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NOTES

1. Vid. Gloss.


2. Nor in that of the "Barker" mentioned below.


3. In the reign of Edward IV. Dame Cecill, Lady of Torboke, in her will dated March
   7, A.D. 1466, among many other bequests, has this, "Also I will that my sonne
   Thomas of Torboke have 13s. 4d. to buy him an horse.-- Vid. Harleian Catalog. 2176.
   27.) Now if 13s. 4d. would purchase a steed fit for a person of quality, a tanner's horse
   might reasonably be valued at four or five shillings.

4.i.e.hast no other wealth, but what thou carriest about thee.

5.i.e.a dealer in bark.

6. This stanza is restored from a quotation of this ballad in Selden'sTitles of Honour,
   who produces it as a good authority to prove, that one mode of creating Esquires at
   that time, was by the imposition of a Collar. His words are, "Nor is that old pamphlet
   of theTanner of Tamworth and King Edward the Fourthso contemptible, but that
   wee may thence note also an observable passage, wherein the use of making Esquires
   by giving Collars is expressed."-- Sub Tit. Esquire; vide in Spelmanni Glossar.
   Armiger. This form of creating Esquires actually exists at this day among the
   Serjeants at Arms, who are invested with a Collar (which they wear on Collar Days)
   by the King himself.
   This information I owe to Samuel Pegge, Esq. to whom the public is indebted
   for that curious work theCurialia, 4to.