^{page 5 note 1} MS 29. The genealogy goes back another four generations. See Appendix II.

^{page 5 note 2} MS 29. The possible circumstances of this imprisonment are discussed by way, Agnes Con, Henry VII's relations with Scotland and Ireland, 7–8.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 3} Conway, W. Martin, Archaeologia Cantiana, xxviii, 337–62.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 4} Shaw, W., Knights of England, I, 148Google Scholar; 23 June 1509.

^{page 5 note 5} It was probably for his service at this time that he was created a Knight Banneret, a dignity which Scott wrongly believed to have been conferred upon him by Henry VII. Shaw, II, 36.

^{page 6 note 1} According to Scott, Allington was known as ‘Lady Wyatt's house’, because of Sir Henry's frequent absences. The story of her encounter with the Abbot of Boxley is printed by Bruce, , Gentleman's Magazine, 09 1850, 236–7.Google Scholar

^{page 6 note 2} Letters and Papers of the reign of Henry VIII, IV, 2037, 2075, 2135, 2163, 2194.Google Scholar

^{page 6 note 3} See p. 183.

^{page 6 note 4} Professor Kenneth Muir discusses the literary and other evidence concerning this relationship in Life and Letters of Sir Thomas Wyatt, 13–37.Google Scholar

^{page 7 note 1} Muir, 24. Wyatt would certainly not have survived the crisis of 1536 if he had been intimate with Anne Boleyn after she had become the King's mistress.

^{page 7 note 2} L and P, XIII (ii), 615. Bonner, to Cromwell, , 15 10 1538.Google Scholar

^{page 7 note 3} Particularly Marillac, the French ambassador, who wrote that Wyatt was taken to the Tower ‘… so bound and handcuffed that everyone could only suppose ill, for it is the custom in this country to take them to prison unbound’. Kaulek, J., Correspondence Politique (Paris, 1885), 261–3Google Scholar; quoted by Muir, 176.

^{page 7 note 4} Harleian MS 78, ff.5–7, 7–15. Printed by Muir, 178–209.

^{page 7 note 5} Privy Council to Lord William Howard, 26 March 1541. State Papers (London 1830–1852), VIII, 546.Google Scholar

^{page 8 note 1} According to DNB these lands were sold by Sir Thomas the younger in November 1543. However, according to L and P, (XVIII, i, 436) 1,259l 8s 2d was paid to Sir Thomas on 8 July 1542, in ‘…full payment of 3669l8s 2d for his manors of Howe and Wyndhill.’ Sir Thomas's dealing in land were large scale and complex, but it is probable that this sale was undertaken to relieve pressure on the estate.

^{page 8 note 2} Muir, 217, 220. MS 11 is George Case's translation of Chaloner's epitaph.

^{page 8 note 3} Shaw, II, 65, suggests 1549 or later, but he is already being described as Sir Thomas by 1544 (L and P, XX). On the other hand, he is not so described in the previous year, and he may well have been dubbed in France for his services there.

^{page 8 note 4} See pp. 55, 165.

^{page 8 note 5} For some further consideration of this, see TTC, 48, 84.Google Scholar

^{page 9 note 1} In June 1550 he was granted lands worth 118l 6s 5d in reward for unspecified ‘services’. Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward VI, III, 337–8.Google Scholar

^{page 9 note 2} See p. 192.

^{page 9 note 3} TTC, 12–24.Google Scholar

^{page 9 note 4} Noailles to Montmorency, 24 January 1554, Archives du ministère des affaires étrangères (Correspondance politique, Angleterre), IX, f.127. Harbison, E. H., Rival Ambassadors at the court of Queen Mary (Princeton, 1940), 127.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 1} TTC, 113–27.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 2} Simon Renard to the Emperor, 3 April 1554, Calendar of State Papers, Spanish, XII, 201.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 3} Chronicle of Queen Jane, ed. J. G. Nichols, Camden Society, xlviii (1850), 74.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 4} The date of Jane Wyatt's death is uncertain. She is described in MS 10 as ‘…a widow yet living’ (about 1595), but was certainly dead by 1618, when George was in possession of the estate. Richard (MS 38) speculated that she was probably buried at Southfleet.

^{page 11 note 1} Cal. Pat., Philip and Mary, III, 159.Google Scholar

^{page 11 note 2} Although the identification is not quite certain, he was very probably that Arthur Wyatt who matriculated Fellow Commoner at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1561 (Venn, , Alumni Cantabrlgienses, IV, 480Google Scholar). He had died by 1570.

^{page 11 note 3} Sir Robert Southwell, Sir Thomas Cheney, and George Clarke were the principal beneficiaries of the share out. (Cal. Pat., Philip and Mary, I, 135; II, 67, 311).

^{page 11 note 4} Cal. Pat., Philip and Mary, III, 159.Google Scholar

^{page 11 note 5} Foster, J., Register of Admissions to Grays Inn (London, 1889), 41.Google Scholar

^{page 11 note 6} MS 38. Hasted, II, 125 et seq.

