ge of Longcroft was an old half-timbered house, which was purchased
by John of Wisbeach, who died 1709, and thus became the property of the
family of Longcroft.

Page 187.--Shaw mentions the tombstones: "Henry Arden died 1674"; "Henry
Arden died 1698, aged 24"; "Humphrey Arden died 1705, aged 74; Elizabeth
his daughter died 1689, aged 21; Katharine, his eldest daughter, died
1722; John Arden died 1709, aged 84."

Henry Arden died 1728, and Anna his wife and Catherine his twin sister.
The stone erected by John, his son. "John died 1734, aged 40; Anna
Catherina, wife of John Arden, and daughter of John Newton of King's
Bromley, died 1727, aged 29." "Also to the memory of Anne, second wife,
daughter of Rev. John Spateman, died 1764, without issue, aged 67."

"Henry Arden, 1782, aged 59. Alethea, his wife, daughter of Robert
Cotton, Esq., died 1783, aged 60."

Clement Fisher, of Wincot, married as his second wife Elizabeth,
daughter of Humphrey Arden.

(MS. notes in British Museum; copy of Shaw's "Staffordshire.")

Page 189.--The Rev. Robert Arden, of Lapworth, might have been one of
the six unnamed younger children of the Robert executed during the Wars
of the Roses.

Nicholaa was widow of William de Boutvilein when she married Sir Robert
de Arderne de Draiton. After her husband's death she was involved in a
contest with Robert de Wyckham about the presentation to the church of
Swaldyve. There is no doubt that the name on the seal mentioned in the
last line of p. 189 is in the masculine genitive; but I am inclined to
believe that the die-cutter made a mistake, and that it was really the
seal of Nicholaa.

Page 193.--In Blomfield's account of Bawsey, Norfolk, he states that it
belonged to the family of Glanville in 6 Richard I. "Thomas de Ardern
and Ralph, son of Robert, impleaded Sir William de Auberville and Maude
his wife for their portion in Bawsey and Glosthorp." Maud, the eldest
daughter of Ralph de Glanville, married Sir William de Auberville;
Amabil, the second, married Ralph de Arden; and Helewise married Robert
FitzRalph de Middleham, Yorkshire (Blomfield's "Norfolk," viii.
341-342).

Page 194.--John Arderne was a priest at Oxburgh in 1386 (Blomfield's
"Norfolk," vi. 191). Mortimer's Chapel, Attleborough. A benefactor
thereto was John Arderne, buried therein 1479. Other entries may concern
his descendants. Sir Edward Warenne, of Boton, in 1365 married Cecily,
daughter and coheir of Sir Nicholas de Eton,