[11]. The will is given in Herbert’s Livery Companies, vol. ii. p. 636, and is recited in the Calendar of Wills in the Court of Hustings.
[12]. Hazlitt’s Livery Companies, p. 324.
[13]. Social England, iii. 229; London, 1818, ii. 20.
[14]. The story is estimated mainly from The Royal Hospitals, a collection of “Memoranda” compiled by J. F. Firth, Town Clerk of London, for the Common Council from original documents, in 1863, with a Supplement added in 1867.
[15]. Repertory, iii. f. 190.
[16]. Letter Book P, f. 220 b.
[17]. Indenture, December 27, 1547, ad init. Royal Hospitals, p. 20.
[18]. Machyn’s Diary (Camden Society).
[19]. Royal Hospitals, p. 45, from Jor. 15 f. 325 b.
[20]. Case p. 83, from Rep. f. 59, 6.