^{page v note 1} Welsh-speaking, at all events. Richard Broughton's grandfather was John ap Cadwaladr, who was son of Cadwaladr ap Jeven, who was son of Jeven ap Llewelyn. Richard quotes a Welsh proverb, and as a Judge of the Great Sessions could, we will hope, understand Welsh witnesses. The order of Elizabeth for the translation of the Prayer Book into Welsh contemplated its use in the diocese of Hereford. This perhaps included more than the few parishes over the border which till recently were in Hereford diocese. For the Broughton pedigree, see Visitation of Shropshire, Harleian Society, Pt. I, pp. 85–7.

^{page vi note 1} Calendar, S.P.D. V. xxxiv.

^{page vi note 2} A Vice-Justiceship of Chester was merely a temporary appointment, in the absence of the Chief Justice.

^{page vi note 3} Information from G. Maude, Esq.

^{page vii note 1} S. Shaw printed MSS. remains of Huntbach upon County History, in his History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, 1798–1801.

^{page viii note 1} Thomas Aston was perhaps cousin to Richard Broughton. See Harl. Soc. 1899 vol., Visitation of Surrey, p. 177.

^{page 1 note 1} “O maxima dissimulatio ” is written in the margin of the MS.

^{page 4 note 1} This Welsh proverb is appended, in red ink, after the signature of the Earl, here, and in other places.

^{page 4 note 2} Laske is in Old English dysentery.

^{page 6 note 1} This sheet was found in the large vellum-bound book and had clearly been separated from Richard Broughton's book in Huntbach's time. It is probable that the supplementary account which follows next here is a continuation of this narrative.

^{page 9 note 1} The narrative begins here abruptly, the first part being missing, but see B.M. Add. MSS., 5830, f. 122, and the preceding footnote.

^{page 9 note 2} I.e. plancts (plaints).

^{page 11 note 1} On this hymn, not really by the Earl, see Introduction.

^{page 11 note 2} The Rev. T. Knell was chaplain to the Earl, and was present at his death. This account is intended to convey that the Earl was poisoned. It was written at the command of Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland. The chaplain describes the post mortem appearances of the Earl's intestines, but adds that he had no skill in such matters. The conditions, ulceration of the bowels, are consistent with many causes of death, dysentery and typhoid fever among others. If it is true that others who drank with him were also ill, typhoid may be suspected.

^{page 19 note 1} This genealogy is inserted on the back of a page of the MS., by Solomon Grosvenor, no doubt. See Introduction.

^{page 20 note 1} “Littere Roberti, co. Essex ” in MS. In the same contemporary hand the note manu propria is appended in the margin of the letters ; except in two, which give “manu, R. Wright ” (the Earl's tutor).

^{page 20 note 2} Hugh Broughton, D.D., a celebrated Hebrew scholar, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge ; born 1549, died 1612. An engraved portrait of him is in Christ's College.

^{page 21 note 1} Afterwards Sir Gilly Meyrick. Tried at Westminster, March, 1601, and hanged at Tyburn, for complicity in Essex' plot. Grant of Crest (not arms) to Meyrick 1583. Harleian Society (1915 Vol.). He was ancestor of the owner of the famous collection of armour at Goderich.

^{page 21 note 2} The seat of Richard Bagot, Broughton's brother-in-law.

^{page 22 note 1} This is Milton's “Old Hobson,” whose father, also University carrier, died in 1568. “Old Hobson ” died 1631, aged 87.

^{page 25 note 1} In the transcript the narrative of the death of Walter, Earl of Essex (see above No. 9), follows immediately here.

^{page 25 note 2} Wiltshire and Ormonde.

^{page 25 note 3} Elizabeth was born in 1533.

^{page 25 note 4} On a charge of treasonable dealings with the Scots, but acquitted.

^{page 25 note 5} Lord Thomas Howard was attainted and sent to the Tower for making a contract of marriage with Lady Margaret Douglas, the King's niece. He died in the Tower.

^{page 26 note 1} Created Earl of Hertford in 1537.

^{page 26 note 2} Created Earl of Southampton in 1537.

^{page 26 note 3} William Marshal, the great Earl of Pembroke, died 1219, and left these five daughters, and they or their children were ultimately co-heiresses of their brother. Walter and Anselm were his fourth and fifth sons who succeeded in 1241 and 1245 respectively to the Earldom. They both died in 1245, s.p. The date of the partition here given is wrong.

^{page 26 note 4} Burgaria in the MS.—for Burgagia, no doubt, Burgage rents, but the form burgery was also used, as at Sheffield.

^{page 26 note 5} Matilda married Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, whence the office of Earl Marshal came to his descendants ; secondly, William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey and Warenne.

^{page 27 note 1} Joan, married Warin de Montchesney.

^{page 27 note 2} Isabel, married, 1st, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester; 2ndly, Richard, Earl of Cornwall.

^{page 27 note 3} Sibyl, married William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby.

^{page 27 note 4} Eva, married William de Braose, Lord of Brecknock, Bramber, etc.

^{page 28 note 1} The three sisters and co-heiresses of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, killed at Bannockburn, 1314, s.p. The Irish lands had come to the de Clares by the marriage of Isabel, the second daughter of William Marshal, entered above, to Gilbert de Clare. The interest of Walter Devereux in the inheritance was remote ; his great-great-grandfather had married the Ferrers heiress Anne, who was great-granddaughter of Margaret Ferrers, the great-granddaughter of Eleanor de Clare. But there were other nearer heirs and heiresses.

^{page 29 note 1} See the genealogical table of the families of Bohun, Bourchier and Devereux inserted below (facing page 30).

^{page 30 note 1} The feast of St. Wistan, King and Martyr, was June 1st. The Monday after June 1st, 1325, was June 3rd.

Wistan was grandson of Wiglaf, King of the Mercians, and was murdered by order of his great uncle Beorhtwulf who had become King, at Wistanston in Shropshire. A martyr merely because he was an innocent victim, never king. Miracles were reported at the place of his death. His remains were translated first to Repton, then to Evesham. Florence of Worcester, sub anno 850, and in Appendix on Kings of Mercia.

^{page 33 note 1} Exceptis omnibus maneriis terris tenementis et haereditamentis cum pertinentibus praedicto episcopatui dudum spectantibus et pertinentibus, modo in manus nostras, vigore cujusdam Actus Anno Regni nostri primo inde nuper editi et provisi, electis et captis, ac in Scaccario nostro de Recordo residentibus. Rymer, xv., p. 574.

^{page 33 note 2} Annals of Reformation, I, Pt. 1, p. 142.