24. Mercury Patten, Blue-mantle Pursuivant-at-Arms, had been patronised
by Lord Burleigh; was living in the second year of James I.
25. Samson Erdeswike, the historian of Staffordshire, died in 1603. "A
very great lover and diligent searcher of venerable antiquity."
(_Camden._)
26. -- Josseline, secretary to Archbishop Parker, was the author of a
short account of Corpus Christi or Ben'et College, Cambridge, to the
year 1569. (_Gough._)
27. Henry Sacheverell, of Ratcliffe-on-Sore, in the county of
Nottingham, Esq.?