page ix note * MS. Harl. 542.

page xi note * See Proceedings, &c. of the Privy Council, edited by Sir N. H. Nicolas, vol. vii. p. ii.

page xi note † See the Index, fol. 1832, pp. 111–115.

page xi note ‡ Nos. 283 and 284.

page xii note * Some interesting extracts from the Lisle correspondence have been recently made by Miss M. A. E. Wood, now Mrs. Green, in her valuable collection of “Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies.” It is to the same lady that the Editor has acknowledged his obligations in his note on the queen of France's marriage to the duke of Suffolk, in p. 17.

page xii note † This discovery appeared to the Editor sufficiently important to be brought before the Historical section of the British Archæological Institute on its congress at Winchester in the year 1845 ; and he had then the honour of reading a paper on the subject at one of the general meetings hold in St. John's rooms.

page xiii note * Pedigree in Nichols's Leicestershire, iv. 225, as corrected by Mr. Townsend (see note in p. xvi. hereafter).

page xiii note † “Ricardus Turpyn, ex honesta quadam Anglorum familia natus, et Caleti sub rege Henrico octavo militiam exercens, Anglicè congessit Sui temporis Chronicon, Lib. i. obiitque Caleti circa annum à Christi nativitate 1541, in D. Nicolai templo illic sepultus.” Balæi Scriptores, fol. Basil. 1559, part ii. p. 103. (In the Hist. of Leicestershire, iv. 217, the like reference is erroneously made to Pitsæus, who does not notice Turpyn.)

page xiv note * Fuller's account of Turpyn, in his “Worthies of England,” under Leicestershire, is as follows: “Richard Turpin was born at Knaptoft in this county, very lately (if not still) in the possession of that antient family, and was one of the gentlemen of the English garrison of Calis in France in the reign of king Henry the Eighth. Such soldiers generally in time of war had too much, in time of peace too little work, to employ themselves therein. Commendable therefore the industry of this Richard, who spent his spare hours in writing of a Chronicle of his Time. He dyed anno Domini 1541, in the thirty-fifth year of the aforesaid king's reign. (Weever's Funerall Monuments, p. 682.) This I observe the rather, that the reader may not run with me on the rock of the same mistake, who in my apprehension confounded him with Richard Turpin the herauld, first Blewmantle and then created Windsor, in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth.” The reference to Weever is misplaced, as it did not belong (as was not unnaturally imagined by the printer) to the record of Turpyn's death, but to the catalogue of the Heralds which Weever has given in his work. The error of the “thirty-fifth, year” was made by miscopying Burton (History of Leicestershire), who has it consistently, if not correctly, “1541.33 Hen. VIII.”

page xv note * This date is not to be depended upon : for Bale (as quoted in a previous note) says only “circa annum 1541,” which may have been merely a guess formed from the period at which the chronicle terminates. I have searched the register of the prerogative court of Canterbury for Turpyn's will in vain.

page xv note † Pedigree, ut supra.

page xvi note * In the copy of Nichols's Leicestershire in the College of Arms, the late Francis Townsend, esq. Windsor herald, has drawn his pen through the name of Richard Turpyn the herald, thus apparently adopting the statement of Le Neve mentioned in the next page. Mr. Townsend has also in the same place made the following corrections : for sir William Turpin, died 1525, read William Turpyn esquire, died 1523; the death of John, for “June 18, 1530,” in 1528–9 (without altering the month); his son William, born Sept. 30, 1527, not Sept. 1, 1529 ; the effects of George were administered to by his widow, Frances, 17 Aug. 1583. To these memoranda it may be added that the will of William Turpyn, 1584, is recorded in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in 8 Wathan, and that of John, 1582, in 29 Rawe. The main authority for the Turpyn pedigree is not the Leicestershire Visitation of 1619, but Vincent's Leicester, 217. In 2 H. 5 (Coll. Arm.) f. 94 b. is the following record of a crest granted to the family: “The armes and crest of George Turpyn of Knaptoft, in the countye of Leycester, esquyer : he bereth geules, on a bende silver thre lyon's heddes rasy sable, langued and oreilled geules ; upon his helme on a torse asure and golde, A grype standyng ung pie levant golde, the forparte dropped geules, beked and armed sable, manteled geules, dobled silver : yeven the said crest by me, Thomas Hawley, alias Clarencieulx, the first daye of Aprill, in the vj^th yere of the reigne of owr soverayne lorde kyng Edward the syxte.” There were two marriages between the family of Turpyn and that of Docwra, the lord prior of St. John's (often mentioned in the present volume), the particulars of which will be found in Collectanea Topogr. et Genealogica, 1840, vol. vi. p. 90.

page xvi note † Memorandum in Anstis's MS. Lives of the Heralds, in the College of Arms, vol. ii. p. 628, verso.

page xvii note * Mark Noble (History of the College of Arms) says he was so created “at his return,” adding, with his usual blundering, that “he continued in that office during the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary.”

page xvii note † It is printed in Rymer, xv. 566.

page xxi note * The above document I have been allowed to transcribe from Anstis's collections for the history of the officers of arms, lately belonging to Sir George Nayler, and now in the library of the College of Arms. Anstis's manuscripts were dispersed after his death, and I am not aware where those of Turpyn above mentioned are now preserved.

page xxii note * So in p. 8 Dicky for Digby : and in p. 48 he has written “his” for “her;” see note, p. 187.