^{page 103 note 1} Professor W. A. Morris, who most kindly showed me his notes on the County Court, Miss H. M. Cam (the Hundred) and Miss M. H. Mills (financial side of the sheriff's activities).

^{page 103 note 2} cp. my Manual oj Archive Administration, p. 186.

^{page 104 note 1} from my colleague Mr Charles Johnson. It is now Chancery Miscellanea, 37/19.

^{page 104 note 2} cp. C. L. Kingsford, Stonor Papers (Camden Society, 3rd series, 29 and 30): Mr Kingsford has further material in preparation for a volume of the Camden Miscellany.

^{page 104 note 3} by Miss H. M. Cam, to whom I had shown the fragment. I am much indebted to her for notes on her discoveries.

^{page 104 note 4} 153/62 and 161/74.

^{page 104 note 5} The chief authority is Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law, I. 553, etc.: but Professor Morris has been able to gather much new matter and illustration from Bracton, Fleta, the Hundred and Coroners' Rolls, and other less obvious sources.

^{page 105 note 1} Statute of Westminster (1275), c. 10; cp. on this point Gross, Coroners' Rolls (Selden Society), p. xxvi: Miss Cam quotes (from Lincoln's Inn MSS., 137 (2) f. 24s v.) a distinction, laid down from the Bench in 3 Edward III, between the positions of Coroner and Sheriff in this respect.

^{page 105 note 2} L.T.R. Memoranda Roll 14, m. 19d: I owe this example to Miss Mills: probably many others might be found.

^{page 105 note 3} Miss Cam, for example, has found (Bodleian, Essex Charters, 182, 189; Hertford Charters, 7b) bonds between the sheriff and his subordinate official and these enabled Miss Mills to identify a similar one at the Public Record Office (K.R. Sheriff's Accounts 47/6).

^{page 105 note 4} Chancery Miscellanea, 37/18 (11) and (48).

^{page 105 note 5} II. C. 43.

^{page 106 note 1} Hole in MS.

^{page 106 note 2} Reading uncertain.

^{page 106 note 3} Hole in MS.

^{page 107 note 1} Pollock and Maitland, I. 515.

^{page 107 note 2} cp. in this connection a separate account of the previous sheriff (L.T.R., Miscellaneous Rolls, 5/22) with that annexed to the present roll.

^{page 107 note 3} The author has to acknowledge the gracious permission of His Majesty the King to publish the letters of Queen Victoria here given, and to thank the present Marquess of Aberdeen for permission to quote from the privately printed correspondence of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen.