GLOSSARY

Of obsolete words, or words used in an obsolete sense

Abject

(N) An outcast, low scoundrel

(V) To humble oneself

Abroach

To set abroach = to start something one cannot or will not stop

Accombred

Burdened

Accompt

Account

Accustomably

Normally

Acoluthes

Acolytes

Adjure

To bind under penalty of an oath

Advocation

Praying to the saints

Advoutry

Adultery

Advowson

The right of appointment to a benefice

Affection

A disposition or emotional attitude towards something

Affiance

Trust

After-clap

A blow struck unexpectedly at an opponent who had thought the fight was over.

Againstond, againstand

Withstand, defeat

Agnize

To acknowledge

Ale-stake

An alehouse sign

Allege

To cite in argument

Almose

Alms

Almous

Of or relating to almsgiving or charity

Ambage

Roundabout or deceitfully ambiguous speech; legal technicalities

Amerce

To fine or tax heavily

Anences

Relating to; as anences = as regards

Annat

The income of a diocese or benefice for the first year of a new appointee's tenure, which was given to the Pope.

Annoiling

Anointing with sacred oil

Antelation

A right of preference or precedence

Apertly

Openly

Apostoil

The pope

Appair

To damage or weaken

Appellatores

One who makes a false accusation for a reward

Appliable to their beck

Ready to obey them

Appone

To make use of

Appose

To interrogate or question in court

Arectet

Raised up

Arrear

To gather and prepare an army

Ascited

Summoned

Assay

Formally tasting food before giving it to a king or other important person

Assize

To impose or assess a tax; or, to set the price of a staple foodstuff etc.

Assoil

To pardon, absolve

Astonied

Astonished

Astonyings

Astonishment, confusion

Auditory

Audience

Auter

Altar

Avouch

To declare publicly

Avowe

Vow

Awmbry

A storehouse

Ayens

Against

Baily

Bailiff, steward

Ballets

Ballads

Band

Agreement, contract

Ban-dog

A big savage dog

Bassa

A Turkish general or pasha

Bate

Debate, strife

Beadman, Beadsman

A person employed or appointed to pray for others

Bead-roll

A long list of names

Bearing sheet

A winding-sheet or shroud in which a corpse is wrapped for burial

Bearward

A keeper or trainer of performing bears

Beetle

A mallet

Behanged

Decorated with hanging tapestries etc.

Behewed

Hacked with an axe

Behight

Gave, given

Belly-cheer

Gluttony

Bel-wether

The best sheep in a flock

Bene, ben

Are

Benemen, Benomin

Deprive, take away from

Bestead

Beset

Beth

Are, is

Bewray

To betray

Blaze

To proclaim or declare

Blemished

Disconcerted

Bliue

Believe

Bolt

To sift

Bonchief

Good fortune, benefit

Bosom sermon

A sermon learned by heart and recited

Bounce

To thump

Brable

To quarrel loudly

Brary

One who brays or talks nonsense

Brast

Burst

Brenn

Burn

Brennen

Burn

Bribe

To steal

Brim

Brightly shining

Bristow

Bristol

Bruit

A noise

Buckler

A shield

Bug

A ghost, monster or other terrifying thing

Bushment

An ambush

Butt

An archery range

Buxom

Obedient

Buxumnesse

Obedience

By-cavillation

Legal quibbling or trickery

Byelden

Build

Byhoten

Promised

Byneme, Bynome

Deprive, take away from

Camping cure

A benefice which involves serving God by warfare

Canicular

In canicular days: dog-days, early August

Canivise

Apparently a nonce-word invented by Foxe; presumably "To make into a dog"

Canning

Memorizing

Canvassed

Beaten, knocked about, defeated

Capernaitical

Believing in the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation

Carle

A low churl or villain

Casule

A chasuble

Cavillations

Legal quibbles or trickery

Celsitude

High rank, majesty; your celsitude = your highness

Cense

To bless with incense

Certes

Certainly

Chafe

A fit of temper; fury

Chaffare

Merchandise

Channel

Gutter

Chap-men

Merchants

Chaps

Fissures

Chargeous

Dependent upon

Chart

A charter or official decree.

