Footnotes to Chapter  IV

1.  Hasted II, 346-51, 469.

2.  Ibid., 46-7; AC LXXV, 38.

3.  Hasted I, 451 & II, 149, 217; AC LXXV, 37-8
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4.  AC XXII, 307; Fielding, 529. 

5.  AC XXII, 295, 306-8. Nine of the parishes were in the Deanery of Rochester; Meopham, from which came the signature of John Bird, the vicar, was in the Deanery of Shoreham, a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Another who signed was Ewinus Carlton,  he was at the time a stipendiary at Rochester and signed as such, but he became rector of Longfield in the same year.  As on this occasion, at any rate, the rector of Ash signed as ‘Wyels’, that spelling has been used in the text. Other variant found include Wyells, Welis and Wylis; Test. Cant., 2, renders the name as Welles.

6.  The will of Richard Edmondson (in the will called Emonson) was dated 25 October 1541 and. proved in 

the Rochester Consistory Court on 24 November of that year:  KAO DRb/PWr/368 - Rich Emnonson.

7.   Generally as to the 1552 inventories, see AC VIII, 74 ff. The Ash and Fawkham inventories are reproduced ibid, 104, 155-6, those for Hartley, Kingsdown and Longfield in AC IX, 266-7, 277, 281 and the Ridley inventory in AC X, 295.
The Ash items are mostly self-explanatory, but it may be mentioned that ‘vestment’ meant a suit of mass-robes; the vestments of the deacon and subdeacon were the dalmatic and the tuniele. The corporas or corporax was a consecrated white linen cloth used in the service of the altar, on which the host and the chalice rested; it was kept in an embroidered case. The two books would have been the Great Bible and the ‘Paraphrase’ of Erasmus, as required by Edward VI’s Injunctions of 1547, at which time the translation contained only the Gospels and the Book of the Acts.

8.  Wyels’ will was dated 21 April 1555 and proved at Rochester on 7 June of that year: Test. Cant, 2; AC XXII, 307; 'Sir Richard Gallant' was the Richard Galon  mentioned at p.11, supra.