[316] Hist. MSS. vii. 661; Feuillerat, 467.
[317] Feuillerat, 47. Owing to the omission of Burghley's title in the address of the report, I misdated it in Tudor Revels, 20. The history of St. John's is given by W. P. Griffith, An Architectural Notice of St. John's Priory, Clerkenwell (1 London and Middlesex Arch. Soc. Trans. iii. 157); A. W. Clapham, St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell (St. Paul's Ecclesiological Soc. Trans. vii. 37). It was a Priory of the Knights Hospitallers, founded c. 1100, and enlarged in the fifteenth century. The Gatehouse, which still stands, was rebuilt by Prior Thomas Docwra in 1504. After the dissolution in 1540, the stones of the church were used for Somerset House, and the rest granted to Dudley. Mary resumed it and refounded the Priory. After the second dissolution by Elizabeth, the property remained in the hands of the Crown.
[318] Patent in Feuillerat, 60.
[319] Patent in Feuillerat, 63.
[320] Ibid. 74.
[321] Ibid. 360.
[322] Cf. ch. xii.
[323] Hatfield MSS. xi. 359, 379, 380. The 'Mr. Buck' implicated in the Essex rebellion of 1601 (Hist. MSS. xi. 4. 10) was Francis Buck (Hatfield MSS. xi. 214).
[324] Lord Chamberlain's Records, 554. Can he also have been a Gentleman of the Chapel? A Gentleman was sworn in 'in Mr. Buckes roome' on 2 July 1603, just after he became acting Master (Rimbault, 6).
[325] The letters are printed in full in Bond, Lyly, i. 64, 68, 70, 378, 392, 395. A contemporary note by Sir Stephen Powle to a copy of the 1601 appeal says, 'He was a suter to be Mr. of the Reuelles and tentes and Toyles, but eauer crossed'.