^{page 427 note *} The Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Gilda Mercatoria, of Boston was the most important of the sixteen Guilds which that town possessed. A long but by no means exhaustive account of it may be seen in Thompson's History of Boston, 134–147.

^{page 428 note *} Linen or cloth, which took its name from having been made at Rennes, in Bretagne :

“Shee gaue me 2 shirts of raines in fere,

Put them next my body; I haue them here.”

Eger and Grine, 1. 305, Percy Folio, i., 364.

† That is, the Three Kings of Cologne or Magi, whose traditional names were Caspar, Melchior, and Baltazar. These names were very frequently inscribed on tombs and personal ornaments.

^{page 429 note *} i.e., dyed before being woven.