¹⁶³ The pleadings from this case do not appear to have survived.

¹⁶⁴ The coachmaker and engineer who lived outside Aldgate. See Harkness, Deborah, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (New Haven, CT and London, 2007), pp. 162, 219Google Scholar; Adams, S.L., ed., Household Accounts and Disbursements Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1558–1561, 1584–1586, Camden Society fifth series, 6 (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 273, 286Google Scholar; Lang, R.G., ed., Tudor Subsidy Assessment Rolls for the City of London: 1541 and 1582, London Record Society Publications 29 (London, 1993), p. 271Google Scholar.

¹⁶⁵ i.e. ‘heard’.

¹⁶⁶ 1587.

¹⁶⁷ Baker of brown or rye bread.

¹⁶⁸ Written documents, decrees, writs, etc.

¹⁶⁹ i.e. ‘implements’.

¹⁷⁰ i.e. ‘term’.

¹⁷¹ The membrane is torn and faded around a fold.

¹⁷² The suggestion here is that, in agreeing to the alleged assignment of property, Elizabeth gave up her common law right to claim dower, traditionally a life interest in one third of any unencumbered real property (lands) that her husband held in fee during his lifetime, claimable through a writ of dower.

¹⁷³ Easter Term [12 April–8 May] 1592.

¹⁷⁴ ‘Depositions taken at Westminster on 8 May 1592 on the part of Elizabeth Smith and others, defendants, against Gawyn Smith, plaintiff.’

¹⁷⁵ i.e. ‘voyage’.

¹⁷⁶ I can find no record of a William Miller in the Gray's Inn admission registers or pension book, although there are two Thomas Millers, adm. 1555 and 3 August 1592 (see Gray's Inn Register, pp. 26, 81).

¹⁷⁷ Ralph Pudseye of Staple's Inn, adm. Gray's Inn 1575: see Gray's Inn Register, p. 48; see also Gray's Inn Pension Book, pp. 49, 83, 87, 90, 99.

¹⁷⁸ 1587.

¹⁷⁹ Easter Term [12 April–8 May] 1592.

¹⁸⁰ ‘Depositions taken at Westminster on 2 June 1592 on the part of Gawyn Smith, plaintiff, against Elizabeth Smith, Arthur Norton, and others, defendants.’

¹⁸¹ Replaces ‘twayne’.

¹⁸² 4 May.

¹⁸³ The order book for this date has not survived.

¹⁸⁴ This draft order book is not paginated.

¹⁸⁵ Thomas Harris, created serjeant-at-law 1589: see Baker, Serjeants at Law, p. 516; and see Robinson, Richard, A Briefe Collection of the Queenes Majesties Most High and Most Honourable Courtes of Recordes, ed. Rickard, R.L., Camden Miscellany, vol. 20 (London, 1953), p. 18Google Scholar.

¹⁸⁶ Masters John Herbert, John Aubrey, and Julius Caesar presiding.

¹⁸⁷ This draft order book is not paginated.

¹⁸⁸ I can find no entry concerning this case for Friday 14 June.

¹⁸⁹ Master Julius Caesar presiding.

¹⁹⁰ Masters John Herbert and Julius Caesar presiding.

¹⁹¹ John Hele, created serjeant-at-law 1594 and later appointed Queen's serjeant in 1602, ktd. 23 July 1603: see Baker, Serjeants at Law, p. 517; Sainty, Law Officers, p. 17.

¹⁹² This appears to be the final reference to this case in the archive.