GLOSSARY.

And, 89, 292, if.

Bayne, 348, ready.

Blynne, 4, cease, stop; AS. blinnan.

Blyue, 44, 110, 118, speedily.

Bonde, 226, a bund-le; Du. bondt, a bavin, a bush of thornes.

Brayne, 342, scull.

Broke, 165, enjoy. AS. brúcan, Germ. brauchen. H. Coleridge.

Brydalle, 71, AS. brýd-ál, bride ale, marriage feast.

By, 197, buy.

Chaste, 176, chest, box, pit.

Dowte, 14, fear.

Dyght, 323, 379, prepare, dress.

Fare, 148, 324, going on, wish, project.

Fere, 604, company.

Flyte, 484, wrangle, quarrel; AS. flít, strife, wrangling.

Forthynketh, 51, repents, makes sorry; AS. forþencan, to despair.

Frayne, 409, ask; AS. fregnan, Goth. fraihnan.

Gan, 22, did.

Geue to God a gyfte, 351, I make a vow, I promise you, I'll take my oath.

Hele, 140, salvation.

Hovyd, 624, halted, stopt.

Hynde, 508? natty; hende, gentle.

I-doo, 335, done, finished.

I-dyght, 644, prepared.

In-same, 602, together.

Layne, 68, hide, conceal.

Lende, 107, stay; ? AS. landian, to land, or lengian, to prolong.

Leyne, 231, lay, beat.

Lyne, 214, AS. lín, flax; ? rope, 246.

Meyne, 403, household.

Myster, 12, trade; Fr. mestier.

O, 329, one.

Onredde, 308; AS. unrét, unrót, uncheerful, sorrowful, or unrǽd, imprudent.

Oþre, 205, second.

Putry, 61, adultery; O. Fr. puterie, whoring.

Rawte, 503, reached, gave.

Rewe, 186, have pity.

Rocke, 503, 508; Du. een Rocke, Spinrock, A Distaffe, or a Spin-rock; Rocken, To Winde Flaxe or Wool upon a Rock (Hexham). Dan. rok, O.N. rokkr, G. rocken: "a distaff held in the hand from which the thread was spun by twirling a ball below. 'What, shall a woman with a rokke drive thee away?'" Digby Mysteries, p. 11 (Halliwell). "An Instrument us'd in some Parts for the spinning of Flax and Hemp." Phillips; for reeling and spinning (l. 529).

Rought, 198, AS. róhte, p. of récan, to reck, care for.

Ryde, 524, light, small, AS. geryd, levis, æquus, Lye.

Ryue, 642, Du. rijf, rife, or abundant.

Scales, 401; ? husks, bark, or rind, see shoves*, in Swyngylle, below.

Schent, 258, destroyed; AS. scendan.

Stounde, 4, short time.

Strycke, 514, "Strike of Flax, is as much as is heckled at one Handful." Phillips.

Swyngylle, 216, "Swingle-Staff, a Stick to beat Flax with," Phil.; AS. swingele, a whip, lash. "To swingle, to beat; a Term among Flax-dressers." Phillips. Though Randle Holme, Bk. III., ch. viii. No. xxxiii., gives the Swingle-Tree of a Coach-Pole (these are made of wood, and are fastened by Iron hooks, stables (sic) chains and pinns to the Coach-pole, to the which Horses are fastened by their Harnish when there is more then two to draw the Coach), yet at Chap, vi., § iv., p. 285, col. 1, he says, "He beareth Sable, a Swingle Hand erected, Surmounting of a Swingle Foot, Or. This is a Wooden Instrument made like a Fauchion, with an hole cut in the top of it, to hold it by: It is used for the clearing of Hemp and Flax from the large broken Stalks or *Shoves, by the help of the said Swingle Foot, which it is hung upon, which said Stalks being first broken, bruised, and cut into shivers by a Brake.

S. 3, such erected in Fesse O. born by Flaxlowe.

S. 3, such in Pale A., born by Swingler."

(A drawing is given by Holme, No. 4, on the plate opposite p. 285.)

"Swingowing is the beating off the bruised inward stalk of the Hemp or Flax, from the outward pill, which as (sic) the Hemp or Flax, p. 106, col. 2.

Spinning is to twist the Flax hairs into Yarn or Thrid. Reeling is to wind the Yarn of the Wheel Spool on a Reel," p. 107, Col. 2.

Take, 161, deliver.

The, 187, thrive.

Tolle, 62, entice (H.H. Gibbs).

Tre, 105, wood, timber.

Trewloves, 669, either figures like true-lovers' knots, or the imitations of the berb or flower Truelove, which is given by Coles as Herb Paris (a quatrefoil whose leaves bear a sort of likeness to a true-lovers' knot), and in Halliwell as one-berry: but I cannot find that Edward IV. had any such plants on his arms or badge. Knots were often worn as badges, see Edmonston's Heraldry, Appendix, Knots. On the other hand, Willement (Regal Heraldry) notices that the angels attending Richard II. in the picture at Wilton, had collars worked with white roses and broom-buds; and trueloves, if a plant be meant by it, may have been Edward's substitute for the broom (planta genisla). The Trewloves bear, one, Ar. on a chev. sa., three cinquefoils, or; the other, Ar. on a chev. sa., a quatrefoil of the field.

Vade,[1] 125, 419, fade; Du. vadden (Hexham).

Wone, 275, store, quantity.

Wonne, 90, 628, dwelling.

Woode, 153, wild, mad.

Yheue, 491, give.

Yougeth, 20, youth, bachelor's freedom.