page i note * Three Catalogues, & by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. Lond. Pickering, 1838, p. 237.
page ii note * William Hungate of Saxton, com. Ebor. esq. ancestor to the Baronets of that name. The letter has the direction To his worshipfull Master William Plompton this be delivered, and what remains reads as follows:
“Right worshipfull Sir, In a my most lowly manner I recommend me unto you for all kindness shewed to me and all myne, and for the good chear that you, and my Mistres your wife, maid me at my laatbeing with you. And the eause of my wryting to you at this time yt will please you to call to your remembrance ...........”
page vi note * William Sever, or Siveyer, Abbot of St. Mary, York, These four Letters are transcribed in vol. L. of Dodsworth's Collections.
page v note * The Letter from the Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir Robert Plompton, kt. is quoted by Dodsworth as Letter 31. The mistake in writing Knaresborough, 25th Sept. for Woodstock, 23rd (see Hunter's Catal p. 103), is another proof that Dodsworth copied at second-hand; the error was not his own.