Footnotes:
[1] Richard Grafton, Chronicler, born circa 1572.
[2] “Mortuary = a gift left by a man at his death to his parish church for the recompence of his personal tythes and offerings not duly paid in his lifetime” (Johnson’s Dictionary).
[3] History of London, Book I. p. 255.
[4] Pawne = a gallery.
[5] William Harrison, who wrote “The Description of England” for Holinshed’s Chronicles.
[6] Holinshed’s Chronicles.
[7] Or fee-farm rent.
[8] Many of these details were published for the first time in Sharpe’s London and the Kingdom, i. 494 et seq.
[9] A rich and precious stuff composed of silk with threads of gold.