^{page 15 note [a]} Bishop Kennet says, “though this distinction of arms did not agree with the time of Nigel, yet it is most likely he did receive from the king a horn, as a token and charter of his office of Forrester, and his successors, by the name of Fitz Nigel, did bear those arms,” Par. Antiq. p. 52.

^{page 16 note [b]} Bishop Kennet says, this ring bears the rude impression of a horn; but the bare inspection of the plate is sufficient to shew that it bears the two initials of John Dynham, lord of this manor in the beginning of the last century. See Kennet, ib. p. 678.

^{page 16 note [c]} Kennet, p. 147, 148. ex Reg. de Borstal, f. 1. Dugd. Bar. I. 597.

^{page 16 note [d]} Kennet, p. 265. ex Chart, de Borstal, f. 11.

^{page 17 note [e]} Kennet, p. 148. Dugd. ubi sup.

^{page 17 note [f]} Kennet, p. 148.

^{page 17 note [g]} Id. p. 166.

^{page 17 note [h]} Id. p. 337. She seems to have died before 1315, when Sir John de Hand'o married Maud, daughter of Sir Philip Burnel, and widow of John lord Lovel. Kennet, p. 371.

^{page 17 note [i]} Kennet, p. 349, ex Chart, de Borstal.

^{page 18 note [j]} Kennet, p. 363, ex Dugd. MSS.

^{page 18 note [l]} Kennet, p. 460. Dugd. Bar. II. 61.

^{page 18 note [m]} Kennet, p. 479. Dug. ubi sup.

^{page 18 note [n]} Kennet, p. 523.

^{page 18 note [o]} Id. p. 617.

^{page 18 note [p]} Id. p. 678. The initials of the name of his son or grandson John are on the seal ring before mentioned.