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Page 357
... signifies a store - room or repository ; in medieval times it denoted the department in a conventual or collegiate establishment or the like , whence stores were dispensed , which in a monastery was under the charge of the Cellarer ...
... signifies a store - room or repository ; in medieval times it denoted the department in a conventual or collegiate establishment or the like , whence stores were dispensed , which in a monastery was under the charge of the Cellarer ...
Page 375
... signifies the noon - tide time of the day , when it was usual to partake of a " nunchion " or noon - meal . ( See Nunmete , infra , p . 360. ) Whether the title of the treatise , however , was intended to refer in any manner either to ...
... signifies the noon - tide time of the day , when it was usual to partake of a " nunchion " or noon - meal . ( See Nunmete , infra , p . 360. ) Whether the title of the treatise , however , was intended to refer in any manner either to ...
Page 380
... signification of the following reference found in the Win- chester MS . only ; " Sete for worthy menn ; orcestra , vel orcistra , secundum cude " ( or cundys ? ) . It may deserve notice that Galfridus gives , as English words , " Caton ...
... signification of the following reference found in the Win- chester MS . only ; " Sete for worthy menn ; orcestra , vel orcistra , secundum cude " ( or cundys ? ) . It may deserve notice that Galfridus gives , as English words , " Caton ...
Page 416
... signifies a hound ; see p . 422 , infra . Bishop Kennett states in his Glossarial Collections , Lansd . MS . 1033 , that " in Staffordshire the coaliers going to their pits early in the morning hear the noise of a pack of hounds in the ...
... signifies a hound ; see p . 422 , infra . Bishop Kennett states in his Glossarial Collections , Lansd . MS . 1033 , that " in Staffordshire the coaliers going to their pits early in the morning hear the noise of a pack of hounds in the ...
Page 439
... signifies in Eskdale a torch used in fishing with the lister by night ; probably , as he supposes , from the rough material of which it is formed . A wick clogged with tallow is termed a Ruffy . Roughie in N. Britain signifies also ...
... signifies in Eskdale a torch used in fishing with the lister by night ; probably , as he supposes , from the rough material of which it is formed . A wick clogged with tallow is termed a Ruffy . Roughie in N. Britain signifies also ...
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Page 356 - The COUNCIL of the NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY wish it to be distinctly understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications. For these the responsibility rests entirely with the Editors of the several works.
Page 534 - arrow, green 'arrow, you bears a white blow, If my love love me, my nose will bleed now; If my love don't love me, it o'nt bleed a drop; If my love do love...
Page 363 - The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Page 4 - WE, the Auditors appointed to audit the Accounts of the Camden Society, report to the Society, that the Treasurer has exhibited to us an account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Society...
Page 377 - Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain published under the direction of the Master of the Rolls.
Page 366 - ... practised previous to the introduction of the tin enamel, for we have abundant examples of early " mezza-maiolica " from the potteries of Pesaro or Gubbio, glazed only with the oxide of lead and glass, and which are brilliantly lustred with the metallic colours. None of these can, however, be referred to an earlier date than the latter half of the fifteenth century. , / .Of whom, then, did the Italian potters learn this art ? We have no answer to the question in any historical record, and we...
Page 370 - Deum immortalem! quale seculum erat hoc quum magno apparatu disticha Joannis Garlandini adolescentibus operosis ac prolixis commentariis enarrabantur.
Page 538 - And yf ye can not fynde a laten worde, or englysshe worde acordynge to your purpose, in thys present boke so shall ye take ortus vocabulorum, the whyche is more redyer to fynden a latyn worde after the ABC. and...
Page 566 - Letter of the Council to Sir Thomas Lake, relating to the proceedings of Sir Edward Coke at Oatlands; and, Documents relating to Sir Walter Raleigh's last Voyage.
Page 397 - It will be seen that, although the letter p should seem to have been fully recognised, and it takes in the alphabetical arrangement the penultimate place assigned to it in the Anglo-Saxon alphabet, yet not unfrequently, through inadvertence or transitional orthography, the scribe has written