[263] i.e., Daventry.
[264] [lined through in original.]
[265] [lined through in original.]
[266] John Williams had been one of Cromwell’s agents so long ago as 1536 at least. In that year he had been deputed with Sir John Clark (Commissioner of the Peace in Oxfordshire) and George Gifford to investigate a complaint which had been lodged against Sir John Browne that his mill “doth annoye the Kinges other Subgiettes ... in the surunding and overflowing of their groundes.” (Letters and Papers, xi, 446; cf. 227, 353, 888.) He had also been one of the Commissioners of the Dissolution, and had visited Bury St. Edmund’s, Ely, Winchester, Hyde, Eynsham, and Notley (Bucks.). (Cf. Wright’s Letters, pp. 145, 147, 220, 233, 235.)
[267] This was a common name for the Bible down to the fourteenth century.
[268] Four homilies on the text, “missus est angelus” (St. Luke i, 26), composed by St. Bernard about the year 1120 (cf. Morison, p. 49).
[269] A treatise on the Ten Commandments.
[270] Probably ascribed wrongly to St. Augustine instead of to St. Ambrose.
[271] Epistola Augustini ad Iulianum comitem.
[272] Hugh of St. Victor, near Paris (A.D. 1097–1141). His works include In Ecclesiasten homiliae, de Institutione Novitiorum, and Mystica archae Noe descriptio. See also Note 19 infra.