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A World of Errors DISCOVERED IN THE New World of Words, OR General Engliſh DICTIONARY. AND IN NOMOTHETES, OR THE INTERPRETER OF LAW-WORDS and TERMS.
By Tho. Blount of the Inner Temple, Eſquire.
PROV. 27.5.Melior eſt manifeſta correptio, quam amor abſconditus.
In the SAVOY: Printed by T.N. for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, at the Sun in Fleetſtreet, over-againſt St. Dunſtans Church, at the Bell in St. Pauls Churchyard, and at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1673.
Thus it fared with my Gloſſographia, the fruit of above Twenty years ſpare hours, firſt publiſhed in 1656. Twelve Moneths had not paſſed, but there appeared in Print this New World of Words, or General Engliſh Dictionary, extracted almoſt wholly out of mine, and taking in its firſt Edition even a great part of my Preface; onely ſome words were added and others altered, to make it paſs as the Authors legitimate off-ſpring. In theſe Additions and Al
Firſt therefore, this gallant Peice faces it with a pompous Frontiſpiece, wherein are ſculped our two famous Univerſities, the Pictures of Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Henry Spelman, Mr. Selden, Camden, and others of our moſt Learned Men of the laſt Age, with a Scholar of each to be very neceſſary for ſtrangers, as well as our own Countreymen: As if our Author intended the World ſhould believe his Book to be the Fac totum of all Great Britains learning, and himſelf the Parent of ſo immenſe a Production.
Soon after we find a Catalogue prefixed of the names of divers Learned Perſons of this Age, Eminent in or contributary to any of thoſe Arts, Sciences, or faculties contained in the following Work. Whereby the Author would at leaſt obſcurely inſinuate, that thoſe Learned Perſons had contributed to or aſſiſted him in it, thereby to advance its reputation; but I believe nothing leſs, having heard ſome of the cheif of them utterly diſown both the Author and his Work.
Thus does the Book pride it ſelf in vanity and outward form; but when you come to the ſubſtance, you will find Dr. In his EtymologiSkinners Judgment, both of it and the Author moſt true. In one place he ſays —Et pro more Authoris exponitur abſurdiſſime. In another —Ridicule ut ſolet omnia. In a third —Ubi notare eſt miſerimam Authoris ignorantiam, &c. What then will Strangers think of it; what our own Countreymen? They will ſay, Canis feſtinans caecos parit catulos: That ſuch a DictioItalian Dictionary
Francis Bacon, after he had written his Inſtauratio Magna, did, year by year for Twelve years, reviſe and alter it, before he would commit it to the Preſs.
All Writers may modeſtly claim the benefit of Humanum eſt Errare; but certainly our Author has tranſgreſſed the bounds of that Indulgence. For, I did not read half his Book to pick up theſe, with many more Exceptions. What then would a more knowing Reader diſcover, that ſhould ſeriouſly peruſe the whole? Miſerimam Authoris ignorantiam.
But that which cheifly incited me to this publication, was in ſome meaſure to redeem the Terms of the Common Law of the Land from the ſcandal of a moſt Barbarous and Senceleſs Interpretation, which too too often occurs through his Book; though all other ſubjects have not ſcaped too without their ſhare in his miſ
As firſt for Words of Eccleſiaſtical uſe, How groſly hath he abuſed the two common words, Candlemaſs and Ember-week? Are we not like to have an acEmber-week? There being a particular Devotion ordered for thoſe weeks in the Liturgy of the Church of England. But he ſtill fancies himSequeſtration, Down, Court of Peculiars —Perhaps he hath been more verſed in Military Affairs; alaſs no, his interpretation of Blunderbuſs and Dag ſhews how little he is to be truſted with Weapons. He hath alſo given a fair ſpecimen of his skill in Sea-Terms by interpreting Balaſs and Jetſon; nay, he hath ſhewn an extraordinary endeavor and dexterity in miſtaking, elſe he could never have erred in thoſe things that are common in all Trading and Commerce, as Gallon, Pipe, Cloue, Weigh, &c.
But, to the Particulars in order as they lie.
A Prieſts Hood ▪ or Cap, which he weareth in the Quire.
Both the word itſelf is miſtaken, and the ſignificaAmice (from amictus) which is a Linnen Cloth, with two long ſtrings, which the Prieſt puts about his Neck, and ties the ſtrings about his middle.
To kill.
It has a more uſual and proper ſignificaviz. To grant Alien, or give Land in Mortmain.
(a term in Common Law) ſignifying a publick tribute by a Tenure, whereby all Mannors belonging to the Crown in the days of Edgar or Saint Edward, did hold.
There is nothing of a Publick Tribute, nor of Edgar in the Point. Ancient Demain is a Tenure, whereby all the Crown-Mannors in the days of Edward the ConWilliam the Conqueror were held; and the number of them particularDomeſday, under the title Terra Regis.
A Saxon word, ſignifying Gravel laid in the bottom of a Ship, to keep it upright.
He miſtakes the word for Ballaſt, which is a Dutch word, nor does it ſignifie onely Gravel, but any other ponderous ſubſtance. Balaſſe hath a different ſignification.
A Tax or Subſidy of Aid, to be levied for the King out of the Precincts of Baronies.
The word had never any ſuch ſignificaRex & Baronagium ſuum is taken for the King, and all His Subjects, or the whole Parliament repreſenting them; according to Selden in his Titles of Honor.
Signifies, in the Common Law, one begotten out of Wedlock—
One may be begotten out of Wedlock, yet be no Baſtard, by our Authors leave.
He derives from the Dutch, which are Saxon words, as Dr. Skinner will inform him in his Etymologicon linguae Anglicanae.
The marriage of two Wives at the ſame time, which according to Common Law hinders a man from taking holy orders.
Here our Author ſpeaks ſome truth, at peradventure: For he that marries two Wives at the ſame time commits Felony, and the puniſhment of Felony is Death; which (ſuppoſe it be by hanging) may very well hinder him from taking holy Orders— I find he does not underſtand the word.
A long Gun that will carry—
Here long ſtands for ſhort, by a new figure.
The Demeans that the Lords keep in their hands for the maintenance of their Board or Table.
He ſhould have ſaid Bordlands; for Bordlanders are the Tenants that held ſuch Lands, called in Domeſday Bordarii.
in Faulconry, is when, &c.
This &c. is a new way of explicating words.
(French) An ancient kind of Amor— Alſo a kind of Ship or Pinnace.
This laſt is a Brigantine.
A Town in Italy.
Sure he aim'd at Brunduſium, a City of Calabria, by the Adriatick Sea.
A Herb growing in Woods —
This is otherwiſe called French Wheat, and is a ſort of Grain, much ſown in Wales
England, and uſed for feeding Swine and Poultry.
A word uſed by Lapidaries, being a certain Forbe-vein in a Ruby or Saphire —
This was an Errata of the Printer in the firſt Edition of Gloſſographia, whence our Author miſunderſtandingly borrowed it; it ſhould be Fowle-vein, for there is no ſuch word as Forbe.
The cheif Town of Eſſex in England, Vulgarly called Colcheſter, or rather Mal
This is moſt uſually written Camalodunum, a name never given to Colchester, but to Maldon, which is not the cheif Town of Eſſex.
