NEBULONES NEQUISSIMI, worthless scamps.

NEC NATURALITER IDIOTA, not a born idiot.

Nolt, cattle.

Nunc insanus amor, &c.  ’Love’s frenzy keeps me still in war’s array
Where bolts fly thick, and foemen compass me.’

Nuncupative, legally valid nomination of an heir.

OBSIDIONAL crown, the reward of a commander who delivered a town from siege; here used erroneously for the reward of the soldier who first entered a besieged city.

ORRA, odd; orra man, the man who does the odd jobs.

OUTRECUIDANCE, presumption.

O vous qui buvez, &c.  ’O you, who drink from flagons full, From out this happy fountain cool, Here where, upon the banks, you see Only the flocks of silly sheep, With rustic maids for company, Who bare of foot their wardship keep.’

Oyer and Terminer, to hear and determine (legal, from Norman terminology).

PAITRICK, partridge.

Palinode, recantation.

PANGED, crammed.

PAUNIE, peacock.

PEACHED, informed against, betrayed.

Peculium, property.

Penetralia, interior.

Per CONJURATIONEM, on oath.

PHILABEG, kilt.

PHRENESIAC, frenzied.

PINNERS, cap with lappets.

PIS-Aller, an inferior article which will do to go on with.

Plack, halfpenny.

Pleader, barrister.

Ploy, employment, or fuss.

POCULUM POTATORIUM, drinking-cup.

POWTERING, rummaging.

PRANDIUM, a meal.

Pretty, athletic.

PRIMAE NOTAE, of the first quality.

PRINCEPS, chieftain.

PROCUL A PATRIAE FINIBUS, far from the borders of your own land.

PROCUL DUBIO, without doubt.

PRONER, praise up.

Propone, propose.

PROSAPIA, ancestry.

PUER (JUVENIS) BONAE SPEI et MAGNAE INDOLIS, a youth of promising future and of high character.

Quantum SUFFICIT, as much as is needed, enough.

Quasi Bearwarden, in the capacity of Bearwarden.

QU’IL CONNOIT bien SES gens, that he knows well with whom he has to deal.

Quean, girl.

QUODLIBETS, subtleties.

Rampant, erect on the hind legs.

RECEPTO Amico, when a friend is present.

Rectus in Curia, cleared before the law,

Redd, put in order.

REIFS, robberies.

REISES, brushwood.

Resiling, drawing back.

RINTHEROUT, rapscallion.

RISU SOLVUNTUR TABULAE, the prosecution is laughed out of court.

ROKELAY, short cloak.

ROYNISH, scurvy.