^{page 57 note a} Anne, daughter of William Ferneley, gent, of West Creting in Suffolk, and eldest sister to Jane wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper. She had been married first to William Read, esq. citizen and mercer of London, who died in 1544. She died Nov. 23, 1596, having had issue by Sir Thomas one child only, Richard Gresham, who died in 1564, when about sixteen years of age. By her former husband she was mother of Sir William Read, knighted in 1603, whose son Sir Thomas Read married Lady Mildred Cecill, daughter of the Earl of Exeter, and granddaughter of the great Lord Burghley.

^{page 58 note a} His niece Margaret, daughter of Thomas Ferneley, of West Creting, gent, was married first to Thomas Parkyns, and secondly to Israel Forth, both of Hadleigh.—Davy's Suffolk Pedigrees, Addit. MSS. Brit. Mus. 19,129.

^{page 58 note b} Cecily, fifth daughter of Sir John Gresham, Lord Mayor of London 1547, (uncle to Sir Thomas,) and widow of German Cioll, a Spanish merchant, who resided at Crosby, place in Bishopsgate-street. See further of her in Burgon's Gresham, i. 420, ii. 455.

^{page 58 note c} Sir Lionel Duckett, mercer, Lord Mayor in 1573.

^{page 58 note d} Sir Roger Manwood, Justice of the Common Pleas 1572.

^{page 59 note a} Sir Thomas Gresham's niece Elizabeth, the only child of Sir John Gresham, had married Sir Henry Neville of Billingbere, co. Berks; the ancestor of Lord Braybrooke. She had died in 1573, and the niece to whom this legacy was given was her daughter.

^{page 59 note b} Catharine, sister to the preceding.

^{page 59 note c} Sir Henry Neville had four sons by Elizabeth Gresham, Henry, Edward, Francis, and William.

^{page 65 note a} no one.

^{page 66 note a} they will.

^{page 66 note b} fortune.

^{page 68 note a} This will is remarkable for having been entered in the register carefully in the spelling of the original, which was written by the testator himself. The original is not in the registry of the Prerogative Court; but the register book has been compared with the first copy there deposited on record, and the spelling has been found, “word for word,” to coincide.

The arms of Sir Thomas Gresliam are drawn in the Register (Bacon 47) in the margin of the will: viz. Argent, a chevron ermine between three mullets pierced sable; impaling Or, on a bend vert three buck's heads caboshed argent, attired of the field, for Ferneley.