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Eevolution. By *' literature " all kinds of documents, deeds, 

 poems, plays, verse, and prose, whether published or in manu- 

 script, are to be taken as being meant. 



Bishop (v. ) = confirm. 



" Care shall be taken that no-one remain too long un- 

 Bischopped.^^ — Injunctions of St. Dunstan, tenth century. 

 Q-iGLOT=merry, giddy girl. 



" Foremost in bower were bosses bought, 

 To honour ladies, I ween, they were brought. 

 Now each ffiglot will lour, except she have them sought, 

 Although for such shrews they are full dearly bought." 

 Earl. MSS. 2253, temp. Mw. vj. 



CRASE=crack {v.) 



" Thus was youre croune crasid, 

 till he was cast newe," 

 Poem on the Deposition of Richard ij. Late 1399. 



HuRL=sift {v). 



" This is clergie hir kynde, 

 Coltis [nat] to greve, 

 Ne to hurlle with haras 

 Ne hors well-atamed." 



Do. Date 1399. 

 KNAP=the steep brow of a hill (only found in E. Cornwall).) 

 " The large and auncient Castelleof Launstun 

 Stondith on the knappe of the hill." 



Lelandh Itinera/ry^ 1533-1552. 

 SoREBDS = small pieces. 



" Eodes made of scredes.''^ 



Epigram temp. Senry VI. 



SoLLER=a temporary floor at the bottom of a mine level. 



" Whether your wood lofts be taken down, and altered 

 80 that the upper part with the soller, or platform be quite 

 taken down unto the cross-beam." 



Articles of Archhishop Grindal, 1576. 

 " Ecce solarium cecidit." Eadmer Vita S. Dunstani. 



CoEAM^some one in authority (probably a justice of the peace, 

 from " quorum ") or magistrate. 



