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.?
29. John Ferne, author of the _Blazon of Gentry_, died about 1610. He was knighted by James I.
30. Robert Bele, secretary to the embassy of Sir Francis Walsingham at Paris in 1571, Clerk of the Privy Council, &c.; ob. 1601.
31. Sir John Savile, of the Middle Temple, elder brother of Sir Henry Savile, died in 1606-7. He was one of the Barons of the Exchequer.
32. Daniel Rogers, "excellently well learned; one that was especially beloved by the famous antiquary and historian W. Camden;" ob. 1590. (_Wood._)
33. Thomas Savile, younger brother to Sir Henry, called by Camden "his right learned friend," ob. 1592.
34. Henry Savile. There were two Henry Saviles, who may either of them be intended; Sir Henry Savile, Provost of Eton, who died in 1621-2, or his kinsman of the same names, an eminent scholar in heraldry and antiquities, and other branches of literature. He died in 1617.
35. Roger Keymis. See _MSS. Harleian_, 5803. and 16,120., for two of his heraldical collections. The former is dated anno 1609.
36. John Gwillim, gent., the well-known herald, ob. 1621.
37. Dr. John Dee, the celebrated philosopher of Mortlake, died in 1608.
38. -- Heneage. Query, Sir Thomas Heneage, Knight?
39. Richard Scarlet, citizen and painter stainer, of London, temp. Eliz., took some good notes of Christ Church, Canterbury (_Gough_), and was the author of some heraldical collections now in the British Museum. (_MSS. Harl._ 2021.)
42. William Bowyer, author of _A perfecte Kellender of all the Recordes remayninge in the office of Recordes at the Towere of Londone_. (_MS. Harl._ 94. 4.)
43. Robert Hare, son of Sir Nicholas Hare, Master of the Rolls, 1553, of Caius College, Cambridge, collected the charters and privileges of the University in three volumes, with a fourth of those relating to the town only. (_Gough._)