^{page 282 note a} Dart, i. 45.

^{page 282 note b} Ibid. i 63.

^{page 283 note a} See Will of Henry V. (Rymer, ix. 289).

^{page 283 note b} Sandford, p. 285.

^{page 283 note c} Memorials of Westminster, by Dean Stanley (1869), p. 600.

^{page 284 note a} Dart, ii. 39.

^{page 284 note b} Henry VII. died 21 April, 1509.

^{page 285 note a} “You have witchcraft on your lips, Kate: there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French Council.”—Henry V. act 5, scene 2.

^{page 285 note b} Henry VIII.

^{page 286 note a} Query “entrance.” See Ashby's deposition, ante, p. 283.

^{page 286 note b} Keepe, p. 155.

^{page 286 note c} Dart, ii. 39.

^{page 286 note d} Gough, ii. 115.

^{page 286 note e} George II.'s vault was then the royal vault.

^{page 287 note a} This dampness was occasioned by the insufficient ventilation of the Villiers' vault. The vaults in the Abbey are usually remarkable for their dryness and good construction.

^{page 288 note a} This differs from Nealo, ii. 89, who gives the date 1776. 1778 is correct, as it is the date when the Percy vault was completed.

^{page 289 note a} This strip of lead had never formed part of a complete inclosure of lead; it is and has always been a flat sheet of lead; its edges are cut jaggedly and irregularly, and there is a seam which runs longitudinally down the middle of it. This soldered seam throughout the full length of the sheet, 7½ feet in length, may have been an original seam in the old lead, or it may have been made by joining together two strips of the old lead.

^{page 290 note a} The only piece of any size that could bo lifted up was taken out and presented to her Majesty the Queen.

^{page 291 note a} The absence of the names of any of the higher officials of the Abbey upon the leaden coffin-plate seems to indicate that Benjamin Fidoe, the clerk of the works, undertook the removal without any of them being present.