the Nowells to the circumstance of the mother of the family, "Ales hopwoode, 
 wief to John Haworth," being a Hopwood ; and a previous entry at page 78 ante 
 describes her as a widow and as a daughter of Pleniy Hopwood. I believe that her 
 mother was Eleanor Kay, sister to Elizabeth Kay, Robert Nowell's and Dean Nowell's 
 mother. If so, Henry Hopwood was the name of the member of the Hopwood family 
 whom Eleanor Kay wedded, John Haworth by his wife Alice (Hopwood), had, as 
 here stated, sons John Haworth and Richard Haworth, each married and having one 
 child in 1569, when the second son, Richard, was living with his widowed mother at 
 Rochdale, as was also her unmarried daughter, Margaret Haworth. On the next two 
 pages other Hopwoods are named. 
 
 ^ " to by them a cowe": Thirty shillings were given to this family of poor kinsfolk to 
 purchase them a cow. That sum would buy a good cow in 1 569. In the Household 
 Books of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe in Lancashire, from various entries relating 
 to the buying and selling of cattle I take this as an example : " 1583. Bought in 
 Blackburne the firste daye of Maye, one cowe, ids. lod." 
 
 ' " Gylbarte Towettley, John honghton, James woulton, Robte pyckringe": See Note 
 2 supra. 
 
 2 U 291
 
 S^of Julij 
 
 (Page 154 of the MS., folio 113 sic) 
 
 To his Cosin Lawrance wylde^ one yard & a half 
 of brood London clothe, and to his wiefe iij yardes 
 of whit Lancashir clothe, at xvj^ the yarde, and 
 to his iij doughters, Anne, Jenet, and Dorethie eu y 
 of them iij yardes at xv^ the yarde, to his doughters ^x^ in money, 
 Janne, Catherin, and Ales, eu^y of them, ij yardes. to 
 his sonnes Lawrance & willm wilde, eu'y of them one 
 yeard & a half of London brood clothe, of the parishe of 
 Ratchdale & eu^y of them beinge x in nomb"^ jli']^ apece_^ 
 
 To his Cosin Edmund Turnall^ of Ratchdale parishe 
 one yard & a half of brood London cloth, to his iij"" 
 doughters Marie, Grace, & Ales, eu^ of them ij yeardes ,^ -^ .^^ money 
 of Lanc'^ white, & to his wief iij yardes, at xv*^ the { •' ^' 
 
 yeard, and ij^ vj"^ in money to him self & for eu y of 
 his childrene xij*^ apece in the whole 
 
 To his Cosin Janne wilde wiefife to Thoms Jacksonne' 
 ij yeardes & a half of brood London clothe, to her 
 husbande one yard & a half of the same to her sonne 
 Robte one yard & a half of the same, and to the Janne 
 wilde, iij^ yeardes of fyne_ Lacashir white, and to y^^.. .^ .^^ ^^^^^^ 
 her doughter Elizabethe iij yardes of the fame at | ' ■' •' 
 xviij*^ the yearde, in money to her self 
 v^ & to her doughter v^, to her sonn Thoms Jackson 
 
 v^ & to her sonne Robte ij^ v]^ of Brunley 
 
 parishe in money in the whole 
 
 more to the said Elizabethe Jacksonne^ for that ^ 
 she was o'' mother Goddoughter ij yardes & a half V 
 
 of London brood clothe to make her a gowen j 
 
 Delyu ed in the presence'* of Gylbarte Towenley 
 George feller, John houghton, Robte Pyckringe 
 
 yth of juiij To his Cosin John hopwood^ one yarde & a half of 
 
 brood London clothe, to his wieffe iij yeardes of 
 fyne Lancashir white, at xviij<^ the yearde, toe 
 
 I 
 
 beinge )>iij^ in money 
 to his 
 
 his doughter Elizabethe, & Katherin 
 childrene iij yardes of the same white, 
 sonne Robte hopwood, one yard & a half of the 
 
 fame & iij^ in money 
 
 To his Cosin Rycharde hopwoode one yarde & a half] xij*^ in money. 
 
 of brood London clothe & xij<^ in money f 
 
 To his Cosin James hardman^, one yard & a 
 half of brood London clothe, to his wifife 
 Katherin hardmane iij yardes of Lancashir ^iij^ in money, 
 white at xv*^ the yarde, & to their sonne I 
 Edmunde hardmane ij yardes of the fame & iij^J 
 To his Coson Robte Collinge^, one yeard & a ) ^..^j • „„„„„ 
 
 half of London Clothe & xij<i in moneye / 
 
 Deliuered in the p^sentes of vs Gylberte Towenley. 
 John Goodshawe^ Robte Pyckringe and 
 James woolton w*^ others./ 
 
 xlj* in money 
 besydes clothe 
 
 292
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (154) 
 
 ' '' Lawraiice wylde''': For all the Wildes of this page, see Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 • "Edmund Turnall of I?atchdale": He had married a daughter of Lawrence 
 Wilde, who was in some way not manifest nearly related to Dean Nowell. 
 He had, besides the son Lawrence Turnall here named, daughters, Marie, Grace, and 
 Alice, mentioned two pages anie. The name here written Turnall is probably meant 
 for Turnogh, that of a very old family living at Turnogh, now called Turner, in But- 
 terworth, near Rochdale, in the 13th and following centuries. 
 
 ^ ^'Elizabeihe Jacksonne^'' : This young woman got a go\vn, over and above the equal 
 gift with her brothers, because she had been god-daughter to Dean Nowell's mother. 
 Her father, Thomas Jackson, had to wife Jane Wild, daughter of Lawrence Wild 
 named supra. He had sons, Thomas Jackson, and Robert Jackson — the later (or 
 perhaps all the family) "of Brunley [Burnley] parishe." 
 
 * "Ddyit'ed in the presence''^ &c. : All these names and infra, before : see Index of 
 Names, s.n. 
 
 ^ " John hopwood " : For the Hopwoods of this page, see Index of Names, s.n., 
 and for a genealogical note on the family see the next page. 
 
 ® "• yames kardman": The nature of the "cousinship" to the Nowells of this 
 and other persons in the MS. must remain undefined. A Richard Hardman of 
 Middleton is mentioned two pages ante. James Hardman, by Katherine his wife, had 
 a son Edward living in 1569. The surname of Flardman is yet local in South-East 
 Lancashire. Canon Raines notes : — "The Hardmans of Marcroft-gate in Wolsten- 
 holme hamlet were old freeholders and copyholders within the parish of Rochdale, and 
 were connected with some of the superior yeomanry and with neighbouring families of 
 lesser gentry. They were, in the time of Eliz. and Jas. I., much associated with the 
 Ashworths of Ashworth, Bamfords of Bamford, and Wolstenholmes of Wolslenholme, 
 but probably not by marriage." 
 
 7 '■'J?odte Collinge": Not identified. See next page, Note 5, for mention of a John 
 Collinge, gent. 
 
 8 " yohn Goodshazve" : He is here named among Dean Nowell's servants, but has 
 not previously occurred in that capacity. 
 
 ^93
 
 5 of Julij 
 Ao 1569 
 
 (Page 1 5 5 of the MS., folio 1 1 3 sic verso.) 
 To his Cosiii wylde^ of holdam parishe one' 
 yeard & a half of Brood London Clothe, too his 
 ij fonnes Ottewell & John wilde ij yardes & a half 
 of brod London clothe To his wiffe 
 Margery wilde. iij yardes of Lancashire white 
 to his doughter Margeret wylde iij yeardes of 
 
 the iij Children xij<^ 
 
 >iijs in money 
 
 Lancashire white. to 
 
 apece in the whole 
 
 Delyu^ed in the p^'sentes of Gylberte Towenley.^ 
 Thorns holden, Robte Pyckringe w'^ otheres 
 
 vjt" of Julij 
 A» 1569 
 
 To his cosni Robte hopwoode^ fonne to Barten ) ..,, . 
 1 J J tpr c xij^ m money 
 
 hopwood one yard q*^'^ money j •' •' 
 
 To his fyster Elizabethe hopwoode ii yardes )••<,. 
 
 / ^ r 1] in money 
 
 quarter, m money J •* •' 
 
 Delyu'^ed in the p^sentes of Gylberte Towenley. 
 
 John houghton. Robte pyckringe w'^^ others 
 
 To his Aunte Elizabethe Chadwiecke* whoe~] 
 was married to henrye Reedfearne, wyddowe | 
 ij yardes & a half of brod London clothe, and iij^ ^vj^ viij'^ in money 
 yeardes of Lancashir white to make her a :. 
 
 petticoate of Ratchdale parishe in moneye J 
 
 To his Cosin Thoms Reedfearne her' 
 
 fonne, one yard & a half of London clothe & 
 iij yeardes of Lancashir white for his wiffe 
 & to his iiij Children vj* yeardes of white 
 their Names are Elizabethe, henry, James 
 
 i 
 
 >n]^ m']^ in money 
 
 and Jane & iij^ m]^ in monev 
 
 ;;;d 
 
 To his Cosin Janne Reedfearne married to 
 peyres Tayller ij yeardes & a half of London 
 clothe & iij yeardes of Lancashir white, and 1 ...g ■■■•^ • 
 to her husbande v^ in money, to her 1 
 children Rycharde Bonaventure arthure & j ■} 
 
 Elys vj yardes of white & iij^ 'iiijd J 
 
 Delu'^ed in the p''fentes of Gylberte Towenley 
 hughe Shuttellworthe, Thoms holden. 
 
 To o'' Aunte hopwoode^ x^ ^ I 
 
 To Raffe hopwood wyffe iij lyncn & iij^ iiij ' 
 
 To Raffe hopwood vj'^ children, John^ 
 
 hopwood, Anne hopwood, Jenet, and Janne I ...^ , 
 hopwood marie & m geret, vj yeardes woollen f •' j 
 & vj Lynen & to eu^y of them in money vj'^J J [ 
 
 To o^' Cosin Rogere Nowell of Symondestone^ 
 
 his ij fonnes John & Thoms Nowell : ij yeardes J-x^ in gold 
 & a half of brood London clothe and in money 
 
 To C Cosin Georges feller iij Childrene 
 ij yeardes & a half of London clothe. & iij yeardes 
 of fyne white wollen 
 
 xlv^ viij*^ in money 1 
 besydes clothe. 
 
 )>xvjs iiij*^ in mone 
 
 294
 
 Notes and Ilhisti^ations. 
 (155) 
 
 ' " cosin ivylde'''' : A genealogical note on all the Wyldes named in the MS. is in- 
 serted two pages onward. 
 
 * " Gylberte Tawneley,^'' and hif7-a : See the name on pages preceding. 
 ^ " Kobte Hoptvoode'''' : See infra for note on the Hopwood family. 
 
 * ^^ Attnte Elizabdhe Chadiviecke^'' : This dame must have been a sister of Robert 
 and Dean Nowell's father, for their mother being herself named Elizabeth could not 
 have had a sister Elizabeth. In the Nowell Pedigree a daughter of Roger Nowell, Esq., 
 and aunt of Dean Nowell, named Elizabeth, is entered as wife of Robert Challoner. 
 Elizabeth Nowell's second husband may have been Henry Redfeame. This entry 
 proves that she survived him, and then married one Chadwick, and was again a widow 
 and living in Rochdale parish in 1569. To Henry Redfeame she bore several sons 
 and daughters mentioned in the AIS. In the very next entiy appears her son Thomas 
 Redfeame, his v/ife, and their four children, Henry, James, Elizabeth, and Jane. 
 Another son was Ellis Redfeame (see two pages ante) of Rochdale parish, "with 
 whom our Aunte Elizabethe Reedfearne dotlie remayn" ; he is elsewhere mentioned 
 as of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1578. James Redfeame was another son, 
 named ante in an entiy of a gift of money sent in 1571 to Dean Nowell's aunt, "James 
 Redfeame's mother" ; and John Redfeame of Worcester, "brother to James Red- 
 feame," so described ante, was another of the sons. I tiave no doubt that Richard 
 Redfeame, dwelling at Bewdley in 1571, and described as Robert Nowell's kinsman, 
 was a fifth son. There were also daughters, Anne Redfeame, and (named on this 
 page) "Jane Reedfearne, married to Peyres Taylor," who had children, Richard, 
 Bonaventure, Arthur, and Ellis. From other sources we get slight allusions to this 
 family. Henry Hamer of Hamer, parish of Rochdale, in his Will dated 1572, gives 
 to " Agnes, the wife of Thomas Redfeame," I3J-. 4^. This Thomas Redfeame, whom 
 
 1 take to be the Thomas, eldest son of widow Redfeame of our MS. , died before the 
 44 Eliz. (1601), when the escheator's inquisition found that he had died seized of mes- 
 suages, lands, and woodlands in Redfeame in Spotland and Wolstenholme in Spotland. 
 He would be the Thomas Redfeame of the following notes by Canon Raines, from his 
 Lane. MSS. " On the 20 April, 12 James I. (1614), certain lands in Spotland were 
 sun-endered by Fi-ancis Wolstenholme, gent., and Elizeus and James Schofield, to 
 Thomas Redfeame of Redfeame, senr., who held lands in Spotland by grant dated 
 
 2 October, 32 Eliz. (1589). James Schofield, gent., surrendered lands on Knoll More 
 in Spotland, 30 August 1593, to Thomas Redfeame, senr. Thomas Redfeame of 
 Redfeame, junr., held lands called Fallos in Spotland, by copy dated 20 October, 
 22 Eliz. These lands passed to James Redfeame, and 4 October, 3 Chas. I. (1627), 
 Samuel Bamford of Bamford surrendered to him other lands for the lives of Mary, 
 Martha, and Hester Redfeame. Gabriel Redfeame succeeded to the lands of his 
 father Thomas Redfeame, senr." 
 
 * " otcr Ajcnte Hopwoode" : Dean Nowell's aunt Hopwood was Eleanor Kay, his 
 mother's sister, who married (as I make out by means of entries in the MS. previously 
 noted) Henry Hopwood of Rochdale, gent. The husband was apparently dead in 
 1569, when aunt Hopwood is named more than once as still living (as in the present 
 entry). The sons and daughters of Henry and Eleanor Hopwood were, I think, the 
 following : sons, John Hopwood (who had a son Robert Hopwood and daughtei-s 
 Elizabeth and Catherine) ; Ralph Hopwood of Heywood parish, living in 1569 (he 
 had a son John Hopwood, and daughters Ann, Jenet, Jane, second wife, in 1580, of 
 William Assheton of Clegg Hall, gent., Marie and Margaret) ; Richard Hopwood ; 
 Bertin Hopwood (who had sons John Hopwood and Robert Hopwood, and a daughter 
 Elizabeth) ; daughters, Alice Hopwood, living in 1569 (wife of John Ilaworth of 
 Rochdale) ; Joane Hopwood (wife of Thomas Me)Ts) ; and Frances (wife of Robert 
 Fowler). This family of Hopwoods was a branch of the ancient stock of Hopwood of 
 Hopwood. No pedigree of this branch is found in any of the heraldic visitations, and 
 the descents given above are wholly based upon entries in our MS. Canon Raines 
 obligingly notes for us among his collections the following references to Hopwoods 
 connected with the locality of Rochdale temp. Eliz., some of whom I believe will prove 
 to be among those named in the MS. : — Married at Rochdale, "Edmund Hopwood 
 cum uxor xvi Mail, 1585"; "Robert Hopwood, Par. Mydleton," married at Roch- 
 dale 5 Dec. 1586. John Hopwood, son of Robert Hopwood, bapt. at Rochdale 
 2 April 1585 ; Robert Hopwoud, son of John Hopwood, bapt. 27 March 1585. John 
 Hopwood, son of Thomas Hopwood, bapt. 2 April 1585. Richard Hopwood, dead 
 in 1593, had a son John, bapt. at Rochdale 15 Jan. 1586. Robert Hopwood of Miln- 
 row, husbandman, in his Will, dated 21 Dec. 1591, refers to lands he held of John 
 Collinge, gent., by indenture of lease dated 23 May, 33 Eliz. (1590), which he gave to 
 Mary his daughter ; appoints his wife Grace and daughter Mary executrixes ; trusty 
 friends Mr. William Butterworth of Little Howarth, and his brother Edmund Hop- 
 
 295
 
 vii,'" JuHj 
 A" i56y 
 
 half of 
 
 bridges' 
 
 )>xis vj^ in money 
 
 >vnf nij'i in mone 
 
 (Page 156 of the MS., folio 114,) 
 
 To Jeames Bridge his Cosin' whoe hadde 
 iij yeardes of brode London clothe & vj^^ in money 
 as before the xxvijt'* of June apperethe more now in money 
 to his iij Childrne, John Bridge, Elys brid 
 & Anne bridge eu y of them a yeard & a 
 Lancashir woollen clothe & to them vj^ a pece 
 
 To Owen brocke his Cosin, margeret 
 
 deceased her husbande, one yearde di of L. 
 Clothe & iij^ iiij*^. and to his children, Elys 
 Broke, iij yeardes of Lancashire white, ij yeardes 
 of Leynen and in moneye ij^ 
 To his fonne Rychard Brocke iij yeardes of wollen 
 ij yeardes Lynen & xij^^ in money to his doughf 
 brocke ij yeardes iij q*^'^^ wollen. & ij yeardes Lenen 
 ijs money 
 
 To his Cosin Rycharde wyld^ of mydlieton parishe ^ 
 
 deceased his wieffe beinge a wyddowe iij yeardes of >-ij^ in money 
 Lancashir wollen ij yeardes di Lynen & in moneye ... J 
 
 To his & her children, to Ales wylde married to "j 
 
 Willm Tayler of holdam parishe iij yeardes wollen V ijMn money 
 & ij yeardes & a di Lynen in moneye ...j 
 
 To her husband a yeard & a di of London clothe to her 
 & his iij children Anne Tayller ij yeardes wollen & 
 a yeard & iij qte» Lynen. To Ales Tayller a yearde , ^^^ „ ^^ money 
 iij q*^''^ wollen a yeard & a half Lynen to margerie j -' ^ 
 
 Tayller a yeard & a half wollen, a yeard q**^'^ Lynen | 
 & to eu^y of them vj*^ in money J 
 
 To his Cosin mary wilde Dough ter to Rycharde wilde 
 deceased iij yardes of wollen, ij yeardes & a di of Lynen 
 & ij^ in money to her sonne Rubine. ij yeardes & a di. 
 wollen 
 
 To his Cosin Isabell wylde another doughter of 
 
 the said Rycharde wilde iij yeardes wollen & ij yeardes 
 
 & a di. Lynen & in money 
 
 To Tanne wyld iij yeardes wollen & ij yeardes & a di. ) ... . 
 
 T •' o ■ > i]3 m money. 
 
 Lynene. & m money j •' -^ 
 
 To Elizabethe , doughter vnto Edmond wylde S 
 
 deceased iij' yeardes wollen ij yeardes & a di. [-xij^ in money 
 
 Lynen & xij** in money j 
 
 To his Cosin Lawrance Turnall fonne'1 
 
 vnto Edmunde Turnall one yearde & a half >ij' in money 
 
 of London clothe ij yeardes Lynen & in moneyj 
 
 Delyu ed in the p sentes of Gylberte Towenley, Thoms holden, 
 
 Even haddocke, James woulton, Thoms crabtree, 
 
 and John Sellere./ 
 
 xxxiiijs iiij"^ 
 
 besydes clothe. 
 
 ■ij» in money. 
 
 ij' in money. 
 
 296
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 wood, supervisors ; names James Hopwood, Cuthbert Schofield, gent., James Hamer, 
 Henry Holt, &c. Grace Hopwood the widow married, 5 Sept. 1592, Robert Mayall 
 or Meall, yeoman, of Butterworth Hall. William Assheton of Clegg Hall, Esq., 
 married Jane, daughter of [? Henry] Hopwood of Spotland Gate, gent.; she died 10 April 
 1589, leaving issue, two sons and three daughters. Theophilus Assheton, the eldest 
 son, names in his Will, 17 James I. (1619), his uncles, James, Leonard, Anthony, 
 Richard, and Daniel Hopwood, all younger sons of Hopwood of Hopwood. Some 
 of these Hopwoods settled in ^Ianchester. In 1562, Ralph Hopwood had a suit with 
 George Preudlove, about a messuage, cottages, and gardens in Manchester ; and in 
 1565, the same Ralph Hopwood, claiming to be seized in fee, prosecuted James 
 Chetham, Katherine his wife, and John Travers, as trespassers upon a burgage or 
 tenement in Milnegate, Manchester. Robert Nowell, in his Will, gave to each of his 
 aunt Hopwood's children then living, a legacy of 7/. 
 
 * " Roger Nowell of Symondcstone" : He is described as "cousin" of Dean Nowell, 
 and was very likely son of an unrecorded son of Dean Nowell's grandfather. He had 
 two sons living in 1569, John Nowell and Thomas Nowell. Symonstone is a town- 
 ship adjoining Read, on the east. 
 
 (156) 
 
 1 '■^Jeames Bridge Ms cosin'''': Intended for James Briggs ; named four pages a7tte, 
 along with his daughter, the wife of Robert Heley, and Elizabeth, wife of Thomas 
 Casson. Here, three other children, John, Ellis, and Anne, are named. Margaret 
 Bridge, deceased, of the entry following, may have been his sister ; she was wife of 
 Owen Brock (? Brook), and mother of Richard Brock. Canon Raines informs us 
 that James Briggs' son, Ambrose Briggs, was, in June, 1598 (and in 1601) one of the 
 chaplains or curates of the Collegiate Church of Manchester. {Lane. MSS., vol. 
 xliii, p. 35.) 
 
 ' " Rychard Wyld," and other Wildes on this page : See note to entiy on next page. 
 
 3 " Lazvrance Tiirnall Edward Turnall": See ante, p. 293, Note 2. 
 
 297
 
 d 
 
 (Page 157 of the MS., folio 114 verso) 
 ^"/"''j To his cosin Lawrance wilde^ of Midlieton pished 
 
 one yeard & a half of brode London clothe ij yeardes !-xij<i 
 
 & a half in Lynen & xij'^ in money j 
 
 To Isabell his wieffe iij yeardes of wollen and ij yeardes ] ..^j 
 
 & a half of Lynen and xijd j ^'J 
 
 To his cosin Edmonde wilde fonne vnto the said \ 
 
 Lawrance one yeard & a half of brod London clothe /-xij*^ 
 
 & in money j 
 
 To Ales his wifife iij yeardes of whit wollen ij \ ,--^ 
 
 yeardes & a half Lynen & in money j J 
 
 To the children of the said Edmonde & fyrste to Edmond \ 
 
 wilde his fonne, one yeard & a di. of brod clothe & ij !=-xijd 
 
 yeardes in Lynen & xij'i in money j 
 
 To Willm wylde a yearde q'^'' of London clothe ] .. 
 
 ij yeardes Lynen & in money , j'^J 
 
 To Jenet wilde doughter to Edmonde iij yeardes of) ..^ 
 
 white wollen. iij. yeardes of Lenen & in money ]^ ^ 
 
 To Elizabethe wilde ij yeardes iij q'^rs of wollen & ) ..^ 
 
 ij yeardes & a di. Lynen & in money J^^J 
 
 Sentebyther Tq Alcs wildc. ii. yearclcs & a half of wollen & ij yeardes) .-a 
 
 lather <5i mother o- 1^X11 
 
 of Lynen. & m money j ' ■• . 
 
 To Raffe wilde. ij. yeardes & a di. of wollen & ij yeardes lynen xij<i 
 To Lawrance wilde ij yeardes wollen & a yeard & a di. lynen ... xij'* 
 To his Cosin Willm wilde fonne to old Lawrance j ) ..^ 
 
 yeard & a di. of L. clothe, ij yeardes & a di. lynen & ] ' ^ 
 
 To Elys wild brother to the said willm. j. yeard & a di. ) ..^ 
 
 of London clothe & ij. yeards & a di. lynen & in money j ^ 
 
 To their fyster Margaret wilde iij yeardes wollen & iij lenen xij"^ 
 
 To her sonne Thoms wilde iiij"* yeardes wollen & ijj"" leynen vj<^ 
 
 Sentebyher To Jcnct wlld latc wlffc to Jamcs Lees, iij'' yeardes) ..j 
 
 ^"'rl'^ndfother" '''''''^''*" woUcn & ij ycards Lynen of holdam parishe in money j ^^-^ 
 
 Lawrance wilde To licr children John Lees iij"^ yeardes wollen. ij yeardes di. ) ..^ 
 
 Lynen & in money j ^'J 
 
 To Lawrance Lees iij' yeardes q**^"" wollen. & ij yeards lynen xij^ 
 
 To Edmond Lees, iij"" y'^s -^voUen & ij y'^'^s Lynene xij*^ 
 
 To Eliz^ Lees "ii' y^^^^ wollen. & a yeard & a half lynen xij'^ 
 
 To Jenet Lees j y*^'' iij q'^^'^s wollen" a y^^ & a di. lynen xij<^ 
 
 To his Cosin Richard wild of mydliton parishe j y'^^ & ) ..j 
 
 a di. of brode London clothe & ij y'les & a di. Lynen j ^'J 
 
 To his fonne Abraham wylde ij y*^*^^ wollen & j y^^ \ ..^ 
 
 & a half Lynen & in money j ^'J 
 
 To John Wyld brother to the said Rychard one y^^ & ) ..^ 
 
 a di. of London clothe & ij y'^'^s & ^ di. lynen & in money j '^'•^ 
 To Lawrance wild of Chaterton of holdam parishe an \ 
 
 nother brother, one yearde & a di. of London clothe & j-xij^ 
 
 ij yeardes Lynen & in money j 
 
 of Middliton pishe ^ 
 
 To an other brother Edmond wild A j yeard & a di. of \-\\]^ 
 
 London clothe. & ij yeards & a half of lynen & in money j 
 
 To his Cosin James Sheparde of Ratchdale parishe ^ 
 
 one yeard & a half of London clothe & ij yeardes & di. [-xij^ 
 
 of Lynen & in money j 
 
 To his wifife margaret Sheparde iij yardes wollen ) ..j 
 
 iij yeardes Lynen & in moncye J '-^ 
 
 298 l2y^j6^''m money 
 
 besydes the clothe
 
 Notes and Ilkistrations. 
 (157) 
 
 • " Cosin Laurence Wilde" &c. : The members of various branches of the Wilde 
 or Wylde family named in these pages are so numerous, and the indications of their 
 inter-relationship are so slight, as to seem to forbid the attempt to elucidate them. 
 They were all in some degree kindred of Dean Nowell and his brother Robert ; but 
 there is no evidence here, nor hitherto found elsewhere, to show the link of connexion. 
 My impression is that a daughter of one of the Wyldes had married an uncle of Dean 
 Nowell. Canon Raines has pointed out {Stanley Papers, pt. ii, p. 198) that Mr. 
 Mundy the herald painter has entered on the Nowell pedigree in Harl. MS. 1549 : — 
 "I find the mother of Alexander Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's, to be Alice, daughter 
 o{ Laurence IFy/c/e." This statement is incorrect ; — the mother of Dean Nowell was 
 Elizabeth Kay,' as entries in this A/S. plainly import. Yet the author of the statement 
 must have seen some record of a marriage of Alice daughter of Laurence Wylde to a 
 Nowell, and inferred that her husband was the sire of Dean Nowell. Supposing that 
 an unnamed uncle, or brother, of the Dean married Alice Wylde, we have a hint 
 of the relationship that did certainly subsist between the Nowells and Wyldes of this 
 generation. The Wyldes were not above the rank of yeomen, and there is no 
 pedigree of them, nor any means of making out a strict genealogical record at this 
 period, for the parish registers begin too late for us. The Wyldes named in the A/S. 
 resided some of them in Rochdale Parish, some in Oldham, and some in Middleton 
 Parish. Below T notice most, if not all, the several families referred to in the A/S. : — 
 
 1. Laurence Wylde of Middleton Parish, of the entiy at the head of this page; 
 a "cosin" of Dean Nowell. He is similarly named three pages before. From his 
 name, he might be son of the Laurence Wylde whose daughter Alice married a 
 Nowell. He was an old man in 1569, for he had sons married with children ; and in 
 one entry on this page he is distinguished as "old Laurence Wilde," grandfather 
 of sundry young recipients. His wife Isabel is named, and (here and three pages a>tie) 
 his sons Edmund, Laurence, William and Ellis ; and daughters Ann, Jenet, Margaret, 
 Dorothy,Jane, Catherine, and Alice. His son Edmond Wilde, by Alice his wife, had 
 sons Edmond, William, Ralph, and Laurence ; daughters Jenet, Elizabeth, and Alice. 
 William Wilde, another son of Laurence, and Ellis Wilde his brother, are named ; 
 also their sisters, Margaret Wilde, and her son Thomas ; and Jenet Wilde, late wife 
 of James Lees, of Oldham Parish, and her children, John, Laurence, Edmond, 
 Elizabeth, and Jenet Lees. 
 
 2. Richard Wilde of IMiddleton Parish, "cosin" of Dean Nowell ; he had a son 
 Abraham Wilde ; and brothers John Wilde ; " Laurence Wilde of Chatterton of 
 holdam parishe;" and Edward Wild of Middleton; all named on this page of the 
 A/S. 
 
 3. Robert Wilde of Oldham Parish, named in the text two pages back as "cosin 
 Wylde of Oldham Parish ;" who, by Margery his wife, had sons Ottewell Wilde and 
 John Wilde, and a daughter Margaret. I connect the "cosin Wylde of Oldham" 
 with "Robert Wylde" of an entry at page 264, who had in July, 1573, a gift of 
 money for his son John Wylde, a scholar. The son, John Wilde, is met with 
 subsequently as Minister of Saddleworth, in the county of York, who died in 1592, 
 and in his Will, dated 23rd December, 1592 (cited by Canon Raines in his admirable 
 edition of Bishop Gastrell's iXoiitia Cestrieitsis, vol. ii, pt. i, pp. 144-5), mentions his 
 brother Ottiwell Wilde named above. John Wilde the minister bequeathed the 
 benefit of certain leases he had " to a godly preacher to be provided and nominated " 
 to succeed him at Saddleworth, on condition that six sufficient men of Saddleworth 
 should deliver into the hands " of my two brethren in the parish of Oldham to pay in 
 one year unto Ottiwell Wild, my younger brother, 20/., for the use of John Wild his 
 son, to spend in books and learning, both in the country and at one of the Univer- 
 sities," &c. Among other legacies, testator gives "to my brother Ottiwell Wild 
 of Cowleyshaw, a pair of bed-stocks; and I appoint him my executor." Canon 
 Raines informs me that the Wildes of Cowlishaw, in Shaw, par. of Oldham, were an 
 old yeoman family, and that from them sprung the Wilds of Thornham, in j\Iiddleton 
 Parish. " Edward Atkinson of Castleton, yeoman, holdeth by deed dated I Apr. 14 
 Jac. I., granted by Edmund Milne of Whitfield in Oldham parish, James Scholes of 
 Chadderton and Ottiwell ^/^j'A/t- of Buerdsall, yeoman, a copyhold messuage and 51a. 
 3r. on Buerdsall Moor, valued at 22/. los. a year." (Lane. A/SS., vol. xxi, p. 25.) 
 
 4. Richard Wilde of Middleton Parish, named on the preceding page ol the A/S. as 
 "cosin" of Dean Nowell, and deceased before 1569, when his widow had a gift of 
 money. This Richard Wilde had daughters, Alice (wife of William Taylor of Oldham 
 Parish, who had children Anne, Alice, and IMargery Taylor) ; Mary Wilde, Isabel 
 Wilde, and probably Jane Wilde. He had also a son, mentioned previously as 
 "Wilde of Middleton parishe in Lancashire," along with "his mother Wyddow 
 Wilde" and his "syster IsabcU \Yylde." 
 
 299
 
 (Page 158 of the MS., folio 115.) 
 To Eliz' fliepard' married to Edwarde Lache iiij | ..^ 
 
 yeardes wollen. & iiij yeardes Lynen & in money j ' •^ 
 
 To her husbande Edward Lache one yearde ) ..^j 
 
 & a di. London clothe. & ij yeardes & a di. lynene / " ■' 
 To Robt wild fonne vnto Olyu^ wylde. iiij yeardes ) ..^ 
 
 of wollen & ij yeardes & a di. of lynen j ' ^ 
 
 To his Cosin Anne Dean^ douehter vnto John ^ 
 
 Deane of Towenworthe in blakeborne parishe 
 
 iij yeardes wollen. iij lynen & ij' in money 
 
 Delyu'ed all the Laste Leaf & these in the 
 p''sentes of vs Gylber[t] Towenley. 
 Even haddocke, John feller, 
 
 Robte Ingham. James woulton 
 Alexander bradshaye 
 
 Y^y 
 
 xn" of Julij 
 A» 1569 
 
 To the children of Christofor wilde^ of holdam parishe' 
 Elizabethe, henr\^, Thoms & Ales, eu-^y of them ij 
 yeardes di. Lynen, and to Isabell Valantine 
 Elis eu y of them, ij yeardes wollen & one lynene 
 in the whole vij yeardes wollen & tenne Lynene 
 To the Children of Randell wylde to Adam, Raffe, 
 Edwarde eu y of them, ij yeardes di. lynen & in 
 the whole vij yeardes di. 
 
 and to Dynnes & IMary, ij yeardes di. to eyther of 
 them in the whole v yeardes. 
 
 To the children of henry wilde, Thoms, Anne, & John, 
 to eu y of them ij yeardes di. Lynen, tota'^ vij ydes di. 
 and to Edmunde, henry, and Elizabethe eu^y of 
 them ij. yeardes tota'^ vj yeardes 
 
 ^xvij' 
 
 To the children of Raffe wylde of Rachdall parishe 
 
 John, Grace, Anne, eu^y of them ij. di. Lynen 
 
 tota vij di. Lynen. and to Alis, Janne, 
 
 & jMichaell, eu^y of them. ij. wollen. in the whole 
 
 vj yeardes. 
 
 To the children of Edmond 
 
 pishe, to Anne, Janne, 
 
 Edmonde, eu^y of them, ij 
 
 whole xij di. Lynen, and 
 
 henry, James, eu^y of them, 
 
 tota' viij" yeardes. & to euerie 
 
 pece beinge xxxiiij'^ in nomber. 
 
 to them all 
 
 Delyu'ed in the p^sentes of Gylberte Towenley 
 Clearke, Thoms Pyrry, Thoms Jacksonne, w'^' 
 others. 
 
 22" besydes 
 the clothe./ 
 
 m mone 
 
 wylde, of Rachdall 
 margeret, Thoms, 
 
 di. Lynen, 
 to Jenet, 
 ij yeardes. 
 of them 
 
 m the 
 
 ALirie, 
 
 wollen. 
 
 vj'i a 
 
 tota''' in money 
 
 300
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 5. Oliver Wilde, on the next page of the MS. ; he had sons, Robert, and James 
 (who had a daughter Anne). 
 
 6. Christopher Wilde of Oldham Parish (see next page of MS.). He had sons, 
 Henry, Thomas, Valentine, and Ellis ; daughters, Elizabeth, Alice, and Isabel. 
 
 7. Randall Wilde, whose sons Adam, Ralph, Edward, and Dynnes (Dennis), and 
 daughter Mai-v, are named. 
 
 8. Henry ^Vilde, whose sons Thomas, John, Edmund, and Henr}', and daughters 
 Anne and Elizabeth, are named. Canon Raines notes that on 29 Sept., 1658, Henry 
 Wilde a blacksmith, Adelicia his wife and Robert their son conveyed lands on Cas- 
 tleton Moor to Lawrence Gaskell, gent. (Lane. MSS., vol. vii, p. 87.) 
 
 9. Ralph Wilde of Rochdale Parish, whose sons John and Michael, and daughters 
 Grace, Anne, Alice, and Jane, are named. 
 
 10. Edmond Wilde of Rochdale Parish, whose sons Thomas, Edmond, Henry, and 
 James, and daughters Anne, Jane, Margaret, Jenet, and Marie, are named. Canon 
 Raines has a note that ^'Edmund Wylde of Castleton in Rochdale yeoman, holds by 
 deed dated 20 Apr. 1 591 a messuage and half a moiety of a parcel of land called 
 Fermeliill, being loa. 2r. 3p., valued at 14'' a year." {Lane. MSS., vol. vii, p. 87.) 
 
 1 1. Edmond Wilde of Middleton parish, "cosin " of Dean Nowell, named two pages 
 onward in the MS. He had, by his wife Anne (besides a daughter Isabel), sons, 
 Richard (married before 1569, when Ellen, his wife, is named), Thomas, Roger, John 
 (servant with his brother, Owen), and Owen. The last named was probably an elder 
 son than John, Thomas, and Roger. He is specially described in \X\q. MS.: — "To 
 Owen Wilde, servante to Mr. Beron and sonne to olde Edmunde, whoe hath iij chil- 
 drene, James, Catherine, and Jane." His wife also is mentioned, but not by name. 
 Owen Wilde's master, Air. Beron, was John Byron of Clayton, Esq., heir to Sir John 
 Byron. 
 
 12. Ralph Wilde, whose wife Margery, and children, Geoffrey, William, and Mar- 
 geiy, are named. 
 
 13. Thomas Wilde of Oldham parish, "cosin" of Dean Nowell, named six pages 
 onward in the MS. By Margaret, his wife, he had a son Christopher, and a daughter 
 Anne. 
 
 14. Adam Wilde of Rochdale parish, whose wife Isabel!, and children, James, 
 Edmund, Isabel, and Johanne, are named. 
 
 15. Edward Wilde of Oldham parish, whose wife Isabel, and their five children, 
 James, Thomas, Anne, Alice, and Elizabeth, are named. 
 
 16. Nicholas Wilde of Oldham parish, whose wife is referred to, and whose six 
 children, Edward, Ottiwell, Alice, Agnes, Margaret, and Isabell, are named. He 
 probably was the same with "Nicholes Wilde of the Wood-house," of a prior entry. 
 (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 Besides these distinct households of Wildes, individual members are frequently 
 named, e.g., William Wilde, scholar of Middleton School; Richard Wilde, at Braze- 
 nose College, from Middleton School ; Richard Wilde, who came to London at the 
 suit of the vicar of Silkstone, in the county of York; Thomas Wilde, scholar at Buiy 
 School; Alice Wilde, whose husband was Edward Turnall; "cosin" Jane Wilde, wife 
 of Thomas Jackson ; Elizabeth Wilde, daughter of Edward, deceased; Agnes Wilde, 
 
 wife of Henry Scholes of Oldham parish; Alice Wilde, wife of Chadwick, son of 
 
 Alice Chadwick; Margaret Wilde, wife of Henry Clege (Clegg) of Rochdale parish, 
 whose children were, Henry Clegg (his children, Henry and Beatrice), Ottiwell, Alice, 
 and Elizabeth ; Hugh Wilde of Oldham Parish, and Margaret Wilde of the 
 same parish ; with others. Canon Raines notes : — " Henry Clegg holds copyhold 
 lands in Buerdsall in the manor of Rochdale granted by Sir John Byron and others by 
 deed dated 8 March, 6 Jac, to his father Francis Clegg, and formerly held by his 
 grandfather Henry Clegg deceased, called Halfacre Gate." [Lane. A/SS., vol. xxi, 
 p. 27. ) All these Wildes, being classed as kinsfolk of the Nowells, must have sprung 
 from a common progenitor within not more than two generations. 
 
 (158) 
 
 1 " Eliz Shepard" and James and Margaret Sheparde in the last entries on preceding 
 page : See note on the Sheppard family two pages onward. 
 
 * "■ An7ie Dean": See ante, p. 80, for a note on the family of Deane of Tunworth 
 in Blackburn parish. 
 
 ' •' Christofor Wilde'": See note to preceding page, supra, on all the Wildes. 
 
 301
 
 • •■ten 
 
 XllJ 
 
 (Page 159 of the MS., folio 115 verso.) 
 juiij To his cosin Anne hopwood^ "1 
 
 ^° ^^^'^ doughter to rafife hopwood of hawod parishe ^xij*^ 
 
 iij' yeardes wollen ij di. Lynen in money j 
 
 To his cosin Edmonde wilde^ of middliton parish ) ..^ 
 
 one yeard di. of brode clothe in money j ' ^ 
 
 To his wyffe Anne Wilde iij"^ yeardes wollen xij'^ 
 
 iij yeardes of Lynen & in money f •• 
 
 To Isabell wylde Daughter to Edmonde 
 
 y^i' 
 
 To Rychard Wilde, sonne to the said Edmonde ) 
 
 r 
 
 Wylde iij yeardes wollen & in money j 
 
 To Ellen wild wifife to the said Rycharde \ -^ 
 
 iij yeardes wollen & in money j ■' 
 
 To Thoms wilde & Roger wilde, sonnes 
 
 to the said Edmunde, beinge children. iij ^xij** 
 
 yeardes q*^"^ wollen, & xij'^ in money 
 
 To John wild fonne to the said Edmunde 
 
 servante w*^ his brother Owen, beinge m'^ }-xij*^ 
 
 beron his servante, iiij yeardes lynen 
 
 To Owen wilde fervante to m' Beron" 
 
 ij di. lynen & vj*^ 
 & fonne to olde Edmunde whoe hathe iij 
 childrene, James Catherin, & Janne, beinge 
 children iij. yeardes wollen, & ij yeardes 
 
 Lynene & vj<^ a pece in money _ 
 
 To his wifife their mother, iij. yeardes wollen vj^ 
 
 To Andrewe Sheparde^ of Ratchdale parishe ) .^ 
 
 ij yeardes di. Lynen & vj*^ in money j ■' 
 
 To his wifife margerie Shepard. iij wollen & vj*^ 
 To their iij children, Thoms, Margeret") 
 
 & Lawrance, beinge very yonge iiij yeardes >-xviij<^ 
 
 wollen & in money j 
 
 To Isabell Shepard wyddow late wifife to John ) .^ 
 
 Sheparde iij yeardes wollen & in money j ^ 
 
 To her vj children Gilberte ij lynene vj'^ 
 
 To Lawrance Sheparde ij lynen & vj<^ 
 
 To her sonne James, Ann, Agnes, ^l"s 
 Margeret beinge yonge ix yeardes di. wollen j ^ 
 To Margeret Shepard. iij. wollen. nowe ) .^ 
 wifife to Lawrance Shawe & in moneye j ^ 
 To Margerie Shepard nowe wifife to James \ .^ 
 
 hill, iij yeardes wollen in money j •^ 
 
 To the said James hill "iij* Lynen vj'^ 
 
 To their. iij* children. James, Andrewe,"^ 
 Isabell, Elizabethe, v. yeardes wollen & to eu^y Vij^ 
 
 of them v}^ apece J 
 
 Delyu^ed in the p^sentes of George Seller, 
 
 Alexander Bradshay, Thoms Jacksonn, 20'/besydes 
 
 John houghton & James woulton.^ the clothe. 
 
 302
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (159) 
 
 1 " Anne kopwood" : See. ante, p. 155, Note 5, for general account of the Hopwood 
 famOy. 
 
 * " Edmonde Wilde", and other ])ersons named Wilde on this page: See annota- 
 tion on all the Wildes of the MS. two pages ante. 
 
 s '^ Andrrwe Sheparde,'" and other persons of that name on this page : See account 
 of the Sheppard family on the following page. Note i. 
 
 * " George Seller, Alexander Bradshay, Thomas Jaekson, John hoitghton, Javies 
 Woulton^': See Index of Names, s.n., for other references and relative notes on these 
 servants of Dean Nowell, &c. 
 
 303
 
 xhj° Julij 
 A» 1569 
 
 
 xijd 
 
 (Page 160 of the MS., folio 116.) 
 
 To Ellen Shepharde' now wiffe to willm Scofild 
 
 of Burie parishe iij yeardes of wollen, to the said r ■•■^ 
 Scofild to his yonge child Jenet Scofild one ' ■' 
 yeard q*®"" & in money to theym 
 
 To Agnes Shepard now wifife to roger tayler 
 of Ratchdale parishe iij wollen }'-"^ij*^ 
 
 To the same Roger ij di. Lynen , 
 
 To Grace Shepard nowe wiffe to James filden^ 
 iij yeardes of wollen, To the said James filden | 
 ij yeardes di. Lynen. To his iiijr children )>iij 
 Margaret, Jenet, James, Elizabethe iiij Lynen 
 & iij wollen in money 
 
 To Elizabethe Shepard now wiffe to 
 Edward Lache, & to the said as before 
 
 To Anne wild Daughter to James wilde^ whoe 
 was Sonne to Olyu"^ wilde iij wollen & in money 
 
 To Agnes wild wiffe to henry Scholes of 
 holdam parishe.^ iij. wollen & ij yeardes di. lynen 
 
 To her husbande. ij" di. Lynen 
 
 To her children Thorns, ij di. Lynen 
 
 To Isabell ij yeardes di. Lynen ^iiij^ vj 
 
 To Elizabethe. ij di. Lynene Maget ij di. lynen .. 
 
 To henry one di. wollen To ann one woolen 
 
 To Jeane j yeard wollen. [To margarett Casson 
 iij' Lynen — erasure] tota^ in money 
 
 To margeret Cassone"* iij Lynen 
 
 To her vj'^ childrene Agnes casonne 
 ij yeardes di. Lynen 
 
 To Catherin ij yeardes Lynene 
 
 To Ales ij yeardes Lynene r^i'j'* ^j 
 
 To James one yeard di. Lynene 
 
 To Elizabeth one yeard di. Lynen 
 
 To Rye. one yeard Di Lynene 
 
 in the whole xv'-'^ in Lynen. & in money 
 
 To her husband John Dawson, ij. yeardes di. 
 
 Lynen 
 
 Chadwicke^ fonne to his cosin alis 
 to his wiffe & to his fe.xe childrene yv^ 
 Lynen & v^ in money 
 
 I 
 
 id 
 
 1 
 
 To Ales 
 Wilde, 
 xv^eii di 
 Delyu^ed 
 
 in the p^sentes 
 of George Seller 
 Alexander Bradshaye 
 John houghton 
 James woulton 
 
 198 / 6"^ besydes 
 clothe. 
 
 304
 
 Notes and Ilhtstrations. 
 
 (i6o) 
 
 ' " Ellen Sheparde," Sec: The persons named Sheparde, in this and several pre- 
 ceding pages of the Tl/i"., doubtless were sons and daughters of Ehzabeth Sheparde, 
 or Shepparde, widow, who has been before noted (see ante, p. 79, Note 3) as a kins- 
 woman of Robert Nowell, and a legatee under his Will. Whether this widow was 
 aunt or cousin of Dean Nowell and his brother cannot be shown. Her husband was 
 dead before 1568, and his name does not occur in the MS. "Mrs. Shepharde, 
 Widdow," and her daughter Mrs. Overton, had black gowns at the funeral of Robert 
 Nowell (see ante, p. 8.) Five years later, in 1573, she is mentioned as "Mrs. Shep- 
 herde, a poor widdowe," and had then a gift of 10s. from Dean Nowell. In 1574, she 
 had two gifts of 20s. and loj-. She was mother, I think, of the following: — i. Andrew 
 Shepparde of Rochdale parish (see preceding page) who by his wife Margery had 
 issue, Thomas, Lawrence, and Margery ; 2. John Shepparde, dead before 1569, 
 whose widow, Isabell Shepparde, is named, with her children, Gilbert, Lawrence, 
 James, Ann, Agnes, and Margaret ; 3. James Shepparde of Rochdale parish, described 
 (two pages a«/t) as Dean Nowell's "cosin," whose wife was Margaret Shepparde; 
 4. A daughter unnamed, wife of Henry Speller of Edmunton (see ante, pp. 262-3, 
 264-5); 5- A daughter unnamed, described as "Mrs. Overton, our Brother Rob'te 
 Kynswoman," and as " Sheparde daughter," — she had issue ; 6. Elizabeth Shepparde, 
 wife of Edward Lache (see two pages aiiteTvad infra on this page of the text) ; 7. Mar- 
 garet Shepparde, wife of Lawrence Shasve ; 8. Margery Sheppard, wife of James 
 Hill, who had in 1569 four children, James, Andrew, Isabell, and Elizabeth ; 9. Ellen 
 Shepparde, of the present entry, wife of William Scofild of Bury parish, who had in 
 1569 a young child Jenet Scofild ; 10. Agnes Shepparde, wife of Roger Taylor of 
 Rochdale parish; and 11. Grace Shepparde, wife of James Filden, who had in 1569 
 four children, James, Margaret, Jenet, and Elizabeth. Edward Lache (popular pro- 
 nunciation of Leach), named as having married Elizabeth Shepparde, probably was 
 father of a later Edward Leach, yeoman, who held lands in Levengreave in Whitworth 
 hamlet by copy dated 17 Nov., 1603, called I^ewbank, being 12a. or. 3op. On the 
 7 Oct., 1652, Edward Leach is described as being blind, old, and decrepit, but still 
 living ; and that Edward Leach, sen., and Edward Leach, jun., then surrendered this 
 land to Mr. Raphe Hamer of Steade, excepting two acres which Theophilus Assheton, 
 Esq., of Clegg Hall, conveyed 28 April, 12 Jac, to John Duckworth, father of James 
 Duckworth, who then held the same. (Canon Raines' Lane. AISS., vol. xxi, p. 223.) 
 
 "^ "Anne Wild James Wilde" : See ante, pp. 229-301, for annotation 
 
 upon the whole family of Wilde. 
 
 3 "Henry Scholes of Jioldham" : He had married Agnes Wilde, a daughter of one 
 of the Wildes before noted, kindred of the Nowells, and had children, Thomas, Henry, 
 Isabel, and Elizabeth. 
 
 ■* " Margarett Casson'''' : Her husband is named John Dawson below, but as her 
 children are named Casson the husband's name should be John Casson. He might be 
 akin to Thomas Casson, named and noted ante, pp. 288-9. 
 
 * ^^ Ales chadwicke" : See ante, p. 295, for note on the family of Chadwick. 
 
 X 305
 
 xiii» Julij To 
 A« 1569 -^^ 
 
 } 
 
 xijd 
 
 yx.^ 
 
 (Page 161 of the AIS., folio 116 verso.) 
 his cosins the children of Lyonerd cronshey' 
 
 by his later wifife Eliz Whitaker his fysters 
 
 Daughter & fyrste to Mary cronshaye 
 
 ij yeardes di. wollen & ij yeardes Lynen 
 
 To Robte cronshey. ij yeardes q^er wollen & one di. lynen )>ixs 
 
 To Ellen cronshey. ij. yeardes wollen & one y*^« j q^^r lynen 
 
 To Eliz cronshey. one yeard wollen one lynen .., 
 
 to eu^y of them xij<i in money in the whole iiij^ 
 
 to their mother v^ in money , 
 
 To his cosin Anne Whitaker Daughter to his fyster & 
 
 maried to Thorns Crabtrey^ 
 
 To marie Crabtrey her daughter ij yeardes di. wollen 1 ..^ 
 
 & ij yeardes di. Lynen j •' 
 
 To John Crabtrey. ij yeardes di. wollen & ij yeardes di. lynen 
 
 To Jenet Crabtrey. ij yeardes wollen j yearde di. lynen xij^ 
 
 To Anne Crabtrey. one yeard iij q*^''^ wollen j di. lynen xij*^ 
 
 To Thoms Crabtrey j yeard di. wollen & j di. Lynen xij<i 
 
 to eu^ of them in money xij*^ in the whole 
 
 To whitaker iij yeardes wollen & ij lynen & v^ 
 
 To his cosin Janne Whitaker married to John whitwham^ ) ..^ 
 
 ij yeardes di. wollen. ij yeardes Lynen j ^ 
 
 To Robte whitwham. ij. yeardes wollen. one yeard di. ] ..^ 
 
 lynen & to eu^y of them xij*! in money j •' 
 
 To his cosin Elizabethe woulton daughter wief) g 
 
 to Robte Lawe* , /^ 
 
 To her children fyrste To Thoms Lawe|vsvj^ 
 
 & ij yeardes di. Lynen 
 
 To Ales Law iij yeardes di. wollen & ij di. lynen 
 
 To henry Lawe. ij yeardes di. wollen. ij yeardes lynen 
 
 To Robte Lawe ij yeardes quarter wollen ande one \ 
 
 yeard iij q*^" lynene j 
 
 To James Lawe ij yeardes wollen & one yeard | 
 
 di. Lynen j 
 
 r-vij^ 
 
 } 
 
 To Isabell Lawe, 
 one yeard q*®"^ lynen 
 To Maro-erie lawe 
 
 one yeard q 
 To Katherin 
 
 ter 
 
 lynen , 
 Lawe 
 
 one yeard iij 
 one yeard di. 
 
 iters 
 
 wollen ) 
 wollen & 
 
 
 one 
 
 yeard 
 
 iter 
 
 } 
 
 wollen ) 
 
 vs 
 
 one yeard lynen j 
 
 to eu^ of them xij^ in the whole vij^ 
 
 To his Cosin Beteris wolton maried to \ 
 
 Thoms haymonde^ j 
 
 To henry haymonde her sonne one ) .. 
 
 yeard di. wollen & one yeard di. lynen j ^ 
 
 To his cosin Alis wolton late wiefS 
 
 to myles Bancrofte^ wyddowe iij yeardes )-x<^ 
 
 wollen & iij yeardes lynen & in money j \ 
 
 Delyu^ed in the p'sentes of Georges feller, John houghton, f 
 
 John feller, w'^'^ others. 
 
 59s/6<i besyi 
 the cloth./ 
 
 306
 
 Notes and Illustratio7is. 
 (i6i) 
 
 ' "children of Lyonerd Cronshey" : Leonard Cronsliey married Elizabeth Whitaker, 
 daughter and namesake of Dean Nowell's sister Elizabeth Whitaker, wife of Thomas 
 Whitaker of Holme, gent. The children of Leonard and Elizabeth Cronshey here 
 named are, a son, Robert ; daughters, Mary, Ellen, and Elizabeth. Previously (at pp. 
 82-3) is entered the payment of Robert Nowell's legacy of 20/. to " Leonarde Cron- 
 shey and Elizabethe his wief." "Elizabetha Cronckshay" was buried at Padiham, 
 2 Dec, 1573. A "Leonard Cronkshey of Westcloyse, gent," occurs in a list of free- 
 holders of Blackburn hundred, dated 1600. 
 
 * "Anne Whitaker Thorns Crabtrey" : Anne Whitaker, another niece of 
 
 Dean Nowell, daughter of his sister Elizabeth Whitaker, married Thomas Crabtrey 
 (this surname, still found in the neighbourhood of Burnley, is properly spelled Crabtree). 
 Thomas Crabtrey and his wife are named ante, p. 82, when the wife received her 
 legacy of 20/. under Robert Nowell's Will. They had children, John, Thomas, Marie, 
 Jenet, and Anne. 
 
 3 "Janm Whitaker'' . . . "John Whitzvham" : Jane Whitaker, sister of Elizabeth 
 and Anne above-noted, married John Whitwham (modern Whitham), and is mentioned 
 ante, page 84, as "daughter unto Elizabeth Nowell and Thomas Whitaker," when she 
 had her legacy of 20/. Their only child here named is a son, Robert Whitwham. 
 
 * " Cosin Elizabeth woiilton daughter, wief to Robte Lazae" : In our notices of Robert 
 Lawe, Archdeacon of Barum (ajite, page 251), and of his uncle, John Wolton, Bishop 
 of Exeter (ante, pp. 267-9), '^^'e have indicated the relationship between the families of 
 Wolton and Lawe, both of Whalley in Lancashire, and of both to Dean Nowell and 
 his brother. Here we have a record of gifts to Robert Lawe and Elizabeth his wife, 
 and their children, in July, 1569. I add these further items respecting the family of 
 Lawe, of Wiswell and of the Grange in Whalley. Four centuries ago the Lawes 
 were tenants under the Abbey of WHialley. One Thomas Lawe, a Carthusian monk 
 of Sion, had probably seiwed one of the chantries in Whalley Church ; for on the 
 wainscot screen of the north chapel is an inscription in black letter " ©ratc pVO aiuma 
 (!ri)0. HatDC, j^Onar^t." "Frater Jacobus Lawe" was a monk of Whalley 
 nionasteiy about the middle of the fifteenth century ; and a later Thomas Lawe sur- 
 vived the suppression of the abbey some years. In the survey of the abbey estates 
 by the King's Commission in 1537, several tenants named Lawe are named ; among 
 them, Robert Lawe, who held certain pastures of the demesne lands in Whalley, 
 and a new house at the Grange ; Hefiry Lawe who held a shop in the churchyard of 
 Whalley ; Henry Lawe of Eves, holding freely certain lands ; and in W'iswell, a town- 
 ship next to Whalley on the north, John Lawe held a house and land, and Robei-t Lawe 
 a house and land, as tenants-at-will of the monastery. In 1552, Robert Lawe and 
 Henry Lawe, both of Whalley, are assessed on the Easter Roll of Whalley Church ; 
 and the wife of John Lawe, Robert Lawson [i.e. Robert, son of Lawe), Robert Lawe, 
 junr. , Thomas Lawe, the wife of Henry Lawe, William Lawe, senr. , and William 
 Lawe, junr., were assessed on the same Easter Roll under Wiswell. The Easter Roll of 
 Whalley for 1553 gives the names of Robert Lawe and Henry Lawe under Whalley ; 
 and the wife of John Lawe, Robert Lawe, senr., Robert Lawe, junr., Thomas Lawe, 
 John Lawe, the wife of Edmund Lawe, William Lawe, senr., and William Lawe, junr., 
 under Wiswall. ( Cheth. Aliscel., vol. v. ) The branch with which we are concerned pro 
 bably was represented in 1552-53, by Robert Lawe, sen., father of Robert Lawe, jun., 
 of Wiswell. I assume it was Robert Lawe the younger (of 1553) who married Elizabeth 
 Wolton, daughter of John Wolton, by his wife Isabella Nowell, sister of the Dean of 
 St. Paul's. The children of Robert and Elizabeth Lawe, named in the text, and living 
 in 1569, were, Thomas, Henry, Robert (the future Archdeacon), James, Alice, Isabel, 
 Margery, and Catherine, — four sons and four daughters (see also ante, p. 82, and note 
 p. 83). Robert Lawe the father was living some years after 1569. The family was 
 never above the rank of small freeholders. Another branch is represented at this 
 period by John Lawe of the Grange in Whalley, who farmed a portion of the old 
 Abbey park-land. Near the end of the MS. occurs the entry; "To the wieffe of 
 John Lawe of the grendge of Whalley parishe x^" This John Lawe was a witness to 
 the marriage of Roger Nowell, gent., in May 1 581. He died in October 1599 ; and 
 the Whalley Register records the burial of "John Lawe, gent," on the last day of 
 October in that year. John Lawe, who is noted by Canon Raines as an innkeeper in 
 W^halley in 161 7 (Journal of N'icholas Assheton, p. 26), may have been son of John 
 Lawe last-named. He died in 1626. 
 
 * " Beteris IVolton" .... " Thonis Haymonde'" : For a notice of the Hammonds, 
 and their connexion with the Woltons by this marriage, see ante, pp. 81-3. 
 ^ "Alls Wolton Myles Bayicrofte" : See ante, pp. 82-3. 
 
 2 X 307
 
 (Page 162 of the MS., folio 117.) 
 xiij« juiij Xo his cosin Robte Whitaker eldeste sonne to his ) „ 
 
 A" 1569 J, TrS 
 
 syster Elizabethe^ his wiffe j 
 
 To marie whitaker ij di. wollen ij lynene , xij<^ 
 
 To Rychard whitaker ij di. wollen. ij. lynen xij"^ 
 
 To Margaret whitaker. ij wollen one di. lynen xij"^ 
 
 To Thorns whitaker ij wollen & one di. lynene xij^ 
 
 To his cosin John fellers^ children, to Janne feller iij \ 
 
 yeardes wollen & ij di. lynen & in money j 
 
 To Anne feller ij di. woollen ij lynen & in money 
 
 To Jenet feller ij wollen ij lynen & in money 
 
 To Grace feller j iij c^^^^ wollen. & ij lynene '. 
 
 To Betteris feller one yeard wollen. j yearde iij q^®'^ lynene 
 To his cosin Janne feller maried to John Narram. ) 
 
 to Grace Narrame. iij yeardes wollen & ij. di. lynene ... j 
 
 To Isabell Narrame ij di. wollen. ij lynen 
 
 To Anne Narrame ij. yeardes wollen. ij lynen 
 
 To John Narrame one yeard iij q*''" wollen ij lynen 
 
 To Agnes Narron one yeard di. wollen j yeard iij q*"^ lynen 
 To his cosin Isabell feller maried to James ^ 
 
 Whitaker^ to Jenet whitaker iij yeardes wollen V 
 
 & ij yeardes di. Lynen & in money J 
 
 To Betteris whitaker ij yeardes di. wollen & ij ) 
 
 yeardes Lynen — j 
 
 To Grace whitaker ij wollen ij yeardes lynen 
 
 To Isabell whitaker one di. wollen & ij. lynene 
 
 To margeret whitaker one yearde di. wollen & ) 
 
 one iij q^e" lynen j 
 
 To Thoms whitaker one yeard di. wollen and ) 
 
 one iij q^®" lynen , J 
 
 To his cosin Margeret wyld* maried to henry") ..^ 
 
 Clege. ij yeardes di. Lynen of Ratchdall pishe j -' 
 
 To her sonne henry Clege, and to his ij children \ ...^ 
 
 to Betteris & henry v yeardes Lynen j ^ 
 
 To her other children Ottewell, Ales, Elizabeth ) ...^ 
 
 vj yeardes di. Lynen j •' 
 
 To ther mother xij'^ & to eu^y of the children v]^ \ 
 
 apece in the whole iiij^ j 
 
 To his cosin Roger Nowell of Castell pishe^ v^ 
 
 To his cosin humfrey Turnall, sonne to \ 
 
 Edward turnall frvante to fli^ Marmaducke Vvij^ 
 
 constablie j 
 
 To Lyttis Nowell wieffe to Lawrance^ 
 
 Spensere of Castell pishe ij yeardes di. Mj* 
 
 Lynen & in moneye j 
 
 To her fonne Elis fpensere of the same ) 
 
 pishe ij yeardes wollen j 
 
 Delyu^ed in the p^sentes of George feller, John houghton, 
 John feller, w^^^ others. 
 
