²⁶⁵ 1592.

²⁶⁶ ‘Bande’ is an older form of ‘bond’.

²⁶⁷ Probably Anthony Barthelet, adm. Lincoln's Inn 24 June 1578, bar 25 November 1586: see Lincoln's Inn Admissions, p. 87; Lincoln's Inn Records, vol. 2, p. 2.

²⁶⁸ ‘1 May 1594. The defendant is to be summoned by a messenger of the court’.

²⁶⁹ 15 May 1594.

²⁷⁰ i.e. a separation from bed and board, not a divorce dissolving the bond of matrimony.

²⁷¹ Summoned on a charge.

²⁷² Saint Katherine's, a precinct beside the Tower and outside the city walls, was one of the liberties of London, exempt from the city's ecclesiastical and civil jurisdictions. Unfortunately, none of the records of this liberty's own courts survive. See Wunderli, Richard M., London Church Courts and Society on the Eve of the Reformation (Cambridge, MA, 1981), pp. 17–18Google Scholar; VCH: London, vol. 1 (London, 1909), pp. 525–530.

²⁷³ The original mistakenly reads ‘answear’.

²⁷⁴ i.e. ‘copemates’ – accomplices in cheating.

²⁷⁵ William Winter also appears as counsel in cases 10 (Thomas Read v. Jane Read alias Lambert) and 12 (Anne Lloyd v. Humfrey Lloyd and John Bradshaw), but I have been unable to identify him in published Inns of Court admissions registers.