Blank chart = a blank royal decree to be filled in with the names etc. of those it will refer to

Cheeping

Flattering words

Cheer

Facial expression

Chequer

In chequer matters: Lawsuits relating to the collection of royal revenue

Chesille

A chasuble

Chimer

A loose gown with red sleeves, worn by a bishop

Chisil

A chasuble

Chrismatory

A sacred anointing

Chrisoms

Chrism, a holy oil used for anointing

Civilian

A lawyer specialising in civil law.

Clamper

To botch together

Clennere

To clean, absolve

Clepe

Call

Cloisterer

A monk or nun who stays in a monastery or convent; opposed to a friar, who wanders around begging.

Closter

An enclosure

Coact

To coerce

Coactive

Coercive

Coadjutor

An assistant

Cockle

A weed of corn fields (Lychnis githago)

Cog

To foist or publish a forged document

Collateral

Of equal rank; one of the joint holders of an office

Collation

1) Appointment of a clergyman to a benefice

2) A commentary on scripture

Colleginer

A fellow of a college

Comfortable

Comforting

Commencement

A conference

Comminatory

A sealed-off place, a cloister

Commodity

Advantage

Compter

A lock-up

Concion

A public speech

Concupiscence

Overpowering desire (not necessarily sexual)

Confute

To prove wrong

Congruent

Appropriate, suitable

Conjunction adversative

A phrase (beginning with e.g. but or however) qualifying or contradicting the one before

Conning

Wisdom

Contemn

To despise

Contentation

Content, satisfaction

Contumacy

Contemptuous refusal to obey

Contumelious

Degrading or insulting

Contumely, Contumelies

Insults

Convent

(V)

Conventicle

A clandestine or illegal religious meeting

Cope

A long silken cloak worn as an ecclesiastical vestment on certain occasions

Copulative

Forming a connected whole

Cornleader

A carter of grain

Corporace

A cloth laid on the altar on which the chalice and paten are placed

Corporal

1) of the body, physical

2) in Corporal oath, one taken while holding a physical object, such as a Bible, relic, or consecrated host.

Coste

Breast

Couetice

Covetousness

Courser

A war-horse

Courtesan

A member of the Papal Curia

Cousin-german

A first cousin

Covetise

Covetousness

Craker

A blowhard or boaster

Criminous

Criminal; relating to crime

Croised

Marked with a cross; having take the cross as a crusader

Croisy

To bestow the cross upon someone, i.e. to declare him a crusader

Croysies

Crusaders

Crudelity

Cruelty

Cullen

Cologne

Customable

Customary or habitual

Dag

A pistol

Damnified

Damaged or injured

Damp

A state of stupefaction

Dastard

A coward

Decretal

Originally, a letter written by a Pope in response to a query; later, any papal decree or document

Deduce

To bring

Deject

To throw down

Deme, Demen

Judge

Demi-lance

A short-shafted lance

Depeach

To despatch a messenger

Detour

Debtor

Deturbate

To cast down or thrust out

Deyeden

Died

Ding

To strike, beat

Dirige

The matins of the Service for the dead, beginning Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam.

Dirt-dauber

A plasterer esp. one who uses mud to make wattle-and-daub walls

Disceptation

Debate

Disgarnish

To deprive of

Dishonest

To defile

Disme

A 10% tax or charge

Disparkle

To scatter or disperse

Dispensator

One who dispenses or distributes goods

Disperkle

To scatter, disperse

Disseize

To dispossess

Dissever

To separate

Dissimule

To deceive by hiding one's true feelings of inentions

Distain

Dishonoured

Distinction

A division or section of a book or document

Dome

Judgement

Domesmen

Judges

Donates

An honorary or temporary member of a religious order

Donative

A benefice which can be bestowed by the founder or patron without reference to the bishop or abbot.

