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Orange, prince of, 60, 16

Orleans, Lewis, duke of, 43, 11:
44, 7 47, 9: 48, 4: 51, 24:
53, 30: 60, 15

Ormond, Thomas, earl of, 87, 17:
100, 16

Osbeck, John, 106, 12
Ostia, 131, 30

Ottomans, empire of the, 82, 23
house of the, 83, 19

Oxford, 23, 2: 23, footnote

John, earl of, 34, 12, 22:

35, 9: 100, 23: 152, 28: 154,
8: 178, 25: 192, 14

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Ratcliffe, John, 120, 16
Richard, 17, 2

Sir Robert, 120, 17:

141, 30
Ravenstein, the lord, 75, 12: 94,
6: 95, 25: 96, 3
Rhodes, knights of, 185, 13
Richard the third, 5, 1, 14: 8,
27: 9, 32 16, 2, 7, 33: 18,
15, 19: 20, 7: 22, 25: 24,
16: 25, I
Richmond, 98, 30: 171, 12
earl of, 5, 6: 80, 7:

220, 26

Riseley, Sir John, 99, 14: 146,
15

Russignon, 91, 31: 101, 26

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Saint John, lord, 180, 18

Michael's Mount, 167, 27

Sandwich, 129, 22

Savage, Sir John, 102, 9

Savoy, lady Margaret, 207, 22:
208, 29

Saxony, duke of, 94, 28: 95, 23:
96, 20

Scotland, king of, 14, I

Sfortia, Ludovico, 131, 33: 132,
17

Shaw, doctor, 10, 7

sheriff of London, 153, 30
Shene, charter house at, 27, 25
palace of, now Richmond,

98, 30: 171, 8

priory of, 175, 23

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GLOSSARY.

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ancient, used of a person, old,

200, 10

-annual, annual payment, 102, 22 answerable, corresponding, according with, 158, 14

answered, of a money payment, securely guaranteed, regularly paid, 200, 16

appalement, a rendering pallid through fright, 37, 17

appeached, accused, implicated in an accusation, 171, 5

apposite, suitable, satisfactory, to the point, III, 22

arms, armorial bearing, a coat of arms, 99, 2

articulate, pointed, particular, clear, distinct, 216, 19

artificially, artfully, pretendedly, II, 31: 92, 18

assigned, appointed, directed, 101, 3 assured, pledged, faithfully bound, 94, 31

attemper (to), to modify, soften, tone down, 18, 6: 151, 28 attentates, attempts, 86, 2

avails, value produced by anything, the worth of anything, 94,

17 avoid (to), to depart from (a country), 146, 31

babies, dolls, 145, 30

ball, the orb in the hand of a monarch as an emblem of sovereignty, 136, 29

bannerets, knights created under the royal banner, 13, 17

base, base-born, illegitimate, 109, 6

bastarded, declared illegitimate, 29,

15

bead-roll, a prayer-list, register of persons to be prayed for, or (here) cursed, 116, 16 beat (to), to sift thoroughly, inquire into, 209, 27 best-be-trust, exceedingly trusted, in whom most confidence is placed, 115, 32

better, used to express the excess over any number; as 'and better,' 93, 7

bid battle (to), to offer battle, to challenge to combat, 150, 30 blanch (to), lit. to make white, hence to render less serious, to lighten, to take the terror from, 123, 31

blooded, mixed in fatal warfare, stained with each other's blood, 77, 6

bloods, persons of courage and spirit, 50, 24

board (to), to assail, attack, used primarily of attacking ships, 115, 29

boiling, in a ferment; used of a

country in a state of excitement, 156, 8

brandle (to), to spoil, to make to

totter, to overthrow, 155, 4 bravery, a show or parade, 33, 13 broach, a spit for roasting meat, 38, 8

brocage, base, mean practices, 7, 7 brook (to), to like; to put up with, 125, II

bruits, noises, rumours, common

fame, 22, 27: 25, 23: 112, 17 butchers, applied to the murderers

of the princes in the tower, 114, 4

cabinet, private, secret, confidential 107, 7

casualties (Lat. casualia), wind

falls, accidental gains, 17, 28: 128, 9: 197, 22 catching, in the phrase "a catching harvest, means hurried, hasty, 158, 1

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cauls, a net or covering for the head, 195, 33

caveat, a Latin word meaning let him beware, used as an English substantive a caution, 85, 7 celestial, divine, belonging to a saint, 207, 6

cement (to), reflex., to patch itself together, 159, 27

censorian, belonging to the office of a censor, pertaining to moral discipline, 62, 17

ceremony, the religious character of any observance, 30, 16 champaign, flat, level (of countries), Lat. campus, 36, 32 check-roll, an authoritative list, 63, 7 chievances, more commonly writ ten achievances, meaning trade transactions, 64, 30

churchman, an ecclesiastic, one versed in church controversies, 47, 18: 211, 32: 220, 18 churlish, obstinate, 166, 30 churm, probably A.S. cyrm (see notes), but not understood by Bacon's translator, who renders it by chorus, 170, 8

cincture, compass, enclosure, 121,

21

clerks, clergymen, persons claim. ing the privilege of clergy, 120,

27

close, secret, concealed, 24, 32 cockatrice, an imaginary animal

supposed to have been hatched by a cock from the eggs of a viper. Ancient belief attributed to it the power of killing by a glance of the eye, 178, 11 coffer up (to), to hoard or store in coffers, 51, 33 cognisances, badges, marks of livery, as retainers, 192, 18

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