 27s/ in money 
 besydes clothe./ 
 
 308
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (162) 
 
 ' '■' Rob'te Whitaker, eldesie sonne to his [Dqsxi 'iiovfQiVs'] sysier Elizabethe" : This was 
 Robert Whitaker, gent., son and heir of Thomas Whitaker, gent., by his wife 
 EHzabeth, daughter of John Nowell of Read, Esq. Robert's younger brother was 
 the celebrated Dr. William Whitaker, named so frequently in this MS. His father, 
 Thomas Whitaker, died in August, 1588 ; his mother (Dean Nowell's sister) died at 
 a great age in October, 1606. In the new edition of Whitaker's History of 
 IVJialley (Routledge and Gent, 1876) there is a good pedigree of Whitaker of 
 Holme, the family of the author of that work ; but this MS. affords names by which 
 that pedigree may be amplified in two generations. The pedigree names only three 
 sons of Thomas Whitaker, gent. (Robert, Richard, and William), and no daughters. 
 Our MS. proves that he had at any rate four sons ( Robert, Richard, William, Lawrence, 
 and perhaps James and Thomas) ; and daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, and Jane. Robert 
 Whitaker, gent., has only two sons named in the pedigree (Thomas, and George, 
 born in 1579). If I mistake not, the four names following that of Robert Whitaker 
 on this page of the MS. are those of children of Robert W'hitaker born before 1569, 
 viz., Richard, Thomas, Marie, and Margaret. His wife (alluded to, but not by 
 name, in the first entry) was Margaret, daughter of James Greenwood. Robert 
 Whitaker died befoi-e his father, in November, 1581. The husbands and children 
 of Robert Whitaker's married sisters are noted on the preceding page. 
 
 - "'John sellt'fs": I have previously noted several individual members of the family 
 of Sellers as they have occurred in the MS., and their kinship to the Nowells of Read. 
 Materials are not at hand for anything like a connected account of this yeoman family, 
 who were at this time holding certain lands in Read towmship and at Poitfield in 
 W'halley ; nor can I show the nature of the relationship between them and the 
 Nowells. An early member of this family was Johannes Seller, monk of Whalley 
 Monastery; instituted Vicar of Whalley 24 Nov., 1488, and died about 15 10, when 
 there was placed a window in a chapel of Whalley Church, inscribed : "CDratc 
 
 jj.ataBu^ 3)oI)i^ ^tltx, 2Ficartt tiz eSSIbancj?, Olibcr ^l^tittiltoortl) rt tivnrt^ 
 t\\xi, ti Wn. %a\ktx, qui t^tain fenc^tram fieri frccrunt, ann ii'iit 
 
 iffilCCfrtj:." {Hist, of Whalley, new edition, vol. ii, p. 11.) An aunt, or, perhaps, a 
 great-aunt, of Dean Nowell's may have married a Sellers, and so established a con- 
 nexion between the families. Thomas Sellers of Read was dead before 1552, when 
 the wife of Thomas Sellers was assessed to the Easter Roll of Whalley Church. 
 (Cht'fh. Miscell., vol. v.) She, probably, was the " Bettei-is [Beatrice] Seller, widow," 
 who, in the 1st Phil, and Mary (1547), prosecuted John Holker and others for tres- 
 pass and removal of trees adjoining a messuage and lands in Read. {Cal. to Pleadgs., 
 vol. i, p. 286.) After her (and I conjecture her son) comes John Seller, whose wife 
 was named Margaret, and who held the messuage of Portfield, with lands thereto be- 
 longing, before John Braddyll built his new mansion there, and who, in 1550, had 
 some litigation with John Brown and John W'ood, who had impounded cattle and 
 otherwise disturbed the possession by John Seller of the messuage called Portfield and 
 lands and tenements there. He may have been the same John Sellers of this entiy in 
 our MS., whose five daughters, Jane, Anne, Jenet, Grace, and Beatrice, had gifts of 
 cloth in July, 1569 ; and Jane Sellers, named as wife of John Narram, I take to have 
 been John's sister. Earlier in the MS. (though not in date) other entries occur re- 
 lating to members of the family. John Sellers had apparently, besides these daugh- 
 ters, a son Thomas, educated, very likely, at Dean Nowell's charge, described in Sept., 
 1572, as "lately come forthe of Lancashire " to Oxford (see ante, p. 222). In March, 
 1568, John Sellers had a debt of 7/. owing to him by the late Robert Nowell, Esq., 
 paid by the Dean ; and in March, 1569, John Sellers of Read received a legacy of lo/. 
 left to him by Robert Nowell. We have also in the l\IS. a George Sellers, "cousin" 
 of Dean Nowell, whose three children had gifts (see ante, p. 294), and Isabel Sellers, 
 of this same page, also a "cousin" of the Dean, married to James Whitaker. 
 
 ^ " yames Whitaker" : It is not clear if James Whitaker was or was not a brother 
 of Robert ; if not, I think he must have been his father's brother. He married Isabel 
 Sellers, and the names below (Jenet, Betteris, Grace, Isabell, IMargaret, and Thomas 
 W^hitaker) are probably those of James Whitaker's children. 
 
 * " Ma)-garet Wyid" : See ante, p. 301, in our general note on the Wylde family. 
 
 * " Cosin Roger Nowell ofcastellp'ishe" : The Castle of Clitheroe and its demesnes 
 and forests were reckoned extra-parochial, and were described as "Castle Parish." 
 Roger Nowell of Castle Parish may have been Roger Nowell of Little Marley, gent., 
 representative of that branch of Nowells at this date ; or, as the gift of ^s. to that 
 Roger may seem improbable, it may refer to another Roger Nowell, dwelling in 
 Clitheroe — a son perhaps of some unknowm uncle of Dean Nowell. Lettice Nowell, 
 mentioned infra as wife of Lawrence Spenser of Castle Parish, who had a son Ellis 
 Spenser, may have been daughter of this Roger Nowell. Here we have a link of 
 connexion between Nowells and Spensers which might on special research assist 
 to interesting facts bearing upon the origin of Edmund Spenser the poet.
 
 XVJ" 
 
 A° I 
 
 of J ulij 
 
 569 
 
 >11JS 
 
 (Page 163 of the 3IS., folio 117 verso.) 
 
 To his cosin Thorns wilde' of holdam pishe 
 to margaret wilde his wifife, to Christofore 
 wilde his sonne, to Anne wyld his daught^ 
 to tham all vj yeardes lynen & in money 
 
 To Adam wilde of Ratchdale ^ishe ~ 
 
 To Isabell his wiffe, 
 
 To his iiij' children James, 
 Isabell, Johanne, Edmunde, 
 to them all vij. yeardes lynen _ 
 
 To Isabell wild & to her husbande 
 Edwarde wilde, of holdam pishe & to their 
 fiue children, Anne, James, Ales, Elizabeth 
 
 di. 
 & Thorns to them all xj yeardes a lynen & in 
 money 
 
 To Margerie wild beinge vnmaried iij. yeardes ] .^ 
 lynen & in money J ^J 
 
 To Nicholes wild of holdam pishe his wiffe \ 
 & vj children. Ales, Edwarde, Agnes, marget Miij® 
 otewell, & Isabell to them xij yeardes di. lynen & j 
 
 To his brother raffe wilde, his wiffe & iij 
 
 S>iiij« 
 
 all 
 
 IJ^ VJ 
 
 ;d 
 
 children, Geoffrey, magrie, willm to them 
 V yeardes Lynen & in money 
 
 to Margerie wild his wief & ij children to them ] ...^ 
 all V yeardes lynen & in money j" ^^ 
 
 To Isabell wilde maried to Thoms lee of R. pishe \ 
 & to her. iij. children, IMarget, Edwarde, Viij^ 
 Otewell Elizabethe to them all vj lynen &j 
 
 To Agnes Chitam Nice to Edmund wylde^ 
 whoe was maried to Robte Bowker of holdam^ r iiij" 
 pishe J 
 
 To Isabell Anderton Nice to ]\Iargerie wilde ] ..^ 
 of burie pishe. iij yeardes of Lynen & in money j ^ 
 
 To her fyster & to her ij. children, Samwell ") ..^ .^ 
 
 & John, ij yeardes Lynen & ij^ v]^ in money 
 
 XV 
 
 th 
 
 their 
 
 iij^ 
 
 M.^ that these aboue written hadde the 
 Day of Julie emongeste them, for 
 
 charges at Brunley^ 
 
 To Lawrance holker* & his wiffe xij*! 
 
 To Katherin Butterworthe^ [erasure] that ) .^ 
 
 cam w*^ them j •' 
 
 Delyu'ed in the p^sentes of them whose 
 Names are fubscribed, Robte Dalton, 
 Rychard Ashton, Robte Pyckringe.^ 
 
 iiij*! 
 
 iiij ^* xij yardes in broade Lodon clothe^ at vij* y« yarde. xxxi^i iiij^ 
 
 32^/10'^; in money 
 besydes clothe./ 
 
 310
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (163) 
 
 1 " Thorns Wilde'" : For note on this and other members of the family of Wilde 
 named on this page, see ante, page 299, Note i. 
 
 " '^ Agttes Chitam Rob'te Bo^vker of holdam" : "Chitam" stands for Chet- 
 
 ham. Robert Bowker I do not identify. 
 
 3 " Charges at Bninley " : Some of these kinsfolk from Rochdale district I dare say 
 came to Burnley to receive the gifts of cloth and money Dean Nowell had for them • 
 and the Dean gave them extra money to defi-ay some charge incurred at a Burnley 
 hostelry. 
 
 * " Lawrance Holker" : See Index of Names, s.n., for other mention of the Holker 
 family, who belonged to Read township (the seat of the Nowells), near Whalley. 
 
 ^ '■'■ Katherin Bitttetivorthe" : Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 * ^' Rob'te Dalton, Rychard Ashton, Robte Pyck/'inge" : The last of these was Dean 
 Nowell's servant. I do not identify Robert Dalton and Richard Ashton. 
 
 7 " Broade Lodon clothe," &c.: This entry is in the handwriting of Dean NowelL 
 
 ,11
 
 Whalley. 
 
 yth of Julij 
 A" 1569. 
 
 XIJ' 
 
 vij° Julij 
 A° 1569. 
 
 (Page 164 of the AIS., folio 120.) 
 
 Geven to the poor of the parishe of Whalley' 
 
 To his cosin Isabell Nowell Daughter to christofor"" 
 
 Nowell. some tyme baylyf of whalley^ ij yeardes of 
 
 wollen. iij. yeardes of Lynen for her self, and for ^ij« 
 
 her childe one yeard of wollen & one of 
 
 Lynen & in money 
 
 To Rychard Thorpe of wiswalP one yeard di. of) 
 
 London clothe & in money j 
 
 Deliuered in the p^sentes of them whose 
 
 names are subscribed, John Seller, 
 
 Thorns hamonde, James walton.* 
 
 To the Towen of whalley^ to fhr James Jenynges 
 
 p^ste.^ iij. yeardes of London clothe, iij. London cloth 
 
 to willm Cooke iij wollen 
 
 to Tohn Cooke ) .... , , 
 
 !: -^ ^ , - nil yeardes lynen 
 
 James Cooke J 
 
 Blinde Jenet^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John Attoughe^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Agnes Atough ij yeardes lynen. 
 
 Robte Atoughe one di. Lynen 
 
 Anne Atoughe one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Janne, Jenet Atoughe ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Vx Willm Mitton ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 henrie Mitton one yearde di. linen. 
 
 Rychard ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Willm mitton ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Robte, Jenet, mitton iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thoms Mitton (blinde man) ... iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Margaret Claiton iij yeardes di. lynen 
 
 Isabell clayton ij yeardes linen 
 
 Catherin claiton ij yeardes Linen 
 
 Elizabethe one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Ric^ Parkinson ij yeardes linen 
 
 Elizabethe parkinson iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Margeret ij yeardes linen 
 
 Elizabethe one yeard di. linen 
 
 Johann Robte ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Vx Jacob Johnson iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John Grison ij yeardes linen 
 
 Rychard Graisone one yearde di. lynen 
 
 Marget ij yearde wollen 
 
 Janne one yeard di. Linen. 
 
 Margeret Coore ij yeardes i 
 
 Janne Binson ij yeardes lynen. 
 
 Jenet Sourbuttes^ ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Thoms Bailief'° ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Raffe ffilden'i ij yeardes one q*^"^ wollen 
 
 Thoms Lawe'2 ^ jj yeardes linen 
 
 Margerie Lawe iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 henry Lawe ij yeardes linen 
 
 Edward Lawe ij yeardes linen 
 
 iij* in money 
 besydes clothe./ 
 
 ^12 
 
 1 
 
 qter -vvollen.
 
 Notes a?td Illustrations. 
 (164) 
 
 ' '■'poor of the parishe of W/ianey" : These gifts of cloth to the poor of the district 
 in Lancashire with which Dean Nowell and his brotlier Robert were connected by 
 birth and family attachment, were made by Dean Nowell in person during his visit to 
 Lancashire in July, 1569. The distribution extended to the families of tenant farmers 
 and peasantry in the townships of Whalley, Padiham, Symonston, Read, Wiswell, 
 Pendleton, Hapton, Bumley, Habergham Eaves, Cliviger, Worsthome-cum-Hurstwood 
 and Extwistle-cum-Briercliffe, in the parish of Whalley ; of Little Mitton township in 
 Mitton parish ; and of Billington township in Blackburn parish. Altogether, in round 
 figures, about 1,600 persons in this corner of Lancashire shared in this bounty, and, in 
 the winter of 1569-70, so many poor people might have been found comfortably clad 
 in garments made out of the linen and woollen cloths so freely dispensed by Dean 
 Nowell and John Towneley, Esq., as executors of the charitable trust of Robert 
 Nowell, Esq. 
 
 2 " Isabell N'owell, daughter to Christofor Nowell, some tyme haylyf of Whalley" : I 
 think it very likely that Christopher Nowell, sometime bailiff of Whalley, was an uncle 
 of Dean Nowell, i.e. Christopher Nowell, son of John Nowell, Esq., who is named 
 among the sons of the latter in the inquisition after his death in 1525. He was probably 
 dead before the date f'1569), but had left a daughter, described as "cosin" of the 
 Dean, who received a gift of cloth for herself and her child, and 2s. in money. 
 
 ^ " Rye hard Thorpe of IViswair' : The same person " Ric. thropp" of Wiswell town- 
 ship near Whalley, was assessed to the Easter Roll of Whalley Church in 1553. 
 (Cheth. MiseelL, edited by Canon Raines, vol. v, p. 17.) 
 
 * " jfokn seller. Thorns hainonde, James Wolton" : These attestors of the gifts 
 were each Whalley men ; the last-named, James Wolton, was Dean Nowell's secretary ; 
 Thomas Hammond was his brother-in-law ; and John Sellers also was a kinsman. 
 
 '" " To-cuen of Whalley" : That is, the Township of Whalley. Whalley is not, and 
 was not then, what in modern usage of the word we call a town, but a pretty village. 
 
 ® "'Jlir fames Jenynges, p'ste " : Sir James Jenings, priest, of this entry, was not vicar 
 of Whalley at this time ; and being designated priest, I infer that he was one of the 
 pre-reformation priests of the district (some of whom were discharged on small pensions 
 upon the accession of Elizabeth in 1558), who was living at Whalley in 1569. Dean 
 Nowell included the old priest in the distribution of gifts, Puritan though he was 
 himself. 
 
 ' " Blinde yenet" : The surname of this poor blind woman is omitted; — she is 
 described, as she would be spoken of by the villagers of Whalley, simply as "Blind 
 Jenet." 
 
 ^ yohn Attotighe," &c. : This surname is still found in Blackburn and Whalley, but 
 is now spelled Eatough ; yet is probably pronounced as anciently spelled — Atough. 
 
 * "Jenet Soitrbitties" : A family of Sowerbutts, of Sowerbutts Green in Samlesbury, 
 were concerned in the Lancashire Witchcraft Trials in 1612 (see Potts' Discoverie of 
 Witcheraft, in Chetham Society's publications). The surname is still met with locally. 
 
 '" Thoms Bailicf" : The modern spelling of this name is Bailey or Bayley. 
 
 ^' " Raffe filden" : This local surname is now changed to Feilden. 
 
 ^* " Thoms Laive" &c. : These several persons of the name of La we in Whalley 
 would be of the same clan with the Lawe family noted previously (see ante, p. 307). 
 
 313
 
 (Page 165 of the MS., folio 120 verso.) 
 
 ^AOi^g vx Edward Craven' iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 John Dilworthe iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Willm^ Gregsonne^ ij. yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Jenet Gregsonne ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Janne Gregsone ij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thorns hatherwood ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Georges hallidaye iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell foster ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Catherin foster ij. yeardes linen 
 
 Marie one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Thorns foster ij yeards iij q*®''^ wollen. 
 
 Isabell Gregson iij. yeardes of woollen. 
 
 Margerie Sager iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Willm Licase one yeard wollen, & ij linen. 
 
 Agnes Lycas iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thorns & Rychard Lycas iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Lawrance haye iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Jenet haye iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Arthur.... one yeard di. linen. 
 
 James holker^ & margerett iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Janne Isabell iiij yeardes linen. 
 
 Elen, Agnes, Ric, Elizabethe, holker v yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Grace Bradell* iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John, Jenete, bradell iiij yeardes linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Margaret breadell iij yeardes hnen. 
 
 Cicily bradell one yeard wollen. 
 
 Ales mane iij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 John halton ij" yeardes wollen. 
 
 Jane Dobson one yeard iijq'^^''^ wollen. 
 
 Eles Breres ij ■ yeardes linen 
 
 Grace, Isabell, Elizabeth Breres) ... , ,, ... ,. 
 
 o ^ . > nj yeardes wollen ni hnen, 
 
 & margerete breres ) ^ ■' ■' 
 
 Elizabethe Dean ij yeardes linen. 
 
 vx Johns Kerbie iij yeardes linen. 
 
 Elizabethe, Agnes Kerbey iij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Agnes Brighte iij ■ yeardes wollen 
 
 Milles Craven ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Robte Craven one yeard di. linen 
 
 Edmund Turnere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Margerie ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Rogere one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Janne ij yeards lynen. 
 
 John foster ij yeardes one q*^ wollen 
 
 John marcer ij yeards lynen. 
 
 John haule ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 John Smalley ij yeardes linen 
 
 John Dean ij yeardes wollen ij linen. 
 
 '^ 
 
 3M
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (165) 
 
 ' ^^vx Ed-ward Craven" : A family of Cravens have been for three centuries, and 
 yet are, owners of a freehold farm in Dinckley, parish of Blackburn, about two miles 
 from Whalley. There were other Cravens in Billington and Whalley. Edward 
 Craven, William Craven, Thomas Craven, and the wives of Richard Craven and 
 Nicholas Craven, all occur under Whalley township in the Easter Roll of Whalley ' 
 parish in 1553. {Cheth. Miscell., vol. v.) William Craven and Robert Craven are 
 named on this page of the text, inf7'a. 
 
 ^ " ]Vill)n Gregsoiiiie," &c. : The Gregson family of Whalley are found early as 
 tenant farmers and yeomen. Matthew Gregson, F. S.A., of Liverpool, author of a 
 folio volume of historical Frag>nents relating to Lancashire, descended from the Greg- 
 Sons of Whalley ; his father, Thomas Gregson, son of Jvlatthew Gregson, yeomen, of 
 Whalley, quitted Whalley early in the last century and settled in Liverpool. 
 
 * '■'James Holker,^' &c. : These Holkers in Whalley were of the same stock as the 
 Holkers of Read, yeomen, noticed onward under Read to\vnship. 
 
 ■' " Grace B?-aden," : She, and John, Jenet, Elizabeth, Margaret, Cicely, Alice, and 
 Marie Braddyll named in the list, would be some of the poorer connexions of the 
 family of Braddyll of Portfield in Whalley, represented, in 1569, by John Braddyll, 
 Esq., the successful trafficker in monastic estates, who died in 1578, and by his son 
 Edward Braddyll, gent., who married, in 1554, Ann, daughter of Ralph Asheton of 
 Great Lever, Esq. 
 
 315
 
 (Page 1 66 of the MS., folio 121.) 
 
 Rychard wood^ ij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Deane iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Carney^ one yearde wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe Crosleye iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Agnes Carney, Elizabethe, '^ 
 
 Edward, Janne, marie, margaret [-viij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rychard, Nicholes, John carney j viij yeardes linen 
 
 John & Thorns Lawe^ iiij yeardes wollen 
 
 & to them ij iiij yeardes linen 
 
 116
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (i66) 
 
 ' " Hychard Wood'" : Of the local family of Wood was Richard Wood, chantry 
 priest at Great Harwood Church, in Blackburn parish, who occurs in 1534, 1548, 
 and 155 1. 
 
 * '■^ Elizahethe Carney'''' : Richard Carney of Whalley appears on the Easter Roll of 
 Whalley parish in 1553, before referred to. 
 
 3 '■'John and Thorns Lawe" : See ante, p. 307, for note on the family of Lawe. 
 
 317
 
 Padiham pishe' 
 vlj- Julij A» 1 56.;. 
 
 (Page 167 of the AIS., folio 121 verso.) 
 
 To Jane Ryley ij yeardes di. lynen 
 
 Isabell ij" yeardes di, lynen 
 
 Margeret Webster^ ij- yeardes di. lynen 
 
 Jenet hey one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Nicholes Turner ij yeardes linen 
 
 Elen Turner ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 John Turner one yeard j q*'' wollen 
 
 Margeret Buccocke^sen^o'' ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Margeret the yongere ij yeardes Linen 
 
 Oulyu Dodsonne 
 
 Ellen ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Thorns .. ij yeardes linen 
 
 Jenet one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Nicholes one yeard j q*'" wollen. 
 
 Willm Sonkey^ ij yeardes linen 
 
 Mawd Sonkey ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 John ij yeard linen 
 
 Elizabethe ij yeardes linen 
 
 Thorns one yeard j q^" linen 
 
 Lawrance one yeard j q*^®"^ linen 
 
 John Shorrocke 
 
 Janne ij yeard di. linen 
 
 henry one yeard di. linen 
 
 Rye one yeard j q*'' wollen 
 
 Agnes one yeard di. linen 
 
 Isabell Cunlief'* ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Margerie Irelande ij yeardes linen 
 
 Robte Coop iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Ellen ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 John one yeard di. linen 
 
 Ellene one yeard j q*®'' linen 
 
 Janne one yeard wollen. 
 
 Isabell Reyley ij yeardes linen 
 
 Leonarde Cronshey^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Anne ij yeardes linen 
 
 Grace haye ij yeardes linen 
 
 John Webster one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Nicholes Whitaker one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Ales houghton iij- yeardes wollen. 
 
 Margerie Whitaker iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Robte Sharpe ij yeardes linen 
 
 Anne ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 John one yeard wollen 
 
 Willm one yeard j q'^'' wollen 
 
 Isabell one yeard j qt^"" linen 
 
 318
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (167) 
 
 ' " radi/ia?n fiske^' : Padihara was not strictly an ancient parish, but a parochial 
 chapelry under Whalley Church, and a township in Whalley parish. It is now a con- 
 siderable manufacturing town of some 6,000 or 7,000 population. Nearly 270 persons, 
 including children, are named in the categoiy of inhabitants of Padiham township who 
 had gifts of cloth from Dean Nowell in July, 1569. About 120 separate heads of 
 families and households appear to be distinguished. This must have included all but 
 the families of a few of the chief gentry in Padiham at that date. 
 
 ^ " 3Iargeref Webster''' : Besides her, there are named in the Padiham list of recipients 
 several persons of the name of Webster, viz., John Webster, Marger}' Webster, John 
 Webster, Hugh Webster, Jenet Webster, and Margaret Webster. Lieut. -Col. Fish- 
 wick remarks : " The Padiham Registers show that at this time there were several 
 families of this name ; but the above must not be mistaken for the Websters of Har- 
 greave (or, as it was then written, Horgreve) who lived on their o\\ti estate for upwards 
 of 400 years, being settled at Hargreave in the fifteenth century. " A pedigree of this 
 family is in the possession of Lieut. -Col. Fishwick, who is a descendant from one of 
 the daughters of Richard Webster, the last male representative. Richard Webster of 
 Hargreave, gent., died about 1570, and by his wife Margery left issue, sons, Francis 
 Webster, who died in 1579 5 and Roger. 
 
 3 " VVillm Sonkey .... Aland Sonkey" : Matilda (Maud) wife of William Sankey, 
 was buried at Padiham church, 27 September, 1587. (Extracts from Padiham Regis- 
 ters, by Lieut.-Col. Fishwick, in Reliquary for October, 1871.) 
 
 * " Isahell Cimlief" : Isabel Cunliff of Padiham appears on the Easter Roll of 
 Whalley in 1552. 
 
 * '■^ Leonarde Cronshey" : See ante, p. 307, Note i. 
 
 319
 
 (Page i68 of the MS., folio 122.) 
 
 aH"6^ Janet Bradley iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John walker one yeard di. linen 
 
 Grace houghton iij yeardes wollen 
 
 hughe Cookshute' ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenet Ketchin ij yeardes linen 
 
 margery webster ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 John , one yeard wollen 
 
 henry dodson^ ij yeardes linen 
 
 margeret one yeard di. linen 
 
 Adam horrege^ iij* yeardes wollen 
 
 Agnes ij yeard di. linen 
 
 Elizabethe Dodsonne ij yeardes linen 
 
 Robte Wilkinson* ij yeardes linen 
 
 Ales iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell ij yeardes linen 
 
 Anne ij yeardes linen 
 
 Jenet one yeard di. linen 
 
 John ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Lettis more iij yeardes wollen 
 
 margeret Grenshaye^ ij yeardes linen 
 
 Peter Reyley iij' yeardes wollen 
 
 Edward Cooke iij' yeardes wollen 
 
 Ales Buthe one yeard di. linen 
 
 Elizabethe Billinghton iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Elizabethe walshaye ij yeardes linen 
 
 Ellen Smy the one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Ellen pyckope iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe pykcope^ ij yeardes linen 
 
 Anne ij yeardes lynen 
 
 Margete . . one yeard di. linen 
 
 Janne one yeard di. linen 
 
 John one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Ales ij yeard linen 
 
 John Cockshute ij yeardes linen 
 
 Jenete ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Isabell ij yeardes linen 
 
 John fenio' ij yeardes lynen 
 
 John ij yeardes linen 
 
 Elizabethe one yeard di. linen 
 
 Rychard one yeard di. linen 
 
 Thoms one yeard j q*®'' linen 
 
 Marget one yeard j q'^"" hnen 
 
 Janne Wilkinson' ij yeardes di. Hnen 
 
 Jenet ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Thoms one yeard di. linen 
 
 Christofore one yeard di. linen 
 
 Rychard Cockshute iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 320
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (i68) 
 
 1 "■Hughe Cookskiite" : Three other families of this name (Cockshutt) are entered 
 mfra, those of John Cockshutt, of John Cockshutt, senior, and of Richard Cockshutt. 
 
 '^ ''Henry dodson" : Henry Dodgeson of Padiham, and also Christopher Dodgeson 
 with his mother, appear on the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. 
 
 3 " Adam /lorrege" : Adam Horwich of Padiham was assessed on the Easter Roll of 
 Whalley in 1552. 
 
 * " Robte Wilkinson'" : The wife and two children of Robert Wilkinson were buried 
 at Padiham chapel, 9 June, 1579. 
 
 ^ " margvret Grenshaye'" : Perhaps this surname should be Grimshaw, 
 
 * '' Elizabeihe pykcope'' : This surname, derived originally from Pickop Bank, at the 
 head of Haslingden Grane, at the south-east extremity of Blackburn parish, is common 
 in Blackburn district, and is now spelled Pickop, or Pickup. 
 
 '' "Janne 7inlJdnson" <S:c. : There are several families of Wilkinsons in the category 
 of the commonalty of Padiham in 1569, e.g., that of Robert Wilkinson, supra; 'that 
 of Janne Wilkinson of this entiy ; and that of John Wilkinson of Whalley Banks, with 
 others. 
 
 3^1
 
 (Page 169 of the MS., folio 122 verso.) 
 
 Littes Cockshute ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Thorns , ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell ij yeardes linen 
 
 Susane ij yeardes linen 
 
 Anne Reyley one yeard wollen 
 
 Ric Wilkinson ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Christofor yate' iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Janne Dodsone ij yeardes linen 
 
 Johan Dale one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Isabell shayfild ij yearde di. linen 
 
 Willm Cleaton^ ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Grace wilkinsonn one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Elizabeth Shafilde iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Agnes Bymyngtone ij yeardes linen 
 
 Gyles clay tere^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Ellen ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Willm one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Isabell — j yeard wollen 
 
 John hancoke* ij yeardes linen 
 
 Maude hancoke iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Christofor one yeard j q^^^r wollen 
 
 Anne one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Janne one yeard wollen. 
 
 Edward Nutter^ ij yearde di. linen 
 
 Ellen ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 hughe ij yeardes linen 
 
 Nycholes ij yearde linen 
 
 Marget one yeard di. linen 
 
 Ales ; one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Jenet one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Willm hancocke 
 
 Isabell ij yeard di. linen 
 
 John one yeard di. linen 
 
 Grace one yeard di. linen 
 
 Anne one yeard j q^^' wollen 
 
 Isabell one yeard j q*^i" wollen 
 
 Jenet Slaiter ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Rychard wilkinson ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Gabrayell Gargate ij yeardes linen 
 
 Marget ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Barnard parker ij yeardes wollen 
 
 hughe whithead ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Ales Denbeye^ ij yeardes lynen 
 
 Jenet ij yeardes lynen 
 
 henry ij yeardes wollen 
 
 John one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Anne one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Margerete one yeard j q*^' wollen 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 322
 
 Notes and Illustrations, 
 (169) 
 
 ' " ckristofor Vafe^' : Another family of Yate is found later in this Padiham list. 
 ' " JVi/ii/t. ch'aton" : Intended for Clayton. 
 
 * " Gyles clavtere" : Miswritten for Slater. Giles Slater appears under Padiham on 
 the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. (C/wt/i. MiscelL, vol. v.) 
 
 * "John haiicoke" '. The chief family of Hancock was of Lower Higham, near 
 Padiham, represented early in the sixteenth century by John Hancock of Lower 
 Higham, gent., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas .Shuttleworth of Gaw- 
 thorpe, gent. After him was Nicholas Hancock, gent., who, te»ip. Edward VL, dis- 
 puted with Sir Richard Towneley, knt., title to lands in Ightenhill Park, &c., and 
 whose daughter and heiress, Ann, married, in 1560, Edward Starkie of Huntroyd, 
 gent. See infra, for a William Hancock and his family. 
 
 * ^^ Edward A^uttc7-''' : An Edward Nutter appears on the Easter Roll of Whalley 
 for 1553. Edward Nutter, who here occurs with six members of his household, may 
 have been the same person. The Nutters sprang out of Pendle Forest, and some of 
 them, half a centui-y later than this date, were implicated in the charges of witchcraft 
 which were tried at Lancaster assizes in 16 12. 
 
 ® "Ales De7ilkye" &c. : John Denbye occui^s under Padiham on the Easter Roll of 
 Whalley for 1552. 
 
 2 Y 323
 
 Padisham 
 parishe 
 
 (Page 170 of the MS., folio 123.) 
 
 Janne Marshall' ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Jenet ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Thorns Whitaker^ one yeard di. wollen 
 
 henry Rotwell one yeard wollen 
 
 Lyonell whipe^ iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Agnes iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Elizabethe ,. ij yeardes linen 
 
 John ij yeardes linen 
 
 Agnes ij yeardes iij q*"^ wollen. 
 
 hughe wester one yeard iij q'^''^ wollen 
 
 Ales forstere iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Christofor hindlie"* ij yeardes iij q*"" wollen 
 
 Anne ij yeardes linen 
 
 Elizabethe one yeard iij q*''^ wollen 
 
 Agnes Whitaker ij yeardes wollen 
 
 John Whitaker ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Jenet fylden ij yeardes di, linen 
 
 Johi^ Stockes ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Rychard Stockes ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Willm Kaye ij yeardes. iij q*s wollen 
 
 Jenet Keye iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jeffraye hindlie iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Agnes hindlie il yeardes linen 
 
 fifrances hindlie ij yeardes linen 
 
 Elizabethe Londsdale ij yeardes linen 
 
 Edward worslawe ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Grace worslay ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Margeret one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Anne worsley one yeard j q^^"^ wollen 
 
 Jenet one yeard wollen 
 
 Roger Steuenson ij yeardes linen 
 
 Agnes Stevenson ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Nicholes Stevenson ij yeardes wollen 
 
 John one yeard wollen 
 
 Isabell ij yeard e. linen 
 
 Jenet ij yearde. wollen 
 
 Ellen ij yearde wollen 
 
 Anne one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Nicholes Baren^ iij yearde wollen. 
 
 Isabell ij yearde. wollen 
 
 Anne one yeard iij q*^"^ wollen 
 
 John Bates one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Margeret Baren iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Robte Dodson^ iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Robte Dodson yonger ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Alison Dodsonn ij yeardes linen. 
 
 3?4
 
 Notes and ILhtstrations. 
 (170) 
 
 ' " Jmme Marshall" : The wife of Thomas Marshall, assessed under Padiham to the 
 Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553, might be the same with our Jane Marshall of 1569. 
 Thomas Marshall, gent., was the descendant of the founder of Padiham chantry, and 
 as such, he presented a chaplain in 1 539. {Hist, of Whalley, new edn., vol. ii, p. 50.) 
 A John ]\Iarshall occurs on the next page of the MS. 
 
 ^ " Thorns Whitaker^'' : These Whitakers in Padiham may have been a remnant of 
 the ancient family of Whitaker of High Whitaker in Padiham township, the parent 
 stock of Whitakers of Holme, of Symonston, and of Healey, in the county of Lan- 
 caster. 
 
 3 ^^ Lyonell ivhipe'''' : Lyonel Whypp of Padiham appears on the Easter Roll of 
 Whalley for 1552. 
 
 * " Christofor hindlie" ; and " yeffraye hindlie," &c., infra : See Index of Names, 
 s.n., for prior references, and note on the local clan of Hindle. 
 
 8 " Nicholes Barefi" : Perhaps the son of Richard BaiTon who, "aim fils" appears 
 on the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1552. The surname of Baron is yet rather common 
 in Blackburn Hundred. 
 
 * " Robte Dodson" : Robert Dodgeson, with others of that name in Padiham, Avas 
 assessed on the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. 
 
 325
 
 (Page 171 of the MS., folio 123 verso.) 
 
 John Remyngtonn^ ij yeardes wollen 
 
 John the yonger iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John horrege^ ij yeardes linen 
 
 Isabell horrege ij yeardes linen 
 
 Adam horrege one yeard iij q^"^ wollen 
 
 Grace one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Ux Christofore heye^ ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 John ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Thorns one yeard di. linen 
 
 Ellen one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Rychard brogden ij. yeardes di. linen 
 
 Elizabethe ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Ales Cockshute ij yeardes linen 
 
 Marget Whitaker ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Katherin holkere ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Ales hanson ij yeardes linen 
 
 Marget Robtes ij yeardes. linen 
 
 John marshall ij yeardes. linen 
 
 John Shawfild ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Anne shawlilde one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Edward white ij yeardes. linen 
 
 George ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Ales ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Agnes ffletchere ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Alison ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Jenete webstef* iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 marget webster ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Ellen Turner ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Jenet fylden^ .. one yeard wollen 
 
 Agnes fylden ij yeardes linen 
 
 Anne ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Samwell one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Isabell , one yeard j q*"^ wollen 
 
 fflorcnce one yeard wollen 
 
 Willm Whitheade'' ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Lucke ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 fflorence ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Anne ij yeardes. linen 
 
 henry whitaker' ij yeardes. linen 
 
 John whitaker one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Lawrance houghton^ ij yeardes iij qK wollen 
 
 Nicholes Dale ij yeardes linen 
 
 hughe yeate ij yeardes linen 
 
 John yeate one yeard di. linen. 
 
 James yeate one yeard di. linen. 
 
 p6
 
 Notes and Illn,stratio?is. 
 (171) 
 
 * " JoJin Remyjtgtonn" : This surname is derived from the neighbouring township 
 of Rimmington on the Yorkshire l^order east of CHtheroe. 
 
 * "yokn horrege" : This name is spelt by the scribe as it is sounded by the common 
 people in Lancashire. The correct speUing is Honvich, the name of a township in 
 Dean parish. 
 
 ' " Ux Cknstofore heye" : The family of Hey was indigenous to the locality of Padi- 
 ham and ^Vhalley. John Hey of Padiham is assessed on the Easter Roll of Whalley 
 
 in 1553- 
 
 * ^' jfeneie websler" : See aitte p. 319, for a note on the Websters of Padiham. 
 
 ^ "■ Jenet fylden" : Fylden = modern Feilden. The Feildens of Witton Park and 
 Feniscowles, now for several generations large landed proprietors in Blackburn parish, 
 sprung from an old family of yeomen in Great Harwood. In these townships on the 
 banks of the Lancashire Calder, the Fyldens were a numerous tribe 300 years ago. 
 
 ^ " Willm. IVhitehcade" : William Whytehead of Padiham was assessed to the 
 Easter Roll of Whalley in 1552. The surname is still rather common in this part of 
 North- East Lancashire. 
 
 1 ^^ henry whitaker" : Some connexion, possibly, of the old family of WTiitaker of 
 High Whitaker in Padiham. 
 
 ^ ^' La'wrance hoiightoii" : Lawrance Houghton's name appears on the Easter Roll 
 of Whalley (under Padiham township) in 1552. 
 
 327 '
 
 (Page 172 of the MS., folio 124.) 
 
 Thorns yeate' one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Isabell yeate one yeard j q**^^ wollen 
 
 George Cronshaye^ ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 marget whitaker ij yeardes linen 
 
 John marcere ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Willm mercer one yeard j q'*^"" wollen 
 
 Christofor whipe one yeard di. linen 
 
 Lawrance hansonne ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Marion Dougles iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Isabell Dugles ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Rychard Towene iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Rychard white ij yeardes linen 
 
 Anne whithead ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 John Dougles et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Margett one yeard di. linen 
 
 Anne Douglas one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe one yeard di, wollen 
 
 Elizabethe fhawfilde iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Agnes Remyngton one yeard wollen 
 
 henry Shorrocke^ ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 to flir willm Bouthe Minister of padiham'* iij yd''^ wollen 
 
 to marget Tingnell ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 to her ij^ in money &to him y^cam w^^here ij* vj*^ 
 
 John Douglas ij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 henrie one yeard di. linen 
 
 iiij children of wilsons in whalley ") .. , 1. 
 
 -", , r vij yeardes Imen 
 
 Gilberte greenfild^ ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Cronshawes wief ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 to an nother poor wenche ij yeardes. linen 
 
 To iiij children of whalley bankes of) .. , ,• 
 
 T 1 ,1 • fi V vij yeardes Imen. 
 
 John wylkmsonns" j ^ •' 
 
 M<i that ther is lefte for these that are 
 
 apponted before viij yeardes & more iiij'' 
 
 yeardes. iij quarters. 
 
 [ Verso — blank.] 
 
 ,328
 
 Notes and lihistraH'ous. 
 (172) 
 
 ' " Thorns yeate" '. Perhaps he was progenitor of James Yate and Thomas Yate, 
 who occur as confidential servants of Shuttleworlh of Gawlhorp near Padiham from 
 1596 to 1643. {ShiMleivorth Accounts, Cheth. Socy., vol. iv, pp. 1 132-3.) 
 
 * " George Cronskaye" : The surname of Cronshaw, Crankshaw, or Cronkshaw, is 
 yet met with in the district, generally pronounced as here spelt. Christopher Cronke- 
 shay of Padiham appears on the Easier Roll of Whalley in 1552. A Leonard 
 Cronshey occurs in our MS. in the Padiham list an/e. 
 
 3 "henry Shorrocke" : Henry Shorrocke of Padiham paid i2d. to the Easter Roll 
 of Whalley in 1552. 
 
 * " to JJir 7oillm Bouthe Minister of padiham" : This entry supplies the name of a 
 minister of Padiham Pai-ochial Chapel nol: found in the last i-evised list of incumbents 
 of this church in the new edition of Whilaker's Histojy of Whalley (vol. ii, pp. 49-50). 
 Sir William Bouthe or Booih was probably the first protestant minister of Padiham, 
 coming after John Key, who occurs as "chapbin" in 1551, temp. Mary, and preceding 
 John Baxter, who occurs as curate in 1573, and died in 1616. 
 
 * " Gilberte greenfld" : A family of Greenfields was settled in the neighbourhood 
 of Whalley, from which descended Sir Christopher Greenfield, a lawyer of some note 
 in Preston at the close of the seventeenth cenLury. 
 
 ^ "'children of John 7vylkinsonns" : John Wilkinson of Padiham was assessed to 
 the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. He is named Wilson in an entry above. 
 "Whalley Banks" is the name given to an eminence on the west or Whalley side of 
 Padiham village. 
 
 3-9
 
 (Page 173 of the MS., folio 125.) 
 Symonston Gcorge Cartmell^ iij wollen & ij yeardes linen 
 
 vijofjuiij Marget Cartmell ij yeardes linen. 
 
 ^" '^^^ Edmunde Cartmell ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Jenet Cartmell ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 John Whitaker^ ij yeardes. linen, 
 
 Lawrance Whitakere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Edmunde pollard'* one yeard linen. 
 
 Rychard Goodshawe ij yearde linen 
 
 John Goodshawe ij yearde linen 
 
 Rychard Goodshawe^ ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Lettes Goodshawe iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Lettes Shuttellworthe^ ij yeardes lynen 
 
 Elizabethe one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Anne Cartmell ij yeardes linen 
 
 Isabell Cartmell one yeard j q^^^ wollen 
 
 John hargreves^ ij yeardes iij qt^'s wollen 
 
 Isabell webstere^ one yeard di. wollen 
 
 margerett one yeard di. wollen 
 
 margerie one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Margett Bell one yeard iij q^^s wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Tayloure iij • yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenet ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Lawrance Sagere^ iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Esabell Pollard iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 marget ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Jenet houlden ij yeardes wollen 
 
 John Cockshute ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Barnard Cockshute ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 i 
 
 330
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 ( 173) 
 
 ' " Symonston Towen " ; Simonstone is a small rural township lying on the north 
 bank of the Calder between Padiham and Read. The park of Huntroyd, then and still 
 the seat of the important family of Starkie, embraces a large part of the lands of the 
 township ; and the rest belongs to the Symonstone Hall estate of the family of Whitaker 
 of Simonstone, noted below. 
 
 * " George Cartmeir' : A John Cartmell of Whalley appears on the Easter Roll of 
 Whalley in 1553. 
 
 ^ "John Whitaker . . . Lazvrance JVhitakere" : At Simonstone Hall has been seated 
 for several centuries a family of Whitakers, branched from that of Whitaker of High 
 Whitaker, and represented, in 1553 (Easter Roll of Whalley) by Thomas Whitaker, 
 senr., gent., Thomas Whitaker, junr., and Myles Whitaker, his sons. The father and 
 his eldest sons might be in too good a position to accept the Nowell bounty, but there 
 were two younger sons, John Wliitaker and Lawrence Whitaker, who might not be 
 too proud to do so, and whom I should be disposed to think were the John and Law- 
 rance named in the text. 
 
 * ''£d)?iunde pollard": A descendant, may-be, of John Pollard, junr., of Simonstone, 
 assessed to the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1552 and 1553. 
 
 * " Rychard Goodshmve" : Rye. Goodshawe appears on the Easter Roll of Whalley 
 in 1553- The surname is derived from Goodshaw Booth in Rossendale. 
 
 ^ " Lettes Shiittelkvorthe'" : Possibly widow of a Barnard Shuttleworth of this town- 
 ship, who appears on the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1552 and 1553. 
 
 7 ^' John hargreves" : John Hargreaves of Simonstone, "cum Laurence," was 
 assessed to the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. 
 
 * " Isabell webstere" : Connected, probably, with the W^ebsters of Padiham, noted 
 ante, p. 319. 
 
 ' " Lawrancf Sagere" : Lawrance Saigher (modem Sagar) of Simonstone, was 
 assessed to the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. 
 
 Zi'^
 
 vij'" of Julij 
 A' 1569 
 
 (Page 174 of the MS., folio 125 verso.) 
 
 Reade Towen' Robte Ingham^ iiij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Marget iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Edward iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Georges iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 John iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Agnes iij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Betris one yeard iij q^""*. wollen. 
 
 Willm TatershalP ij . yeardes wollen 
 
 Agnes ij. yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Lawrance Ingham iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Alison iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thorns iij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 John ij. yeardes di. wollen 
 
 henry ij yeardes j q*^"" wollen, 
 
 Georges ij yeardes j q*^"" wollen 
 
 Rychard ij yeardes j q*^'^ wollen 
 
 Lawrance ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Robte one yeard iij q*"'^ wollen 
 
 Rychard old mane iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 John marcer^ ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Marget iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Agnes iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Janne iij yeardes wollen 
 
 henry Deinley^ one yeard. wollen 
 
 henry Reyley^ iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Agnes iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 John Reyley iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell .. iij yeardes. woll. 
 
 Marget ij. yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Edmunde ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Grace ij yeardes iij q^''^ wollen. 
 
 Ales ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Ellen one yeard wollen 
 
 henry ffeanesheade^ ij yeardes wollen 
 
 et vx iij yearde wollen 
 
 Rychard ij yeardes j q*"^ wollen 
 
 Lawrance . , one yeard di. wollen 
 
 John one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Jenet one yeard wollen 
 
 Robte Chatburne^ ij. yeardes wollen 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Thorns ij yeardes iij c^^^ wollen 
 
 Jenete ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 332
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (174) 
 
 * " Reade Towen" : This is the township in which Read Hall and Park, the ancient 
 seat of the Nowells, is situated. All the recipients named under this head would be 
 members of the families of tenantry of Dean Novvell's nephew, Thomas Newell, Esq., 
 of Read Hall. 
 
 * '^ Robt Ingham," &c. : Robert Yngham, also Edward Yngham and Thomas Yng- 
 ham (Ingham) of Read township, were assessed to the Easter Roll of Whalley in 
 
 1553- 
 3 " Willm TatershalV : He may be connected with the rather numerous tribe of 
 
 Tattersalls of Burnley. (See/^j-/, under Burnley township, &c. ) 
 
 ^ ^"jfohii marcer" '. "Marcer" is a frequent old spelling for the modern "Mercer." 
 
 The Piercers were very numerous in Great Harwood and Rishton townships in the 
 
 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as they are still. 
 
 * "Henry Deinlty" : The surname is properly Dineley or Dyneley, and is derived 
 from Dyneley Knoll in Towneley Park. 
 
 ^ "henry Reyley" : Henry Ryeley of Reade appears on the Easter Roll of Whalley 
 
 in 1553. 
 
 ' "Henry ffeanesheade" : The surname is sometimes met with now in the altered 
 form of Fearnside. 
 
 8 " Robte Chatburne" : The surname, still found in the district, is derived from the 
 to-\vnship of Chatburn, near Clitheroe. A Robert Chatburne of Whalley occurs on 
 the Easter Roll of Whalley for 1552 and 1553. 
 
 333
 
 Litlie Mitton'' 
 vij'" of Julij 
 A" 1569 
 
 (Page 175 of the MS., folio 126.) 
 
 Marget chatborne ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Robte Chatborne ij yeardes q*"" wollen 
 
 John chatbourne ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Ales Gyles ij yeardes. iij q*^^s ^yollen 
 
 Gylles NowelP iij yeardes wollen 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Grace one yeard wollen 
 
 Isabell one yeard wollen 
 
 Letis one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Alison ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Rychard Harnbey^ et vx 
 Edmund Varley & Isabell varley 
 
 Edmunde holkere^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 et vxe iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Marget Smythe ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Elizabethe Browen ij. yeardes iij q^^s wollen 
 
 Olyuer whithall'* iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Nicholes ij yeardes j q^er wollen 
 
 humfrey one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Agnes one yeard iij c^^^ wollen 
 
 John holker iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Ales Thornber iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Rychard Barker iij, yeardes wollen 
 
 Willm holker one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Johanes Browen^ et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Marget Browen ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Robinsonn ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Mar}^' a whele maid ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Jenet hindlic ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 (Page 176 of the MS., folio 126 verso.) 
 
 Raffe hollywell ij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenet one yeard di. wollen 
 
 vx Johannes Bruscoe^ iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Gylber[t] Bruscoe ,. ij. yeardes linen 
 
 Edmund Bowkere iij" yeardes wollen. 
 
 Leonard paslowe^ iij" yeardes wollen. 
 
 Christofore Greave iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenete iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Edward green \ 
 
 ■I tj*- y viij*^ yeardes wollen. 
 
 James green C ^ ■' 
 
 Elizabethe green ) 
 
 Edward Nowell^ ij yeardes di. wollen, 
 
 Agnes hindlie ij yeardes linen 
 
 & in moneye iiij*^ 
 
 334
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (175) 
 
 1 " Gylles N'owell, et vx'' : Here we have a family of Nowells residing in Read town- 
 ship, of station sufficiently humble to be classed among the tenant firmers and peasantry 
 who had gifts of cloth from Dean Nowell at Read Hall. The family consisted of 
 Gyles Nowell, his wife, and their four daughters, Grace, Isabel, Letis, and Alison 
 Nowell. I do not find this Gyles Nowell or his family elsewhere named in the A/S, 
 as kinsfolk of (//e Nowells; yet, living on the same estate, there can be no doubt that 
 Gyles Nowell could have traced his descent from some chief representative of Nowell 
 of Read. The posterity of younger sons of the most considerable families of territorial 
 gentry in that age, when there was little trade, soon dropped into obscurity and 
 poverty. Grace Nowell, daughter of Gyles Nowell, was baptized at Whalley Church, 
 
 2 April, 1567 ; and the same Gyles had also issue, sons, John, baptized 6 November, 
 1569 (some months after these gifts were dispensed), Thomas, baptized November, 
 1573; Roger, baptized 6 October, 1574; and Robert, baptized 18 April, 1577. All 
 these are Christian names common in successive generations of the principal family of 
 Nowells. Giles Nowell, the father, seems to have been twice manied, and both his 
 wives were named Isabella, "Isabella uxor Egidii Nowell" was buried at Whalley, 
 
 3 November, 1573 ; then we find Giles Nowell marrying Isabella Nowell (probably a 
 kinswoman before marriage), 12 August, 1576; and then, "Isabella uxor Egidii 
 Nowell," buried 29 December, 1577. John Nowell, son of Giles, died in 1572. 
 
 * ^' Rychard Hanibey et z'x" : The surname is meant for Hornby. Richard 
 Horneby of Reade appears on the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. 
 
 3 " £d»iu)ide /io//ct're," and John Holker and William Holker, i>!/ra : The Holkers 
 of Read were tenantry of the Nowells ; but between this date and the middle of the 
 last century I meet with successive representatives described as "gent." or "yeoman." 
 John Holker of Read, the principal man of the family about this period, appears on 
 the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1552 and 1553. A younger John Holker, probably a 
 son of this John, married, at Whalley, 20 October, 1572, Ellen Braddyll ; and John 
 Holker of Wiswell and John Holker of the Crosse are named in the Will of John 
 Braddyll, Esq. (157S). John Holker, gent., occurs as a juror in 1585. A Richard 
 Holker, of this family, was a scholar at Brazenose College, Oxford, in 1572, (See 
 anfe, pp. 210- 11, 234.) 
 
 * " Olyuer whithall" : The surname is now spelt Whittle. 
 
 * ^^Johanes Browen et vx" : John Browne of Reade appears on the Easter Roll of 
 Whalley in 1553. 
 
 (176) 
 
 * " Litlie Alitton'''' : This small township is situated on the left bank of the Ribble, 
 just below Clitheroe. 
 
 ^ '* Johannes Briiscoe^^ : This surname is Burscough, here spelt as locally spoken, 
 "Bruscoe." 
 
 ' ^' Leonard paslowe" : A connexion, it is likely, of the family of Paslew of Wiswell 
 Hall, to which belonged John Paslew, last abbot of Whalley, executed for high treason 
 
 in 1537- 
 
 * '^ Edward NccvelV : I have no information concerning this bearer of the honour- 
 able name of Nowell. 
 
 335
 
 Wiswall' the 
 vii'" of Julij 
 
 (Page 177 of the MS., folio 127.) 
 
 Margerie Law ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Anno^isflr' Tliome Dudgdall2 one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Isabell Dugdall one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Willm Rydinge ^ 
 
 Thorns Rydinge V iiij • yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 John Rydinge J 
 
 Grace Reydinge iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Georges Reydinge ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Margeret Knowles iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Robte hollidaye^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell hollydaye iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Thorns hollydaye ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Robte hollydaye ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 John hollydaye ij yeardes j q*r wollen 
 
 Grace ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenet ij yeardes j q^^ wollen 
 
 John Law et vx* vj. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Ales Joane iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenet Ratclife^ ij yeardes di. lynen 
 
 et vxor Johannes Ratclif ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Agnes Ratclief ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Margerie & Margeret Cooke vj. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Knowles iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Thorns Dobson^ \ 
 
 Edmunde Dobson )- iiij' yeardes iij q*" wollen 
 
 Rafife Dobsonn J 
 
 Jenet Dobsonn iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 James Leighe Thorns leighe vj yeardes wollen 
 
 James holker^ iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Ellen iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Robte ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Willm ij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Leonard ij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 James & Thoms holkere iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 henry holker one yeard. wollen. 
 
 henry Browen ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Lettis, fybill, Browen iiij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Cislye Browen ij yeardes iij q''^ wollen 
 
 Ellen Browen one yeard. di. wollen 
 
 Ales Lawe ij yeardes linen 
 
 vx Rycharde Green iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 John Green ij. yeardes. linen 
 
 336
 
 Notes and Ilhcstrations. 
 (177) 
 
 ' " WirtvalV : Wiswell is a township next to that of Whalley on the north. There 
 is a village of old thatched cottages with high pitched roofs, many of them now tenant- 
 less and decaying. Between fifty and sixty families seem to be included in this distri- 
 bution of cloth, and the population was then perhaps about equal to what it is now. 
 
 2 " Thorns i)2(gdaH" : A yeoman family of Dugdales have held a small freehold 
 estate in Wiswell down to the present generation ; originally, I dare say, they were of 
 the same clan as the Dugdales of Clitheroe, about two miles from Wiswell, one of 
 whom was father of Sir William Dugdale the herald and antiquary, historian of War- 
 wickshire. 
 
 ^ " Robte HolUdaye" : The name is spelt Hallidaye on the next page, which is the 
 form in which it is now usually met with. 
 
 * " John Law et z'jc" : I have before generally noticed the family of Law of Wiswell 
 (a«/^p. 307). 
 
 5 "Jenei Ratclief" Slc: Perhaps Jenet was the "wife of William Radcliffe" of 
 Wiswell, assessed to the Easter Roll of Whalley in IS53- John Radcliffe appears on 
 the same Roll, and the " vxor John Ratclif" of the next entry might be his widow. 
 
 * " Thorns Dobson" : He and several of these Dobsons of Wiswell appear on the 
 Easter Roll of Whalley, 1552-3. 
 
 7 " jfa/nes holker,'^ &c. : The Holkers are found in several townships about Whalley, 
 and we have before noted the Holkers of Read. These Wiswell Holkers were of the 
 same stock. (See Note, two pages ante. ) 
 
 337
 
 (Page 178 of the MS., folio 127 verso) 
 
 Elizabethe Green one yeard di, wollen 
 
 Ales ij yeardes linen 
 
 Anne one. yeard di. wollen 
 
 Samwell fylden ij. yeardes wollen 
 
 henry one yeard di. linen 
 
 Agnes ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Georges ij. yeardes linen 
 
 Vx"^ ffrances Green^ iij* yeardes. wollen 
 
 Willm ij yeardes wollen 
 
 marget, Ales iij. yeardes linen 
 
 Georges Agnes iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Willm ij. yeardes j q'" wollen 
 
 Robte Seller^ ij yeardes iij q*"^ wollen 
 
 Edward Parker^ ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Elizabethe ij yeardes linen 
 
 Edward ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Jenet Lawe iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 John walton* one yearde di. wollen 
 
 Ellen walton one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Vx Johnes Rychardsonne^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell Sagere iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Vx henry Seckes iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Willm one yearde wollen, 
 
 Vx. Rychard hindlie ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Jenet wood iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Vx Christofor hallidaye iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John hallydaye ij yeardes j qt^r wollen 
 
 Willm hallidaye one yeard iij q'^"" wollen 
 
 Thorns hallidaye one yeard j q^^r wollen 
 
 Ales Lawe iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Marget, Gyles one yeard iij q'^^s wollen 
 
 Agnes Greenells ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Lawe ij. yeardes j c^^^ wollen 
 
 James Coocke one yearde j q'^er wollen 
 
 vx Edmund Tattarshall iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John one yeard j qt«r wollen 
 
 John Ingham Lettes iiij yeardes linen 
 
 Ellen ffogge ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 John Dean^ ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 I 
 
 .I.3S
 
 "Notes and Illustrations. 
 (178) 
 
 ' " Vxr ffi-ances Green . . . Willm. {Green)," &c. : William Grene with his mother, 
 and George Grene of Wiswall, were assessed to the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. 
 
 2 " Robte Seller" : See ante, p. 309, for a general note on the Sellers family. 
 
 3 '■^ Edward Parker" : "Yeoman Parker" of Wiswell, appears on the Easter Roll 
 of Whalley in 1553. 
 
 ^ " John laallon . . . Ellen rvalton" : See ante, p. 267, for an account of the Wolton 
 family of Wiswell, to which John Wolton, bishop of Exeter, belonged. 
 
 * Vx Joknes Rychardsonne" : John Ric'son (contraction of Richardson), was assessed 
 to the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. He might be dead before 1569, when his wife 
 had this gift of cloth. 
 
 s "-John Dean": John Deane (misprinted "Deant" in the Chetham Society's 
 volume) of Wiswell, was assessed to the Easter Roll of Wlialley in 1552. 
 
 i 
 
 2 z 339
 
 (Page 179 of the MS., folio 126.) 
 
 Janne Deane one yearde di. lynen 
 
 Jenet feller^ iij yeardes woUen 
 
 Elizabethe Jaine feller ij yeardes linen 
 
 Margeret hancoate^ one yeard di. linen 
 
 Elizabethe hancoate ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Isabell hancoate one yeard di. linen 
 
 Jenet Dean iij yeardes woUen 
 
 Isabell hill ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Thorns hill one yearde iij q*^"'s wollen 
 
 Anthony hill ij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Vx christofore Cocke^ ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Georges Thorpe iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John hauU ij yeardes linen 
 
 Margeth Thorpe ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Anne heye ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Alys Tomlinson iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Christofor Greenfild'* ij yeardes iij q*" wollen 
 
 Thorns Dobsonn iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Willm Ratclief ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenet Neigham ij yeardes linen 
 
 Lawrance Shottellworthe^ 
 
 Rychard ffilden one yeard j q*®' wollen 
 
 Marget Dobson 
 
 Vx Christofor woode iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Ellen woode one yeard linen 
 
 ."uo
 
 Notes and IlUistratiojis. 
 (179) 
 
 ' " Jenet feller'''' : See anle, p. 309, for a general note on the Sellers family. 
 
 - ■ ■ iJargeret hancoate" &c. : These names the scribe has misvvritten for liuncoat, a 
 <5urname derived from the name of the hamlet of Huncoat near Accrington, one of the 
 .^» places in East Lancashire mentioned (as Htinicot) in Domesday Book. A family 
 
 Huncoats in cd in Wisvvell, and George Huncote with his mother were assessed to 
 J.ie Easter Roll of Whalley in 1552 and 1553. 
 
 ^ " Vx christofore Cocke" : Christopher Coke with his father were assessed to the 
 Easter Roll of Whalley in ijj2 and 1553. 
 
 * " Chiistofor GreenfiW : He was of a family of Greenfields living at Wiswell and 
 Whalley which a centmy la.e/ had attained the rank of gentiy ; and one of whom. Sir 
 Christopher Greenfield, kn^, was a lawyer in Preston temp. William and Mary. 
 
 * '■^ Lawrance Shottellwor'Ye" : A person, probably, of no position, but he may have 
 been remotely connected w'th one of several good families of Shuttleworths then seated 
 .- the Whalley district. 
 
 341
 
 (Page 1 80 of the 31 S., folio 126 verso.) 
 
 Penhuitonn Willm Sastaiiftall^ et vx ij yeardes di. linen iij wollen 
 
 vij^'h^f juilj Rychard Sellere^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 A" is69 Ales Sellere iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Marget iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Janne ij. yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Ales ij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Ellen ij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Mylls ij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Anthony wamsley* iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenet iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell wamsley ^ 
 
 ■r , ^ >- ix. yeardes wollen. 
 
 & Ellen wamsley ' 
 
 Isabell Marsten iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 John Lawe ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Lyonell woulton^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell woulton iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Ellen Carrie iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Thonis Shutlieworthe ij yeardes j q^^"^ wollen. 
 
 Thorns iitearnshed ^ 
 
 Johne & V v. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe J 
 
 Christofor Whippe ij yeardes j q*®"^ wollen. 
 
 henry walton ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 John Dugdall ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe Eaton , iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Bowker^ ij yeardes iij qt^"" wollen 
 
 John Ratclief iij 'yeardes iij q*rs wollen. 
 
 henry Rosse^ . iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell Rosse iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Thorns Bawdrone .. ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Margeret brockcsope^ ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Anne hunte iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Margery whitaker iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Dorvvin iij yeardes wollen, 
 
 Jaine Eaton iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 342
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (i8o) 
 
 ' " Penhultonn Tcnven" : The township of Pendleton near Clitheroe in Lancashire 
 derives its name from its situation on the westerly slope of Peiulle-hill, the chief 
 mountain of North-East Lancashire, 1,831 feet high. At Pendleton Hall a family of 
 Hoghtons, a branch of Hoghtons of Hoghton Tower, was seated from early in the 
 fifteenth century to the seventeenth. Pendleton is in two parts, designated respectively 
 Great and Little Pendleton. The names of recipients of gifts below are those of the 
 families of tenant farmers and cottagers domiciled in Pendleton in 1569. 
 
