^{page 268 note [a]} The Hospital of St. Bartholomew in Gloucester was founded in the 13th year of the reign of King Kenry III. It consisted of a master, or prior, and three brethren, besides a considerable number of poor infirm men and women, who were there maintained.

John de Oke, del Oke, de Oka, or de Ok, as he is called in the instrument now exhibited, was the fixth prior of this Hospital.

^{page 269 note [b]} PI. XLVL.

^{page 270 note [c]} The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Hereford, the Earls of Norfolk, Lancaster, and Suffolk, Thomas Wake, and John de Ros (called in Holinshed the Lord Thomas Wake, and the Lord John Ros) were seven of the twelve governors of the realm appointed during the minority of King Edward the Third.

That the services mentioned in this Charter to have been performed by the Earl of Kent for Edward the Third and his mother, was his espousing her party against the Spensers, appears pretty clearly from the following passage in Holinshed's Life of Edward the Second. “The Queene accompanyed with a greate power, departed from Oxforde, and wente straight unto Gloucester, and sent before hir unto Bristow the Erie of Kent, the King's brother, Sir John of Hennegew, with other, to take the Earle of Winchester. They did theyr endevour with suche diligence that the townesmen compoumdyng to be saved harrnelesse in body and goodes, delivered the towne and castell unto the Queene, and to her sonne the prince.” Holinshied's Chron. Vol.11, p. 879, ist Edit.

It was only three years after the making of this grant, that the Earl of Kent lost his head, “as it was thought, (says Holinshed) through the malice of the Queene mother, and of the Earle of Marche: whose pride and hygh presumption the sayd Erle of Kente myght not well abyde,” Ibid. p. 893.

^{page 271 note [d]} Sir Richard Wynn was gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles the First, when Prince of Wales, and on his accession to the throne was appointed treasurer to the queen. Pennant's Wales, Vol. I. p. 307.

^{page 271 note [e]} The signature only is of the Bishop's hand-writing.

^{page 275 note [f]} There were two others of the same form as fig. 1, one of them 11½ inches in diameter at the top, and the other 14½ inches. And two others similar to fig. 4, one of them 10¾ inches, and the other 4½ inches in diameter.

^{page 278 note [g]} This Pot is reprefemted in Plate LI. and the figures and inscriptions on 12 in Plates LII and LIII.

^{page 281 note [g]} See Plate LV. fig. 3, 4.

^{page 283 note [h]} This is represented in Plate LVIL. of the same size as the original.