The ſecond day of Februſo called (as ſome think) becauſe about that time they left of burning Candles at Maſs, which was between Four and five of the Clock—
This is ſo ridiculouſly abſurd, that (as ſome think) none but our Author ever Printed the like; if between Four and five of the Clock relate to the morning (2 Febr.) then they muſt ſay Maſs in the dark, if to the afternoon, then it ſutes with Colonel Barksteads wiſdom, who in the Rump time committed a Papiſt for being at an Evening Maſs (as he called it) at an Ambaſſadors Houſe in Long acre.
(French) A Warren—
He might as well have ſaid a Bull is an Ox; for Chace and Warren (ſo they are written) differ as much.
A Law Term, the two and thirtieth part of a weight.
Weight for Weigh makes it unintelligible, yet ſo it has paſs'd in all three Impreſſions of his Book.
A Pariſh Church.
It is no Pariſh Church; as moſt men, ex
A parcel of Firewood, ſet out as the Coal-fire, containing in meaſure—
How ſhall we underſtand this without an Oedipus?
(Lat.) In the Civil Law ſignifieth a Body Politick &c.
It is not a Civil-Law term: The Civilians call it
Ʋniverſitatem or Collegium.
(French) A Courrier.
This comes from the Italian, Corſaro, and ſignifies a Pirat or Pirats-ſhip; which the Author might have learnt from our weekly Gazets.
A certain Mathematical Inſtrument for the meaſuring of Land, which is to be divided into ten equal parts, each of which containeth about nineteen in length.
Here we are put to a ſubaudi, or elſe it is nonſence.
(Spaniſh) A ſort of Fryers in Spain that go barelegged.
Barefoot, he ſhould have ſaid, for ſo the word imports; and thoſe Fryers are elſSpain.
A term in hunting, applied to a Buck, when you firſt raiſe him.
I ſee our Author is no good Huntſman, for it is rowze a Buck, and diſlodge a Stag.
A precious Stone, conſiſting of two peices joyned together.
Nor good Lapidary; for a Doublet is no precious Stone, but a counterfeit, conſiſtfoyl in the midſt, anſwerable in colour to that Stone you would have it reſemble. But it is ordinary with him to take counterfeit for right.
The name of a Town in Ireformerly a Biſhops See.
I doubt our Author ſtill fancies we are under a levelling Commonwealth; for Downe is now, as formerly, a Biſhops See.
Signifieth in Common Law, a double right, the right of poſſeſſion, and the right of the Lord.
Sometimes our Author, when he borrows out of another Book, ſwallows an Erratum of the Printer, and puts it down ſence or not ſence. Here he fancied an Erratum, when there was none; for this word in our Law-Expoſitors is, Droit-droit or Dreit-dreit, ſignifying a double right, that is, Jus poſſeſſionis & jus dominii; which he thought to correct, by making a ſingle Droit to ſignifie a double right; and by tranſlating Jus Dominii, the right of the Lord.
In Latine, Cineralia, the week before Lent, wherein by the ancient Inſtitution of the Church, people were to faſt, and the Biſhop uſed to ſprinkle Aſhes on their Heads, ſaying, Remember O Man, that thou art aſhes, and to aſhes thou ſhalt reImber ſignifying in the Saxon tongue Aſhes, whence our word Embers cometh—
We will for once enumerate the Errors in the Expoſition of this one word. 1. He concludes there is but one Ember-week, of four well known. 2. Cineralia is Latine for Aſh-wedneſday. 3. The Ember-week he
Lent, but in the firſt whole week of Lent. 4. By no Inſtitution, were people to faſt the week before Lent. 5. The Biſhop did not ſprinkle Aſhes on their Heads, but made a Croſs on their Foreheads with Aſhes— 6. The words were Memento homo, quia pulvis es— Duſt, not Aſhes. 7. Imber in the Saxon Tongue, does not ſignifie Aſhes, nor in truth is there any ſuch word. And (8) by conſequence our word Embers cannot come from thence. Our Author ought to do ſome penance to expiate theſe faults.
An Emergent occaſion is taken for a buſineſs of great conſequence.
Well gueſſed! An Emergent occaſion, is that which riſes unexpectedly out of ſome other, and was not foreſeen.
In Common Law, is the tryal of cauſes both Civil and Criminal by the Jury.
It is not the tryal it ſelf, but that Inquiſition which the Jury makes in all Cauſes, Civil, or Criminal, touching the Matter in Fact, in order to their Verdict and the Tryal.
A Juſtice which rides the Circuit, from the Latine word Errare.
This is an errant miſtake; for it does not alone ſignifie ſuch a Juſtice; the Latine in the Statute of Marlebridge is Juſticiarii Itinerantes, which Sir Edward Coke ſomeJuſtices in Eire, ſometimes Juſtices Itinerant; and the Mirror, cap. 6. ſays in French, Que ſont ore apels Justices Errants. If our Author had ſaid, that Errant is ſometimes uſed for a Knight Errant, it had been more allowable.
(Lat.) A Writ that lieth— It is directed to the Sheriff to call five County days under pain of Outlary.
It ſhould be to call the party five County days—otherwiſe it is nonſence.
A Writ that lieth—
This is an Errata in Cowels Interpreter, whence our Author took it, right or wrong, it matters not: It ſhould be Ex parte talis.
That which is done out of Court.
That which is done in Court may be Extrajudicial.
(French) A Boat or Barge, by ſome called a Brigantine.
Faloque is a little Boat with four Oars, and a Brigantine (as our Author himſelf ſays elſwhere) is a ſmall Ship or Pinnace.
A flouriſhing Town in Kent — Where King Steven founded an Abbey for the Monks of Clugny, &c.
This Towns name is Faverſham, and the Abbey (however at firſt intended) was ſtocked with the Monks of S. Bennets OrMonaſtichon Faverſhamienſe, a late ingenuous Book.
Is where the King Grants to a perſon and his heirs to be quit, or the like.
To be quit, of, God knows what.
A proper name of Man or Woman.
Francis is the Mans name, Frances the Womans.
A liberty belonging to a Foreſter, by which all men having Land within ſuch a compaſs, are prohibited to cut down Weeds without his view.
Though we ſhould allow Weeds for Wood, to be the Printers fault; yet the reſt is er
A ſurety or defence; from the Saxon words Frid, i. e. Peace, and Socen, i. e. To ſeek.
Neither is the Explication true, nor the Derivation. The Saxon words are Frith, Peace; and Soc, a Liberty or Power. So that Frithſocne ſignifies a Power or Juriſ
In Common Law, is Land held of the Baſer kind of Sokemen or Villains.
Sufficiently miſtaken. We never till now read of Land held of Villains, who had no property but Ad voluntatem Domini.
(Spaniſh) A meaſure containing two quarts.
Our Author had better omitted this word, ſince every Alewife can contradict him.
(French) Signifieth in Common Law, the iſſuing forth a Writ of Sciagainſt the Plaintiff, for an Action of Detinue of Charters brought againſt the Defendant.
Perfect nonſence! Garniſhment, in Law, ſignifies a Warning: If you will know par
A certain kind of ſervice, whereby the Lords of Scrivelby in Cheſhire held their Land, which was to come well armed, &c.
If the Author had well explicated the word, his miſtaking Cheſhire for Lincolnſhire had been the more pardonable.
a Saxon word, ſignifying a Fenny place.
Neither of them (for ought I know) are
Skinner on the word Goman, Author (meaning ours) dicit eſſe vocem Angl.—Sax. ſed ſolens hallucinatur.
