1. Croyland, 'Continuation', p. 440. 2. Following Dr. Richard Fitzjames, successively Bishop of Rochester, Chichester, and London (Cooper, p. 75). 3. Hist. MSS. Com., Report IV, p. 192 (Westminster Abbey MSS.) 4. Cooper, pp. 66, 67; Lodge, p. 5. 5. 28th January (St. Agnes the second); cf. Cooper, op. cit., p. 10, note. 6. Cooper, p. 64; and Ellis's Letters, 1st series, i. 46. I have, after some hesitation, modernized the spelling of these letters. This one begins 'My owne suet and most deere kynge', and ends 'your feythfull trewe bedwoman and humble modyr'.
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