^{page 151 note 1} G.E.C., Complete Peerage, vi, 469. Monasticon,vi, 135.

^{page 151 note 2} P.R.O. E.101. 370/20. Household expenses of the Countess of Hereford, 32 Ed. I: ‘Fratribus Roberto de Bures et Guidoni de Asshewell monachis Westm’ venientibus usque Knaresbourgh' et ibidem morantibus cum zona beate Marie et redeuntibus usque Westm'pro expensis suis de dono eiusdem Comitisse per manus proprias ibidem eodem die [Sept. 15th] xl. s.'

^{page 151 note 3} P.R.O. E.101, 370/20:‘Roberto Regis menestrallo et xv sociis suis menestrall[is] fac’ menestrac' sua coram Comitisse et al 'magnat' die quo dicta Comitissa erat purificata de dono eiusdem Comitisse per manus proprias ibidem xi die Octobr'. vj marc.'

^{page 151 note 4} P.R.O. E.101. 365/17. Account of daily expenses of Humphrey de Bohun, son of the Earl of Hereford [32Ed.I].

^{page 152 note 1} Rolls Series, iii, 129.

^{page 152 note 2} West. Abb. Mun. 53318; B.M. Harl. 544, ff. 65–75; B.M. Add. MSS. 38133, f. 98; B.M. Egerton 2642; Coll. of Arms MSS. A. 17 and F. 9; All Souls Coll., Oxon. M S. 126.

^{page 153 note 1} We can, perhaps, go a step farther, for Wm.Johnson i n his manuscript History of the Abbey, now in the chapter library and written c. 1730–1, notes that part of the railings which formerly surrounded the great monument of Lord Hunsdon (d. 1596) stood upon ‘an ancient tomb …in the wall’. The little tomb must, therefore, have been in its present position when the Hunsdon monument was erected.

^{page 155 note 1} i.e. Romsey.

^{page 155 note 2} Lib. Roll, 1245–51, p. 78; Close Roll, 1248.

^{page 156 note 1} W. Abbey Muniments; Liber Niger, ff. lxxix-lxxx. 6. For Ushborne see also W. A. M. 18457, 18462.

^{page 156 note 2} e.g. in 1386 William Fryth, ‘stokfisshmonger’, left a bequest ‘to the recluse monk at Westminster’. Cal. of Wills, Court of Hustings, ii. 398Google Scholar.

^{page 156 note 3} There was yet another recluse attached to the parish church of St. Margaret's, Westminster. This recluse was usually a woman who tended the church and washed the linen. She occupied a cell on the south side of the church which later became known as the Vicarage House and lasted to the eighteenth century. It is interesting to note that to this day the dean and chapter pay a yearly sum of £7 to the rector of St. Margaret's in lieu of ‘the Anchors House’.

^{page 157 note 1} W.A.M. 19922/3.

^{page 157 note 2} Westminster Abbey, p. 337.

^{page 157 note 3} SeePearce, , Monks of Westminster, p. 115Google Scholar.

^{page 157 note 4} ‘Item lego Domino Iohanni, Anchoritae apud West monasterium C.s. et 1 Par Pater Noster Geinsid de gete, quibus utor.’ Rymer Foedera, iv, pt. ii, p. 131.

^{page 157 note 5} John Amundesham's Chronicle (Rolls Series 28, v),i,33.

^{page 157 note 6} W.A.M. 18745.

^{page 157 note 7} Cf.Clay, , Hermits and Anchorites of England, pp. 154–5.Google Scholar Miss Clay first made the suggestion that the recluse in 1413 might be Bro. John London, but the confirmatory facts from the Abbey Muniments were not available at the time she wrote her book. It is, perhaps, necessary to say —as Miss Clay and others have been misled by it— that the so—called ‘unpublished chronicle in the Westminster Archives’ quoted by the late Sir Walter Besant in his Westminster (pp. 102–10), and purporting to be written by a Westminster monk, is a fabrication.

^{page 159 note 1} Autobiography of Thomas Raymond, pp. 26–7. Camden Society, 3rd series, vol. xxviii (1917).

^{page 159 note 2} William (afterwards Sir William) Boswell at that time secretary to John Williams, dean of Westminster, bishop of Lincoln and lord keeper. See Autobiography of Thomas Raymond, pp. 69–80, and D.N.B. under Boswell, Sir William.

^{page 159 note 3} Dean Williams ‘found the Church in such decay, that all that passed by, and loved the honour of God's house, shook their heads at the stones that dropped down from the pinnacles’. Hacket, , Life of John Williams (1693), p. 46Google Scholar.

^{page 159 note 4} He means, of course, a monk. The most likely is, perhaps, Brother William Lambard who entered the Convent in 1456–7 and was refectorer 1503–5. After that date he seems to have held no further office until his death in 1513. For some years before his death he had been in receipt of a small pension such as was usually given to the recluse.

^{page 160 note 1} These shields have now been set in one of the windows of St. Edmund's chapel. The pallets of Queen Eleanor's shield have been restored to their original form, and the blue glass of Richard of Cornwall's shield has been replaced by clear glass.

^{page 160 note 2} W.A. M. 34511, f. 10.

^{page 160 note 3} These are probably the ‘6 coates of Armes new leaded at 15s’ in 1701 (W.A.M. 34519, f. 41).

^{page 161 note 1} Now (1948) in the Muniment Room. This glass was found in 1868 ‘in its original position in the window on the east side (of the Chapel of St Nicholas), which was blocked up by the erection of Henry VII's Chapel’, H. Poole in Journal R.I.B.A., 20th Feb. 1890.

^{page 162 note 1} In a draft copy of a royal charter dated 1479 among the Muniments (W.A.M. 5254) it is described as ‘quǽdam capella Sancti Erasmi per praefatam [torn] consortem nostram contigua et connexa capelle beati Maria [sic] ecclesia illius de novo nuper constructa’. Twenty-onethousand bricks, three hundred and two loads of lime and twenty loads of sand were used in the building (W.A.M. Liber Niger, f. 93. Cf. Westlake, Westminster Abbey, ii, 350)