The Foreſters ſay, A Buck growneth.
But what it means you muſt learn elſ
(Saxon) A Theif eſcaped out of Cuſtody.
It is a Mulct or Fine, for hanging a Theif unjuſtly.
A certain Feſtival time, celebrated about Candlemaſs, for the death of Harthe laſt King of the Danes; it is alſo called Blazetide, in Latine Fugalia.
Hocktide was celebrated the ſecond week after Eaſter, for expulſion of the Danes, after the death of Hardicanute. And Fugalia ſignifies a Feaſt ſolemniſed in rememRome.
The opinion of Cornelius Janſenus, Biſhop of Tyre—
For, Cornelius Janſenius, Biſhop of Ypre in Flanders—
A Motto or Deviſe, heretofore belonging to the Arms of the Princes of Wales—
He might have learned to have written this better from ſome Sign in London, viz. Ic-dien; the old Saxon was Ic-pegn, i.e. I ſerve.
The ſame as Flotſon.
They are no more of kin, then the Land is to the Sea; for Jetſon is that, which being caſt out of a Ship, in danger of Wreck, is found upon the ſhoar; and the other is that which is found floating upon the Sea:
28 Dec. Wherein Maſs uſed to be ſaid for the Souls of the Innocent Children ſlain by Herod.
Certainly Maſs was never ſaid for the Souls of Saints and Martyrs, who are in glory. But in the Maſs or Church-ſervice of the day there is a particular commemo
—The name of a Grand Council, inſtituted by Ferdinand, the Catholick King of Spain— And in the word DominiSaint Dominick is ſaid to be the Author of this Inquiſition—
So apt our Author is to forget himſelf, Frigida es, & nigra es, es, & non es Chione.
In Common Law is the coupling of two in a ſoite one againſt another.
We allow ſoite to be the Printers fault, yet the reſt is nonſence. It is the joyning of two in a ſuit againſt a third perſon.
For Jôpaean, and Juſtices a Writ for Juſticies— Such we meet with almoſt in every Page.
Is a new diſtinct order erected by King James— Whereas before that time there were Baronets that were not Knights—
A Baronet (quatenus ſuch) being created by Letters Patent, is no Knight; nor was there ever any Baronets before King James Inſtitution of them. Howbeit anciently the word Baronet was ſometimes uſed for Baneret, and ſometimes for Baro minor.
— If it be in writing, it is called a Leaſe by Indenture, if by word of mouth ▪ a Leaſe Parcel.
A Leaſe Parol, he ſhould have ſaid.
(Sax.) A Law- day, whence Court-Leet is a Court or Juriſdiction, containing the third part of a Shire, and comprehending three or four Wapentakes or Hundreds—
This is an imperfect fragment taken out of Cowels Interpreter, who ſays indeed, that Court Leets, had anciently ſuch large Juriſdictions, but have not ſo now.
A Town of Herefordſhire —Is now a days very famous for Wool, which is called Lemſter-Ore.
A groſs miſtake, Lemſter-Ore (from the Latine Ora) is a Territory or Compaſs of Ground of about two miles round the Town, ſo called; and the Wool had never any ſuch denomination.
A Writ that lieth for a Citizen or Burgeſs of a City, who refuſing or deferring to allow his priviledge, is impleaded before the Kings Juſtices.
Capiat, qui capere poteſt; Make ſence of this that can.
(French) A tall ſlim Man, that hath no length to his heighth.
Quaſi, A low groſs Man that has no thickneſs to his bulk.
The Doctrine of Martin Luther, who being firſt a Monk of the Order of S. Auguſtine—
There were, nor are any Monks of S. Auſtins Order, but Fryers.
An Iriſh word, ſignifying as much as Son in Engliſh, or Fitz in Welſh.
I ſee our Author is no Britain, nor Frenchman, elſe he would have underſtood that Fitz is borrowed from the French, not Welſh.
The name of an ancient Family in Yorkſhire.
Miſtaken for Mallivery, according to Camden.
(Lat.) A Breviary or Maſs-Book.
This Error he borrowed out of Cotgraves Dictionary. The Books are of very different kinds.
(Lat.) A ſending; it is alſo taken peculiarly, or if a power given by the Church of Rome, to go—
Nonſence; if the Printer do not acquit him.
A Writ for the apprehending and reſtoring to his Lord his Villain, claimed as his inheritance, who in Common Law is called Neif.
However blundringly the words are put together, the Author intends Neif ſhall relate to Villain, and Villain to be a Man; but Neif ▪
is the Bond-woman or ſhe Vil
(A Term in Law) Being an exception taken againſt the Plaintiff or Defendant, why he cannot commence any ſute in Law.
We muſt convert Defendant into Demandant, to make it tolerable ſence.
The third quarter of a day, from Noon till Sun-ſet.
Where then ſhall we find the other three quarters? —He ſhould have ſaid from Noon till the Sun be half-way down.
(Lat.) A Rental, an Obſequy or Funeral.
It ſignifies an Office or certain Prayers for the dead.
An Order of Fryers, ſo called—
They are not Fryers, but a kind of Re
a Saxon word, Signifying Judgment, a kind of purgation — Of which there are ſeveral kinds, as Campfight, Free Ordeal, and Water Ordeal.
Campfight was none of the kinds of Ordaele, and Free Ordaele, ſhould be Fire Ordaele. For Ordalium fuit judicium aquae, ignis, & ferri.
(Lat.) One that keeps the Hoaſts in a Church: a Door Keeper, a Keeper.
If he had onely ſaid a Door Keeper, he had preſerved the word from an erroneous explication. For Oſtiary has no relation to the keeping the Hoaſts in a Church.
(Greek) An expreſſion of a Paſſion, in Rhetorick it is a figure by which the mind.
We are left to gueſs at the reſt; for ſo he leaves it. And Pathopep is an unknown word of his New World.
The Court of Peculiars, A certain Court in the Biſhops time, which dealt in certain Pariſhes—
This is a certain kind of Independent-Commonwealth expreſſion; inſinuating a certain Non-Entity of Biſhops at pre
A tribute given by Inas, King of the Weſt-Saxons. — It was alſo called the See of Rome.
It was alſo called Romefeoh and Romepenny, and was a Penſion or an Alms given by King Inas, not a Tribute.
A Meaſure of Wine or Oyl, containing Twenty ſix Gallons, or half a Tun.
By this account, a Tun ſhould be but Fifty two Gallons, which contains Two hundred fifty two.
A certain Court belonging to the Civil Law, in which the Commiſſary ſits upon Inheritances, faln either by the intestate or by Will and Testament.
This is an Eccleſiaſtical Court, wherein all Teſtaments are proved and AdminiſtraCanterbury hath Bona notabilia in ſome other Dioceſs. V. Cokes 4 Inſt. fol. 335.
In Common Law, ſignifie an Incloſure to keep Beaſts in, but more eſpecially a place of ſtrength, where Cattle diſtreined for any trespaſs are put, until they be replevied or diſtreined.
—Where Cattle diſtreined are put, till they be diſtreined; is ſuitable to the reſt.
A word uſed in Common Law, a Branch of the Kings Prerogative, whereby he hath the firſt poſſeſſion of all Lands and Tenements through the Realm.