 * " Will in Sastanjlall et zx": The surname of Sastanstall is not found in the 
 district. It is cognate to that of Saltonstall, owned by a respectable family in the 
 West Riding of Yorkshire ; but there occurs an Edward Saltonstall, who, in the 9 Eliz, 
 (1567) disputed possession with tienry Banester and others of lands and tenements in 
 Great and Little Marsden in Ightenhill Manor and Colne Manor. ( Cal, to Pleadgs. 
 Due. Laiic.) 
 
 2 " Rychard Sellere," &c. : These Sellers would be of the same clan with the Sellers 
 of Whalley, previously noticed. 
 
 * " Anthony ivamsley" : "Wamsley" is an abbreviated vulgarised spelling of the 
 common Lancashire surname of Walmcsley or Walmsley. 
 
 * ' ' Lyonell wonlton " : Lyonell Woulton of Pendleton was assessed to the Easter 
 Roll of Whalley in 1552 and 1553. {Chcih. Miscell. vol. v.) 
 
 ^ " Johti Bozvker" : John Bowker of Pendleton appears on the Easter Roll of 
 Whalley in 1553. 
 
 ^ "henry Rosse" : Ross is not a local surname, and this is evidently miswritten for 
 Rossall ; for Hemy Rossall of Pendleton occurs on the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. 
 
 * ^' Margeret brockesope" : This surname is now generally spelt Broxup. 
 
 343
 
 (Page i8i of the MS., folio 129). 
 
 Rychard Parker ij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Ales wood iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Lawrance wood one yeard j q*^*^"" wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe higgen one yeard iij q*''^ wollen 
 
 Rycharde higgen one yeard wollen. 
 
 Robte one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 James ij yeardes iij q'l's wollen 
 
 Jeriete wolton iij yeardes wollen, 
 
 Margery Sedgreues^ ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Ales ij yeardes iij q^''^ wollen 
 
 Agnes waddington iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Ales Seller iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Lawrance Seller one yeard wollen 
 
 Ellen Turner ij yeardes linen 
 
 Robte fifearsheade iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Ales — iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Anne Whipe^ one yeard linen 
 
 Ellen one yeard linen 
 
 Rychard haymone ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Thorns Seller iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Lawrance Bouthamton^ iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Rychard Stones ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Patefild ij yeardes linen 
 
 Agnes houghtonn* ij yeardes iij q'''^ wollen 
 
 Rycharde forte et vx^ iij yeardes wollen ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 344
 
 JMotes and Itmstrations. 
 (i8i) 
 
 ' ' ' Ma7-gery Sedgreues " : Perhaps widow of William Sedgreve of Pendleton, who 
 appears on the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1552. 
 
 * ^^ Anne Whipe" : A Robert Whippe and an Oliver Whippe, both of Pendleton, 
 occur on the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1553. • 
 
 ' '^ Laivrajice Boiithamton" : I think this is a miscopied surname, which should be 
 Bouthman = Boothman, a modern surname found in the hilly country of Pendle Forest, 
 derived, one may suppose, from the occupation of some early progenitor appointed to 
 tend one of those upland farms in the forest called Booths or Vaccaries. 
 
 ^ ' ' Agnes houghtonn " : A poor connexion, may be, of the Hoghtons of Pendleton 
 Hall. 
 
 * " Hycharde forte ei vx " : It is not improbable that this Richard Forte of Pendleton 
 was ancestor of a local family of Forte, of the rank of yeomen or chapmen before the 
 latter part of last century, when a representative, Richard Fort, made a fortune by 
 calico-printing, and became the purchaser of Read Hall and Manor, which the Nowells 
 had been forced to alienate. The first of the Forts named in the short pedigree in the 
 new edition of Whitaker's Histoiy of Whalley is Richard Forte of Hard, father of 
 Richard the calico-printer. The son of the latter was John Fort, Esq., of Read Hall, 
 M.P. for Clitheroe, 1832-41, whose son, Richard Fort, Esq., also sat in Parliament 
 as member for Clitheroe, 1865-68. Of this family of Fortes was Henry Forte, master 
 of Whalley Grammar School in 1670. 
 
 345
 
 vij'" of Julij 
 A" 1569 
 
 (Page 182 of the MS., folio 129 verso.) 
 
 ^^^^'^T.^l^ Ellen Machi'n iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Lawrance Bouthe ij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell honv<=ii , iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Agnes Aspeden iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 John Bakere ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Adam Whitheade iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenet wibster ij yeardes linen 
 
 Sibill ffletchere ij yeardes iij q^^s wollen 
 
 Marie Tomsonn ij. yeardes iij q*" wollen 
 
 Elizabethe haye ij yeardes woll. j di. linen 
 
 Jenet Chaliner ij yeardes iij q^i's woll. 
 
 John heyes wieffe^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Leonard BertwesilP iij . yeardes. wollen 
 
 Jenet Bertwesill iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Edmunde ^ 
 
 Leonarde & >- iij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Ellen j 
 
 Elizabethe Stop forth & Jenete vj yeardes wollen 
 
 Brian Shuttelhvorthe^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell iij }'eardes wollen 
 
 James ij yeardes di. Avollen 
 
 Willm ij yeardes iij q*''^ wollen 
 
 Anne ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Joan & Jenete iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Vx' Alexander Ryley^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Jenete ij yeardes iij q^^s wollen 
 
 Rycharde, & henry Reyley iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Thorns Simson ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Ellen Symsonne iij yeardes wollen 
 
 James & Jenet Symsonn iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Esabell Robtes, Rycharde, Anne, ") 
 
 John, Ales, James and )-xij yeardes wollen 
 
 Milles Robtes^ J and ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 John wayde, Elizabethe wayd | iij yeardes wollen 
 
 and Rychard wade j & ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 James Smythe, Ellen Smythe \ viij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell, Georges, henry, Thoms j and ij yeardes linen 
 
 Ellen Stopfforde' ij yeardes linen 
 
 Marget Bertwisill ij yeardes linen 
 
 Marget holte ij yeardes linen 
 
 John hey ij yeardes linen 
 
 Margerie Reade ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 (Page 183 of the MS., folio 130.) 
 Raffe Readei, henry Reade, ) . , ,, 
 
 Ales, marie Reade ' j vj yeardes wollen 
 
 Ellen Durden2 ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Christofore hargreues ij yeardes linen 
 
 346
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 {182) 
 
 ' ^^haptonn ": Hapten township is situated to the west of Burnley and Towneley; its 
 pasture-lands extend northward from the base of a lofty nigged fell, called Hapton 
 Skouts. The manor of Ilapton lielonged to the Townelcys from an early time, and 
 contained an ancient park and a castle; the latter demolished about the sixteenth cen- 
 tury; the former extended by Sir John Towneley until the park of Hapton was said to 
 be the most extensive in Lancashire, excepting Knowsley. In the midst of the park Sir 
 John Towneley built a second residence, called Hapton Tower, and there he died in 
 1539. Tower and park alike have long been destroyed. Hapton was one of the 
 eight townships dependent upon Whalley Parish Church, and is the most distant from 
 that church. Here it is named last among the places under Whalley Parish. 
 
 2 "John Juyes ivieffe" \ John Hey of Hapton was assessed to the Easter Roll of 
 "Whalley in 1552. 
 
 ' '■' Leonard BertwesUV: Leonard Bertwistle, Jenet Bertwistle; their children, 
 Edmund, Leonard, and Ellen; and Margaret Bertwistle below, all may be taken as 
 related to the proprietary family of Birtwistle of Huncoat Hall, a short distance west 
 of Hapton. Edward Birtwistle, Oliver Birtwistle, and John Birtwistle, all of Hapton, 
 appear on the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1552. Richard Birtwistle of Huncoat Hall, 
 gent., who lived temp. Henry VIH., had among his younger children a son Leonard, 
 who might be the Leonard Bertwesill of the present entry. 
 
 * " Brian Shntidlworlhe": Shuttlevvorth Hall in Hapton was the original seat of 
 the Lancashire Shuttleworths; and this Brian Shuttleworth, living in that township in 
 1569, is pretty certain to have been a not very flourishing branch of the old stem. 
 
 * " Vx" Alexatider Ryley": He and the Jenet, Richard, and Hemy Ryley, who 
 follow, would be connected with the family of Riley of High Riley in Accrington, of 
 whom was Alexander Ryley of Accrington, gent. , living about the end of the sixteenth 
 century. 
 
 6 " Milles Eobtes" &LC.: "Robtes" is a contraction for Roberts. The surname of 
 Roberts is localised in the vicinity of Burnley. In Hapton, an Edward Robert and 
 an Edmund Robert (Roberts) were assessed to the Easter Roll of Whalley in 1552. 
 
 ^ '^ Ellen Stopfforde": This surname is spelt Stopforth in a previous entry on this 
 page. On the Easter Roll of Whalley (1552) occurs "Thomas Stopper" of Hapton. 
 
 (183) 
 
 ' "■Raffe Reade," &c. : The surname of these Reades is derived from the name of the 
 township of Read near Whalley. 
 
 ^ "Ellen Burden ".• The name is now spelt Duerden, and is common about Burnley. 
 
 347
 
 (Page 184 of the MS., folio 130 verso.) 
 
 BronnieyMhe -^-^ Johanncs Parker iij yeardes wollen 
 
 A" 1569 '^ vx^ Rychard fwingliehurste iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Isabell Smythe iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John Towen ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 at vx iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 henry hindlie ij. yeardes linen 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John Robynsonn ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 et vx ij yeardes linen 
 
 Marget one yeard j q*^*^"^ linen 
 
 Willm higgen ij yeardes linen 
 
 John higgin iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Rogere ij yeardes linen 
 
 henry ij yeardes linen 
 
 vx^ Nicholes Greenshawe^ ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Elen close ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Robte Lee ij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 John Lee ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Rychard one yeard di. linen 
 
 Robte one yeard di, linen 
 
 vx Willm Whitaker^ iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Alexander Bolton ij. yeardes linen 
 
 Marget ij. yeardes di. linen 
 
 Margerie iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Vx Thorns Towenley iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Vx Edmunde Robtes iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Thorns Robtes ij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Margete ij yeardes linen 
 
 Alexander Willsonne 
 
 et vx ij, yeardes linen 
 
 Jenet Willsonn ij. yeardes di. linen 
 
 Isabell Willsonn ij yeardes linen 
 
 Marget Willsonne ij yeardes. hnen 
 
 Marie one yearde di. wollen 
 
 John Willsonn one yearde di. wollen 
 
 Ales Willsonn one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Symone Tayler iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Vx Alam whitaker iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 J enet Whitaker ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Christofor Bridge ij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx ij. yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Ales Bridge one yearde wollen 
 
 Vx'^ Johannes Whitwhain ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Anne Whitwham one yearde di. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Whitwham one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 148
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (184) 
 
 > " Bromihy": The name of Burnley was anciently Eronley or Bninley, meaning the 
 low fields by the Brim, which is the name of a mountain stream that here discharges 
 into the Lancashire Calder. The modern large manufacturing town and borough of 
 Burnley occupies the ground of two townships, Burnley and Habergham Eaves. The 
 two lists in our MS. of recipients of gifts of cloth at the hands of the trustees of 
 Robert Nowell's charity, within the two towmships of Burnley and Habergham Eaves, 
 contain about 700 names. Very young children were not, as a rule, included in the 
 distribution, I conjecture. A few families of local gentry would not deign to seek 
 the benefit of the bounty. With these exceptions, the lists before us may be supposed 
 to represent nearly the whole of the households of residents in Burnley and Habergham 
 Eaves 300 years ago. The nomenclature is that of the present native population of 
 Burnley. The commonest Burnley surnames, then as now, were those of Parker, 
 Hiudle, Robinson, Whitaker, Towneley, Roberts, Wilson, Taylor, Whitham, White- 
 head, Smith, Barcroft, Hargreaves, Foulds, Spenser, Hartley, Pollard, Jackson, 
 Bannister, Holgate, Clayton, Ingham, Sagar, Tattersall, Halsted, Boothman, Mutter, 
 Stansfield, Holden, Robertshaw, Riley, Bridge, Fletcher, Cronshaw, Wood, Haydock, 
 Midgley, Aspden, Heap, Greenwood, Eastwood, Leigh, Ormerod, Barnes, Sutclifie, 
 &c. 
 
 2 " Vx^ Nicholes Greenshawe" : "Greenshawe" is probably miswritten for Grimshaw. 
 
 ^ '' Vx Williii. Whitaker^': The Whitakers were one of the most numerous clans 
 about Burnley at this period. Some scores of them are named in this and the 
 succeeding lists under Habergham, Cliviger, &c. To distinguish most of them is 
 impossible. 
 
 .-^49
 
 (Page 1 85 of the MS., folio 131.) 
 
 Allisonn Kante^ iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Jane Kante ij. yeardes di. linen 
 
 vx Mills Robtes ij. yeardes di. linen 
 
 Robte whitheade ij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Agnes Parker iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Sarra Towenley iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 vx Johnes Smythe ij. yeardes di. linen 
 
 homfrey Smythe ij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Anne Smythe ij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Marget one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Isabell Brighte iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 James Whitaker ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 vx henry wood iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 John woode ij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 John Avillsonn iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 et vx iij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Rychard Willsonn ij yeardes linen. 
 
 & iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Marget Willson ij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Ellen ij. yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Anne Willsonn one yeard wollen. 
 
 Jenet Willsonn one yeard wollen. 
 
 John Robartshawe^ iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 henry fhawe ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Margerie fliawe ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Edmunde ij yeardes iij q'^^'s linen. 
 
 Edwarde fliawe ij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Robte Barcrofte^ ij. yeardes iij q'^''^ wollen 
 
 John Barcrofte one yearde di. wollen 
 
 James Smythe one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Ales Towenleye ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 hughe Johnsonne iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Georges Johnsonn one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Edwarde Johnsonne one yeard wollen. 
 
 vx Georges hargreuies iij . yeardes wollen. 
 
 vx Georges hargreuies sen ** ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John hargreves one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Marget hargreves ij yeardes j q*®"' linen. 
 
 Isabell , ij yeardes linen. 
 
 vx Willm Whitakere ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Abrayham Colthourpe^ ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Jenet ffouldes ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 vx Robte Whitaker^ iij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 henry whitakere ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thoms whitakere ij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Isabell whitaker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 350
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (185) 
 
 ' " Allison Kante" : A peculiar name, and not at all a familiar one in Lancashire. 
 It is perliaps mis-spelt. 
 
 * '^yo/in Robartshauie" : Some Robertshaws of Burnley, Marsden, and Great Har- 
 wood occur later as chapmen and lesser gentry. 
 
 3 " Robte Barcrofte," Si.c.: The local Barcrofts spmng from a stock of gentry, seated 
 at Barcroft Hall in Cliviger, about two miles east from the town of Burnley. 
 
 ^ '' Ux George Hargreues, sen."": The family of Hargreaves is indigenous to Pendle 
 Forest and the neigliloourhood of Burnley, and in recent times has furnished several 
 branches of respectable landed gentry and affluent merchants, such as, Hargreaves 
 of Bank Hall, Burnley ; Hargreaves of Broad Oak, Accrington, and Whalley Abbey; 
 and Hargreaves of Haslingden. 
 
 * ^'Abrayhame Colihourpe" : The name should be Abraham Colthorp or Calthorpe. 
 
 ^ " Vx Robte IVhitaker": See note under Habergham Eaves list, post, on the branch 
 of Whitaker of Healey, to which the Robert Whitaker of Burnley, whose family is 
 here named, was, I think, related. 
 
 351
 
 (Page 1 86 of the MS., folio 131 verso.) 
 
 Margete Ryley ij. yeardes iij q'"^ wollen 
 
 Vx^ Ric. Baron^ iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Alysonn Baron one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Margerie Baron one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Peter Barron one yeard j q*®^ wollen. 
 
 John Spincke ij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 vx Johannes Michell iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell Dlchouse''^ iij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Ellen Bentham ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Anne Lacie one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Roger Aspeden ij. yeardes. linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Aspeden ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Margerie Aspeden ij yeardes wollen 
 
 James Dichouse 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Georges Dicouse ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 James Dicouse ij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Ales Dicouse one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Janne Walker ij. yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Jenet Denbey iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Mills Smythe 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Robte Smythe one yeard iij q*^" wollen. 
 
 James Smythe one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe Smythe. ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell .. one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Rychard Smithe.. ij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Edmunde Spenser^ iij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Ellen marten one yeard di. linen. 
 
 James hargreues ij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Ellen Butterfild ij. yeardes di linen. 
 
 Jenet fclatere ij. yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Grace Johnsonne iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 vx Robte Jackesonn iij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Robte Jackesonn iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Willm Jackesone ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rye Jacksonne one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Christofor Jackesonne* one yeard. wollen 
 
 vx Robte horwicke iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Charles Bridge one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 vx Rychard Thymblie-^ iij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 margerie Themblie ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 352
 
 " Notes and Illustrations. 
 (i86) 
 
 ^ "Vx Ric. Baron ": Baron, as I have before mentioned, though a singular surname 
 in England generally, is a rather remarkably common one in the Blackburn and 
 Bumley districts of Lancashire. 
 
 - " yames Dickoiise" : I have never seen the surname of Dichouse in any record 
 of this part of Lancashire excepting in this instance, and I suspect it should be some- 
 thing else here. 
 
 3 '■'■ Edmunde Spenser": This is one of two or three persons, dwelling in the district 
 of Burnley, who are named in the MS., bearing the same name as the illustrious author 
 of the Faerie Qiieene ; being also contemporary with the poet Edmund Spenser. 
 There can now be no reasonable doubt that the poet was related to the Sjjenscrs of 
 this part of East Lancashire. (See Index of Names, s.n., for references to other 
 Spensers of the MS. ) 
 
 * " Christofor yackesonne " : See ante, p. 281, for note on a Christopher Jackson, who 
 appears among the chapmen of whom Dean Nowell purchased cloth. 
 
 * '■''Vx Rye hard Tkyinblie": This surname, now not met with hereabouts, is spelt 
 by our Scribe three various ways, i.e., "Thymblie," "Themblie," and "Thimblie." 
 
 A A 3S3
 
 (Page 187 of the MS., folio 132.) 
 
 Marget Themblie ij yeardes linen 
 
 Thorns Thimblie ij yeardes linen 
 
 Isabell Thimblie ij yeardes. linen 
 
 Robte hayrope^ one yeard woUen 
 
 John fifletcher^ ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Edward ffletcher ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell ffletcher ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Isabell Stansfilde one yeard j q^^r wollen 
 
 Jenet one yeard j q*'^'" wollen 
 
 Willm Rydinge ij. yeardes wollen 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Mills Rydinge ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Jenet Rydinge ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Willm Rydinge one yeard j q*^*" wollen. 
 
 vx Johannes harteley^ ij. yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Isabell hartleye ij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 John hartleye ij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Nicholes harteleye ij yeardes j q'«' wollen 
 
 Marget harteleye one yeard wollen. 
 
 Rychard Brockesope ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Jenet Brocksope ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ellen hartleye one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 vx James Smithe ij. yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Rychard willsonne ij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell willsonne ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Robte Jackesonne ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 vx Johannes hargreues'^ ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Elizabethe one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Ellyno'^ hargreues one yeard wollen. 
 
 Marget Pollarde ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Jenet Pollerde 
 
 Jenet Browene ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ales higgens , ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell Smithe ij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Jenet Callye ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Thomes Smithe ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Marget Aspden iij. yeardes. wollen. 
 
 vx John Jackesonne iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 James Jacksonne iij yeardes linen. 
 
 Geffrey Jackesonn ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Marget Jackson one yeard di. linen. 
 
 John Jackesonne one yeard wollen 
 
 354
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (187) 
 
 ' " Robte hayrope'" : This surname is correctly Harrop, derived from a place of that 
 name in Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. 
 
 ' " John ffletcher'' : The surname of Fletcher is more frequent in Cheshire than in 
 Lancashire; but a family of tenant farmers or yeomen of this name has been represented 
 in Burnley and Ightenhill Manor for many generations, of which these Fletchers of 
 Burnley, named in the AIS., would be members, living in 1569. In the last century, 
 John Fletcher of Ightenhill Park, who died in 1792, was father of another John 
 Fletcher, born in 1760, who was a worsted manufacturer in Burnley. 
 
 ' " zx yohannes harteley": Hartley is at the present time one of the commonest and 
 most localised surnames in Burnley and townships adjacent. The John Harteley and 
 Isabell Harteley here named in the text may have been the persons mentioned in a 
 record of a suit in the Chancery Court of Lancaster in the 6 Elizabeth (1564), in which 
 "John Hartley, in right of Isabell his wife, daughter of Edward Emmet, who had 
 held the lands in fee, was against John Robinson and others, the dispute being con- 
 cerning a messuage called the Fence, with lands, in Pendle Chace and Ightenhill 
 Manor." {Cal. to Pleadgs.) 
 
 * "vx Johannes Hargreiies" : I have before noted that the name of Hargreaves 
 (anciently Hartgrroes) is indigenous in Pendle Forest and the district skirting the 
 old bounds of the Forest. 
 
 2 A A 355
 
 (Page 1 88 of the MS., folio 132 verso.) 
 
 John Whitaker^ ij. yeardes linen 
 
 vx Rycharde Banistere iij yeardes wollen 
 
 EHzalDethe Banister ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Jenet Banister ij yeardes linen 
 
 Isabell Banistere one yearde di. linen. 
 
 Ellen Banister one yearde di. linen. 
 
 Lawrance one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Margerie one yeard wollen. 
 
 Jenet Drap iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Reynolde whitaker iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John ffletcher^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Geffrey ffletcher ij yeardes linen. 
 
 henrie, Anne and Lawrance iiij yeardes wollen 
 
 Lawrance yeate fcolmaister^ 
 
 Willm Dicksonn Curate* 
 
 James Smithlearke^ ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell ij yeardes linen. 
 
 John one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Margerie ij. yeardes. linen. 
 
 Anne ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Lawrance holgate^ ij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 George holgate ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Ales holgate ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Elizabeth holgate i j yeardes q*"^ linen 
 
 Isabell holgate ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Willm Claiton ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Willm clayton, Elizabethe ) •■•• , ,1 
 
 i-o ijAi i. c ii'J yeardes wollen. 
 
 and Rychard Claytone j ^ •' 
 
 Vx Rychard Claiton iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Marget Claiton ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Elizabethe habargham^ iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Ingham^ ij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John Ingham ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Jenet Ingham ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Willm Ingham one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe Ingham one yeard j q'^r wollen. 
 
 Robte Ingham one yeard j q*"' wollen. 
 
 Rychard Whitaker ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell Spensere^ iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 356
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (i88) 
 
 ' '■^John IVhitaker" : See Index of Names, s.n., for references to the numerous 
 families of Whitakers mentioned in the AIS. 
 
 ^ ^' yohn fflelcher": See note on preceding page respecting the Fletchers. 
 
 ' " Lawrance yeate, /col/naister^^'. The Free Grammar School of Burnley existed 
 temp. Ed\A'ard VI. ; and William Whitaker, afterwards famous as Dr. William Whitaker, 
 the Elizabethan scholar and Protestant writer, had the nidiments of his education at 
 this school, under one Mr. Hargreves, the then master. But our MS. here gives the 
 name of a master of Burnley School not found in the list of masters made out by the 
 late Mr. T. T. Wilkinson, F. R.A. S., and printed in the new edition of the //w/fry of 
 Whalley. Mr. "Lawrance Yeate, scolmaister" of Burnley, in 1569, may subsequently 
 have been master at Blackburn Grammar School, and if so, he would be the Mr. Yates 
 mentioned in the biography of Rev. Robert Bolton, the Puritan author and divine, as 
 the singular good master there and tutor of Bolton between 1580 and 1590. 
 
 * " IVillm Dicksonn Citrate": The MS. here, too, adds a lost name to the category 
 of the succession of Ministers of Burnley Church since the Reformation. Mr. William 
 Dickson, curate in 1569, must be inserted between " Sir" John Aspdene, who died in 
 1567, and "Sir" William Duxbury, who died in 1583. 
 
 * '' jfames r'nitklearke" : This is plainly a miswriting for James Smith, clerk. He 
 would be the parish clerk of Burnley, and so is named along with the schoolmaster 
 and curate. 
 
 ^ ^' Lazvrance kolgate" : The surname of Holgate, a contraction, perhaps, of Holt- 
 gate, or of Hall-gate, is often found in the annals of Burnley, down to the present time. 
 
 ^ ^^ Elizabethe habargham ": This female recipient may have been a connexion of the 
 proprietary family of Habergham of Habergham Hall in Habergham Eaves, then 
 represented by Lawrance Habergham, gent., who was connected by his second 
 marriage with the Towneleys. A Robert Habergham of Burnley, and Elizabeth his 
 wife, also occur some years before the date of this MS., and our Elizabeth Habergham, 
 living in 1569, might be widow of Robert. 
 
 * ^^yohii Ingham eiiLx": The principal family of Ingham in Burnley occupied an 
 old house at Fulledge, at the entrance to Towneley Park, in the wall of which is a 
 stone inscribed with the initials " R Y E " (perhaps for Robert and Elizabeth Yngham 
 or Ingham), and the date " 1576." It will be observed that among the Inghams on 
 this page of the text occur an Elizabeth and a Robert Ingham. 
 
 ^ '■' Isabell Spensere" : The mother of Edmund Spenser the poet was named Eliza- 
 beth or Isabell ; and here we have an Isabell Spenser (probably then a widow, as no 
 husband is named) living in Burnley in 1569. (See the remark on this entry of Mr. 
 Knowles, cited in our Introduction, p. xxi. ) Agnes Spenser, whose name is first on 
 the next page, probably was a daughter of Isabell Spenser. 
 
 357
 
 (Page 189 of the MS., folio 133.) 
 
 Agnes Spensore iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 vx Willm Sager, James Sagere^ ... iiij yeardes. iij q'^^ wollen. 
 
 Edward fouldes^ ij. yeardes. linen. 
 
 Agnes ffouldes iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Willm Isope^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell Isope iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rychard Isope one yeard iij q*" wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe Isope ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Willm holgate iij yeardes. Avollen. 
 
 Ales vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Ales holgate ij yeardes linen 
 
 Jane holgate ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Willm holgate , one yeard iij q*" wollen 
 
 Thoms Sager one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Robte Sagere Ales Sagere iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Anne Blackey* ij yeardes linen. 
 
 vx Edwarde Clayton iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell Barone ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell ffilden ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John Parker ij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Margeret hargreues ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Ellen & John hargreues iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Ales Tattershall ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Jenet Boucocke ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ales michell ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Jenet hartley ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ellen Bouthman^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Marget hey ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ellen Stockes one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Jenet Cotton ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Margeret holgate iij yeardes w'ollen. 
 
 Ales Claiton .. ij yeardes linen. 
 
 henry whitaker ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John & Anne watemoughe iiij yeardes di. w'ollen. 
 
 Jenet Smithe ij yeardes iij q*" wollen 
 
 Marget Pollarde ij yeardes linen 
 
 John Pollarde ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 James Clearke iij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 vx Willm Launde ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Whitham ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ellen Towen ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Grace Tayler one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Willm halsted^ ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 35S
 
 Notes and Illustr'atio7is. 
 (189) 
 
 * ^^vx IVillin Sager, James Sagere": Below, on this page of the text, are named 
 also Thomas Sager, Robert Sager, and Alice Sager. The Sagers of Lancashire all 
 spring from the district about Burnley. William Sagar, gent. , of Catlow near Burnley, 
 occurs in 1590. 
 
 2 '■' Edward fmildes''^ X The local clan of Foulds had at this date and still has its most 
 respectable representative in the family of Foulds of Danes House, a gabled structure, 
 built perhaps about the latter part of the sixteenth century. " WQliam Foldes de 
 Dancer House, gent.," is found on a list of free tenants dated 1584, 
 
 3 " Wilhn Isope": Rather a strange surname, which is not met with locally now. 
 
 * " Aline Blackey": This surname should be Blakey, perhaps. A very old family 
 of inferior gentry or copyholders was that of Blakey of Blakey Hey (now spelled and 
 pronounced Blackho) near Colne, near the road from Colne to Gisbum in Craven. 
 
 * "■Ellen Boiiihman": See Index of Names, s.n., for a previous note on the 
 probable origin of the name of Boothman. 
 
 6 «' Willm halsied''-. The Halsteds of High Halsted, and of Rowley, near Burnley, 
 a stock of lesser gentry, had no lack of humbler kinsfolk in the neighbourhood. 
 
 359
 
 (Page 190 of the MS., folio 133 verso.) 
 
 Allisonn finne iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Jenete Nuttere iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Anne wood ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Marget Boulton ij yeardes j q^'^'' linen. 
 
 John Nutter & Robte Nutteri v yeardes di. wollen, 
 
 Grace Insley one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Ales watton ij. yeardes di, linen. 
 
 Sibell Lande ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Rychard hallidaye ij. yeardes. linen. 
 
 Margete Parkere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Janne Towenley ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Anne Blackaye ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Grace ftansfilde iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Edmund Taylere iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John whitaker ij yeardes iij q^^s wollen 
 
 Rychard Leighe ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Thorns ffletchere^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Alise Dobsonne ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Marget higgen ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Willm fHetchere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Towenley howsolde^ 
 
 Thorns watmoughe ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Willm Lawe* ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Browenbirkes^ ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rychard heape ij yeardes wollen 
 
 John Lee iij yeardes j q*®' wollen 
 
 James Claiton ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Claiton ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 James Rob'tes ij. yeardes. wollen 
 
 Peter iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rychard Jacksonne iij yeardes. woollen. 
 
 Willm Willsonne iij yeardes Avollen. 
 
 Robte Inghame^ ij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 John Thornbere iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Thoms Stansfilde ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Willm Lawe ij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 henry Leighe ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 henry Bouthe ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 John Ballarde ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Whitaker^ iiij yeardes wollen, 
 
 Margeret Whitakere iij yeardes j qt^r wollen. 
 
 To m's Towenleys Nurse at the ) ij yeardes di. of London 
 sute of my Ladye Towenleye^ j brode clothe. 
 
 Jenete holte iij yeardes j q'" wollen. 
 
 Janne Eastewoode iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Marget pereson iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 360
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (190) 
 
 * '^John N'litter &' Robte A'lilter": I liave before referred to the local Nutters as an 
 old stock of copyholding tenants in Pendle Forest. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 2 " 7'ho»isffletc/iere": See three pages atiU for note on the Fletchers of Burnley. 
 I find a Thomas Fletcher among tlie tenants of Lawrance Habergham and Richard 
 Tattersall, gents., in Burnley and Ightenhill Manor, in 1566. 
 
 * " Towenley howsolde": Here are the names of thirty-eight domestic servants or 
 resident dependants of the Towneleys of Towneley Hall, who each received gifts of 
 cloth. It is noteworthy that thirty of them were men-servants, and only eight females. 
 
 ■* " Wilbn Lazue": Perhaps of the Lawes of Whalley and Wiswell. (Index of 
 Names, s.it.) On the last page of the J\IS. occurs a William Lawe, a poor sick man, 
 to whom Dean Nowell sent money by the hands of his wife, in 1573. 
 
 * "John Broivcnbirkes ": Brownbirk is now a rare surname in this part of England. 
 ' ^'' Robte Ingham": One of the Inghams of Fulledge by Towneley Park, before 
 
 noted, two pages ante. 
 
 7 '■' Elizabeflie Whitaker, Alargeret IVhitakere"" : Two of the eight maid-servants or 
 attendants at Towneley Hall were of the Whitaker family, not improbably daughters 
 of one of the members of the Holme or Flealey WHritakers. 
 
 ^ " mrs. Tozuenleys N'lirse at the stite of nty Ladye Towenleye" : The nurse, at the 
 suit of her mistress, had a more handsome gift than the others, namely, 2^ yards of 
 London broad cloth, an expensive fabric which would be much desired by a Lanca- 
 shire nurse of the period. "My Lady Towenley "was the wife of John Towneley, 
 Esq., Dean Nowell's co-trustee, and being the daughter and sole heir of Sir Richard 
 Towneley, Knt. , she was the actual lady of Towneley in her own right, and her cousin 
 and husband John Towneley was only in possessiony//;Y iixoris. Mistress Towneley gave 
 birth to her third son, Charles, in November of the year of this entry (1569), 
 
 36.
 
 (Page 191 of the MS., folio 134.) 
 
 Anne Denbie iij yeardes. wollen 
 
 Anne Lawe iij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 John Parker^ ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thorns holden ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John houghtone^ ij yeardes. wollen 
 
 John Yatt ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Lawrance Towenleye^ ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thorns Jacksonne , ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thorns Smithe ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Towenleye ij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Willm huntington iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Willm Lawe iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 henry Bell ij yeardes wollen, 
 
 Ry chard Towenley ij yeardes wollen 
 
 362
 
 Notes and Ilhish'ations. 
 (19O 
 
 * ^^yolin Parker": The Town el eys had tenants of the name of Parker, and this 
 recipient might be a son of one of them. 
 
 * '■^John houghtoiie" : I imagine John Hougliton was one of the confidential personal 
 servants of Johh Towneley, Esq., and that it was the same John Houghton who is 
 named frequently in the MS. in company with Dean Nowell's men, James Wolton, 
 Alexander Bradshaw, George Sellers, &c., as witnessing payments of bequests and 
 donations, and occasionally as himself disbursing money on account of Robert 
 Nowell's trust. 
 
 3 " Laivi-ance Tmvenleye" : Three of the male attendants at Towneley Hall bore the 
 name of the lords of Towneley, viz., this Lawrance Towneley, and John Towneley, 
 and Richard Towneley, infra. Each of the trio is likely to have been related to the 
 Master or Mistress of Towneley ; the Christian names of John and Richard are among 
 the favourites in the chief lineage of the Towneleys, and that of Lawrence is frequent 
 in the branch of Towneleys of Barnside, to which I think it likely the Lawrence 
 Towneley of this entry belonged. 
 
 363
 
 (Page 192 of the MS., folio 134 verso.) 
 habergham Eues Ightnell Parke, and fillye close* 
 
 Vxor Johannes Ingham iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John Ingham et vxore^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Thoms Ingham ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Robte Ingham one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Ingham one yeard di. linen 
 
 Isabell Ingham one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Anne Inghame one yeard wollen. 
 
 Georges halsted et vxor^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ales halsted , one yeard j q^'" wollen 
 
 vxor James Pollarde ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Grace Pollarde one yeard di. linen 
 
 Marie Pollarde one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Thoms Tattershall* ij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx , ij yeardes j q*®'' linen. 
 
 Barthelmew tattershall ij yeardes linen. 
 
 John Tattershall one yeard di. linen. 
 
 henry foulde^ ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 James foulde one yeard j q^^"" linen. 
 
 Thoms ffoulde one yeard wollen. 
 
 henry Bancrofte ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 John Bancrofte ij yeardes linen. 
 
 henry Bancrofte y® yongere ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Isabell Robertshaye ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Willm Bouthe ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Grace Bouthe ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Isabell hallidaye ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Janne Stansfilcle 
 
 vx Alexander Ryley^ ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Lawrance Ryley one yeard di. linen. 
 
 John Ryley one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Robte Ryley one yeard j q*®'' wollen 
 
 Rychard Ryley one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Agnes Ryley ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Rychard Bridges ... ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 et vx , iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Agnes Bridges one yeard di. linen 
 
 Ales Bridges one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Ellen Bridges one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Isabell hartley e ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Willm Smithe ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Leonard hargreues ; ij yeardes linen. 
 
 James Bouthmane ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 .364
 
 Notes and Ilkistrations. 
 (192) 
 
 * ^' Habargham Eves, Ightiicll Parke, and Jillye close": The modem spelling of the 
 names of these places is, Habergham Eaves, Ightenhill Park, and Filley Close. 
 Habergham Eaves is next township to Burnley on the west, and now includes half the 
 borough of Burnley. Ightenhill Park lies immediately to the north of Habergham 
 Eaves. The park was an ancient Royal demesne; but in 1569 the estate belonged to 
 the Towneleys of Towneley. ' It is now the property of the Shuttleworths of Gaw- 
 thorpe Hall, whose mansion is on the north-westerly verge of Ightenhill Park. On 
 the summit of Ightenhill the foundations of the King's manor-house of olden time may 
 still be traced. Filley Close, an ancient vaccary in Pendle Forest, adjoins Ightenhill 
 Park on the north, separated by the river Calder. 
 
 2 " John Iiig/mm ei vxo)-e," and oiher lng\\a.n-\s infra. See previous note (p. 357) 
 on the Ingham family of Fulledge, &c. 
 
 ' " George hahtcd et vxor^'' : One of numerous Halsteds in this vicinity, who derived 
 their strictly localised surname from the old estate of High Halsted on the Moors near 
 Worsthorne, a mile or so east of Burnley. 
 
 * " Thoiiis Tailershall," &c. : This, too, is a surname indigenous to Burnley and the 
 district around. The most important of the Tattersalls were those of Ridge, near 
 Burnley. Richard Tattersall, gent., who died before 1529, was found to have been 
 seized at death of a freehold estate, consisting of messuages, lands, and woodlands in 
 Briercliff and Burnley. 
 
 * " henry foulde," &c. : See three pages ante, Note 2, for a prior reference to the 
 Foulds family. 
 
 ' "vx Alexander Ryley^^: See Index of Names, s.n., for other entries of this name. 
 
 36s
 
 (Page 193 of the AIS., folio 135.) 
 
 Jenet Bouthmane' one yeard di. linen 
 
 Ales Bouthmane one yeard j q*®'" woll. 
 
 Ellen Bouthmane one yearde wollen 
 
 Isabell fletchere ... ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Marget ffletcher ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Nicholes one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Agnes Bridge ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Jenet Bridge ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Elizabethe willson ij yeardes iij q'^''^ wollen 
 
 vx John halstede iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe halsted one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Jenet Ingham ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John Aspdene'^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ales Crowder iij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 vx Rychard Bannester ij yeardes j q*" linen. 
 
 Rychard Banistere one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Robte Boody^ ij year-des linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Lawrance Boodie ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Ellen Boodie ij yeardes linen. 
 
 John hodgsonne iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. ' 
 
 Elizabeth hodgsonne one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Jenet hodgsonne one yeard j q*'' linen. 
 
 Rychard Cronshaye ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Lawrance Smythe et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 et vx Rychard Bawdwene ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John Bawden one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Margaret Bawdwene one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Willm ffletcher iij yeardes j q'Mvollen. 
 
 Thorns fcale ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Austene ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Margeret Ingham ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell Willsonn ij yeardes j q*^"" wollen. 
 
 vx Lawrance Smithe ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Thoms Smithe one yearde di. linen. 
 
 Anne Smithe one yeard di. linen. 
 
 henry one yeard di. linen. 
 
 vx Thoms Grundie ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Thoms ffletchere* iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John wrighte ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Bannister ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Kente ij yeardes iij q*'"^ wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe myllere ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 366
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 ( 193 ) 
 
 ' " yenet Bouthmane," &c. : See ante, p. 345, for a note on the local surname and 
 tribe of Boothman. 
 
 ' "-John Aspdene": Not unlikely he was a kinsman of "Sir" John Aspdene, 
 who was curate of Burnley in the first years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and had died 
 in 1567, two years before the date of this entry. 
 
 3 " Robie Boody": Not a common local or Lancashire surname. 
 
 * " Thorns ffletchere'" : See the note three pages ante, on another Thomas Fletcher 
 of Burnley. On this page, supra, occur a William Fletcher, and several other reci- 
 pients of the same name. 
 
 367
 
 (Page 194 of the MS., folio 135 verso.) 
 
 vx Robte Spensere^ iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Edmund Spencere one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Phillipe fpencere one yeard j q^^'^ wollen 
 
 Ales fpencere one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Robte fpencere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Agnes Cowp ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx Willm Ravin ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Lawrance Parkere^ ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes v/ollen. 
 
 Robte parkere one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Margeret one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Ellen one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Jenet parker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Anne parkere one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Janne parker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 vx willm ffletchere iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 m^geret parkere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ales ffletchere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Vx hughe hargreues ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John Morley ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Isabell Cronshaye one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 vx Anthony Whitakere ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Isabell Nowell ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx James Greens ij. yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Edmunde leighe iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Lawrance Smithe ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Willm Smithe ij yeardes linen 
 
 Georges Smithe one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Nicholes Smithe one yeard di. linen, 
 
 Jenet Smithe one yeard di. linen 
 
 Anne one yeard j q*^^"^ wollen 
 
 James Rothwell ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Janne Rothwell one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Anne Rothwell one yeard j q*®"^ wollen. 
 
 John Ellott iij yeard iij q*^i" wollen. 
 
 Thoms haughtone ij yeardes. linen. 
 
 Marget Rypon ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Thoms houghtone one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Jenet haregreues one yeard linen. 
 
 vx Rychard ffouldes^ ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 marget fouldes one yarde di. linen, 
 
 James ffouldes one yeard j q'^'' linen. 
 
 368
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 ( 194) 
 
 ' "vx Robte Spensere, Edmuud Spencere," &c. : There are here five persons named 
 Spenser mentioned together, viz., the wife of Robert Spenser, whose husband probably 
 was then dead, and Edmund Spenser, PhiHp Spenser, Robert Spenser, and Alice Spen- 
 ser, who were, I dare say, the widow's sons and daughter. It is a conjecture that may 
 be indulged with some reason that these were relatives of the poet Spenser. (See 
 the remarks of Mr. R. B. Knowles on this MS. cited in our Introduction. ) Robert 
 Spenser, deceased in 1569, may have been a brother of the father of Edmund Spenser 
 the Poet ; and this Edmund Spenser here named his son, a first cousin (as he was 
 namesake) of the author of the Fae>-ie Qiicene. In generation after generation of these 
 Burnley Spensers, Edmund was a favourite Christian name. Lawrence, Robert, and 
 John were other frequently worn names among these Spensers. Three pages onward 
 in this same list of recipients appears a Jenet Spensere ; and for others see six pages 
 ante, and relative note. 
 
 2 ^' Laturance Parke>-e" &c. : He was a tenant, perhaps, of Ightenhill Park, 
 of which his ancestors had been, in the Plantagenet time, park-keepers or 
 parkers, hence the surname. The Parkers of Extwistle and Cuerden (now represented 
 by R. Towneley Parker, Esq., and his son Rev. Canon Parker, Vicar of Burnley 
 Church) descend from the ancient Parkers of Ightenhill. 
 
 ^ '^vx Rychard ffoiildes''^ : See ante, p. 359, for note on the local family of Foulds. 
 
 B B 369
 
 (Page 195 of the MS., folio 136). 
 
 John woode ij yeardes Hnen 
 
 EHzabethe woode ij yeardes Hnen 
 
 Edwarde wood one yearde di. hnen 
 
 Isabel! woode one yeard j q*^'' linen 
 
 James woode one yeard j q*^" linen 
 
 Rycharde Towenley^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Towenleye ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Marie Towenley j yeard di. linen. 
 
 Janne Towenley one yearde j q^^r linen 
 
 Elizabethe Bradshaye^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Agnes Bradshaye one yeard di. wollen 
 
 John Bradshaye ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx Robte whitaker^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Littes Whitaker ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Janne Whitaker one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Georges Whitaker ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx James houghtone ij yeardes linen. 
 
 vx Peter whitaker ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Rycharde Whitaker one yeard j q^^'' linen. 
 
 Christibell Ingham ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Ales Bouthe ij yeardes linen 
 
 John leighe ij yeardes linen 
 
 vx Edward haddocke'* ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Anne haddocke one yeard linen 
 
 Rychard haddocke one yeard linen. 
 
 vx John Tayller ij yeardes di. linen, 
 
 Rychard Tayllere ij yeard linen. 
 
 Georges Tayllere one yeard iij q^''^ linen. 
 
 Lawrance Tayller one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Isabell Tayllere one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 marget Tayllere ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John Tayller ij yearde linen. 
 
 vx Thorns ffletcher^ iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 vx Lawrance ffletcher ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John fletchere one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Anne fletchere one yearde wollen. 
 
 Agnes forstere ij yeardes di linen 
 
 Isabell Bouthe ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 John harcrere^ Isabell harg-er ") .... , ... .„ ,, 
 
 j-DUJi, c iiiJ yeardes nj q" wollen 
 
 and Rycharde nargere j ^ ■^ ■' ^ 
 
 Ellen hargere one yearde j c^^^ wollen 
 
 Willm hargere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell hargere iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Jenet hargere ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Christofor Cockshaye ij yeardes linen. 
 
 .370
 
 Notes and Ilkistrations. 
 ( 195 ) 
 
 ' " Rycharde Tmvenley,^^ Sec: A family of Tovvneleys in a comparatively humble 
 position, doubtless, and probably tenants on one of the estates of /he Towneleys of 
 Towneley Hall, either in Habergham Eaves or Ightenhill Park. 
 
 ' " Elizabetke Bradshaye" : This is the familiar Lancashire surname now spelled 
 Bradshaw. 
 
 ' "vx Robte 'ivhitaker" &c. : The Whitakers of Healey Hall in Habergham Eaves 
 were of the gi^ade of lesser gentry at this period, and of the same stock as the Whita- 
 kers of Holme. These recipients of that name living in the same township, viz., the 
 wife of Robert Whitaker, and Lettice, Jane, and George Whitaker, also, infra, the 
 wife of Peter Whitaker, and Richard Whitaker, may be supposed to have been of the 
 same original stock. On the next page are named the members of two other families 
 of Whitaker. 
 
 ^ '^vx Edward kaddocke": This surname, common in Lancashire, is now usually 
 written Haydock. The Haydocks of Hesandford, near Burnley, were an old stock of 
 respectable gentry, represented in 1569 by Simon Haydock, gent. 
 
 • "vx Thoiits jfetc/ier," &c. : See Index of Names, s.n., for numerous Fletchers 
 in these local lists, and relative note. 
 
 ® " yohn hargere," &c. : I cannot connect this name, as written by the Scribe, with 
 any similar surname, of that period or the present, found in the district. 
 
 2 B B 371
 
 (Page 196 of the MS., folio 136 verso.) 
 
 Ales Duckworthe ij yeardes linen 
 
 Ellen yeate iij. yeardes j q*^"" linen. 
 
 Janne & henry yeate iiij. yeardes wollen 
 
 Rycharde Miglaye^ iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 henry Migley ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell Migley ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Ellen Migley one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Rycharde Migley one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Vx Willm foulde iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Reyshton^ iij. yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 & ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Thorns Whitaker^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx Rycharde whitaker^ 
 
 John, Jenet, James and >-x yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell Whitaker J 
 
 Rychard haregreues ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Edward Whitaker iij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx, John Whitaker, Robte, "j 
 
 Marget, Johann, willm, Vxj yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Lawrance, James, marie j 
 
 Ellen hodgsonne one yeard di. linen. 
 
 vx. Mills Aspden, Ellen, aspden ) ... , „ 
 
 T 1 n o A A A > viij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell <k Agnes Aspdene j ■' -^ 
 
 Edmunde Lee ij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen 
 
 vx Willm Launde ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Georges ... ij yeardes linen 
 
 Marget Whitheade 
 
 Rycharde Whitheade 
 
 Ellen Whitheade 
 
 henry Sagere"* iij yeardes wollen 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Robte hargreues^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Robte hargreues one yearde di. wollen 
 
 James Pollarde one yearde di. wollen 
 
 Marten Trowlere ij yeardes linen 
 
 John Goldinge ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Rycharde Bridge ij yeardes linen. 
 
 James Whitheade iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rychard Whitheade one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Ellen Whitheade ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 Elizabethe fyshe one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Jenet Whitakere ij yeardes j q*' wollen 
 
 Isabell Smithe iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 372
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (196) 
 
 ' '■' Richard Miglaye"" : The name, now written Midgley, is rather common in 
 Lancashire and West Yorkshire. 
 
 * " 'John Heyshton": The scribe of the MS. generally writes as in this instance the 
 local name of Rishton. 
 
 3 " Thorns Whitaker et vx": Dean Nowell, in the dispensation of these gifts, did 
 not overlook many of the numerous households about Burnley whose members bore the 
 name of Whitaker, a name acquired in man-iage by his favourite sister, Elizabeth, 
 mother of Dr. William Whitaker. Here we have two more of these families, those of 
 Thomas Whitaker, his wife, and children, Richard, John, Jenet, and Isabel, and of 
 Edward Whitaker, his wife, and children, John, Robert, William, Lawrence, James, 
 Margaret, Johanna, and Marie. A Jenet Whitaker occurs on this page of the text, 
 infra. 
 
 * " ffenry Sagere et vx" : A family of Sagers of Ightenhill Park occurs some years 
 later than this, of which this Henry Sager may have been an earher member. See 
 Index of Names, s. n. , for others of the name in the MS. 
 
 * ^' Robie Hargreues'" : See ante, p. 351, for note on the local clan of Hargreaves. 
 
 373
 
 (Page 197 of the JlfS., folio 137.) 
 
 the poor w-thin Robtc whitakcr^ ij. yeardes linen 
 
 et vx , ij yeardes di. hnen, 
 
 Rychard Whitaker. ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Robte Whitaker ij yeardes linen 
 
 Thorns Whitaker one yearde di. linen. 
 
 John Whitaker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Elizabeth Whitaker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Willm heape ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John heape one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Isabell heape one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Janne one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Jenet Spensore-"^ ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Jenet Osbolstonne* iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Ales hitchin iij. yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rycharde wadsworthe iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rychard heape ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Rychard heape ." one yearde di. wollen. 
 
 John heape one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Anne heape ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell heape one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Jenet heape one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 ffrances heape one yeard wollen. 
 
 Thorns Buckley ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Rychard Buckeley one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Robte Buckeley one yeard wollen. 
 
 Isabell Buckeley ij yeardes linen 
 
 Margeret one di. linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Buckley one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 henry Leighe ij yeardes linen. 
 
 vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell leighe one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Anne leighe one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Ellen leighe one yeard j q*^'' wollen 
 
 Elizabethe Jacksonne ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Katherin Jacksonn ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Ellen Aspedene ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Anne Aspdene one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Isabell Aspeden one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Anne hartley ij yeardes linen. 
 
 James hartley iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Elizabethe whitaker ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Willm Smithe iij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes. wollen. 
 
 Vx Raynolde Greenwood ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx Willm Lawe iij yeardes j q**'' wollen. 
 
 374
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (197) 
 
 ' " the poor iv'thin C/et^egere": The name of Cliviger is given to a tract of country 
 between Burnley and Todmorden, in the valley of the Lancashire Calder near its source, 
 to the south-east of Towneley Park. The mansion and estate of Holme, the seat of the 
 "Whitaker family to which Dr. William Whitaker belonged, is situate in the district of 
 Cliviger, which a later author of the same family (Dr. T. D. Whitaker, the antiquary) 
 describes as being "in the very gorge of the English Appenine," and interprets its 
 name to mean, in the Saxon etymology, "the rocky district." 
 
 * " Robte Whitaker et vx''' I am inclined to think that these recipients wl re no other 
 than the elder brother of the celebrated William Whitaker, namely, Robert Whitaker, 
 son of Thomas Whitaker of Holme, gent, (who was then living), and his wife ; and 
 the names v.'hich follow either those of Robert Whitaker's children or of his brethren 
 and sisters. See ante, p. 30S, and relative note, for a prior entry of gifts of money 
 and cloth by Dean Nowell to "his cosin Robte Whitaker, eldeste son to his sister 
 Elizabethe, his wafle, and to their children." 
 
 ^ " Jenel Spensore ": Another of the name of Spenser, to be noted with those which 
 occur elsewhere in the MS. (Index of Names, s./i.) 
 
 * " Jenet Osbobtonne'''' : The name is a contracted spelling of Osbaldeston, a surname 
 derived from the township of Osbaldeston in Blackburn Parish. 
 
 375
 
 (Page 198 of the MS., folio 137 verso.) 
 
 Marget PoUarde ij yeardes di. wollen 
 
 vx Edwarde Thorns ij yeardes di. hnen 
 
 John, Robte, Rychardes Thorns ... iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Marget Estewood ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx Johanes heape ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Rychard Tattershall' ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Lawrance Robte et vx'^ vj yeardes wollen 
 
 Willm Robte ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Lawrance one yearde di. wollen. 
 
 John Robtes one yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Rycharde Robtes one yeard wollen. 
 
 Margete ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Ales Robtes ij yeardes wollen 
 
 Anne Robtes one yeard iij q*^'^^ wollen 
 
 Rychard Ingham et vx^ iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rycharde Ingham yongere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Robte Ingham ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Willm Ingham . : one yeard di. linen. 
 
 henry Ingham one yeard j q'^^"' wollen 
 
 Agnes Ingham ij yeardes linen 
 
 Catherin Ingham one yeard di. linen 
 
 Willm Whitheade senio^* iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Willm Whithead Junio"" ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Whithead one yeard wollen 
 
 Ales whitheade one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Marget one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Willm hansonne ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Isabell Eastwoode ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Marget Ingham ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Jenet hartley ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Ales hodsonne iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 vx Georges Tayllere ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Rychard ftansfield^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Willm Dobsonne ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John Dobsonn ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Whitaker et vx^ iij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Barnard Whitakere one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Rychard Whitaker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 John Whitaker one yeard wollen. 
 
 Isabell whitaker ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Marget Whitaker one yeard linen. 
 
 376
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (198) 
 
 ' "■ Rycha7-d TaUershalV : See ante, p. 365, for note on the local Tattersalls. 
 
 * " I.a'vya7zce Robte et vx": See ante, p. 347, for note on the families of Roberts 
 in and about Burnley. 
 
 ^ " Ry chard Ingham etvx": A Richard Ingham occurs among the local chapmen, 
 dealers in Lancashire cloths, from whom Robert Nowell's Trustees purchased these 
 linen and woollen goods for distribution. See Index of Names, s.n., and also for a 
 former note on the Inghams of Fulledge, &c., in Buraley. 
 
 * " Willm Whiikcade setir.''^ Slc: Several persons named Whitehead are entered here 
 and two pages a/tte, &c. The surname is yet a familiar one in the district. 
 
 ' "■ Rychard Jlansjield" : An important family of this name was anciently seated at 
 Hesandford, near Burnley, a branch of the Stansfields of Stansfield in Halifax parish, 
 and descended from Oliver de Stansfield, Constable of Pontefract temp. Edward III. 
 Giles Stansfield, living in the sixteenth century, was the last direct male representative 
 of the Hesandford Stansfields. 
 
 * "John Whitakei- etvx": Another household of "WTiitakers is here entered, con- 
 sisting of John Whitaker, his wife, and (probably) his children, Barnard, Richard, 
 John, Isabel, and Margaret. 
 
 377
 
 Woorstehorne 
 & hurstwoode' 
 
 (Page 199 of the MS., folio 138.) 
 
 Robte kindley iij yeardes linen. 
 
 Jenet Closse ij yeardes wollen 
 
 & iij yardes linen, 
 
 Robte Rannaye ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Anne Ormeroode' ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Vx Willm Towenley2 ij yeardes linen. 
 
 marget Towenley one yeard di. linen. 
 
 marie Towenley one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 marget Crosley ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Mills Whitaker et vx^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Robte Whitaker, John & Jenete ... vj yeardes wollen. 
 
 Robte Parker iij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Margete Boyde ij yeardes j q^^r wollen. 
 
 Ales Barnes ij yeardes c^^^ wollen. 
 
 Margete Lee ij yeardes iij q'^'^ wollen. 
 
 Marget haule ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Mills Estwoode'* iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rychard Estwoode. ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Marget Estwood ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Elizabethe ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Edmunde Lee iij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Jenet Tomlinson ij yeardes di, linen. 
 
 Lawrance Sutclieffe^ one yeard iij q*" linen. 
 
 (Page 200 of the MS., folio 138 verso) 
 
 Ales Spensere^ ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 henry Bouthe et vx ij yeards di. linen 
 
 Samwell Bouthe one yearde di. wollen. 
 
 Robte Robtes^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen . 
 
 vx Mathew Marten iij yeardes linen. 
 
 Marget Brooke ij yeardes iij qt''^ wollen. 
 
 Jenet windlie ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx Johannes hurstwood* ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Ales hurstwopd ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Edmund Jackesonne ij yeardes di linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Christofor Jackesonne^ one yeard di. linen 
 
 Jenet J ackson ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Anne Jackesonn ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell Jacksonn one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Ales Jacksonn one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Anne Jacksonn ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Anne ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Thoms hodshin ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Ales Thornbere ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 Marget Jackesonn ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John Denton ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx 
 
 Isabell Denton "^ 
 
 Rycharde Denton \- vij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Christabell Denton j ij yeardes linen. 
 
 37S
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (^99) 
 
 ' '■^ Anne Ormeroode": The Ormerods of Lancashire, from whom descended the 
 accomplished antiquaiy (only lately deceased), George Ormerod, the historian of 
 Cheshire, sprang from an old freeholding family, seated at Ormerod in Cliviger. 
 
 2 " vx IVilhn Towenley": She seems to have been a widow, and Margaret and 
 Marie Towneley, whose names follow, would be her daughters. That she was remotely 
 akin to the Towneley Hall family may be surmised. 
 
 * " Alills Whitaker et vx : Another household of Whitakers, consisting of Miles 
 Whitaker, his wife, and children, Robert, John, and Jennet. 
 
 ^ " Mills Esizuoode" : The surname of Eastwood, derived from a towmship called 
 Eastwood, in West Yorkshire, is to the present time a somewhat common one in the 
 district between Burnley and Colne. 
 
 * Lawrance Sutclieffe"; A family of Sutcliffe is at present found in Burnley. 
 
 ( 200) 
 
 ' " IVoorstehorne &= Imrstwoode": Worsthorne and Hurstwood are two hamlets 
 situate near Burnley on the east, just beyond the bounds of Towneley Park in that 
 direction, and form together one township. 
 
 2 "Ales Spenst-re": In the old-fashioned little hamlet of Hurstwood is a house, 
 probably more than 300 years old, which was the residence of a yeoman family of 
 Spensers, conjectured to have been nearly related to the Poet Spenser. In 1560 occurs 
 Edmund Spenser of Hurstwood in a list of freeholders ; and in 1584 the same person 
 is described in a category of free tenants as "Edmund Spenser de Hurstwood, generosus." 
 He and his family do not seem to have received gifts of cloth in this distribution ; but 
 I apprehend that "Ales Spensere " of this entry may have been mother or maiden 
 aunt or sister of Edmund Spenser of Hurstwood. 
 
 ^ Roble Robtes'': Robert Roberts sounds like a Welsh name ; but I have stated that 
 the surname Roberts has long been prevalent near Burnley. 
 
 * "vx Johannes hurstwood'''' : This resident of Hurstwood bore as his surname the 
 name of the hamlet, in which, doubtless, his ancestors had lived from the time when sur- 
 names were generally no more than a description of local attachment, occupation, per- 
 sonal peculiarity, or else a patronymic. 
 
 * " Christofor Jackesonne": See Index of Names, s.n., for a Christopher Jackson 
 elsewhere named in the MS. 
 
 .379
 
 Extwisell and 
 BrearcliefFe' 
 
 (Page 201 of the MS., folio 139.) 
 
 Willm Satell ij yeardes linen 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Jenet Satell ij. yeardes linen. 
 
 Edward Smithe ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx Johnes hindlie ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Grace Acrowede^ ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Margeret Smithe ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Jenet hitchine ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx Willm habargham^ ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx Christofore Nutter ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Jenet Wallshaye ij yeardes di. wollen. 
 
 John showere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 vx Robte hestwood iij yeardes j q^^'' linen. 
 
 and vij children iiij yeardes linen &iiij wollen 
 
 Robte fliore ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Christabell fliower one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Marget fhower ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Oliuer Parker"* ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 John Parker ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Jenet Parker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Elizabethe parker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 vx Johannes Jacksonne iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rychard Jackesonn ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Janne Jacksonn ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Jackesonn one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Marget Jackesonn one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Benet Jackesonn one yeard j q'^"^ wollen 
 
 vx henry leighe ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Robte Leighe ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell Soitell ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Lawrance Leighe one yeard j q^^^'^ linen. 
 
 henry Nuttere iij yeardes j q*^"^ linen. 
 
 Luce habargham iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Isabell whitaker^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 vx Robte whitaker iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Rycharde whitaker ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Thoms whitaker ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Robte whitaker one yeard wollen. 
 
 Anne whitaker ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Janne ij yeardes linen 
 
 Isabell whitaker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 Grace whitaker one yeard di. wollen. 
 
 Marget w^iitaker one yeard di. linen. 
 
 John hindlie ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Isabell woulfinden iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 John Spensore^ .. ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Janne Bouthe iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 380
 
 Notes and Ilhisti''ations. 
 (201) 
 
 ' '^ Exhoisell and Brearclieffe" : These two hamlets, Extwistle and Brearcliff or 
 Brierchff, adjom Worsthorne on the north, and are distant from Burnley two to three 
 miles. 
 
 * " Grace Ao-owede": The modern name of Ackroyd or Ecroyd was probably the 
 one here rendered " Acrowede" by the scribe. 
 
 ^ "z'x Willin habargham'''' : His name was that of the neighbouring to^vnship of 
 Habergham. 
 
 ^ " Oliiier Parker et vx ; John Parker," &c. : The Parkers of Extwistle Hall were 
 the principal resident landowners in this township, whose chief representative in 1569 
 was Robert Parker, gent. Only one of his sons, John Parker, the heir, is named in 
 the printed pedigree of this family, but he may have had younger children, and the 
 Oliver Parker of this entry, who \^•ith his children, John, Jennet, and Elizabeth, 
 received gifts, might be near kin of Robert Parker of Extwistle Hall. 
 , * " Isabell JVhitaker," &c. : Ten persons named Whitaker are here entered in con- 
 nexion, and formed perhaps two families. 
 
 ^ " John Spensore''^ : John Spenser of Extwistle must have been some relation of the 
 Spensers of Hurstwood, nigh at hand ; perhaps a brother of Edmimd, of Hurstwood. 
 See note on the precedmg page of annotation. 
 
 381
 
 (Page 202 of the MS., folio 139 verso.) 
 
