Dr. Pettingall, in his remarks on the "Gule of August," says, "what we at present call 'the waits,' or the music on the nights of the Christmas holydays, is only a corruption of the wakes or nocturnal festivities." _Archæologia_, vol. ii, p. 66. [***] The Notes for which the Editor is indebted to Dr. Meyrick are thus marked, M*; those which he owes to the kindness of Mr. Markland thus, M. ERRATA AND ADDENDA. Preface, _p._ ii. _l._ 12. It ought to have been observed, that the Library of the Society of Antiquaries contains similar Accounts of the 10th, 11th, and 18th years of the reign of Edward the Second, to those of the 38th of Edward the First; but which still remain inedited. ----, _p._ viii. _l._ 12, for "the leaf was" read "_the leaves were_." _Page_ 9, _line_ 26, for "vlxix _li._ v_s_." read "vClxix _li._ v_s._" ---- 30, 51, 58, and _sæpe_, for "lauret" read "_lanret_." --_ib._ ---- 17, for "hoses" read "_hosen_." ---- 130, ---- 18, add from the Lansd. MSS. 737, "Dxvj_li._ xvij_s._ vj_d._ ob." ---- 131, ---- 24, _Ibid._ "_Delivered_." ---- ---- ---- 25, _Ibid._ "_Anne to_." ---- 160, ---- 29, for "Shrobbe hauley and Wakefelde" read "Shrobbe, _Hanley_, and Wakefelde." ---- 307, ---- 17, for "court cards" read "_coat_ cards." ---- 311, ---- 15, for "Buckman" read "_Beckman_." ---- 347, ---- 7, for "Chatham" read "_Eltham_." ---- 312, ---- 42, for "James" read "_William_." THE END. Thomas White, Printer, Crane Court. Transcriber's Notes: Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were corrected. Punctuation normalized. Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed. Both "expence" and "expense" were widely used. The former predominated in the original and the latter in the editors remarks. Both were left unchanged. Used "Expences" in the title as that was the spelling used on the original title page. The Library of Congress and the British Library use the modern spelling "Expenses." Italics markup is enclosed in _underscores_. Strike through markup is enclosed in #number signs#. Superscripts are indicated with a caret (^) followed by the superscripted text surrounded by curly braces { and }. Subscripts are indicated with an underscore (_) followed by the subscripted text surrounded by curly braces { and }. Inverterted asterisms are denoted by [***]. Pages xii & xliv added missing footnote anchors. Page xxii corrected footnote numbering errors. Page 82 changed "JULY" to "OCTOBRE" to agree with previous and following pages. I & J and U & V were intermixed in the Index in the original. Corrected placement of out of order Gammage, Sir William and Stuff bought index entries. Latin small letter "is" is denoted by [s]. Latin small letter p with flourish is denoted by [pf].