Additional Note

(v. supra, p. xiv)

This entry in the State Papers, the correct dating of which is obvious from its reference to the fall of Calais, makes impossible the day given for James Basset's death in Notes and Queries (reference supra, p. xiv, footnote 3), viz. November 21, 1557. The authority for that date may have been Vivian's Visitations of the County of Devon, p., 47, which is on the shelves of the British Museum Reading Room, 2098 a. If the dispersion of the records consequent upon the war did not hinder the following up of Vivian's reference, ‘Inq. p. m., I Eliz., pt. I, no. 30' (Inquisitio taken on the death of his sisterinlaw, Jacquetta Jones), the solution of the puzzle might have been found.