NOTES TO CHAPTER IX
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Note A. The Isle was not Holy Island in Northumberland, as stated in the Index of the “Letters and Papers.” It was the name of a country house in the parish of Sedgefield, Durham, which was built on an island formed by the river Skerne and its tributaries.
Note B. An attempt was made in 1535 to involve the Abbot of Norton in a charge of issuing counterfeit coin[1068].
Note C. Kendal is now in Westmorland, but in early times it was included in Lancashire, and even in Henry VIII’s reign the boundary between the two counties was still unsettled[1069].
Note D. The summary of Nicholas Tempest’s confession which is given in the “Letters and Papers,” XII (1), no. 1014 is so brief that it gives no idea of the contents of the document. The subsequent references are therefore given to the “Yorkshire Archaeological Journal,” vol. XI, where the confession is printed in full.
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