I have a copy of Weever's _Ancient Funerall Monuments_, which once
belonged to William Burton, the historian of Leicestershire; on a
fly-leaf at the end of the volume is the following list in the autograph
of that celebrated antiquary, which, perhaps, may not be without its
interest to the readers of "N. & Q." I have appended some notes of
identification, which I have no doubt some of your correspondents could
easily render more complete.
"Antiquarii temp. Eliz. Reg.
"1. Recorder Fletewode, Wm.
2. Mr. Atey.
3. Mr. Lambard, Will[=m].
4. Mr. Cope.
5. Mr. Broughton ye Lawyer.
6. Mr. Leigh.
7. Mr. Bourgchier.
8. Mr. Broughton ye Preacher.
9. Mr. Holland, Joseph.
10. Mr. Gartier.
11. Mr. Cotton, Robt.
12. Mr. Thinne, Francis.
13. Jo. Stowe.
14. -- Combes.
15. -- Lloyd.
16. -- Strangman.
17. Hen. Spelman.
18. Arthur Gregory.
19. Anth. Cliffe.
20. Tho. Talbot.
21. Arthur Goulding.
22. Arthur Agard.
23. Will[=m] Camden.
24. Merc. Patten.
25. Samson Erdeswike.
26. -- Josseline.
27. Hen. Sacheverell.
28. Wm. Nettleton de Knocesborough.
29. John Ferne.
30. Ro[=b]t. Bele.
31. John Savile de Templo.
32. Daniell Rogers.
33. Tho. Saville.
34. Henry Saville.
35. Rog. Keymis.
36. John Guillim.
37. -- Dee.
38. -- Heneage.
39. Rich. Scarlet.
40. -- Wodhall.
41. Dent de B[=a]co Regis.
42. -- Bowyer.
43. Robt. Hare.
44. -- Harrison, schoolemr.
45. -- Harrison, ministr."
1. William Fleetwood, Recorder of London, "a learned man and good
antiquary," ob. 1593. (_Wood_, ed. Bliss, i. 598.)
2. Mr. Atey. Was this Arthur Atey, Principal of St. Alban Hall, and
Orator of the University of Oxford, who was secretary to the Earl of
Leicester, knighted by King James, and who died in 1604?
3. William Lambarde, the learned author of the _Perambulation of Kent_,
the first county history attempted in England, died in 1601.