378 o Pass on ourselves a Salique Law.] The Salique Law is a law in France, whereby it is enacted, that no female shall inherit that crown.

GLOSSARY

Advowtry:  Adultery
Animalia:  Animals (L.)
Arsie-versie:  Upside-down
Aruspicy:  Prophesying, fortune-telling
Bachrach:  Wine from Bacharach, in Germany
Bavin:  A bundle of firewood
Boutefeu:  Arsonist or (literal or metaphorical) firebrand
Cacodaemon:  An evil Spirit
Caldes’d:  Cheated
Calendae:  The 1st or 2nd of the month
Calleche:  A carriage with two wheels and a folding hood
Camelion:  A giraffe
Camisado:  An attack by night, during which the attackers wore
shirts over their armour so they could recognise one another
Cane & Angue pejus:  Worse than a dog or a snake (L.)
Caperdewsie:  The stocks
Capoch’d:  Pulled off the hoods
Caprich:  A caprice
Carbonading:  Thrashing, beating
Carroch:  A stately or luxurious carriage
Catasta:  The stocks
Cawdie:  A military cadet
Cawdle:  Soup or gruel
Ceruse:  White lead used as a cosmetic
Champaign:  Champagne wine
Champain:  Countryside
Chous’d, choust, chows’d:  Cheated
Chowse:  A cheat’s victim
Classis:  The elders and pastors of all the Presbyterian
congregations in a district
Coincidere:  To come together (L.)
Congees:  Bows, curtseys
Conster:  Construe, explain
Conventicle:  Secret or illegal religious meetings
Covins:  Conspiracies
Cucking-stool:  A stool to which a malefactor (often an unfaithful
wife) was tied, to be exposed to public ridicule, or ducked in a
pond or river. 
Curship:  The title of being a cur —­ pun on “worship”
Curule:  An ivory chair used as a mayor’s throne
Deletory:  That which wipes out or destroys
Deodand:  In English law an article which had caused a man’s death
was ordered by the court to be a forfeited as a deodand (Ad Deo
dandum — to be given to God).  Before the reformation it or its value
was given to the Church; afterwards to the local landowner. 
Dewtry:  A stupefying drink made from the Indian thorn-apple
fruit. 
Dialectico:  A philosophical point of argument
Dictum factum:  No sooner said than done (L.)
Disparo:  To separate (L.)
Donzel:  A young page or squire
Drazel:  A slut
Ducatoon:  An Italian silver coin, worth about 6 shillings. 
Ejusdem generis:  Of the same kind (L.)
Enucleate:  To explain the meaning of
Ex parte:  On behalf of (L.)
Exaun:  A religious establishment not under the authority of the
local bishop
Fadging:  Fitting
Feme-covert:  A woman under the protection of a husband ( a legal
term)
Ferk:  Beat, whip
Festina lente:  Make haste slowly (L.)
Fingle-fangle:  A whimsical or fantastic idea
Fother:  A cart-load
Fulhams:  Loaded dice
Ganzas:  The birds which the hero of a popular