 Edward ffarrer ij yeardes linen. 
 
 et vx ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Littis fifarrere one yeard j q^"" wolP 
 
 Marget Launde one yeard di. avoU^ 
 
 Agnes wadsworthe ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 Benet fforster one yeard di. wollen 
 
 Robte Barcrofte^ & Willm Barcrofte iij yeardes linen 
 
 Lawrance Barcrofte one yeard di. linen 
 
 vx Robte hestwood^ iij yeardes j qt^r linen. 
 
 and vij Childrene iiij yeardes iij q*" wollen. 
 
 Ales hestwood ij yeardes linen. 
 
 Elizabethe Bouthe ij yeardes iij q^'s wollen 
 
 To the iij' Nices of Thorns watoughe vj yeardes linen. 
 To ij Lame Cripells Anne & Isabell | -^ 
 
 Smithe r J 
 
 Biiimgtonn Raffe ffilden et vx & iiij"^ children... vj yeardes woll^ & vj linen. 
 
 Marget Brockesope iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Margeret Atoughe* iij yeardes wollen, 
 
 Allicocke Atoughe iij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Ales Shorrocke iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Grace Mitton ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 Jenet hindlie & iiij'' Children vj yeardes woll^& iiij linen. 
 
 John ffilden^ ij yeardes linen, 
 
 et vx iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thorns Parker iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Thorns Dobsonn ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 Nicholes Greene iij yeards wollen. 
 
 Towenshipe' 
 
 382
 
 Notes and Illustratio7is. 
 (202) 
 
 ' " Rohte Barcrofte, Willm Barcrofte, Lawrance Barcrofte''^: Perhaps these persons 
 were members of the family of Barcroft of Barcroft Hall, in Cliviger. William Bar- 
 croft, gent., was in 1569 owner of that estate. His eldest son was Robert Barcroft. 
 
 * "z/jr Robte Hest'ujood": This name is elsewhere spelled Estwood =; Eastwood. 
 
 ' " Billingtomi Tmvenshipe" \ Billington is the only township in Blackburn parish 
 whose inhabitants (and only a few of them) shared in this distribution of gifts of cloth. 
 All the other places named are in Whalley parish and its outlying chapelries. Billing- 
 ton lies contiguous to Whalley village and township, separated therefrom by the river 
 Calder. 
 
 •* " Margeret AfoKghe" : This name is now spelled Eatough, but is pronounced 
 " Atuf " by the commonalty. 
 
 * ^^ John ffilde7i" : This surname is the modern "Feilden." 
 
 383
 
 (Page 203 of the MS., 
 these percels w<=^ are crossed are 
 entered in the {4. leaffe next 
 folowinge 
 
 20 Junij 
 
 foho 142.) 
 
 To the pore of dyveres parish 
 
 in Lancashire as hearafte: 
 
 follow%e. 
 
 collectors of 
 
 21 Julij 
 
 24 Junij 
 
 26 Junij 
 this pcell 
 entered as above 
 said. 
 
 i,th 
 
 Julij 
 
 vjt^ of Julij 
 
 vii''^ of Julij 
 
 ■xl^ 
 
 i"d 
 
 To the Churche wardones and 
 
 Wiggine parishe^ for the pore ther by thandes 
 of Lawrance Nowell Dean of Lytchfilde^ 
 one of the executors ^ 
 
 To certeine speciall poore ther v^ 
 
 To the Churchwardons and collector's of the^ 
 
 parishe of Bolton^, for the poor ther by >xl 
 
 thandes of the said Lawrance Nowell J 
 
 to certein fpeciall poor ther iij** iiij 
 
 To certein poore at Whallay and Altam ^ 
 
 Churche*, by thandes of the said Lawrance Vx^ 
 
 whoe preacher there J 
 
 To the churche wardens and collectors ^ 
 
 for the poor of the parishe of Colnne^ by >-xl» 
 
 thandes of the faid Lawrance j 
 
 to other speciall poor ther xvj^ 
 
 To Margeret Scofild of Ratchdain 
 
 parish e^ a poor blinde & Aged womane Viij yeardes wollen 
 
 iij yeardes of Lancashire white^ J 
 
 To Thorns Ramsbothom a poor man ou^ 
 
 chardged w^'^ children, bothe by thandes 
 
 of John hopewood at 
 
 xv<^ the yearde in the p'"sentes of Robte, 
 
 Collines & others _ 
 
 To Isabell Burden^ of Rossindell pishe ^ ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 a poore dombe womane ii yeardes di. linen f ... . ,, 
 
 ^ ^1 ... J f T 1- >n) yeardes wollen 
 
 to her more iij yeardes of Lancashire i •' •' 
 
 yxxY 
 
 to) ... 
 
 Xlj" 
 
 } 
 
 clothe at xij^ the yearde & m money 
 To Thoms Reedfearne xij** to geue 
 
 Rychard Sheparde^ a poor old mane 
 To Elizabethe Chadwicke xij^ to geve to ) ..^ 
 
 Ales Nuttere, a poor maiden j •' ; 
 
 To Adam Chatmies wiefife of Altam iij ) iij yeardes wollen 
 
 yeardes of white wollen & in money xij*^ / xij*^ in money. 
 To Elizabethe Dudgdall of Blackeborne ] iij yeardes wollen. 
 
 parishe'^ iij yeardes white wollen & in money j & in money viij*^ I 
 
 To Marie Smithe of higham & Isabell ) .... , ,. ,. 
 
 , J 1 , .. .,.»..,.,. Mil] yeardes di linen 
 
 her daughter ij yeardes linen ij di linen j •* -^ 
 
 To Claiter wief of higham & Castele parishe^ ^ ij yeardes linen. 
 
 To Jenet Claiter her daughtere ij yeardes linen. 
 
 To Thoms Claitere her sonne one yearde iij q**''^ linei 
 
 To willam whitaker her sonne one yeard i q^^"' linen. 
 
 if"" J IS / 10^ I xvs ij'" 
 
 I 
 
 384
 
 Notes and Ilhisti'atiotis. 
 (203) 
 
 ' " Wig^ine parishe" : i.e., Wigan parish, in West Lancashire. The three entries 
 relating to the parishes of Wigan, Bolton, and Colne are erased in the MS. 
 
 ^ "Lmorance jVowdl Dean of Lyic/ifilJe" : It has before been mentioned that Dean 
 Alexander Nowell's brother, Lawrence Nowell, Dean of Lichfield, was one of the three 
 executors under Robert Nowell's Will. He did not often act in the trust, but he seems 
 to have been in Lancashire at this time (June and July, 1569) along with his brother, 
 and to have taken charge of these sums of money for bestowal upon the poor in certain 
 Lancashire parishes. 
 
 3 " paris/ie of Bolton" : The parish of Bolton-in-le-Moors, in South Lancashire. 
 
 * ^' WhaUey and Altain Chiirche": Altham Church is a parochial church in the 
 parish of Whalley, distant from the Mother Church about three miles. The words at 
 the end of the entry, " whoe preacher there," is an inquiry as to who was the curate of 
 Altham. The name of the curate of Altham in 1569 has not been noted. 
 
 * " farishe of Colnne" : The parochial chapelry of Colne, at the eastern verge of 
 Whalley Parish, is distant from the Mother Church at Whalley about ten miles. 
 
 ^ ^^ Margeret Scofild of Ratchdall parishe" : See Index of Names, s.n., for other 
 mention and note on the Schofields of Rochdale district. 
 
 ^ " Lancashire ivhite": This name appears to have been given to a description of 
 woollen cloth, something of the nature of flannel, then woven in Lancashire. 
 
 * '■'■ Isahdl Burden": This "poor dombe [dumb] woman" is named again three 
 pages onward. 
 
 ^ " Thorns Reedfearne Ry chard Sheparde" : For notes on Redfeames and 
 
 Chadwicks see Index of Names, s. n. 
 
 '" " E/izabethe Diidgdall of Blackeborne parishe": She perhaps was of the Dugdales 
 of Great Harwood, in Blackburn Parish. 
 
 ^1 ^^ highani. &^ Castcll parishe" : The hamlet of Higham in Pendle Forest is within 
 the extra-parochial tract attached to Clitheroe Castle, and so called Castle Parish. 
 
 c c 385
 
 (Page 204 of the MS., folio 142 verso.) 
 
 vij juiij Xo a poor maiden beinge a Crepell"|.. , ,, 
 
 whose name is Rychard \sic\ Robfonne n rl ■ ^ •••vi 
 , ^ -^ ^r ^ ■ ■■■■A •* ( & HI monev 1111« 
 yeardes white Kersey' m moneye inj^ ) ■' i. 
 
 To a poor naked boy one Thoms ) ij yeardes woll^ 
 
 Tayller ij yeardes wollen & iiij*^ in money j in money iiij*^ 
 To a poor woman of midhton parishe ^ 
 
 Claye Brearley & to her Daughter !-iiij yeardes di. Hnen 
 
 Elizabethe iiij yeardes hnen j 
 
 To Ales Newell of Ratdall parishe ij yeardes ) jjj. .^^g ^j jj^^gj^ 
 
 di. linen & to her daughter ij yeardes linen j 
 To a blinde maid one Ales Colhnsonn ofl-. _, ,. 
 
 Churche parishe ij yeardes hnen j •'•' 
 
 To a poor man of _Cletherall pishe^ ^^^ ]- iij yeardes wollen 
 
 Chnstofor hodgsonn iij yeardes wollen j 
 
 To Anne Coup of Ratchdall parishe a ) ij yeardes di. woll 
 
 poor wyddow ij yeardes. di wollen | in money iiijd 
 
 To her daughter Elizabethe Cowp ) ij yeardes wollen 
 
 ij yeardes di. wollen | in money iiij^ 
 
 To Ales Cowp ij yeardes di. wollen ij yeardes di. linen in money iiij^ 
 To James hollowell of Ratchdall | -q 
 
 pishe j ^ 
 
 ixjuiij To John Greenough of burry pishe ij* 
 
 To Elizabethe Green of Ratchdall pishe ij yeardes di. linen 
 
 To Lawrance Green of Ratchdall pishe ^.. , ^1- , ii 
 
 at the sute of John Hopwood Barten hope- )- 1- ' --a 
 
 , ., ■' ^ ^ ( & in money xii'' 
 wood sonnc^ J ■' ■' 
 
 xij juiij to Katherin Clege of holdham pishe ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 to willm Crosley of Ratchdall pishe ) vj yeardes linen 
 
 havinge v Children & in moneye j and in moneye xij<^ 
 
 To Tane Corbet wyddowe havinge iij poor) .... , ,. 
 
 1 •;, , .... J T fa J r "■ 111] yeardes hnen 
 children, iiij yeardes linen j ■' ■' 
 
 To Jenct Dobsonn havinge vj children vj yeardes linen 
 
 xiijjuhj To John wolffinden a poor fcoller of ) •• , ,. 
 
 /- i. 11 ■ \ s ■■ J 1- ' ij yeardes linen 
 
 Castell parishe'* ij yeardes linen j ■'•' 
 
 To Agnes whitworthe of Middliton ) .,, 
 
 • 1 - VI'' 
 
 parishe j ■' 
 
 To Janne whitworthe of the said pishe vj*^ 
 
 To Elizabethe Duckeworthe of Burie pishe ... vj*^ 
 
 To the wief of Thoms haworthe of ) .,, 
 
 r VI 
 
 burrie parishe j ■' 
 
 To willm wordley of Ratchdall parishe vj^ 
 
 To Ellen Sallisburie of Billington vj^ 
 
 To Owen Stell of middliton pishe vj^^ 
 
 to Edward Ashworth of haslingden pishe vj*^ 
 
 to Rychard wadsworthe of clevengere^ vj'^ 
 
 to Jenet Shuttellworthe of Dinkley in ) .^ 
 
 the parishe of Blackborne^ j ^ 
 
 to her iij Children v yeards of linen v yeardes linen & in money vj^ 
 to Katherin haregreues of Bronley parishe \ v yeardes linen 
 
 V yeardes linen & in money j vj'iin money. 
 
 to Edwarde Gleydell of the parishe of ) .^ 
 
 heptonstalP | ^J 
 
 to Lawrance Ridiox of Bronley parishe^ vj<^ 
 
 386 /iy/2^
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 (204) 
 
 ' "'white K'ersey": I think this would be the same sort of woollen cloth elsewhere 
 called " Lancashire white." 
 
 ^ "poor Dian of Clet/terall piske'": Clitherall =Clitheroe. Nearly all the recipients 
 of gifts named on this, the preceding, and the following pages, are shown by their de- 
 scriptions to have been persons in poverty and affliction, such as blind, dumb, or aged 
 people, cripples, or destitute of clothing, as the "poor naked boy " of the entry above ; 
 and other pitiful objects of charity, found by Dean Nowell or his servants in many 
 parts of East Lancashire. 
 
 3 "at the sute of John Hop-d'ocd Barten hope^oood sonne ": See ante, page 295, for an- 
 notation on the Hopwood family of Rochdale, &c. 
 
 •* "John xvolffindcn a poor fcollei- of Castell parishe'''' : See Index of Names, sm. 
 
 ^ " Rychard wadnvorthe of devengere ": " Clevengere " is the scribe's mode of writing 
 Cliviger, the district beyond Towneley Park, noted ante, p. 375. 
 
 * '■'■ yenet Shiittellworthe of Dinkley in the parishe of Blackboj-ne ": Dinkley is a small 
 township on the left bank of the Ribble in Blackburn Parish, about two miles west 
 from Whalley village. 
 
 7 "parishe of heptonstall" : Heptonstall is a township some miles eastward from 
 Burnley, in the parish of Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire. 
 
 * " Laivrance Ridiox of Brontey parishe": " Bronley "= Burnley. The surname 
 here given as Ridiox is the modem Ridihalgh, borne by a family in the vicinity of 
 Burnley at present. 
 
 2 CC 387
 
 (Page 205 of the MS., folio 143.) 
 To Elizabethe Huntington of Castell pishe ij yeardes linen & vj** in mon. 
 
 To Rychard Bouthe of cleveger ij yeardes di. linen. 
 
 To Rafie Phillipe of Blakborne parishe vj^ in money & iiij*^ 
 
 to father Cooke of Midliton parishe xij^ 
 
 to a poor man of Ratchdall parishe Vn']^ 
 
 to RafFe Dyedney of hallyfex parishe' iiij*^ 
 
 to Raffe Diconsonn of preston^ ijd 
 
 to fli'" Rychard Shirbourne man^ towardes the ) ...^ ....j 
 
 marriage 01 a poor maiden j ■' •' 
 
 to the Collecte's towardes the buyldinge of) .^ 
 
 hodder bridge* / ' 
 
 to henry Browen at London xij^ 
 
 to James harrwood y* cam frome fh'' Thoms ) ..g ..j 
 
 heskethe^ , j ^^ ^•' 
 
 toapoorblindmanoneJohnholkerofRybchester ] -.^ 
 
 parishe i •* 
 
 to m'^ Bannester^ to bey Rychard Duckworthe ) ...g ■■■■^ 
 
 a coate j •' ^ 
 
 to fh'^ Robte Tomlinsonn a poor preste of CletheralP vj^ 
 
 to the Curet of Midliton^ ijs 
 
 to ffather whitheade v]^ 
 
 to Elizabethe horwiche god daughter to | --^ 
 
 o'" mother of Brunley parishe j ^ 
 
 to Rychard Cartmell ij yeardes wollen. 
 
 to a poor man of Tottellworthe parishe^ one \ 
 
 Robte waterhouse who said he was o' >v^ 
 
 brother Robte god sonne j 
 
 to a blind man of Littell harwood'° one Rychard Claiton xij"^* 
 
 to one Rychard Bouthe ijs 
 
 to Georges Bertwesills maid whoe broughte ) -^ 
 
 trotes to my m'' j ^ 
 
 to Margeret Tingnell of Whallay parishe ) iij yeardes linen 
 
 who was fente by m^^ Morley ^ ' iij yeardes linen j ij^ in money. 
 
 to one hughe wild of holdam'2 parishe xx<^ 
 
 to Margeret wild of the .same parishe ij^ 
 
 to a poor woman one Ellen Romsden of^ 
 
 Roffendell parishe'^, and to her poor >xx*^ 
 
 children of whom one is blinde J 
 
 to m"" Ashton to geue a poor fcoUer one ) g 
 
 Thoms felleri* ]^ 
 
 Some Ivij^ ij*^ 
 
 to one Cartmeal wief of harwood parishe viij'^ 
 
 to the wief of Gylls Grime of burrie parishe xij<i 
 to Ellen whitaker & Elizabethe fifarrer 1 ..j 
 
 r Xll 
 
 of Brunley parishe ) ^ 
 
 to Rychard Tayller & his wief of berrie parishe viij*^ 
 
 to one Rychard Gunere who broughte trotes . . xij'^ 
 
 to one Tomsonne & Grace his childe ) iij yeardes di. linen 
 
 of Blagborne parishe^^ j & nV]^ in money 
 
 to the wief of Thoms Pyghill of the ) -j 
 
 parishe of hepstonstall J ^ 
 
 to Rychard Towenesend of heptonstall ij yeardes linen 
 
 to iiij women that Broughte wimberies'^ xiiij^ 
 
 388 / iijii / nf j v]^
 
 Notes and 1 1 lustrations. 
 (205) 
 
 ' '' Raffe Dyedney of hallyfex parishe" : " Hallyfex," of course, stands for Halifax. 
 
 " " Raffe Diconsonn of praton ": Preston is in West Lancashire, out of the range of 
 the Nowell charities, and this small gratuity to a poor man of Preston probably was 
 given on his own application. 
 
 ^ "flir Ryc/iard Shirboiime man,'''' &c. : Sir Richard Sherburne, Knt., of Stonyhurst, 
 a not distant neighbour of the Nowells of Read. Dean Xowell gave a sum to Sir 
 Richard's man to be presented to a poor maiden on her mairiage. 
 
 * " to the Collecters towardes the biiyldinge of hodder h-idge ": There has been a bridge 
 over the river Hodder for the road between Mitton and Stonyhurst, on the ancient 
 route from Yorkshire via Clitheroe to Preston, for many centuries ; and this entry in 
 our AIS. fixes the date of a rebuilding of this bridge about the year 1569. Some 
 eighty years after the bridge was thus reconstracted, Cromwell, on his march with his 
 army to intercept the Royalist army under the Duke of Hamilton, on the night before 
 the battle of Preston, halted his columns at this same bridge while he held a council 
 of war to decide whether to march over the Hodder to Preston, or to turn southward 
 and march by Whalley, Blackburn, and Bolton towards the pass of the Mersey at 
 Warrington. A new bridge was built some years ago a few yards above the old one, 
 but the piers and portions of the arches of the latter are yet standing, and form a pic- 
 turesque object on the riv^er. 
 
 * " James ha7-7ivood yt cam froine fJir Tho?ns heskethe": A man-servant coming with 
 some message to Dean Nowell at Read or Towneley from Sir Thomas Hesketh, Knt., 
 of Martholme manor-house (not far from Read) in Great Harwood, and of Rufford in 
 West Lancashire. See another reference to this knight, ante, p. 225. 
 
 * '^ mr Bannester'": He would be Nicholas Banastre, Esq., of Altham Hall, near 
 Whalley. 
 
 ^ fJtr Robte Tomlinsonfi a poor preste of Ckthei-aW" : This poor priest of Clitheroe 
 was not at this time serving the Church there as curate, and it is very likely he was 
 some aged priest of the period before the restoration of the Reformed Church eleven 
 years'prior to this date, on the accession of Queen Elizabeth, who was living at Cli- 
 theroe out of service and in extreme penury, on whom Dean Nowell had compassion, 
 and sent him six shillings. 
 
 ^ ^^ the Curet of Midliion''^ : There is no printed list of the curates of Middleton. 
 The Rector of Middleton at this date was, as before noted at page 237, John Asheton. 
 
 ' " Totiellworthe parishe'^: Tottleworth is neither parish nor township, but a small 
 hamlet in the township of Rishton, in the parish of Blackburn. This poor man, 
 Robert W'aterhouse, got $5. by %drtue of his claim to have been a godson of Robert 
 Nowell, Esq., the donor of this bounty. 
 
 '" '■'■ Littell haiivood^'': Little Harwood township, in Blackburn Parish. 
 
 " ^^fente by mrs Morky''^: She was Isabel, daughter of John Hoghton of Pendleton, 
 gent., and wife, first, of Robert Shuttleworth of Hacking, gent., and, secondly, of 
 Robert Morley of Dinkley Hall, gent. Mrs. Morley died in July, 1584. 
 
 12 "■ kiighe zvild of holdham" : See ante, pp. 299, 301, for note on all the Wilds of 
 this A^S. 
 
 '3 ^^ Ellen Romsden of Roffendell parishe^' : Ellen Ramsden lived in Rossendale, 
 which is not a parish, but an ancient forest tract in the valley of the upper Invell in 
 East Lancashire. 
 
 " ''■ mr Ashton to gene a poor fcoller one Thorns feller": Connect this entiy with an- 
 other at page 216 ante : "To Mr. Ashton of Whallaye to the use of Mr. feller of corpus 
 Christie colledge in Oxforde," and see relative note, p. 217. 
 
 '* " Blagborne /ar/V/^f " = Blackburn parish. The native commonalty still pro- 
 nounce Blackburn as ' ' Blagborn. " 
 
 16 " iiij zijo>ne}i that Broiighte wimberies": The small black wild fruit called bil- 
 berries in many parts of England are always named ' ' wimberries " in East Lancashire. 
 They are plentiful on some of the local moorlands, and when ripe are gathered for sale 
 by poor women and children. 
 
 389
 
 (Page 206 of the MS., folio 143 verso.) 
 To Elizabethe Drap of Totm^den' ij yeardes linen & vj*^ in money 
 To Thorns Bridges of Totm^den ij yeardes linen & vj^ in money 
 
 To John welch of blakborne 
 
 To Marie Cooke of pendlie" vj'^ 
 
 To Rychard Runde of Ratchdall iiij*^ 
 
 To Jenet horwicke iiij^ 
 
 To Agnes hindlie iiij*^ 
 
 To henry peyrsonn xij^ 
 
 To James wullfinden vj*^ 
 
 To Rycharde Runde of Ratchdale x'^ 
 
 To Georges Norcrosse fcholler of CletheralP ^ ij wollen 
 
 ij yeardes wollen&ij linen Siiij^iiij*^ in money Vij yeardes linen 
 
 j & iijs iiij*^ in money 
 itxvjthjuiij To Thoms Edliestonne of Waddington ] ..g 
 
 parishe'* j ^ 
 
 To a poor man that had his house burnte iiij^ 
 To one Thoms Johnsonn of Whalley ) -.^ 
 
 parishe a poor lame mane j' ^ 
 
 To marget Aunceworthe of burrie parishe^... xij*^ 
 
 To Jenet Slaiter of Whalley parishe iiij** 
 
 To John Dean of Whalley pishe^ iiij* 
 
 To henry Browen to make vpe his vj' ) ...^....^ 
 
 v'nf (x^) I"-* "^-' 
 
 Sume xvj^ iiij<^ 
 
 to Rolande ffrethe of halifax parishe iiij<l 
 
 to Isabell Burden a dombe womane'^ vj'^ 
 
 to Jenet whittell of Castell parishe v]'^ 
 
 To anne Browne a poor fatherles maiden ... vj*^ 
 To Jenet Billington a poor Orphan of) ..^ 
 
 Brunley parishe j ■' 
 
 to a poor beger in Brunley churche yearde^.. iiij<* 
 
 to one Gorton of blakeborne parishe iiij'^ 
 
 to fli'' Raff Laciester man & his guied y* \ .-^ ..^ 
 
 came w*^ him^ I ' 
 
 to Jenet Scale of Colne parishe iiij'^ j 
 
 to Thoms filden of Ratchdall parishe vj*^ a 
 
 to Isabell Dugdall of blakeborne parishe'^... vij'^ J 
 
 to a poor maden at m'' Tovv^enleys gattes^^ iiij*^ .^ 
 
 to John Coke of bolton parishe iiij<* 
 
 to the wief of Randcll Green of harwood ... vj'^ 
 
 to Willm Mauries wief a poore womane xx<* 
 
 to the kep of the pke at fli'' Thoms heskethe^^ vj*^ 
 to one willm Swenllehurste a poor fcholler '^ vj^ 
 
 to a poor woman of harrwood parishe iiij*^ 
 
 to Anne wdiittell & Katherin Butterworthe | -^ 
 
 of whalley parishe j ■' 
 
 to Isabell wardley of Ratchdall parishe ... \Vf \\\]^ 
 to John Andertons wief of burrie parishe ... xij'^ 
 to Robte halley & Gylls Croder of brunley ) ^ 
 
 parishe j 
 
 to Rychard Bretherton fcholler of) .-^ 
 
 Cletheralli* j '''■' 
 
 tota/xxxv*/ vj^ 
 390 
 
 s
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (206) 
 
 ' " Toi??t^den": Meant for Todmonlen, a township, and now a considerable manu- 
 facturing town, on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border, nine miles east of Burnley. 
 
 * "Marie Cooke of pendlie": i.e., of Pendle Forest. 
 
 ' " Georges Norcrosse fcholler of Cletherall": This scholar of Clitheroe belonged to 
 a family named Norcrosse in that part of Ribblesdale, of which was Henry Norcrosse, 
 Vicar of Ribchester 1573-1616. The Vicar may, indeed, have been the father of 
 George Norcross the scholar here mentioned. 
 
 * " Thorns Edliestonne of IVaddington parishe'": "Edliestonne" is modem Edleston. 
 Waddington is north of Clitheroe, on the Yorkshire side of the Kibble. A century 
 before this allusion, the fugitive Henry VI. was discovered by his pursuers at Wad- 
 dington Hall, and captured in the fields hard by. 
 
 * " 7narget Aiince'cvorihe of burrie pariske": Read, Margaret Ainsworth of Bury 
 parish, in the county of Lancaster. 
 
 « "Joh7i Dean of IV/ialley pishe": See ante, p. 80, for a note on the Deanes 
 of Whalley and Billington. 
 
 7 " Isabell Durdeii a doinbe woinane^^ : See three pages ante, and relative note. 
 
 * " a poor beger in Brunley chtircheyearde": The mendicants of the period contrived 
 to put themselves in the way of the good Dean (Nowell) as he went to church or 
 passed along the street. Here occurs a gift to a "poor beggar in Burnley Churchyard. " 
 
 3 "Jlir Kaff Laciester man &^ his giiied yt cam wth him'": Before, at page 80, I 
 have noted the business relations of Sir Ralph Leicester and Robert Nowell, Esq. 
 It was, no doubt, with some reference to the matters there mentioned that Sir Ralph 
 Leicester sent his messenger to Dean Nowell at Read or at Towneley, who, not know- 
 ing the country, was (as the entry states) accompanied by a guide. 
 
 '" "Isabell Dugdall of blakebortte parishe" : She is named three pages ante as 
 •'Elizabeth Dudgdall of Blackeborne parishe." 
 
 " " a poor maiden at mr Imcenleys gattes": At the gateway to Towneley Park the 
 charitable Dean saw some fair-faced maiden, in evident poverty, and gave her a 
 gratuity. 
 
 12 " the kef of the p'ke atjitr Thorns keskethe'" : Sir Thomas Hesketh's demesne lands 
 surrounding his mansion at Martholme, in Great Harwood, Blackburn parish, were at 
 this time emparked, as shown on old maps ; and Dean Nowell gave this item to Sir 
 Thomas Hesketh's park keeper. There is now no park at Martholme. 
 
 ^^ "-dL'illm S^venllehurste a poorfcoUer"": He appears again two pages onward. 
 
 '* " Rychard Brethertonfcholler of Cletherall": This Clitheroe scholar was probably 
 the person of that name, usher of Merchant Taylors' School, named in three entries, 
 ante, p. 162, and see relative note, p. 163. He was, from his name, a Lancashire 
 youth. See again two pages onward. 
 
 391
 
 (Page 207 of the MS., folio 144.) 
 To the wiefife of John Law of the Grendge \ ^g 
 
 of whalley^ parishe j 
 
 To John Kay & John Pillinge of burrie parishe xvj<^ 
 
 To Georges grey of Rufford parishe^ xij*! 
 
 To Ales ffishe of hasslingden parishe^ iiij*^ 
 
 To Marget Robtes and Anne Nowell of) jjj.^ 
 
 Brunley parishe'* | 
 
 To Raffe Jacksonn & his wief viij'^/ xiij^ 
 
 to the wief of John Tomsonne & her iij children v]^ 
 to a poor woman & tow children dwellinge in \ jj-^ 
 
 haslingden parishe j 
 
 to Margeret higins in the parishe of Colne... vj*^ 
 
 to an olde woman in Brunley iiij'^ 
 
 to an olde woman at harwoode iiij*^ 
 
 Laid out by j WiUm Cowp singingc mane^ xx 
 
 Tames wolton" -^ ,, ^^ r-,, , ^ ,,« -a 
 
 to one Nowell of CletheralP wf 
 
 to one of Jacksonnes wief Daughters xij*^ 
 
 to a poor woman one Lawrance wief \ ..^ 
 
 Burden of Rossindall ) 
 
 to one Ales Bertwesill^ 
 
 to Gyles Crowdere 
 
 to Bullocke wief of Br 
 to Jenet Bowker of 
 to a syster of the sam 
 to Agnes Burden of Cle 
 to vij poor at Towenley 
 to a poor man John cla 
 to iiij' other the same 
 to Agnes fwingha^'ste wyd 
 to father whitheade & his 
 to iiij other poor as you w 
 to one Elizabethe wolton 
 to xiij poor at whalley 
 to one Thoms Bridg 
 to one Thoms holte of 
 to one Rogere Cowp of 
 to John holker of Rybche 
 to humfrey Stapleton of 
 
 parishe 
 
 to the wief of Rychard ffi 
 to Nicoles marsteden of 
 to Ales Smithe of hab 
 to Thoms Tayller a poor 
 to Rychard Robinson ij yeardes 
 to Esabell heap of Brunley 
 to James Smithe Cleark 
 to James haylls of Ratch 
 . Rychard fyshe a poor boy ca 
 
 Thomsheskethe 
 
 to Christofer Green of 
 to Lawrance Smithe 
 to Gylls Crodere
 
 Notes a?id Ilhistrations. 
 (207) 
 
 ' " John Law of the Grendge ofwhalley ": I have noticed this John Law of \VhalIey 
 Grange in connection with the family of the I.awes of Whalley, at page 307 ante. 
 
 * ^"^ Georges grey of Kiifford parishe": Rufford, llie other estate of the lieskeths, in 
 West Lancashire, is situate a little to the northward of Ormskirk, on the road from 
 Preston to Liveipool. 
 
 ' " Ales fftske of hasslingden parishe" '. About Haslingden and Danven, in East 
 Lancashire, the peculiar surname of Fish is yet a common one. 
 
 * " Anne A^ozvell of Bninley parishe": Some humble and distant kinswoman of the 
 Nowells of Read, perhaps. 
 
 * " Laid out by yames wolton" : This confidential servant of Dean Nowell distributed 
 the gifts undermentioned. I have named him in the Introduction and in a note at p. 
 7, as most probably the scribe of the MS. 
 
 ^ " William Co7up singinge ?>iane": Professional minstrels were hired for festal 
 occasions by the gentry of the period ; and William Cowp (contraction of Cowper or 
 Cooper) was one of these "singing-men." 
 
 ^ " o?ie Nozuell of Clitkerair': Perhaps John Nowell of Clitheroe, father of a 
 Richard Nowell, named ante, p. 168. 
 
 ^ "Ales Bert-u'esilV: From this entry the right side of the page has been wilfully 
 cut off to the bottom, leaving the record imperfect. 
 
 393
 
 (Page 208 of the MS., folio 144 verso.) 
 To Dorethe Reyshton & to Ales Reyshton ") .-g 
 
 of hepdenstall parishe^ j •' 
 
 m*^ that Cunlief of Sparthe- hade \ 
 vjs -^ych i^g hade ou^ Rickned to him I .^ 
 self at fli^ Thorns heskethes in his C ■' 
 
 clothe * 
 
 Willm Watmoughe ij yeardes linen 
 
 To Wiggen ij yeardes linen 
 
 To Grauesonns wieffe & her sonne ] .-^ .^ 
 comended by m^' Ashton of whalley^ ••• X 
 
 To one Law wief of whalley parishe xij*^ 
 
 SAoUersof Schollers to henry lyvesey Rycharde 
 
 Bretherton, henry Tayller, John 
 
 Lawrance, willm swinlharfte Rycharde )>ix* 
 
 hartley, for eu''y of them xii'^ | 
 
 ece & to other iij moe iij" in the whole ...J 
 
 Law & John haymond^ ) ..^ 
 
 lley & Cletherail j ^^ 
 
 xxijs vj<^ 
 
 394
 
 Notes a? id Illustrations. 
 
 (208) 
 
 ^ *' hepdenstall parishe" : Heptonstall, in West Yorkshire, before mentioned. 
 
 ' '■' Cunlief of Sparlhe,'" &c. : This is a memorandum that Mr. Cunliffe of Sparth, 
 a local chapman, had received by an over-reckoning six shillings too much on account 
 of some parcels of cloth he had delivered to Dean Nowell " at Sir Thomas Hesketh's," 
 i.e., at Martholme manor-house. Sparth is the name of an old messuage and freehold 
 situate in the township of Clayton-in-le-Moors, about three miles from Martholme, 
 four from Read Hall, and five from Whalley. It was the property of a branch of the 
 family of Cunliffe of Cunliffe in Billington, parish of Blackburn (afterwards of Hollins 
 in Accrington, Wycoller Hall, near Colne, and of Liverpool). The "Mr. Cunliffe of 
 Sparthe " of this entry, was probably Robert Cunliffe. The descent of the Cunliffcs 
 of Sparth may be thus briefly indicated : — Robert Cunliffe, yeoman, the first of Sparth, 
 was a younger son of Nicholas Cunliffe of Hollins, by his wife Christabel, daughter of 
 Henry Hindle. Robert Cunliffe, by Grace his wife, had sons, Robert and Christopher. 
 Robert Cunliffe, the father, died in 1563. His son, Robert Cunliffe, of Sparth, the 
 "Mr. Cunliffe" of the MS., died before the year 1600, when Isabell Cunliffe, his 
 widow, paid a gift he had made to Blackburn Grammar School. " Christopher Cun- 
 liffe of Sparth, gent.," 1 think brother of Robert, is so named on a list of free tenants 
 dated 1584. Christopher Cunliffe, gent., of Sparth House, died on the 19th of 
 October, 1614, seized of an estate held in socage, of 73 acres (about 130 statute acres). 
 By Jeneta his wife, who survived him, he had a son and heir, Robert, aged eleven 
 years at the time of his father's death. This was Robert Cunliffe of Sparth, Esq., a 
 prominent Parliamentarian in the Civil War, and a member of Cromwell's "Little 
 Parliament " in 1653. In a pedigree of Cunliffe of Hollins in the new edition of 
 Whitaker's History of ]V}iallcy, he is erroneously entered as a younger son of John 
 Cunliffe of Hollins. Robert Cunliffe, Esq., M. P., died December 4th, 1653, leaving 
 a son, Christopher, and a daughter, Jenet. The son, Christopher Cunliffe, gent., 
 died about 1656, without issue, and probably unmarried, and his sister and co-heir, 
 Jenet Cunliffe, married John Grimshaw of Clayton Hall, gent., who died without 
 issue, December i6th, 1663. 
 
 ^ '■' mr Ashton of whalley": Richard Ashton of Whalley Abbey, Esq. See ai!li% 
 p. 217. 
 
 * "fchollers of Cleike7-alP^ : Six scholars of Clitheroe Grammar vSchool are named in 
 this entry, viz., Henry Livesey, Richard Bretherton, Henry Tayller, John Lawrance, 
 Willm Swinlehurst, and Richard Hartley. One of them, Richard Bretherton, has 
 been mentioned twice before in the JIIS., and noted, see the preceding page, and at 
 pp. 162-3 ; and another, William Swinlehurst, occurs on the preceding page. 
 
 * " Laii) &■ John haymond" : See Index of Names, s.n. Part of this entry has 
 been cut away. 
 
 .">95
 
 (Page 209 of the MS.) 
 xxvijth juiij To Lawrance Whitakeres maid whoe broughte | ..g 
 
 ij capons & xl egges* j ^ 
 
 To m'" Roger Nowell his wief Daughter^ whoe "| ^ 
 
 broughte iiij caponns xij chekens half a mutton ... j 
 To Nicoles halsted his wief^ who broughte ij ) ••, 
 
 Capons X chekens j ■' 
 
 To John Sellers wief"* & his maid whoe broughte ) g 
 
 iiij"" capons j 
 
 To John Narrham wicf^ & his maid whoe ) •••, 
 
 broughte iiij capons j 
 
 To Tames whitakeres wief^ & his maid whoe ) •••, 
 . . - ni 
 
 broughte iiij'' capons j ■' 
 
 To Robte Ingham wief whoe broughte iij capons ij^ 
 
 To John Ingham wief whoe broughte ) --g 
 
 ij capones / ^ 
 
 To John Browen wief whoe broughte ij capons ij^ 
 
 To Edward Ingham wief whoe broughte one capone xij^ 
 To Christofor Sillers wief whoe broughte a capone... xij"^ 
 To one that broughte ij capons from Thoms Ingham ij^ 
 To henry whitaker whoe broughte ij capons \ 
 
 X chikens j 
 
 To Georges Seller maid whoe broughte ij ) ..^ 
 
 capons half a Mutton J ^ 
 
 To m''^ habargham maid^ whoe broughte a lambe ... vj^ 
 To m''^ RatcHef mane^ whoe broughte ij greene ) ..^ 
 
 geyse^ j •' 
 
 To m' Thoms Towenleys maides'*' whoe broughte ) ^ •■■^ 
 
 ij capones half a mutton )' ^ 
 
 to Willm Bolton father^^ whoe broughte a pigge xviij'^ 
 
 To henry Reyley of the Green^^ -whoe broughte ) •••g 
 
 ij capons & half and lambe | ^ 
 
 To Rychard marcer'^ & his syster whoe broughte ) •••, ...-j 
 .. -^ -^ c n]S mi° 
 
 ij capones ) ■' ■' 
 
 To m"" Towenley to make vpe a Some of|...g -^ 
 money'"* W^^ he hade before received in gold j ^ ■' 
 
 to my lady Langhton man who broughte a ) •••j 
 salmon & ij mortes'^ | ■' 
 
 To Lawrance Cowp who broughte a base ij^ 
 
 To m" Morles maides'^ whoe broughte a capon & ) --^ 
 peyzen'7 j J 
 
 To m'** Stansfildes maid^^ whoe brought a ) ^--^ 
 
 ij^ 
 
 }. 
 
 capon & ij Chescakes ) •" 
 
 To f'' Thoms heskethe horskep & his marleres xviij*' 
 
 To Lawrance wild^^ his maid whoe broughte ( --^ 
 
 a capon & a chescake j •' 
 
 To Cunlief wief~° whoe broughte iij capons iij^ 
 
 To a poor man of Ratchdall parishe vj<^ 
 
 To my Lady Langton man who broughte ) ^--^ 
 
 half a bucke / ■' 
 
 for showinge the horses"' v^ vij^ 
 
 for ottes at harwood-2 for the Gyldinges xviij*^ 
 
 to Sager for his penknyfife vj*^ 
 
 to fli"^ Raffe Lacester man iiij^ 
 
 396 //3^V'7*/9^
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (209) 
 
 ' ^^ Lawrance Whitakeres mmd who broiighte ij capons &* xl egges'''': Capons (cock- 
 chickens) were at this period a usual comphmentary present from gentry to each otlicr; 
 and on the occasion of Dean Nowell's sojourn in Lancashire in the summer of 1569, 
 when he probably stayed chiefly with his half-brother and co-trustee, John Towneley, 
 Esq., at Towneley Hall, most of the gentlefolk thereabouts sent him presents of capons 
 and other things named on this and the following page of the text. 
 
 ^ "Mr. Roger Nowdl his luief Daughter'' : Roger Nowell, Esq. , was Dean Nowell's 
 nephew (see the genealogy of the Nowells in our Introduction); but "Mr. Roger 
 Nowell's wife's daughter" of this entry was not Roger Nowell's daughter, but a 
 daughter of Mrs. Nowell by her first husband, Lawrance Starkie of Huntroyd, Esq. ; 
 albeit no daughter of that scion is named in the Starkie pedigree. 
 
 ^ " AUcholas halstcd his wief": The wife, I dare say, of Nicholas Halsted, chapman, 
 who sold several parcels of cloth to Dean Nowell. (See atite, pp. 280, 284, and 
 relative note, p. 281.) 
 
 * '■'■John Sellers wief^: See ante, p. 308, and note, p. 309. 
 
 * '■'John Nar7-ham wief^': See the name, ante, p. 282. 
 
 ^ "James whitakeres ivief": See ante, pp. 308-9, for another mention of James 
 Whitaker, and relative note. 
 
 ' " il/rs. Jiabei gluvn niaid^'': Mrs. Habergham, wife of Richard Habergham, gent., 
 of Habergham Hall, in 1569, was Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Hancock, gent. 
 Her first son, Lawrence, was born in 1556, and she died in 1604. 
 
 ^ "Mrs. Ratclief mane''''-. Probably this Mrs. Radcliffe was Margaret, wife of 
 Charles Radcliffe of Todmorden, Esq., and daughter of Thomas Savile of Eccesley. 
 ' " grecne geyse" =^ Green Geese. 
 
 10 " j[f,: Thorns Towenhys inaid''^: The servant, I conjecttn-e, of Mr. Thomas 
 Towneley of Dutton, near Ribchester, whose grandson, Thomas Towneley of Dutton, 
 died 40 years later, in 1609. 
 
 " " IFilhn Bolton father": Perhaps he was father of William Bolton, yeoman, of 
 Bank-hey, in Little Harwood, parish of Blackburn, who died in 1594. A sketch of 
 this family is given in Mr. Abram's History of Blackburn Parish. 
 
 '' '"^ hemy Reyley of the green" : The Rileys of The Green (a messuage and free- 
 hold in Hoghton, a little to the south of Hoghton Tower) were an old stock of Lanca- 
 shire yeomen. Henry Ryley del Greene was a juror in 1482, on the Inq. post niort. of 
 Sir Richard Towneley, knt. The herald. Flower, in the Lancashire Visitation of 1567, 
 gives a descent of three generations of this family, beginning with Henry Ryley of the 
 Greene (he would live in the early years of the sixteenth century), whose son and heir, 
 Thomas Ryley, married Jane, daughter and co-heir of James Whitaker of Henthome, 
 gent., and had issue, sons, Thomas, James, Henry, Hugh Ryley of New Sarum, 
 who was steward to Bishop Jewell (a noteworthy circumstance); and datighters, Eliza- 
 beth, wife of John Robinson ; Ellen, wife of William Starkie of Twiston ; Margaret, 
 wife of George Holroyd of Yorkshire, and Isabel, wife of Heniy Salker. So far Flower. 
 A few items about these Rileys are derived from other sources. I think the "Henry 
 Riley of the Green" in 1569, named in this entry of our MS. must have been Henry, 
 third son of Thomas Riley, as above, and brother of Bishop Jewell's steward, Hugh 
 Riley. The elder brother, Thomas Riley de Greene, gent., occurs in a list of free 
 tenants in 1584. He was progenitor of a later Thomas Riley of the Greene, who 
 married Susan, daughter of John Orrell of Turton, Esq., and is named in the Will of 
 her mother, Elizabeth Orrell, widow, dated 1606: — "Unto my daughter Susan, now 
 wiffe of Thomas Riley of the Greene, one silver tune and the third part of all my lynen." 
 {Lane. Wills, Cheth. Socy., vol. ii, p. 143.) This Thomas Riley, gent., appears in 
 1 62 1 in a categoiy of freeholders. Perhaps a son, Henry Riley, married, at Black- 
 burn, February 24th, 1622, Elizabeth Mercer. 
 
 13 "■ Rye hard marccr ": See Index of Names, for several Mercers named in the lilS. 
 '* "Mr. ToiaenLy to viake up a some of money," &c. : John Towneley, Esq., Dean 
 Nowell's co-trustee. 
 
 '* "my Lady Langhton man 7i'ho broughte a salmon 6^ ij mortes": Dame Anne 
 Langton, wne of Sir Thomas Langton, Knt., baron of Newton and lord of Walton-in- 
 le-Dale (she was daughter of Thomas Talbot, Esq.), was at the date of this reference 
 a widow, her husband. Sir Thomas, having died early in the same year (1569). Lady 
 Langton would be residing at Walton Hall, near Preston, and the present of fish, 
 a salmon and two morts, her man brought to Dean Nowell, would be taken out of the 
 Ribble, in which the Langtons, as lords of Walton, had an ancient fishery privilege. 
 Lady Langton's man also brought a present of "half a bucke" to the Dean, as 
 entered tJifra on this page. This dame died three years subsequently, in April or 
 May, 1572. 
 
 ^8 "mrs morles maid": Mrs. Morley, of Dinkley Hall, before noticed at page 
 389, ante. 
 
 '' " peyzcJi"-. The word is intended, I imagine, for "pea-hen." 
 
 18 ^'■Mrs. Stansfildes maid 'whoe broughte a capon cS^" ij chescakcs": Mrs. Stansfield 
 
 397
 
 (Page 210 of the MS) 
 To m" Towenleis maid ot the Rayle' whoe ) ^.-^ 
 
 broughte a capone J ■' 
 
 To Barnard haregreues whoe broughte ) ..^ 
 
 a capone / ■' 
 
 To James fhr Thoms heskethe minstrelP xij*^ 
 
 To m*" Bradell men^ for their paynes x^ 
 
 To EHzabethe Lee that broughte a capon iij^ 
 
 To EHzabethe Reyshton that brought a capon iij^ 
 
 To James Chuese wief"^ whoe broughte ) -^ 
 
 iij Chekens ) ■' 
 
 To George Shuttelhvorthe wieffe^ xviij"^ 
 
 To the keperes of Hapton parke^ vj^ viij'^ 
 
 To one Browen my Lady Towenleys man ij^ 
 
 /xxjs iiij^ 
 
 Whallay Towen 
 
 ^Viswall 
 
 Peiidliton 
 
 Simonston 
 
 (Page 211 of the AIS., folio 146.) 
 
 Money Geven to the poor of the 
 parishe of Whallay' 
 To m'^ Parrys C brother Robte Godfather^ xxx^ 
 to m"" Ashton^ to geue to the manage of) g 
 
 a poor maide | 
 
 to Margette Robtes & her iij childrene iiij*^ 
 
 Roeer Grecfson 
 
 lUj' 
 
 id 
 
 id 
 
 vx James wood & John wood iiij 
 
 Agnes Breares marget Margerie & Isabell... iiij 
 
 Cislie hogsone j*^ 
 
 vx John tineste & John & Georges iiij^^ 
 
 Ry chard hogson & will Rypon ij^ 
 
 John Sedell ij<^ 
 
 Wiswall Anthony hill 'f 
 
 Jenet woode j'^ 
 
 Ales Lambere iiij*^ 
 
 Isabell hindlie iiij<l 
 
 Marget porter jd 
 
 Isabell Dearste Jenet Smythe ] ....^ 
 
 vx Robte Janene j '-^ 
 
 Pendlieton to James Altam 
 
 Edward Colthurste willm flaiter^ & 
 John hodshon Edward Goodsha 
 Thoms Lawson Charles Ma 
 vx willm Bouker & Richard 
 
 Anne higgen 
 
 Willm parkere 
 
 Simonston 
 
 Isabell 
 
 Ales w 
 
 Isabel 
 
 John 
 
 Law 398 
 
 xij
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 was, I think, the widow of Giles Stansfield of Hesandford, near Burnley, whose 
 daughter and heir, Johanna, was wife of Simon Haydocke, gent. Her present, besides 
 a capon, included "two cheesecakes." The same confection was brought by the maid 
 of Lawrence Wild. The old fashioned "cheese-cake" was, says Bailey, "a sort of 
 cake made of curds, sugar, butter, and other ingredients." 
 
 " Lazviance loild'": The Index of Names, s.n., will give other references to the 
 Wild family, kindred of the Xowells, and our annotation thereupon. 
 
 =" " Cimlief loief': See the preceding page of text and note on the Cunliffes. 
 
 '' " shcnuinge the koises": Means, not exhibiting, hw\. shoeing, the animals. 
 
 '-' '■' oites at harivood," Sec: This payment was for oats, for food for the geldings 
 (young horses), when they were sent to Great Harwood village blacksmith to be shoed. 
 
 (210) 
 
 ' " wrj Toweitlei.'! Jiiaid of the Rayle^': I have stated before that the Towneleys of 
 Royle, an estate on the north-west side of Burnley, branched from the Towneleys of 
 Towneley. Edmund Towneley, gent., of Royle in 1569, married Katherine Curzon, 
 and she would be the Mrs. Towneley of the entry before us. 
 
 ' Javies JJir Thorns heskethe minstrell" : Sir Thomas Hesketh of Martholme and 
 Rufford, being a knight of good estate and bountiful entertainment, kept a minstrel to 
 sing to the harp at feast-times, James the minstrel had a gift of \2d. from Dean 
 Nowell on such an occasion. Sir Thomas Hesketh also kept players at his manor- 
 houses ; for Alexander Hoghton, Esq., by his Will, dated Aug., 1581, directed that 
 his brother Thomas Hoghton should have "all my instrumentes belonging to mew- 
 syckes and all maner of play clothes yf he be mynded to keppe and doe keppe players ; 
 and yf he wyll not keppe and manteyne playeres then yt ys my wyll that Sr Thomas 
 Heskethe Knyghte shall have the same institimentes and playe clothes.''^ {Lane. Wills, 
 Cheth. .Socy., vol. ii, p. 238.) 
 
 ^ "Mr. Bradell 7nen for their fames'''' : The item was paid for some service to the 
 men of John Braddyll, Esq., of Portfield, the great speculator in monastic estates, 
 temp. Henry VHI. and Eliz. This John Braddyll (who was next neighbour to the 
 Nowells of Read) died in Nov., 1578. 
 
 * "James Chitese wief": The surname is intended for James Chue or Chew, a 
 member of an old yeoman family seated at Elcar and Potter Ford, in Billington, and 
 later at Park Head in Whalley. 
 
 5 "Georges ShiittelliLiorthe ivieffe": George Shuttleworth, gent., of Asterleigh (a 
 freehold within Whalley township separated from Read Hall estate by the stream 
 called Sabden Brook). His son, William Shuttleworth, gent., of Asterleigh, married 
 Alice, daughter of Roger Nowell of Read, Esq. 
 
 ® " keperes of Hapton parke" : The men were Mr. John Towneley's keepers of his 
 park at Hapton, west of Towneley Park. (See aiite, p. 347.) 
 
 (211) 
 
 ' ^' Money Geven to the poor of the parishe of IVhallay": On this page of the M.S. 
 and the next are entered payments of sundry small gifts in money to poor folk in the 
 townships of Whalley, Wiswell, Pendleton, Simonstone, and Padiham. (See former 
 notes on these places ante, under distribution of cloth.) 
 
 '•2 " Air. Farrys or brother Robte Godfather x-^-s.s.": An interesting item. The reci- 
 pient of this considerable gift (30.^.), equal to about 15/. in present money value, was 
 an aged priest, Robert Paris or Paryshe, who had been, in his younger manhood many 
 years before, a monk of Whalley Monastery, Vicar of WHialley Church, and receiver 
 of the Rectory of Eccles. This record states that Mr. Paryshe had officiated as god- 
 father to Robert Nowell, the donor of this Bounty, and as the ceremony of Robert 
 Nowell's baptism had taken place some fifty years before the date of this record, 
 Father Parish must have been between 70 and 80 years old, if not older, in 1569, 
 when we find him still living in Whalley, thirty years after his official deprivation. 
 The Valor Ecclesiasticiis oi 1534-5 records that the Vicarage of Whalley was then 
 "in 7nanibns Roherti Parryshe inouachi," who had 12/. from the Abbey treasury for 
 his pension as Vicar, and 4/. in fees pertaining to his office as receiver of Eccles rec- 
 tory. There is extant (cited in the History of Whalley, vol. i, p. 87, new edition), 
 "Ane old valuation of the Rectorye of Whalley, under Mr. Roberte Parys hand- 
 wry ting, whoe was a monke of the Abbey of Whallye." He was displaced from his 
 benefice about 1537, when the monastery of Whalley was broken up. Possibly he 
 had a small pension from the new ecclesiastical authority which enabled him to sub- 
 sist. Dean Nowell's gift, a remembrancer of his sponsorship to Robert Nowell, must 
 have been a godsend to the poor old priest, who in the course of his long life had 
 witnessed such strange events in Church and State. He survived until 1572, and died 
 at Whalley. The burial register of Whalley Church attests the burial, in 1572, of 
 " Rohertiis Paris, alias Birche, capellanus vet. de Winsum." From this it seems that 
 his real name was Birch, and that of Parys assumed with his monastic habit. 
 
 3 "7>ir Ashton": Richard Ashton, Esq., of Whalley Abbey, named and noted 
 before. (Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 * " willm flaiter''' : From this line a portion of the page is torn off. 
 
 399
 
 (Page 212 of the MS., folio 146 verso.) 
 
 Padgham« Margct hackin iiij** 
 
 Ellen Bawdwein John & Rycharde xi]^ 
 
 Marget Michell mj 
 
 d 
 
 'fc> 
 
 Isabell Dodson nij*! 
 
 Isabell Raffe & John Whitakere xij^ 
 
 Isabell Nowell iiij'^ 
 
 Ales & Katherin Buckcocke iiij*^ 
 
 iijs viij' 
 
 (Page 213 of the 3fS., folio 148.) 
 
 Money Cjeven to dyvers Towens' 
 aboute whalley & brunley to certen 
 poor at Towenley gattes the 
 xxx^Ji of June 
 To certen poor in the Towen of Billington ) ..^ 
 
 as apperethe by the bill therof j 
 
 to certen poor of blakeborne Towene as | ^.^ 
 
 apperethe by the bill therof j 
 
 to certen poor of castell pishe as apperethe ) ^-^ 
 
 by the bill therof I' •' 
 
 to certen poor of yorkeshire as apperethe ] -g ..-a 
 
 by the bill therof r . 
 
 to certen poor of Ratchdall xj<i 
 
 to certen poor of higham viij<^ 
 
 to certen poor of Totmorden as apperethe \ ^^--d 
 
 by the bill therof j •* 
 
 to certen poor of pendle fiforreste w^Mn ) -.3 ^^ 
 
 the pishe of Newchurche j 
 
 to the poor in Sabden & towardes the ) j.-g jj--^ 
 
 mendinge of Sabden bridge^ j 
 
 to the poor w%in huncote iij^ iiij** 
 
 to the poor w^hin Rossendall xviij^ 
 
 to certen poor of hallyfaxe xxij<* 
 
 To one Roger Nowell of pendlie forested ^ 4 
 
 the xjt^ daye of Julij as apperethe by Vv^ f 
 
 his accquitance J ^ 
 
 xxxijs x"* 
 
 400
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (212) 
 
 ' " Padgham'"'. Padiham, a village and township near Burnley in Whalley Parish. 
 The name is often vulgarly pronounced as spelt here, " Padgham." 
 
 (213) 
 
 ' " Money geven to dyvers Towens, " &c. : Most of the places named below have been 
 met with previously in the 3IS. and their topography indicated. The sums would be 
 given in small amounts by Dean Nowell and Mr. Towneley's servants to very poor 
 persons in each locality. The places include, the township of Billington in Black- 
 burn Parish; the town of Blackburn; the "castle parish" of Clitheroe ; the York- 
 shire side of the border hereabouts ; the town of Rochdale ; the hamlet of Iligham in 
 Pendle Forest ; the town of Todmorden, north of Rochdale ; the parochial chapelry 
 of Newchurch in Pendle Forest ; the village of Sabden, near to Newchurch in the 
 Forest ; the township of Huncoat, near Accrington ; the Forest of Rossendale ; and 
 the town of Halifax in Yorkshire. 
 
 * " toivardes the mcndinge of Sabden bridge'''': Below the village of Sabden and at the 
 base of the wooded ridge which rises on the north side of Read Park, the old road 
 fromAVhalley to Padiham crossed the stream called Sabden Brook by a bridge, which 
 was of considerable antiquity ; and being in need of repair about the time of Dean 
 Nowell's visit to the ancestral seat, the Dean gave a small sum out of the charitable 
 trust towards the mending of the Sabden Bridge. 
 
 ' ^'' Roger N'ojvell of pendle foreste'''' : The Index of Names, J'.;/., will direct to other 
 references to a Roger Nowell of Pendle Forest, an undefined kinsman of the Nowells 
 of Read. 
 
 D D 401
 
 xxixti auguste 
 Anno 1569 
 
 (Page 214 of the MS., folio 
 A note of the 
 Weste contryi & 
 
 I53-) 
 
 charges 
 
 in 
 
 agayne 
 
 to the 
 ffrome 
 
 the xxix'^'i of auguste A° 1569 
 
 Laid 
 the xxix*^ 
 
 •xr^ xnj" xj 
 
 > X^i X<^ 
 
 vntell o'cominge agayne from thence 
 out by Robte Pyckringe^ 
 of auguste Anno 1569 
 the xxj*^^ of Septemb"' A° 1569 as 
 
 more plainly apperethe by the bill therof 
 
 Laid out more frome the xxiiij'^'^ of feptemb"^ 
 {569 vntell the xxvj*^ of Septemb'' 
 1569 as apperethe by the same bill 
 
 Robtes hande , 
 
 out more ffrome the xxix'^'^ of feptemb'"'] 
 A° 1569 vntell the 3 of October* as apperethe Vxiiij^ 
 
 by the bill of the said Robtes pyckringe J 
 
 Laid out by Alexander Bradshawe^^ 
 ffrome the xxix*'^ of auguste A° {569 
 vntell the xxviij*'^ of September as 
 more pleanly apperethe by the bill of the 
 
 faid Alexandere 
 
 Laid out by John houghton* ffrome the" 
 of Aug-uste A" 1569 vntell the firste 
 
 Inp'^imes 
 frome 
 vntell 
 
 Ao 
 Ao 
 of 
 Laid 
 
 I'd 
 
 J>vli xiijs W]^ 
 
 xxix^li 
 
 writmge 
 
 nth 
 
 of October Ap 1569 as more 
 
 appearethe by the bill of the hand 
 
 of the said John 
 
 Laid out by James wolton^ ffrome the xxvj 
 
 of Septembi" A*' 1569 vntell the -seconde 
 
 of October A° 1569 as apperethe by the 
 
 bill of the said James hande 
 
 [Line obliterated.] 
 
 ye22ti&2StioffeptembrTo the mcuc of bridge Avattere^ the) 
 
 ;th 
 
 pleanly S-v^' vij^ vij« 
 
 .li 
 
 IX" vnj" J 
 
 id 
 
 n'U 
 
 all these pcell Laid 
 out & rceyved by 
 James dothe apper 
 by his bill of 
 accompte. 
 
 XVllJ 
 
 li 
 
 xxvij"-" Oi Septemb'' by James f •' 
 
 To my mr in gold at m"" Jeninges his house' | 
 
 the xxijth of feptemb'' A" 1569 j 
 
 more Laid out by James wolton as apperethe \ 
 
 by his bill frome the xx^^ of Septemb'" vntell [-xxxvij^ viij*^ 
 
 the xxvij*** of Septembere A" 1569 j 
 
 Laid out more by the said James wolton"^ 
 
 ffrome the firste of feptemb"" vntell the 
 
 x*^ of the same monthe A*> 1569. as ^vj^* xiij^ iiij' 
 more pleanly apperethe by the said James I 
 
 bill 
 
 Ixxv^^ 
 
 J 
 
 402
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 (214) 
 
 ' " A note of ihe charges in the westecontry," &.C.: In June and July, 1569, as we have 
 seen, DeanNowcll was in his native district of East Lancashire, dispensing charities 
 in accordance with his iDrother's dying request tliat the poor of those paTts might be 
 cared for. In August of the same year he again started from home, in London, upon 
 a journey into the " Weste Contry," i.e., through Berkshire into Wiltshire and 
 Somersetshire. It was about the end of September when he returned home. Dean 
 Nowell was accompanied on this journey by his two kinsmen, Thomas Bowyer, Esq., 
 and Thomas Nowell of Runcton, gent, (whose travelling charges the Dean seems to 
 have paid), and by his four servants, James Wolton, Robert Pickering, Alexander 
 Bradshaw, and John Hoghton. Among the friends the Dean sojourned with in the 
 west were, Mr. John Wolton, his nephew, then rector of Spaxton in the diocese of 
 Wells ; "parson Jeninges," and Mr. Perle, "preacher of Salisbury." The Dean's 
 chief object in this tour was, apparently, that of distributing money of his brother's 
 trust in charity, and the large sums entered as laid out by his servants, though no detail 
 of the expenditure is recorded, may be supposed to include many small sums given to 
 deserving indigent persons. 
 
 * ^^ Laid out by Robte Pyckririge''^ : He is described in the first instance of his name 
 occurring in the MS. as " Robte Pyckringe, Mr. Deane of poulls mane " (see ante, p. 32). 
 As a trusty servant of the Dean he had several commissions to pay money on account 
 of this trust ; and he received a gift of 40^^. for himself on one occasion (see ante, p. 84). 
 In this western journey he laid out on account of his master three sums of i \l. ly. i \d., 
 10/. \od., and i\s. 
 
 ^ " Alexander Bi-adshawe'''': Another of Dean Nowell's men-servants, noted (ante, 
 p. 33) as having been still in his service in 1592, and a legatee under the Dean's Will. 
 
 * " jfohri Houghton ": He occnrs fj-eqiienier as a witness to gifts, being in the service 
 of Dean Nowell, and also, if I am not mistaken, sometime of John Towneley, Esq. 
 
