^{page 252 note 1} The yale is also the device on the original seal of the custos or master of Christ's College; Cambridge, which was founded by the Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1505. [W. H. St. J. H.]

^{page 258 note 1} See the engraving, etc. in Bentham.

^{page 259 note 1} The pillar to the left is surmounted by a shield of the arms of Arkenstall, ermine a fess between three martlets sable.

^{page 261 note 1} On the top of the pillar to the left of the panel are the arms of Medley, barry of six silver and sable and in chief three sable mullets.

^{page 261 note 2} Ely omitted.

^{page 261 note 3} The shield surmounting the pillar to the left bears the arms of Higham, quarterly, 1 and 4, sable a fess between 3 horses' heads razed silver; 2 and 3, gules a chevron engrailed ermine between three silver falcons splayed. Over the shield is ‘Sir John Higham Knyght.

^{page 262 note 1} Acts of the Privy Council of England, N. S. xviii. (ed. J. R. Dasent, 1899), 415.