FOOTNOTES

[!--Note--] 1 ([return])
"Such were the Abbots of Westminster," says Dean Stanley (Memorials, 3rd ed., p. 394), after recording the little that he knew of them, adding that, "if from the Abbots we descend to the Monks their names are still more obscure."

[!--Note--] 2 ([return])
Act iv. sc. 1, ll. 332-3.

[!--Note--] 3 ([return])
Act v. sc. 6, ll. 19-21.

[!--Note--] 4 ([return])
Mun. 5259.

[!--Note--] 5 ([return])
Mun. 5260, A.

[!--Note--] 6 ([return])
The reader who wishes to know what parts of this ancient and interesting church were known to Abbot Colchester may be referred to the details and the plan given in the Herts. volume of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1911, p. 31 f.

[!--Note--] 7 ([return])
Mun. 3571; October 5, 1411.

[!--Note--] 8 ([return])
Customary of Canterbury and Westminster, H.B.S. i. 261, 404.

[!--Note--] 9 ([return])
This custom will be treated in greater detail in the introduction to a Register of the Westminster Benedictines, which will be issued shortly.

[!--Note--] 10 ([return])
Reyner, de Antiq. Benedict. in Anglia, App., p. 55.

[!--Note--] 11 ([return])
This sum is roughly equivalent to that which an economical undergraduate spends at the present time.

[!--Note--] 12 ([return])
Cf. Flete, ed. J. Armitage Robinson, p. 70.

[!--Note--] 13 ([return])
The inventories of the Monasteries imply that the blessed Virgin was industrious with her needle.

[!--Note--] 14 ([return])
Customary, ii. 49: Idem vero secretarius zonam beatae Dei genetricis, ubicumque destinetur, sumptibus suis portare vel, si per alios portatur, expensas eis exhibere tenetur, cum vectura, si forte indigeat.

[!--Note--] 15 ([return])
Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, 1345-81.

[!--Note--] 16 ([return])
Mun. 27968.

[!--Note--] 17 ([return])
John Sergeaunt, Annals of Westminster School, pp. 57, 130.

[!--Note--] 18 ([return])
The building is still in the sole care of His Majesty's Office of Works.

[!--Note--] 19 ([return])
Cf. J. T. Smith, Antiquities of Westminster, 1807, p. 38, etc.

[!--Note--] 20 ([return])
J. T. Smith, Antiquities of Westminster, 1807, p. 100; Widmore, History of Westminster Abbey, pp. 103-4.

[!--Note--] 21 ([return])
Mun. 9256, C, D.

[!--Note--] 22 ([return])
The manuscript actually says July; but what follows shows this to be an error; e.g. he was at Bruges for the two feasts of June 24 and June 29.

[!--Note--] 23 ([return])
Cf. J. Armitage Robinson, Simon Langham, Ch. Quart. Rev., July, 1908, p. 358.

[!--Note--] 24 ([return])
Cf. L. Pastor, Geschichte der Päpste, i. p. 109.

[!--Note--] 25 ([return])
Non potuit reperire societatem versus Auinionem.

[!--Note--] 26 ([return])
Propter diuersitatem lingue et viarum discrimina in partibus transmarinis.

[!--Note--] 27 ([return])
Prout modus est patrie.

[!--Note--] 28 ([return])
Infirmabatur per viam quasi ad mortem.

[!--Note--] 29 ([return])
Mun. 9228.

[!--Note--] 30 ([return])
Widmore, p. 191; Mun. 9225.

[!--Note--] 31 ([return])
Pastor, Gesch. d. P. i. p. 113.

[!--Note--] 32 ([return])
See the account in Pastor, Gesch. d. P.; and Creighton, Hist. of the Papacy, i. 61 ff.

[!--Note--] 33 ([return])
Creighton, ibid., p. 67.

[!--Note--] 34 ([return])
Cf. Lib. Nig. Quat. f. 88b, 89; J. C. Cox, Sanctuaries, p. 51 f.; G. M. Trevelyan, England in the Age of Wycliffe, p. 87.

[!--Note--] 35 ([return])
Quod non erat ausus transire per Calis' propter metum aduersariorum.

[!--Note--] 36 ([return])
Mun. 9503.