This is ſufficiently erroneous: The King (before the Statute of 12 Car. 2. ca. 24.) had the Primier Seiſin, or firſt poſſeſſion onely of all Lands and Tenements holden of him in cheif, whereof his Tenant died ſeiſed in Fee; which is taken away by the ſaid Statute.
A meaſure of time in Muſick being the half of a Crotchet, as a Crotchet the half of a Quaver, a Semiquaver, &c.
What fuſtian is here? Juſt ſo, two is the half of four, and four the half of two; and Semiquaver is explicated by a dumb, &c.
In Common Law is a duty, that the Lord of the Fee claimeth, holding by Knights Service or in Soccage, to marry his Daughter, or make his ſon Knight.
I doubt our Author bears ſome malice to the Common Law; elſe he could not have
claimeth of his Tenants) to make it ſence.
Certain ſet times in each of the four Terms— Each Term conſiſting of 4, 5, or 8 Returns—
The longeſt Term has but
as every Almanack will ſhew.
(Lat. Roſmarinus) A well and moſt wholſome Plant—
He omits the ſingular uſe of it, in a
(Lat.) Belonging to the Sholders; whence a Scapulary, a Monks Hood or Cowl, reaching down to the Sholders.
This Scapulary is mis-interpreted, it be
(Lat.) A ſeparating a thing in controverſie— But it is now commonly taken for a ſeiſing upon the Rents of Delinquents Eſtates, for the uſe of the Commonwealth.
Our Author having Reviſed and PrintCommonwealth; as he alſo does in the word Coroner, where he ſpeaks of the State, and Commonwealth of England.
The Sunday before Shrove-Tueſday.
Sexageſima Sunday, is the Sunday ſen
A kind of meaſure containing an hand bredth.
It is from the top of the Thumb ſet up
A certain Sect that deny the Divinity of Chriſt, firſt ſpred by Fauſtus Socinianus of Siena.
It was firſt broached by Laelius Socinus, and advanced by Fauſtus Socinus of Sienna.
(French) A certain liquid meaſure, containing the third part of a Pipe, which is two Tuns.
And before he ſaid a Pipe is Twenty ſix Gallons, or half a Tun. Strange contra
A Trevet or Stool with three Feet.
Trevet is a Three-footed inſtrument of Iron, to ſet Cauldrons on— Threstle, that of Wood, for other uſes.
(French) So called becauſe that Titles were made there.
Tiles and Titles are all one with our Au
(Lat. Viridarius) A judicial Officer of the Kings Foreſt—
This our Author will ſay was the PrintVerderer. And
(French) —For
Ʋncore priſt.
In Common Law, is a Covenant made in a Deed by one man to another, to warrant and ſecure himſelf and his heirs, againſt all men whatſoever, for the injoyning of any thing agreed on between them.
Surely, no man will buy any Land of this Author, if his Warranty or Covenant ſhall onely extend to ſecure himſelf and his heirs.
(Lat. Varrenna or Vivarium) A Preſcription or Grant to a Man from the King, of having Pheſants, Patridges, Conies, and Hares, within certain of his Lands.
Nor does this mend the matter; for though a man may have a Warren by PreWarren does not ſignifie a Preſcription or Grant.
(Sax.) The condition of an Ʋtlary.
The Saxon word is Wulveſheved or
Wulfeſheofod, Anglice Wolfeſhead, and
Ʋtlary for
Ʋtlaw.
A certain narrow hole in the Church of Wakeman in Yorkſhire, wherein womens honeſties were in times paſt tryed.
There is no ſuch Church as Wakeman in Yorkſhire: But Camden in his Britannia relates the ſame ſtory of Rippon Church; and the Cheif Magiſtrate of that Town being called the Wakeman, our Author by a new Trope
A King of Perſia —Who with an Army of Seventeen hundred thouſand Men—
Thou Boy! I never read his Army conThomaſius and Goldman deliver it. Other Authors ſay, even there is a cipher too much, and that his Army was made up of onely One hundred thouſand men.
IN peruſing this Dictionary, you may find ſome words twice explicated, and thoſe too, with different Interpretations, where one muſt neceſſarily be falſe. Such are Dancet and Danſette; Dodkin and Dotkin; Jotaciſm and Hertwice; Ockham and Okum; Rere-County and Rier-County; Varry and Verrey, with divers others. It ſeems our Authors memory alſo failed him, or he did not underſtand them to be the ſame.
He calls his Book The New World of Words, and in his Title Page tells us it contains the proper ſignifications and Etymologies of all words derived from the Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack— enumerating in all Eleven Languages; yet deſcends to the needleſs Explication of many trivial words of the Old World, as Beeſom, Barm, Parſly, Roſemary, Bulhead, Buzzard, Capable, Gloomy, Indifference, Induſtry, Inferior, Satisfaction, Diſcern, Expence, Ruinous, &c. For example.
A thing to ſweep with, made ſometimes of Broom, and ordinarily ſo called, though made of Birch, Heath, &c.
We are obliged to him for this Learned Expoſition; though he does not tell us, whether it be derived from the Hebrew, Arabick, or Syriack, &c. To have made it at all fit to take up a room in his Book, he might have ſaid the Saxons called it a Beſm, and that in ſome parts of England it is otherwiſe called a Broom.
Yeſt, the flowing or overdecking of Beer.
If he had told us, that this in the North of England is called Godſgood, he had ſaid ſomething.
We will obſerve laſtly, what the Learned Dr. Skinner in his Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae, ſays of this Authors Engliſh Dictionary, which he often cites and ſeldom without reproof.
An old Saxon word, ſignifying a Pail without a handle Engl. Dict.
Collock, Authori Dict. Angl. apud quem ſolum occurrit, exp. qui antiquam Angl. Sax. vocem eſſe dicit, ſed apud Somnerum non occurrit. Credo igitur AuthoSkinner.
A kind of Linnen Drawers uſually worn among the Turks. Engl. Dict.
Colſounds, vox quae mihi in ſolo Dict. Angl. occurrit, &, pro more Authoris, exponitur abſurdiſſimè, ut ipſius verbis utar, A kind of Linnen Drawers uſually worn among the Turks, reverà a Fran. Gal. CalSkinner.
Poppy. Engl. Dict.
Cheſtoul, in Dict. Angl. mendosè pro Chesbowles vel Cheeſebowles. Dr. Skinner.
(French) A Courrier. Engl. Dict.
—Credo autem, ſi Author hanc vocem unquam legit; vel fando audivit, quod valSkinner.
(old word) A Cottage. Engl. Dict.
Coſh, Authori Dict. Angl. apud quem ſolum vox occurrit, dicit eſſe idem cum Cotterel, ridiculè ut ſolet omnia. Dr. Skinner.
A Piſtol, ſo called from the Dacians, who firſt uſed them. Engl. Dict.
Dag, Vox quae hoc ſenſu in ſolo Dict. Angl. occurrit, ubi notare eſt miſerrimam Authoris ignorantiam, qui tormentum bela Pistol expoA Dacis, qui primi hoc armorum genere uſi ſunt; imo ultimi omEuropae populorum, Dr. Skinner.
A little long Coffer or Cheſt; from the Latin word Foſſa a Ditch. Engl. Dict.
Foſſet, Vox quae mihi in ſolo Dict. Angl. occurrit. Exponitur autem Cista, Capſa: Author deducit a Lat. Foſſa, imForciere, idem ſignante. Higginio autem Adr ▪ Junii interpreti, Ciſta dicitur Forſet, a quo proculdubio haec vox orta eſt. Dr. Skinner.
