17: 26, 15, 17 Humphrey, 20, 14, 20: 21, II, 17: 141, 31 Thomas, 20, 14: 21, II, 18 60, 14: 61, 21 128, 23 Thomas, lord, 13, 22: St Edmund's, Bury, 34, 17, 29 Stoke, 36, 29 Stoke-field, 25, 13: 127, 21 Strange, the lord, 36, 18 Suffolk, John de la Pole, duke of, - 193, Edmond, duke of, 100, T. Tate, lord mayor, 153, 29 Sir Rice ap, 166, 9 GLOSSARY. ancient, used of a person, old, 200, IO 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, 9+: 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, 11 braits, 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 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 written 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 claiming 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 colourable, of a fair outside, satisfactory appearance, but intended to conceal, 191, 23, 27 comfort (Lat. confortare), to give material strength and support, 44, 20: 127, 18: 169, 16 commiserable, intensely miserable, 179, 2 commission, an appointment of judges, 39, 6 commodity, advantage, utility, convenience, 36, 27: 94, 10: 120, I commonplace, a hackneyed topic, an ordinary remark, 211, 28 communicate, to share with others, to let others have a share, 103, I companiable,companionable, friendly, social, 217, 4 109, 14: compense (to), to compensate, to balance, 189, 33 complices, accomplices, 126, 2: 209, 14 conceit (to), to fancy, to imagine, 150, 14: 171, 19 conclave, an assembly, most frequently of the pope and his councillors, 183, 31 conclude (to), to include, 133, 32 concurrents, contemporaries, those living at the same time, 220, 6 conditional (n.), the use of conditional language, or the language of supposition, 123, 25, 26 conditions, arrangements, employments; rank, quality (in a contract of marriage), 138, 13: 199, convert (adj.), converted, 106, 12 cordwainer (Fr. cordonnier), a worker in leather of Cordova, a shoemaker, 177, 15 corners, squadrons, troops (Lat. cornu), 152, 30 correspondence, an arrangement for intercommunication, a means of communicating, 31, 24: 113,21 corroborate (to), to give material strength, 202, 17 cosmography, the description of the world, geographical knowledge, 171, 16 courtesy, sufferance, at his courtesy =at his will and pleasure, 112, 26 court-fames, rumours of the palace, 116, 29 credence (to give), to cause to be believed in, 216, 29 dangerous, to be feared, exposing to danger, 122, 33 dark, underhand, secret, 220, 19 debonair, agreeable, kindly, courteous, 143, 33 declared, revealed, of a man whose sentiments are disclosed, 217, 13 defacement, obliteration, forgetfulness of kindness, 55, 12 defrayed, of persons whose expenses are paid, 157, 3 demesnes, lands held by the owner for his own use, 70, 30 denier, Lat. denarius, a Roman coin of about rod. in value, but used to signify any small coin, 67, 10: 183, 22 deny, to refuse, 165, 7: 180, 10 depend upon (to), to be subject unto, or at the bidding of, 79, 7 determine, to come to an end, 102, 26 difficile, difficult, unmanageable, 183, 20 dilemma, a position in argument. where your opponent is involved |