 5 "James JVo/ton": In the Introduction will be found a statement of my reasons 
 for believing that this servant of Dean Nowell (who had previously, too, been Robert 
 Nowelfs confidential servant) was the person who kept these accounts of the trust, 
 and the Scribe of the MS. James Wolton is the chief custodian of money and pay- 
 master of the party during this journey, as shown by several entries infra and on the 
 succeeding page. Observe that in the margin below is written: "All these pcell 
 [parcels] laid out and receyved by James [Wolton] dothe apper by his bill of accompte," 
 and opposite this is entered a payment by the said James, "to my nV in gold at m' 
 Jeninges his house," &c. The words "to my master" could thus only have been 
 written in the MS. by James Wolton in this instance, and the handwriting here is that 
 of the whole AIS., excepting a few entries notice?! as being in Dean Nowell's own 
 handwriting. James Wolton was brother of John Wolton, Bishop of Exeter. (See 
 ante, notes at p. 7 and p. 267.) 
 
 8 " the mene of Bridgeu'attere": At Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, James Wolton 
 was almoner for the Dean of a sum of 8/. dispensed to the inhabitants. 
 
 ^ "at mr. yeninges his house": See entry on next page, and relative note. 
 
 40.3
 
 Money Laid 
 by my mr him 
 selfe the same 
 Jorney unto the 
 waste coutrie'- 
 
 (Page 215 of the MS., folio 153 verso.) 
 The xxiijt^ of feptemb"^ Geven to ) ,g 
 
 m"^ psonne Jeninges five children^ j 
 
 To m'^ Bowyer^ xxx* 
 
 To my old m"" Godsonn one clevengere'* v^ 
 
 To a poo*'scoller one Thorns Knighte vj^ 
 
 To John wolton & his father in lawe^ xxx^ 
 
 To his father for debte for carriage of haye vijMiij** 
 
 To psonn Jeninges his wief^ xxvij^ 
 
 To James Reedfearne at Welse^ xx^ 
 
 To m"^ Thoms Bowyer & m"" Thoms ) ...u 
 
 Nowell^ for there paynes j ^ 
 
 to them more at Salisburie xx^ 
 
 to iij fcholleres at Salisbury, one Christofor )^ ,g 
 
 Whither, Ambrose Rogeres & John wattes^ j 
 
 at the requieste of m'' boulde m'^ poclere w*^ others 
 
 To m'' perle preacher of falysbury'^ xx^ 
 
 To m^ Dj-are^^ xl^ 
 
 to a poor scoller by thandes of the pson of] ^ 
 
 Bridgwatere j 
 
 To Kerrie & his wiefe at Newberrie^^ ^^ 
 
 To the Mendinge of the way at Bridge ^ 
 watere'^ the 27 of Septemb"" I ^jj 
 
 wherof vj^i "was paid by James as f 
 
 apperethe by his bill j 
 
 xxixii ij8 iiij*^ 
 
 404
 
 Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 (2T5) 
 
 1 "■Money laid [out] by my inr him selfe the same jorney into the weste contrie ": Here 
 follow sums whicli Dean Xowell bestowed with his own hand. 
 
 2 " mr f Sonne Jeninges five children ": By a previous reference on the last page, 
 it is seen that Dean Nowell was staying at Mr. Jennings' house on the 22nd of Septem- 
 ber, 1569. This gift to the minister's children was made on the day following, the 
 23rd September. Who was this "Parson Jeninges"? Was he a relative of the 
 Nowells ? It is probable he was ; but there is no means of showing the nature of the 
 connexion. A Parson Jennings of Whalley is named before (see p. 312); but this 
 minister was beneficed somewhere in Somersetshire, perhaps at Bridgewater. I con- 
 clude he is the same with Richard Jeninges, minister, named on page 128 ante. 
 
 ^ " To mr BoTvyer," and " mr Thorns Bowyer," infra : I may insert here a short 
 account of the family of the Bowyers of London, &c. , several of whom have been met 
 with in the AIS. At page 261 ante, and in the Introduction, is pointed out the con- 
 nexion by marriage of this Thomas Bowyer, who was a lawyer of the Inner Temple, 
 with Dean Xowell and the Dean's first cousin, Thomas Nowell of Runcton. The 
 genealogy of the Bowyers at this period is as follows ; a portion of which is from Harl. 
 MS. I. 159 : — William Bowyer, Esq., of Petworth, in the county of Sussex, had issue 
 four sons, viz., Thomas, eldest son and heir, Robert, John, and Edmund Bowyer. 
 Taking first the record of the younger sons — Robert Bowyer of Chichester, second son 
 of William, had issue, sons, Robert Bo\\Ter, his heir (married Ann, daughter of Groner 
 of Tempelytton, and had daughters, Margaret, ^lartha, Elizabeth, and Ann) ; John 
 Bowyer (who had a son John Bowyer) ; Francis Bowyer, citizen of London, third son 
 of Robert (who married Elizabeth, daughter of Tihvorth of London); William Bowyer, 
 fourth son (married Ann, daughter of Sir John Harcourt) ; and Henry Bowyer, fifth 
 son. John Bowyer of Petworth, third son of the first named William Bowyer, married 
 Margaret, daughter of Darkley of Winchelsea, and had a son, William Bowyer of Pet- 
 worth (who married Eve, daughter of the heirs of Hemerford of Somersetshire, and 
 had recorded issue a daughter, Grace Bo\\yer); and daughters, Parnell (wife of Thomas 
 AtkiiTson, who had a daughter, Benedicta); Rose (wife of Symond IMarston, and 
 mother of James Marston); and Alice (wife of Mr. Richard Mills, who had a daughter, 
 Mary). I now come to the senior descent of the Bowyers, with w'hich we are more 
 particularly concerned here. Thomas Bowyer, Esq., citizen and grocer, of London 
 (first son of William Bowyer of Petworth), married Jane, daughter of Robert Merry of 
 Hatfield, Esq., and had issue, sons, Thomas Bowyer, eldest and heir (of whom see 
 below); and Richard Bowyer, citizen and grocer, of London ; and a daughter, Joan 
 Bowyer, who married, first, George Cassey of London, grocer (who died 20th August, 
 1568, leaving a son, Robert Cassey), and, secondly, Thomas Nowell of Runcton, gent. 
 (see p. 261, ante), and died 24th September, 1584. The father, Thomas Bowyer, 
 citizen and grocer of London, died 13th September, 1558, and was buried at North 
 Mundham, in the county of Sussex. His widow, Joan Bowyer, afterwards married 
 Alexander Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's, and died in August, 1579, and w^as buried at 
 North Mundham 14th August. Her son, and Dean Nowell's stepson, Thomas 
 Bo\v}'er of the Inner Temple (named here in the text and often elsewhere in the i\IS. ), 
 married Mawdelyn, daughter of Bartholomew Treheron, the eminent Protestant divine, 
 who died in exile temp. Mary. Mawdelyn Bowyer had a sister, Dorothy Treheron, 
 who is named in the MS. (p. 108), on the occasion of her marriage, when Dean Now^ell 
 sent her a gift by the hands of her sister's husband : — "To Thorns Bow^ere tow^ards 
 the marriage of Dorethe Treherone the 16 of Novembr A". 1569, hi. \y. 4d." 
 Thomas Bowyer's wife is named early in the MS. (see p. 6) as " Magdaline Bowyere "; 
 but when annotating that portion of the text I was not m possession of the facts now- 
 presented aboui the Bow^yer family. Mrs. Bowser of the Old Jury (wife, I think, of 
 Francis Bowyer, cousin of Thomas Bowyer, of the Inner Temple), is named on the 
 same page. Concerning the posterity (if any) of the last-named Thomas Bowyer I 
 lack information. 
 
 * ^^ my old mr Godsonn one clez'engere^'': The Scribe speaks of Robert Nowell, Esq., 
 as his "old master," which tends to confirm my notion that he was none other than 
 James Wolton, who had been Robert Nowell's man before he was Dean Nowell's. 
 The "godson" is unknown. Perhaps his name was not " Clevengere " but Cliviger, 
 derived from the district of that name in Lancashire. 
 
 * "John wolton dr^ his father-in-law'''': John Wolton, then rector of Spaxton, 
 subsequently Bishop of Exeter, of whose career and family I have given an account 
 (see ante, pp. 267-269). His father-in-law, named along with him in the present 
 reference, was a clergyman ; his name I have not ascertained. 
 
 * "p'son Jeninges his 7vief": On preceding page is another reference to Parson 
 Jennings, and relative note. 
 
 7 " To James Reedfearne at Welse": "Welse," no doubt, stands for Wells in our 
 Scribe's peculiar speUing. 
 
 405
 
 (Page 216 of the MS., folio 177). 
 To a poor Wyddowe^ m''s ftrange the xx'^ of) ^ 
 
 Aprill Anno 1573 | 
 
 To Nicholes Reyshton^ a poor fycke mane \ 
 
 the xvij*^^ of June A" 1573 : w'"'^ came frome >xiijs iiij^ 
 
 the Baythe J 
 
 To one Lieche a poor prisoner in the m^fhallsey \ ^^ 
 
 the xviij'^^^ of June A^ 1573 ) 
 
 To one m''^ Bartlete a poor wyddowe^ the xviij*'^ ) ^ 
 
 daye of June A" 1573 J^ 
 
 To one m''^ Rawcrosse* the xviij*'^ of June \ ^ 
 
 A« 1573 /'' 
 
 To one Rycharde newe a poor fyshe mongere^ ) ...^ ....^ 
 
 the xviijth of June A° 1573 | "^ "'^ 
 
 To tlie wieffe of one harmane Barkstede^ \ 
 
 whome was comendide by m"" Dean of Lytchfilde )-v' 
 
 the xx^^^ of Auguste A" 1573 J 
 
 given by my m^ to a poor man^ at an offringe ^ 
 
 at hatfilde whoe hade his howse bornte the wj^ 
 
 xxjth of auguste A^ 1573 j 
 
 geven to dyvers other poor men at or about ) ...g ....^ 
 
 the same xxj'^'^ of auguste A** 1573 ) ^ ^ 
 
 Too ra"" ffoxe of Cheapesyede^ the iiij*^^ ofS 
 
 Septemb"" A° i573 when he wente Vx^ 
 
 towardes Irelande J 
 
 Too one m'' Stowarde a booke bynder in London^ ] ..^ 
 
 the xijth of October A" i573 j ^■' 
 
 Too a poor mane w*^^ lacked fervice w*^'^ came w* ] ..^ 
 
 the psonn of Wydeforde^o the xij*^^of October A° 1573 f ^ 
 Too a poor mane w'^^ lackede service, w*^^^ came \ ..^ 
 
 wt m"" Walhvyne the xij'^i of octob"" A° 1573 j' ^-^ 
 
 To one henry ducker'\ a poore Tick mane, lyinge ) ..j 
 
 ficke at green wych, the xxiiij*'^' daye of Novemb*" j •' 
 To one Robte Goore the same xxiiij^^ daie \ 
 
 of November j 
 
 To one Leonarde Camp a poore mane 4 
 
 feconde of December A° 1573 ^ 
 
 lS 
 
 l3 
 
 406
 
 Notes and Ilhistrations. 
 
 ^ '■'■ mr Thorns Boivyer &^ mr Thorns NoT.velV: As to Mr. Thomas Bowyer, 
 see note supra, and respecting Mr. Thomas Nowell (of Runcton), see note at p. 261. 
 
 ' ^^ to iij scholleres at SalisbiDj, one Christofor Whither, Ambrose Rogei-es (Sr' John 
 Wattes'': Of this trio of Salisbury scholars, the first, Christopher Wither, I do not 
 identify ; Ambrose Rogers has before occurred in the MS., and has been noted as a 
 younger son of the eminent John Rogers (see ante, pp. 160-I, 212-13, 225). John 
 Watts may have been the son of Richard Watts of London, Taylor, named twice in 
 the MS. ante, at p. 196. 
 
 10 " !)ir Perle, preacher of Salysbiiry'': I find no information at hand respecting this 
 preacher. 
 
 " ''^ mr Dyare'" : Named before in the MS. as Mr. Dyer. (See p. 274.) 
 
 '^ "/^ Kerrie &= his 'wiefe at .Wioeberrie'" : Probably Humphrey Kerry, named at pp. 
 4, 40, 76, no, 274. Humphrey Kerrie and Margery his wife are named in Robert 
 Nowell's Will as legatees (see the Will in the Introduction). Humphrey Kerry was 
 probably employed sometime as verger at St. Paul's, for in one case he is entered 
 " Humfrey Kerrie verger" (p. 40). Newberrie, where he had this payment of \os., 
 was, I presume, Newbury in Berkshire. 
 
 ^^ "■ to the inendinge of the -ivay at Bridge 'LL'tttere": Finding the highway at Bridge- 
 water in bad condition, no doubt. Dean Nowell gave the town authorities a handsome 
 sum of 10/. to secure its proper repair. 
 
 (216) 
 
 * ^' To a poor IFyddoiue," &c. : This last leaf of the MS. appears to have got out of 
 its original place in the accounts, for the items belong to a diiferent set of payments to 
 those foregoing, and to a date four years later (1573). Mrs. Strange, the "poor 
 wyddowe," is unknown. 
 
 * " AUcholes Reyshton from the Bay the": This poor sick man bears a Lan- 
 cashire name (Rishton), although he had come up to London from Bath ("the Baythe "), 
 whither, perhaps, he had resorted on account of his disorder. 
 
 ^ "^?rrs Bartlete a poor ivyddoiue": She occurs before (p. 128) as "good wief 
 Bartlet" and as " Bartlettes wieff "; and at p. 156, as "meistres Bartlett." 
 
 * ^' mrs Rawcrosse" : Probably the same with "Mrs. Rowcrofte" of an earlier 
 entry (p. 158). 
 
 * ^ Rychard IVeive a poor fyshemottgere": Meant for Richard Neve, fishmonger, 
 several times met with and noted as connected by marriage with the Nowells. (Index 
 of Names, s. n. ) 
 
 ® "wieffe of one harmane Barkstede," &c. : Some poor woman, wife perhaps, of a 
 foreign Protestant refugee (for the Christian name, Herman, is a foreign one), whom 
 Mr. Lawrence Nowell, Dean of Lichfield, had commended to his brother's notice. 
 
 ^ '^geven by my mr to a poor man," &c. : This gratuity was given by Dean Nowell 
 at an "offring" (offering or collection) at Hatfilde (Hatfield, in Hertfordshire), to a 
 poor man who had been burnt out of his house. 
 
 ^ " mr ffoxe of Cheapesydc," &c. : The Foxes of London are several times mentioned 
 in the AfS. (Index of Names, s.n.) I conjecture they were of the same family with, 
 and perhaps nearly related to, John Foxe the Martyrologist, who was then also living 
 in London, and, we may be sure, a good friend of Dean Nowell's. The Mr. Foxe of 
 Cheapside of the present entry had this gift "when he wente towardes Irelande." 
 
 3 ^' mr Stoioarde a bookbynder in London": A poor journeyman bookbinder, who, 
 one can suppose, had become known to the Dean of St. Paul's by repairing the covers 
 of old tomes in his library, and now was out of occupation and in need of chanty. 
 
 '" '■^ psonne of 7vydeforde" : As this entry and the one below it are identical, excepting 
 that, in the first, the man who lacked service had come with the "parson of Wyde- 
 forde," and, in the second, "with Mr. Wallwyne," I conclude that Mr. Wallwyne was 
 the same person with the parson of Wydford (probably Widford near Chelmsford, in 
 Essex). 
 
 " '' Henry ducker," kc.\ Described as a poor sick man, lying sick at Greenwych 
 (Greenwich). 
 
 407
 
 (Page 217 of the MS., folio 177 verso.) 
 
 Too a poor fervinge mane^ comendide by m''^ 
 
 Tunstall the feconde of December A^ 1573 Mij^ iiij** 
 namede Recharde Wallton j 
 
 To a poor p^soner one Philhpe Bambrige^ ) ^ 
 the yi'f" of Decenib"" A^ 1573 |^ 
 
 To a poor man one Robte Broke the xx*'*^ ) g 
 of December A" 1573 ) 
 
 To dyvers other poore by Rychard Smyth \ 
 
 AUexander Bradshowe^ the xx*^^ of ^ viij* viij*^ 
 December A" 1573 j 
 
 To one Thoms lewes p^soner in the^ 
 m^shallsey at the sute of m' wycHeff I ..g 
 & m Clearke**, the xxix*^ of Januarye [ ^ 
 
 A« 1573 ^ 
 
 Too iiij"" poor fhypp men of Sussex robbed by ) g 
 
 pyrattes^ the v''^ of decemb'' A° i573 j " 
 
 To one Wilhn Lawe a poore sicke mane the viij*'^ \ ...^ ....^ 
 
 of Decemb-^ A" 1573 j "J "^^ 
 
 To one Saundersonns wief a poore womane the \ ..^ 
 
 xjt'i of Decemb'' A" i573 j ^•' 
 
 To one George Gylpyn^ a decayede m chante \ ^ 
 
 the xj'ii of decemb'' A^ {573 j ^ 
 
 Too one Thirsbye a yonge mane 
 
 a p'^sonner the xiij* of December A° 1573 ... 
 Too Abraham fowler^ late of Christes 
 
 College in Oxforde the xxvij*'^ of Decemb'' 
 
 Ao 1571 
 
 To one Samesonne a poore 
 
 lame boye the fyrste of Januarye A° 1573 
 To one hojDewoode a poore maide the fyrste ] 
 
 of Januarye A" 1573. j ^-^ 
 
 To willm Lawe^ a poore fykman by his \vief|..g 
 
 the seconde of Januarye A° 1573 j ^ 
 
 To one [erasure] 
 
 Grymsdich a poore mane beinge of kyne to ^ 
 
 m"" Grymsdych of Cheshire^ the 4 of January Vij* v]^ 
 
 A« 1573 • j 
 
 To father of western a poore ^ --g 
 
 bl}'nde mane the sexte of Januarye A° 1573... j 
 o one willm Mortonn a poore decayed \ ^ 
 
 ttizen the x*^ of Januarye A" {573 J 
 
 o one Robte vnderhill a very poore mane \ 
 the pishe of S'® Sepulcres the x*^ of Viij^ iiij*^ 
 L. ary A« 1573 j 
 
 1J3 
 
 ij3 yji 
 
 l9 
 
 408
 
 N'oies a?id Ilbistratioiis. 
 
 (2^7) 
 
 ' ^' a poor servinge mane,'" &c. : His name was Richard Walton, and he was com- 
 mended by Mr. Tunstall. Mr. Tunstall might be some Icinsman of Francis Tunstall, 
 Esq., then of Thurland Castle, in Lonsdale, in the county of Lancaster. 
 
 ■■^ "« poor fsoner one Philip Bambrige": I do not think these poor prisoners 
 helped by Dean Nowell were ordinary offenders against the law. It is more likely 
 they were honest and worthy persons who had been incarcerated either for debt through 
 misfortune, or possibly for their religious opinions. The remark applies to the poor 
 prisoner Philip Bambridge of this enliy, and to Thomas Lewes, prisoner in the 
 Marshalsea, and one "Thirsbye a yonge mane a p'soner" of two other entries infra. 
 
 ^ '■' dyvers other poore by Rychard Smythe, Alexander B)-adsho7ue": Richard Smith 
 and Alexander Bradshaw, two of Dean Nowell's men, dispensed this sum to several 
 poor persons. 
 
 * " mr wyclieff &' mr clearke''^'. Persons of repute in London, friends of Dean 
 Nowell, probably clergymen, though I cannot identify them. An Alexander Wyclief 
 occurs ante, p. 276; the second, Mr. Clearke, might be the Nicholas Clearke, named 
 as a "poor minister," ante, p. 124, or even Dr. Bartholomew Gierke, Dean of 
 Arches, &c. 
 
 * ^^ iiij poor e shy pp men of Sussex robbed by pyrattes" : Pirates in that age infested 
 many of the seas in which English ships of commerce entered, and these four poor 
 shipmen (mariners) of Sussex had reached their native shore destitute, after being 
 plundered by the pirates. 
 
 * " George Gylpyn a decayed m^chante" : This decayed London merchant was of 
 an eai-lier generation than his namesake, John Gilpin of Cowper's ballad, the "linen- 
 draper bold," of " credit and renown." It is pleasing to know that the fortunes of the 
 Gilpins looked up between the time of the decayed merchant, George Gylpyn, and of 
 the prosperous John Gilpin. 
 
 ^ '^ Abrahame fowler" : This entry is erased. Abraham Fowler, a. protege of Dean 
 Nowell, ocz\3x% freqttenter in the MS., and has been noted at p. 197. (For other 
 references, see Index of Names, s.n.) 
 
 8 " VVillm Lawe": See Index of Names, s.n. 
 
 ' ^' Mr Grymsdych of Cheshire''' : Mr. J. P. Earwaker, F. S.A., historian of East 
 Cheshire, kindly notes for us, that "the family of Grimsdich of Grimsdich is an old 
 Cheshire family who held lands at Grimsdich in Nether Whitley, in Bucklow Hundred, 
 for many generations. They had a grant of lands there about 1300, and continued 
 seated there till about 1 7 10, when John Grimsdich, the then representative of the 
 family, sold the estates. They do not appear to have entered at any of the Cheshire 
 Visitations, and their pedigree has not been worked out. The Mr. Grimsdich of 1573 
 was probaljly the same as 'John Grimsdiche of Grimsdiche, Esq.,' who occurs in 
 a list of Cheshire gentry in 1579." 
 
 K E 4<50
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 #*^ It should be pointed out that in the frequent instances in which a person is named 
 more than once on the same page the single entry in the Index is meant to cover each of 
 sucli references. Also, that where several persons of the same name appear in the text, 
 whom it would not be convenient to distinguish in the Index, one insertion of the name 
 has been deemed sufficient. For example, the name Roger Nowell belongs to several 
 representatives in the Nowell genealogy; yet we have not deemed it requisite to attempt 
 to mark each member out" in indexing, but have attached all the references to the one 
 entry of that name. For most practical uses this will be found enough. But persons of 
 historical distinction, e.g., Edmund Spenser, the Poet, have been carelully entered in the 
 Index apart from others of similar name who may occur. 
 
 ABBOT, Edward, 200. 
 Abbotte, Thomas, 
 
 1 70-1. 
 Aboot, Mr., 122-3. 
 Abote, Henry, 174. 
 Abram, W. A., x, xxvii, 80, 
 
 281, 397. 
 Aburgham, William, Vicar 
 
 of Croston, xxix. 
 Achley, Thomas, 224-5. 
 Acrowede (Ackroyd), 380-I. 
 Adames, Widow, 152. 
 Adderton, Christopher, 176. 
 Adishede, Anne, 152. 
 Adlington, William, 30- 1. 
 Agnes (maid), 8-9. 
 Agnew, 65, loi, 103, 105, 
 
 107. 
 Ainsworth (Aunceworthe), 
 
 Margaret, 390- 1. 
 Alarde, Robert, 12. 
 Albaney, William, 27, 38-9. 
 Albrighte of Parish Garden, 
 
 146. 
 Aldersey, Thomas, 1 14. 
 Alexander, Mr., 120-3. 
 
 Nicoles, 84. 
 
 (Reformer), 103. 
 
 Alldersaye, Mr., 228. 
 Allein, Richard, 201. 
 Allen (Allyn), Bp. Edmund, 
 
 126-7. 
 
 Mrs., 126-7. 
 
 Richard, 198, 20I 
 
 Samuel, 206, 209. 
 
 Allso, Hugh, 34. (See Hall- 
 sail. ) 
 
 Allsthorpe (Althorpe), Alice, 
 
 126, 274-5. 
 Allvey.Richard, 108-9, 1 1 2- 1 3. 
 
 Mr., 1 90- 1. 
 
 Allystree, Hugh, 12. 
 Alyne, John, 16. 
 Ambrose, John, 80. 
 Lewes, 224-5. 
 
 Maud, 80. 
 
 William, 80. 
 
 Ameridithe, Julyan, 140. 
 Amyas, Mr., 1 12-13. 
 Amyes, Roger, 90, 96. 
 Anderton, Isabel, 310. 
 John, 310, 390. 
 
 Samuel, 310. 
 
 Andrewe, Martha, 138. 
 
 Andrewes (Androwes), Lan- 
 celot, Bp. , xxii, xxiii, xxv, 
 29, 79, III, 184-5. 
 
 Andrews, Agnes, 8-9, 76, 
 
 78-9. 
 Angell, Thomas, 144. 
 Anger, Mother, 140. 
 Anthony, Mr., loi. 
 Antylls, Henry, 92-3. 
 Anslowe, Mr., 240. 
 Aperde, Richard, 16, 20- 1, 
 
 26. 
 Applegarthes, Mr., 244. 
 Applieyarde, Mr., 134, 144. 
 Apuleius, 31. 
 Arber, Edward, 37, 43, 99, 
 
 III. 
 Argoell, 66. 
 Arminius, 65. 
 Arscot, Mr., 251. 
 
 Arundel, Earl of, 80. 
 
 Ascham, 103. 
 
 Ashbye, William, 176-7. 
 
 Everard, 177. 
 
 Asheton (Assheton, Aston, 
 
 Ashton), Arthur, 271, 288- 
 
 9, 291. 
 
 Edward, 291. 
 
 Hamlet, xxxii, 88-9, 261. 
 
 John, 237, 389. 
 
 Katherine, 263, 271. 
 
 Nicholas, 81, 183, 291, 
 
 307- 
 - — Ralph, 217, 315. 
 
 Richard, 83, 216-17,310- 
 
 II, 388-9, 394-5, 398-9. 
 
 Theophilus, 297, 305. 
 
 • William, 271, 291, 295, 
 
 297. 
 Ashmer, 18. 
 
 Ashworth, Edward, 386. 
 Aske, Mr., 48, 94-5. 
 Aspeden, Agnes, 346, 372. 
 
 Anne, 374. 
 
 Ellen, 372, 374. 
 
 Isabel, 372, 374. 
 
 John, 352,357, 366-7. 
 
 Margaret, 354. 
 
 Margery, 352. 
 
 Miles, 372. 
 
 Roger, 352. 
 
 Aspinall, Alexander, 238-9. 
 Myles, 239, 253. 
 
 Richard, 252-3. 
 
 Astley, Anne, 256-7. 
 
 Dr. Richard, 20I. 
 
 Atherton, Samuel, 194-5.
 
 412 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Atherton, Thomas, 1 12-13, 
 
 Banastre (Banester, Bannis- 
 
 Bartlett, Mr., 158. 
 
 182-3. 
 
 ter, Mr., 242-3. 
 
 Mrs., 156. 
 
 Atkins, Richard, 134. 
 
 Nathaniel, 243. 
 
 Bartley, Tomason, 140. 
 
 Atkinson, Benedicte, 405. 
 
 Nicholas, 242-3, 388-9. 
 
 Barton, Andrew, 77. 
 
 Florence, xxxiii. 
 
 Richard, 356, 366. 
 
 Johan, 140. 
 
 John, 148. 
 
 Roger, xxx. 
 
 Ralph, 1, li. Hi, 76-9. 
 
 Reginald, xxxiii. 
 
 Thomas, 16-17. 
 
 Robert, xxxvii, 77. 
 
 Sr, 194-5. 
 
 Bancrofte, Alice, 82-3. 
 
 Thomas, xlvii, 14. 
 
 Thomas, 405. 
 
 Abp., 185. 
 
 Barw7ke, 18. 
 
 Attoughe, Agnes, 312. 
 
 Henry, 364. 
 
 Steven, 176. 
 
 ■ Alicocke, 382. 
 
 John, 364. 
 
 Basket, Anne, 152, 159. 
 
 Anne, 312. 
 
 Myles, 82-3, 267, 306-7. 
 
 Basse, Vincen, 100, 103, 107. 
 
 Jane, 312. 
 
 Bankes, Thomas, 210-11, 234. 
 
 Bates (Batte), Johan, 108-9. 
 
 Jenet, 312. 
 
 Sr, 226-7. 
 
 John, 324. 
 
 John, 312-13. 
 
 Barbon, John, 206, 208. 
 
 Thomas, 108-9. 
 
 • Margaret, 382-3. 
 
 Barcrofte, John, 350. 
 
 Widow, 152. 
 
 Aubrey, Thomas, 1 60-1. 
 
 Lawrance, 382-3. 
 
 William, 182-3. 
 
 Audeley, 144-5. 
 
 Robert, 350- 1, 382-3. 
 
 Bateman, John, 206 8. 
 
 Aughton, Thomas, xxxii. 
 
 William, 176, 2S8, 291, 
 
 Bath, Earl of, xlviii, 68-9, 74. 
 
 Austene, Elizabeth, 366. 
 
 382-3. 
 
 Batten, Sr., 198, 201. 
 
 Margery, 152. 
 
 Barefoot, 190, 228-9, 230- 1. 
 
 Battersbie (Batesby), 8-9. 
 
 Thomas, 16. 
 
 Barksdale, 103. 
 
 Peter, 4, 7. 
 
 Aylmer, Bp., 119, 183. 
 
 Barker, Ambrose, 178. 
 
 Bawd wen (Bawden), Ellen, 
 
 Ayre, John, 54. 
 
 Christopher, 99. 
 
 400. 
 
 
 Richard, 334. 
 
 John, 182, 366, 400. 
 
 3 ABER, Mary, 269. 
 
 3 Backhowse, Mr., 228, 
 
 William, 12. 
 
 Margaret, 366. 
 
 Barkstede, Harmann, 406-7. 
 
 Richard, 366, 400, 
 
 Bacon, 15, 85. 
 
 Barley, Robert, 73. 
 
 Thomas, 342. 
 
 Ladv, 84-5. 
 
 35- 
 
 Baxter, John, 329. 
 
 SirNich.,77, 79, 246-7. 
 
 William, 16-17. 
 
 Nathaniel, 198, 200. 
 
 Baelden, Jacobe, 102. 
 
 Barlowe, 50. 
 
 Richard, 14- 1 5. 
 
 Bagge, Richard, 124-5. 
 
 William, 107, 132. 
 
 Bayne, John, 174. 
 
 Bagshawe, Cristofor, 204-5. 
 
 Barnaby, Mr., 276-7. 
 
 Baynbrydge, Peter, 16-17. 
 
 Bailey, 399. 
 
 Barnarde, Hugh, 212-13. 
 
 Beale, Mr., 246. 
 
 Bailiff", Thomas, 312-13. 
 
 John, 130. 
 
 Beamounte, 30-1. 
 
 Baker, John, 18, 346. 
 
 Nicholas, 16. 
 
 Hemy, 178. 
 
 Peter, 146. 
 
 Barnes, Alice, 378. 
 
 Beane, John, 14. 
 
 William, 14, 146. 
 
 George, 174. 
 
 Beardmore, John, 152-3. 
 
 Baldwyne, Justinian, 204-5. 
 
 John, 202-3. 
 
 Beasley, Mr., 228-9, 231-3. 
 
 Thomas, 16. 
 
 Mr., 62. 
 
 Becke, Samuel, 202-3, 206-7, 
 
 Balgay, 119. 
 
 Barnsdale, Dr., 186-7. 
 
 224-5- 
 
 Ballarde, Goodwife, 140. 
 
 Baro (Barrow), Dr., 62-4. 
 
 Beck with (Bickwithe), Mr., 
 
 John, 360. 
 
 Peter, xxvi, 62-4, 106-7. 
 
 41, 118-19. 
 
 Balmye, John, 196. 
 
 Samuel, 63. 
 
 Roger, 160-1. 
 
 Bambrige, Philip, 408-9. 
 
 Baron, Alison, 352. 
 
 Bedell(BeddelI),Mr.,78,8o, 
 
 Bamford, Ralph (Randall), 
 
 Anne, 324. 
 
 109. 
 
 222-3, 234, 250. 
 
 Isabel, 324, 358. 
 
 Bedforde, Amos, 159. 
 
 ■ Samuel, 295. 
 
 ■ Margaret, 324. 
 
 Earl of, 199. 
 
 William, 9, 13, 223. 
 
 Margery, 352. 
 
 Beesleye, Robert, 178. 
 
 Banastre (Banester, Bannis- 
 
 Nicholas, 324-5. 
 
 Bege, Richard, 182. 
 
 ter), Eliz., 356, 366. 
 
 Peter, 352. 
 
 Belarmine, Cardinal, 199. 
 
 Ellen, 356. 
 
 ■ Richard, 325, 352-3. 
 
 Belchere, Edward, 210-II. 
 
 Grace, 52-3. 
 
 Barre, Vin. de la, 103. 
 
 Bell, Christopher, 144. 
 
 Henry, 343. 
 
 Barritt, Margaret, 269. 
 
 Heniy, 362. 
 
 Isabella, xxx,. 356. 
 
 — — Thomas, 267-9. 
 
 James, 228-9. 
 
 Jenet, 356. 
 
 Barthelmewe, Hemy, 1 2- 1 3. 
 
 Kathei'ine, 126. 
 
 Laurence, 356. 
 
 Bartlett, 129. 
 
 Margaret, 330. 
 
 Margery, 356, 
 
 Goodwife, 128, 406-7. 
 
 Bellamye, John, 212-13.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 413 
 
 Bellamye, Thomas, 168-9. 
 Bellicis, Anton., 113. 
 Benall, Nicholas, 14, 26. 
 Benchman, Charles, 206-7. 
 Benett, Margaret, 140. 
 Benham (Bonham), William, 
 
 19-20. 
 Bennett, William, 180-I, 210- 
 
 II. 
 Bensiriuz, 106-7. 
 Benson, James, 312. 
 Bentham, Ellen, 352. 
 Bentley, John, 174. 
 Berengenius, 146-7. 
 Bergavenny, Lady, 59, 79. 
 
 .Sir James, 79. 
 
 Bernard, iSIrs., 56-7. 
 Berne, Widow, 152. 
 Bernhere, Augustine, x.xvi, 
 
 146-7, 154-5. 
 
 Clement, 146-7. 
 
 Katherine, 154-5- 
 
 Thomas, 146-7. 
 
 Ursula, 154-5. 
 
 Bertwesill- (Birtwistle) family, 
 
 of Huncoat, 279. 
 
 Ahce, 392-3. 
 
 Edmund, 346-7. 
 
 Edward, 282-3, 286-7, 
 
 347- 
 
 Ellen, 346-7. 
 
 George, 388. 
 
 James, 283. 
 
 Jenet, 279, 346-7. 
 
 John, 347. 
 
 Leonard, 278-9, 346-7. 
 
 Margaret, 346-7. 
 
 Oliver, 279, 347. 
 
 Richard, 347. 
 
 Beson, Thomas, 136. 
 Bettonus, Anthony, 202-3. 
 Bexwicke, George, 4, 7. 
 Beyson, Grace, 152-3. 
 Beza, 105. 
 Bickley, Dr., 204-5. 
 Billington, Elizabeth, 320. 
 
 Jenet, 390. 
 
 Bilson (Bylson), Bp., xxii, 
 
 xxiii, XXV, 198, 201, 211, 
 
 213. 
 Bingham, Dr., 169, 188. 
 Birch, George, 288-9. 
 
 Thomas, 289. 
 
 Birchbeck, Simon, 197. 
 Bird (Byrde), Richard, 173, 
 
 178-9, 182-3. 
 
 Sr, 172-3. 
 
 Birram, Richard, 174. 
 
 Bitese, Richard, 28-9. 
 Blackley, Anne, 358-9. 
 Blaidge, Richard, 144. 
 Blewitt, 269. 
 Blocke, John, 134. 
 
 Thomas, 196. 
 
 Blomfield, 31. 
 Blondworth, 72. 
 Blount (Blunt), Thomas, xl, 
 123. 
 
 Mr., 122-3. 
 
 Bloxam, Dr., xi, 29, 93, 163, 
 199, 200, 203, 207-9, 213, 
 215, 217, 221, 225, 231, 
 
 233- 
 Blumley, Edmund, 237,242-3. 
 Blunden, Widow, 152. 
 Boddington, Stowe, 140. 
 Bodley, Mr., 258-9. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 259. 
 
 Bodsonne, George, 176. 
 Boget, John, 22-3. 
 Boie, William, 174. 
 Bolte, 148. 
 Bolton, Alexander, 348. 
 
 Anne, 152. 
 
 Catherine, 82. 
 
 Father, 12. 
 
 James, 82-3. 
 
 John, 152. 
 
 Margaret, 348. 
 
 Margeiy, 348. 
 
 Nicholas, 86. 
 
 Oliver, 144. 
 
 Robert, Rev., 357. 
 
 William, 32, 356-7. 
 
 Bond, Nicholas, 153, 176-7. 
 Bonner, Bp., xxxix. 
 Boody, Ellen, 366. 
 
 Lawrence, 366. 
 
 Robert, 366. 
 
 Booth (Bothe, Bouthe), Alice, 
 
 320, 370. 
 
 Elizabeth, 382. 
 
 Frances, 144. 
 
 Grace, 364. 
 
 Henry, 360, 378. 
 
 Isabel, 370. 
 
 Jane, 380. 
 
 Laurence, 346. 
 
 Richard, 388. 
 
 Samuel, 378. 
 
 Sir Wm., 328-9. 
 
 Boothman(Bouthmane), Alice, 
 366. 
 
 Ellen, 358-9, 366. 
 
 Jane, 364. 
 
 Jenet, 366. 
 
 Lawrence, 344-5. 
 
 Bordman, Andrew, 175,1 76-7. 
 Bosvile, Mr., 68, 74. 
 Boswell, Reynold, 175. 
 Botterell, John, 148-9. 
 Boucocke, Jenet, 358. 
 Boughton, John, 108. 
 
 Richard, 198, 200, 206. 
 
 Boulde, Mr., 404. 
 Bounde, Widow, 152-3. 
 Bourne, Mr., xxxLx. 
 
 Wm., 257. 
 
 Bousefilde (Bowsfield, Bus- 
 filde), Bartholomew, 185. 
 
 Francis, 185. 
 
 Harry, 185. 
 
 — — Mr., Preacher, 184. 
 
 Thomas, 1 84-5, 1 88-9. 
 
 Bowker, Edmund, 334. 
 
 Jenet, 392. 
 
 John, 342-3. 
 
 Robert, 3 10- 11. 
 
 William, 398. 
 
 Bowland, William, 1 14. 
 Bowname, Hugh, 1 22-3. 
 Bowyer, Alice, 405. 
 
 Anne, 54-5, 268, 271, 
 
 405- 
 Edmund, 405. 
 
 Elizabeth, 405. 
 
 Francis, xxxix, 9, 34-5, 
 
 90-1, 98-9, 104, 126,405. 
 
 Grace, 405. 
 
 Henry, 405. 
 
 Jane, 261, 405. 
 
 Joan, xl, xli, 261, 405. 
 
 John, 405. 
 
 Magdaline, 6, 9, 405. 
 
 Margaret, 405. 
 
 Martha, 405. 
 
 Mrs., of Wimbledon, 6, 
 
 — Mrs., of the Old Jury, 
 6, 9, 405. 
 
 Parnell, 405. 
 
 — Robert, 405. 
 
 — Richard, xli, 76, 104, 
 116, 126, 130-I, 261, 263, 
 405. 
 
 Rose, 405. 
 
 Thomas, of Lathome, 
 
 xl, xli, 72-3, 108-9, 240-1, 
 244-5, 260-1, 263, 403-5. 
 
 Thomas, of London, xl, 
 
 xli, 9, 34. 54, 126,261,405. 
 
 William, of Petworth, 
 
 405. 
 Braddyll of Portfield, 125.
 
 414 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Braddyll of Portfield, Alice, 
 xiv, 314-15- 
 
 Cicely, 314-15. 
 
 Edward, xxxiv, 125, 314. 
 
 Elizabeth, 314-15. 
 
 Grace, 314-15. 
 
 Jenet, 314-15- 
 
 John, xiv, 309, 314-15, 
 
 398-9- 
 
 Letitia, xxxiv. 
 
 Margaret, 3 14- 1 5. 
 
 Marie, 314-15. 
 
 Bradford, 155. 
 
 John, 289. 
 
 Bradley, Jenet, 32. 
 
 Robert, 56, 72. 
 
 - William, 178. 
 Bradock (Braddockes), Thos., 
 
 166-7. 
 Bradsliaw (Bradshowe), 
 
 Agnes, 370. 
 Alexander, liii, 32-3, 
 
 114-15, 290-1, 300, 302, 
 
 304, 363, 402-3, 408-9. 
 
 Charles, 18, 26. 
 
 Christopher, 10, ^if^. 
 
 Elizabeth, 370. 
 
 John, 370. 
 
 Roger, 164-5. 
 
 Bragden, John, 142-3. 
 Bramsgrave, John, 132. 
 Brand, John, 34. 
 Brandenwood, Father, 1 34-5. 
 Brasbridge, Thomas, 196-7. 
 Brassett, Margery, 154, 
 Brathwaite, Mr., 142-3. 
 
 William, 178-9. 
 
 Braune, Edward, 180. 
 Brearley, Clay, 386. 
 
 Elizabeth, 386. 
 
 Breares (Breres), Agnes, 398. 
 
 Elizabeth, 314. 
 
 Ellis, 314. 
 
 Grace, 314. 
 
 Isabel, 314, 398. 
 
 Margaret, 314, 398. 
 
 Margery, 398. 
 
 Brecke, Mr., 62. 
 Bretherton, John, xxxiv. 
 Richard, 162-3, 390-1, 
 
 394-5- 
 Breton (Bryton), Nicholas, 
 
 37, 200. 
 Brickbecke, Mr., 1 96- 7. 
 Bridge (Briggs, Bridges), 
 
 Agnes, 364, 366. 
 
 Alice, 348, 364. 
 
 Ambrose, 297. 
 
 Bridge ( Briggs, Bridges ) , 
 Anne, 296-7. 
 
 Charles, 352. 
 
 Christopher, 348. 
 
 Elizabeth, 288-9. 
 
 Elk 
 
 564. 
 
 — Elys, 296-7. 
 
 — James, 288-9, 296-7. 
 
 — Jenet, 366. 
 
 — John, 296-7. 
 Margaret, 296-7. 
 
 Marty n, 180-1. 
 
 — Richard, 22, 144, 364, 
 
 372. 
 
 Thomas, 390, 392. 
 
 Bridgeman (Brigmane), John, 
 216-17, 220-1, 224-5. 
 
 Sir Olando, 217. 
 
 Thomas, 225. 
 
 Brighte, Agnes, 314. 
 
 Edmund, 90-1. 
 
 Isabel, 350. 
 
 Widow, 126. 
 
 Brock, Margaret, 296-7. 
 
 Owen, 296-7. 
 
 Richard, 296-7. 
 
 Brockesmouthe, Jeffrey, 146. 
 Brockesope (Broxup), Jenet, 
 
 354- 
 jNIargaret, 342-3, 382. 
 
 Richard, 354. 
 
 Brodgate, William, 136-7. 
 Brogden, Elizabeth, 326. 
 
 Richard, 326. 
 
 Broke, Robert, 408. 
 Bromley, Sir George, 254-5. 
 George, 255. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 255. 
 
 Brook (Brooke), 29. 
 
 Mr., of Essex, 2, 5. 
 
 Brook's Puritans, 119. 
 Broughtone, Hugh, 178. 
 Brownbrokes, John, 360-1. 
 Brown (Browen, Browene), 
 
 12, 13. 
 Anne, 390. 
 
 Cicely, 336. 
 
 Edward, 216-17. 
 
 Elizabeth, 334. 
 
 Ellen, 336. 
 
 Father, 148. 
 
 Henry, 388, 390. 
 
 Jenet, 354. 
 
 John, 204-5, 309, 334-5= 
 
 396. 
 
 Lettice, 336. 
 Margaret, 334. 
 Nicholas, 174, 182-3. 
 
 Brown (Browen, Browene), 
 Richard, 76, 79, 166. 
 
 Robert, 18. 
 
 Roger, 228-9. 
 
 Sybil, 336. 
 
 Thomas, 1 80- 1. 
 
 Uxor, 272. 
 
 Bruges, William, 79. 
 Bruister, Mr., xlvii. 80. 
 Bruscoe, Edmund, 334. 
 
 Gilbert, 334. 
 
 John, 334-5. 
 
 Bryan, George, 144. 
 
 of Clerkenwell, 146. 
 
 Bryckett, John, 1 12- 13. 
 Brygge, John, 166-7. 
 Bryggote, 113. 
 Bryskey, John, 22-3. 
 Bryster, Oliver, 132. 
 Bucer, Martin, 103. 
 Buckcocke, Alice, 40. 
 
 Catherine, 400. 
 
 Margaret, 308. 
 
 Buckeridge, Bishop, III, 185. 
 Buckley, Abel, 289. 
 
 Elizabeth, 374. 
 
 Isabel, 374. 
 
 Margaret, 374. 
 
 Richard, 374. 
 
 Robert, 289, 374. 
 
 Thomas, 374. 
 
 Rev. W. E., xi. 
 
 Budd, Father, 136. 
 Budgler, Agnes, 152-3. 
 Buere, 12. 
 
 Bulden, Margaret, 152. 
 Bull, John, 18-19. 
 Bullocke, John, 210-11, 234. 
 
 William, 20. 
 
 Bunney, Frances, 196-7. 
 
 Edmund, 199. 
 
 Burch, Thomas, 212-13. 
 Burghley, Lord, xxxvii., 63, 
 
 71>, IS, 123, 125, 179, 181, 
 
 187, 241, 265. 
 Burie, Henry, 176. 
 Burtby, Edward, 148. 
 Burton, Edward, 180- 1. 
 
 Marke, 20. 
 
 Mr., 43. 
 
 Richard, 170. 
 
 Busby, Thomas, 52-3. 
 Bushe, John, 16. 
 Buste, John, 196-7. 
 Butler, Edward, 200. 
 Butterfield, Ellen, 352. 
 Butterworth, James, 278-9, 
 
 287.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 415 
 
 Butterwoi'lh, Katherine, 310, 
 
 390- 
 
 William, 295. 
 
 Byckley, Thomas, 214, 
 Bygges, Richard, 130. 
 Bylboroughe, Richard, 22. 
 Bylcher, Edward, 234. 
 Bymmgton, Agnes, 322. 
 Bynge, Dr., 168. 
 Byngley, Sir Peter, 204-5. 
 Byrde, Margaret, 376. 
 Byrch, John, 204-5. 
 Byrom, 147. 
 
 John, xxxii. 
 
 John, 301, 
 
 Sir John, 291, 301. 
 
 Byxen, WiHiam, 22. 
 
 CABELL, Thomas, 204, 
 207. 
 Cadwell, Dr., 226-7. 
 Calcot, Thomas, 176. 
 Callinedge, Mr., 218. 
 Callye, Jenet, 354. 
 Calsehill, Richard, 204-5. 
 Calthorpe, 274-5. 
 Calvin, John, 65, 199. 
 Camden, William, ix, 31, 205. 
 Camp, Leonard, 406. 
 Camparte, Leonard, 130. 
 Campion, 3, 81, 145. 
 Candvvell, George, 146. 
 Canterbury, my L. of, 1 60- 1. 
 Cape, Mr., 142-3. 
 Cardes, 56-7. 
 Carelesse, 148. 
 Carney, Agnes, 316. 
 
 Edward, 316. 
 
 Elizabeth, 316-17. 
 
 Jane, 316. 
 
 John, 316. 
 
 Margaret, 3 1 6. 
 
 Marie, 316. 
 
 Nicholas, 316. 
 
 Richard, 317. 
 
 Carnot, Margery, 1 52-3. 
 Carrall, Cuthbearde, 10. 
 Carre, Roger, 174. 
 Carrie, Ellen, 342. 
 Carter, Abraham, 257. 
 
 Alice, 138, 257. 
 
 — — Dorothy, 257. 
 
 Goodman, 12. 
 
 Hamlett, 192-3. 
 
 John, 180, 257. 
 
 Mary, 257. 
 
 Oliver, 169-70, 256-7. 
 
 of Wandsworth, 136. 
 
 Cartmell, Anne, 330. 
 
 Edmund, 330. 
 
 George, 330-1. 
 
 Isabel, 330. 
 
 Jenet, 330. 
 
 John, 331. 
 
 Margaret, 330. 
 
 Richard, 388. 
 
 Cartwright, Thomas, 119, 
 
 196-7, 207. 
 Carus, Anne, 149. 
 
 Christopher, 149. 
 
 Griselda, 149. 
 
 Sergeant, 148-9. 
 
 Thomas, 149. 
 
 William, 149. 
 
 Carver, Roger, 144. 
 
 Cassidorus, 62-3, 65. 
 
 Cassie (Casey,Cassey,Cassye), 
 
 George, xl, xli, 261, 405. 
 
 Joan, 261, 405. 
 
 John, 10. 
 
 Mr., 34-5. 
 
 Mrs., xlvi, la, 6, 9, 77. 
 
 Richard, 263. 
 
 Robert, xlvii, xlviii, 9, 
 
 76-7, 261, 263, 405. 
 Cassou (Cassonne), Agnes, 
 
 304- 
 
 Alice, 304. 
 
 Caleb, 289. 
 
 Catherine, 304. 
 
 Elizabeth, 304. 
 
 James, 304. 
 
 John, 289, 305. 
 
 ALirgaret, 304-5. 
 
 Richard, 304. 
 
 Samuel, 289. 
 
 Thomas, 4, 6, 288-9, 
 
 305. 
 
 Wilfred, 289. 
 
 Castelton, Andrewe, 178. 
 
 Cater, Widow, 154. 
 
 Caton, Mr., 156. 
 
 Cave, Richard, 198, 200. 
 
 Caverley, Richard, 14. 
 
 Cecil, Mr. Secretary (Sir 
 William), xliv, xlix, 1, li, 
 32-3, 767, loi, 136-7, 
 205. 
 
 Lady, 84-5. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 173. 
 
 William, 173, 265. 
 
 Chaderton, Bishop, 289. 
 
 Chadwell, 31. 
 
 Chadwick, Alice, 301, 304-5. 
 
 Elizabeth, 294-5, 3^4- 
 
 Mrs., 276-7. 
 
 Challoner (Chaliner), Jene 
 
 346. 
 
 Mr., 1. 
 
 Robert, xxxi, 295. 
 
 Chalmers, Air., xv. 
 Chamberlean, Mr., 214. 
 Chambers (Chamberes), 451. 
 
 Henry, 10. 
 
 John, 58. 
 
 Mr., 2, 5. 
 
 Chamblere, John, 198, 20I. 
 Chaple, Barthelmew, 194. 
 Chapman (Chapemane), John, 
 
 172-3, 182-3. 
 
 Mr., 264. 
 
 Charke, William, 3. 
 Chatburne, Jenet, 332-3. 
 
 John, 334. 
 
 Margaret, 334. 
 
 Robert, 332-3, 334. 
 
 Thomas, 332-3. 
 
 Chaterton, Adam, 108-9, 
 Chatfield, George, 263. 
 Chatmies, Adam, 384. 
 Chaundler, Thomas, 22. 
 Cheeke, Robert, 176. 
 Cheney, Lord, 240-3, 248. 
 
 Lady, 244-5. 
 
 Thomas, 244-5. 
 
 Chester, Colonel, xl, xliv, 31, 
 
 149, 261. 
 
 Nycholes, 132-3. 
 
 Chetham (Chitham, Cheet- 
 
 hame), Agnes, 310-II. 
 
 WiUiam, 210-II, 234. 
 
 Chevalier, Anthony, 103. 
 Jael, 103. 
 
 Mary, 103. 
 
 Oliver, 103. 
 
 Robert, 103. 
 
 Rodolphus, XX vi, 100- 1, 
 
 103. 
 
 Samuel, 103. 
 
 Childers, Thomas, 280-5, 287. 
 Chivall, William, 142-3. 
 Christie, John, 148. 
 Christepeney, Robert, 146. 
 Christmas, Thomas, 16. 
 Christopher, Marmaduke, 
 
 261. 
 Christofore, 88. 
 Chroke, Mr., 192. 
 Chue (Chew), James, 398-9- 
 Churche, Robert, 1 78-9. 
 Churchyard, Mr., 1 16-17. 
 Thomas, xxvi, 152, 276- 
 
 7- 
 Widow, 152-3.
 
 4i6 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Churton, Rev. Ralph, xxvi, 
 xxxvi, xxxviii, xliv, 3, 35, 
 49, 71. 73> 8o-i> 123, 219, 
 277. 
 
 Claiter, Jenet, 354. 
 
 Thomas, 354. 
 
 Claiton (Claton, Clayton, 
 Cleaton), Alice, 358. 
 
 Catherine, 312. 
 
 Edward, 170-1, 358. 
 
 Elizabeth, 312, 356. 
 
 Isabel, 312. 
 
 James, 360. 
 
 John, 360. 
 
 Margaret, 312, 356. 
 
 Richard, 356, 388. 
 
 Robert, 260. 
 
 William, 322-3, 356. 
 
 Clapham, Edmond, 32. 
 
 • John, 32. 
 
 Mrs., 6, 9, 154, 156. 
 
 Clarendon, 185. 
 Claye, Edward, 146. 
 Cleare, Father, 50. 
 Clearke (Clarke, Cleark, 
 Clerke), Barthol., 409. 
 
 Benet, 10. 
 
 Homfrey, 180-1. 
 
 James, 358. 
 
 John, 18. 
 
 Mr., 408-9. 
 
 Nicholas, 124, 409. 
 
 Thomas, 16-17, 192-3- 
 
 William, 171. 
 
 194- 
 
 Clegg (Clege), Alice, 308. 
 
 Beatrice, 301, 308. 
 
 Elizabeth, 308. 
 
 Francis, 301. 
 
 Henry, 301, 30S. 
 
 Katherine, 386. 
 
 IMargaret, 301, 308. 
 
 Otwell, 308. 
 
 Clifford, Agnes de, 51. 
 Clint, Mr., 266-7. 
 Clivengere (Cliviger), 404-5. 
 Clode, C. M., 27, 29, 39, 45, 
 
 47, 53, I", 143, 163, 167, 
 
 185. 
 Close, Ellen, 348. 
 
 Jenet, 378. 
 
 Clowdesley, Robert, 4, 7, 
 
 114,274-5. 
 Clowley, Mr., 148. 
 Clowther, William, 238-9. 
 Coare, Margaret, 312. 
 Coates, Richard, 256-7. 
 Cobliam, Lady, 45. 
 
 Cockshay, Christopher, 370. 
 Cockshutt, Alice, 326. 
 
 Barnard, 330. 
 
 Elizabeth, 320. 
 
 Hugh, 320-1, 
 
 Isabel. 320, 322. 
 
 Jenet, 320. 
 
 John, 320-1, 330. 
 
 Lettice, 322. 
 
 Margaret, 320. 
 
 Richard, 320- 1. 
 
 Susan, 322. 
 
 Thomas, 320, 322. 
 
 Coke, Christopher, 340-1. 
 
 John, 390. 
 
 Thomas, 196-7. 
 
 Colclough, Adam, 178. 
 Coldinge, John, 198, 20I. 
 Cole (Coole), Dr., 204-5, 
 
 214-15, 220-1, 224, 228, 
 
 231-2, 238, 250. 
 
 Homfrey, 206-7, 220- 1. 
 
 John, 206-7, 267, 269. 
 
 Mr., 70. 
 
 Mr., of Devonshire, 56- 
 
 7, 219. 
 
 Mr. Robert, Vicar of 
 
 Bow Church, 220-1, 224-5. 
 
 Thomas, 206-7, 220- 1. 
 
 Coleman, Anne, 52. 
 Coleridge, 59. 
 Colet, 29. 
 Colffe, Edmund, 205. 
 
 Isacke, 168-9, 205. 
 
 Richard, 204-5. 
 
 Colier, J. Payne, xv, 225. 
 Collet, AHce, 138. 
 CoUinge, John, 295. 
 
 Robert, 292-3. 
 
 Collins (Collines), Abigail, 
 
 116. 
 John, 146. 
 
 - Richard, 12, III. 
 
 Robert, 146, 148, 384. 
 
 Collinson, Alice, 386. 
 
 Richard, 70. 
 
 Colthorpe, Abraham, 350- 1. 
 Colthurst, Edward, 398. 
 Commat, Joan, 152. 
 Compton, 21. 
 
 — — Edward, 22. 
 Coney, Heniy, 290- 1. 
 Constable (Cunstable), Sir 
 John, 156-7. 
 
 Sir Marmaduke, x8i, 
 
 308. 
 
 Cooke, Sir Anthony, 85, loi. 
 Edward, 320. 
 
 Cooke, Father, 38S, 
 
 Frances, 232-3. 
 
 James, 312, 338. 
 
 John, 12, 24. 
 
 Margaret, 336. 
 
 Margery, 336. 
 
 Marie, 390- 1. 
 
 Robert, 42-3. 
 
 Thomas, 233. 
 
 William, 312. 
 
 Coop (Cooper), 31. 
 
 Ellen, 318. 
 
 Jane, 318. 
 
 John, 318. 
 
 Mr. Dr., 196-7, 204-5, 
 
 214. 
 Mr., of Westminster, 
 
 146. 
 
 Richard, 14. 
 
 Robert, 318. 
 
 Cooper's ^///if«« Cantab., 109, 
 115, 119, 127, 137, 159, 
 161, 165, 167, 173, 175, 
 177, 179, 181, 183, 185, 
 187, 189, 191, 193, 195. 
 
 Coosins, 62. 
 
 Jean, loi, 104, 107. 
 
 — — Mr., xxvi., 104-5. 
 
 Corannus, Anthonius, xxvi, 
 63-5, loo-i, 103-4, 106-7, 
 230-1. 
 
 Corbett, Jane, 386. 
 
 Mr., 248-9. 
 
 Cordall, Sir William, 39. 
 
 Cornwallis, John, 45. 
 
 Cottesforde (Cotesford,Coots- 
 ford), Robert, 172-5. 
 
 29. 
 
 Samuel, 178, 185, 193. 
 
 Cottingham, James, 200. 
 
 Cotton, Edward, 1 74-5, 180. 
 
 Ellen, 138. 
 
 Jenet, 358. 
 
 Richard, 276-7. 
 
 Robert, 2 10- 11,234,240. 
 
 William, 240-I. 
 
 Coulle, Phemy, 16. 
 
 Coup (Cowp), Agnes, 368. 
 
 Alice, 386. 
 
 Anne, 386. 
 
 Elizabeth, 386. 
 
 Lawrence, 396. 
 
 Roger, 392. 
 
 Thomas, 146. 
 
 William, 392-3. 
 
 Courtney, Peter, 68. 
 
 Cove, Richard, 212-13, 224-5. 
 
 Cowell, William, 10.
 
 Index of I ^ersons. 
 
 4^7 
 
 Coxe, Mr., 32. 
 
 William, 161-3, 220- 1, 
 
 224-7, 230-1. 
 Crabtree, Anne, 82-3, 306-7. 
 
 Jenet, 306-7. 
 
 John, 306-7. 
 
 Marie, 306-7. 
 
 Thomas, 82-3,296,306-7. 
 
 Cradocke, Dr., 222-3. 
 Crane (Creane), John, 132, 
 
 225. 
 
 Nicholas, xxvi, 118- 19. 
 
 William, 224-5, 230-1. 
 
 Cranmer, Archbishop, 103, 
 
 107. 
 
 Samuel, 206, 208. 
 
 Crashaw, Richard, 45. 
 Craven, Edward, 314-15. 
 
 Myles, 314-15- 
 
 Nicholas, 315. 
 
 Richard, 315. 
 
 Robert, 314-15- 
 
 William, 315. 
 
 Cricke, Mr., 206, 208. 
 Crine, James, 146-7. 
 Crippes, John, 14. 
 Crocke (Croke), John, 165. 
 Richard, 165. 
 
 Thomas, 1 12-13. 
 
 Croder (Crowder), Alice, 366. 
 
 Gyles, 390, 392. 
 
 Crombocke, John, xxxiv. 
 Cromwell, Oliver, 389, 395. 
 Cronshey, Anne, 318. 
 — — • Christopher, 329. 
 
 Elizabeth, 82-3, 306-7. 
 
 Ellen, 306-7. 
 
 George, 328-9. 
 
 Isabel, 318, 368. 
 
 Leonard, 82-3, 306-7, 
 
 318-19. 
 Mary, 306-7. 
 
 Richard, 366. 
 
 Robert, 306-7. 
 
 Crooe, Agnes, 112. 
 Crosley, Margaret, 378. 
 
 William, 386. 
 
 Crosse, Richard, 41, 118-19. 
 Crowley, Robert, Rev., 92-3, 
 
 96-7, I20-I, 142-3, 154-5, 
 160, 172, 244-5, 250. 
 
 Crucke, John, 164-5. 
 
 Cunbery, James, 4, 5, 18-19, 
 26. 
 
 Cunliffe (Cunlyfe),Christabel, 
 
 395- 
 
 Christopher, 261, 395. 
 
 Grace, 395. 
 
 Cunliffe (Cunlvfe), Isabel, 
 
 318-19, 396,'399. 
 
 ■ Jenet, 395. 
 
 John, xxxiv, 395. 
 
 Mr., of Sparthe, 394-5. 
 
 Nicholas, 395. 
 
 Robert, M.R, 395. 
 
 Cunney, Robert, 178. 
 Curley, Thomas, 28-9. 
 Currer (Currare), Thomas, 
 
 114, 154. 
 Curteys, Richard, Bp., 159. 
 Curtyese, William, 20-1. 
 Curzon, Catherine, 399. 
 
 DALE, Johan, 322. 
 John, 48. 
 
 — Nicholas, 326. 
 
 Dallissonne, William, 12. 
 Dallydone, Thomas, 72. 
 Dallyfayus, Robert, 104, 107. 
 Dalton, John, 1S2. 
 — — Richard, 252-3. 
 
 Robert, 3 10- 11. 
 
 Daniel, Nicholas, 288-9. 
 
 Daughter, 52. 
 
 Danyell, William, 1 84-7, 1 90-5 . 
 Darliyshire, Thomas, 207. 
 Daubney, Elizabeth, 270. 
 
 Mary, 270, 272. 
 
 Davidge, John, 164-5. 
 David, 4. 
 
 Da vies (Daves, Davis), Alex- 
 ander, 144. 
 
 165. 
 
 of Hereford, 59. 
 
 Sir John, 45. 
 
 Peter, 14. 
 
 Davisonn, Richard, 176. 
 Dawkes, Anne, 263. 
 Dawson, Cooke, 48. 
 
 John, 304. 
 
 Dawsones, Mathew, 270. 
 Day fDaye), Thomas, 130, 
 
 216-17. 
 William,Provost of Eton, 
 
 144-5- 
 Dayrell, Paul, 215. 
 Deane (Dean, Deyne), Anne, 
 
 80, 300-1. 
 