(Old Word)
Ʋſury; from the Latin word Gula, i. e. The Throat. Engl. Dict.
Goule, Vox quae mihi in ſolo Dict. Angl. occurrie. Author exponit uſuram, & deflectit a Lat. Gula —Ego nihil nec de voce ipſa, quod unquam revera extiterit, nec de Etymo credo. Dr. Skinner.
(French) A Companion or Fellow; alſo a Beggarly Raſcal. Engl. Dict.
Author malè, ut ſolet omnia, exponit Socium, item mendicum vilem, A Beggarly Raſcal. Priori enim ſenſu nuſquam genSkinner.
A certain Muſical Inſtrument, called a Clericord; comes from the French Regalliadir, i. e. to rejoyce (for Regaillardir.) Engl. Dict.
Rigols, Vox quae mihi in ſolo Dict. Angl. occurrit, exponitur inſtrumentum muſicum, quod alio nomine Clavichordium, A Clavicord
dicitur. Author ſomnianSe Rigoler, deridere, laſcivire— Vel, quod magis placet, a Lat. Lyricola. Dr. Skinner.
New World of Words, but I ſtumbled upon a late Book, entituled Nomothetes, or an Interpreter of obſcure Law Words and Terms, which obliged me to the trouble of another perambulation.
My Nomolexicon or Law Dictionary (being the product of many years pains) was publiſhed in Trinity Term 1670. and within the ſpace of Five Terms after, this. Interpreter was wholly both Written and Printed.
This Author it ſeems made choice of the Title Nomothetes, that it might gingle with Nomolexicon; but the more Learned in the Greek Tongue than my ſelf, affirm the word improper for an Interpreter, and to ſignifie onely a Legiſlator or Law-giver; and how fit he is to aſſume that title, will ſoon appear.
He dedicates his Book with much confidence, to a learned and very honorable Perſon, to whom certainly he ought to have written at leaſt in true Grammar.
In his Preface he ſays, —I have alſo gleaned after the Book, entituled, The Law Dictionary, wherein are many good things, which I have hinted, as every ingenious Reader will diſcern, but withal have added ſome Centuries of Words, therein totally omitted.
Though I did not expect or deſire any commendations from this Gentleman, yet he was in ſome ſort obliged to it, for the credit of his own Work; ſince it is obhinted, that is, in the ſofteſt phraſe, borrowed almoſt every Stone from the Law Dictionary to build up his Interpreter; yet with very diſingenuous arts and ſubtile diſguiſes.
His Additional Centuries of words he might, without ſo much as ever ſcratching his head, have multiplied into Millenaries; ſince he has (by vertue of his Nomothetical power) adopted many into the family of Law words, which are abſolute ſtrangers to it. As Houſe, Moer, Palmer, Paragraph, Paranimph, Parathalaſſia, Patriarch, Tillage, Wife, Zenodochium, Zealot—and ſuch like.
But, it may be objected, The Law Dictionary too hath divers words that are not preciſely Terms of the Law. I grant it, but ſay, they are ſome way or other allied to the Law, and not to be found in our common Dictionaries, and whereto I add the Statute, Record, or Charter, wherein I found them, as my Warrant for their inſertion; one principal part of my deſign having been, from the ruines of antiquity, to retrieve, as far as I was able, ancient Law-Latine, Saxon, and Record-words, almoſt utterly loſt, as Beſcata, Juncaria, Taſſum, Putura, Raſarium, Sichetum, —a work of labor, and may be of uſe; but our Author found an eaſier way to the Wood.
It is enacted in the Fourteenth year of His Majeſties Reign, That no perſon ſhall Print any Book or Copy, or part of any, which another, by due entry of it in
non obſtante; though ſuch as practiſe it, are dignified with the name of Land-Pirates: To which title our Author hath undoubted right, not for this Work onely, but for other of like nature. Thus then he ſhews his skill.
Where I put the Citation before the Expoſition, he puts it after, Et e contra, as in Scavage, Waxſhot— Where I ſay, As in the Caſe of the Burgeſſes of Derby— He—As in the matter concerning the Burgeſſes of Derby. See Thrave of Corn. Where I ſay ſmall, he ſays little, as in Grills; and where I ſay called, he writes nominated, as in Candlemaſs. Where I (having cited an old Deed or Charter) ſay at laſt Penes ſuch a one, he ſays in the cuſtody of—As in Aſſart. Where I ſay, The word is mentioned in ſuch a Statute, he ſays ſpoken of—As in Pyker. Where I ſay—Moſt notoriouſly, he more notedly. Vide Term. Then for variety, he ſometimes puts my Citation into Engliſh; and it is odds he makes nonſence of it, by ſo doing, as in Pax Eccleſiae, Seneucia— Again, he ſometimes abridges, as in Eskippeſon; and ſometimes wholly omits the Citation, as in Leccator, Orgallous— Not reflectſeems to have been a kind of Barge or Water-Veſſel; he alters it thus ſubA Boat or Barge to ſail on the Water. So in Blomary, I onely cite the Statute of 27 Eliz. 19. He, of this you may read at large, 27 Eliz. 19. In which Statute the word is barely mentioned, without any thing of it at large.
Laſtly, He hath an excellent way of muſtering words up to a Century, and filling up Paper, by dividing one word into two, as in Couratier, and repeating the Expoſition of Synonima's, as Annats, Firſt-fruits, and Primitiae; Romefeoh, Romepenny, and Romeſcot; Heinfare, Henfare, and Hinefare.
His principal Additions are certain Saxon words in Domeſday Book, ſaid to be expounded by Mr. Agar, and Printed in a Book called The Law of Conveyances: The moſt part of which I rejected, as full of Errors, ſome of the Words being miſtaken, and more of the Expoſitions. So that I concluded, it either was not really Mr. Agars, or elſe much abuſed by the ignorance of the Tranſcriber or Printer, however our Author kindly entertained them, to paſs muſter.
I was not willing to trouble my ſelf or the Reader, with any more of theſe abſurdities, though I can produce at leaſt Two hundred, beſides miſalphabets and falſe Engliſh in great abundance, and none of them excuſed by any Errata.
I have onely to add, That, beſides his own miſtakes, he brings moſt of the Authors he deals with, even the Sages of the Law, as Bracton, Dyer, Coke, &c. to be acceſſory to his Errors, by quoting them falſly: But I am willing to ſay ſomewhat in his excuſe, he was ſet on work by ſome Bookſellers, and enjoyned to make great expedition, ſome of his haſty work, having been Printed before the reſt was written, and much written before half digeſted: If they had allowed their Compiler more time, perhaps he could have done better.
— Becauſe Manſlaughter is ſudden and not preſented. Coke, lib. 4. fol. 44. And, under the ſame Title-word, he ſays, If a Man counſel a Woman to murther the child in her Womb, and afterwards the child is born, and there murthered by the Woman, in the abſence of him that ſo gave the counſel; yet he is acceſſory by his counſelling before the Birth of the Infant, and countermanding it. Dyer, fol. 186. pl. 2.
Here are no leſs than three groſs miſtakes in theſe few lines, and Dyer vouched for Warranty.
— He concludes this word thus, —As was adjudged in the Exchequer, in the Caſe between Sir Edw. Aſton and Sir Jo. B. in the Statute made concerning ſowing Flax.
Wondering how this Statute came to be hauld in without any Coherence, I found at laſt, our Author (who was in haſt) hath omitted two or three lines of the ſubſe
—In the cloſe of this word, the Author hath this piece of nonſence. The Civil in Suits between two, allow a third to come in pro intereſſe—
— The reaſon of which Allay is with a better metal, to augment the weight of the Silver or Gold.
I never heard of a better metal, than Gold; but hope he intended to have ſaid baſer.
Anteceſſor. The ſignification is well known, but we make this difference; that Anceſtor is applied to a natural perſon, as J.S. and his Anceſtors; the other to a Body Politick or Corporate, as a Biſhop and his Predeceſſors. Coke on Littl. lib. 2. cap. 4. ſect. 103.
To what (the other) relates, does not apCoke is injuriouſly repreſented, as the Author of this blunder
Are they that held by tenure of Ploughing or Tilling Ground.
Theſe Arabants were certainly a ſort of excellent Plough-men
Sic vos, non vobis, fertis aratra Boves.
Things relating to Coynage.
Arſura, is the ſingular number, and is ofDomeſday, where (as a LearnVidetur eſſe examinatio per ignum. The tryal of money after it was coyned.
— Aſſultus eſt in perſonam aut locum — Vel equo aut manchinis aut quacunque alia re—
Our Author had done well to have intermanchinis.
— This the Civilians call Judicium Poſſeſſiorum adi
The Civilians diſclaim the word Poſſeſſiorum, and ſo does Priſcian too.
— One Attaint, was, in former times upon his confeſſion, conſtrained to abjure the Realm, and therefore was ſometimes called Abjuration.
And for this is cited, Stam. Pl. Cor. fol. 182. but abuſively.
The Queens Silver.
Then let Argentum Reginae be the Queens Gold. —But it is a good ſtumble that never Horſes.
—Baccalaurei a bacillo nominati ſunt, qui
This ſtudit is a quarrelſome word, and
Priſcians Head.
— Seems to be a kind of Barge or Boat to ſail upon the Water.
This may very well be true; for I never heard of any ſuch to ſail upon the Land. And note, thoſe words (to ſail upon the Water) are added to what the Law Dictionary ſays.
— He which is the cauſe of another mans, is ſaid then to be Labane, a Malefactor.
If our Author write no better ſence; it will be the Bane of his Interpreter; and I think the Banes may very lawfully be for
— Barons by Letters Patent or Creation (ſay our Antiquaries) were firſt about the time of Henry the Sixth.
It may well be ſuſpected our Author conBaron by CreationRichard the Second.
— Spelman thinks it may be Manerium majus ad minus pertinens.
This is a great injury to that learned AuGloſſarium, verbo, Berenuica.
— Hence perhaps
Ʋna beſcata fodient terrae incluſa, Mon. Angl. pag 2. fol. 642.
Here is a like falſe citation impoſed upon another worthy Author; though the words lay fair in the Law Dictionary.
Is a term of art uſed in Greys Inn, whereby they intend private arguing of Caſes.
I have heard of Botting of Barly in the Countrey — But what our Author aimed at, is Bolting, and ſome Bolts are ſoon ſhot.
— Quia breviter & paucis verBracton lib. 5.
Nor muſt learned Bracton ſcape, without having falſe Latine impoſed upon him,
The common Petition, that ſome Commiſſioners iſſued to Cities, for the preparing Boats and Bullengers, may be repealed.
Our Author had a fair Copy, from whence he tranſcribed this. viz. The Law Dictionary, but his haſt has ſhuffled it into nonſence.
A word uſed in Domeſday—
Colibti is not to be found there, unleſs with a daſh on the b for Coliberti; and how Burſe and Colibti come to be Synonima, is beyond a common skill to imagine.
the ſame with Boatſwain or Mariner.
It is much, our Author ſhould not write one of theſe three words true; but coyn ſuch as were never before heard of: Buzzard had been a more allowable miſtake. The true word is Buſcarl or Buzecarl.
A Plough Land — Skene, de verbo ſignif. deriveth it from the French Charon, a Plough—
There is no ſuch French word as Charon, nor is it ſo in Skene, de verborum ſignif. but charrow, which is neerer the true French word charrne, a Plough, then Charon.
Is a Return made by the Sheriff, that upon a Capias, Exigend or other Proceſs, when he hath taken the body of the party. F.N.B. fol. 26.
Here the redundant word (when) does much perplex the ſence, and make it unin
— Subdiaconi, Cantoni, Acolythi—
This Cantoni is a pretty word, and de
—This word, and the explication our AuLaw Dictionary, never looking upon the Errata of that Book, where he might have found it an acClerk of the Acts, and explicated accordingly.
— Is an Officer in the Exchequer, in whoſe Official, the Officers of the Court ought to ſue —
If any Action did lie for writing nonPlea for himſelf.
—Towards the later end of this Interpre
— When a Parſon is made a Biſhop, there is a Ceſſion of his Benefice by the Commotion.
Our Author is very unhappy in his variaCommotion marrs the matter.
— And for this Comthe Lord muſt preſcribe, and cannot preſcribe for it without preſcription, as appears in Godfreys Caſe, in 11 Rep.
Thus my Lord Coke is again brought in to patronize nonſence.
Signifies in Wales a part of a ſhire, as a Cantred or Hundred, 28 Hen. 8. cap. 3. It is written Commoiths
4 Hen. 4. cap. 17. And is uſed for a gathering made upon the people.
This laſt is Com
a word of different
Commote, and ought not to be confounded with it.
— But Countors, by Horns Mirror of Juſt. lib. 2. cap. des. Loyers, are ſuch Serjeants, skilful in the Law, which ſerve the common people to defend their Actions in Judicature, for their Fee; whoſe duty, if it be, as is there deſcribed, and were obſerved, Men might have much more comfort of the Law, than they have.
This our Author tranſcribed from Cowels Interpreter; and is one of thoſe irreveEngland, and Fundamental Conſtitutions of ParliaMarch, 8 Jac. Anno 1610. Yet our Author in his Preface, takes the boldneſs to ſay, That the Ground-work, upon which he builds, is Cowels Interpreter, an excellent Book, both as to its matter and compoſure, and did not deſerve that ſevere arraignment that it hath of late ſuffered.
A French word, ſignifying a Horſe.
Courſer, 2 Inſt. fol. 719.
Courratier, Is a Horſ-courſer; but our Author hath found a new way of dividing one word into two, to make up his Centuries.
otherwiſe Uncuth, Privatus vel extraneus —
Cuth ſignifies known, and Uncuth unknown,
yet here they are both coupled in one yoke, as Synonima.
— There is alſo a Cuſtos Brevium & retulorum in the Kings Bench, who Fileth there, and Warrants of Attorney —
This is of the ſame complexion with the reſt.
— Weſt calleth that likewiſe a Demurrer in Chancery, when there is queſtion made, Whether a Parties Anſwer to a Bill of Complaint, &c. be defective or not, and thereof Reference made to any of the Bench, for the examination thereof, and report to be made to the Court. Weſt Symbol. part. 2. tit. Chancery, ſect. 29.
There is no ſuch words to be found in the Author, and place cited; nor is it proWeſt, could be guilty of ſo erroneous an Interpretation of this common word, Demurrer in Chancery.
