Note E509 — 114.
Reading edition
"Or for to iet," etc. "The Normane guise was, to walke and jet up and downe the streetes, with great traines of idle serving men following them."—Lambarde's Peramb. of Kent, Reprint of 1826, p. 320. "Jetting along with a giant-like gate."—Tom Tel-Troth's Message, New Shak. Soc. ed. Furnivall, p. 125. "Rogue, why winkest thou? Jenny, why jettest thou?"—R. Holme, Names of Slates, Bk. iii. ch. v. p. 265. "Item, That no scholler be out of his college in the night season, or goe a Jetting, and walke the streetes in the night season, unlesse he goe with the Proctors, uppon the payne appointed in the ould Statutes of the University, which is not meate. And they declare that it is the auncient custome, that the Proctors shall not goe a Jetting, without the licence of the Vice Chancellor, unlesse it be in Time of some suddayne danger or occasion."—Cole's MSS. vol. 42, in the British Museum.