[12] Common, i.e. public.
[13] The Rood, on the Roodloft.
[14] Regimen, government.
[15] In the primitive Church.
[16] From πρεσβυτερὁς (elder), both presbyter and priest are derived.
[17] Pretended.
[18] Persuade the people.
[19] Public.
[20] At cess—i.e., quartered on the inhabitants.
[21] Thomas Fitzgerald’s rebellion took place in 1534-5. This reference to it dates the present document as being of 1571 or 1572.