Note 106 — NEWES FROM MORE-LANE.

Nares defines thus, "Termer, a person, whether male or female, who resorted to London in term time only, for the sake of tricks to be practised or intrigues to be carried on at that period;" as in Decker's Belman, "Some of these boothalers are called termers, and they ply Westminster Hall; Michaelmas term is their harvest, and they sweat in it harder than reapers doe at their works in the heat of summer."