Note 71 — II

[Fuller says of ‘plunder’, “we first heard thereof in the Swedish wars”, and that it came into England about 1642 (Church History, bk. xi, sec. 4, par. 33). It certainly occurs under that date in Memoirs of the Verney Family, “It is in danger of plonderin” (vol. i, p. 71, also p. 151). It also occurs in a document dated 1643, “We must plunder none but Roundheads” (Camden Soc. Miscellany, iii, 31). Drummond (died 1649) has “Go fight and plunder” (Poems, ed. Turnbull, p. 330). It appears in a quotation from The Bellman of London (no reference) given in Timbs, London and Westminster, vol. i, p. 254.]