Note 239.1 — INTRODUCTION (continued 5)
Reading edition
Itin. W. Worc., 323, where it is said that Lord Scales ‘custodivit hospicium in Castre per spacium dimidii . . .’ The blank must surely be supplied by the word anni.
239.2 Nos. 641, 643.
239.3 No. 665.
239.4 No. 667.
239.5 No. 683.
239.6 No. 684.
240.1 No. 660.
240.2 That is to say, menaced, if not attacked, an ‘affray’ being made upon her. It is curious to meet here our familiar word ‘afraid’ in its original form and signification.
240.3 No. 671.
240.4 No. 690.
241.1 No. 696.
241.2 No. 704.
241.3 No. 675. The deed, perhaps, was found to be irregular afterwards, for its general effect was confirmed about five months later by another instrument. No. 680.
241.4 No. 677.
241.5 No. 681.
242.1 See preliminary note to No. 703.
242.2 385-7.
242.3 The other two have relation to his lands, and are not inconsistent with each other; but the first is drawn up in the name of the testator himself, while the second speaks of him in the third person. The second is, in fact, a note of various instructions given by the testator in reference to his property on the 2nd and 3rd days of November before he died, and its contents may have been fully embodied in the first, when the will was regularly drawn up; but the first is printed from a draft which is probably imperfect.
243.1 No. 681.
243.2 688-9.
243.3 ‘The bargain is not yet made,’ says an anonymous writer on the 28th October. See No. 690. Nevertheless an ostensible title had been conveyed to the duke by a formal document on the 1st October. See No. 764.
243.4 Nos. 688, 690.
244.1 W. Worc., 512-13.
244.2 No. 690.
244.3 No. 691.
244.4 No. 698.
245.1 Nos. 704, 706, 707.
245.2 No. 704.
246.1 No. 716.
246.2 Ibid.