C0RNISHISM8 IN ANCIENT LITERATURE. 337 



JoiTRNEY=task ; work. 



" Payde to Richard Scoble and his men three and 

 twentye journeys for the newe makynge the Church Style 

 . . . .xv^"— Parochial Expenses of Milton Ahhot. 1588. 



SpALLiER==mine labourers working with spades. 



" For every spallier a shovell penny." — Chug ford 

 Parochial Accounts. 1593. 



TuT=footstool 



" 1636, May 7, Paid Cooze ye Sexton, for 4 ''tuttes'' 



I say V- 6^-" — Private Account Booh of an (unknown^ 



Exeter Merchant, 1636. From Jour. R.I. of Cor., Vol. I, 

 page 71. 



Devonian. — Occurkence of Cornish Pronunciation. 



DArTER=daughter. 



" For a payre of showes for a dafter of Edmund Bela 

 . . . .v**" — Parochial Expenses of Milton Ahhot. Date 1588. 

 WiDowMAN^widower. 



" John Doydge, widowman.^^ — Do. Date 1588. 



CORNISHISMS IN OlD CoRNISH DOCUMENTS. 



CLAVEL=post8 of wood placod over a mantel-piece. 



" For two clavils paide." — Borough Accounts of Launceston. 

 Date 1450. 

 Slock =entice. 



' ' Also we ordayne that no man of the brederyn .... 

 slokke any other hys servaunte." — Rules and Regulations of 

 the Selston Guild of Cordwainers, 1459. 



HELLINGSTONE=slate. 



''Carriage of nineteen semes of helyng stone. ''^ — Launces- 

 ton Borough Accounts. Date 1467-8. 



NiTCH=bundle of reed, or spars for thatching. 



"Pd: iov OTiQ knycche oi speers." — Do. ZJfls^i? 1467-8. 



QuAiLAWAY^ wither ; die away. 



' ' Yn case you suffer your right for lack of diligence to 

 C[uayle away.'''' — Letter from Jo. Mowlsworth, prest to John 

 Trevelyan, Esq. Date before 1492. 



