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Footnotes:

[82] In the 31st page of Sir Frederick Morton Eden’s Appendix to the State of the Poor, it appears that in 1426, a hay horse, for the Prior (we may suppose of prime quality) cost £1 6s. 8d. and a colt 4s. 6d. And in the year 1448, page 34, the hay of one acre was estimated at 5s.

[89] Weirde, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon “wird;” i.e., fatum, or deafinie, and is used in this sense, in Hollinshed.

[94] Ballie is a material designation in Scotland, agreeing in rank with that of Alderman in England.

[201] Vol. vii. p. 496, 497.

[205] Vol. vii. p. 712.