[!--Note--] 37 ([return])
Viz. John de Wratting, Colchester's senior by about eighteen years.

[!--Note--] 38 ([return])
Cf. Mun. 18478, D.

[!--Note--] 39 ([return])
Customary, ii. 95.

[!--Note--] 40 ([return])
Mun. 5260, A.; December 3, 1407.

[!--Note--] 41 ([return])
Mun. 9615.

[!--Note--] 42 ([return])
On the other hand, Colchester may have come into the affair either as Abbot's Seneschal or as Convent Treasurer.

[!--Note--] 43 ([return])
Mun. 5984.

[!--Note--] 44 ([return])
Indentura Willelmi Colchester de ouibus suis ad firmam dimissis.

[!--Note--] 45 ([return])
Cf. Robinson and James, Manuscripts of Westminster Abbey, p. 96 f.

[!--Note--] 46 ([return])
F. 507-69.

[!--Note--] 47 ([return])
Mun. 6603.

[!--Note--] 48 ([return])
Tabularium cum familia.

[!--Note--] 49 ([return])
Debiles.

[!--Note--] 50 ([return])
Cf. Col. H. Yule, Marco Polo, vol. i., Introd., §§ 75-8.

[!--Note--] 51 ([return])
There are corresponding records in the cases of Abbot Litlington (ob. 1386), Mun. 5446, and of John Canterbery (ob. 1400), Mun. 18883.

[!--Note--] 52 ([return])
In manerio de la Neyte, hora prandendi (Lib. Nig. Quat. f. 86).

[!--Note--] 53 ([return])
Cf. J. Armitage Robinson, The Abbot's House at Westminster, chap. ii., and Robinson and James, Manuscripts of Westminster Abbey, pp. 7 ff.

[!--Note--] 54 ([return])
See an article by the Dean of Wells on the Array of the Clergy in July, 1415 (Nineteenth Century and After, July, 1915, p. 86).

[!--Note--] 55 ([return])
Mun. 5446.

[!--Note--] 56 ([return])
Cf. J. Armitage Robinson, An Unrecognised Westminster Chronicler, pp. 16, 22.

[!--Note--] 57 ([return])
Lib. Nig. Quat. f. 86, says December 10, 1386; but the Westminster chronicler in the Polychronicon (see J. Armitage Robinson, op. cit., pp. 9, 22) says December 21. It is suggested that the difference of eleven days represents the period during which the King was supporting the cause of Lakyngheth.

[!--Note--] 58 ([return])
Mun. 5431.

[!--Note--] 59 ([return])
Volens sicut alias cassare electionem et electo postea providere; Higden, Polychronicon, ix. pp. 98, 102; Robinson, op. cit., pp. 9, 23.

[!--Note--] 60 ([return])
Flete, p. 138.

[!--Note--] 61 ([return])
April 18, 1388, p. 178.

[!--Note--] 62 ([return])
Mun. 9474.

[!--Note--] 63 ([return])
For the graves of the Duke and his wife, see E. T. Murray Smith, Roll Call of W.A., p. 51 f.

[!--Note--] 64 ([return])
Mun. 5257.

[!--Note--] 65 ([return])
Mun. 7579.

[!--Note--] 66 ([return])
Mun. 5922.

[!--Note--] 67 ([return])
R. B. Rackham, Nave of Westminster, pp. 8-12.

[!--Note--] 68 ([return])
Mun. 6165.

[!--Note--] 69 ([return])
De consanguinitate domini, ut dicunt.

[!--Note--] 70 ([return])
Anulus de auro com diamandys.

[!--Note--] 71 ([return])
Interlusores.

[!--Note--] 72 ([return])
Mun. 6221.

[!--Note--] 73 ([return])
His record will be given in the Register referred to on p. 18, note.

[!--Note--] 74 ([return])
Mun. 9500.

[!--Note--] 75 ([return])
Ex noua ordinacione domini Willelmi nunc Abbatis. The ordinance applied to other obedientiaries.

[!--Note--] 76 ([return])
The Dean of Wells edited in 1908, for use in his chapel, a service of Compline derived from a Bodleian manuscript (Rawl. Liturg. g 10) which belongs to our Abbot's period.