^{page 11 note 7} MS 37.

^{page 11 note 8} See p. 94.

^{page 12 note 1} Acts of the Privy Council (ed. Dasent) XXIV, 307Google Scholar. There are numerous references to this man as ‘Mr Wiatt’ or ‘Capt. Wiatt’ in the Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, 1589–90.Google Scholar

^{page 12 note 1} 2 SP84/XXXV/136.

^{page 12 note 1} 3 APC, XXVII, 105Google Scholar; XXVIII, 253; etc.

^{page 12 note 1} 4 Sloane MS 358 in the British Museum consists of a narrative of a voyage by Robert Dudley (natural son of the Earl of Leicester) to the West Indies in 1594–5, by a certain ‘Captain Wyatt’, who accompanied him. G. F. Warner, who edited this MS for the Hakluyt Society in 1899, speculated that this was Capt Thomas Wyatt, the Commissary of Musters (xv). He describes himself as ‘an old and discreet souldier’, and Warner adds ‘He was evidently a landsman on his first long voyage; and to judge from his scraps of latin and references to classical authors, he had some pretensions to scholardship.’ The style of the work is very close to George's, and the MS is written in a hand very similar to one which appears a number of times in the commonplace book, but which I have not been able to identify. As far as I know, however, George never makes any remark which could be interpreted as a reference to such as experience.

^{page 12 note 1} 5 She was buried in Boxley church on 27 March 1644. DNB wrongly states that it was Margaret, Sir Francis' wife, who was buried on that day. MS 37.

^{page 12 note 1} 6 MS 37. Anne is described as the ‘youngest daughter’, and Elenora as the ‘third daughter’, so presumably there was another in addition to Catherine.

^{page 13 note 1} He had matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in the previous year. Foster, , Alumni Oxonienses, IV, 1690.Google Scholar

^{page 13 note 2} Foster, , loc. cit.Google Scholar He was married on 8 December 1618 to Catherine Finch, daughter of Sir Henry Finch. He is described as ‘minister of Boxley’ in MS 37, which presumably means curate, since George Case was Vicar at this time. One of his sermons is preserved (MS 14).

^{page 13 note 3} MS 37. He was the only one of the brothers who entered neither university nor Inn of Court.

^{page 13 note 4} S. C. Wyatt, Cheneys and Wyatts, 114, states that George married and had children, but MS 37 clearly states that he died in 1619. Wyatt does not quote the source of his information, and since he appears to be ignorant of the existence of Henry, Thomas, Anne and Catherine, he is, perhaps, not to be relied upon. It is possible that the descendants he mentions were in fact derived from Henry.

^{page 13 note 5} Foster, IV, 1690.

^{page 13 note 6} Kingsbury, I, 516. He is described in this entry as ‘Mr. of Artes’, but there is no record of his having taken the degree.

^{page 13 note 7} Wyatt, S. C.; Cheneys and Wyatts (London, 1959), 113.Google Scholar

^{page 13 note 8} MS 37.

^{page 13 note 9} MS 36 states that Hawte Wyatt ‘hath issue now (1702) living in Virginia’. In 1655 Edward Wiatt received a grant of land from Pindavako the Protector of the young king of Chiskoyack (MS in the Huntington Library, San Marino); the documentary evidence for Edward's life has now largely perished, but the relationship can be pieced together from the surviving eighteenth-century letters.

^{page 13 note 10} MS 37.

^{page 13 note 11} Foster, IV, 1690.

^{page 14 note 1} Shaw, W. A., Knights of England, II, 169Google Scholar. Both DNB and the Dictionary of American Biography state that he was knighted in 1603. A ‘Wyatt’, with no Christian name or place of origin specified, was among the 500 dubbed in July 1603 (Shaw, II, 126), but ‘Francis Wyatt of Kent’ was specifically dubbed on 7 July 1618. In any case Francis was only 15 in 1603.

^{page 14 note 2} Kingsbury, I, 415.

^{page 14 note 3} Ibid., 436.

^{page 14 note 4} Ibid., 107.

^{page 13 note 5} Craven, W. F., The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (Louisiana, 1949), 147–50.Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 6} Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, Addenda, no. 127.

^{page 15 note 1} ‘How much the company is behind in their promises and agreements with me, you cannot but understand, which wether they value or we here cannot be lesse than five hundred pounds yearly.’ MS 3; William and Mary College Quarterly, 2nd series, VI, 121.

^{page 15 note 2} MS 37.

^{page 15 note 3} See p. 2.

^{page 15 note 4} MS 37.

^{page 15 note 5} Venn, IV, 480.

^{page 15 note 6} Foster, IV, 1690.

^{page 15 note 7} See p. 4.

^{page 15 note 8} Venn, IV, 480.

^{page 16 note 1} MSS 37, 38.