222 ON THE PRICE OF GRAIN. 



been picked or selected for special goodness. The labour of 

 selecting corn for this purpose is occasionally noted in the 

 accounts. Pilcorn generally bears a higher price than other 

 grain. The word, though not common, is in use in Ireland and 

 the western parts of the country. 



Bericorn, berimancorn, and mancorn appear to be identical. 

 They are relatively low priced, and are sown, so that they do 

 not appear to be names for inferior or scurril grain. But I have 

 not been able to guess at the kind of grain intended. 



Brotcorn. This is not the same with any of the above, as it 

 is distinguished from mancorn in the Basingstoke account of 



1330. 



I have not been able to identify darnel, haste, drowe, 

 lendrun, shadcorn, sprig b , and polver. I have searched in 

 vain in Glossaries for these terms, which seem to have com- 

 pletely died out. 



Bulimong is said to be a mixture of oats and vetches, and 

 to be a term still in use. It occurs in my accounts for the 

 first time in 1313, and forms a frequent crop at Hornchurch. 



Wheat and vetches appear to have been sown together, under 

 the name of frumentum vescosum, or vessetum. It is a frequent 

 crop at Farley in Surrey. Wheat and beans are sown together. 

 Barley and oats are also mixed for seed. 



Spelt (splat is probably only another form of the same 

 sound), is said to be the same as vetches, and to be still used 

 as a synonyme for them in Devonshire. If the two words are 

 identical, the name was used in Sussex and Derbyshire in the 

 fourteenth century. It is quite possible that the word may 

 have this meaning, since beans and peas are quoted from 

 Chyngele, but no vetches, and wheat and oats from Erneregge, 

 but no leguminous plants. 



Sigal, I have no doubt, is the same as rye (siligo in the 

 accounts). 



Seneyneyseed is mustard. 



Polver is, I suspect, the same as polstrum or pulse. It occurs 



b I suspect that sprig is another name for drageum. 