[!--Note--] 77 ([return])
Lib. Nig. Quat., f. 87b: et dominus Rex suscepit eum et omnia bona sua in proteccione sua.

[!--Note--] 78 ([return])
Kal. Pap. Registers, iii. 456.

[!--Note--] 79 ([return])
Widmore, p. 109; E. T. Murray Smith, Roll Call, p. 53.

[!--Note--] 80 ([return])
Mun. 5262, A.

[!--Note--] 81 ([return])
Infra regiam sepulturam.

[!--Note--] 82 ([return])
Thomas Merke, Bishop of Carlisle, is mentioned, but not Colchester, in the list of those summoned to attend the King. Rymer, Foedera.

[!--Note--] 83 ([return])
J. H. Wylie, Henry IV., vol. i. pp. 91, 92, 108.

[!--Note--] 84 ([return])
Ibid., p. 44.

[!--Note--] 85 ([return])
Lib. Nig. Quat., f. 86b:—

Anno Domini millesimo ccc xcixº et regni regis Ricardi secundi xxiii incipiente. In vigilia Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste venit Henricus dux Herford versus Angliam Et in vigilia apostolorum petri et pauli venerunt prima noua ad Westm de aduentu ipsius. Et iiiito die Julij applicuit apud Pylevyng.

In vigilia sancti petri advincula fugit Rex Ricardus secundus a facie ducis Henrici Et postea in vigilia Assumpcionis beate marie captus est et se submisit ordinacioni prelatorum et procerum Anglie.

In crastino sancti laurentii feria secunda venerunt Londonienses ad Inquirendum Regem Ricardum IIum.

[!--Note--] 86 ([return])
Mun. 1653.

[!--Note--] 87 ([return])
Infirmarer's account, 1409-10.

[!--Note--] 88 ([return])
Administrator participationis Anne Regine.

[!--Note--] 89 ([return])
Mun. 1676.

[!--Note--] 90 ([return])
There is another means of verifying the Abbot's absence daring this year. His farm-bailiffs, whose duty was to deliver rents to him personally, paid them at this time to the Abbot's Receiver instead.

[!--Note--] 91 ([return])
Widmore, p. 110; J. H. Wylie, Henry IV., iii. p. 349; Creighton, Hist. of the Papacy, i. p. 218.

[!--Note--] 92 ([return])
Wylie, op. cit., p. 348.

[!--Note--] 93 ([return])
Lib. Nig. Quat. f. 90.

[!--Note--] 94 ([return])
About Mid-Lent; J. H. Wylie, Henry IV., iv. p. 103.

[!--Note--] 95 ([return])
Sir W. H. St. John Hope, Funeral, Monument, and Chantry Chapel of Henry V., p. 173.

[!--Note--] 96 ([return])
Cf. J. H. Wylie, Henry V., p. 203.

[!--Note--] 97 ([return])
The details are given in R. B. Rackham, Nave of Westminster, pp. 13-17.

[!--Note--] 98 ([return])
Rymer, Foedera.

[!--Note--] 99 ([return])
J. H. Wylie, The Council of Constance, p. 80.

[!--Note--] 100 ([return])
Mun. 12395, 12397.

[!--Note--] 101 ([return])
Cf. J. Armitage Robinson, Array of the Clergy, Nineteenth Century and After, July, 1915, p. 87.

[!--Note--] 102 ([return])
Abbot's Receiver's roll, 1416-7.

[!--Note--] 103 ([return])
Rackham, Nave, p. 16.

[!--Note--] 104 ([return])
Et dat' seruienti principalis Baronis portanti noua de captione ciuitatis Rothemagensis (Abbot's Receiver's roll, 1417-8).

[!--Note--] 105 ([return])
Mun. 5440.

[!--Note--] 106 ([return])
Neale and Brayley, Westminster Abbey, ii. p. 184.

[!--Note--] 107 ([return])
Mun. 12397.

[!--Note--] 108 ([return])
Mun. 3571; see above, p. 17.

[!--Note--] 109 ([return])
Mun. 9240. Vident etenim vestram soliditatem, que rara virtus est modernis diebus, et illo specialius in vobis confidunt.

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