Dought

Strongly

Draft

Spent brewing grains used as animal feed

Draught

A privy (US: bathroom)

Drumflade

A kind of trumpet

Dubitation

Doubt

Dump

A state of bewilderment

Ear

To plough

Earlich

Early

Eftsoons

Soon afterwards, immediately

Eghenen

Eyes

Embassage

A diplomatic mission

Emblemish

To damage or disfigure

Embull

To seal

Enduing

Endowing

Enfeoff

To assign a fief of property or office to someone

Enmious

Hostile

Ensample

Example

Ententive

Assiduous in learning

Environ

To surround

Epicure

An atheist

Escheat

Riches obtained by plunder

Eschew

Renounce, reject

Espie

Spy

Ethnics

Pagans

Evacuate

To nullify

Evangely, Evangelies

The Gospels

Even

The day before a feast day

Even-christened

Fellow-Christians

Everichone

Each one

Examinate

A person under examination, either as witness or accused

Excheat

Confiscation of property, or encroachment on the privileges of another

Excoriate

To flay

Exeden

Asked

Exonerate

To remove an office or responsibility from someone

Experiment

To examine or test

Expugn

To conquer or overcome

Extravagant

A papal decree not included in the standard list

Fact

Deed

Faled

Broken or destroyed

Fane

A shrine

Fardel

A bundle or parcel

Farmary

An infirmary

Farmer

A bailiff

Fatigation

Weariness, long drawn-out effort

Fautor

A patron, supporter or abettor

Fedity

Filthiness

Feile

Many

Feoffment

Under the feudal system, the action of assigning lands to someone

Ferial

A weekday

Fet

Fetched

Fetch

(V) To steal by fraud or cunning

(N) Such an act of theft

Fetch

A trick or swindle

Fire-house

A house in which a fire is regularly lit (i.e. a dwelling-house)

Flagitious

Very wicked

Fleen

Fled from

Floten

Flown

Foil

A defeat

Fond

(A) Foolish

(V) To speak foolishly

Fore-elder

An ancestor

Foreface

Preface

Forefact

A criminal accusation

Forefend

Prevent

Foreslack

To neglect

Forfend

Prevent

Form

A bench

Forward

A contract or sgreement

Foundment

Basis, foundation

Frater wall

The wall of the refectory in a monastery

Fraught

Filled with; (of a ship) fully laden.

Frele

Frail

Fretted

a) Worn, rubbed

b) Inlaid with precious metal or stones

Fulleden

Baptised

Fullen

To baptise

Fumish

Angry, irascible

Fustigation

Flogging

Gage

To pledge

Gainstand

To oppose

Gaud

A worthless trinket

Gazingstock

Something people stare at

Ghostly

Spititual

Gif

If

Gile

Guile, dishonesty

Gilten

To offend against

Gin

A mechanism

Glave

A weapon consisting of a short, broad blade fixed to a long handle

Glaverer

A flattering deceiver

Gleer

To smear with paint

Glose, Gloze

To explain, or more often distort, the meaning ofa text

Glossary

A commentary or explanation

Gloss-writer

A writer of commentaries, or a spin-doctor

Gossopry

The relationship of God-parent and God-child

Grope

To find out someone's business or secrets by cunning

Hanaper

An office of the court of chancery, which collected fees for sealing and registration of documents

Hem

Them

Her

Their

Heren

Theirs

Hery

To worship

Hest

Commandment

Hight

Was named

Holden

Held

Holocaust

A sacrifice where the entire animal is burnt (not just the inedible bits)

Holpen

Helped

Holydeme

Holiness

Homely

Friendly, affable

Hoorehouse

Brothel

Horen

Whores

Horsed up

Pulled up on a man's back or a frame, to be whipped

Hosen

Stockings

Hostelar

The landlady of an inn

Housel

(N) The eucharist;
(V) To administer the eucharist

Hutching

Literally: crouching or bowing low. Figuratively: with abject humility

Hylden

Hold

Hyperbolismum

An instance of dishonest exaggeration

Hypotyposis

A vivid description of a scene

Ich

I

Ides

The thirteenth or fifteenth day of the month

Ignavy

Negligence or laziness

Imbecility

Helplessness

Imbrued

Stained with blood

Imitation

Adoption as a heir

Importable

Unbearable

Imposthume

An abscess

Inabilitation

Unfitness, disqualification

Incensive

Full of anger

Incommodity

Disadvantage

Incontinency

Lechery

Incontinent, Incontinently

Immediately

Indiction

A period of fifteen years

Indurate

Hardened, stubborn or callous

Inedge

To slip in edgeways

Infame

To make infamous

Infect

Imperfect

Infeoff

To assign a fief of property or office to someone

Infer

To state or bring forward as an argument

Infestine

Troublesome, annoying

Inspiral

Giving life to

Instant

Insistent

Instantly

Insistently

Interdictment

An interdict, i.e. a punishment laid by the church on a town etc., prohibiting any church service from being held there

Intermit

To interrupt

Intestine

Internal

Invitory

A prayer or verse of the Bible recited at the beginning of a church service

Inwrap

Involve

Isay

The prophet Isiah

Jakes

A privy (U.S: bathroom)

Jangler

A story-teller

Javel

A low scoundrel

Jouresse

Duress, punishment

Kele

To satisfy hunger or thirst

Knack

A small or trifling article

Ladypsalter

The rosary, usually the full 15 decades

Landloper

A renegade or fugitive

Latten

Brass

Laud

Praise

Lavatories

Ceremonial washings which were part of a royal levée

Laystall

A cesspit

Lean

Lend

Leasing

Lying

Lection

A reading

Leefen

Believe

Leefull

Lawful

Leese

To surrender or be deprived of

Leeue

A leeue Lord = O Lord in whom we believe

Lefull

Lawful

Legantine

Of or relating to a Papal legate

Legerdemain

Trickery

Leman

A lover

Leper

Leaper

Lesew, Lessewe

Pasture

Lesing

(A) False (V) Lying

Lesser Britain

Brittany

Let

To hinder or prevent (also past tense and noun)

Leven

Faith or confidence

Lewd

Ignorant or futile

Libard

A leopard

Libel

A document or certificate

Lictor

In Roman times, an official who attended a magistrate and carried out his orders to arrest, flog, execute etc. malefactors

Lieger

The holder of a feudal lordship or office

Lifelot

Livelihood

Lig

Lie

Like

Likely

Limbus

Limbo, in Catholic theology a state without either the torments of Hell or the bliss of Heaven, occupied by the souls of unbaptized children

Limiting

Begging

List

A strip of cloth

List

To want to do

Little Britain

Brittany

Livelode

Livelihood

Losel

A low scoundrel

Lotion

Ritual washing

Lucrified

Gained, profited

Lying for the whetstone

Telling outrageous lies

Macerate

To mash or chop up

Mainprise

The act of bailing a prisoner

Make-bait

A trouble-maker

Makebate

A lie designed to stir up trouble for someone

Malapert

Insolent

Mall

A heavy hammer

Manchet

Fine white bread

Manducation

Nourishment; usually spiritual, via the Eucharist

Maniple

1) A troop of soldiers

2) A strip of cloth worn hanging from the cuff

Manqueller

A murderer

Mansuetude

Gentleness

Maozim, Mauzzim

Hebrew name of a false god mentioned in Dan. xi 38.

Maritage

A tax paid by a vassal to his lord on the marriage of his (i.e. the vassal's) daughter

Mark

Silver, or unspecified: Thirteen shillings and fourpence in money

Gold: Eight ounces

Marmoset

A grotesque painting or statue

Masses-trecenaries

Series of three hundred masses

Maugre

Despite

Maumet, Mawmet

An idol

Maundement

Commandment

Mawmetry

Idolatry

Mecock

An effeminate weakling

Meed

Any valuable item or reward

Meet

Suitable

Meiny

Household

Mentz

Mainz

Merce

To fine

Mercement

A fine or imposition

Mercery-ware

Fine cotton, velvet or silk goods; the stock-in-trade of a mercer

Mere

Pure, complete or unmixed

Merilich

Merrily

Mete

Mete done = should do

Mickle

Great

Ministratoriously

In the capacity of an administrator.

