Quotations on p. 93 from the accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (St John's College Archives, SJC.D91.21) are included by permission of the Master and Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge. Quotations on p. 154 from Longleat Miscellaneous MS XIII are included by permission of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Warminster, Wiltshire.

I should also like to express my gratitude for the kind permissions that have been granted for the reproduction of the illustrations here listed.

1. The British Library Board: Figures 7b, 9, 10, 11

2. The Syndics of Cambridge University Library: Figures 5, 14b

3. The Chapter of the College of Arms: Figure 18

4. The Master and Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge: Figure 22b

5. The Folger Shakespeare Library: Figures 6, 12, 13, 14a, 15, 19

6. The City of London, London Metropolitan Archives: Figures 1, 2, 3

7. The National Archives of the UK: Figures 4, 7a, 8, 16, 21, 23

8. The Board of Trinity College Dublin: Figure 22a

9. The Worshipful Company of Barbers, London, and Bridgeman Art Library: Figure 17

10. The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London: Figure 20.