5. Mr. Broughton the Lawyer, i.e. Richard Broughton, Justice of North Wales, called by Sir John Wynne, in the History of the Gwedir Family, "the chief antiquary of England."
6. Mr. Leigh, probably James Leigh, author of several tracts on heraldry, preserved in Hearne's Curious Discoveries.
7. Mr. Bourgchier. Query, Sir Henry Bouchier, afterwards Earl of Bett? or Thomas Bouchier, the learned Roman Catholic divine, who died at Rome about 1586?
8. Mr. Broughton the Preacher. Could this be the learned divine Hugh Broughton, author of The Consent of Scriptures, born in 1549, ob. 1612?
9. Joseph Holland, a native of Devonshire, an excellent herald, genealogist, and antiquary, of the Inner Temple, living in 1617.
10. Mr. Gartier. Sir Gilbert Dethick, Knight of the Garter, Principal King-at-Arms, who was well skilled in antiquities, is perhaps intended. He died in 1584, at eighty-one. Or more probably his son and successor, Sir William Dethick, Knight, who was one of a select number of antiquaries who entered into a society in 1593 (the cradle of the present Society of Antiquaries). Sir William died in 1612.
11. Sir Robert Cotton, the founder of the Cottonian Library, died in 1631.
12. Francis Thynne, Esq., Lancaster Herald, died 1608. "An excellent antiquary, and a gentleman painful and well deserving of his office whilst he lived." (Camden.)
13. John Stow, author of The Chronicles of England and The Survey of London; died in 1605.
14. — Combes. Query, Thomas Combe, author of a Book of Emblems, reg. Eliz.