Miser

A wretch

Misprision

Under an Act of Parliament of 1534, misprision was the crime of refusing to swear an oath acknowledging the King as head of the church

Mo

More

Monition

Instruction, warning

Monitory

Containing a warning or admonishment

Mote

1) May

2) Must

Mowe, Mow

May

Mulet

A young mule

Muniment

A document proving ownership or entitlement to something

Munition

A fortification

Murrey

A purplish-red colour

Mychel

Great

Namely

Especially

Nasturcium

Watercress (the flower now called nasturtium was not known in England in Foxe's time)

Naught

Wicked

Naverne

Navarre

Ne

No, not, nor, neither

Neatherd

A cow-herd

Nele

Will not

Neme

To take

Nene

Destruction

Nice

Silly

Nole

Will not

Nones

The 7th of March, May, July, or October; the 5th of any other month.

Nother

Neither

Nousle

To train or educate

Noyous

Annoying, troublesome

Oblation

1) An animal offered for sacrifice

2) Money given to the church

3) One of two parts of the Mass; either the Offertory, or the presentation of the consecrated bread and wine with the words "Behold the Lamb of God, etc"

Obtrectation

Abuse, calumny

Occurrent

Happening

Offendicle

Something which leads or causes a person to commit sin

Offension

Injury or damage

Onychinus

Onyx

Opprobry

1) Infamy, shame

2) Insults

Oppugn

To fight against

Ordinal

A book of rules and regulations

Ordinary

The ecclesiastical chief of an area i.e. the Parish priest in a parish, the bishop in a diocese, etc.

Ostent

A wondrous event or miracle

Ouch

A gold or jewelled brooch or buckle

Overthwart

Crosswise, either literally or figuratively

Pack

A scoundrel

Paction

An alliance

Page

A canton of Switzerland

Painful

Painstaking

Palfrey

A small horse

Pall

A kind of scarf or stole worn by a bishop; used figuratively to mean the office of bishop.

Palsgrave

A Count Palatine, i.e. a ruler who has been granted full powers in his fief by the Holy Roman Emperor

Panim

A pagan or other non-Christian

Pantofle

Expensive, highly decorated slippers; Stood upon their pantofles = Stood on their dignity

Parochian

A parish priest

Pash

To smash

Patin, patine, paten

A dish on which the communion bread is placed

Pattens

Wooden overshoes

Paunch

To cut open the belly of

Paynim

A pagan or Muslim

Pelt

To address with insults or reproaches

Penitentiary

1) A penitent

2) A priest specially appointed to hear confessions of reserved sins (ones which cannot be absolved by ordinary priests)

Percase

Perhaps

Peregrine

A pilgrim

Perfitlich

Perfectly

Perpend

To consider

Phylacteries

Hypocritical displays of virtue

Pictavia

Poitou, in France

Pill

To rob, pillage

Pilled

Tonsured i.e. having the top of the head shaved

Pinbank

The rack or similar instrument of torture

Pin-fold

A pound for stray animals

Pix

A small box in which consecrated hosts are carried about.

Plackard

An official document or proclamation

Plaice-mouth

A pursing of the lips

Plenar

Complete

Plete

To argue one's case

Plumbat

A lead ball on a cord

Point-maker

A maker of laces for fastening clothes

Poising

Weighing

Poll

To extort money from

Pontificalibus

The robes of a bishop or cardinal

Popple

The corn-cockle (Lychnis githago), a weed of wheat fields

Port

Appearance

Porthose

To canonize as a saint

Portues

A breviary or book of liturgy

Portuous

(Of a saint) Included in the standard breviary or calendar

Postil

A note or comment on a document

Potestate

A ruler, potentate

Pounced

Of a metal object, decorated by embossing or engraving

Præmunire

The crime in English law of appealing to, or acknowledging, a power outside England (usually the Papacy) in defiance of the monarch.

