Note 584 — THE BLACK BOOK.
Reading edition
bill-men] i. e. watchmen,—who carried bills (a kind of pikes with hooked points), which in more ancient times were the weapons of the English foot-soldiers.
Reading edition
bill-men] i. e. watchmen,—who carried bills (a kind of pikes with hooked points), which in more ancient times were the weapons of the English foot-soldiers.