^{page 432 note a} Cont. Matt. Paris.

^{page 432 note b} Widmore's Hist, of Westminster Abbey, p. 107. Dart's Antiq. of ditto, p. 31.

^{page 432 note c} A neat plan of the Abbey and its dependent buildings is prefixed to the second volume of Brayley's work; but it does not define the circuit of its liberties, or point out some appendages, the situation of which, although they are removed, is obvious enough. Since I made the observation in the text, I have been informed that an elaborate plan of the Abbatial buildings, by the late Mr. Capon, is in the possession of the Society of Antiquaties.

^{page 434 note d} Continuatio Hist. Croylandensis apud Rer. Anglic. Scriptores Vet. tom. i. p. 499. Oxon. 1684.

^{page 434 note e} I follow the carefully collated reprint of 1811, edited by Ellis (Sir Henry), p. 576, modernizing the orthography.

^{page 435 note f} Original Letters illustrative of English History, with notes and illustrations by Henry Ellis, F.R.S., Sec. S.A., Series Second, vol. i. p. 21.

^{page 435 note g} Hen. IV. act 4, scen. 11.

^{page 436 note h} Testimonium Clementis Maydestone quod Regis Henrici IV. corpus fuit in Thamesin projectum et non tumulatum Cantuariæ. E Codice MS. in Bibl. Colleg. Corp. X'ti Cantab, MXIV. 98. Desiderata Curiosa, vol. ii. p. 5.

^{page 437 note i} See Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities, edit. 1810, p. 103.

^{page 437 note j} Hndibras, canto i. lin. 645 et seq.

^{page 437 note k} Athenæ Oxonieuses, vol. ii. p. 659.

^{page 438 note l} The allusion is to a publication of Withers', bearing for title, “Abuses Whipt and Stript,’ for which in the reign of James I. he suffered imprisonment in the Marshalsea, “where,” says Wood, “he continuing several months was then more cried up for his profuse pouring forth of English rhime, and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical poetry, in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass, which he pretended to predict.” Athen. Oxonienses, ubi supra.

^{page 438 note m} The ape-like expression which is given to one of the murderers, attired in a hauberk of chain mail, and the mode of representing “Rachel weeping for her children, because they are not,” according to the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, are worthy of observation.

^{page 439 note n} Matt. chap. xiv. v. 10.

^{page 439 note o} Chap. vi. v. 47.

^{page 439 note p} Matt. xiv. v. 31.

^{page 439 note q} In the centre these two coats per fess: 1. Gules, a chevron Ermine, between three men's heads in profile couped Argent; 2. Gules, a chevron between three stag's heads caboshed Argent, attired Or. These two coats were borne quarterly by Williams.

^{page 439 note r} Gules, two lions passant guardant in pale Or, on a chief Azure the Virgin sitting on a throne with the infant Jesus in her arms, all of the Second.

^{page 439 note s} Azure, a cross potence between five martlets Or, on a chief of the Last, a pale quarterly of France and England, between two roses Gules, seeded of the Second.

^{page 441 note t} Clemens Maydestone, filius Thomæ Maydestone Armigeri, fuit ordinis S. Brigittæ Confrater domus de Howndeslow—Tanneri Bibliotheca, p. 500.

^{page 441 note u} Post mortem ejusdem Regis accidit quoddam mirabile ad prædicti Domini Ricardi Archipræsulis gloriam declarandam et æternæ memoriæ commendandam. Nam infra triginta dies post mortem dicti Regis Henrici quarti venit quidam vir de familiâ ejusdem ad domum sanctæ Trinitatis de Howndeslow vescendi causâ; et cum in prandio sermocinarentur circumstantes de probitate morum ipsius Regis; respondit prædictus vir euidam Armigero vocato Thomæ Maydestone, in eâdem mensâ tunc sedenti: Si fuerit vir bonus, novit Deus; sed hoc verissime scio, quòd cum a Westmonasteriâ. corpus ejus versûs Cantuariam in parvâ naviculâ. portaretur ibidem sepeliendum, ego fui unus de tribus personis qui projecerunt corpus ipsius in mare inter Berkingum et Gravesend. Et addidit cum juramento; tanta tempestas ventorum et fluctuum irruit super nos, quòd multi nobiles sequentes nos in naviculis octo in numero dispersi sunt, ut vix mortis periculum evaserunt. Nos verò qui eramus cum corpore, in desperatione vitæ nostræ positi, cum assensu projecimus illud in mare; et facta est tranquillitas magna. Cistam verò, in quâ jacebat, panno deaurato coopertam, cum maximo honore Cantuariam deportavimus, et sepelivimus earn.

“Dicant ergo Monachi Cantuariæ, quod sepulchrum Regis Henrici Quarti est apud nos, non corpus: sicut dixit Petrus de Sancto David, Act. 20. Deus Omnipotens est testis et judex; quòd ego Clemens Maydestone vidi virum ilium, et audivi ipsum jurantem patri meo, Thomæ Maydestone, omnia prædicta fore vera.”

^{page 443 note x} Present—the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Dean of Canterbury; the Ladv Harriet Bagot; Hon. Sir Charles Bagot; Rev. W. F. Baylay, Rev. Dr. Spry, Prebendaries; Mr. George Austin, Surveyor of the Cathedral; John Pedder, Thomas Laming, Workmen.

^{page 443 note y} See Maydestone, above.

^{page 444 note z} This will be at once recognized as the usual position of the hands of the effigies on ancient tombs. Both in attitude and attire the sculptured figure was often a fac-simile of that deposited in the coffin; a most striking illustration of this fact was displayed on the opening of the tomb of King John at Worcester in 1797. See Kempe's Introduction and Descriptions to Stothard's Monumental Effigies, p. 16.