[18] Cum ad extremum omnia timeret, nec quicquam tam calamitosum putaret quod non in suam fortunam cadere posse videretur, statuit in locum aliquem munitum se abdere, ibidemque expectare, dum amici opera et armis juvarent: itaque noctu cum paucis suorum per Sabrinam noviculo vectus ad oppidum Brygnorthum in arcem, quæ ibidem egregie posita est, clam recepit. Polydore Virgil. Lib. xviii, p. 357.
[19] The above sketch of the old Church of Saint Mary Magdalene is taken from a print in the Taylor’s Buildings, Oxford.
[20] This account of Peter de Rivallis, given by Mr. Eyton (in his Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. 1, pp. 330, 334), is collected from the historian, Matthew Paris.
[21] In the certificate, made to the Archbishop of Canterbury, of the benefices of William of Wykeham, is the following entry:—“Item the aforesaid Sir William of Wykeham, at the time of the date of the aforesaid monition, by collation of our Lord, the illustrious King of England, the canonry and Prebend of Alnthle, (Alveley) in the aforesaid our Lord the King’s free Chapel of Bruggenorth.”—Lowth’s Life of Wykeham, p. 34.
[22] “Whosoever considers the vast buildings and rich endowments made by this prelate, beside his expense in repairing the Cathedral at Winchester, will conclude such achievements impossible for a subject, until he reflect on his vast offices of preferments.”—Fuller’s Church History, B. iv., Cent. xiv.
[23] The Rev. H.G. Merriman, M.A.
[24] “Grandson of Robert de Villiers, Lord of Little Crossby. This is supposed to be the knight, who was pourtrayed in the glass of three windows, in the upper part of Bridgnorth Church, in Com, Salop, in antique mail, cloathed with a surcoat, and girt with his sword and spurs: over which is an equilateral triangular shield, in which the arms of Molineux are depicted.”—Baronetage, 1741, in voce.
[25] Symonds’s Diary, a M.S. in the British Museum, p. 45.