[32] Valor Ecclesiasticus (published by the Record Commission) vol. i. p. 411. This Ecclesiastical valuation, taken in 1535, superseded the one ordered to be taken by the Pope in 1291.
[33a] Sir Reginald has the credit of having designed Henry the seventh’s chapel, in Westminster Abbey.
[33b] Vide Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum, p. 287; and Pat 35, Henry VIII. p. 6. m. 18 (19). Lysons, and Smith (who appears to have copied what Lysons said), only “suppose” this sale to have taken place.
[34] I find by a note to the printed copy of the Countess’s will, that John Roper was her first Cambridge reader.
[35a] As I make no pretention to be a black-letter lawyer, and as I thought my readers would prefer to read such documents as these in their own language, I have in almost every instance where I have found it necessary to quote ancient Latin documents, given the translation: referring to the original to be consulted by those who should think it necessary to do so.
[35b] For this and most of the references relative to this manor, I am indebted to Lysons’s article, Kensington, and Mr. Faulkner’s History and Antiquities of Kensington.—Vide p. 74 and 591. It will be perceived that the account I have given of this manor differs in some respects from that given by these learned antiquarians; but the facts I have produced have been obtained from the same sources and therefore may be equally relied on.
[36a] “Rental of premises in Westminster, Paddington, and Kensington,” referred to at p. 194 in the “First Report on Public Records.” This MS. is kept at the Land Revenue Office, Spring-gardens, where I had the opportunity of inspecting it through the kindness of Mr. Fernside; it appears to be the “Receiver’s account of the late Monastery of St. Peter, Westminster,” for two years. Whether this is one of those “Books of Yearly Rents, reserved by Henry VIII, and Edward VI, which were concealed from Queen Elizabeth,” referred to at p. 197 of the first report, I do not know.
[36b] Vide Subsidy Roll, of this year.
[36c] Vide Faulkner’s account of the descent of this manor, p. 592.
Sir H. Anderson, an Alderman of London, gave £3,400 for this manor the same year in which “the Queen’s pardon” was obtained. In a presentment made of the manor of Abbot’s Kensington, 1675, we find Sir R. Anderson’s land set down at 400 acres, Free, but then said to be included in that manor.—Ibid 598.