15. — Lloyd, Humphry Lluyd or Lloyd, "a most noted antiquary, and person of great skill and knowledge in British affairs," ob. 1570. (Wood.)
16. Mr. James Strangeman, of Hedley Castle, Essex, cited by Salmon as an Essex antiquary. (Gough.)
17. The learned Sir Henry Spelman died in 1641.
18. Arthur Gregory, ancestor of the present Arthur Gregory, of Styvichall in the county of Warwick, Esq., who possesses some valuable MS. collections of his ancestor.
19. Anthony Cliffe. In Burke's Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, a person of these names is mentioned as of the city of Westminster in the Elizabethan period, ancestor of the present family of Cliffe of Bellevue, co. Wexford.
20. Thomas Talbot, "an excellent genealogist, and well skilled in the antiquities of his country." Vide Wood's Athenæ, ed. Bliss, i. 265.
21. Arthur Golding; the same, I suppose, who finished the translation of a work concerning The Trueness of Christian Religion against Atheists, &c., began by Sir Philip Sidney, and also published other translations. (Wood and Gough.)
22. Arthur Agard, styled by Camden "antiquarius insignis." He died in 1615.
23. William Camden, born 1551, ob. 1623.
24. Mercury Patten, Blue-mantle Pursuivant-at-Arms, had been patronised by Lord Burleigh; was living in the second year of James I.