[Footnote 50: In the will of Dorothy P., already noticed, is the following direction. “In case I dye or departe this life in the Citie of London, to be buryed in the same parish in London where my late loving husband Mr. William Paynter, Clerke of the great Ordinance of the Tower of London, was buryed, and as neere to the place where he was buryed as conuenyentlie may be, with some memoriall there to be engraven sett vp or placed as shalbe devised and appoynted by my executor and overseers hereafter named; yf elsewhere then allso at their like discretions and with the like memoriall.” Had she set up such a memorial for her husband, the name would probably have been found in Stowe’s _Survey of London_. It does not occur in the Registers of the Tower Chapel; Allhallows Barking; St. Catherine’s; or Aldgate. At St. Dunstan’s, Tower Street, the register has been destroyed, and also at St. Alban’s, Wood Street, where there was probably a family vault, and not being the church frequented when he lived by the Tower, the name might have been forgotten by the widow.] [Footnote 51: Her Will was not proved until July 1620. It is unusually long, and the bequests are trifling. She particularizes all her grand-children, whom, in the language then used, she calls nephews and nieces. There had probably been some difference in the family to occasion the following passage, whereby she bequeaths the only memorial mentioned of our author. “Item, whereas my very welbeloued niephue William Paynter, and I, and all my children, nowe are and I trust in God so shall continue loving hartie and inward frends, whereof I receyue great ioye and contentment, vnto the which my saied neiphue, for a gentle remembraunce, I give and bequeethe my tablet of gould with a pearle to yt which sometymes was his graundfather’s, beyng nowe all readie in his owne keeping and possession.” The will is subscribed with a cross, which the feebleness of age might render necessary.] [For some additional points throwing light on the way in which Painter gained his fortune, see Appendix. Collier (_Extr. Stat. Reg._ ii. 107), attributes to Painter _A moorning Ditti vpon the Deceas of Henry Earle of Arundel_, which appeared in 1579, and was signed ‘Guil. P. G.’ [= Gulielmus Painter, Gent.].--J. J.] [Transcriber’s Note on Bibliographical Notices: Bracketed text [ ] is in the original. Brackets are also used to demarcate footnotes. Text originally printed in blackletter (“Gothic”) type is shown between *asterisks*. Single asterisks are in the original text. For complete notes and errata, see the end of the text.] _BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES._