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GLOSSARY

assoilzied, acquitted, 340.

awa', away.

axen, ask, 119.

aykin, oaken, 344.

baggage, wench, 246. banshie, female spirit, 82. Barmoot Court, a court established by Edward III., held twice a year in | Derbyshire, in which matters connected with mining were considered,

211.

beaufet, sideboard, 141. bide, await, 214.

black jack, leathern tankard, 120. blessed twenty-ninth of May, the date of Charles II.'s restoration, 208. blink, moment, 213; look, 249. boll, a grain measure varying from about four to six imperial bushels, 344.

broad-piece, gold Jacobus worth twenty

shillings, 209, 227.

broke the sixpence, plighted troth, 234.

burdes, boards, 344.

Burgesse, Anthony, a nonconformist writer, a member of the Westminster Assembly, 7.

Chiffinch, William, (?1602-1688), page of the bedchamber to Charles II., 244.

choused, cheated, 278.
cocker, a kind of spaniel, 307.
comitia, assemblies, 4.

consult, secret meeting, 110.
cote of mailzie, coat of mail, 344.
crossbite, hoodwink, 279.
cuckoo, fool, 158.

dammer, maker of dams, 211. dempster, one of the two superior judges of the Isle of Man, 17. diurnal, journal, 243. doctors, false dice, 267. doddered, decayed, 347. dog-bolt, fool, simpleton, 245. drabbed, whored, 163. drift-driver, excavator, 211.

enow, enough.

farthingale, hooped skirt, 175. Fleet-Ditch, a stream which entered the Thames near the site of Blackfriars' Bridge; now a covered sewer. Its general direction is followed by Farringdon Street, 317.

fly-boat, a light, swift sailing-boat, 264.

fox, sword, 251.

fuoruscito, brigand, 134.

Furnival's, family of, law-students of Furnival's Inn, 250.

gage, pledge, 251

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Hans-mogan, Hogan-Mogan, Dutch,
corruption of hoog en mogend,'
'high and mighty,' 135, 148.
Hans pickel-harring, Dutch buffoon,

99.

hauld, hold.

mauthe dog, dog fiend, 88.
mete burde, yard measure, 344.
micher, mean fellow, 250.
minauderie, affectation, 314.
minna, must not.
moiety, wife, 116.

mum, ale brewed from wheat, 163.
musketoon, a short musket, 175.

naunt, mine aunt, 208.
Newcastle, Duchess of, Margaret
Lucas, (?1624-1674), author of
several poetical works, 7.

hays, a spirited country dance, 316.
horse-block, stool used in mounting, oddsfish, minced oath, 311.

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Rowley, nickname of Charles II., from | tuck, stabbing sword, 195.

his favourite racehorse, 242, 315. ruffle, disturbance, 215.

ruffled, swaggered, 266.

Tutbury-running, a bull-baiting held on 16th August at Tutbury in Staffordshire, 15.

Saint Omer's, near Calais, the site of undertaker, projector, 264.

an English Jesuit seminary, 176. salmagundi, an Italian hotch-potch,

148.

sarsenet, fine thin silk, 204.
schelm, scoundrel, 100.
seiltanzer, tight-rope dancer, 98.
shot, tavern score, 121.
sinker, miner, 211.
sober party, the Puritans, 290.
squab-pigeon, unfledged pigeon, 145.
stirrup-cup, parting drink, 124.

taking on, hysterics, 236.
thrum, waste yarn, 155.
Tinwald laws, laws passed by the Manx
legislature which must subsequently
be proclaimed on Tinwald Hill before
they are binding, 7.
trine, threefold, 340.

Waller, Edmund, (1605-1687), poetcourtier of Charles II., whose best poem is a panegyric on Cromwell, 317.

wannion, vengeance, (an impreca-
tion), 174.

wechsel-balg, changeling, 100.
well-breathed, strong of lung, brazen,
297.

whinger, hanger, cutlass, 146.
whinyard, sword or hanger, 148.
whistled drunk, too drunk to whistle,

251.

White Horse Tavern, in the Strand,

where Oates affirmed that the Jesuits held their meetings, 110. wincing, shy, coy, 119. winna, will not.

Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, (late) Printers to Her Majesty
at the Edinburgh University Press

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