^{page 295 note *} i.e., “an iron-grey charger.” See Ducange, s. v. Dextrarius and Ferrandus, Also Littré, Dict. Fr. s. v. Destrier.

^{page 296 note *} In the Deed before us the son's name is William, and that the Robert mentioned by Dugdale had a brother William seems evident from the Calendarium Genealogicum, vol. ii. p. 635, where we read (sub anno 30 Edw. I.) of a “Robertus de Colvill', alias Collevil' hæres Willielimi de Colevill', fratris sui primogeniti jam defuncti.”

^{page 299 note *} This is an early instance of the cap or velvet lining of the crown, which subsequently has been used up to the present reign, though abandoned on the more recent coinage of Her Majesty, the engravers having reverted to the mediaeval crown, not showing any cap.

^{page 300 note *} Sandford, Gen. Hist. p. 56.

page 300 note † Cast by Ready, Way Collection, whence obtained quære.

^{page 301 note *} The word, though blurred in this example, is quite clear in the later specimens.

page 301 note † This change, in King Henry V.'s style, dated from the Treaty of Troyes, May 21, 1420.

^{page 302 note *} The English Act of Parliament confirming the King's title as King of Ireland was passed in the 35th year Hen. VIII. (1543–4). See Statutes of the Realm, 35 Hen. VIII. c. 3.

^{page 303 note *} Statute 18 Ed. I., Modus levandi fines.

^{page 304 note *} Rot. Chart. 15 Edw. III. No. 18, quoted by Lysons, Devonshire, p. 154.

page 304 note † Rot. Pat. 34 Edw. I. m. 34.

page 304 note ‡ Rot. Pat. 15 Edw. III. m. 3.

^{page 305 note *} Rot. Pat. 17 Edw. III. Part 1, m. 13.

page 304 note † Another example of this seal is mentioned by Mr. Riley in his Report (p. 425), as affixed to an official extract from the Court Rolls of Dartmouth, under date 3 Ric. II. The holder of the office, however, in that year, was John Berrye.

^{page 308 note *} John de Taunton, 1274–1290.

page 308 note † Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. i. p. 5.