Is a buſineſs meerly given and collated by the Patron, to a Man—
So, if it be given to a Man to be a Plagiary, that is a Donative from his Ingenuity.
Is a Writ that lieth for him, that not being of ſound memory, did Alien any Lands or Tenements in Fee-ſimple, Fee tail, for term of life, or for years, againſt the Aliens. F.N.B. fol. 202.
Can it be imagined, that the learned Fitz-Herbert would be guilty of ſuch an abſurd Explication?
— The Jury findeth the fact thus, then is the Law thus; and ſo we judge for the Enqueſt in Criminal Cauſes. See Jury—
The learned will ſee he writes thus, then is the Law thus, That they will judge him a blind Interpreter.
Seemeth to be a Coyn uſed in ancient times, containing in value the fourth part of a Noble, viz. Twenty pence in Silver, and in weight the ſixth part of an ounce of Gold, that is, of Five ſhillings in Silver, which is Three pence and ſomewhat more.—
Our Author is very unfortunate in his Additionals, for theſe contradictory words (which is Three pence and ſomewhat more) are ſuperadded to what the Law Dictionary ſays.
The Shooing of Horſes. See Bouch of Court.
In Bouche of Court there is nothing at all of Ferrure; for our Author curtailed my Citation, not regarding this Reference.
A bracky ground, Ubi ſaliSee Domeſday.
Filicetum or Filictum, Is a Ferny ground, ſo ſays my Lord Coke, 1 Inst. fol. 4. b. I ſuſpect it not to be found in Domeſday.
Forinſecus, may be derived of the French word Exterus, and in Law is uſed—
The French word (Forain) may as well be a Latine word, as Exterus French.
Cometh near the French Fortlet—
Yes, as near as Four pence to a Groat; but the French word is Fortelet.
Franciplegium, Is a Compound irregular of two Languages—
It is irregularly ſaid; for the words are both French.
— Domeſday, tit. Haritiſc. Rex Abedeſtone—
I dare affirm there is no ſuch title, as Haritiſc. in Domeſday.
—In the Explication of this word, He
Spokeman and Spokemen; for it ſeems he did not like the word Sokeman.
In Engliſh Church Wardens, and they may have an Action for the Goods of the Grounds; and aivers other things they may do —
I would have our Author or do any thing hereafter, rather then interpret hard words.
— The quhilke ſuld be free fra payment of any Feinds. Skene.
This ſhould be Teinds, a Scotiſh word ſignifying Taxes. Inſtead of which, our Author brings in Feinds (God bleſs us) or Evil Spirits.
— Of the Saxon words Haginan, Pendere, and Wite, mulcta —By ſome it hath been interpreted Mulcta pro homine injuſti ſuſpenſo —
There is no ſuch Saxon word as Haginan, nor true Latin in the reſt.
— As in the Law Dicti
If our Author had been a Maſter in this kind of Learning, he might in this word have ſhewed his skill, and my miſtake. For Haratium (from the French Haras) ſigni
— From the Saxon here Exercitus & ſliten, to depart—
Though this be taken by our Author out of my Lord Cokes 4 Inſt. yet it is cerſliten, to deſlitan, diſſolvere
See Frodmortel.
Where there is not a word of Herpſac, for he omitted my citation there, and ſo Herpſac ſtands as an inſignificant nullo, without interpretation.
— Si quis occidit hominem & Reges & facit heinfaram, dat Regi xxDomeſday.
The Law Dictionary hath it plainly and truly thus, Si quis occidit hominem Regis & facit Heinfaram dat Regi xxs.
It may be called Domina
He may as well call it Somniatio; for the word in Domeſday ſignifies a muſtering of men, what then hath Dominatio to do with it?
Sint quieti de Chevagio, Hond-peny, &c. But there is a Declaration made, what is intended by it, Ideo quaere.
Here he was in the humor of adding ſomewhat to the word, more then he found in the Law Dictionary; But ſtill with ill ſucceſs. He omitted the Author of the La
—In this word he hath many errors, the French Huier, for Huer— Flagiture for Flugitare— Oyer for Oyes ▪— Men ſlain ſecundum legem & conſuetudinem Regni, is a pretty poſition.
— It hath a reſemblance of that ancient Roman, where the Judges, where they abſo
i. e. Abſolvimus.
Supine negligence! Not to have the care or patience to tranſcribe truly what lay fair in Print before himviz. It hath a reſemblance of that ancient cuſtom of the Romans, where the Judges, when they abſolved a perſon accuſed, did write A—
— Were ſent but every ſeven years— But there is a Book entituled Orig. Juridiciales, but of what authority I know not, which ſays they went oftner—
Sure our Author did not conſult his own Duty and Reaſon, when he took the boldOrlando Bridgeman and Matthew Hale ſubſcribed to an Imprimatur? Names of greateſt authority in this kind. Hath he not heard that Mr. Dugdales Works are of ſuch account, That they have often been allowed by the Judges, as good evidence in caſes of great moment?
A Saxon word properly denoting a man, but with any addition, a ſervant or clown. Hence they are called a Seaman, a Buſcarle.
Here again our Author thought himſelf obliged to alter my words, though with the loſs of Sence and Syntax.
— But now Cuſtom allows Eſquires to be choſen to this Office, 27 Hen. 6.6. So that they be reſident in the County for the choice of theſe Knights.
The firſt part is true, the later nonſen
— Perhaps it might ſignifie any liquid thing, as Scoteale, and ſuch like—
Scotale is not a liquid thing, but a meetScot, for the Ale he drank. He might have ſaid Ale is a liquid thing.
— See a Bequeſt, we call it a Deviſe.
And there is no Bequeſt to be ſeen.
— Domeſday.
For Leuva, Leuga, and Leunides.
A place where Hops grow, mentioned in Domeſday.
It is not mentioned there; for we had no Hops in England of ſome Hundreds of years after Domeſday Book was made. Viz. till 15 Hen. 8. according to our ChroniInst. fol. 5. b.
— But the cutting off an Ear or Noſe, or ſuch like is no Mayhem —
This is otherwiſe ſince the Statute of 22 & 23 Car. 2. which was in Print beLaw Dictionary was publiſhed.
Is a Noble paid by every Tenant in the Mannor of Builth in Radat the marriage of a Daughter, and was anciently given to them, for his quitting the Cuſtom of Marcheta.
If any one would pretend to make ſence of this; to whom ſhall them and his re
Marla is a kind of Earth or Mineral, like Chalk, which men caſt on their Land—
Theſe two words (like Chalk) he adds to my Interpretation: when as Marle is as like Chalk, as Chalk is like Cheeſe.
A Marlepit Mr. Dughath an old Deed by him, wherein is mentioned this word—
This is a pretty kind of impudence, to make the World believe he is intimately acquainted with Mr. Dugdale, and knows what old Deeds and Charters he has by him; when as Mr. Dugdale lately told me (diſcourſing of our Author) that he knew him not, nor ever heard of him till then. And in the word Sacrafield Rents he pre
Is any that paſſeth through the midſt of the Earth.
Whether he means any thing as Bull, Bear or Horſe, I know not.
Miliare, is a quantity of a thouſand Acres—
This I confeſs is a Mile of a large ſize; perhaps according to the meaſure in the Iſle of Pines.
Minſtrellus, from the French Menſtrel—
There is no ſuch French word; it is Meneſtrier.
