^{page 8 note *} See his communication to the Lincoln Architectural Society, “Reports and Papers of Associated Architectural Societies,” 1854, vol. iii. p. 272.

^{page 10 note *} An account of this ancient family is to be found in a privately printed work entitled, “A History of the Markham Family,” by the Rev. David Frederick Markham. 8vo. London, 1854.

^{page 12 note *} Lansdowne MS. xci. 61. Harl. MSS. 7002, 45, 87.

^{page 13 note *} Prefixed is a poem, entitled “Seintlow Knifton on Francis Markham's work of Markham's Petegree.” It consists of five stanzas of somewhat indifferent verse, and terminates thus—

And let who list buy names without good fame,

What's got by shift will soone be lost by shame;

And if my judgment do not fayle me mutch,

Some od observer of this gilt-bowght glory

Will note with black reproach the acts of sutch,

And register their names in Stowe's next story;

Old Patent's spirit were fittest to endite it,

His sonne showld blase their armes, and Nash should write it.

Saintlow Kniveton, the author of this poem, was third son of Thomas Kniveton of Mercaston, co. Derby, and brother of Sir William Kniveton, Bart. His collections for Nottinghamshire were made use of by Thoroton in his history of that county. Old Patent is probably a nickname, possibly intended for Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter, who died 1584. His son Sir William Dothick succeeded him as Garter, and was deprived in 1603. Nash is no doubt the well-known dramatic poet and satirist, who died in 1601.

^{page 14 note *} This must be an error, for Sir John Markham died on the feast of St. Silvester (Dec. 31), 1409, as appears from his monumental inscription in East Markham Church, which is alluded to by Francis Markham at the end of his account of Sir John Markham. In this inscription the judge is simply termed Justiciarius, fully confirming the statement in Foss's Judges, that Sir John was only a puisne judge of the Common Pleas. Lord Campbell, who has erred in calling Sir John Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, has also erred in ascribing to Sir John Markham, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the monumental inscription above cited, not having noticed probably the difference of date.

page 14 note † This account agrees with the usually received pedigrees, but seems to contain some errors, as appears by proceedings instituted by Melicent, the judge's widow, to obtain dower, and reported in the Year Book, 12 Henry IV. We there learn that Elizabeth the first wife was a sister and coheir of Margery, wife of John de K. and that John Markham was her son and his father's heir. This does not accord with what is known of the Cressy family, nor with the usually received parentage of Sir John Markham the Chief Justice. There may, however, have been a son John by each marriage; or a generation may have been overlooked, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench may have been grandson of the Judge of the Common Pleas, and not son as usually stated.

page 14 note ‡ L'Authoritie et Jurisdiction des Courts, 1637, p. 79.

page 14 note § Henry of Monmouth, by the Rev. J. E. Tyler, vol. i. p. 301.

page 14 note ‖ Lives of the Chief Justices of England, vol. i. p. 132.

^{page 15 note *} Judges of England, by Edward Foss, F.S.A. vol. iv. p. 127.

page 15 note † Hadrian de Saravia, the well-known divine. He was made professor of Divinity at Leyden in 1582, but returned to England in 1587, where he died in 1613.

page 15 note ‡ Sluys surrendered to the Duke of Parma, 1587.

page 15 note § 24 Nov. 1587.

page 15 note ‖ Staple Inn.

^{page 16 note *} Anhalt.

page 16 note ‡ Burge is no doubt Strasburg. On the death of John von Manderschiedt, Bishop of Strasburg, in 1592, the Protestants put forward as his successor John George of Brandenburg; the Catholics supported Charles, Cardinal of Loraine and Bishop of Metz, who ultimately obtained possession of the see.

page 16 note ‡ Claypole, Lincolnshire, an estate brought into the Markbam family by the heiress of Cressy.

page 16 note § Sir Griffin Markham and the other conspirators, including Sir Walter Raleigh, were apprehended in July, 1603; they were removed to Winchester for trial Nov. 4, condemned to death, and led forth to execution Dec. 9, but reprieved. Francis Markham, in his account of the Markhams of Allerton, has this passage, “S^r Griffin that maried Anne, dau. of Peter Roos, of Laxton, and for treason banished; his wif maried to her man James Sanford, S^r Griffin alive, beiond seas.” It appears from a precis of news sent by Lord Carew to Sir Thomas Roe (State Papers, Dom. Jas. I. xev. 22) that in November, 1617, Lady Markbam did penance for this at Paul's Cross in a white sheet; she was to do the same elsewhere, and was fined £1,000.

^{page 17 note *} Joan, youngest daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward, knight, Lord Mayor of London, and coheir of her mother, Joan Tyllsworth, married Sir John Thynne of Longleat, knight, who died in 1604; her sister Elizabeth married Richard Warren, Esq., and secondly, Sir Thomas Knyvet, knight, created in 1607 Baron Knyvet of Escrick, co. York.

page 17 note ‡ William Cecill Lord Roos was the only son of William 2d Earl of Exeter by Elizabeth Baroness Roos, only daughter and heir of Edward Manners 3d Earl of Rutland; she died 1591. Lord Roos married in February, 1616, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Lakeland died at Naples without issue in 1618.

page 17 note ‡ Raffled.

page 17 note § Query for Arabella, that is, Arabella Stuart.

page 17 note ‖ Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Coke, married Ralph Sadleir, son of Sir Thomas Sadleir by Gertrude, daughter of Robert Markham, of Gotham.

page 17 note ¶ In the State Paper Office (vol. cxxxv. 10) is a letter to the Council from Lord Burghley and others, Commissioners for Musters in Nottinghamshire, supposed to have been written in 1622, in which they request permission to retain Captain Francis Markham as Mustermaster, although Gervase Wild had been recommended for the office by the King.