 Elizabeth, 316. 
 
 Henry, 80. 
 
 James, 80. 
 
 — — Jane, 340. 
 
 Jennet, 78, 80, 340. 
 
 John of Tunworth, 78, 
 
 80-3, 260, 263, 300-1, 314, 
 338-9. 390-1. 
 
 Deane (Dean, Deyne), Maud, 
 
 83- 
 
 Nicholas, 80, 82-3. 
 
 Richard, 80. 
 
 William of Tunworth, 
 
 &c., xxxi, xlvii, 80, 83, 263. 
 Dearste, Jenet, 352. 
 Dee, David, 124-5, 212-13, 
 
 216-17, 220-1. 
 De la Faye, 167. 
 De Lano, Adrianus, r02, 105. 
 De la Riviere, 103. 
 Denbey (Denbye), Alice, 
 
 322-3- 
 
 Anne, 322, 362. 
 
 Henry, 322. 
 
 Jenet, 322, 352. 
 
 John, 322-3. 
 
 Margaret, 322. 
 
 Denkine, Roland, 202-3. 
 Denton, Christabel, 378. 
 
 Isabel, 378. 
 
 John, 378. 
 
 Richard, 378. 
 
 Deodmane, Widow, 1 54- 5. 
 Derby, Earl of, 43. 
 
 Henry, Earl of, 257. 
 
 Deremane, Thomas, 14. 
 Derham, Henry, 49. 
 De Thorn, 103. 
 Dewhurst (Dewishe), 127. 
 
 Katherine, 126-7. 
 
 Dichouse, Alice, 352. 
 George, 352. 
 
 Isabel, 352. 
 
 James, 352-3. 
 
 Dickens, George, 196-7, 212- 
 
 13- 
 
 Rauffe, 2 10- 1 1, 234. 
 
 Dickinson (Dicconson, Dyc- 
 konson), Ralph, 388. 
 
 Richard, 144. 
 
 William, 17S. 
 
 Dickson, William, Curate of 
 
 Burnley, 356-7. 
 Dicon, Edward, 270. 
 Digbv, Edward, 174-5, 182-3. 
 
 'Everard, 175, 179. 
 
 Digges, Goodman, 136. 
 Dighton, Roger, 176. 
 Dilworth, John, 214. 
 Dineley, Henry, 332-3. 
 Dinsdale, Robert, 10. 
 Disraeli, Isaac, 277. 
 Dixon (Dy.xon), Richard, 16, 
 
 58- 
 
 William, 94-5, 136. 
 
 Dobson, Anne, 360. 
 FF
 
 4i8 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Dobson, Anthony, 174. 
 
 Edmund, 336. 
 
 Jane, 314. 
 
 Jenet, 336, 386. 
 
 John, 376. 
 
 Margaret, 340. 
 
 Ralph, 336. 
 
 Thomas, 336-7,340,382. 
 
 WilHam, 376. 
 
 Dodd (Dod, Dodde, Doode), 
 Anthony, 166-7, 186. 
 
 ffrances, 114. 
 
 John. 202-3. 
 
 Dodmer, Mr., 74. 
 Dodson (Dodsonne), 1 14. 
 
 Ahson, 324. 
 
 Christopher, 321. 
 
 Ehzabeth, 320. 
 
 - Ellen, 318. 
 
 > J' 
 
 14- 
 
 Henry, 320- 1. 
 
 Isabel, 400. 
 
 Jane, 322. 
 
 Jenet, 318. 
 
 Margaret, 320. 
 
 Nicholas, 318. 
 
 Oliver, 318. 
 
 Robert, 324-5. 
 
 Thomas, 318. 
 
 Dolmane, Mr., 162-3. 
 Dompayne, Thomas, 
 Donne, Dr., 7. 
 Dorman, xli. 
 Dorwin, Elizabeth, 342. 
 Doughtie, Joell, 174, 182. 
 
 William, 134. 
 
 Douglas, Anne, 328. 
 
 Elizabeth, 328. 
 
 Henry, 328. 
 
 Isabel, 328. 
 
 John, 328. 
 
 Margaret, 328. 
 
 Marion, 328. 
 
 Dove, John, 189. 
 
 Thomas, 186-7. 
 
 Downes, William, 1 79-81. 
 Downhall (Dounhill), George, 
 
 29. 
 
 Gregore, 28-9. 
 
 Dracke, William, 20. 
 Drant, Mrs., 158-9. 
 
 Thomas, 159. 
 
 Drap, Elizabeth, 390. 
 
 Jenet, 356. 
 
 Draper, John, 4, 6. 
 
 Robert, 43. 
 
 Drayton, Michael, 15. 
 Driwood (Drywood), George, 
 
 30-1. 
 
 Driwood (Drywood), Wil- 
 liam, 1 60- 1. 
 
 Drury, Sir D., 81. 
 
 Drusius, 106-7. 
 
 Dryden, John, 44-5. 
 
 Duberye, Rowland, 2 1 2- 1 3. 
 
 Ducker, Henry, 406-7. 
 
 Ducksburie (Duxbury), Sir 
 William, 357. 
 
 William, 280-3, ^^7. 
 
 Duckworth, Alice, 372. 
 
 Elizabeth, 386. 
 
 James, 305. 
 
 John, 305. 
 
 Richard, 388. 
 
 Dugdale, Elizabeth, 384-5. 
 
 Isabel, 336, 390-1. 
 
 John, xxxiv, 342. 
 
 Mr., 70, 74. 
 
 — — Thomas, 336-7. 
 
 Sir William, 45, 337. 
 
 Dunbeiy, Gaves, 18, 19, 
 
 26. 
 Dunstere, Edmund, 280. 
 Du Poncel, Anthony, 103. 
 Durden, Agnes, 392. 
 Ellen, 346-7. 
 
 George, 186. 
 
 Isabel, 384-5, 390-1. 
 
 Lawrence, 392. 
 
 Dyare (Dyer), Mr., 274, 404, 
 
 407. 
 Dychell, Elizabeth, 152. 
 Dyedney, Ralph, 388. 
 Dyghton, Roger, 180. 
 Dyke, Augustin, 178. 
 Dynsey, Richard, 26. 
 Dyrrey, Richard, 20. 
 Dyshere, Goodman, 12. 
 Dyson, William, 18, 174. 
 Dytton, John, 10. 
 
 EANNAM, Mr., 194. 
 Eastwood, Elizabeth, 
 
 378. 
 
 Isabel, 376. 
 
 Jane, 360. 
 
 Margaret, 376, 378. 
 
 Miles, 378-9. 
 
 Richard, 378. 
 
 Eaton (Eyton), Brian, 
 
 164-5. 
 
 Elizabeth, 342. 
 
 George, 128-9, 166-7. 
 
 Archdn. Guy, 167-8. 
 
 Jane, 342. 
 
 John, 4, 6, 20, 1 60- 1, 
 
 214-15. 
 
 Eaton (Eyton), Matthew, 26, 
 36-7, 214-15. 
 
 Mr., 122. 
 
 Thomas, 50, 52-3, 90, 
 
 95- 
 
 wife, 8-9. 
 William, 10. 
 
 Edleston, Thomas, 390-1. 
 
 Edlinge of Hendon, 56. 
 
 Edmondes, John, 22. 
 
 Edmundes, Henry, 12. 
 
 Edward III., 2. 
 
 IV., 80. 
 
 King, 244. 
 
 VI., 85, 99, loi, 103. 
 
 Edwardes, John, 14, 16, 18. 
 
 Roger, 256-7. 
 
 William, 182-3. 
 
 Edes, Dr., 208. 
 
 Egerton, Anne, 80. 
 
 Dorothy, 156. 
 
 Tliomas, 80. 
 
 Eglesfield, Francis, 29. 
 
 Egliefield, Anthony, 28-9. 
 
 Eglies, Goodman, 130. 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen, xxiii, 
 xxxvii, xxxix, 3, 31, 39, 
 43. 57, 59, 63, 65, 77, 81, 
 99, loi, 103, 105, 113, 115, 
 159,181,208,214-15,255-6. 
 
 Elkyn, Mr., 58. 
 
 Ellis (Elys), 1 20- 1. 
 
 Katherine, 149. 
 
 John, 148. 
 
 Sergeant, 116-17. 
 
 Ellott, John, 36S. 
 
 Elyes, 88. 
 
 Elyote, Thomas, 14. 
 
 Emmet, Edward, 355. 
 
 Enderbye, Walter, 199-200. 
 
 Essex, Robert Earl of, 175. 
 
 Elheredge, George, 30-1. 
 
 Evans (Evanes), Richard, 3. 
 
 Thomas, 4, 7, 70-2. 
 
 Evattes, Henry, 4, 6. 
 
 Evelieghe, Mr., 216-19. 
 
 Exoate, Mr., 226. 
 
 Exton, Bryan, 165, 184-7, 
 190-5. 
 
 FABYAN, Robert, 45. 
 Facye, Widow, 152-3. 
 Fagins, 103. 
 Failhfull, F. G., xvii. 
 Ffarer, Henry, 130. 
 Farington (ffarington), John, 
 
 lO-II. 
 
 Mr., 224-5, 252-3.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 419 
 
 Ffarlee, John, 12. 
 
 Farmer (iTarmer), Edward, 3. 
 
 John, 144. 
 
 Mr., 2-3, 98-9. 
 
 Thomas, 212-13. 
 
 William, 226-7. 
 
 Ffarrande, Mr., 246-7. 
 
 Farrante, Mr., 52. 
 
 Farrer (ffarrer), Edward, 382. 
 
 Elizabeth, 388. 
 
 John, 206, 209, 218-19. 
 
 Lettice, 382. 
 
 Nicholas, 21. 
 
 William, 20, 22-3. 
 
 Faulkes, Mr., 32. 
 Favell, Richard, 204-5. 
 Fawcete, George, 180-1. 
 Fayreborne, John, 10, ill. 
 Fearnshead, Alice, 344. 
 
 Elizabeth, 332, 342. 
 
 Henry, 332-3. 
 
 Jenet, 332. 
 
 John, 332, 342. 
 
 Lawrence, 332. 
 
 Richard, 332. 
 
 Robert, 344. 
 
 Thomas, 342. 
 
 Fell (ffelle), Dr., 81, 181. 
 
 Thomas, 176-7, 182-3. 
 
 Ffenner, Peter, 2 1 2- 1 3. 
 Fenton (ffenton), Jeffrey, 
 276-7. 
 
 John, 178. 
 
 Ferabie, James, 176. 
 
 Fering, 89. 
 
 Field (Filde), John, 121, 125. 
 
 Mr., xxvi. , 124-5, 202-3. 
 
 Dr. Richard, 201. 
 
 Filden, Agnes, 326, 338. 
 Anne, 326. 
 
 Elizabeth, 304-5. 
 
 Florence, 326. 
 
 George, 338. 
 
 Henry, 338. 
 
 Isabel, 326, 358. 
 
 James, 304-5. 
 
 Jenet, 304-5, 324,326-7. 
 
 John, 382. 
 
 Margaret, 304-5. 
 
 Ralphe, 312-13, 382. 
 
 Richard, 340. 
 
 Samuel, 326, 338. 
 
 Thomas, 390. 
 
 Fir.ne, Alison, 360. 
 Ffirman, Phillip, 146. 
 Fisher (tifysher), 43, 72. 
 Mr., 56-7, 242-3. 
 
 Richard, 170- 1. 
 
 Fisher (ffysher), Samuel, 
 
 206-8. 
 Fishwick, Lt.-Col. H., 81, 
 
 319- 
 Fitzwilliam, 59. 
 Fleetwood, Recorder, 81. 
 
 Richard, xxxiv. 
 
 Thomas, xxxv. 
 
 Fleming, Abraham, 207. 
 William, xxxi, 180-1, 
 
 188-9. 
 Flemmyng, Samuel, 178, 
 
 184-5. 
 Fletcher, Agnes, 326. 
 
 Alice, 36S. 
 
 Alison, 326. 
 
 Anne, 336, 370. 
 
 Edward, 354. 
 
 Geffrey, 356. 
 
 Gyles, xxvi, 178-9. 
 
 Heniy, 356. 
 
 Isabel, 354, 366. 
 
 John, of Hampsted, li, 
 
 34-5, 76, 78. 
 
 John, 354-7, 370. 
 
 Lawrence, 356, 370. 
 
 Margaret, 366. 
 
 Nicholas, 366. 
 
 Sybil, 346. 
 
 Thomas, 179, 
 
 366-7, 370-1. 
 
 360-1, 
 
 •William, 360,366-8. 
 
 Flowdde, Lewis, 14-15. 
 Flowed, Mr., 242-3, 276-7. 
 Flower, Frances, 212-13. 
 
 the herald, 397. 
 
 John, 176. 
 
 Floyd, Hugh, 198, 200. 
 Ffogg, Ellen, 338. 
 Ffoote, John, 160-1. 
 Forde, John, 196-7, 202-3. 
 Fordroof, John, 120-1. 
 Fors, Edward, 149. 
 Forster, Agnes, 370. 
 
 Alice, 324. 
 
 Benet, 382. 
 
 Mother, 152. 
 
 Richard, 22. 
 
 Fort (Fforte), Heniy, 345. 
 John, M.P., 345. 
 
 Richard, 344-5. 
 
 Richard, AI.P., 345. 
 
 Robert, 226-7, 244-5, 
 
 250. 
 Foster (ffoster), 270, 272. 
 
 Catherine, 314. 
 
 Charles, 273. 
 
 Isabel, 314. 
 
 Foster (ffoster), John, 314. 
 
 Margaret, 273. 
 
 Marie, 314. 
 
 Thomas, 314. 
 
 Fouldes, Agnes, 358. 
 Edward, 358-9. 
 
 Henry, 364-5. 
 
 James, 364, 368. 
 
 Jenet, 350. 
 
 Margaret, 368. 
 
 Richard, 368-9. 
 
 Thomas, 364. 
 
 William, 359, 372. 
 
 Fowler, 218-19, 262-3. 
 Abraham, 196-7, 204-5, 
 
 214-19, 224-7, 408-9. 
 
 Gyles, 130. 
 
 Robert, 295. 
 
 Fox (ffoxe), Mr., of Cheap- 
 syde, 406-7. 
 
 Mr., 36. 
 
 Mrs., 6, 9, 156-7. 
 
 daughter, 50-1. 
 
 John, 120-3, 219, 229. 
 
 John, the Martyrologist, 
 
 407. 
 
 Paul, 54-5, 263. 
 
 Robert, 12, 263. 
 
 Robert's wife, 1 38-9. 
 
 Susan, 8-9, 263. 
 
 Thomas, 14. 
 
 Ffoxley, Edmund, 20. 
 Pfrances, 162. 
 Francois, Richard, 103. 
 Ffrankeyn, Father, 1 18-19. 
 Franklin (Ffrankleyn), Ben- 
 jamin, II. 
 
 John, ion, 119. 
 
 • Sir John, 1 1. 
 
 Ffreare, Clement, 22-3. 
 Ffreeman, John, 134, 140- 1. 
 Ffrende, Goodwife, 152. 
 
 Mr., 262-3. 
 
 Ffreth, Roland, 390. 
 Ffrise, Charles, 132. 
 Frith fffrythe), John, 141. 
 
 Widdow, 140-I. 
 
 William, 214-15. 
 
 Froddsame, John, 148. 
 Fry, Mrs., 59. 
 
 Ffryar, Clemente, 20, 26. 
 Fuerwyn, Theodore, loi. 
 Fulke, 201. 
 
 Fuller, Dr. Thomas, x, 9, 1S5. 
 Fullingster, 244. 
 Fullingstone, Richard, 244-5. 
 Furmarye, John, 176. 
 Fydlinge, Richard, 182.
 
 420 
 
 hidex of Persons. 
 
 Fyere, Thomas, 178. 
 Fylcle, William, 20. 
 Fynch (ffynche), Mrs., 165, 
 184, 186. 
 
 Richard, 238-9, 250. 
 
 Fynkell, 176. 
 Fyshe, Alice, 392-3. 
 
 • Elizabeth, 372. 
 
 Richard, 392. 
 
 Ffyshman, Robert, 134. 
 Fytton, Amabil, xxvii. 
 
 Elizabeth, xxvii. 
 
 Maud, xxvii. 
 
 Richard, xxvii. 
 
 William, xxvii, xxviii. 
 
 /^"^ ACE, William, 163, 192- 
 
 Garbrande, 106-7. 
 
 Mr. (John), 218-19. 
 
 Garefforde, William, 32. 
 Gargate, Gabriel, 322. 
 
 Margaret, 322. 
 
 Ganiett, James, 22. 
 Garratt, William, 10 
 Garscia, Phillip, 146-7. 
 Garshead (Gartside), Roger, 
 
 2S8-9, 291. 
 Garstange (Gairstane), 223. 
 
 William, 222-3, 231, 
 
 236. 
 
 Garves, Mr., 107. 
 Garvey, Henry, 1 62-3. 
 Gastrell, Bishop, 299. 
 Gatacre, Mr., 11 8- 19. 
 Gaultier, 157. 
 Gaye, Richard, 144. 
 Geaie, Henry, 18. 
 Gee, Mr. (Edward), 122-3. 
 
 Mr., of Chester, 216-17. 
 
 Geffreys, Thomas, 182-3. 
 Geninges (Geninge), 74, 164. 
 Gente, Thomas, 20. 
 Gerer, Goodwife, 152. 
 Germeyne, Edward, 180. 
 Gerard (Garrarde, Gerrard), 
 
 Baron, 77. 
 of Bryn, 77. 
 
 Catherine, 9, 77. 
 
 Frances, 77. 
 
 Sir Gilbert, I-li, 32-3, 
 
 76-7, 223, 244-5, 250. 
 
 — — James, of Ince, 77. 
 
 Margaret, 77. 
 
 Radclifte, 77. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 9, 77. 
 
 Thomas, 77. 
 
 Gifford, Humfrey, 52, 
 
 Gilbert (Gylberte), John, 12, 
 
 45- 
 
 son of Widow, 52. 
 
 Gilbie, Richard, 216-17. 
 Gilfillan, Dr. James, 177. 
 Gills (Gylles), Ralph, 144. 
 
 Amyes, 154. 
 
 • — — Goodwife, 154. 
 
 Gilpin (Gylpin), Bernard, 63. 
 
 George, 408-9. 
 
 John, 409. 
 
 Gilstorpe, Amis, 154-5. 
 Glasher, William, 14. 
 Gleydell, Edward, 386. 
 Glover, 214-15. 
 Daniel, xliii, 253. 
 
 Edward, xliii, 253. 
 
 John, 196-7, 204-5. 
 
 Mrs. Mary, xliii, 9, 253. 
 
 one, 214-15. 
 
 Richard, 120-1. 
 
 Glovers, two, 252-3. 
 Goodwin, Francis, 269. 
 
 Susan, 269. 
 
 Goldinge, Henry, 256. 
 
 John, 372. 
 
 Sir, 210-II. 
 
 Goodlande, 74-5. 
 Goodman, 146. 
 Goodrich, Michael, 291. 
 Goodshaw, Edward, 398. 
 John, 292, 
 
 Eettice, 330. 
 
 Richard, 330-1. 
 
 Goodwyn, 205. 
 Goore, Robert, 406. 
 Goose, John, 12-13. 
 Gorannus, 62-3. 
 Gore, William, 162-3. 
 Gorton, 390. 
 Gosnell, Peter, 176. 
 Goss (Gosse), 13. 
 
 Edmunde, 13. 
 
 Gottesford (Gootsford), 29. 
 
 Samuel, 192-3. 
 
 Gough (Goughe), 50. 
 John, 123. 
 
 Ml-., 122-3. 
 
 Goyter, William, 18, 
 Grafton, John, 48. 
 Graison, Jane, 312. 
 Margaret, 312, 
 
 Richard, 312. 
 
 Grave, Christopher, 12. 
 Graves, Hugh, 108-9. 
 Graveson, wife, 394. 
 Gravette, Thomas, 178. 
 Gray, Henry, 132. 
 
 Greatrackes, Frances, 222-3, 
 
 236, 238-9. 
 Greave, Jenet, 334. 
 
 Christopher, 334. 
 
 Greenacres,S ir Richard,xxviii , 
 Greene, Agnes, 338. 
 
 Alice, 338. 
 
 Anne, 338. 
 
 Christopher, 174, 392. 
 
 Edward, 334. 
 
 Elizabeth, 334, 338, 386. 
 
 Francis, xxxvi, 338-9, 
 
 Georse, 338-9. 
 
 James, 334, 36S. 
 
 John, 20, 130. 
 
 Lawrence, 386. 
 
 Margaret, 338. 
 
 Nicholas, 382. 
 
 Randell, 390. 
 
 Richard, 336. 
 
 Widow, 152. 
 
 William, 398-9. 
 
 Greenells, Agnes, 338. 
 Greenfield, Christopher, 329, 
 
 340-1. 
 
 Gilbert, 328-9. 
 
 Greenough, John, 386. 
 Greenshaw (Grenshay), Mar- 
 garet, 320-1. 
 
 Nicholas, 348-9. 
 
 Greenwood. James 309. 
 
 • Raynold, 374. 
 
 Gregorie, Christopher, 206, 
 
 208. 
 Gregson (Gregsonn, Gredg- 
 
 sonn), one, Sir, 252-3. 
 
 Isabel, 314. 
 
 • Jane, 314. 
 
 Jenet, 314. 
 
 Matthew, 223, 315. 
 
 Roger, 398. 
 
 Thomas, 315. 
 
 William, 222-3, 234, 
 
 314-5- 
 Grend<ares, Richard, 214-15. 
 Gremold, Nicholas, 198, 200. 
 Grendwell, John, 176. 
 Gresham, Paul, 68, 72. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 49. 
 
 Grey (Greye), George, 392-3. 
 
 Henry, 198, 201. 
 
 James, 198, 20I. 
 
 Lord, 208. 
 
 William, 217. 
 
 Greyns, James, 162-3. 
 Grice, John, 132. 
 Grime, Gyles, 388. 
 Grimes, Widow, 154.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 421 
 
 Grimsdyche, 408-9. 
 John, 409. 
 
 Mr., 408-9. 
 
 Grimshaw, John, 395. 
 Grindall, Bishop of London, 
 
 xvii, xix, XX, 5, 32-3, 65, 
 101, 103, 105, 109, 119, 
 121, 129, 133, 145, 159, 
 171, 267. 
 
 Grison, Jolm, 312. 
 
 Grundie, Thomas, 366. 
 
 Gryffyth, Mr., 246-7. 
 
 Grymshey, Richard, 83. 
 
 Gunnere, Richard, 38S. 
 
 Gury, Jane, 154. 
 
 Gybliies, Ricliard, 26. 
 
 Gybbyns, Richard, 14, 20. 
 
 Gybson, AHce, 140. 
 
 Gybsonn, Robert, 182-3. 
 
 Gyffe, Nicholas, i6o-i. 
 
 Gyles, Alice, 334. 
 
 Gylls, Mother, 12-13. 
 
 HAAG, 63. 
 Haborde, Robert, 132. 
 Habergham, Elizabeth, 356-7. 
 
 Lawrence,357,36i,397. 
 
 Lucy, 380. 
 
 Mrs. (Margaret), 396-7. 
 
 Richard, 397. 
 
 Robert, 357. 
 
 William, 380-1. 
 
 Haborne, Dorethe, 156. 
 Habraham, Thomas, 180. 
 Habryus, Casper, 174. 
 Racket (Hackett),iBishop, 17. 
 
 Simone, 16-17. 
 
 Hackin, Margaret, 400. 
 Hackluyte(Hackcluett,Hake- 
 
 hiite), Richard, xxii, xxiii, 
 XXV, 30-1, 226-9. 
 Haddocke, Anne, 370. 
 
 Edward, 370-1. 
 
 Evan, 296, 300. 
 
 Richard, 370. 
 
 Haddon (ILadon), Dr., xxii, 
 
 66, 202-3. 
 Hakins, James, 132. 
 Hales, Christopher, M.A., 
 
 125. 
 
 Nicholas, 12. 
 
 Hall (Haull, Haule), John, 
 
 314, 340. 
 
 Margaret, 378. 
 
 Richard, 1 64-5, 216-17, 
 
 251, 288-9. 
 
 ■ Thomas, 190, 289. 
 
 William, 16. 
 
 Hallawall, Goodman, 9- 10. 
 Halldesworth, 184. 
 Halley, Robert, 390. 
 Halliday, 314. 
 Christopher, 338. 
 
 Isabel, 364. 
 
 John, 338. 
 
 Richard, 360. 
 
 Thomas, xxxiv, 338. 
 
 William, 338. 
 
 Hallowell, Olyver, 230-1. 
 Hallsall (Hallso'), Hugh, 
 
 xlvii, li, Hi, 6, 7, 34, 36, 
 
 76-7. 
 Halsted, Alice, 364. 
 
 Anne, 82-3. 
 
 Elizabeth, 366. 
 
 — - George, 364-5. 
 Grace, 83. 
 
 Hugh, S3. 
 
 John, 366. 
 
 Nicholas, 
 
 J2-1 
 
 82-1 
 
 281, 2S4, 2S7, 396-7. 
 
 — William, 35S-9. 
 
 Halton, Henry, 12. 
 
 John, 314. 
 
 Hamer, Henry, 295. 
 
 • James, 297. 
 
 "Ralph, 305. 
 
 Hamilton, Duke of, 389. 
 
 Hamley, Margaret, 114. 
 
 Hammerton of Burnley, 131. 
 
 Alexander, 130-1. 
 
 Hamond (Hammond, Ha- 
 mente,Hayman Haymond), 
 family of, 81 -3, 1 72-3. 
 
 21. 
 
 Agnes, 81, 
 
 Beteris, 78, 80-1. 
 
 Dr. , 240. 
 
 Dr. Henry, xxv, 81, 
 
 83, 17S. 
 
 Henrv, 83, 1 78, 267. 
 
 Dr. Tohn^ 81, 83. 
 
 John, M.D., 81. 
 
 John, 83, 260, 394-5. 
 
 Mr., 172-3. 
 
 Nicholas, 162-3, 166-7. 
 
 Richard, 344. 
 
 ■ Sir, 192-3. 
 
 Thomas, xxxi, 78, 80-1, 
 
 267, 290-1, 306-7, 312-13. 
 William, 164-7, 246-7, 
 
 252-3- 
 Hanbery, Emma, 263. 
 Hancock, Anne, 322. 
 
 Christopher, 322. 
 
 Grace, 322. 
 
 Hancock, Isabel, 322. 
 
 Jane, 322. 
 
 John, 322-3. 
 
 Maud, 322. 
 
 Nicholas, 323, 397. 
 
 William, 322-3. 
 
 Hanson, George, 202-3,206-7. 
 
 \VilIiam, 376. 
 
 Harcourt, Sir John, 405. 
 Hardinge, Widow, 152. 
 Hardman, Etimund, 292-3. 
 
 Katherine, 292-3. 
 
 James, 292-3. 
 
 Richard, 288, 291. 
 
 Hardwycke, John, 140-I. 
 Hargere, Ellen, 370. 
 
 Isabel, 370. 
 
 jenet, 370. 
 
 John, 370-1. 
 
 Katherine, 386. 
 
 Richard, 370, 372. 
 
 Robert, 372-3. 
 
 William, 370. 
 
 Hargreaves (Hargreve, Har- 
 
 greves), 178. 
 Barnard, 398. 
 
 Christopher, 346. 
 
 Eleanor, 354. 
 
 Elizabeth, 354. 
 
 Ellen, 358. 
 
 George, 350-1. 
 
 Hugh, 368. 
 
 Isabel, 350. 
 
 James, 352. 
 
 Jenet, 368. 
 
 John, 330-1, 350, 354, 
 
 358. 
 
 Lawrence, 331. 
 
 Leonard, 364. 
 
 Margaret, 350, 35S. 
 
 Elarmannus, 62-3, 65. 
 Harnons, Richard, 230-1. 
 Harpare, John, 12. 
 Harris, Richard, 206, 2og-ii, 
 
 234, 238-9, 250. 
 Harrold, 10- 1 1. 
 Harrison (Harison, Harryson, 
 
 Elarrysonne), Alexander, 
 
 266, 268. 
 Alice, 
 
 Christopher, 146. 
 
 Cousin, 192-5. 
 
 IL, 188. 
 
 J^ne, 20. 
 
 John, 165. 
 
 Lawrence, 328. 
 
 Mr., 66-7, 164-5. 
 
 Mrs., 6, 9, 165, 
 
 326.
 
 
 422 
 
 hidex of Persons. 
 
 Harrison (Harison, Harryson, 
 Hanysonne), ]Mis.,of Chep- 
 syed, 154-5. 
 
 son, 172-3. 
 
 Thomas, 16, 30- 1, 
 
 167. 
 Harrvs, Christopher, 82, 
 
 85.' 
 
 Jane, 82-3. 
 
 ■ Thomas, 16, 22. 
 
 Hart, John, 43. 
 Harte, Widow, 126. 
 Harteley, Anne, 374. 
 
 Ellen, 354. 
 
 Isabel, 354-5, 368. 
 
 James, 374. 
 
 Jenet, 358, 376. 
 
 John, 354-5. 
 
 Margaret, 354. 
 
 Nicholas, 354. 
 
 Richard, 394-5. 
 
 Hartwell, Abraham, 182-3, 
 
 188-9. 
 Harvay (Hai-v'cy, Harvie), 
 
 Gabriel, 159, 189. 
 Lady, 26-7, 125. 
 
 Sir Lewis, 2-3. 
 
 Widow, 126-7. 
 
 Harwood of Hadham, 12. 
 James, 388-g. 
 
 Richard, 120. 
 
 Hasselwood, John, 10. 
 
 Robert, 12. 
 
 Hast of Windham, xli. 
 Hatherwood, Thomas, 314. 
 Hauken, Richard, 2, 5-7. 
 Haukes, Gyles, iio-ii. 
 
 Johann, no- 11. 
 
 Havvarde, Alice, 136-7. 
 Hawell, Marsley, 152-3. 
 Haworth (Haworthe), 137. 
 
 Alice, 78, 80, 290-1. 
 
 John, 289-91. 
 
 Margaret, 290-1. 
 
 Nicholas, 282-3, 286-7. 
 
 Oliver, 288-9. 
 
 Richard, 278-9, 287, 
 
 290-1. 
 
 Thomas, 386. 
 Hayborne, Alice, 128. 
 
 Dorothy, 138. 
 
 Haydock, Simon, 371. 
 Haye, Arthur, 314. 
 
 Elizabeth, 346. 
 
 Grace, 318. 
 
 Jenet, 314. 
 
 Lawrence, 314. 
 
 Hayles, Mr., 124-5. 
 
 Haynes (Hanes), Alice, 140. 
 
 Goodman, 50. 
 
 Henry, 34-5. 
 
 Serjeant, 170. 
 
 William, iio-il. 
 
 Hayr, John, 134-5. 
 Hayrope, Robert, 354-5. 
 Hayward, William, 95. 
 Haywood, Arthur, 32. 
 
 John, 248-9, 252-3. 
 
 Heabane, Master, 54- 5- 
 Heape, Anne, 374. 
 
 Frances, 374. 
 
 ■ Isabel, 374, 392. 
 
 Jane, 374. 
 
 Jenet, 374. 
 
 John, 282-3,286-7, 374, 
 
 376, 395- 
 
 Richard, 360, 374. 
 
 William, 374. 
 
 Hearne, Hugh, 22. 
 Hearrow, Widow, 
 
 156. 
 12. 
 
 Heathe, Laurence, 
 - — Mr., 1. 
 Hector, 106-7. 
 Hedge (Christr. ), 30-1. 
 Helbrone, Mrs., 158. 
 Heley, 216-17. 
 
 Elizabeth, 289. 
 
 Robert, 288-9, 297. 
 
 Thomas, 289. 
 
 Hellewell, Nicholas, 168-9, 
 
 231. 
 Helme, Archd , Christr., 113. 
 
 ■ -Thomas, 1 12-13. 
 
 Henrj' II., 51. 
 
 III. of France, 113. 
 
 VI., 31, 391. 
 
 VII., 244. 
 
 VIIL, 3, 125. 
 
 Prince, 81. 
 
 Henton, Matthew, 204-5. 
 
 William, 182. 
 
 Henywood, Mr, 216-17. 
 Herbert, George, 1, 21. 
 Herks, 219. 
 
 Heron, Haly, 180- 1. 
 
 Heron, Widow, 128. 
 
 Herrick, Robert, 29. 
 Herris, ^^'m., clerk, xxxiv. 
 Hesketh, Dowse, xxxi. 
 
 • Hugh, XXX. 
 
 John, de, xxviii. 
 
 Robert, xxxi. 
 
 Thomas, xxviii. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 224-5, 267, 
 
 388-9, 390-2, 394-6, 398-9. 
 Hessey, Dr. (Wm.), 185. 
 
 Hestwood, Alice, 382. 
 
 582-3. 
 
 Robert, 380, 
 Heton (Hetonn, Hey ton), 
 George, 99. 
 
 Matthew, 37. 
 
 Mr., 94-5, 166-7. 
 
 Robert, 12. 
 
 Hewes, Morgan, 14. 
 
 Thomas, 146. 
 
 Hewycke, Dr., 66-7. 
 Hey (Heye), Anne, 340. 
 
 Christopher, 326-7. 
 
 Ellen, 326. 
 
 Jenet, 318. 
 
 John, 326-7, 346-7. 
 
 Margaret, 358. 
 
 Ralph, 210-11, 234. 
 
 Thomas, 326. 
 
 Heylin, 65. 
 Heywood, John, 249. 
 
 Peter, 249. 
 
 Hickford, Margaret, 52. 
 Hickman, Goodwife, 152. 
 Hickson (Hixon), Thomas, 
 
 196-7, 220-1. 
 
 William, 226-7. 
 
 Higford, Elizabeth, no! . 
 
 Mr., 128-9. 
 
 :\Irs., 110, 156-8. 
 
 Higgen, Alice, 354. 
 Anne, 398. 
 
 Edward, 192. 
 
 Elizabeth, 344. 
 
 Henry, 348. 
 
 James, 344. 
 
 John, 348. 
 
 "Margaret, 360, 392. 
 
 Richard, 344. 
 
 Robert, 344. 
 
 Roger, 348. 
 
 William, 348. 
 
 Highton, Alice, 81. 
 
 Richard, 81. 
 
 Higsonne, 220-1. 
 Hileby, Henry, 132. 
 Hill, Andrew, 302. 
 
 Anthony, 340, 398. 
 
 Elizabeth, 302. 
 
 Isabel, 302, 340. 
 
 James, 302. 
 
 Thomas, 340. 
 
 Hilles, Pp., 157. 
 
 Hillyard (Hillyarde), George, 
 
 161. 
 ^John, 7, 122-3, 161, 
 
 218-19. 
 
 Mr., 4, 7, 160-1. 
 
 Hilton, Joan, 154.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 423 
 
 Hinchepoole, Thomas, 144. 
 
 William, 20. 
 
 Hinchley, Eiizabetli, 136. 
 Hindlie (Hindle, Hyndley), 
 
 Agnes, 324, 334, 390. 
 
 Anne, 324. 
 
 Christopher, 280-5, 287, 
 
 324-5- 
 
 Elizabeth, 324. 
 
 Frances, 324. 
 
 Henry, 34, 348, 395. 
 
 Hugh, 142-3. 
 
 Isabel, 392. 
 
 Jeffrey, 324-5. 
 
 Jenet, 334, 3S2. 
 
 Jenkine, 382-3. 
 
 John, 281, 3S0. 
 
 Lawrence, 281. 
 
 Nicholas, 56. 
 
 Richard, 338. 
 
 Robert, 282-3, 37^. 
 
 William, 38. 
 
 Hirls, WilHam, 274-5. 
 Hitchies, Edward, 12. 
 Hitchin, Alice, 374. 
 
 Jenet, 380. 
 
 Hodgekine, John, 16. 
 Hodges, Robert, 22. 
 Hodgson ( Hodgsonne), Alice, 
 
 376. 
 
 Christopher, 386. 
 
 Cicely, 398. 
 
 Elizabeth, 366. 
 
 Ellen, 372. 
 
 Jenet, 366. 
 
 John, 366, 39S. 
 
 Richard, 398. 
 
 Thomas, 10, 24-5, 
 
 378. 
 
 Hodlie, John, 30-1. 
 
 Hodpine, William, 18. 
 
 Hodshin, Robert, 286-7. 
 
 Hogchese, David, 182. 
 
 Hoghton (Haughton, Hough- 
 ton), Agnes, 344. 
 
 Alexander, 399. 
 
 Alice, 318. 
 
 Anne, 1 56-7. 
 
 Ehzabeth, 88-9. 
 
 Grace, 320. 
 
 James, 370-1. 
 
 Jane, 26S, 271. 
 
 Joan, 88-9. 
 
 John of Pendleton, 1 15. 
 
 John, xxxi, hii, 88-9, 
 
 162-3, 258-9, 265, 2901, 
 294, 306, 308, 362-3, 389, 
 402-3. 
 
 Hoghton (Haughton, Hough- 
 ton), Katherine, 88-9. 
 
 Maria, 264-5. 
 
 Mrs., 6, 9. 
 
 Sir Richard of Hoghton 
 
 Tower, 77. 
 
 Thomas of Hoghton 
 
 Tower, 9. 
 
 Thomas, 368, 399. 
 
 Holcot, John, 79. 
 Holcrofte (Holcroft), Isabel, 
 
 265. 
 
 Sir John, 77. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 77, 265. 
 
 Thomas, 76-7. 
 
 Holden (Hoolden, Houlden), 
 
 21. 
 Gilbert of Holden Hall, 
 
 5- 
 
 Jenet, 330. 
 
 John, 176. 
 
 Mr., 222-3. 
 
 Richard, xxxiii, 20. 
 
 Robert, 164-5, 203. 
 
 Mr. Thomas, 2, 5. 
 
 Thomas, 20, 165, 202-3, 
 
 206, 210-n, 234-5, 294-5> 
 
 362. 
 Holdesworth, Dr., 169. 
 Holgate, Alice, 356, 358. 
 
 Elizabeth, 356. 
 
 George, 356. 
 
 Isabel, 356. 
 
 Jane, 358. 
 
 Laurence, 356-7. 
 
 jNLirgaret, 358. 
 
 William, 358. 
 
 Holker (Holkere), Agnes, 
 
 314. 
 
 Edward, 334-5. 
 
 Elizabeth, 314. 
 
 Ellen, 314, 336. 
 
 Henry, 309, 336. 
 
 James, 3i4-i5> 336-7- 
 
 Jane, 314. 
 
 John, 309, 334-5, 388, 
 
 392.^ 
 Katherine, 326. 
 
 Laurence, 310-11. 
 
 Leonard, 336. 
 
 Margaret, 314. 
 
 Richard, 2 10- 11, 234, 
 
 3I4> 339- 
 
 Robert, 336. 
 
 Thomas, 336. 
 
 William, 334-6. 
 
 Hollande (Holland), 21. 
 John, 14 
 
 Hollande (Holland), Phillip, 
 
 178. 
 Richard, 210-11, 234, 
 
 238-9. 
 
 Thomas, 226-7. 
 
 W'illiam, 16. 
 
 Holliday, (}race, 336. 
 
 Isabel, 336. 
 
 Jenet, 336. 
 
 John, 336. 
 
 Robert, 336-7. 
 
 Thomas, 336. 
 
 Hollingham, John, 144. 
 Hollinguorthe, 257. 
 Holloway, John, 1 18-19. 
 Holly, Robert, 14. 
 Hollywell, James, 386. 
 Jenet, 334. 
 
 Ralph, 334. 
 
 Holmes, Elizal:)cth, 138. 
 Holnay, Bartholomew, 276-7. 
 
 Thomas, 274-5. 
 
 Holroyd, George, 397. 
 Holsolte, Robert, 18. 
 
 Holt (Holte, Hoolte), 
 George, 132. 
 
 Heniy, 297. 
 
 Jenet, 360. 
 
 John, 12, 178. 
 
 Margaret, 346. 
 
 Mr., 234, 242-3, 250. 
 
 Richard, 291. 
 
 Robert, 291. 
 
 Thomas, 222-3, 392- 
 
 Hooke, Mr., vicar, 120. 
 Hooker (Hoockcr, Huker), 
 
 Richard, xxii, xxv, 206-7, 
 
 220-1, 224-7. 
 Hooper, 15. 
 Hoper, Daniel, 160-1. 
 Hopkines, Henry, 196-7. 
 
 John, 220-1. 
 
 Mr., 52, no, 206, 208. 
 
 Hopton, Ralph, xxxiv. 
 
 Hopwood, S3. 
 
 Alice, 78, 80, 290-1, 
 
 295- 
 
 Anne, 294-5, 302-3. 
 — ■ Anthony, 297. 
 
 Arthur, 248-9. 
 
 Benin, 294-5, 386-7. 
 
 — Catherine, 292, 295. 
 
 Daniel, 297. 
 
 Edmund, 295. 
 
 Eleanor, xxxi, 80, 83, 
 
 88-9, 294-5. 
 — - Elizabeth, 292, 294-5. 
 
 — Frances, 262-3, 295.
 
 424 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Hopwood, Grace, 295, 297. 
 Henry, 78, 80, 83, 291, 
 
 295- 
 
 J'lnies, 297. 
 
 Jane, 294-5. 
 
 Jenet, 294-5. 
 
 Johannaor Joan,8o,295. 
 
 John, xxxi, 288, 291-5, 
 
 3S4, 386-7. 
 
 Leonard, 297. 
 
 Mr., 262. 
 
 Margaret, 294-5. 
 
 Marie, 294-5. 
 
 Ralph, 82-3,294-5,297, 
 
 302. 
 
 Richard, 292, 295, 
 297. 
 
 — Robert, 292, 294-5. 
 Thomas, 295. 
 
 Hornby, Richard, 334-5. 
 Home [Charles], 30-1, 160- 1. 
 ■ Christopher, 1S2-5, 188- 
 
 9. 
 
 Robert, 16. 
 
 Horrege (Horwiche), Adam, 
 320-1, 326. 
 
 Agnes, 320. 
 
 Elizabeth, 388. 
 
 ■ Grace, 326. 
 
 Isabel, 326, 346. 
 
 Jenet, 390. 
 
 John, 326-7. 
 
 Robert, 352. 
 
 Horsey, John, 180. 
 Hovenden (Howeden), 
 
 Robert, 2 10- 11. 
 Hovill, Thomas, 146. 
 Howard, John, 59. 
 Howe, father, 240. 
 Howell, Margeret, 154. 
 Howland, Mr., 194-5. 
 Hucke, Mr. Dr., 240. 
 Hudson (Hudsonne), 22. 
 
 John, 38. 
 
 Mr., 50. 
 
 Richard, 32. 
 
 Robert, 260. 
 
 Hughe, Robert, 178. 
 Hughsonne, Hugh, 18. 
 
 John, 18. 
 
 Hulson Robert, 39. 
 Hulton, Katherine, xxxv. 
 Humphrey (Homfrey, Hum- 
 
 freye), Mr. Dr., xxii, xxiii, 
 106-7, 196-9, 201-4, 214, 
 216, 218, 220, 226-8, 230, 
 236, 242-3, 250. 
 
 Lawrence, 63. 
 
 Huncoate, Elizabeth, 340. 
 
 George, 341. 
 
 Isabel, 340. 
 
 Margaret, 340-1. 
 
 Hunnis, William, 29. 
 Hunt (Hunte), Anne, 342. 
 Ellen, 76. 
 
 — — George, 9, 28-9, 177, 
 202-3, 212-13, 218-21, 228- 
 
 9- 
 
 Joan, 109, 1 12-13. 
 
 John, 29, 176-7. 
 
 Mother, 8-9,88-9, 152-3, 
 
 258-9. 
 
 Widow, 154-5. 
 
 Huntington, Elizabeth, 388. 
 
 my lord, 96-7. 
 
 William, 290-1, 362. 
 
 Hurlston, Mr., 204-5. 
 Hurstwood, Alice, 378. 
 
 John, 378-9. 
 
 Husniss, W^illiam, 2S-9. 
 Hussey, Richard, 14. 
 Hutchane, Charles, 272-3. 
 Hutchin, Robert, 2S0-I, 
 
 2S4-5, 2S7. 
 Hutchinson, Sr, 1S8-9, 190- 
 
 I. 
 Huth, Henry, liv. 
 Hmson, Anthony, 132. 
 Hutton, Anthony, 146. 
 
 John, 160-3. 
 
 Thomas, 10. 
 
 Hyckson, John, 138-9. 
 Hyde, Hamnet, xxxv. 
 
 Sr, 212-13. 
 
 Hygges, William, 132. 
 Hyll, Edmund, 22. 
 
 Mr., 164. 
 
 Hyllyarde, George, 134. 
 John, 134-5. 
 
 I 
 
 XGHAM (Inghame), Ag- 
 
 ne- 
 
 > jj''' J 
 
 76. 
 
 Alison, 332. 
 
 Anne, 364. 
 
 Beatrice, 332. 
 
 Catherine, 376. 
 
 Christabel, 370. 
 
 287 
 
 ) OJ 
 
 2. 
 
 Henry, 332, 376. 
 Isabel, 364. 
 Jenet, 356, 366. 
 
 Edmonde, 282-3. 
 
 Edward, 278-9, 287, 
 
 332-3, 396. 
 Elizabeth, 356-7, 364. 
 
 George, 280-1, 284-5, 
 
 Ingham (Inghame), John, 
 332, 338, 356-7, 364-5. 
 396- 
 
 Laurence, 332. 
 
 Lettice, 338. 
 
 Margaret, 332, 366, 
 
 376. 
 
 Richard 280-I, 284-5, 
 
 287, 332, 376-7. 
 
 Robert, 300, 332-3, 
 
 356-7, 360-1, 364, 376, 
 
 396. 
 Thomas, 278-9, 282-3, 
 
 287, 332-3, 364, 396. 
 
 William, 356, 376. 
 
 Ingrame, Thomas, 18. 
 Inkforby (Inkforbve), Roger, 
 
 208. 
 William, 198, 200, 206, 
 
 208. 
 Insley, Grace, 360. 
 Irbye, Anthony, 256-7. 
 Irelande, Christopher, 276-7. 
 
 Cousin, 264, 268-9, 
 
 Ellen, 264-5. 
 
 James, 262-3. 
 
 Roger, 258-9. 
 
 Widow, 50, 52, 152. 
 
 ■ William, 262-3. 
 
 Irne, 42. 
 
 Irtone, John, 176-7. 
 
 Isope, Elizabeth, 358. 
 
 Isabel, 358. 
 
 Richard, 358. 
 
 — William, 358-9. 
 
 Ive, Henry, 28-9. 
 
 Robert, 20. 
 
 T ACKEMANE, Edmund, 
 
 J 90. 
 
 Jackeson (Jackesonne, Jacson, 
 Jacsonn, Jaxsone), Alice, 
 378. 
 
 Anne, 378. 
 
 Arthur, 182. 
 
 Benet, 380. 
 
 Catherine, 374. 
 
 Christopher, 182-3,280- 
 
 1, 284-5, 287, 352-3, 378- 
 
 9- 
 
 Edmund, 378. 
 
 Elizabeth, 292-3, 374, 
 
 380. 
 
 — Geffrey, 354. 
 
 — Isabel, 378. 
 
 — James, 354. 
 
 — Jane, 380. 
 
 — Jenet, 378.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 425 
 
 jackeson{Jackesonne,Jacson, 
 Jacsonn, Jaxsone), John, 20, 
 90, 354, 380. 
 
 Margaret, 354, 378, 380. 
 
 Ralph, 392. 
 
 Richard, 146, 352, 380. 
 
 Robert, 236-9, 250, 292- 
 
 3> 352, 354- 
 
 Sethe, 1 18-19. 
 
 Thomas, 288, 290-3, 
 
 300, 302, 362. 
 
 WiUiam, 35: 
 
 Jacobe, Goodwife, IIO-II. 
 
 ■ one, 62. 
 
 James I., 1, 81, 177, 185, 
 
 213. 
 James, 44, 46-7. 
 Janine, Robert, 398. 
 Jarves (Jarvyes, Jervis), 
 
 George, 148. 
 
 Mr., 106-7, 160-I. 
 
 Jaspare, Edward, 18. 
 Jeffraye, Thomas, 183. 
 Jeninges (Jenninges, [enyn- 
 
 ges), 216-17. 
 
 Henry, 134. 
 
 Sir James, 312-13. 
 
 Mr., 402-5. 
 
 Parson (Richard),404-5. 
 
 — — ■ Richard, 12, 74, 11S-19. 
 JerHtus, Jerominus, 100, 103, 
 
 108-9. 
 Jewell, Bp. of London, 2, 
 
 5, 32-3. I03> io7> 155. 161, 
 167-9, 202, 204, 397. 
 
 Joans, Elizabeth, 140. 
 
 the bookbynder, 1 2- 1 3. 
 
 Johannes, 174. 
 
 Lewis, 22-3. 
 
 Johanson, John, 144. 
 
 Richard, 142-3. 
 
 Johans, Raffe, 140. 
 John, K, of France, 45. 
 Johns, Evins, 204, 297. 
 
 Richard, 176. 
 
 Johnson (Johnsonn, Johan- 
 
 sonne), Abraham, 186. 
 
 one, 31. 
 
 Edward, 350. 
 
 George, 350. 
 
 Grace, 352. 
 
 Henry, 16-17. 
 
 Hush, 350. 
 
 — Jacob, 312. 
 
 — John, 18, 20. 
 
 — Ralpl-L, 134. 
 
 — Richard, 3S-9, 1 82. 
 
 — Thomas, 390. 
 
 Joltrin, Mr., 1 14. 
 
 Joner (Joyner), Robert, 94-5, 
 
 118-19, 138-9, 196-7. 
 Jones, Richard, liv, 37, 207. 
 Judson (Judsonn), Richard, 
 
 176. 
 William, 206, 209. 
 
 KAIES, Sr, 192-3. 
 Kale, Robert, 148. 
 Kam, Gideon, 216-17. 
 Kante, Alison, 350- 1. 
 
 Jane, 350. 
 
 Karpenter, George, 4 
 Kay (Kaye, Key, 
 Alexander, 178-9. 
 Eleanor, 78, 80, 
 
 6. 
 Keye), 
 
 291, 
 
 295- 
 Elizabeth, xxxi, xxxv, 
 
 291, 299. 
 
 Francis, 193-5. 
 
 James, 178. 
 
 Jenet, 324. 
 
 John, 329, 392. 
 
 Richard, 202-3. 
 
 Robert, xxxi. 
 
 William, 324. 
 
 Keine, John, 114. 
 Kelbridge, John, 186. 
 Kelleway, Robert, 85. 
 Kelly, Robert, 22. 
 Kempe (Kempte), Dorothy, 
 
 108-9. 
 
 John, 172. 
 
 Kennet, 207, 217. 
 Kensey, Mr., 52-3. 
 Kent (Kente), Eliz,, 366. 
 
 Widow, 156. 
 
 Kenyon, Goodwife, 128. 
 Kerbie (Kerbey), Agnes, 314. 
 
 Elizabeth, 314. 
 
 George, 144. 
 
 John, 314. 
 
 Richard (Sr), 2IO-II. 
 
 Kerrie (Kerry), Goodman, 
 
 124-5. 
 Goodwife, 8-9, 76, iii, 
 
 404, 407. 
 Hunifrey, Iii, 4, 40-1, 
 
 76, IIO-II, 274, 404, 
 
 407 
 
 Johan, IIO-II, 138. 
 Katherine, 8-9, III. 
 Margerie, Hi. 
 
 Keyne, Thomas, 4, 7. 
 Kimpton (Kympton), 
 mund, 39, 142 
 
 Ed- 
 
 King (Kinge, Kynge), Mr., 
 230-1. 
 
 Roger, 14. 
 
 Sr, 210-II. 
 
 William, 278-9, 282-3, 
 
 287. 
 Kingsmil, 29. 
 
 Kingston, John, 136, 202-3. 
 Kitchine, Jenet, 320. 
 
 John, 174. 
 
 Mr., xxxvii, 76, 79, 
 
 274-5- 
 Kirkhame, William, 238-9. 
 
 Knesse, ^Ir., 256-7. 
 
 Knight, Thomas, 232-3, 404. 
 
 Knoles, Henry, 102, 104-5. 
 
 KnoUys, Sir Francis, 105. 
 
 Henry, 105. 
 
 Knowles, Elizabeth, 336. 
 
 Margaret, 336. 
 
 Mr. R. B., xiii, xvi, 
 
 xxiii, 357, 369. 
 
 Thomas, 206, 209, 234. 
 
 Knox, John, 63. 
 
 Kyen, Raphaell, 122. 
 
 Kylley, 26. 
 
 Kyllingworth, Nicholas, 134- 
 
 5- 
 Kyrke, Sr (Edward Kirke), 
 
 xxiv, 188-9. 
 
 Kytson, Sir Thomas, 189. 
 
 LABORXE (Layborne), 
 Mr. 74. 
 
 William, 70. 
 
 Lache (Leach), Edward, 279, 
 300, 304-5. 
 
 Mr., 1 18-19. 
 
 Nicholas, 125, 278-9, 
 
 282, 284, 287. 
 
 William, 27S-9, 287. 
 
 William, 27, 38-9, 142-3. 
 
 Lacie, Anne, 352. 
 Lacye, ffather, 22. 
 Lake, Joan, 39. 
 
 Osmonde, 62, 68. 
 
 Lambarde, William, xliii. 
 Lambere, Alice, 398. 
 Lance, Thomas, 238-9. 
 Lancelette, Goodwife, 86. 
 Landen, Claude, loi, lo8. 
 Lange, John, 182-3. 
 Langher (Langherne), 95. 
 
 Katherine, 95. 
 
 Richarde, xvi, xxvi, 
 
 94-5, 172-3- 
 
 Thomas, 95, 180. 
 
 Langley (Longlaye), Aldn., 
 226. 
 
 G G
 
 426 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Langley (Longlaye), Lady, 
 
 54-5- 
 Mrs., 288-9. 
 
 Robert, 289. 
 
 Sir Robert, 55. 
 
 William, 19. 
 
 Langton, James de, xxix. 
 
 John, 72. 
 
 my Lady (Anne), 225, 
 
 396-7- 
 
 Sir Thomas, 397. 
 
 William, xxix. 
 
 Langtree, xlvii. 
 
 Gilbert, 5. 
 
 John of Langtree, 5. 
 
 Lambert, lii, 2, 5, 76-7. 
 
 Lante, Richard, 134-5. 
 Lasco, John a-, 103. 
 Lateware, Richard, 232-3. 
 
 Thomas, 253. 
 
 Latham, 232-3. 
 Latimer, Bp., 147, 155. 
 Laton (Leaton), Anthony, 
 xlv, 81. 
 
 Jane, 83. 
 
 Laud, C, 59. 
 Launde(Lande), George, 372. 
 
 Margaret, 386. 
 
 Sibil, 360. 
 
 William, 358, 372. 
 
 Lawe (Law), 172-3. 
 
 Alice, 83, 306-7, 336, 
 
 338. 
 
 Anne, 362. 
 
 Catherine, 83, 306-7. 
 
 Edmund, 307. 
 
 Edward, 212-13. 
 
 Elizabeth, 338. 
 
 Giles, 338. 
 
 Henry, 83, 306-7, 312- 
 
 Isabel, 83, 306-7. 
 
 James, 83, 128-9, 306-7. 
 
 Jenet, 338. 
 
 — Joane,336. 
 
 John, xxxiv., 144, 260, 
 
 307, 316-17, 336-7, 342, 
 
 392-3- 
 
 Margaret, 338. 
 
 Margery, 83, 306-7, 312- 
 
 13. 336. 
 
 Archdeacon Robert, 
 
 13 
 
 266, 307. 
 
 Sr Robert, 83. 
 
 Robert, 82-3, 
 
 Lawe (Law), 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 4, 5, 
 
 1, 83, 238, 
 
 25i> 255 
 
 , 306- 
 
 7, 312-13, 
 
 316-17. 
 
 
 Widow, 
 
 i^. 
 
 
 Wife, 394. 
 
 
 William 
 
 , 307, 
 
 360-2, 
 
 374, 408-9 
 
 
 
 Lawrance (Laurence, 
 
 Law- 
 
 rence), 52, 
 
 380. 
 
 
 John, 
 
 198, 201 
 
 234, 
 
 394-5- 
 
 — Richard, 3-4, 42-3. 
 
 — Thomas, 162, 1 82-3, 
 
 „. 250-T, 
 252-5, 267-8, 271, 306-7. 
 — Robert's wife, 262-3, 
 306-7. 
 
 190. 
 Lawson (Lawsonne), Agnes, 
 
 154- 
 
 Goodwife, 154. 
 
 Richard, 178. 
 
 Thomas, 398. 
 
 Laxtere, Christopher, 146. 
 Laylande, Joan, 70, 152-3. 
 Layton, 83. 
 Leaver (Levere), Thomas, 
 
 xxvi, 188-9. 
 
 Margaret, 50-1. 
 
 Le Blount, 165. 
 Ledsonne, ffather, 146. 
 Lee, Edmund, 372, 378. 
 
 Edward, 310. 
 
 578. 
 
 Elizabeth, 310, 398. 
 
 Isabel, 310. 
 
 John, 348. 
 
 Margaret, 310, 
 
 Otwell, 310. 
 
 Richard, 348. 
 
 Robert, 348. 
 
 Thomas, 310. 
 
 William, 167, 234. 
 
 Leeche (Leche), William, 
 
 206-7, 240-3- 
 Leeke, Mr., 41. 
 
 Robert, 72. 
 
 Le Grimecieux, Elizabeth, 
 
 lOI. 
 
 Lees, Edmund, 298. 
 
 Elizabeth, 298. 
 
 James, 298. 
 
 Jenet, 298. 
 
 John, 298. 
 
 • — — Lawrence, 298. 
 Leicester, Sir Ralph, xlvii, 80, 
 390-1, 396. 
 
 Earl of, xliii. 
 
 Leigh (Leeghe), Anne, 378. 
 
 Edmund, 368. 
 
 Ellen, 374. 
 
 Henry, 360, 374, 380. 
 
 Isabel, 374. 
 
 Leigh (Leeghe), James, 336. 
 
 John, 360, 370. 
 
 Mr., xlvii, 80, 259. 
 
 Peter, Esq., 77. 
 
 Richard, 360. 
 
 • Robert, 380. 
 
 Thomas, 336. 
 
 Leminge, George, 270, 272. 
 
 Thomas, 18, 21. 
 
 Leonard, Thomas, 160. 
 Leonards, Widow, 152. 
 Letsame, John, 14. 
 Leventhrope, Mr., 50, i lo-i I. 
 Lever, Ralph, 199. 
 Levions, Sybestian, 102, 105. 
 Levisns, Edmund, 28-9. 
 Lewen, William, 190-1. 
 Lewes (Lewis), xxiii. 
 
 Geffrey, 196-7, 204-5. 
 
 Griffith, 197, 205. 
 
 Henry, 176-7- 
 
 John, 130. 
 
 Mr., 184. 
 
 Richard, 1 36-7. 
 
 Robert, 1 80- 1. 
 
 Thomas, 408-9. 
 
 Licasse (Lycas), Agnes, 314. 
 Richard, 314. 
 
 Thomas, 314. 
 
 William, 314. 
 
 Lilbourne, John, 197. 
 Lilesse, Robert, 178-9. 
 Lilly (Lyllie, Lylly), 1 70-1. 
 
 James, 226-7. 
 
 John 21, 214-15, 227. 
 
 Mrs., 226. 
 
 Peter, 214. 
 
 Linch, R., 179. 
 Linman, Barbara, 138. 
 Litle, John, 224-5. 
 Littelton, William, 202-3, 
 
 212-13. 
 Lloyd, Dr. Griffith, 243. 
 Lobley, William, 10. 
 Lockeys, William, 1 16-17, 
 
 120-1. 
 Lockyer, Nicholas, 117. 
 Longe, William, 71, 120-r. 
 Longethorpe, Robert, 40. 
 Longworthe, Dr., xxii, 174-5. 
 Lonsdale, Elizabeth, 324. 
 Loveden, Robert, 198, 201. 
 Lower, 23. 
 Lowndes, 43. 
 Lucas, 114. 
 
 William, 144. 
 
 Ludetiie, William, 1 98-200. 
 Ludforde, ffather, 136.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 427 
 
 Ludham, John, 192-3. 
 Lupton, Rev. J. H., 29. 
 Luson, Mr., xlv. 
 Lyde, William, 40-1. 
 Lydsam, Henry, 196. 
 Lyke, John, 40-1. 
 Lylies, Robert, 186-8. 
 Lyndleye, Mr., 180. 
 Lynne, Anthony, 198, 200, 
 
 212-13. 
 Lyskey, David, 176. 
 Lytley, Mr., 244-7. 
 Lytton, Mr., 166-7. 
 
 Thomas, 1 68-9. 
 
 Lyvesey, Henry, 394-5. 
 
 MACCLESFIELD, 
 Earl of, 77. 
 Machett, Mr., 124-5. 
 Machin, Ellen, 346. 
 Maddocks, John, 1 14. 
 Maden, Roger, 10- 11. 
 Madenhead, 18. 
 Madwell, wife, 138-9. 
 Maitland, 31. 33, 59> 71,87, 
 
 95, 99, 103. 
 Malyn (Malyine), 169, 194. 
 
 Elizabeth, 263. 
 
 Thomas, 24. 
 
 Mane, Robert, 14. 
 
 William, 206-7. 
 
 Manver, Roland, 148. 
 Manners, Edward, Earl of 
 
 Rutland, 265. 
 
 ■ Lady Elizabeth, 265. 
 
 Manwoode, Sargeant, 84-5. 
 Maperley, Anne, 50. 
 
 William 50. 
 
 Marbury, Edward, 3. 
 March, Earl of, 45. 
 Marcke, Ludloo, 144. 
 Margett, Elizabeth, 140. 
 Markes, William, 20. 
 Markhame, Gervase, 5, 49. 
 
 Widow, 152. 
 
