^{page lxxxi note *} i. e. worked.

^{page lxxxi note †} The MS. has been injured by the Cottonian fire.

^{page lxxxi note ‡} Wolsey.

^{page lxxxi note §} John Kite.

^{page lxxxi note ||} Henry Sunduh.

^{page lxxxi note ¶} William Benson or Boston.

^{page lxxxii note *} Because he was created duke of Somerset. See hereafter, p. lxxxvii.

^{page lxxxii note †} MS. stast.

^{page lxxxii note ‡} ceremonies.

^{page lxxxiii note *} i. e. jointly.

^{page lxxxiii note †} MS. gyng.

^{page lxxxiv note *} ceremonies.

^{page lxxxiv note †} The lower part of the leaf is much injured by fire, and renders many conjectural words necessary to complete the sense.

^{page lxxxv note *} young.

^{page lxxxv note †} ceremonies.

^{page lxxxv note ‡} MS. order.

^{page lxxxvi note} ceremonies.

^{page lxxxvii note *} This William Hasyng had been formerly Buckingham herald in the service of Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham, before that nobleman's fall in 1581. His petition for the office of Rougedragon is preferred among the MSS in the Rolls House, No. 1039.

^{page lxxxviii note †} This term is simply equivalent to the present “guardant.”

^{page lxxxxix note *} The cognisance of queen Katharine Parra was designed in the same spirit —a maid's head, already the hadge of her family, was placed at insuant from a red and white rose.