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.