[96-†] “Remains of Pagan Saxondom,” p. 71.
[97-*] In the museum at Augsburg are several which were found in cutting for the railway near that city. A large series of personal ornaments is also preserved there, which are so exactly similar to others found near Richborough, in Kent, that they would appear to have come from the same manufactory. As the Romans introduced their arts wherever they went, so the Saxons seem to have continued theirs in all their colonies.
[98-*] See the “Inventorium Sepulchrale: an Account of some Antiquities dug up by the Rev. Bryan Faussett, of Heppington, Kent.” Edited by C. Roach Smith.
[100-*] Engraved as an illustration to the volume describing the congress of the British Archæological Association at Winchester, in 1845.
[108-*] He was elected 1418, and died 1464.
[115-*] J. Y. Akerman on Gnostic Gems, in Archæologia, vol. xxxii.
[116-*] T. Wright, M.A., &c., in Archæologia, vol. xxx.
[117-*] Masarius, quoted in Topsel’s “History of Serpents,” 1611.
[136-*] He was a draper; and his seal has a device upon it consisting of a skull with a bone in the mouth; the letters W. S. are under it, and very small. This ring was most probably of silver. It is unlikely that a small trader like Smith should wear a heavy gold ring, like this which claims to be Shakspere’s.
[136-†] The concluding words of the will are—“in witness whereof I have hereunto put my seale,” the last word being struck through with a pen, and hand substituted.