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In its main features this History may be described as a continuation of “The Customes of London,” by Richard Arnold, from which the earlier portion, i.e. as far as the 11th year of Henry VIII., is a mere plagiarism. After that date the Chronicle becomes original, and contains much valuable information. From internal evidence it would appear to be the work of a scholar, and to have been written contemporaneously, the events being jotted down from day to day as they occurred. The characteristic of City Chronicles is maintained throughout by the adoption of the civic year, marking the term of office of each Lord Mayor instead of the regnal year of the sovereign, thus causing an apparent confusion in the chronology. This form was probably adopted by our author as he found it already employed by Richard Arnold, whose reign of Henry VII.
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page iii note a Hist. College of Arms, p. 103.
page iii note b Page 121.
page vi note a Hist, of College of Arms.
page vii note a Segar, in his MS. Baronagium, Part III., in the College of Arms, traces the family up to A.D. 1214, as in the following table:—
Robert Wriothesley.=Lucie, daughter to Palton.
Wm. Wriothesley, s. and h.=Nichola, d. to Peter de Fontaville
Wm. Wriothesley, s. and h.=Agnes, d. to Robt. Giles.
Sir John Wriothesley,=Barbara, d. and h. to Januarius Dunstanville, a descendant of King Henry I. Carter.
page viii note a Noble's College of Arms, p. 81.
page ix note a Noble's College of Arms, p. 83.
page x note a Noble's College of Arms, p. 109.
page xi note a At the accession of Henry VIII, he obtained, October 9, 1509, a new patent, in which he is designated Thomas Wriothesley alias Writhe late called Wallingford, son of John Wriothesley alias Writhe late called Gartier. See Rot. Pat. 1 Hen. VIII. Part. 2, m. 16.
page xi note b The derivation of Barbican is evidently from the two Anglo-Saxon words “burh,” a city, and “beacen” or “becun,” a beacon, signifying the City watchtower.
page xii note a This list is preserved in the Public Record Office, and is described in Calendar of State Papers, Henry VIII. vol. iii. part. ii. No. 2486.
page xix note a Const. Hist. ed. 1871, p. 28, note 3.
page xxiii note a See Chapuys Correspondence, printed in 1870 by Froude in his History, vol. ii. Appendix.
page xxv note a “Quem vel mediocris conditionis virum non deterrerent hæc a tertio matrimonio, cum in primo graves sumptus et animi molestias, in secundo autem maxima pericula, quæ illi, durante toto illo tempore, imminebant, in memoria repetatur.”—Journals of the Lords, vol. i. p. 84.
page xxv note b See Chapuys Correspondence, Froude, vol. ii. Append.
page xxx note a It is difficult to believe that Anne's prudence should have been surprised at the end of so long a courtship, though, as Fuller says of her, “she was cunning in her chastity.” Yet a contemporary letter of the French ambassador, and the premature birth of the Princess Elizabeth on the 7th Sept. 1533, being only seven months and thirteen days after the private marriage on the 25th January preceding, countenance this assertion. See Archæologia, vol. xviii. 77–82; also Harl. MSS. 283, 22, and 287, 1, both of which are wrongly dated in catalogue.
page xxxvi note a Oct. 1874.
page xxxix note a Hist. Engl. ed. 1870.
page xli note a Instructions were given that none of the jurors should be related to defendants, and on the grand jury panel for Middlesex the names of those sworn are all taken in order, which is also the case with the petty jury with only two exceptions, all being knights resident within the body of the county.
page xlii note a See Audley's speech on the opening of Parliament, Lords” Journals, i. p. 84.