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From the same documents we find that he is twice designated “armiger”, a word agreeing with his 1584 title-page, “by Reginald Scot, Esquire”, though in the editions of his Hoppe Garden his name alone is given. This was for myself an important find; but it will suffice here to say that it confirms Hunter’s supposition that this esquireship was due to his having been made a justice of the peace, though as to the date it can only as yet be said that this dignity was probably granted between 1578 and 1584.
In an Accompt of Sir Th. Heanage, knight, Treasurer at Warr, in the Public Record Offices, and printed by J. Renat Scott in the Arch. Canti., vol. xi, p. 388, we find the following entries:
“SThomas Scott knighte Collonel generall of the footemen in Kent for his Entertainment at xiijiiijpdiem for xxij dayes begonne the xxixth of Julye and endinge the xix of Auguste the summe of xiiijli xiijiiijd .”
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“Reinalde Scotte Trench mayster for his Enterteinment at iiijpdiem, and due to him for the same tyme iiijli viijs .”