Note 30b — Chapter VI · THE BOOK OF ALL THE “AUNCIENT CUSTOMS.”
Reading edition
Moxes we may suppose to be a corruption from the Dutch word maeschen, mashes, and fare from fahre, in the same language. Indeed, most of the other technical words in the Town Books are derived from the Teutonic, and were apparently introduced by the Flemish emigrants who are supposed to have settled at Brighthelmston.