[8] A perch of 16½ feet, or 5½ square yards.
[9] Haga was a house in a city or borough—some think a shop.
[10] Eight oxen.
[11] 'Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmstone,' etc., printed for W. Lee, the editor and proprietor, Lewes, 1795, p. 458.
[12] A foist was a light galley, a vessel propelled both by oars and sails.
[13] Heavy ordnance, which, in the fifteenth century, could carry stone balls of 200 lb. weight.
[14] Or caliver, a kind of harquebuse or musket—the lightest firearm, except the pistol, and it was used without a rest.
[15] This hardly agrees with Lee's account (p. 475), who says he 'was conducted at last to the house of a Mrs. Maunsell of Ovingdean, by Lord Wilmot and Colonel Gunter.... At Ovingdean the King lay concealed for a few days, as local tradition still relates, within a false wall or partition, while his friends were contriving the best means for his escape to France.'
[16] Tattersal.
[17] Fécamp.