 Marley, Bryan, 180, 183. 
 Marlowe (Marlooe), Anthony, 
 
 20-1. 
 
 Christopher, 21. 
 
 Marrowe, Humfrey, 18-19. 
 Marsden, Agnes, 81. 
 
 Gabriell, 162-3, 261, 
 
 274-5- 
 
 Nicholas, 392. 
 
 Robert, 81. 
 
 Marshall, Jane, 324-5. 
 
 Jenet, 324-5. 
 
 John, 325-6. 
 
 Marshall, Thomas, 325. 
 Marsten (Marson, Marston), 
 Elizabeth, 260-1. 
 
 George, 7. 
 
 Isabel, 342. 
 
 James, 405. 
 
 John, 7. 
 
 Rose, 138, 405. 
 
 - Symon, 4, 7, 405. 
 Marten (Martin, MartjTi), 
 
 Elizabeth, 8-9. 
 
 Ellen, 352. 
 
 Henry, 134. 
 
 Matthew, 378. 
 
 Mr., 2, 5, 232. 
 
 William, 118-19. 
 
 Widow, 140. 
 
 Martyr, 103.. 
 
 Marvyn, Archd. Edmund, 
 
 113- 
 • Johann, 112-13. 
 
 Mary, Queen, 9, 77, 91, 99, 
 loi, 105, 109, 113, 115, 
 119, 125, 161, 165, 181, 
 183, 199. 
 
 Massie, William, 216-18, 
 220-1, 234. 
 
 Matheas, 104, 107. 
 
 Mathewe, John, 12. 
 
 Thomas, 204-5. 
 
 Matravers, Lady Ann, xlvii, 
 80, 260, 263. 
 
 Henry, Lord, 80. 
 
 Maudsley (Mawdesley), 195. 
 
 of Blackburn, 223. 
 
 Henry, 222-3. 
 
 Lawrance, 250. 
 
 Sr, 194-5. 
 
 Thurstan, 223. 
 
 May, Dr., Bishop of Carlisle, 
 
 173- 
 Mayor, Prof, xi, 21, 175, 
 
 179, 181. 
 Meadforde, Sr, 212-13. 
 Meale, George, loi. 
 Meatcalfe (Metcalf), INIr., 
 
 244. 
 
 William, 206. 
 
 Meddope (Myddope), Steven, 
 
 182-3. 
 
 Thomas, 182. 
 
 Medley, John, 36, 184-8, 
 
 190-2, 194-5. 
 
 Mrs., 128, 136, 158. 
 
 Medlicott (Mydlccot), 25. 
 
 Arthur, 24-5, 26-7. 
 
 Thomas, 27. 
 
 Meeke, John, 4, 40. 
 
 Mercer, Agnes, 332. 
 
 Elizabeth, 397. 
 
 Jane, 332. 
 
 John, 328, 332-3. 
 
 Margaret, 332. 
 
 Richard, 396-7. 
 
 William, 328. 
 
 Mergates, Widow, 126-7. 
 Mericke, Richard, 178. 
 Merlay, Stephen de, xxvii. 
 Merrie (Merry), Jane, xl. 
 John, 32-3. 
 
 Robert, xl, 405. 
 
 Thomas, 224-5. 
 
 Merj'dethe, Richard, 1S2-3. 
 Meyle, Edward, 146. 
 Meyres, Joane, 88-9. 
 
 Johanne, 78, 80. 
 
 Thomas, 78, So, 295. 
 
 Michel! (Mychell), Alice, 
 
 358- 
 John, 352. 
 
 Margaret, 400. 
 
 Mr., 132. 
 
 Richard, 219. 
 
 Thurstan (Tristram), 
 
 56-7, 68, 70, 218-19. 
 Middleton, William, 1 78-9. 
 Midgley, Ellen, 372. 
 
 Henry, 372. 
 
 Isabel, 372. 
 
 Richard, 291, 372-3. 
 Mildmay (Myldmade), 
 Thomas, 85. 
 
 Sir \\'alter, 84-5. 
 
 Milford, John, 184-5. 
 Miller (Myller), Elizabeth, 
 
 366. 
 
 Goodman, 12. 
 
 Mrs., 6, 9. 
 
 Ralph, 290-1. 
 
 Richard, 290-1. 
 
 Mills (Milles, Mylls), ]\Ir., 
 
 xxxvii, 12, 34. 
 Mr. Hemy, li, lii, 44, 
 
 56, III. 
 
 Thomas, 148. 
 
 Timothy, 263. 
 
 Milton, 155, '185. 
 Mitton, Grace, 382. 
 
 Henry, 312. 
 
 Jenet, 312. 
 
 Richard, 312. 
 
 Robert, 312. 
 
 Thomas, 312. 
 
 Wilham, 312. 
 
 Molenius, Claudius, 104, 107. 
 Molyneux, Sir Richard, 77.
 
 428 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Monepennys, 126-7. 
 Moore (More, Morre), Ellen, 
 78, 80-1. 
 
 of Fence-in-Pendle, 81. 
 
 Hugh, 81. 
 
 Sir Jonas, 81. 
 
 Lettice, 323. 
 
 Myles, 1 76. 
 
 ■ Nicholas, 81. 
 
 Thomas, 172. 
 
 "WilHam, 21-2. 
 
 Morebread, Anthony, 2i6- 
 
 Morecrofte, Richard, 14, 18. 
 Morgan (Morgane), Jesree, 
 
 28-9. 
 ■ John, 199-200. 
 
 212-13, 216-17. 
 
 Mr., 58,98. 
 
 Morley, John, 368. 
 ]Mrs. (Isabel), 
 
 396-7- 
 
 Robert, 389. 
 
 202- 
 
 388-9, 
 
 Morrey (Morrie), Tliomas, 
 214-15, 225-7, 252-3. 
 
 Morrice (Morrise), Nicholas, 
 204-5. 
 
 ■ William, 144, 390. 
 
 Morries, Ralph, 256 
 
 Mortimer, 45. 
 
 Moreton (Morton), Gilbert, 
 
 5- 
 John, xxxiv, 4-5, 116. 
 
 Katherine, xxxiv. 
 
 William, 408. 
 
 Morwyn, Peter, xliii, 
 
 199. 
 
 Mosley, Charles, 176. 
 
 Motten, Robert, 12-13. 
 
 Mounson, Sir Thomas, 7. 
 
 Mounte, Mr., 40. 
 
 Moyses, Rachel, iio-n. 
 
 Mulcaster (Muncaster), Mr. 
 (Richard), xvii, xxvi, no- 
 il, 166-7, 186-7, 188-9, 
 248-9. 
 
 Mullins, Mr., 230. 
 
 Muncke, Henry, 244-5, 250. 
 
 Munday, Henry, 144. 
 
 Munde, Richard, 212-13. 
 
 Mundy, Mr., 299. 
 
 Musculus, Abraham, 62-3. 
 
 Wolfgang, 6}). 
 
 Mychaell, 62. 
 
 Myddley, Meistres, 52. 
 
 Mylles, Phillippes, 52. 
 
 Myllnes, Alderman, iio-ii. 
 
 Mynton, John, 20. 
 
 NALLER, William, 38. 
 Napper, William, 198, 
 201. 
 Narram, Agnes, 308. 
 
 Anne, 308. 
 
 Grace, 308. 
 
 Isabel, 308. 
 
 Jane, 308-9. 
 
 John, 278-9, 282-3, 
 
 287, 308-9, 396-7. 
 
 Nealsonne, \Villiam, 228-31, 
 250-1. 
 
 Nebbes, John, 2. 
 
 Necome, Elyas, 178. 
 
 Needham, 168-9. 
 
 Robert, 12. 
 
 Neigham, Jenet, 340. 
 
 Neve, Le, 3, 31, 35, loi, 113, 
 119, 121, 167, 183, 197, 
 200, 203, 205, 209, 213, 
 221, 223, 239, 249, 251, 
 267. 
 
 Neve (Neave, Neue), Antho- 
 ny, 55, 262-3, 266, 276-7. 
 
 Richard, xxxii, 54-5, 88- 
 
 9, 148-9, 258-9, 260-5, 
 406-7. 
 
 New, Thomas, xvi. 
 
 Newce, Thomas, 172-3, 176. 
 
 Newcourt, 3, 5, 31, 43, 91, 
 95, 109, 113, 119, 171,200. 
 
 Newell, Alice, 3S6. 
 
 Thomas, 196. 
 
 Newman (Neman), Christo- 
 pher, 168-9, 192. 
 
 Margaret, 136. 
 
 Newport e, Thomas, 1 16. 
 
 Newton, Widow, 152. 
 
 Nichol, Puritan Commenta- 
 ries, 3. 
 
 Nicholas (Nicolas), Sr, 45, 
 
 49, 51, 57, 79- 
 
 32-3. 
 
 Nicholls (Nycholles, Nycolls), 
 
 George, 2 10- 11, 234. 
 
 Roger, 130. 
 
 William, 74. 
 
 Nicholson (Nycholsoiie, Ny- 
 
 collson), 5- 
 
 John, 172-3. 
 
 Mr., 230-1. 
 
 William, 146. 
 
 Noble, 43. 
 Noell, Hemy, 207. 
 Nollarde, Lewis, 58. 
 Norcott, Samuel, 1 80- 1. 
 Norcrosse, David, 165. 
 Elizabeth, 52. 
 
 Norcrosse, George, 164-5, 
 390-1. 
 
 Heniy, 165, 391.^ 
 
 Norham, Ed«'ard, xlvi. 
 Norries, Mr., 244, 250, 
 Norryes, father, 14. 
 Northenby, John, 114. 
 Northinge, Alice, 154. 
 Northumberland, Duke of, 
 
 97- 
 
 Earl of, 129, 137. 
 
 Norton (Nortonn, George, 
 
 18. 
 
 Henry, 16. 
 
 Mr., I12-13. 
 
 William, 408. 
 
 250. 
 
 Norwoode, 16. 
 
 wife, 56. 
 
 Nowell, Adam, xxvii, xxviii, 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 Alexander, Dean of SL 
 
 Paul's, XX, XXV, xxvi, xxx, 
 xxxii, XXXV, xxxvii-xlv, 
 xlvii-1, lii-liv, 3, 7, 9, 29, 
 32-3, 47-9, 55, 71, 73-75, 
 77, 80-1, 83, 85-6, 89, 91, 
 95, 97-9, 105, 107, 109, 
 111-13, "9, 123, 129, 145, 
 
 147, 151, 155, 157, 163, 
 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 
 175, 189, 191, 193, 196, 
 204, 218-19, 221, 223, 225, 
 
 233, 235, 237, 239-43, 253, 
 257, 261, 265, 267, 275, 
 
 277, 279, 283, 287, 289, 
 
 291, 293, 295, 299, 305, 
 
 307, 309, 3", 313, 319, 
 
 333, 353, 361, 363, 385, 
 
 387, 389, 391, 393, 397, 
 
 399, 401, 403, 405, 407- 
 
 Alexander, xxix, xxx. 
 
 xxxiv, xliii. 
 — Alice, xxxi-iii, 71, 266-7. 
 
 Alison, 334-5. 
 
 Andrew, xxxi, xlviii, 
 
 259, 265. 
 Anne, xxxi-ii, xxxiv-v, 
 
 392-3- 
 Arthui", xxviii-ix. 
 
 Beatrice, xxxi, 78, 80-1, 
 
 Benedicta (Benet), 
 
 xxxiii, 71. 
 
 Catherine (Katherine), 
 
 xxviii, xxxiv-v, xliii, 268, 
 271. 
 
 — Charles, xxxi, 84-5,'258- 
 9, 261-3, 268, 271. 
 
 it
 
 Index of Perso7is. 
 
 429 
 
 Nowell, Christopher, xxxi-ii, 
 
 312-13- 
 
 Dowse, xxxi. 
 
 Edward, 258-9, 334. 
 
 Edward, (Rev.), 88-9, 
 
 120-1, 124-5, 186. 
 
 Eleanor, xxxi, 83. 
 
 Elizabeth, xxv, xxxi-iii, 
 
 xxxv-vi, xli, xlix, 83-5, 
 88-9, 261, 295, 307. 
 
 Fleetwood, xxxv. 
 
 Florence, xxxiii-iv. 
 
 Frances, xxxv. 
 
 • George, xxxv. 
 
 Gilbert, xxviii. 
 
 Grace, xxx-iii, 55, 68, 
 
 71, 115, 260-3, 265, 334. 
 
 Gyles, 334-5, 399. 
 
 Henry, xxxv. 
 
 Isabella, xxx, xxxii, 
 
 xxxiv, xlv, 267, 307, 312- 
 
 13. 334-5» 368, 400. 
 
 Jane, xxxi-ii, xl, 89, 261. 
 
 • Joane, 261. 
 
 JohnjXxviii-xxxvi,xxxix, 
 
 xlviii-ix, 80-1, 85, 89, no- 
 il, 168-9, 258-60, 262-3, 
 265, 267, 297, 309, 313, 
 
 335. 392-3- 
 
 Lawrence, Dean of 
 
 Lichfield, xxv, xxxi-ii, xlii- 
 vi, xlix. Hi, liv, 8-9, 34-5, 
 76-7, 85, 88, 96-7, 1 12-13, 
 122,253,271,384-5,406-7, 
 
 409- 
 
 Lawrence, xxviii-ix, xliii. 
 
 1-i. 
 
 — Letitia (Lettice), xxii, 
 xxxiv, 30S-9, 334-5. 
 
 — Margaret, xxx, xxxii, 7, 
 
 83- 
 
 Margery, xxxii. 
 Marie, xxxiv, 265, 
 
 5- 
 
 Mary, 
 
 xliii, 
 
 274- 
 83, 
 
 156-7, 243- 
 
 Maud, xxxi, 80, 83. 
 
 Mrs., of St. Pauls, 6, 9. 
 
 — — Mrs., of Lytchfilde, 6, 9. 
 
 Nicholas, xxviii-xxxi. 
 
 Otwell, xxviii-ix. 
 
 Penelope, xxxv. 
 
 Ralph, xxxv. 
 
 Richard, xxviii, xxxv, 
 
 168-9, 192-3, 393- 
 
 Robert, Esq. , of Gray's 
 
 Inn, ix, xi, xiii, xv, xx, xxii, 
 xxxi-ii, xxxv-viii, xl-liv, 
 
 1-2, 5-9, 27, 34-6, 42, 47, 
 
 49, 51, 54-7, 67-74, 76-7, 
 79-81, 83, 85-6, 89, 109, 
 114, 116, 118, 126, 130, 
 
 143, 145, 152-3, 155, 159, 
 169, 174, 196, 203-4, 216, 
 219, 223, 232, 234, 258-9, 
 260-2, 264-7, 274-5, 288, 
 291, 299, 305, 307, 309, 
 
 313, 349, 363, 377, 385, 
 388-9,391,398-9,403,405, 
 
 407. 
 Robert, xxxi, xxxiv-v, 
 
 xliii, 335- 
 
 Roger, xxvii-viii, xxx-v, 
 
 xlv, 5, 71, IIS, 186-7, 243, 
 261, 295, 297, 307-9, 335, 
 396-7, 399, 400-1. 
 
 Samuel, xliii. 
 
 Sarah, xliii, 26S, 271. 
 
 Simon, xxvii. 
 
 — Thomas, of Read, xxxii- 
 V, xliii, 2, 5-7, 36, 54, 60, 
 71, 76, 258-9, 266-7, 333. 
 
 Thomas, of Runcton, 
 
 xxxi, xl, li, 260-4, 268, 271, 
 
 403-5- 
 
 Thomas, 297, 335. 
 
 Walter, 1 16. 
 
 Nutter, Alice, 322, 384. 
 Christopher, 380. 
 
 Edward, 322-3. 
 
 Ellen, 322. 
 
 Henry, 380. 
 
 Hugh, 322. 
 
 Jenet, 322, 360. 
 
 John, 360-1. 
 
 Margaret, 322. 
 
 Nicholas, 322. 
 
 Robert, 360-1. 
 
 Nuttinge, Henry, 146. 
 John, 56. 
 
 OGLETHORPE, xlvii. 
 Oldesworth, Arnolde, 
 
 166-9. 
 Orenge, Edsvard, LL.D., 19. 
 Orm erode, Anne, 378-9. 
 
 Richard, 267. 
 
 Orrell, Elizabeth, 397. 
 
 John, 397. 
 
 of Orrell, 7. 
 
 Thomas, 4, "J. 
 
 Orringe, John, 18. 
 Ortonn, Hughe, 230- 1. 
 Orwell, 66. 
 Osbaldeston (Osboston), 
 
 Jenet, 374-5. 
 
 Osbaldeston (Osboston), 
 
 Robert, 231. 
 
 Sir, 230-1. 
 
 Osborne, Henry, 34. 
 
 Overton, 263. 
 
 Mrs., 156-7, 266-7, 268, 
 
 271, 305- 
 Richard, 36, 267. 
 
 Bp. William, 159. 
 
 Owen (Owene), Hughe, 178. 
 
 Dr. John, 201. 
 
 Ower, John, 4, 7, 40. 
 Oxford, Earl of, xliii. 
 
 PAGE, John, 144. 
 Paget, 267. 
 Pagge, Oliver, 132-3. 
 Paidge, father, 34-5. 
 Palgrave, 113. 
 
 Palmer (Pallmer), Bartholo- 
 mew, 178. 
 Jeffray, 1 14. 
 
 Goodman, 136-7. 
 
 Gyles, 14-15. 
 
 Henry, 160-1. 
 
 Herbert, 15. 
 
 John, 179. 
 
 Mr., 146-7. 
 
 Dr. William, 
 
 Panell, Sr, 184-5. 
 Parcke, Goodman, 146. 
 Parkens, Samuel, 184-5. 
 Parker, Agnes, 350. 
 Anne, 368. 
 
 Archbishop, lOl, 
 
 137- 
 
 103, 
 
 123, 125, 207, 271, 
 — ■ Barnard, 322. 
 
 — Canon, 369. 
 
 — Edward, 338-9. 
 
 — Elizabeth, 338, 3S0- 
 
 I. 
 
 Ellen, 368. 
 
 Jane, 368. 
 
 Jenet, 368, 380-1. 
 
 John, 79, 348, 358, 362- 
 
 3, 380-1. 
 
 Lawrence, 368-9. 
 
 ALirgaret, 360, 368. 
 
 Oliver, 380-1. 
 
 Richard, 344. 
 
 Robert Towneley, 369, 
 
 Robert, 184, 368, 378, 
 
 381. 
 
 Thomas, 382. 
 
 William, 10S-9, 398. 
 
 Parkes, Richard, 252-3. 
 Parkines, Richard, 192. 
 Parkins, Dr., 168-9. 
 Parkinson, Christopher, 169,
 
 430 
 
 hidex of Persons. 
 
 Parkinson, Elizabeth, 312. 
 
 Johanna, 312. 
 
 Lawrence, 1 68-9. 
 
 Margaret, 312. 
 
 Richard, 312. 
 
 Robert, 312. 
 
 William, 134. 
 
 Parkhurst, Bp., 125, 207. 
 Parraye, Bp. Henry, xxvi, 
 
 248-9. 
 Parrys, Richard, 18. 
 Robert, Vicar of Whal- 
 
 ley, 398-9- 
 Parvers, 168-9. 
 Paslew, John, Abbot, 335. 
 
 Leonard, 334-5. 
 
 Patefield, Elizabeth, 344. 
 Patensonn, Dorothy, 126. 
 Patente, Mr., 186. 
 Paterson, 146. 
 Patlcinson, Thomas, 20. 
 Paule, John, 196-7, 204-5. 
 Pamrde, John, 182. 
 Paycocke, Thomas, 1 78. 
 Payne, Jane, 263. 
 
 Mr., 46, 122-3. 
 
 Mrs., 8-9, 1 12-13. 
 
 Peek, Desid. Curios., 285. 
 Peele (Pele), EHzabeth, 125. 
 
 Mr., 403-5. 
 
 Nicliolas, xviii. 
 
 Pell, tixo?', 270, 272-3. 
 Pembertone, Widow, 126. 
 
 ■ William, 174. 
 
 Pembroke (Peni)rocke), my 
 
 Lord of, 56-7. 
 
 father, 146-7. 
 
 Pennington of Pennington, 
 
 223. 
 
 Robert, 237. 
 
 William, 222-3, 236-7. 
 
 Peperell, Thomas, 198, 201. 
 Percival, Edmund, 43. 
 Percyvall, Richard, 148. 
 Pere, Anne, 138. 
 Pereson, Henry, 390. 
 
 Margaret, 360. 
 
 Perion (Peryam, Pyrryne), 
 
 76, 79- 
 
 Anne, 79. 
 
 Elizabeth, 79. 
 
 Lady, xlix, 76, 79. 
 
 Sir William, 79. 
 
 Perne, Andrew, 63. 
 Perrot, Sir John, xlii. 
 Perse, Steven, 178. 
 Peter, Mr., 224. 
 Shr, 108. 
 
 Peterell, Nurse, 126. 
 
 Petssey, Henry, 32. 
 
 Pettiser, Nicholas, 124. 
 
 Pettit, Robert, 162-3. 
 
 Petyfyer, Thomas, 210-11. 
 
 Petzey, 60-1. 
 
 Peynes, Widow, 152. 
 
 Phillip, Ralph, 3S8. 
 
 Phillips (Phillippes), Marga- 
 ret, 154. 
 
 John, 30. 
 
 Phillpotts, John, 120-I. 
 
 Pickering (Pyckringe), Ro- 
 bert, lii, liii, 32-3, 76, 84, 
 1 14-15, 162-3, 290-2, 310- 
 II, 402-3. 
 
 SirWilHam, 1 88-9, 228- 
 
 9- 
 
 Pilkington (Pylkington), Bp., 
 
 29, 175- 
 
 John, Rector of Bury, 
 
 xxix. 
 
 Thomas, 176-7. 
 
 Pine, 62. 
 
 Pius v., Pope, 103. 
 
 Place, Mr., 1. 
 
 Plomtonn (Plumstone), John, 
 
 196, 204-5. 
 Plume, Joan, 152. 
 Poclere, Mr., 404. 
 Pollard (Pollerde), Agnes, 
 
 125, 279. 
 
 Alice, 125. 
 
 Christopher, 125. 
 
 Edmund, 125, 330-1. 
 
 Elizabeth, 125. 
 
 Ellen, 125. 
 
 Ellis, 124-5, 223. 
 
 Emota, 125. 
 
 George, 125, 222-3,234, 
 
 278-9, 282-3, 287. 
 
 Grace, 364. 
 
 Isabel, 330. 
 
 James, 125, 364, 372. 
 
 Jenet, 354. 
 
 John, 125,281,331,358. 
 
 Margaret, 330>354>358, 
 
 376. 
 Marie, 364. 
 
 Ralph, 125, 279. 
 
 Robert, 28 1. 
 
 William, 125. 
 
 Foisted, Mr., 162-3. 
 Poole, 10- II. 
 
 Goodwife, 152. 
 
 Henry, 76, 79, 240-1. 
 
 j\Ir., of Dalbey, 74-5, 
 
 246-7. 
 
 Pope, Josias, 210-11, 234. 
 Poprell, John, 198, 201. 
 Porder, ]\Ir., 122. 
 Poredge, Mr., 154. 
 Porter (Porther), Margaret, 
 
 398. 
 Peter, 180-1. 
 
 Richard, 114. 
 
 William, 114. 
 
 Potter, Ellen, 125. 
 Pounde, John, 174. 
 
 Widow, 152. 
 
 Powell, James, 72. 
 
 Johan, 152, 205. 
 
 John, 196-7, 205. 
 
 Sir, 204-5. 
 
 Thomas, 197, 210-11. 
 
 William, 198, 200. 
 
 Pratte, 244. 
 Prentise, Robert, 178. 
 Presse, John, 172-3. 
 Preste, Thomas, 130. 
 Prestmane, John, 212-13. 
 
 Nicholas, 18. 
 
 Preston, Adam, 144. 
 
 Elizabeth, 78, 80- 1. 
 
 Richard, 78, 80-1. 
 
 Thomas, 81, 149. 
 
 William, 22. 
 
 Price, Goodman, 12. 
 
 Priestley (Preestley), 270, 
 
 272-3. 
 Priste, Mother, 154. 
 Procter, Cuthbert, 34. 
 John, 43. 
 
 Mary, xxxiv. 
 
 • Thomas, xxxui. 
 
 Pryme, John, 198, 201, 210- 
 
 II. 
 Puddell, Robert, 18. 
 PuUyn, 232-3. 
 Punte, John, 14-15, 25-7, 98- 
 
 9, 172-3- 
 Pursott, Widow, 140. 
 Pyckaner, Richard, 204-5. 
 Pyckarde, Richard, 176. 
 Pye, Thomas, 230-1. 
 Pyersonne, Thomas, 10. 
 Pyghill, Thomas, 388. 
 Pykcopc, Alice, 320. 
 
 Anne, 320. 
 
 Elizabeth, 320-1. 
 
 Jane, 320. 
 
 I 
 
 John, 320. 
 
 Margaret, 320. 
 
 Pymminge, James, 20, 26. 
 Pynder, William, 20. 
 Pynner, Mother, 150.
 
 Pyrrin, Widow, 128. 
 Pyrry, Thomas, 300. 
 
 Q 
 
 UESTE, 122-3. 
 Quinten, 2, 5. 
 
 RADCLIFFE (Radclieff, 
 Ratclieff, Ratcliffe),;?. 
 
 Agues, 336. 
 
 Charles, 271, 397. 
 
 Edward, xxxi, 271. 
 
 Jenet, 336-7. 
 
 John, 336-7, 342. 
 
 Mr., 2, 5, 145, 232-3. 
 
 Mrs. (Margaret), 376-7. 
 
 Margaret, 271. 
 
 Richard, 204-5. 
 
 Robert, 268, 271. 
 
 Samuel, D.D., 271. 
 
 Thomas, 77. 
 
 William, 337, 340. 
 
 Raines, Canon, xi. Si, 225, 
 23i» 253, 257, 271, 289, 
 291, 293, 295, 299, 301, 
 
 305, 307- 
 Rainolds, Dr. John, 201, 20S. 
 Ralph, 198, 200. 
 Ramsbottom, Thomas, 384. 
 Ramson, Christopher, 198, 
 
 201. 
 Randall, Mr., 50. 
 Randulph, Thomas, 51- 
 Rannaye, Robert, 378. 
 Ranner, 34. 
 
 Rapesede, Widow, 152-3. 
 Ravalde, Robert, 245. 
 Rawcrofte, 128. 
 
 Mr., 156. 
 
 Rawcrosse, Mrs., 406-7. 
 Rawin, William, 368. 
 Rawlin { Rawlyn, Rawlens, 
 
 Rawlins), Agnes, 54. 
 
 John, 178. 
 
 Thomas, 212-13. 
 
 W^idow, 54. 
 
 Rayner (Reyner), Thomas, li, 
 
 6, 7, 34, 36, 76-7- 
 Raynes, Gabryell, 1 12-13. 
 
 John, 1 12-13. 
 
 Raynoldes, Mr., 2 10- 11. 
 Reade, Alice, 346. 
 
 father, 50. 
 
 . Henry, 346. 
 
 John, 12. 
 
 Margerie, 346. 
 
 Marie, 346. 
 
 Martina, 166-7, 228-9. 
 
 Robert, 144-5. 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Rebecka, Lady, 159. 
 Redfearne (Reedfearne), 156- 
 
 7- 
 Agnes, 295. 
 
 Anne, 288-9, 295. 
 
 Elizabeth, 288, 290, 
 
 294-5- 
 Ellis, 194-5, 264-S, 290- 
 
 I, 294-5. 
 Gabriel, 295. 
 
 Henry, 294-5. 
 
 Hester, 295. 
 
 James, 157, 260, 263, 
 
 266, 294-5, 404-5. 
 
 Jane, 294-5. 
 
 John, 157, 260, 295. 
 
 Martha, 295. 
 
 Mary, 295. 
 
 — — Richard, 262-3, 266, 
 
 295. 
 
 Thomas, 294-5, 384-5- 
 
 Reed, Isaac, xix. 
 Remyngton, Agnes, 328. 
 
 John, 326-7. 
 
 Reskiner, Mrs. Alice, xlvi. 
 
 Reynold, 146. 
 
 Richardson (Rychardsonne), 
 
 Anthony, 136. 
 
 George, 12, 14, 18. 
 
 John, 338-9. 
 
 Mr., 108-9. 
 
 Thomas, 20. 
 
 Rickesmond, John, 167. 
 Ridiox, Lawrence, 386-7. 
 Ridley (Rydley), 11, 155. 
 
 Bp., xlii. 
 
 William, lo-il. 
 
 Rigby, 21. 
 
 Rignot, Nicholas, 62-3. 
 
 Rilton, 121. 
 
 Rishton (Ryeston, Rushton), 
 
 135- 
 
 Alice, 394. 
 
 Dorothy, 394. 
 
 Elizabeth, xxxii, 398. 
 
 Henr3% 172-3. 
 
 James, 134. 
 
 John, 372-3. 
 
 Nicholas, xxxii, 406-7. 
 
 Ralph, xxxi. 
 
 Risley, James, 210-11, 234. 
 Robbeman, Theoph., 106-7. 
 Roberta, widow, 58. 
 Roberts, Alice, 346, 376. 
 
 Anne, 346, 376. 
 
 Edmund, 347-8. 
 
 Edward, 347. 
 
 George, 14, 144. 
 
 Roberts, Isabel, 346. 
 
 James, 346, 360. 
 
 John, 346, 376. 
 
 Lawrence, 376-7. 
 
 Margaret, 326, 348, 376, 
 
 392, 398. 
 
 Miles, 346-7, 350. 
 
 Peter, 360. 
 
 Richard, 346, 376. 
 
 Robert, 378-9. 
 
 Thomas, 348. 
 
 William, 376. 
 
 Robertshaw, Isabel, 364. 
 
 ^^John, 350-1. 
 
 Robins, Elizabeth, 149. 
 
 William, 149. 
 
 Robinson (Rob}Tison), Eliza- 
 beth, 334. 
 
 Rev. C. J., xi, 261. 
 
 George, 182. 
 
 Dr. John, 229. 
 
 John, 178-81, 348, 355, 
 
 Margaret, 348. 
 
 R., 199. 
 
 Richard, 392. 
 
 Robson, Richard, 386. 
 
 • • William, 16. 
 
 Rocroft (Rowcrofte), Cathe- 
 rine, 263. 
 
 Mrs., 158. 
 
 Rodolphus, Anthonie, lOl. 
 
 Rogers (Rogeres), 16. 
 
 Ambrose, 160-1,212-13, 
 
 225, 404, 407. 
 
 Henry, 144. 
 
 John, 407. 
 
 Mr., 224-5. 
 
 Thomas, 103, 197. 
 
 Romsden, Ellen, 3S8. 
 Rooe, William, 16. 
 Rose, Mychaell, 20. 
 Rosse, Henry, 342-3. 
 
 Isabell, 342. 
 
 IMrs., 112. 
 
 Thomas, 112-13, 116- 
 
 17- 
 Rothwell, Anne, 368. 
 
 Henry, 324. 
 
 James, 368-9. 
 
 Jane, 368. 
 
 Rounde, Richard, 390- 1. 
 Rouse, Anthony, 176. 
 Rowe, Sir Thomas, 143. 
 Rowlande, father, 134. 
 
 William, 144. 
 
 Ruddocke, Frances, 1 20- 1. 
 Ruderby, Walter, 198-200. 
 Russell, 104-5.
 
 432 
 
 Lndcx of Persons. 
 
 Russell, Rev. A. T., 185. 
 
 Sagar (Sager), Isabel, 338. 
 
 Schofield (Schofylde), Cuth- 
 
 David, 63. 
 
 James, 358-9. 
 
 bert, 2S8-9, 291. 
 
 Jerome, 63. 
 
 John, 148. 
 
 Edmund, 168-9, 228-9, 
 
 Mr., 62. 
 
 Lawrence, 330- 1. 
 
 252-3- 
 
 Robert, 28-9. 
 
 Margerie, 314. 
 
 Elizeus, 295. 
 
 Rustine, Lambert, 106-7. 
 
 Mr., 2, 3. 
 
 James, 289, 295. 
 
 Rutland, Earl of, 262, 264-5. 
 
 Nicholas, 27S-9, 287. 
 
 Jenet, 304. 
 
 Rychard, Lewis, 182. 
 
 Richard, 286-7. 
 
 Margaret, 384-5. 
 
 Rycroft, Thomas, xxxii. 
 
 Robert, 358-9. 
 
 Scholes, Agnes, 304-5. 
 
 Rydale, Frances, 1 18-19. 
 
 Thomas, 358-9. 
 
 Anne, 304. 
 
 Rydinge, George, 336. 
 
 William, 358-9. 
 
 Elizabeth, 304-5. 
 
 Grace, 336. 
 
 Salisbury (Sarisbury), Bp. of. 
 
 • Henry, 301, 304, 305. 
 
 Jenet, 354. 
 
 2, 5, 32, 160. 
 
 Isabel, 304-5. 
 
 John, 336. 
 
 Earl of, 45. 
 
 James, 299. 
 
 Myles, 354. 
 
 Ellen, 3S6. 
 
 Jane, 304. 
 
 Thomas, 336. 
 
 Salker, Henry, 397. 
 
 Margaret, 304. 
 
 William, 336, 354. 
 
 Samsone (Sampsonn, Sam- 
 
 Thomas, 304-5. 
 
 Ryghsby, Henry, 18. 
 
 sonne, Sanson), 408. 
 
 Seacombe, 43. 
 
 Rylands, J. P., 211. 
 
 Mr., 162, 216-17. 
 
 Seaton, 96-7. 
 
 Ryley of the Green, 33. 
 
 Bishop Richard, 1 1 2- 1 3. 
 
 -Secare, Dominick, 22-3. 
 
 . of High Riley, Accring- 
 
 Sisley, 136-7. 
 
 Sedell, John, 398. 
 
 ton, 33. 
 
 Dean Thomas, 106-7. 
 
 Sedgreve, Alice, 344. 
 
 Agnes, 332, 364. 
 
 Thomas, 132. 
 
 ■ Margery, 344-5. 
 
 Alexander, 346-7, 364-5. 
 
 Samwell, 182, 184. 
 
 William, 345. 
 
 Alice, 332. 
 
 Mr., 1 20- 1. 
 
 Seekes, Henry, 338. 
 
 Anne, 322. 
 
 Sandersonne, Robert, 182. 
 
 William, 338. 
 
 ■ Edmund, 332. 
 
 wife, 408. 
 
 Sellers (Seller, Sellare), Alex- 
 
 Ellen, 332, 397. 
 
 Sandes, John, 224-5. 
 
 ander, 260. 
 
 Grace, 332. 
 
 Sandys, Bp., loi, 181, 225. 
 
 Alice, 342, 344. 
 
 Henry, 32-3, 332-3, 
 
 George, 15. 
 
 Anne, 85, 88-9, 308-9. 
 
 346-7, 396-7. 
 
 Sankey, Mr., 232. 
 
 Beatrice, 308-9. 
 
 Hugh, 397. 
 
 Sastanstall (Saltanstall), Ed- 
 
 Christopher, 396-7. 
 
 Isabel, 318, 322, 397. 
 
 ward, 343. 
 
 Elizabeth, 340. 
 
 James, 397. 
 
 William, 342-3. 
 
 Ellen, 342. 
 
 Jane, 318, 397. 
 
 Satell, Tenet, 380. 
 
 George, 229, 288, 291- 
 
 Jenet, 346-7. 
 
 William, 380. 
 
 2, 294, 302, 304, 306, 308- 
 
 John, 332, 364. 
 
 Saterbey, Judith, 8-9. 
 
 9> 36^, 396. 
 
 Lawrence, 364. 
 
 Satterley, Abraham, 32. 
 
 Grace, 308-9. 
 
 Margaret, 332, 352, 397. 
 
 John, 256-7. 
 
 Isabel, 283, 308-9. 
 
 Peter, 320. 
 
 Saunders, William, 58. 
 
 Jane, 279, 308-9, 340, 
 
 Richard, 346-7, 364. 
 
 Savage, John, 198-9. 
 
 342. 
 
 Robert, 364. 
 
 Savaige, Joan, 152. 
 
 Jenet, 308-9, 341-2. 
 
 Susan, 397. 
 
 Savile (Saville), 205. 
 
 John, 56-7, 70,72,82-3, 
 
 Thomas, 1 18-19, 397- 
 
 Thomas, 271, 397. 
 
 88-9, 206-7, 223, 228-9, 
 
 Rypon, Margaret, 368. 
 
 Saxton, 104-5. 
 
 262-3, 278, 288,290-1,296, 
 
 • William, 398. 
 
 Saywarde, Mr., 41, 11S-19. 
 
 300, 306, 308-9, 312-13, 
 
 Rysome, Robert, 10. 
 
 Scale, Jenet, 390. 
 
 396-7- 
 
 Ryve, Goodman, 108-9. 
 
 Thomas, 366. 
 
 Lawrence, 84-5, 344. 
 
 John, 348-9. 
 
 Scarboroughe, 234. 
 
 Margaret, 309, 342. 
 
 
 Nicholas, xxxiv. 
 
 Mr., 228-33. 
 
 QABOTHE, Anne, 154-5. 
 Sackeforde, Mr., 48-9. 
 
 Thomas, 210-II. 
 
 Myles, 342. 
 
 Scarlett, Agnes, 140. 
 
 Richard, 342-3. 
 
 Sackville, Sir Thomas, 51, 
 
 Mr., 11S-19. 
 
 Robert, 338-9. 
 
 Sadler, Sir Ralph, 51, 85, 
 
 Schmidt, 5. 
 
 Sir, 216-17, 222-3. 
 
 252-3. 
 
 Schofield (Schofylde) family, 
 
 Thomas, 222-3, 236-7, 
 
 William, 28-9. 
 
 169, 253. 
 
 309, 344, 388-9. 
 
 Sagar (Sager), Alice, 358-9. 
 
 Alexander, 291, 
 
 Selvius, 1 02. 
 
 Henry, 372-3. 
 
 Anne, 291. 
 
 Sengreius, 104-7.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 433 
 
 Seres (Series), William, 43, 
 
 98-9, 147. 
 Sethe, ]\Ir., 116. 
 Sewall, 68. 
 Sevvell, Dr., 200. 
 Shakspere, xv, 5, 49, 237. 
 Shafilde, Anne, 326. 
 
 Elizabeth, 322, 328, 
 
 Isabel, 322. 
 
 John, 326. 
 
 Shakerley, Mr., 220- 1. 
 
 Peter (Piers), 220- 1. 
 
 Shalcrofte, Edward, 212-13. 
 Shaler, Michael, 40. 
 Shalfoote, Mathew, 190. 
 Shande, Edward, 1 44-5. 
 Sharpe, Anne, 318. 
 
 Isabel, 318. 
 
 John, xxxiv, 318. 
 
 Robert, 162-3, 176, 178- 
 
 9- 
 
 Widow, 154. 
 
 W^illiam, 31 8. 
 
 Sharpsparrowe, 29, 18 1. 
 
 John, iSo-i. 
 
 Shawe (Showe), George, 16. 
 
 Edmund, 350. 
 
 Edward, 350. 
 
 Henry, 210-II, 234, 
 
 350. 
 
 — Lawrence, 302, 
 Margery, 350. 
 
 305- 
 
 Shawecrosse (Shacrosse), Ed- 
 ward, 198, 201, 216-17, 
 220-1, 224-5, 226-7. 
 
 Shepherd (Sheparde, Shep- 
 ard, Sheppard, Shepharde), 
 
 22 
 
 3- 
 
 — Agnes, 302, 304-5. 
 
 — Andrew, 302-3, 305. 
 
 — Anne, 302, 305. 
 
 — Cosin, 162-3. 
 
 — Elizabeth, lii, 279, 300-I, 
 
 304-5- 
 
 — Ellen, 304-5. 
 
 — Gilbert, 302, 305. 
 
 — Grace, 304-5. 
 
 — Isabel, 302, 305. 
 
 — James, 223, 298, 302, 
 
 305- 
 
 — Jenet, 304-5. 
 
 — John, 302, 305. 
 
 — Lawrence, 302, 305. 
 
 — Mr., 8-9, 172-3. 
 
 — Mrs., 8-9, 78-9, 88-9, 
 258-60, 263-8, 271. 
 
 — Margaret, 298, 302, 305. 
 
 — Margery, 302, 305. 
 
 Shepherd (Sheparde, Shep- 
 ard, Sheppard, Shepharde), 
 Nicholas, 179, 180-1. 
 
 Richard, 384-5. 
 
 Thomas, 302, 305. 
 
 Shepleys, Thomas, 10. 
 
 Sherburne, Grace, xxxii. 
 
 Henry, 271. 
 
 SirRichard,xx.Kii,388-9. 
 
 Robert, 271. 
 
 Sherries, James, 146-7. 
 
 Sherrington, Mr., loi. 
 
 Shircom, Geffrey, 274-5. 
 
 Shore, Robert, 380. 
 
 Shorrock (Sharrocke, Sher- 
 rocke), Agnes, 318. 
 
 AHce, 382. 
 
 Henry, 318, 328. 
 
 Jane, 3 1 8. 
 
 John, 318, 382. 
 
 Richard, 280- 1, 
 
 287, 318. 
 
 Robert, 68. 
 
 2S4, 
 
 Shortred, William, 212-13. 
 Shott, 74. 
 
 Shower, Christopher, 380. 
 John, 380 
 
 Margaret, 380. 
 
 Shrappshire, John, 94-5, 
 
 136. 
 
 Shrewsbury, 45. 
 
 Shuttle worth family, 29 1. 
 
 Anne, 346. 
 
 Barnard, 331. 
 
 Brian, 346-7. 
 
 Elizabeth, 330. 
 
 George, 398, 
 
 Hugh, 294. 
 
 Isabel, 346. 
 
 James, 347. 
 
 Jenet, 346, 386-7. 
 
 Joan, 346. 
 
 Laurence, 340- 1. 
 
 Lettice, 330-1. 
 
 Nicholas, 323. 
 
 Oliver, 309. 
 
 Robert, 389. 
 
 Thomas, 342. 
 
 William, xxxiii-iv, 347, 
 
 379- 
 Sibbes, Dr., 3. 
 Sidlinge, Richard, 1 74. 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, 31, 57, 
 
 161, 181, 183, 200. 
 Simmes, Valentine, 199. 
 Simones (Simons), Goodman, 
 
 108-9. 
 John, 144. 
 
 Simson, Ellen, 346. 
 
 James, 346. 
 
 Jenet, 346. 
 
 Thomas, 346. 
 
 Singleton (Shingliton), Alice, 
 82-3. 
 
 Elizabeth, 81. 
 
 Jane, 85. 
 
 John, 81-3. 
 
 Sr, 210-11. 
 
 wife's children, 86-7. 
 
 7 *- 
 
 Sihckler (Sinkler), Jonah, 
 107. 
 
 Mr., 11S-19. 
 
 Slacke, Thomas, 16. 
 Sladel, Christopher, 273. 
 Slatere (Clalere), 23. 
 
 Ellen, 322. 
 
 Goodwife, 154. 
 
 • Gyles, 322-:;. 
 ■ Isabel, 322. 
 
 Jenet, 322, 352, 390. 
 
 William, 322, 398. 
 
 Slaughter, George, 22-3. 
 
 Robert, 16-17. 
 
 Slyfolde, William, 224-5. 
 -Smalley, John, 314. 
 Smarte, Mr., 216-17. 
 Smiles, Samuel, 105. 
 Smith (.Smithe, Smythe, 
 
 Smyth, Smythes), 154, 162, 
 
 192-3, 238-9. 
 
 Alexander, 175. 
 
 Alice, 257, 392. 
 
 Anne, 350, 356, 366, 
 
 368, 382. 
 
 Edward, 380. 
 
 Elizabeth, 352. 
 
 Ellen, 320, 346. 
 
 George, 346, 368. 
 
 Henry, 23S-9, 346, 366. 
 
 Humphrey, 350. 
 
 Isabel, 346, 348, 350, 
 
 352, 354, 356, 372, Z^''-, 
 
 384. 
 
 James, 1 80- 1, 346, 350, 
 
 352, 354, 356-7, 392. 
 
 Jenet, 358, 368, 398. 
 
 John, 16, 20, 22, 24, 
 
 t44, 216-17, 225, 278-9, 
 282-3, 287, 350, 356. 
 
 Lawrence, 366, 368, 392. 
 
 JNIargaret, 334, 350, 380. 
 
 Margery, 356. 
 
 INIarie, 384. 
 
 Mother. 112. 
 
 Mr., 174-5, 266. 
 
 Mrs., 188. 
 
 HH
 
 434 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Smith (Smithe, Smythe, 
 Smyth, Smythes), Myles, 
 Bp., xxvi, 212-13, 236-7. 
 
 Myles, 352. 
 
 Nicholas, 289, 368. 
 
 Richard, 178-9, 182-3, 
 
 190-1, 214-15, 218, 220-1, 
 352, 408-9. 
 
 Robert, 16, 132, 162-3, 
 
 352. 
 
 Sr., 244-5, 250. 
 
 Sophany, 178. 
 
 • Steven, 180- 1. 
 
 Thomas, 362, 366. 
 
 William, 154, 364, 368, 
 
 374- 
 Snodace, John, 176. 
 Soitell, Isabel, 380. 
 Somerscales, John, 180. 
 Somerset, Duke of, 267. 
 Sonkey, Elizaljeth, 318. 
 
 John, 318. 
 
 Laurence, 318. 
 
 Maud, 318-19. 
 
 Thomas, 318, 
 
 William, 3 18- 1 9. 
 
 Sorocold of Barton, 17 1. 
 
 Ralph, 171. 
 
 Thomas, 170-1. 
 
 Sourbutts, Jenet, 3 1 2- 1 3. 
 Southcoate, John, 149. 
 
 Justice, 148-9, 246-7. 
 
 Nicholas, 149. 
 
 William, 149. 
 
 Southworth, Sir John, 170-1. 
 Sowan, William, 16. 
 Sparke, Thomas, 201, 203, 
 
 206, 208. 
 
 William, 208. 
 
 Sparre, Anthony, 174. 
 Sparrowe, Mr., 108-9, 122-3. 
 Speede, 192-3. 
 Speller (Spellar, Spyllcr), 
 
 Goodwife, 266. 
 Hemy, 88, 258-9, 262- 
 
 5, 305- 
 Spenser (Spencere, vSpensore), 
 
 Adree, 140-1. 
 
 Agnes, xxi, 358. 
 
 Alice, XX!, 368-9, 378-9. 
 
 Edmund (the Poet), xiii- 
 
 xxii, xxiv, 28-9, 159-61, 
 
 164-5, 172-3, 189. 309> 
 . 352-3, 357, 368-9, 379, 
 
 381. 
 
 Edmund, xx, xxi. 
 
 Elizabeth, xiv, xxi. 
 
 Ellis, xxii, 308-9. 
 
 Spenser (Spencere, Spensore, 
 Isabel, xxi, 356-7. 
 
 Jenet, xxi, 369, 374-5. 
 
 Johanne, 1 1 o- 1 1 . 
 
 Dr. John, 208. 
 
 Sir John of Althoi-pe, 
 
 xiv. 
 
 John, xviii, xx-xxiii, 
 
 194.-S, 228-31. 
 
 Lawrence, xxii, 308-9. 
 
 Lettice, 308-9. 
 
 Nicholas, xviii, 39. 
 
 Philip, XX, 368-9. 
 
 Robert, xviii, xx, xxi, 
 
 368-9. 
 Speringe, Dr., 148-9. 
 Sperke, John, 27, 38-9, 
 Sperme, Thomas, 210-11,234. 
 Speyre, John, 196-7. 
 Spinke, John, 352. 
 Springfilde, Anne, 108-9. 
 Springham, Mathew, 162-3. 
 Richard, 163, 216-17, 
 
 228-9, 
 Spynny, 12. 
 Squier, Adam, 210, 
 
 Mr., 226-7. 
 
 Stacie, James, 246-7. 
 Stafford, Sir Humphrey, 157. 
 
 Joyce, 157. 
 
 Stainton, Lawrence, 1 80- 1. 
 Stallon, Samuel, 174. 
 Standbridge, Elizabeth, 8-9. 
 Standworth, Lawrence, xxxiv. 
 Stanleghs, 234-5. 
 Stanley, Sir James, 5. 
 
 Thomas, 252-3. 
 
 Stannaye, Widow, 154. 
 Stansfield, (Stansfilde), Gyles, 
 
 377, 399- 
 
 Isabel, 354. 
 
 Jane, 364. 
 
 Jenet, 354, 
 
 Mrs., 396-7, 
 
 Oliver, 377. 
 
 Richard, 376-7. 
 
 Thomas, 360. 
 
 Stanton (Staunton), How.ard, 
 
 29, 31, 33- 
 John, 40, 146. 
 
 Richard, 130. 
 
 W., 154. 
 
 Stapleton, Ilumfrey, 392. 
 Starkey (Starkie), Edmund, 
 
 260, 263. 
 
 Edward, 323. 
 
 Lawrence, xxxiii, 397. 
 
 William, 397. 
 
 Stear, Mr., 184, 
 Steed, 97, 99, 105. 
 Stell, Owen, 386. 
 Stevenson, Agnes, 324, 
 
 Anne, 324. 
 
 ■ Ellen, 324. 
 
 Isabel, 324. 
 
 Jenet, 324, 
 
 John, 324, 
 
 Nicholas, 324, 
 
 Roger, 324. 
 
 Steward, Mr., 406-7. 
 
 Thomas, 1 61. 
 
 Still, Bp., xxv, 188-9. 
 Stilton, Richard, 132. 
 Stirill, William, 1 60- 1. 
 Stirrope, William, 10, 
 Stithe, Mr., 160. 
 Stock er, John, 14. 
 Stockes, Ellen, 35S, 
 
 John, 324. 
 
 Richard, 324. 
 
 Stockson, William, 94. 
 Stones, Richard, 344. 
 Stonne, Thomas, 2 10- 1 1, 234, 
 Stoopes, James, 184-5, ^86. 
 .Slopes, Mr., no. 
 Stopforth, Elizabeth, 346, 
 
 Ellen, 346, 
 
 Jenet, 346. 
 
 Thomas, 347. 
 
 Store, Jenet, 270. 
 Stowarde, Mrs., 158, 161. 
 Stow, John, 39, 49. 
 Stowell, Mr., 202-3. 
 Strange, Mrs., 128, 406-7, 
 Strasham, 186. 
 Strickland (Strycklande),i8o. 
 
 Anne, 54. 
 
 .Strowede, Sir, 210-II. 
 Stryngere, William, 144. 
 Strype, 5, 63, 1 71, 207, 257, 
 
 277. 
 Sturley, 270, 272-3. 
 Sturton, 60. 
 Sudell, Richard, xxxiv. 
 Suffolk, Duchess of, 155. 
 Sutcliffe, Lawrence, 378-9. 
 Sute, John (Joan), 52-3. 
 Sutton (Suttone), Margeiy, 
 
 263. 
 
 Robert, 176-7, 196-7. 
 
 Swale, Sir Richard, 176-7, 
 Swallow, Roger, 14-15. 
 Swane, Elizabeth, 154. 
 
 Thomas, 154, 
 
 William, 20. 
 
 Sweetes, Mr., 218.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 435 
 
 Sweswell, Anne, 136. 
 Swinglehurste, Agnes, 392. 
 
 Isabel, 348. 
 
 Ricliard, 348. 
 
 William, 390-1, 394-5- 
 
 Swynehed, Margery, 138. 
 Sylke, Thomas, 204-5. 
 Sylvester, father, 10. 
 Symball, PVances, 132. 
 Symsonne, Mr., 170-1. 
 Sythe, Henry, 214-15. 
 
 T A KINGTON, Hugh, 
 264. 
 Talbot, 248-9. 
 Thomas, the antiquary, 
 
 XXX. 
 
 Thomas, 397. 
 
 Taller, Richard, 252-3. 
 Tanseye, Theoder, 206, 208. 
 Tarbutt, William, 125, 167. 
 Tattersall (Tattershall), 221. 
 Agnes, 332. 
 
 Alice, 358. 
 Bafthol., 364. 
 
 338, 
 361, 
 
 Edmund, 338. 
 
 John, 220-1, 234, 
 
 364. 
 Richard, 220-1, 
 
 365, 376- 
 
 Thomas, 364-5. 
 
 William, 332-3. 
 
 Tauson, John, 100, 103. 
 Taylor (Tayler, Tayller), 
 
 Ahce, 296. 
 Anne, 296. 
 
 Arthur, 294-5. 
 
 Bp. Jeremy, 219. 
 
 Bonaventure, 294-5. 
 
 Edward, 360. 
 
 Elizabeth, 330 
 
 Ellis, 294-5. 
 
 George, 30-1, 370, 376. 
 
 Grace, 358. 
 
 Henry, 394-5. 
 
 Isabel, 370. 
 
 Jenet, 330. 
 
 John, 120-1, 146, 370. 
 
 Lawrence, 370. 
 
 Leonard, 2, 5. 
 
 Margaret, 370. 
 
 ■ Margery, 296. 
 
 Piers, 294-5. 
 
 Richard, 1 18-19, 294-5, 
 
 370, 388. 
 Roger, 304-5. 
 
 Senior, 348. 
 
 The Water Poet, 47. 
 
 Taylor (Tayler, Tayller), 
 Thomas, 386, 392. 
 
 William, 296. 
 
 Templie, Robert, 202-3. 
 Tetlow, Jane, 262-3. 
 
 Widow, 156. 
 
 Thackwell, Roger, 30- 1. 
 Thimbleby, Dr., 159. 
 Thirsby, 408. 
 Thomas, Edward, 376. 
 John, 12, 31, 166-7, 
 
 190-1, 376. 
 
 198, 201. 
 
 Ralph, 167. 
 
 Richard, 376. 
 
 Robert, 376. 
 
 Thomas, 186-7. 
 
 Thompson (Thomsonne, 
 Tompson,Tomsonn), Chris- 
 topher, 18. 
 
 Ellen, 138. 
 
 Grace, 388. 
 
 James, 32. 
 
 John, 392. 
 
 Marian, 306. 
 
 Ralph, 206, 208-9, 234. 
 
 Thomas, 20. 
 
 Widow, 154. 
 
 William, 288. 
 
 Thormanbye, George, 146. 
 Thornber, Alice, 334, 378. 
 
 John, 360. 
 
 Thornburghe, Cicilia, 149. 
 Thornehill, William, 174. 
 Thorpe, George, 340. 
 
 John, 6, 34, 36, 76-7, 
 
 226-7. 
 
 Margaret, 340. 
 
 Mrs., 140. 
 
 Richard, 312-13. 
 
 Thrott, Richard, 130. 
 Thymblie, Isabel, 354- 
 
 Margaret, 354. 
 
 Margery, 352. 
 
 Richard, 352-3. 
 
 Thomas, 354, 
 
 Thyrlande, Mr., 116. 
 Tineste, George, 398. 
 John, 398. 
 
 Tingnell, Margaret, 328, 388. 
 Tobie, Bp., 199. 
 Todde(Tode), Gilbert, 12,138. 
 
 Good wife, 260-1. 
 
 Joane, lii, 8-9. 
 
 John, 76-7. 
 
 Mother, 138. 
 
 Mr. , XV. 
 
 Richard, xxix. 
 
 Todgill, xlviii. 
 
 Henry, 2, 5-7, 56-7, 76, 
 
 79- 
 Tomkins, Mary, 154. 
 Tomlinson, Alice, 340. 
 
 Jenet, 378. 
 
 Sir Robert, 388-9. 
 
 Touge, Mary, 138. 
 
 Tooke (Tocke, Tucke), Ange- 
 
 lot, 73- 
 
 Mr. Auditor, 72. 
 
 Mr., xlviii, 68, 72-5. 
 
 Ralph, 73. 
 
 Thomas, 73. 
 
 Walter, 73. 
 
 William, 240- 1. 
 
 William, Esq , of Popes, 
 
 73- 
 Torperleye, Thomas, 2 1 2- 1 3. 
 Tottingham, 70. 
 Towne, Ellen, 358. 
 
 John, 348. 
 
 Richard, 328. 
 
 Towneley (Towenley), Alice, 
 
 35°- 
 Anne, 258-9, 268, 271. 
 
 Benedicta, xxxiii, 71. 
 
 Charles, xxxii, 79, 361. 
 
 Christopher, xiii, xiv., 
 
 xxix, 270-1. 
 
 Colonel, of Towneley, 
 
 xiii-xv, xvii, xix-xx, xxii-iiL 
 
 Edward, of Royle, 379. 
 
 Elizabeth, 370. 
 
 Frances, 289. 
 
 Gilbert, 290-2, 296, 300. 
 
 Grace, xxx, 5, 83. 
 
 Jane, 360, 370. 
 
 Jenet, 289. 
 
 John, Esq. , of To^^Tle- 
 
 ley, xxx, xxxii, xlv-vi, 
 xlix, 1, lii, liv, 34-5, 79, 
 88-9, 223, 264-5, 268, 271, 
 
 287-9, 291, 313, 361, 3(^3. 
 390, 396-7, 399-400, 403. 
 
 Sir John, 347. 
 
 John, lii, 362-3, 
 
 Mrs. (Katherine), 398-9. 
 
 Lady, 360-1, 398. 
 
 Lawrence, 222, 228, 234, 
 
 362-3. 
 
 Marie, 370, 378-9. 
 
 Mignet, 378-9. 
 
 Mr., 72, 142-3, 162-3, 
 
 Mrs., 6, 9, 360-1. 
 
 Nicholas, 259. 
 
 Sir Richard, 323, 361, 
 
 397-
 
 436 
 
 hidex of Persons. 
 
 Towneley (Towenley), Rich- 
 ard, xiv, XXX, xxxiii, 71, 
 83, 2S9, 362-3, 370-1. 
 
 Richard, of Carr, xiv. 
 
 Robert, of Boston, xlvi, 
 
 76, 79, 290-1. 
 
 Sarah, 350. 
 
 Thomas, 348, 396-7. 
 
 William, 378-9. 
 
 Townsend, Richard, 388. 
 
 Toye, Mr., no. 
 
 Trafford, Sir Edmund, 217. 
 
 Tramsaw, 146. 
 
 Trappes, Richard, 16. 
 
 Traveres, John, 198, 200, 
 206, 208. 
 
 Treheron (Trayherone, Tre- 
 herone), Bartholomew, 109, 
 175, 274-5, 405- 
 
 Dorothy, 8-9, 108-9,275, 
 
 405- 
 
 Mawdelyn, 405. 
 Nathaniel, 174, 1 80-1. 
 
 Tremayne, Mr., 202-3. 
 Tremellius, Emanuel, loi, 
 
 103, 105. 
 Trevett, 202-3. 
 Trindell, Thomas, 134. 
 Trusse, Thomas, 264-5. 
 Tunstall, Francis, 409. 
 
 Mr., 408-9. 
 
 Turnall, Agnes, 290-1. 
 
 Alice, 293, 
 
 Catherine, 290-1. 
 
 Edmund, 292-3, 296. 
 
 Edward, 290-1, 308. 
 
 Grace, 293. 
 
 Humphrey, 308. 
 
 Lawrence, 293, 296. 
 
 INIarie, 293. 
 
 Turnebull, Mr., 190-1. 
 Richard, 203, 206-7, 
 
 219. 
 
 William, 218-19. 
 
 344- 
 
 Turner (Turnere), Edmund, 
 
 314- 
 
 Ellen, 318, 326, 
 
 George, 182-3. 
 
 Isabel, 314. 
 
 Jane, 314. 
 
 John, 318. 
 
 Lawrence, 260. 
 
 Margery, 314. 
 
 Mrs., 126-8. 
 
 Nicholas, 318. 
 
 Richard, 122-3. 
 
 Roger, 314. 
 
 Twyde, Richard, 20. 
 
 Tydinge, John, 144. 
 Tyle, Thomas, 14. 
 Tylson, William, 1 82-3. 
 Tylsworth, John, 22. 
 
 UNDERHILL, Robert, 
 408. 
 Upton, Walter, 18. 
 Ushere, Henry, 176. 
 
 VAGHAN, Hugh, 
 Richard, 
 
 183. 
 
 Widow, 152. 
 
 Valentine, Alice, 289. 
 
 John, 289. 
 
 Valere, Ciprian, 1 00, 
 
 259- 
 180-1, 
 
 103. 
 
 Vallerious (Vellerious, Ville- 
 
 rius), 62-3, 104, 106-7. 
 Vancher, 16. 
 Varley, Edmund, 334. 
 
 Isabel, 334. 
 
 Veale, Thomas, 61. 
 Vencentus, 104, 107. 
 Vespasian, 269. 
 Villers, 63, 107. 
 Voele, Henry, 207. 
 
 WADDINGTON, Ag- 
 nes, 344. 
 
 Sr, 168-9, 188-9. 
 
 Wade, Christopher, 198, 200. 
 
 Elizabeth, 346. 
 
 - John, 1 14, 256-7, 346. 
 
 Richard, 346. 
 
 Wadsworth, Agnes, 3S2. 
 
 Richard, 374, 386-7. 
 
 Wagington, William, 94-5. 
 Walbrande, Edward, 2, 5. 
 Waldgi-ave, Charles, xxxvi, 
 
 xlix. 
 
 Sir Edward, xxxvi. 
 
 Waldraine, Edward, 38. 
 Walgrave, Mr., 136. 
 Walkden (Walkinden), 21. 
 Geffrey, 20- 1. 
 
 Sampson, 108-9. 
 
 Walker, Jane, 352. 
 
 Johan, 128. 
 
 John, 14, 320. 
 
 Mother, 8-9, 138. 
 
 Mrs., xlvii. 
 
 Mrs., of Holborne, lO. 
 
 Richard, Dean, 127. 
 
 Robert, 70- 1. 
 
 Widow, 126-7. 
 
 Walle, Richard, 148. 
 Wallwoode, Tobias, 174. 
 
 Wallwyne, Mr., 406-7. 
 
 Walmsley (Wamsley), An- 
 thony, 342-3. 
 
 Ellen, 342. 
 
 Isabel, 342. 
 
 Jenet, 342-3. 
 
 John, 342. 
 
 Thomas, 342. 
 
