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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Note E145 — 33.

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"Bulchin," a double diminutive = bull-ock-in, cf. man-ik-in.

"For ten mark men sold a little bulchin; Litille less men tolde a bouke of a motoun; Men gaf fiveten schillynges for a goos or a hen." —R. de Brunne's Chronicle, ed. Hearne, i. 174.

See also Langtoft, p. 174, and Middleton, iii. 524.

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