XV.

[_Deposition of_ JOHN WILKINSON.]

John Wilkinson of London, plasterer, of the age of 33 years or thereabouts, sworn and examined, saith that he was commanded by John Edmay, the Mayor's officer, to appraise certain old playing garments which were broken and torn, some of them of sarcenet and some of saye, and others which he now remembereth not; and that he and Thomas Curtis appraised the said garments and stuff at 35s. or 36s. 9d., which in his conscience were no better worth, nor he would not have gladly given so much for them, and more he knoweth not.

(Signed) JOHN WILKINSON.

GLOSSARY

_Aldermost_, most of all. _Also_, so as, so. _Anchor_, hermit. _Apaire_, _appaire_, injure, wither. _Appropred_, appropriated. _Arette_, attribute, account. _Astert_, escape. _Avoutry_, adultery.

_Bain_, obedient. _Battles_, divisions of an army. _Bear on hand_, deceive. _Bedene_, _bedeen_, betimes. _Behote_, promise. _Beme_, tree. _Betake_, _beteach_, commit. _Blee_, countenance. _Blin_, departing. _Blinne_, cease. _Blyve_, quickly. _Borrows_, sureties. _Bote_, remedy. _Brast_, burst. _Brenningly_, burningly. _Brere_, briar. _Brook_, use. _Busk_, make ready. _Buxom_, obedient, pliant. _Bydene_, betimes.

_Careful_, sorrowful. _Chevice_, preserve. _Clap_, talk noisily, chatter. _Cleped_, called. _Coresed_, fit to be a courser [?] _Corser_, coffer [?] _Courtepy_, short coat. _Covenable_, suitable. _Covetise_, covetousness. _Crach_, _crèche_, cradle. _Crake_, boast. _Curteys_, courteous.

_Dearworthy_, precious. _Deem_, judge. _Delibered_, deliberated. _Derne_, secret, remote. _Dight_, make ready. _Digne_, worthy. _Discordeth_, disagrees. _Dislander_, defame. _Dooms_, judgments. _Dress_, direct.

_Eisell_, vinegar. _Empechement_, hindrance. _Emprised_, undertaken. _Encheson_, cause. _Enderes-night_, former or other night. _Everychone_, everyone.

_Fand_, found. _Farly_, marvellous. _Fay_, faith. _Fere_, companion; _in-fere_, together. _Fond_, find, contrive. _Fone_, _foon_, foes. _Fordo_, make nought. _Forlorn_, lost. _Forthy_, therefore. _Forwhy_, because. _Fremd_, strange _Frere_, frier. _Frese_, make ready.

_Gabbeth_, talks foolishly. _Gent_, fair. _Gin_, begin. _Gleed_, spark. _Grathly_, readily. _Gree_, pleasure. _Groom_, man.

_Halfendell_, half part. _Halk_, corner. _Hat_, am called. _Hend_, courteous. _Hent_, seized. _Hight_, called. _Hind_, servant. _Hipped_, hobbled.

_Idiots_, unskilled persons. _In-fere_, together. _i-_, participial prefix. _I-pight_, pitched. _I-wis_, certainly.

_Jesen_, _jesayne_, place of childbirth.

_Kay_, meadow. _Kithe_, show. _Knowledge_, acknowledge, confess.

_Lancegay_, lance. _Lang_, long. _Leasing_, lying. _Leer_, cheek. _Lede_, following. _Leme_, shine. _Lend_, stay. _Lere_, learn. _Let_, (1) hinder; (2) cause. _Letting_, hindrance. _Lewte_, loyalty. _Lithe_, listen. _Lo_, meadow. _Lore_, lost. _Losenger_, rascal. _Low_, blaze. _Lyre_, a kind of stuff.

_Mansuete_, gentle. _Maugre_, despite. _May_, maiden. _Meddled_, mingled. _Mees_, houses. _Mo_, more. _Myster_, need.

_Namely_, specially. _Nar_, nearer. _Nice_, foolish. _No force_, no matter. _Nombles_, loins of a deer. _Notoyrly_, notoriously. _Novels_, news.

_Okerer_, usurer. _Other_, or.

_Paned_, slashed. _Percase_, perchance. _Pirie_, gust. _Pludde_, some kind of kettle. _Postillators_, preachers. _Praised_, appraised. _Prime_, six to nine A.M.

_Quarrels_, small squares. _Queme_, please. _Quere_, choir. _Quit_, requited.

_Race_, scratch. _Ray_, kind of cloth. _Recheless_, careless. _Reprefe_, reprief, reproof. _Rown_, whisper. _Royaumes_, realms.

_Salued_, saluted. _Saws_, sayings. _Say_, silk. _Semblable_, like. _Shende_, harm, spoil. _Sicker_, sure; _sikerly_, surely. _Silly_, innocent. _Slee_, slay. _Slo_, _slone_, slain. _Somedeal_, somewhat. _Somers_, baggage mules. _Sond_, messenger. _Sowning into_, tending to. _Spill_, destroy. _Starven_, die. _Styed_, mounted. _Sue_, pursue, follow. _Supplye_, supplicate. _Stound_, space of time. _Sy_, saw.

_Tayd_, tied. _Teen_, sorrow. _Thee_, thrive. _Tho_, then. _Throw_, space of time. _Till_, to. _Tine_, lose. _To-coming_, future. _Train_, treachery. _Truage_, tribute. _Tuke_, a dress material. _Tynde_, antlers.

_Unketh_, unknown, strange. _Unneath_, _unnethis_, hardly. _Unwieldy_, impotent.

_Wed_, pledge. _Welt_, wielded, disposed of. _Werrey_, make war on. _Wight_, man. _Wight_, strong. _Witen_, know. _Wonder_, wondrous. _Wone_, dwell. _Woning wane_, dwelling place. _Wood_, mad. _Wyte_, blame.

_Y-_, participial prefix. _Yede_, _yode_, went. _Y-nocked_, notched. _Y-wis_, certainly.

Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE

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