^{page 152 note a} In the Calendar of Inquis. post Mortem, vol. iv. fo. 189, 17 Hen. VI. No. 45, is an inquisition relating evidently to one of the same family, but who is named Edmund Gastryk. From the inquisition itself, however, which I have seen, it is plain that the right name is Gaskryk and not Gastryk.

^{page 153 note a} William Boothe had been Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Gascoigne, in his Theological Dictionary, calls him “the unworthy Bishop of Coventry,” and says, further, that he “was neither a good grammarian, nor knowing, nor reputed virtuous, nor a graduate of either university.” Boothe was, at one time, Chancellor to the Queen; p. 156, post.