^{page 204 note 4} James, , The Charters and other Documents relatingto the King's Town of Maidstone (1825), p. 61Google Scholar; Records of Maidstone (1926), p. 10.

^{page 204 note 5} This is assuming—what is in fact probable, though it cannot be proved positively—that the boxes have been together in the Maidstone archives since 1619. The 1604 box bears a very small paper label with the legend ‘… 2° Jacob …’ in a seventeenth-century hand, and the 1619 box has a hole cut into the covering leather with the legend ‘17 Jac’on the exposed wood beneath. Neither of these inscriptions, however, seems to yield any direct evidence bearing on our present problem.

^{page 204 note 6} Jenkinson, H., ‘English Wall-papers of the 16th and 17th Centuries’, Antiq. Journ. v (1925), 244Google Scholar and fig. 2.

^{page 204 note 7} Ibid., p. 253.

^{page 204 note 8} Oxoniensia, ii, 170.

^{page 206 note 1} Antiq. Journ. v (1925), pi. xxvi a.Google Scholar