It may further be remarked that Holinshed and other chroniclers make small extracts from Blacman without naming their source. I have not discovered who is actually the earliest writer to cite him: but Hall (1548) does not appear to do so. * * * * * p. 4. _quidam Angliae reverendus antistes._ This bishop who was Henry's confessor for ten years I suppose to have been William Ayscough, bishop of Salisbury 1438-1450, who was much in Henry's confidence. It is remarked in the _Dict. Nat. Biog._ that it was "a novelty in those days for a bishop to be a king's confessor." p. 6. _missalia, oracula._ I take these words together and regard them as a 'refined' way of saying 'orationes in missa' or the like. _sanctae crucis signorum seriem in corona._ These crosses on the ring of the crown are seen alternating with fleur de lys in the (early XVIth century) representation of Henry in painted glass in the Hacomblen chantry in King's College Chapel. p. 8. _Francisci Petrarchae._ This, Blacman's one literary quotation, is a garbled one from Petrarch's _De Vita Solitaria_, lib. II. sect. vi. c. I. p. 9. _Jaspere et Edmundo._ The sons of Owen Tudor by Katherine, widow of Henry V. p. 10. _cardinalis et episcopi Winton._ Cardinal Beaufort, d. 11 April 1447. The gift to Eton and King's was in fact made by a codicil to the cardinal's will executed two days before his death. See Maxwell Lyte, _Eton College_, p. 27. p. 11. _decem mutatoria casularia._ I suppose this to mean enough silk to make ten or more sets of mass-vestments for a single priest. _Episcopos Wurcestriae et Cestriae._ Chester had no bishop till 1541. Chichester must be meant. The bishop was doubtless Adam Moleyns 1445-50, and he of Worcester John Carpenter 1443-76. Both appear in the king's will as his feoffees for Eton and King's. p. 12. This is the most interesting page of the tract to those who have enjoyed King Henry's bounty. A happy thought has of recent years dictated the use of his words _Sitis boni pueri_ and the rest on the occasion of the admission of the new King's Scholars at Eton. p. 13. _Sed libera nos._ It is at this point in the Lord's Prayer that the congregation responds, at the end of the Prayer of Consecration (or Canon) of the Roman Mass. _magistro doctore Town._ William Towne was scholar of Eton in 1443, and passed on to King's. He died in 1484: his chantry and brass are in one of the side-chapels on the N. of King's College Chapel. _quidam discus._ It is not clear to me whether a piece of plate representing the Five Wounds in enamel is meant, or some edible 'subtilty': probably the former. p. 14. _cum capucio rotulato._ Perhaps a hood with a liripip (i.e. tapering into a tail) is meant. _caligas, ocreas, calceos_: foot-gear for walking, riding and indoor use respectively.