[111]. Stow, ed. 1603, p. 75.

[112]. Strype’s Stow, ed. 1720, i. 121.

[113]. Strype gives no reference, but the story is to be found in Nichol’s Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, i. 54, the writer being Laneham or Langham, who calls himself “Clark of the Counsel Chamber door and also Keeper of the same.”

[114]. History of Winchester College, p. 369.

[115]. Guildhall Records, Letter Book T., 46 b, 20th August, 3 Elizabeth.

[116]. Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesia Anglicance makes him die in 1560, but as Pat. 5 Eliz., Pt. IV. m. 36 is quoted for the appointment on November 19 of his successor, Richard Ryve, it is clear that a mistake has been made in reckoning the year Anno Domini, for the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth began November 1562.

[117]. Vol. i. 63.

[118]. Windsor Muniments, xv. 37, 76.

[119]. P. 55. ed. 1598.

[120]. P. [205].