 Walshay(Wallsey), Elizabeth, 
 320. 
 
 John, 380. 
 
 Thomas, 176. 
 
 Walshe, Goodman, 12. 
 
 John, 186. 
 
 Walton, Isaac, I. 
 
 John [see Wolton). 
 
 Warburton, Peter, 289. 
 
 Warde, Joane, 136. 
 
 Thomas, 12, 14. 
 
 Wardiuer, John, 130. 
 
 Wardley, Isabel, 390. 
 
 William, 386. 
 
 Waringe, Richard, 2 14- 1 5. 
 
 Warner, William, 14- 1 5. 
 
 Warren, Sir Ralph, 39. 
 
 Richard, 39. 
 
 Warton, Dr., III. 
 
 Warwick, Earl of, 229. 
 
 Washington, Lawrence, 1 60- 1 . 
 
 Watemoughe, Anne, 358. 
 
 John, 358. 
 
 Thomas, 360, 382. 
 
 William, 394. 
 
 Waterhouse, Andrew, 12. 
 
 Robert, 388-9. 
 
 Watersall, Agnes, 138. 
 
 Watkins (Watken), Nicholas, 
 180-1. 
 
 T. H., 180-1. 
 
 Watson, Anthony, 267. 
 
 John, 1 30. 
 
 "William, 134. 
 
 Wattam, Phillip, 16. 
 
 Wattersone, Thomas, 20-1, 
 
 23- 
 Wattes (Watts), Archdeacon, 
 
 29, 167, 220-3. 
 
 Dr., xix. 
 
 John, 196-7, 404, 407. 
 
 Mathew, 182-3. 
 
 Mr., 186, 196-7. 
 
 Richard, 196-7, 202-3, 
 
 407. 
 
 Thomas, 198, 201, 
 
 206-7. 
 Watton, Alice, 360. 
 Webbe, Mr., 74. 
 Webbes, 58.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 437 
 
 JO 
 
 Webster, 182-3. 
 
 Francis, 319. 
 
 Hugh, 319, 324. 
 
 Isabel, 330-1. 
 
 Jenet, 319, 326, 346. 
 
 John, 318-19, 320. 
 
 Margaret, 318-19, 326, 
 
 ;o. 
 xMargeiy, 319-20, 330. 
 
 Richard, 319. 
 
 Roger, 319. 
 
 Weekes, Mr., 268. 
 Weldon, Sir Anthony, 7. 
 Wells, Richard, 180. 
 Wenthorpe, Mr., 102, 105. 
 Welshe, John, 390. 
 
 Nicholas, 196. 
 
 William, 182-3. 
 
 W^emhurste, Mr., 218-19. 
 Wemster, John, 160-1. 
 Wentworthe, Sir John, 80. 
 Weste, Richard, 12. 
 Westfalinge ( Westphaling ), 
 Dr., 156-7, 204-5, 2i4-'i5, 
 
 232-3-- 
 Westminster, Dean of, 148-9. 
 Westmoreland, Earl of, 129. 
 Weston, Raynold, x6o-i. 
 Whalley, William, 29. 
 Wharton, James, 118, 122-3. 
 
 John, 123. 
 
 Whasle, Mr., 128. 
 Whealwrighte, John, 164-5. 
 Wheeler, Jones, 199. 
 Whiller, Mr., 228. 
 Whipp, Agnes, 324. 
 
 Anne, 344. 
 
 Christopher, 328, 342. 
 
 Elizabeth, 324. 
 
 Ellen, 344. 
 
 John, 324. 
 
 Lionel, 324-5. 
 
 Oliver, 345. 
 
 Robert, 345. 
 
 Whitaker (Whitacre) family, 
 
 of Holme, 80, 223. 
 
 Adam, 348. 
 
 Agnes, 324. 
 
 Anne, 83, 306-7, 309, 
 
 380. 
 
 :;68. 
 
 Anthony, ~,\ 
 
 Barnard, 376-7. 
 
 Beatrice, 81, 308-9. 
 
 Edward, 174-5, 372-3. 
 
 Elizabeth, xxv, xlv, xlix, 
 
 83, 262-6, 268, 271, 306-9, 
 
 360-1, 373-4- 
 — Ellen, 388. 
 
 Whitaker (Whitacre), George, 
 309, 370-1. 
 
 Grace, 308-9, 380. 
 
 Henry, xxxi, 62-3, 326- 
 
 7, 350. 358, 396. 
 
 Hugh, 236. 
 
 Isabel, 308-9, 350, 372- 
 
 3> 376-7, 380-1, 400. 
 ■ James, 238-9, 278, 282- 
 
 3, 287, 306-7, 350, 372-3, 
 
 396-7- 
 
 — Jane, 85, 306-7, 309, 
 370-1, 380. 
 
 Jenet, 30S-9, 348, 372-3, 
 
 378-9- 
 
 — Johan, 372-3. 
 
 — John, 14-15, 324, 326, 
 330-1, 356-7, 360, 372-4, 
 376-9, 400. 
 
 — Lawrence, 82-3, 178, 
 222-3, 309, 330-1, 372-3, 
 
 396-7- 
 
 — Lettice, 370-1. 
 
 Margaret, 308-9, 326, 
 
 328, 360-1, 372-3, 376-7, 
 380. 
 
 — Margery, 318, 342. 
 
 — Marie, 308-9, 372-3, 
 
 — Myles, 331, 378-9. 
 
 — Nicholas, 318. 
 
 — Peter, 370-1. 
 
 — Ralph, 400. 
 
 — Reynold, 356. 
 Richard, xlvii-viii, 2, 5- 
 
 7,36,78,80,258-9,308-11, 
 
 356, 372-4, 376-7, 380. 
 
 — Robert, 82-3, 290-1, 
 
 308-9,350-1,370-5,378-80. 
 
 Thomas, of Holme, xxv. 
 
 xxxii, 5, 83-5, 288, 307-9, 
 324-5, 330, 350, 372-4, 380. 
 
 Dr. Thomas D., xiii, xiv, 
 
 xxvii, XXXV, 5, 81, 169, 375. 
 William (Dr. ), xxii, xxv, 
 
 xli, xlvii, li, 2, 5, 36, 63-5, 
 78, 80, 82-3, 86-7, 172-3, 
 179, 183, 187, 192, 194, 
 200, 251, 258-9, 263, 266, 
 268, 309, 348-50, 357, 372- 
 
 3, 375, 384- 
 White, Alexander, 10-11,26. 
 
 Alice, 326. 
 
 Edward, 326. 
 
 George, 326. 
 
 John, 144. 
 
 Lady, 3S-9. 
 
 Richard, 328. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 39. 
 
 Whitehead, Adam, 346. 
 
 Alice, 376. 
 
 Anne, 326, 328. 
 
 Arthur, 289. 
 
 Ellen, 372. 
 
 F'ather, 388, 392. 
 
 Florence, 326. 
 
 Hugh, 322. 
 
 James, 278-9, 287, 372. 
 
 John, 21-2, 26, 376. 
 
 Luke, 326. 
 
 Margaret, 372, 376. 
 
 Mr., 184-5. 
 
 Richard, 372. 
 
 Robert, 350. 
 
 — — William, 326, 376. 
 Whitgift, Dr. (Abp.), xxii, 63, 
 
 172-4, 180, 189-90, 207. 
 Whithalgh, Nicholas, 204-5. 
 Wliither, Christopher, 404, 
 
 407. 
 Whitline, Ralph, 42-3. 
 Whittingham, Lucas, xxxiv. 
 Whittle, Agnes, 334. 
 
 Anne, 390. 
 
 Humphrey, 334. 
 
 Jenet, 390. 
 
 Nicholas, 334. 
 
 Oliver, 334-5. 
 
 Whitwham, Anne, 348. 
 
 Elizabeth, 348, 358. 
 
 Jane, 85. 
 
 John, 7, 84-5,306-7,348. 
 
 Robert, 306-7. 
 
 Whitworthe, Agnes, 386. 
 Jane, 386. 
 
 Myles, 206, 234. 
 
 Whitcombe, John, 198, 201. 
 Whytker, Adraye, 2 1 4- 1 5. 
 Whyttes, Hugh, 182. 
 Wickham, John, 196-7. 
 
 William, 197. 
 
 Wignall, Richard, 226-7, 229- 
 
 31- 
 
 Wilcoke, Henr)% 178. 
 
 Wilde (Wyld, Wylde), Abra- 
 ham, 298-9. 
 
 Adam, 300-I, 310. 
 
 Adelicia, 301. 
 
 Agnes, 301, 310. 
 
 Alice, 292, 296, 298-9, 
 
 300-1, 304, 310. 
 
 Anne, 264-5, 292, 299, 
 
 301-2, 310. 
 
 Catherine, 292,299,301- 
 
 II. 
 
 Christopher, 300-1, 310-
 
 438 
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 Wilde (Wyld, Wylde), Den- 
 nis, 300-1. 
 
 Dorothy, 292, 299. 
 
 Edmund, 296, 298, 300- 
 
 3. 310. 
 
 Edward, 300-1, 310. 
 
 Elizabeth, 296, 298-9, 
 
 300-1, 310. 
 
 — Ellen, 301-2. 
 
 — Ellis, 298-301. 
 
 — Father, 264. 
 
 — Geffrey, 301, 310. 
 
 Grace, 301. 
 
 • Henry, 300- 1. 
 
 Hugh, 301, 388-9. 
 
 Isabel, 258-9, 296, 298- 
 
 9, 301-2, 310. 
 — James, 264, 301-2, 
 
 310. 
 
 Jane, 292, 296, 299, 
 301-2. 
 
 — Jenet, 292, 298-9, 301. 
 Johanne, 266-7, 3°!) 
 
 310. 
 
 John, 264-S, 294, 298-9, 
 
 300-2. 
 
 Laurence, 260-3, 292-3, 
 
 29S-9, 396, 399. 
 
 Margaret, 294, 298-9, 
 
 301, 308-10, 388-9. 
 Margery, 294, 299, 301, 
 
 310. 
 
 Marie, 301. 
 
 - — - Mary, 296, 299, 300-1. 
 of Middleton, 258-9, 
 
 266. 
 
 Michael, 301. 
 
 Nicholas, of the Wood- 
 
 house, 262-3, 301, 310. 
 
 Oliver, 300-1. 
 
 Otwell, 294, 299, 301, 
 
 310. 
 
 — Owen, 301-2. 
 
 Ralph, 298-9,300-1,310. 
 
 Randal, 300-1, 
 
 Reuben, 296. 
 
 Richard, 236-7, 242-3, 
 
 266, 296, 298-9, 301-2. 
 Robert, 264-5, ^94, 299, 
 
 300-1. 
 
 Roger, 301-2. 
 
 Thomas, 264, 298-9, 
 
 300-2, 310-11. 
 
 Valentine, 300- 1. 
 
 Widow, 258. • 
 
 — William, iio-ii, 220-1, 
 260, 264, 292, 29S-9, 301, 
 310. 
 
 Wilford, John, 191. 
 
 Thomas, 181. 
 
 Wilkenes, Thomas, 146-7. 
 Wilkin, father, 130. 
 Wilkinson (Wilkinsonne, 
 
 Wyllkinson), xlvii, 54-5, 
 
 258-9, 260-3. 
 Alice, 320. 
 
 Anne, lii, 54-5, 79, 261, 
 
 320. 
 
 Christopher, 320. 
 
 Doughter, 268, 271. 
 
 Grace, lii, 8-9, 54, 79, 
 
 86-7, 266, 322. 
 
 Isabel, 320. 
 
 Jane, 320-1. 
 
 Jenet, 220-1. 
 
 Joan, 79, S6-7. 
 
 John, 2, 5, 34-5, 
 
 79, 
 
 328-9. 
 Mrs., 8-9, 36, 7S-9, 266, 
 
 276. 
 Richard, 150-1,176,222. 
 
 Robert, 320-1. 
 
 Thomas, 80, 84-5, 144, 
 
 320. 
 
 T. T., 357. 
 
 William, 1 78. 
 
 Wiihelmi, 105. 
 Willet, William, 109. 
 
 119. 
 
 \\ illiams, Richard, 20 
 
 Williamsonne, Robert, lO-ll, 
 
 190-5. 
 Willotte, Thomas, 71. 
 Willoughbye, John, 204-5. 
 
 Thomas, 30-1, 40. 
 
 Willson (Willsonne, Wyll- 
 
 son), Alexander, 348. 
 
 Alice, 348. 
 
 Anne, 350. 
 
 Elizabeth, 366. 
 
 Ellen, 350. 
 
 fathei", lo-ll, 146-7. 
 
 Isabel, 348, 354, 366. 
 
 Jenet, 348, 350. 
 
 John, 348, 350. 
 
 iNlargaret, 348, 350. 
 
 Marie, 348. 
 
 Mr., 124-5. 
 
 Richard, 350, 354. 
 
 • Thomas, 182-3, 204-5. 
 
 William, 360. 
 
 Wilson, Dr. H. B., xvii, xix. 
 Winckley, Geffrey, xxx. 
 Windlie, jenet, 378. 
 Wilkes (Wylkes), Thomas, 
 
 210-1 1. 
 
 Wilkes (Wylkes), William, 
 
 204-5. 
 Windsor, Lord, 45. 
 Wingfiekl, 77- 
 Withes, Edward, 114. 
 W^olstenholme, Francis, 295. 
 
 Jenet, 253. 
 
 John, 289, 253. 
 
 — - 293- 
 
 Wolton (Walton, Woulton), 
 
 Alice, 83, 267, 269, 290-1, 
 
 306-7. 
 
 Beatrice, 81, 267, 306-7. 
 
 Elizabeth, 83, 267, 306-7, 
 
 392. 
 
 Ellen, 338. 
 
 — Helen, 269. 
 Henry, 342. 
 
 — Isabella, xxxii, xlv, liii, 
 
 267, 307. 342. 
 
 James ( the probable 
 
 scribe of the MS.), xlvi, 
 1-iii, 6-7, 23, 34-6, 44, 46- 
 7, 108-9, 260, 262-3, 267, 
 288, 291-2, 296, 300, 302, 
 304, 307, 312-13, 363, 392- 
 3, 402-4. 
 — Jenet, 344. 
 
 •John, ofWhalley, xxxii, 
 
 liii, 81, 83, 251, 267, 269, 
 
 307, 338-9- 
 
 John, Bishop of Exeter, 
 
 xxvi, xxxii, liii, 7, 81, 266-7, 
 269, 275, 307, 403-5. 
 
 Lionel, 342-3. 
 
 Margaret, 269. 
 
 Mary, 83, 269. 
 
 Matthew, 269. 
 
 Richard, 408-9. 
 
 Susan, 269. 
 
 Wood ( Woode, Woodes ), 
 Alice, 344. 
 
 Anne, 360. 
 
 Anthony-a-, 7, 19, 29, 
 
 31, 63, 93, 107, 185, 197, 
 199, 200-1, 203, 205,207-9, 
 211, 213, 215, 217, 219, 
 221, 223, 225, 227, 229, 
 231, 233, 237. 
 
 Christopher, 340. 
 
 Edward, 370. 
 
 Elizabeth, 140, 370. 
 
 Ellen, 340. 
 
 Goodwife, IIO. 
 
 Henry, 350. 
 
 Isabel, 370. 
 
 James, 5, 370, 398. 
 
 Jenet, 338, 398.
 
 Index of Persons. 
 
 439 
 
 Wood (Woode, Woodes), 
 
 Lawrence, 344. 
 
 Mr., 2, 5, 68. 
 
 Richard, 316-17. 
 
 Robert, 58, 74, 176. 
 
 William, 196-7, 202-3. 
 
 Woodmall, Thomasin, 138. 
 Woodnute, John, 43. 
 Wooley, Joan, 154. 
 
 John, 185. 
 
 Wordsworth, Bp., 3. 
 Wornham, 1. 
 Worsley, Anne, 324. 
 
 Edward, 324. 
 
 Grace, 324. 
 
 Jenet, 324. 
 
 Margaret, 324. 
 
 Randall, 146-7, 274-5. 
 
 Richard, of Mearley, 80. 
 
 Worstoncrofte, John, 242-3. 
 Woulfe, Reynard, 224-5. 
 Woulfinden, Isabel, 380. 
 
 James, 390. 
 
 Johii, 386-7. 
 
 Wowsenden, John, 156. 
 Wright (Wryghte), John, 146, 
 
 366. 
 Robert, 74-5. 
 
 Wright (Wryghte), William, 
 132. 
 
 Wnghtington, Agnes, 80. 
 
 Wrightone, John, 178, 
 
 Wyatt, John, 14-15. 
 
 Wyborne, Percival, D. D., 
 xxvi, 114-15= 121, 274-5. 
 
 Wyclief, Alexander, 276. 
 
 James, 24-5. 
 
 Mr., 408-9. 
 
 Wyllcockes, Thomas, 120-I, 
 125. 
 
 Wyller, Thomas, 22. 
 
 Wyllforde (Wyldforde), 58. 
 
 Gersonne, 190- 1. 
 
 James, 180-1. 
 
 Mr., 162-3. 
 
 Williamsonne, George, 130. 
 
 Wyllmote, Robert, 190-1. 
 
 Wymherste (Wymchurste), 
 John, 164-5. 
 
 Mrs., 164. 
 
 Wynge, Godfrey, lOO, 103. 
 
 Wyther, Dr., 222-3, 228. 
 
 Wytheres (Wetheres), Fran- 
 ces, 144 5. 
 
 Mother, 140- 1. 
 
 Mr., 122-5. 
 
 V-ARD, Mr., 160-2, 183- 
 4, 190. 
 Yate,jChristopher, 322-3. 
 
 Elk 
 
 372. 
 
 Henry, 372. 
 
 Hugh, 326. 
 
 Isabel, 328. 
 
 James, 326, 329. 
 
 Jane, 372. 
 
 John, 326, 362. 
 
 Lawrence, 356-7. 
 
 Thomas, 328-9. 
 
 Yellverton, Mr., 240. 
 Yerton, Thomas, 178. 
 Yonge, Dr., 188. 
 
 James, 90-2, 96, I20-I, 
 
 142-3, 146-7, 228-9. 
 
 John, 20. 
 
 Mr., of Cambridge, 154. 
 
 Thomas, 178. 
 
 Yorke, John, 232-j. 
 • Richard, 182. 
 
 z 
 
 ACHIUS, 102. 
 Zagere, Mrs., 26-9.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES AND THINGS. 
 
 t 
 
 
 In instances where a name of place or thing is repeated on the same page, one entry in 
 the Index has been thought to suffice. 
 
 ACCQUITANCES, 38, 
 et freqiieiiter. 
 Accrington, 279, 395. 
 Albanie, 113. 
 Alborne (Aubome),HaIl, 198, 
 
 201, 204-5. 
 Ale, 44-5. 
 Allabaster, 40- 1. 
 Alklersgate, 50. 
 Allhallowes in the Wall, 
 
 1 20- 1. 
 All Souls' College, Oxford, 
 
 199, 201, 210, 216-17, 220- 
 
 I, 225-6, 269. 
 Allynacion, 240. 
 Alston, 165. 
 Altham Church, 384-5. 
 
 Hall, 389. 
 
 Althorpe, xiv. 
 
 Ampleford, Prebend of, xliii. 
 Anthony, St., School, xvi. 
 Anunciation of o"' Ladye, 56. 
 Apistlie (Epistle), 220-1. 
 Apotecarie (Apothecary), 
 
 146-7. 
 Apparell, xlix. 
 Applibie (Appleby), 128-9. 
 Arkesay, xxx. 
 Arnley, xxxiv. 
 Armore, coate, 40-2. 
 Ashwater, 251. 
 Asterleigh, xxxiii, 399. 
 Auditour, 68. 
 
 Audley Plall, Blackburn, 225. 
 Austin's foundation, 161. 
 Austria, Don John of, 105. 
 
 BACKGATT, 10. 
 iJailcy, 167. 
 Baines' Lancashire, 125, 175. 
 Baker's Chronicle, 185. 
 
 St. John's, 175, 177, 
 
 179, i8i. 
 Baker, 72. 
 
 Bamford, 293. 
 
 Banbury, 199. 
 
 Bank Hall, 351. 
 
 Bank Hey, 397. 
 
 Barbarie, prisoners in, 98-9. 
 
 Barcrofte Hall, 351, 383. 
 
 Barley, 17. 
 
 Barnarde Castle, 98. 
 
 Barnside, 363. 
 
 Barnstaple, 251, 267. 
 
 Bartholomew Fair, 39. 
 
 Base, 396-7. 
 
 Baskettes (Baskets), 48. 
 
 Bath, 406-7. 
 
 Battler, 222-3. 
 
 Bayley (Balliol) College, Ox- 
 ford, 212, 214, 226-7. 
 
 Bayly ft', 156-7. 
 
 Bedd, fether, xlvi, 1, 76. 
 
 Beddelles (beadles), 32-3. 
 
 Bedington, no. 
 
 Bedlim, 90-1. 
 
 Bedstede, 1. 
 
 Beir (Beer), 44-5, 56-7. 
 
 Beckesbourne, 256-7. 
 
 Bell-ringers, 4, 7, 40. 
 
 Benet College, Cambridge, 
 190. 
 
 Berkshire, 403. 
 
 Bewdley, 262-3, 266. 
 
 Beyf (beef), ribbe of, 44-5. 
 
 Bible (Byblie), 275-6. 
 
 Bishop's, 97. 
 
 Great, 96-7. 
 
 Billington (Byllington), xxxi, 
 i24-5> 217,279,313,382-3, 
 386-7, 395, 399-401. 
 
 Blackburn, xxvii, 77, 80, 85, 
 125, 134-5, 171, 211, 217, 
 223, 225, 231, 239, 253, 
 279, 281, 283, 290-1, 313, 
 384-8, 390-1, 397, 400-1. 
 
 Grammar School, 283, 
 
 357, 393- 
 
 Blackburn, History of, 281, 
 
 397- 
 
 Blacke byrdes, 46. 
 
 Blakey Hey, 359. 
 
 Blue Coat School, 59. 
 
 Bodie, 68. 
 
 Bodleian Library, xliii. 
 
 Bogett maker, 2, 5, 8-9. 
 
 Bolstere, 76. 
 
 Bolton Parish, 384-5, 390. 
 
 Bondman inges, 272. 
 
 Bookebynder, 12-13, 406-7. 
 
 Booke of clothe, 49. 
 
 Bookes, 1. 
 
 Boord, 56-7. 
 
 Bo we Churche, 108-9. 
 
 Bowe Lane, xviii. 
 
 Boyes, 35. 
 
 Boyton Hall, 242. 
 
 Bradford East, xxxv. 
 
 Brad street, 152. 
 
 Brasennose College, Oxford, 
 xxxvi, xxxviii-xlii, 73, 75, 
 125, 168-9, 171, 198,201-3, 
 206, 208-9,211, 217, 220-4, 
 227-8, 231, 234-7, 240-1, 
 
 243-55- 
 Braunston, 267. 
 Braunton, 7. 
 Brearcliffe, 380-I. 
 Breastes of veale, 44. 
 Brewer, 72. 
 Bribander, 105. 
 Bricks, 48. 
 Bridge master, 108-9. 
 Bridgewater, 274-5, 402-7. 
 Broad Oak, 351. 
 Brocke, 50-1. 
 Brodgattes College, Oxford, 
 
 198, 201, 212-13, 216, 218, 
 
 220, 224-5. 
 Brome(broom),Kychine,48-9. 
 Brydge Howse, 50- 1. 
 Brydwell, 90-1.
 
 Index of Places a7id Things. 
 
 441 
 
 Bucke and wyne, 250-1. 
 
 Buck, 396-7. 
 
 Bucklow Himdred, 409. 
 
 Buckrame, 42. 
 
 Buntingforde, 122-3. 
 
 Burdsall Moor, 299. 
 
 Burn, loi, 103, 105. 
 
 Burnley (Brunley), xiv, xxi, 
 xxii, xlv, 3, II, 83-5, 235, 
 278-9, 307, 310-11, 3I3» 
 347-9, 351, 353, 355, 357, 
 359, 361, 365, 367, 371, 
 381, 386-8, 390-3, 400-1. 
 
 Church, 357, 369, 390-1. 
 
 Grammar School, 357- 
 
 Bury (Burrie) Parish, 243, 
 264-5, 290-1, 304, 386, 
 388, 390-2. 
 
 Church, xxix, 
 
 Butler, 4, 7. 
 
 Butter, 46. 
 
 Butterworth, 298. 
 
 Byrom, xix. 
 
 Byshopp's Prison, 90-1. 
 
 CAEN in Normandy, loi, 
 103. 
 Caius College, Cambridge, 
 
 177, 179, 188. 
 Calder, 349, 365, 375. 
 Caliver, 159. 
 Calloces, xxxiv-v. 
 Cambridge, xiv, xvi-xvii, xix, 
 
 xxi-ii, xli, xliii, 159-61, 164- 
 
 5, 167-9, 171-2, 174-5, 177, 
 
 179-81, 183-95. 
 University Transactions, 
 
 179. 
 Candlesticks, xlvi. 
 Canons, petty, 40-1. 
 Canterbury, 103, 162, 164-7, 
 
 226-7. 
 Prerogative Court of, 
 
 lii. 
 Capons, 46-7, 396-7. 
 Cappes, 6, 36-7. 
 Captive, 62. 
 Cardiganshire, xxxvi. 
 Carew Castle, xlii. 
 Carlyll (Carlisle), 128-9. 
 Carpenter, 1, 114. 
 Carpet, xlvi. 
 Carr, xiv. 
 Carter Lane, 10. 
 Cashalton, 108-10. 
 Castle Parish (Clitheroe), 
 
 308-9, 384-8,400-1. 
 Castleton, 299, 301. 
 
 Catechismies (Catechisms), 
 99, 224-5. 
 
 Catechisvius, Dean Nowell's, 
 xli. 
 
 Catherine Hall, 185. 
 
 Catholics, Roman, 81. 
 
 Catlow, 279, 359. 
 
 Cattle, xlvi. 
 
 Chadderton, 298-9. 
 
 Chakhvell, 32-3. 
 
 Chamberlain wood, Prebend 
 of, 159. 
 
 Change, Old, 4-5, 
 
 Chaplain of Gray's Inn, 2-3. 
 
 Chatburn, 333. 
 
 Cheescake, 396, 399. 
 
 Chepseyd (Chipsyed, Cheap- 
 side), 6-9, 50, 154-5, 406-7. 
 
 Chepe, 134-5. 
 
 Cheshire, xlvii, 259, 408-9. 
 
 Cheswicke, 124, 146. 
 
 Chichester (Cathedral) 
 Church, xliii, 261. 
 
 405. 
 
 Chickens, 396-8. 
 
 Chiefe Mourners, 48. 
 
 Chirche ( Church - Kirk 
 Parish), xxix, xxxii-iii, 
 XXXV, 386. 
 
 Christ Church Coll., Cam- 
 bridge, 157, 166-7, 172-3, 
 177, 179, 181, 189, 192, 
 
 194-5- 
 Christ Church, Oxford, 167, 
 
 196-7, 202-5, 212-14, 216, 
 
 218, 220-4, 226, 228, 232-3, 
 
 238, 252-3, 408. 
 Christes Hospital, xli, 58-9, 
 
 89-90, 98, 186. 
 Christeninge, 106. 
 Chyste (Chest), 1, 77. 
 Clapham, 52. 
 Clarkenwell, 146. 
 Clayer Hall, Cambridge, 168. 
 Clayton, 301. 
 
 Hall, 395. 
 
 Clegg Hall, 271, 291, 295, 
 
 305- 
 
 Gierke, 59. 
 
 Cletherall (Clitheroe), xxvii, 
 
 9, 163-4, 168-9, 186, 235, 
 
 309, 333, 335, 337, 386-91, 
 
 394-5- 
 Grammar School, 395, 
 
 401. 
 Cliviger, 281, 349, 351,374-5, 
 
 383, 386-8. 
 CJoke, xhai. 
 
 Cloth, Lancashire, li, et fre- 
 quenter. 
 
 London broad, 268, et 
 
 frequenter. 
 
 Cloths (various), 278, 288. 
 
 Coale (coal, cooles), great, 
 46-7. 
 
 Small, 46-7, 96-7. 
 
 Load of, 74. 
 
 Coat, xlvi-vii, 1. 
 
 Coattes, black, 32-3, 36. 
 
 Coller (colour), newe, lo-ii, 
 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 30, 
 33, 36, 94, 120, 126, 130, 
 132, 134, 136, 140. 
 
 Collingbourne-Ducis, 29. 
 
 Colne, 384-5, 390, 392, 395. 
 
 Condemned man, 96-7. 
 
 Cooke, master, 4, 7. 
 
 of the Wardes, 34-5. 
 
 under, 34, 48. 
 
 144. 
 
 Cooplie, 108-10. 
 
 Coringham, 43. 
 
 Corne, 1. 
 
 Cornwall, xxxvi, 258. 
 
 Corpus Christi College, Cam- 
 bridge, 185. 
 
 Oxford, xiii, xx, 190, 
 
 198, 201-3, 205-7, 212-13, 
 216-18, 220, 222, 224-6, 
 228-33,237-8,248-9,254-5. 
 
 Cote, 2. 
 
 Cotton-man, 243. 
 
 Cotton MSS., XXX. 
 
 Coult, 50. 
 
 Councel, 102. 
 
 Counter (Prison) in South- 
 wark, 58-60, 90-1, 98. 
 
 in Wood-street, 58-60, 
 
 74, 90-1, 98, 112. 
 Coutcher, 159. 
 Coventrie, 256-7. 
 Cow, 1, 290-1. 
 Cowlishaw, 299. 
 Cranbroke, Kent, 124-5, 166. 
 Craven, 21. 
 Crepell-gate, 92-3. 
 Croston Church, xxix. 
 Crowedone (Croydon), 256-7. 
 Guerdon, 369. 
 Cunliffe, 395- 
 Cuppc, 54-5. 
 
 Curleyeus (curlews), 46-7. 
 Currier, 159. 
 
 D 
 
 AGGE, 159. 
 Dalbye, 240. 
 I I
 
 442 
 
 Index of Places and TJii7igs. 
 
 Damask, dyaper, 76, 78. 
 Danes House, 359. 
 Danington, 35. 
 Darwen, 393. 
 
 Lower, 279. 
 
 Dates, 26-7, 53, 66-8. 
 Dedymus potestatem, 244-5. 
 Diaper, xlvi. 
 Dinkley, xxxiii, xxxv, 386-7. 
 
 Hall, 389, 397. 
 
 Doblet (doublet), xlvii, 1, 76, 
 
 112-13. 
 Dooe, 46-7. 
 Dort, Synod of, 213. 
 Downham, 217. 
 Draperes, 38, 142. 
 Drayton Basset, xlii. 
 Dunker's Oxfordshire, 200. 
 Dunstane, 272. 
 Durham Place, London, 114- 
 
 15- 
 
 Dutche churche, 10, 102-3. 
 Dutton, 397. 
 Dyneley Knoll, 333. 
 Dynner, funerall, 44-5, 48-9. 
 
 EASTEHAM, 1 20- 1. 
 Easter Roll of Whal- 
 
 ley, 279. 
 Eastwood, 379. 
 Eatone, 160-1, 164, 172, 179, 
 
 187. 
 Eccesley, 397. 
 Eccles Rectory, 399. 
 Eccleshill, 2S1. 
 Edmunton, 88-9, 94-5, 162, 
 
 258-9, 262-3, 266, 305. 
 
 Egges, 46, 396-7- 
 
 Elcar, 399. 
 
 Emmanuel College, Cam- 
 bridge, 85. 
 
 Essendon (Essyngden), xlviii, 
 74-5. 241. 
 
 Essex, 2. 
 
 Estrenged, 74-5. 
 
 Exemplificacion, 246-7. 
 
 Exeter, 266-7, 269. 
 
 Bishop of, 266-7, 269, 
 
 275- 
 
 Cathedral, 269. 
 
 College, Oxford, 217, 
 
 222-3. 
 Exley, 271. 
 Extwistle, 369, 3S0-I. 
 
 FARMEIHLL, 301. 
 Fan?ter MS., 12,"]. 
 Fearing, 258-9. 
 
 Fearne, 256. 
 Feltham, 43. 
 Fence-in-Pendle, 355. 
 Fermar (farmer), 146-7. 
 Ferring, Prebend of, xliii. 
 Fesantes (pheasants), 46-7. 
 Fetherbed, xlvi, 1. 
 Filley Close, 364-5. 
 Fire, Great, of London, xlii. 
 Fleete (prison), 56, 59, 116, 
 
 144. 
 Fleming Hall, xxxi. 
 Fletcher =arrow-makei-, 249. 
 Forster lean (lane), 152. 
 Foss's Judges, 85. 
 Fot (foot) Boy, 150. 
 France, 62. 
 Frankfort, xxxix. 
 Freese (frieze), 36, 236-7, 
 
 244-5> 250-1. 
 Frenchmen, larned, 62-3. 
 French Church, 100, 103. 
 
 Crown, a, 116. 
 
 Friday Street, 154-5. 
 
 P>isian, 106-7. 
 
 Fulledge, Burnley, 357, 361, 
 
 377- 
 Fuller Woi-thies' Library, 45, 
 
 57, 179- 
 Funerall Dynner, 44. 
 Furred Gowen (gown), 77. 
 Fyne, 68. 
 Fyshmonger, 54-5. 
 
 GABANDES, 170-1. 
 Garstange, 82, 85. 
 Gatehouse, 90-1. 
 Gawthorpe, 291, 323, 329, 
 
 365- 
 Gaynforth, 217. 
 Geldinge, xlvi, xlix, 76, 396, 
 
 399- 
 
 Glocester, 166. 
 
 Godmanchester, 121. 
 
 Goldsmith, 48. 
 
 Gonwell College, 138. 
 
 Goodman, 9, et freqncJiter. 
 
 Goodwife, 8-9, 36, et fre- 
 quenter. 
 
 Goodshaw Booth, 331. 
 
 Goosnargh, History of, 81. 
 
 Gowne, xlvii, 1, li. 
 
 Gownes (Gowens), blacke, 2, 
 6, 48-9, 100, 118, 130, 142. 
 
 of the new color, 10- 1 1, 
 
 18, 20, 22, 24, 26. 28-30, 
 
 33. 49. 76- 
 furred, 77. 
 
 Grantham, 114. 
 
 Grave-place, 40- 1. 
 
 Gray's Inn (Grayes Inne), xvi, 
 xxxi, xxxvi, xxxvii, xliv, 1, 
 li, 2-4, 6, 34-5, 56, 66, 
 72, 76-7, 274-5, 288. 
 
 Great-daughter, 88-9. 
 
 Green Geyse (geese), 396-7. 
 
 Greenwich, 406-7. 
 
 Grimsdich, 409. 
 
 Grocer, 38, 44-5. 
 
 Gyllingham, 240-1. 
 
 HABERGHAM Eaves, 
 XX, 279, 283, 349, 357, 
 
 364-5, 371, 384. 
 
 Hall, 357, 397. 
 
 Hacking, 389. 
 
 Hadham, xl, 13, 34-5, 50-2, 
 
 58,60-1,96-7, 108-9,122-3, 
 
 156, 194. 
 Hadleigh (Hadley), 31, 39- 
 Halifax, 387-90, 400- 1. 
 Halsted, High, 359, 365. 
 Hamlet, 88-9. 
 Hampsted, 34-5. 
 Hampton Court, 208. 
 Hanginges, 1. 
 Hapton, 279, 346-7. 
 
 Park, 398-9. 
 
 Harbarte, 1. 
 Hargreve, 319. 
 Harleia7i MSS., 81. 
 Harpinden, I, liii. 
 Harquebuske, 159. 
 Harroldes (heralds), 42, 58. 
 Harrold (herald), Chester, 
 
 42-3- 
 
 Harrop, 355. 
 
 Harrowe Hill, 146-7. 
 
 Harteforde, xlviii. 
 
 Hai-tingforthburie, xlviii. 
 
 Harwood, Great, xxvii-viii, 
 281, 327, 333, 351, 385, 
 388, 390-2, 396, 399. 
 
 Little, 388-9, 397. 
 
 Haslingden, 2, 5, 165, 291, 
 
 351, 386, 392-3. 
 Hasted's Keiit, 205. 
 Hatfield, xl, 405-7. 
 Haughton, xliii. 
 Haworth, Little, 295. 
 Healey Hall, 351, 371. 
 Heathfield, 124. 
 Hebrew Lecture, 62, loo-i, 
 
 103. 
 Henden, xxxvi, xlv-vi, liii, 
 
 2-3. 34-5, 42-3, 56-7. 68, 
 
 I
 
 Index of Places and Things. 
 
 443 
 
 74, 76, 78, 80, 86, 96-7, 
 
 112, 146. 
 Hennes, 46. 
 Henthorne, 397. 
 Heptonstall, 386-8, 394-5. 
 Hereford, 269. 
 Hesantford, 371, 377, 399. 
 Hey, xxxiv. 
 Heyshot, 261. 
 Heywood, 302. 
 Higham, 323, 384, 400-1. 
 Historical Commission, xiii. 
 Hodder Bridge, 38S-9. 
 Hoghton Tower, 397. 
 Hogshead, 44-5. 
 Holborne, St. Andrew's in, 
 
 xlv, 10,34,42, 56, 72,86-7, 
 
 96-7. 
 Holdam (Oldham), 294. 
 Hollins, 395. 
 Holme, XXV, xxxii, 265, 307, 
 
 371- 
 Horsekeeper, 32-4, 51. 
 Horselitters, 159. 
 Horsington, 209. 
 Horwich, 327. 
 Hose(howsen, hosen), 6, 36-7. 
 
 black, xlvi, 36. 
 
 Hospitals, 90. 
 
 St. Thomas's, 7. 
 
 Huguenots, 103. 
 Huncoat Hall, 279, 341, 347. 
 Huntroyd, 323, 331. 
 Hurstwood, 378, 381. 
 
 IGHTENHILL Manor, 
 281, 355, 361. 
 Park, 323, 364-5, 369, 
 
 371, 373- 
 
 Immanuel College, Cam- 
 bridge, 179. 
 
 Incke, 272. 
 
 Indentures, 72. 
 
 JESUS College, Oxford, 
 242-3. 
 Jewelles, xlvi. 
 Jury, Old, 6, 9, 405. 
 
 KALLANDER, 244. 
 Karpenter, 56, 70. 
 Katherine Hall, Cambridge, 
 
 172. 
 Kelderkine, 44-5. 
 Kente, 1, 246. 
 Kersey, white, 1, 96-7. 
 Kinges Bench, 58-60, 90-1, i 
 98, 114, 124-5. I 
 
 King's College, Cambridge, 
 164-5, 179, 184-90, 192-5. 
 Kingsbuiy, xv. 
 Kingstone, 160-1. 
 Kinrede, 88-9. 
 Knights, King James's, 3. 
 
 LABORNE'S Landes, 
 68, 70-1, 74. 
 Lacester, Lord of, 184. 
 Lacestershire, 82. 
 Lambe (lambes), 46, 396. 
 Larkes, 46-7. 
 Lancashire, xiv, xxxviii, xl, 
 
 313. 409- 
 
 East, 389, 393, 403. 
 
 Cloth, 281, 292, 294, 
 
 377. 384-5- 
 
 Dean No well in, 218-19, 
 
 258, 260, 262-5, 276-9, 
 
 286-8. 
 Lancaster, xxxii, 168. 
 Landeres, 70, 152-3. 
 Laiisdcnvne AISS., xxviii, xliv, 
 
 80-1, lOI. 
 Lathom House, 171. 
 Lathonie, xl, 261-3. 
 Leeds, 191. 
 Levengreave, 305. 
 Levisons Lands, 74. 
 Librarie, 1. 
 Lincoln, 273. 
 Lincolnshire, 74. 
 Lincolne College, 212-13,217, 
 
 .238. , 
 Lincoln's Lin, xviii. 
 Linen Cloth, 278-9, 2S6-8. 
 Litchfield (Lichfield), xliii, 6, 
 
 9, 34, 268, 271. 
 Llandafif, 269. 
 Lockrame (locarom), 48-9, 
 
 119, 236-7, 262. 
 Loftus, xxxv. 
 London, xiv, xix, xxii, xxxii, 
 
 xxxix, xli, xlvii, 1, 127, 
 
 258, 262-4, 3S8. 
 Cathedral of, xxxix, 
 
 — — Cloth, 288, 290, 292, 
 
 294, 298, 310-12. 
 Lonsdale, 409. 
 Loo, borough of, xxxix. 
 Lowes, 34. 
 Loynes, 44. 
 Ludgatt (Ludgate), 58, 90-1, 
 
 96, 98. 
 Ludlowe, 164. 
 Luton, 113. 
 
 Lyme, Walloons' church at, 
 
 102, 105. 
 Lynn-Regis, 63. 
 Lyon White (Prison), 58-9, 
 
 90-1. 
 
 MADSTOX (Maidstone), 
 102, 105. 
 Magdalen College,Cambridge, 
 186. 
 
 College, Oxford, 29, 
 
 163, 173. 196, 199, 206-7, 
 209, 212-21, 224-6, 22S, 
 230, 249. 
 
 Hall, 165, 184, 202, 212, 
 
 216, 224-6, 230. 
 
 Malmesey, 445. 
 Man, Anatomy of, 269. 
 Manchester, xxxiii, 71, 264-5, 
 288. 
 
 College, 257. 
 
 CollegiateChurchjXXxiii, 
 
 7, 267. 
 
 Alanual, Christian, 269. 
 
 March Panes, 48-9. 
 
 Marcroft Gate, 293. 
 
 Margaret's (Lady) Founda- 
 tion, 161, 177, 179. 
 
 Maribons, 46-7. 
 
 Marleres, 396. 
 
 Marsden, Great and Little, 
 
 343- 
 Marshal- Knight, 91. 
 Marshalsey (Prison), 58-9, 
 
 90-1, 144, 406, 408-9. 
 Marten ( Merton ) College, 
 
 Oxford, 198, 201, 204-5, 
 
 228. 
 Martens, 76, 78. 
 Martholme, 225, 3S9, 391, 
 
 395> 399- 
 Mary, Queen, 29. 
 Matteris (Mattress), 1. 
 Mearley, Great, xxvii-viii, 
 
 xxxi. 
 
 Little, 309. 
 
 Mercers' Hall, 168. 
 Merchant Taylors, 38-9, 45, 
 
 47, 52-3. 109, I", 123, 
 126, 135, 172, 181, 185, 
 189, 191. 
 Merchant Taylors' School, 
 xv-xx, 28-9,39, III, 160-3, 
 166-7, 181, 185, 187, 1S9, 
 191, 195, 203, 225, 232-3, 
 
 391- 
 
 History of, xvii. 
 
 Metall, 42,
 
 444 
 
 Index of Places and Things. 
 
 Middlesex, xxxvi. 
 Middleton, 260, 262, 271, 291, 
 
 295, 298-9, 302, 386, 388. 
 
 parson of, 260, 271, 291. 
 
 School, xxvi, xxxvii-ix, 
 
 xlii, III, 168-9, 228-9, 
 
 2^1, 
 
 55-6, 
 
 242-3, 
 
 248-9, 250-1,253,260, 301. 
 
 Ministers, poor, 112, 126. 
 
 Minstrell, 398-9. 
 
 Mitton, 396. 
 
 Little, 334-5, 389. 
 
 Mole catcher, 270. 
 
 Moles, 270. 
 
 Money, relative value of Eli- 
 zabethan and Victorian, 25, 
 287. 
 
 Morteniane (mortmain), 246. 
 
 Morts, 396-7. 
 
 Mountjoy, Lord, 233. 
 
 Mourners, chief, 48. 
 
 Mundham, North, xl, 261-3, 
 
 405- 
 Muschove (Muscovy ), Duke of, 
 
 102. 
 Musket, 159. 
 Muttons, 44-5. 
 Myleend (Mile End), 13S-9. 
 Myller, xlviii, 34-5. 
 Myndinge, 70-1. 
 
 NAPKINS, xlvi. 
 Nettellhedd, 146. 
 Newbank, 305. 
 Nevvburie, 404, 407. 
 Newbye, 267, 269. 
 New College, Oxford, 164, 
 
 198, 200-1, 210, 216-17, 
 
 224-6. 
 Newchurch, 400-1. 
 Newgatt (Newgate Prison), 
 
 58-9, 90-3> 96-7, i24-5> 148, 
 
 157- 
 Newton, 397. 
 Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, 
 
 73- 
 Noctone, 273. 
 Norbury, xxxv. 
 Northall, 39. 
 Northampton, 264-5. 
 Norwiche, 102, 105. 
 Norwich Castle, 269. 
 
 OATES, 396, 399. 
 Offatory, 48-9. 
 Old Bayley (Prison), 157. 
 Oldham, 294-5, 298-9, 300- 1, 
 310, 386, 388-9. 
 
 Orgaynes (organs), 40. 
 Oriell College, Oxford, 210- 
 
 II, 245. 
 Oranges, 46-7. 
 Osbaldeston, 375. 
 Oscropp, xxxv. 
 Oxford, XX, xxii-iii, xxxvi, 
 
 xxxviii, xlii, 196, 408. 
 University, Scholars of, 
 
 196, et seq. 
 
 PADIHAM, 318-19, 321, 
 323-5, 327, 331- 
 
 Chapel, 328-9. 
 
 Pannes (pans), xlvi. 
 Panyermane, 34-5. 
 Paparators, 66. 
 Paper ryall, 42. 
 Parish Garden, 146. 
 Parker Society, 155,157,231. 
 Park Head, 399. 
 Partchment, 66-7, 240. 
 Partreges (partridges), 46-7. 
 Paul's (Poulls, St.) Church, 
 
 xxviii, xl-ii, 4, 6, 7, 9, II, 
 
 40, 50-1, 70, 88, iio-ii, 
 
 159, 228. 
 
 Churchyard, 156. 
 
 • School, xiv, 26, 28, 165- 
 
 8, 170. 
 
 Wharf, 2-3. 
 
 Pawned, 256. 
 
 Payles, 48. 
 
 Pembrock Haule (Pembroke 
 
 Hall), Cambridge, xvi, xix, 
 
 172-3, 184-90, 192-5. 
 Pendle Forest, 17, 81, 323, 
 
 355.361,365,390-1,400-1. 
 Pendle Hill, 270, 343. 
 Pendleton, 81, 259, 
 
 342-3, 345, 398. 
 
 264-S, 
 
 Hall, 
 
 ', 
 
 389- 
 
 Penknyfe, 396. 
 Pennon, 40, 42. 
 Penshurst, 81. 
 Percy Society, 165. 
 Peterhouse, Cambridge, 172- 
 
 3, 177, 183-4, 195. 
 Pet worth, 261, 405. 
 Peyzen, 396-7. 
 
 Pigge, 396- 
 
 Phescian (Physician), Dutch, 
 
 148-9. 
 Pistole, 159. 
 Pistollet, 159. 
 Plague in London, the, xxxvii, 
 
 xlvi, 58-9, 98-9, 156, 269. 
 Homily on, xli. 
 
 Plasteur, 148. 
 
 Plate, xlv. 
 
 Players, 399. 
 
 Plover, 56-7. 
 
 Ploveres, green, 46-7. 
 
 Pontefract, 377. 
 
 Ponthalgh, 31. 
 
 Poor, the very, 10, 98-9, II4- 
 
 15, 138, 140, 144-5. 
 Poorer sort, the, 2, 7-9, 26, 
 
 49- 
 Popery Alley, 144. 
 Porks, 45. 
 
 Portfield, 309, 315, 399. 
 Potter Ford, 399. 
 Potles, xlvi. 
 Prentice, 36. 
 Presse, 56-7, 70-I. 
 Preston, xxxiii, xxxv, 278-9, 
 
 289, 329, 388-9, 397- 
 
 Battle of, 389. 
 
 Prickes, 46-7. 
 
 Priest, 258-9. 
 
 Prisons, 58-9, 90-I, 98-9. 
 
 Prisoners, poor, 94, 148. 
 
 Probacie (probate), 54-5, 66- 
 
 7- 
 Psalter, 99. 
 Pultrie (Poultry, in London), 
 
 50-1, 58. 
 Pursuyvante, 2-3. 
 Pycke (peck), 46-7. 
 Pylleres, 40. 
 Pyllowes, 76. 
 
 Q 
 
 UEEN'S Chapel, 50. 
 
 College, Cam- 
 bridge, 175, 179, 181, 
 188-92. 
 
 Oxford, 197. 
 
 Quernmore, 149. 
 
 Quyer, 40. 
 
 Quyrester (chorister), 36. 
 
 RATCHDALL (Roch- 
 dale), 78, 80, 83, 156, 
 268, 271, 288, 290-5, 298- 
 302, 304, 308, 3 10- 1 1, 
 384-8,390,392,396,400-1. 
 
 School, 271. 
 
 Read ( Read Hall,ReadManor, 
 Read Park), xxviii-xxxv, 
 xxxvhi, xhi, li, 17, 70- 1, 
 80-3,211,225,258-9,266-7, 
 
 279, 309, 331-3, 337, 345, 
 
 3S9, 395, 399, 401. 
 Read (red) Coyne, 56-7. 
 Rebellion, 128.
 
 Index of Places and Things. 
 
 445 
 
 Recognizance, 242. 
 
 Red feme, 295. 
 
 Registere, 88. 
 
 Resorters, 212- 1 3, 222. 
 
 Reverend, 3. 
 
 Reteyners, 212-13. 
 
 Ribchester, 165, 388, 391-2, 
 
 397- 
 Ribble, 397. 
 Ribblesdale, xxvii. 
 Ridge, 365. 
 Rimmington, 327. 
 Ringe (ringes), xliii, xlix-li, 
 
 54, 77, 256. 
 Rishton, 281, 389. 
 Risley, 189. 
 Rooles (Rolls), Master of the, 
 
 244-5- 
 Rossendale, 279, 388-9, 392, 
 
 400-1. 
 Rowley, 359. 
 
 Royle (Rayle), 258-9, 398-9. 
 Ruffes, 236-7. 
 Rufford, 389, 392-3, 399. 
 Runctou, xl, 260-1, 263, 405. 
 Runlett, 44-5. 
 Rushowes (rushes), 40-1. 
 Russet cloth, 28 1. 
 Rye, 81. 
 Rymer's Feodera, 200. 
 
 SABDEN, 400-1. 
 Bridge, 400-1. 
 
 Brook, 399. 
 
 Saddleworth, 299. 
 Salisbury (Sarisbury), 213. 
 Salmon, 396-7. 
 Salte, white, 46. 
 Salters, 143. 
 Saltwood, xxxix. 
 Saluric, 83, 
 Samlesbury Hall, 171. 
 Sanda Sanctor, 40-1. 
 Sandwich, 102, 105. 
 Sarum, New, 397. 
 Sattine, 1. 
 
 Schofield, 289, 291. 
 Scholeres, poor, 159-60. 
 
 of Cambridge, 172-3. 
 
 Scollmeister ( schoolmaster ), 
 
 120-1. 
 Scollyon (scullion), 132-3. 
 Scootishe(Scottish)mane,l04. 
 Screvener, 74, 114, 240. 
 Scutchions, 42. 
 Selborne, 217. 
 Separatists, 119. 
 
 Sermon leane (lane), 124-5. 
 
 Settrington, 209. 
 
 Sexten, 40, 42. 
 
 Sheldon, xliii. 
 
 Shertes, 72, 236-7. 
 
 Shingle or Chingle Hall, 
 
 87. 
 Showes (shoes), 36. 
 Shrewsbury, 277. 
 Shuttleworth Accounts, 80. 
 
 Hall, 347. 
 
 Shypmen, 408-9. 
 Silk Fields, xlvi, 50. 
 Silkstone, 301. 
 
 Vicar of, 266-7. 
 
 Singinge men, 50. 
 Skynner, 72. 
 Smithfield, East, xiv. 
 Smytlie (Smith), 4, 7, 72. 
 the, of Wydforde, 
 
 52-3- 
 Snapehanch, 159. 
 
 Snypes, 46. 
 
 Soderinge, 40-1. 
 
 Solne, 201. 
 
 Somersetshire, xxxvi, 74"5, 
 
 267, 403. 
 Somner, 132-3. 
 Soothworke (.Southwark), 58- 
 
 9, 96-7, 1 18-19. 
 Southampton, 102, 105. 
 South Ockendon, 31. 
 Soygers (Soldiers), 128. 
 Spanyardes, 90-1. 
 Sparthe, 394-5. 
 Spaxton, 7, 267, 403, 405. 
 Spittell, 146. 
 Spittes, xlvi. 
 Spoones, 27. 
 Spotland, 289, 295. 
 Springe, 89. 
 Spyce, 44-5. 
 St. Andrewes (Church), Hol- 
 
 borne, 42-3, 86-7, 90, 
 
 94-7- 
 St. Anne's, 152. 
 St. Anthony's School, 28-9. 
 St. Bartholomew, Massacre 
 
 of, lOI. 
 -—(Church), 118. 
 
 The little, 90-r, 152. 
 
 St. Benettes (Church), 120-1. 
 
 St. Botolphes, 92-5, 144. 
 
 St. Brydes, 114, 146. 
 
 .St. Christopher's, 152. 
 
 St. Edmondes in Lumberd 
 
 strete, 1 18-19. 
 
 St. Edmondes Hall, Oxford, 
 
 185. 
 St. Fayeth (Church), 98-9. 
 St. Galbroughes, 92-3. 
 St. George's, 92-3. 
 St. Gregories, 2-3, 27, 58, 
 
 94-5, 98-9, 1 10- 1 1. 
 
 St. Gyles, 52, 92-3, 154. 
 
 without Cripplegate, 
 
 114. 
 
 St. John's, College, Cam- 
 bridge, 159, 163, 169, 
 175, 177, 179-81, 183-90, 
 
 194-5- 
 Oxford, 39, 167, 2 10- 1 1, 
 
 232-3, 248-9. 
 St. Katherine's (Church), 
 
 92-3- 
 St. Margaret, Westminster, 
 136. 
 
 154- 
 
 St. Marie, 50, 154. 
 
 St. Marie Magdalen, 92-3, 
 
 152. 
 St. Martens, 70, 98-9, 154. 
 St. Mary's, Spital, 159. 
 
 Hall, Oxford, 208, 212- 
 
 13, 216, 220-1, 230-3. 
 
 St. Olive's (Church), 92-3. 
 
 in Silver Street, 144. 
 
 St. Peter's, 2-3. 
 
 in Chepe, 1 34-5. 
 
 St. Saviour's, 92-3. 
 
 School, 30-1. 
 
 St. Sepulchre's (Church), 92- 
 
 5, 126, 146, 408. 
 St. Thomas's the Apostle in 
 
 Southwark, 1 18-19, 146, 
 
 Hospital, 4, 6, 90-1. 
 
 Staffe, 159. 
 Stande, 44-5. 
 Staninge, 11 8- 1 9. 
 Stanley Papers, 257. 
 Standene, 50-3. 
 Stapleford, 166-7. 
 Stationere, 146-7. 
 Stationers' Company, 37, 99, 
 
 147. 
 Staves, conditor, 42. 
 Steade, 305. 
 
 Steduents (students), 180. 
 Stempaiuis, 63. 
 Stocknewington, 118. 
 Stonyhurst, xxxii, 3S9. 
 Stoward (stewaid), 5^-7- 
 Stranger, 62-3, 148. 
 Strangers, 102, 114.
 
 446 
 
 Index of Places and Things. 
 
 Stydd, 289. 
 Suett, 46. 
 Sugar, coarse, 44. 
 
 fyne, 44- 5, 49. 
 
 Sussex, x], 260-1, 263, 276, 
 
 405, 408-9. 
 Sutton Coldfield Grammar 
 
 School, xlii. 
 Swinerd, 270. 
 Sword and buckler, 159. 
 Sword bearer, 216-17. 
 Sylke, fyne, 44-5. 
 Symonston, xxxv, 294, 297, 
 
 330-1, 398. 
 
 T ABBES, 48. 
 Table cloth, xlvi, 76. 
 Tanborne, Vicar of, 1 22-3. 
 Tappes, 44-5. 
 Targette, 159. 
 Taunton, 164. 
 Taylors, 10- 11, 14-16, 18,20, 
 
 i22, 24-8, 38-9. 
 Temple, Inner, 405. 
 Thatcher, 270, 272. 
 Thornham, 299. 
 Thurgarton, 125. 
 Thurland Castle, 409. 
 Todmorden, 390-1, 400-1. 
 
 Hall, 271. 
 
 Totenhall, Prebend of, xl. 
 Totnes, 267, 269. 
 Tottingham, xxxvi, xlvii, 77, 
 
 1 18-19, 138-9. 
 Tottleworth, 388-9. 
 Towell, xlvi, 76. 
 Tower Hill, 146. 
 Towneley (Towenley) Hall, 
 
 xiii, xiv, liv, 278-9, 288-9, 
 
 360-1, 363, 365, 371, 389- 
 
 92, 397. 399-401- 
 Park, 333, 357, 375, 
 
 379- 387. 399- . 
 Towneley ]\ISS., ix, xiii, xx, 
 
 xxviii, liv. 
 Tremynge, 40. 
 Trencheres, 44-5- 
 Trinity College, Cambridge, 
 
 li, 86, 171-3, 175, 179, 181- 
 
 94, 252, 265-6. 
 
 Oxford, 210-II. 
 
 Trottes, 388. 
 
 Tucke, 159. 
 
 Tunbrige, 162. 
 
 Tunworth, xxxi, 78, 80, 82-3, 
 
 300-1. 
 Turckes, 104-5. 
 
 Turnogh, 293. 
 Turton, 7, 397. 
 Turves, 270. 
 Twiston, 397. 
 
 UNIVERSITIE College, 
 Oxford, 212-13, 230-1. 
 Upbury, 240, 244. 
 Upholster, 50. 
 
 Ussher of Court of Wardes, 
 2, 5- 
 
 VALE Royal Abbey, 265 
 Valor Ecclesiasticits, 
 
 399- 
 Vargeres (vergers), 7, 40-1. 
 Varges (verjuice), 46-7. 
 Veale, 44-5. 
 Velvet, 1, li, 77. 
 Veneger (vinegar), 46. 
 Vicares, 40. 
 Vidimus, 246-7. 
 Virgins, poor, 51. 
 
 TT HADDINGTON, 330- 
 
 Hall,' 391. 
 
 Wagges (wages), 42. 
 
 Waggons, 159. 
 
 Wakefield, xxx, xxxv, 170. 
 
 Church, xxx. 
 
 Wallingforde, lio-ii. 
 Walton Hall, 397. 
 Wandsworth, 119, 137. 
 Wantage, 1. 
 Ward, Queen's, 56-7. 
 Wards, Court of,xxxvi-viii, li, 
 
 2, 5- 
 W^are, 156, 262, 264-5. 
 • Warwick, xlii. 
 Waterbearer, 12-13. 
 Waterkarrer (water-carrier), 
 
 22-3. 
 Watters (waiters), 48-9. 
 Wayhouse (W^eigh-house), 
 
 134-5- 
 
 Wells, 404-5. 
 
 Wenchester (Winchester), 
 
 168. 
 Weutbridge, xxxv. 
 Wesleyan Methodists, 3. 
 Westechester, 168-9. 
 West Country, si, liii, 
 
 402-3. 
 Westlow, 81. 
 Westminster, 146, 148, 160, 
 
 162, 164, 168, 170, 408. 
 
 Westminster School, xvi, 
 xxxix, 30-1, 33, 161, 183, 
 218. 
 
 Prebend of, xxxix. 
 
 Westone, xliii, 72. 
 
 Weylande, xlvii. 
 
 Whalley, xxviii, 5, 71, 81, 
 84-5, 125,211, 216-17,223, 
 231, 23s, 238, 267, 278-9, 
 307, 312-13, 319, 327. 331, 
 335. 337. 339, 34i. 343, 
 347. 361, 383-5. 387-93, 
 398-9- 
 
 Abbey, xxvii,xxxv, xlv, 
 
 307, 399- 
 
 Church, xxx, Xxxiii, 
 
 xxxiv, 307, 319, 347. 
 
 Grammar School, 345. 
 
 Grange, 307, 392-3. 
 
 History of, xiii, xxvii, 
 
 xxxv, 309, 395, 399. 
 
 Banks, Padiham, 328-9. 
 
 Wheate Meale, 46. 
 Whitaker, High, xxxi, 331. 
 Whitechapel, 146. 
 Whiteficld, 299. 
 Whitley, Nether, 409. 
 Whitworth, 305. 
 Whystone, 56. 
 Wife, buying of a, 80. 
 Wigan Parish, xxix, 267, 
 
 384-5- 
 Wildland, Prebend of, xxxix. 
 
 Will, Dean Alexander 
 
 Nowell's, xli. 
 
 John Nowell's, xxxii. 
 
 Dean Lawrence 
 
 Nowell's, xliii. 
 
 Robert Nowell's 
 
 xxxviii, xliv-lii. 
 Wiltshire, 403. 
 Wimberries, 388-9. 
 Wimbliedone (Wimbledon), 
 
 6,9. 
 Winckley, xxx. 
 W^indsor, Canonry of, xl. 
 Wiswell (Wiswall), 267, 307, 
 
 312-13, 335-7, 339, 341, 
 
 361, 390. 
 Witchcraft Trials, 313. 
 Witton, 327. 
 Wodcockes, 46-7. 
 Woldes, 74-5. 
 Wolstenholme, 293, 295. 
 Women of Wealth, 6. 
 
 Poor, 152-3. 
 
 Wood, 72.
 
 Index of Places and Things. 
 
 447 
 
 Wood-house, the, 262-3. 
 Wood Street, 94-5, 144. 
 Worcester, 260. 
 Worden Hall, 225. 
 Worsthorne, 378-9, 381. 
 Wycoller Hall, 395. 
 Wyddovves, 1 52-3, 
 
 Wydforde, 52-3, 406-7. 
 Wykl-fole (fowl), 46. 
 Wyne, 250-1. 
 White, 44. 
 
 YNVINTORIE (inven- 
 tory), 66-7. 
 
 Yorke, xliii, 98-9. 
 Yorkshire, xiv, 262, 264-7, 
 4001. 
 
 yURICH Letters, 107, 
 ^ 115, 157. 
 
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