[595]. Daniel Turbot was summoned ‘for not paying Easter reckonyngs, Aug. 23rd, 1674.’ (Granville’s Letters. Sur. Soc.)
[596]. ‘Matthew Chubb,’ a member of the ‘Gild of Tailors, Exeter.’—21 Ed. IV. (English Gilds, 323 p.)
[597]. ‘John Tenche’ (A.). Tenche is the name of one of the yeomen of the Guard to Queen Mary when Princess Mary. (Priv. Purse Exp. 1543.)
[598]. Thomas Spratt was Bishop of Rochester in 1688.
[599]. This is doubtless but a feminine form of Odo.
[600]. ‘Roger le Waps’ is found in a Sussex subsidy roll of 1296. (Lower, i. 242.)
[601]. In Ricart’s Kalendar of Bristol (Cam. Soc.), William and Robert Snake are set down among the earlier ‘Prepositi.’
[602]. In 1433 it had got corrupted into ‘Querdling,’ a ‘Thomas Querdling’ occupying an official position in Norwich in that year. Of him the following rhyme speaks—
‘Whoso have any quarrel or pie,
If he but withstand John Hankey,