^{page 140 note *} A swarthy complexion seems to have been hereditary in this family. Leland, Itinerary, vi. 27, speaking of “Olyver Saynt John, sonne to the excellent duchesse of Somerset “(as he is designated in his will, printed in Nicolas's Testamenta Vetusta, and in Jacob's Peerage, and which will is dated in 1496), describes him as “a blak and big felow that died at Fonterabye in Spayne, when the late Marquise of Dorset was there.” This Oliver was the founder of the family of Lydiard Tregoze.

^{page 141 note *} The original letter, written in a legal hand, is in the S. P. O. vol. Ixxviii. 23.

^{page 141 note †} Privy Council Register.—S. P. O. Dom. Corr. James I. vol. Ixxx. 24.

^{page 142 note *} He made his will, dated 26 Mar. 1593; names “son St. John and Margaret my dau'r his wife, all lands, ”—” son St. John, house he now lives in in Winchilsea “son Morgan, house in Winehilsea,” “Anne Morgan, his dau'r begotten on Anne Love deceased, late dau'r of me the said John Love.”

^{page 142 note †} A subsequent Indenture, dated 5 May, 13 Jas. (1615), shows that Oliver and John St. John were still under age, and that their father Oliver was living at Marlborough, eo. Wilts, and their mother was dead.

^{page 144 note *} Osmund de Seez died 1099.