Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times / Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History

by Samuel Pegge

[215] One of these is still preserved in a frame in the Vestry of St. Martin's Church at Leicester, placed there by the Rev. Samuel Carte, Vicar of that Parish, and brother of Mr. Thomas Carte the Historian.

[216] Browne, book iii. p. 126.

[217] The Ceremony used in this Reign is given in the Appendix, No. II.

[218] Observations on the Statutes.

[219] Published by Command of King Charles II.; and printed by Henry Hills, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for his Household and Chapel, 1686.

[220] "Ritualia Varia," in the British Museum.

[221] A corruption of Burghwash, a little Village in Sussex, on the River Rother. See Camden's Brit.

[222] The Ancestor of this Family was Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Cleveland; which Title became extinct, for want of Male Issue, 1667. The Barony passed as above.

[223] See Collins's Baronage, i. 267, 272.

[224] See Camden's Britannia, col. 112.