[71] Bodleian. Clarendon State Papers, No. 166.
[72] E.g. Pett Place near Charing; Pett near Stockbury; Pett Street near Wye and Pett village near Winchelsea.
[73] E.g. Geoffrey del Pet, 1270, see Rye, Cal. of Feet of Fines for Suffolk. 'Walter de le Pet' (of Wattisfield), see Powell, A Suffolk Hundred in the year 1283; 'Adam atte Pet' (of Stonham Aspul), 'William del Pet' (of Wattisfield), see Hervey, Suffolk in 1327; 'Peter atte Pette of Shorn' (Kent) in Close Roll 1344.
[74] Mr. Redstone informs me that to this day large blocks of loam and clay are squared off in the pits of Rickinghall to form house walls.
[75] Printed by the Harleian Society.
[76] Skipton in Craven in the W. Riding and Skipton upon Swale in the N. Riding.
[77] I have only discovered one early instance of the name in Yorkshire, 'Ralph Pet' who lived in the 'Honor and Forest of Pickering' in 1314, and this, it may be observed, was on the sea coast.
[78] April 1912, p. 124.
[79] S.E. of Thetford: not the Hopton in East Suffolk.
[80] They were already there in the 13th; see [note on p. xliii].