NOTES. 



These Notes are principally concerned with the numerous variations exhibited 

 in the edition printed by I. R. in 1598. See the Preface. 

 The references are to the Sections and lines, as numbered. 



Prologue ; lines 2, 6. See Job, v. 7 ; 2 Thess. iii. 10. 



15. The allusion is to Caxton's Book of the Chess ; see the description of it 

 in Ames' Typographical Antiquities, ed. Dibdin, L 36, where woodcuts will be 

 found representing the several pieces. 



20, iudges. Caxton calls them rooks, as at present, but he describes them as 

 being vicars and legates of the king, i.e. as occupying the position of judges. 



yomenne, pawns. In Caxton, we find the division of pawns into eight classes 

 (answering to the eight pawns on each side), in which the king's rook's pawn 

 represents the husbandman. The next in order, the king's knight's pawn, is the 

 smith ; after which, in due order, we find the notary, merchant, physician, tai>erner, 

 guard (or watchman), and the ribald or dice-player, whose character is not well 

 spoken of. This eight-fold division seems to me to have suggested the well- 

 known formula which divides men into the eight classes of ' soldier, sailor, tinker, 

 tailor, gentleman, apothecary, ploughboy, thief;' which is sometimes otherwise 

 varied. The German formula is. 'Edelmann, Bettelman, Amtmann, Pastor, 

 Kaufmann, Laufmann, Maler, Major ; ' also, be it observed, eight-fold. Our 

 soldier, tinker, tailor, apothecary, ploughboy, and thief, may be imagined to 

 correspond, with sufficient exactitude, to Caxton's guard, smith, merchant, 

 physician, husbandman, and ribald. 



27. Remytte, leave. A word is evidently omitted ; we must supply to after cu, 

 or else substitute to for as. In the Book of Survejring, ch. ix, we find, " I remytte 

 that to menne of lawe ;" and again, in ch. xii, "I remjrtte all those poyntes to 

 menne of lawe." See also sect 7, 1. 14. 



1. I. For the manner in which I. R. rewrites this section, see the Preface. - 



2. 5. Chyltume. As to the sense, we find, in the Book of Surveying, c. 37, 

 the following. " Chyltume grounde and fl3mtye grounde be light groundes and 

 drye, and full of small stones, and chalke grounde is moche of the same nature, 

 and they wyll weare and washe awaye with water." 



6. Meane erthe, earth of ordinary character. Mean is moderate, ordinary. 

 I. R. alters it to '»/a/«^ earth,' which was probably not intended. After marie, 

 he inserts — " some neither Sand nor Clay, but like a mixture of both, yet neither, 

 which is called a Hassell ground." 



9. I. R. has — "In Sommerset-shiere, Dawset-shiere, and Gloster-shiere." 



