[77] Philip Comines.
[78] Patent, 1st of Henry VII.
[79] W. Dunthorne.
[80] Fitzstephen, Gerv. Tilbury.
[81] “Virginitie defended with the losse of worldly goods, and life of the bodie, for life of the soule.”—Stow.
[82] Liber Dunmow.
[83] Stow in his first edition says, “there practised for the crown ...;” and the admirable scene in Richard the Third (act III., sc. 7), in which Gloucester is by Buckingham, the mayor, and citizens of London, “enforced to a world of cares,” is laid by Shakspeare with great historic truth in “the court of Baynard’s castle.”
[84] It was destroyed in the Great Fire, before which time it had become the residences of the Earls of Shrewsbury.
[85] Vita Arkenwald.
[86] Liber Burton, super Trent.