[240] Royal MS. 7, C. xvi, f. 97 (cited Collier, i. 137). The names are in a list of servants ‘nuely in ordinary of the Chamber’, and some illegible names of players are in an accompanying list of ‘Offycers in ordynary of the Chamber of the late Kynges Majestie now discharged’.
[241] Lord Chamberlain’s Records, Misc. v. 127, f. 23 (also with the error ‘E. and P.’ in Sullivan, 249), ‘three broade yerdes of redd wollen clothe for a liuery coate of suche prices as the yeomen officers of oure howseholde are accustomed to haue and iijs and iiijd vnto euery of them for the Enbrauderinge of theire saide coates withe the lettres E and R on the backe and on the breste’.
[242] Chamber Accounts in Trevelyan Papers, i. 195–205; ii. 17–31, and Collier, i. 136, 138, 148.
[243] S. P. D. Edw. VI, xiv.
[244] Stowe MS. 571, f. 27v; Harl. MS. 240, f. 13.
[245] Feuillerat, Edw. and Mary, 89, 90, 97, 98, 119; cf. Mediaeval Stage, i. 406, where I think I was in error in taking John Smith as a name assumed by Will Somers.
[246] Hist. MSS. iii. 230, from book of annuities at Penshurst.
[247] Feuillerat, Edw. and Mary, 31, 39, 57, 86.
[248] Collier, i. 149. The reference to Ferrers’ ‘divine’ and ‘astronomer’ (cf. Mediaeval Stage, i. 407) fixes the date.
[249] Mediaeval Stage, ii. 201, from Lansd. MS. 824, f. 24.