FOOTNOTES:
[1] “The old,” i.e. “Senex.” It has been suggested that this is a Latin rendering of the name Vyel.
[2] Say = a kind of serge.
[3] Gairdner, Introduction to the Paston Letters.
[4] In 1462 the Earl of Warwick was Lord High Admiral, in the following year his brother the Earl of Kent succeeded him, in the same year he was superseded in favour of the Duke of Gloucester; in 1470 Warwick was again Admiral, in 1471 Richard succeeded him.
[5] Londina Illustrata, vol. i.
[6] Buy (Flemish).
[7] Candlewick Street, now Cannon Street.
[8] Cologne.
[9] Knightes Tale, p. 177, quotation from Sloan MS.