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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
The volume I exhibit to-night is a folio copy on vellum of the Statutes 1st Edward III. to 23rd Henry VI., the text written in single column of thirty-eight lines and preceded by an elaborate index covering fifty-two folios. The legislation of each regnal year opens with a large initial letter painted in ultramarine upon a floriated vermilion background of penwork, which extends, in the form of flourishes, far into the margin of the page. The initial letter of the king's name in the first Act of each reign is of still larger dimensions, usually from 2½ to 3 inches square. It is, in each instance, elaborately illuminated in gold and colours, and encloses a shield of arms relieved upon a background of lake covered with delicate scrollwork in white body-colour. From the initial letter proceeds illuminated foliage completely enclosing three sides of the text.
page 2 note a Massingberd, W. O., History of Ormsby-cum-Ketsby, in the Hundred of Hill and County of Lincoln (Lincoln, 1893), 259.Google Scholar
page 2 note b The last representative appears to have been a widow, Sarah Lindsey, who died in 1778, aged 81. Massingberd, History of Ormsby, 268.
page 3 note a Close Roll 49 Edward III., Part I.; quoted by Massingberd, History of Ormsby, 259.
page 3 note b See Jeans, G. E., List of existing Sepulchral Brasses in Lincolnshire. (Horncastle, 1895.)Google Scholar Unfortunately only the matrices of the shields of arms belonging to these brasses have been preserved.
page 4 note a Brass in Lincoln Cathedral. Bishop Sanderson's Survey, from Peck, F., Desiderata Curiosa (1851–8)Google Scholar. See Massingberd's, History of Ormsby, 259, note ††.Google Scholar
page 5 note a P. C. C. Horne, 9.
page 5 note b Whether these directions, which are of a type very common in wills of the period, were carried out I am unable to say. There are, I believe, no remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Hagneby now above ground; and the site is only marked by the moat which surrounded the buildings. There is a Hagneby Chronicle in the British Museum, which Mr. Hope has kindly referred to for me, but it ends at the beginning of the fourteenth century, and although there are three fifteenth-century additions relating to Mablethorpe, they only chronicle the irruption of the sea.
page 6 note a The same term as is used with reference to the residence at Mablethorpe.
page 6 note b 19 June, 1 Richard III. Item isto die Thomas Fitzwilliam electus est in Recordatorem Civitatis London habendum et occupandum idem officium cum omnibus proficuis eideni officio pertinentibus quam diu se bene gesserit in eodem, etc. Journal 9, fo. 26b.
page 6 note c See Records of Duchy of Lancaster in Record Office, Reg. 20, fo. 88d.
page 7 note a See Materials illustrative of the Reign of Henry VII. (Rolls series, 60), i. 382.Google Scholar
page 7 note b Ibid. i. 383.
page 7 note c Records of Duchy of Lancaster in Record Office, Reg. 21, fo. 125. The lease recites the grants of 1486, giving the dates as 11th March and 1st March respectively, and stating that the lease of Saltfleetby was assigned to the grantee by the name of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, Knight, Recorder of the City of London.
page 9 note a Vol. ii. 1198.
page 9 note b P. 151.
page 9 note c Vol. vi. f. 410d.
page 9 note d Hunter, Joseph, South Yorkshire. The History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster in the Diocese and County of York (London, 1828), i. 253.Google Scholar
page 9 note e Select Cases in the Court of Requests (publication of the Selden Society, 1898), p. 9, note 3.