[Footnote 269: Queenborough, an ancient, but poor town of Kent, in the Isle of Sheppey, situated at the mouth of the river Medway. The chief employment of the inhabitants is oyster-dredging. _Walker’s Gazetteer, by Kershaw_, 1801.] [Footnote 270: The Annual Receipts of the Monastery “de Tinterna in M{ar}chia Wallie,” are stated in the _Valor Eccl._ vol. iv. p. 370-1, and the result is £ s. d. S{u}m{m}a to{ta}lis clar{e} val{oris} dec’ predict’ cclviij v x  ob’ Decima inde xxv xvj vj ob’q’ Those of the Monasteriu{m} Sancti Petri Westm. are given at v. 1, p. 410-24, and their net amount stated to be £4470 0 2d. [Transcriber’s Note: Roman numerals shown as ^x were printed as superscripts (iij^c = CCC).] £ s. d. Et reman{ent} clare M^lM^lM^liiij^clxx -- ij  q’ Decima inde iij^cxlvij -- -- q’] [Footnote 271: The clear revenue of the Deanery of Canterbury (Decan’ Cantuar’) is returned in Valor Eccl. v. 1, p. 27-32, at £163 0 21d. £ s. d. Rem’ clxiij -- xxi Decima p{ar}s inde xvj vj ij while that of Prioratus de Dudley is only £ s. d. S{u}m{m}a de claro xxxiiij -- xvj Decima p{ar}s inde iij viij j ob’q’ _Valor Ecclesiasticus_, v. 3, p. 104-5.] [Footnote 272: Dudley, a town of Worcestershire, insulated in Staffordshire, containing about 2000 families, most of whom are employed in the manufacture of nails and other iron wares. _Walker_, 1801.] [Footnote 273: Two lines are wanting here to make up the stanza. They must have been left out when the copier turned his page, and began again.] [Footnote 274: The word in the MS. is _syngle_ or _synglr_ with a line through the _l_. It may be for {syng}u{ler}, _singulus_, _i._ _unus per se_, sunderly, vocab. in _Rel. Ant._ v. 1, p. 9, col. 1.] [Footnote 275: _Credence as creance_ ... a taste or essay taken of another man’s meat. Cotgrave.] [Footnote 276: Compare _The Boke of Curtasye_, l. 495-8, No mete for mo{n} schall{e} sayed be Bot for kynge or prynce or duke so fre; For heiers of paraunce also y-wys Mete shall{e} be seyed.] [Footnote 277: _Gardmanger_ (Fr.) a Storehouse for meat. Blount, ed. 1681, _Garde-viant_, a Wallet for a Soldier to put his Victuals in. Phillipps, ed. 1701.] [Footnote 278: The Boke of Curtasye makes the Sewer alone assay or taste ‘alle the mete’ (line 763-76), and the Butler the drink (line 786).] * * * * * * * * * * * * * *