Note 1131b — PART IV. From the Reformation to the present time. (continued 8)

Over against the above passage is inserted the allowing note, seemingly in the same hand—“The above 10l. annuity is applied to the clothing of the poor yearly, and payd by the chamberlain, to the overseers of St. Margaret’s parish.” Then it is added,—“I take this to be the 10l. payd to the Treasurer of St. James’s Workhouse, by the name of Loningston or Lovingstone, which I take to be the same.” But this modern note-writer, and conjectural commentator, ought to have known that St. James’s Workhouse could not be called an Almshouse or Hospital in 1594, nor till near a whole century after. The said annuity must therefore have undergone some foul play.