Cokes Reports are cited for Crokes.
is derived from the Latine word mulcta, for that it was a Fine given to the Kings, that they might have power to make their laſt Wills and Teſtaments— 2 Inſt, fol. 491.
Our Author by miſwriting my words, hath made nonſence; yet boldly cites Cokes Institutes.
Is a word which the Sheriff anſwers, that is appoſed concerning Debts illeviable, and that are nothing worth, by reaſon of the parties from whom due.
See the Law Dictionary on this word, if our Author have not, by his blundering alteration, made it leſs intelligible at leaſt.
Are Aſſarts, whereof Manſpeaks at large. See Spel. Gloſſary verbo Eſſartum.
That learned Gloſſary ſays the word is in ſome Authors falſe written, for Occationes, from Occo, to harrow or break Clods; but our Author had not time to read him out.
— Imperfection for Impu
— A Commiſſion of Oyer and Terminer is the firſt and largeſt.
Thus it ends abruptly, leaving out two or three lines, which ſhould make it ſence. viz. Of the Five Commiſſions, by which our Judges of Aſſiſe do ſit in their ſeveral Circuits.
A Countrey or Region, which Spelin his Gloſſary ſaith, Non intelligendum eſt de quovis populo.
Here the Learned Spelman is falſe quoPais, but of Trial per Pais, which our Author omitted, as being obliged to make altera
— Is moſt properly taken for the Woods within the Foreſt—
Which ought to be, For the Maſt of the Woods—
Is ſaid, when all the Priviledges and Immunities of the Church, her Servants and Miniſters. Vide Leg. Edw. Conf. cap. 8.
Here he pretends to tranſlate my CitaEdwards Law, and makes this nonſence of it.
he cites Baldus in veribus Feudorum, and Bartilayus de regno.
There is no ſuch Book as the firſt, nor any ſuch Author as the laſt.
non ad tyrocinia juris, quas motas volant, exercenda, ſays Spelman.
Another falſe quotation, for vocant.
was a ſort of ſhooe—not utterly laid aſide till the Reign of Hen. 8. in which time they were increaſed to that exceſſive length, that in Rich. 2. time, they were tied up to the knees with Gold or SilEdw. 4. un
Does our Author think, Rich. 2. ſucceedHen. 8. which his words ſeem cleerly to intimate.
— If the Lord purchaſe the tenancy held by Heriot-ſervice, then the Heriot is extinct by verity of poſſeſ
We'l ſuppoſe he intended to ſay unity.
Skene de verbo ſignif. LaProportio Aſſiſae.—
Skene calls it Proportatio Aſſiſa— in his de verborum ſignificatione, not verbo ſignif. as our Author often miſtakes it.
—But the Learned Spelman thinks it is miſwritten, for the Sax. puchepec, i. e. wudhepec.
This Saxon is Rudhewec, as here written, Spelman writes it better, Ile ſecure you; but our Author has very ill luck in tranſcribing, even from fair printed Books; and it ſeems underſtands not the Saxon Characters.
The Law Dictionary begins the Letter Q. with Quadrageſima Sunday; but our Author was not willing to begin ſo, leſt it ſhould look too much like alter-idem, Therefore prepones Quadrans and Quadranta terrae; and ſo poor Quadrageſima has loſt his due place in the Alphabes; but (Quack had he thought on't) would have done his work better, and been as able a Law-word as Quadrans.
—Quod non ponantur in Aſſiſis, jurat nec magis Aſſiſis—
For Juratis nec magnis Aſſiſis.
—Sometimes it is taken for Royalty.
Never; for they are two different words.
—It ſeems to be called a Recordare, becauſe the form that it commands the Sheriff to whom it is direct
Of our Authors miſtakes.
—infra hundred de Mau
There is not ſuch a Hundred in all Eng
— As if Tenant for years brings, he in Reverſion comes in and prays to be received —
The Tenant it ſeems may bring what he will.
— Conſtabulario Caſtri de Di& Cuſtodi Foreſtae de Cippeham—
I ſee our Author, by his writing it, does not underſtand this Divis which ſhould be Dior Diviſ. with a Period, for the Divizes in Wiltſhire.
— And hath given name, to wit, granted to reco
Then it ſeems to give name is to grant.
— In this word Seldens Titles of Honor is miſquoted.—
See Privateer. Anno 16. Car. 2. cap 6. Quere if not the ſame with Pyrate.
You muſt know all this, except the Learned Quaere, is in the Law Dict. where Priwas miſprinted for pirate; but our Author neither makes Errata's to his own Works, nor reads others.
—Law-Dict. ſaith, thus — Selda alDoomsday ſignifies a Wood of Sallows, Willows, and Withyes.
Which addition had been better omitted, the word being no where uſed in Domeſday for a wood of any kind, as I confidently believe, and our Author cites no place.
Serjeantia, ſignifies in Law a Service that cannot be due from any Lord to his Tenant, but to the King only.
This is a new Service due from a Lord to his Tenant.
Is the ſingling or ſerving of two or more that are joyned in one Writ — here Severance is Permittance.
Nor is this any better ſence.
— Clamat cognitionem Placitorum — infra ſuum 40 s.—
Suum for Summam.
—Breve Regis Johannis vicecomitatus Angliae.—
This Vicecomitatus for Vicecomitibus, was an Errata in the Law-Dict. and noted at the end of the Book; but out Author did not deſign to correct, but augment Errors.
In Domeſday Book, accordMr. Agars interpretation, are taken for Alders.
Agar, that I am not ſatisfied this Interpretation is his; no queſtion but it is the ſame with Swolings, i. e. Carucatae, Plough-Lands.
— With their Childrens Goods and Chattels in his Court—
So it is in the Law Dictionary, but in the Errata, he might have ſeen it thus corWith their Children, Goods, and Chattels.
— What may make a Tenure, and what not. See Perkins Revelations 70.
Perkins, the Learned Lawyer, had no Revelations, that I ever heard of.
— Theft from the Priſon, or in preſence of the owner, is properly called Rob
Priſon for Perſon, makes a wide differ
— Abſque alieno ca
For abſque aliquo—
—Though this Word lay fair before him in the Law Dictionary, yet he hath com
— He concludes with Pat. 3 R. Joh. m. 3. In fidelitate Leulini.
Omitting what follows in the Law Dictionary, and is moſt to the purpoſe, viz. In fidelitate Leulini ſtatuitur de triatione differentiarum dicti Leulini, &c.
— Familia, tribus—
Doctor Davy's Welſh Dictionary, from whence he had this word, would have fur
— Skene verbo Lignantia ſaith—
Skene hath no ſuch word in his Book, as Lignantia.
— Is a Judicial Officer of the Kings Foreſt—
Both the words miſtaken, for Verderer, Viridarius.
— Ʋntil the Biſhop of the Plea, where ſuch Church is, hath certified.
Any one may certifie this to be non
— Our Villains Regardant to Mannors were Glebae Abſcriptitii, tied to Turk—
What had our Villains to do with the Turk?
— There are Foreſters, aſſigned by the King, who are Walkers within a certain ſpace of Ground to their care.
Somewhat omitted to make it ſence.
— Immunis liberi & qui
For Immunes, liberi & quieti —
— Epiſt. ejus ad diu Edwardum —
For divum. The word in mine is abbread Div. Edw. which our Au
IF our Author have any further occaſion to make uſe of the Law Dictionary he may take notice of theſe Additional Errata's.