^{page 86 note 1} Victoria County History of Durham, iii, 121.

^{page 87 note 1} Information given to me by our Fellow Dr. A. Hamilton Thompson, quoting Exeter Reg. Stafford, ed. Randolph, pp. 214, 289, and Cal. Pat. Rolls 1416–22, p. 382.

^{page 87 note 2} The Rev. E. B. Adamson, M.A., Master of the Hospital and vicar of Greatham, very kindly lent me the original bronze seal matrix from a cast of which the illustration on pi. xvi has been made. The hospital now uses a modern seal of the same design but cut much shallower.