^{Page 6 note *} Ricart here makes an error, which he afterwards repeats. Henry Darcy was mayor, not recorder, of London in 1337 and 1338, nor was there a recorder of that name during the reign of Edward III.

^{Page 6 note †} Dr. Giles's edition in “Six Old English Chronicles,” Bohn's Library, 1848, is the one that has been here referred to.

^{Page 7 note *} This popular belief appears to have been a mistaken one: records of earlier unction of English kings being in existence. See Taylor's “Glory of Eegality,” pp. 232, 233.

^{Page 7 note †} In a MS. volume in Heralds' College (Arundel, vol. 48, fo. 99), which contains a collection of historical scraps and compilations made by William Botoner [otherwise Worcester], occurs another version of these verses in his hand. A considerable part of the volume has been printed by Hearne at the end of the “Liber Niger Scaccarii:” these verses are there included in the portion to which Hearne has given the title “Wilhelmi Wyrcester avsxra qusedam alia historica” (vol. ii. p. 529). The two versions differ much ; some of the lines are altered in whole or in part, and Ricart has omitted several of the lines given by Botoner, who begins with Ethelbert and Ethelred: the two are, however, both evidently taken from the same original, even to the repetition in both of a few doubtful readings. There is nothing to shew that Botoner was their author, beyond the fact of their being found in his commonplace book : it is not improbable ; but, whether he were so or not, he and Ricart were in all probability on good terms, as mentioned in the Introduction, and hence perhaps the appearance of the lines in Ricart's book. Six of these lines are quoted, but incorrectly, by H. Rogers, in a small book, entitled, “Calendars of Al Hallowen,” Bristol, p. 170.

^{Page 7 note ‡} MSS. Arundel. 220, fol. 274; Cotton. Titus, D. vii. fol. 30. The first passage above cited has been printed by the Rev. W. W. Skeat—to whom I am indebted for pointing the MSS. out to me—in his “Joseph of Arimathie” (Early-English Text Society, 1871), p. 71.

^{Page 8 note *} Johannis Glastoniensis Chronica, ed. Hearne, pp. 58–60, 66.

^{Page 8 note †} Nova Legenda Angliæ, fol. 263a, col. 2, to 264a, col. 1.

^{Page 11 note *} Sic in both MSS.; see before, p. 7.

^{Page 11 note †} sciciebat in original.

^{Page 11 note ‡} Sevanus in original.

^{Page 11 note §} A word seems to bo omitted here, the metre being defective.

^{Page 11 note ║} rex reficere in original.

^{Page 12 note *} Sanctus and et in original.

^{Page 12 note †} Wallos in Botoner's MS.

^{Page 12 note ‡} Sic.

^{Page 13 note *} hidas in original.

^{Page 13 note †} inventi in original.

^{Page 13 note ‡} Jh'e in original.

^{Page 13 note §} fuisse in original.

^{Page 13 note ║} The scribe has here made an error ; clxyj is the date meant.

^{Page 13 note ¶} This name is variously given by Capgrave, &c. as Duvanus and Deruvianus.

^{Page 13 note **} Bruitanie in original.

^{Page 13 note ††***} The isle of Avalon.

^{Page 14 note *} prefatis in original.

^{Page 14 note †} premiti in original.

^{Page 14 note ‡} anacoriti in original.

^{Page 14 note §} The first English abbot ; in 690 he was made Archbishop of Canterbury.

^{Page 14 note ║} See the notes as to the dates of these foundations in Tanner's Notitia, ed. 1787.

^{Page 14 note ¶} This date is variously given in different authors as 1080, 1084, and 1086.

^{Page 15 note *} This house was founded at Brightley in 1136, and was removed to Ford in 1141.

^{Page 15 note †} There is some error about this date ; Pope Innocent approved the rule of the Minor Friars in 1210, and they are said to have come into England in either 1219 or 1224. (See Tanner's Notitia, pref. p. xiii.) See next paragraph, which agrees with the date given by Eccleston (Monumenta Franciscana, Rolls ed. p. 5.)

^{Page 16 note *} This date should be 1223, according to Stevens's Hist, of Abbeys, vol. ii. p. 6; 1224 according to Eccleston.

^{Page 16 note †} This date should be 1226. (See Stevens, as before.)

^{Page 16 note ‡} Sic.