Pravity

Wickedness

Prebend

The revenue of a specific plot of land belonging to an ecclesiastical foundation; a prebendary was the priest to which a prebend was allocated or prebendated

Prefe

Proof

Premonish

To speak of beforehand

Prepense

Inclined towards

Presul

A prelate or bishop

Pretensed

Pretended, falsely claimed

Pretermit

To leave out, omit

Preue, preve

Proof

Priuilich

Privately

Privation

Deprivation, removal from office

Privily

Secretly

Privy

Secret

Probably

Plausibly, convincingly

Probation

Proof

Probations

Conclusive arguments, proofs

Proclive

Inclined towards

Prodition

Treachery

Prolix

Long-winded

Proll

To prowl or rob

Prolocutor

1) a spokesman

2) The chairman of a parliament or congress

Prompt

Prompt with = armed with, and very ready to use

Propone

To propose

Prorogations

Postponements

Prorogue

To postpone

Proscript

Proscribed

Prosopopœia

An orator's trick of speaking as if in the voice or person of someone else

Protonotary

A senior papal clerk or envoy

Prototypon

The first or original version of a document etc.

Prove

To test

Provisor

A person holding the right to be appointed to an office or benefice when it becomes vacant

Provoke

To invite

Psalmograph

Writer of Psalms; a title of King David of Israel and Judah

Puissance

Power

Puissant

Powerful

Puissant

Powerful

Pung

To peck

Pursuivant

A messenger or agent

Quail

To quell, suppress

Quarrel

A cross-bow arrow

Questmen

Members of a commission of enquiry

Quick

Alive

Quier

A book

Quindecim

A fifteenth part

Quire

A choir

Quondam

Former, formerly

Rabbin

A Jewish Rabbi; used contemptuously to refer to other religious leaders

Ranging-wise

At random

Rap

To plunder or destroy

Rashful

Rash

Ratle

To scold, abuse

Readie

Quick-witted and eloquent

Reave

To rob

Receitor

A harbourer of criminals

Recluse

A prison cell

Recure

To restore to health

Reed

Advise

Refel

Disprove

Refuse

To reject

Regiment

Rule

Register

A keeper of records, registrar.

Relent

To return to one's original beliefs

Replication, Replication duplic

Stages in the arguing of a case before a court i.e.

The prosecutor makes a charge, then

The defendant makes a reply, then

The prosecutor makes a replication, then

The defendant makes a replication duplic

Repugn

To oppose, fight against

Rescript

Strictly, the decision of the Roman emperor on a case referred to him by a governor or judge; more loosely, any formal written command by a person in authority

Residentiary

The canons of a cathedral

Retcheth

Reck, care themselves with

Revest

To don vestments for a religious ceremony

Revestry

The vestry of a church

Rhodanus

The River Rhône

Rochet

A linen surplice

Rode, Rood

A crucifix

Rogation

Chanting the litany of the saints during a procession

Rooten

Dig up with the snout, like a pig in filth

Rown

To whisper

Ruff

A state of excitement or pride

Ruffler

A fine-clothed but useless fellow

Ruffling

Showing off

Runnagate

A fugitive scoundrel

Sabaoth

Lord of Sabaoth = Lord of Hosts, a title of God

Sacramentary

One who holds "heretical" (i.e.not Catholic) views on the Eucharist

Sacring

The consecration of the Mass

Sale

To assail

Saturity

Repletion

Sauter

The Book of Psalms

Say

A fine cloth of silk and wool woven together

Scathe

Harm

Schone

Shall

Scurrier

A soldier sent out to see what the enemy is doing, a scout

Scutage

A tax paid instead of military service

Seam

Eight bushels

Sechen

Seek

Seggen

Say

Seigniory

Lordship or dominion; or the lands over which this is held

Sein

Say

Seised

Of land or property: assigned or granted to someone

Seizin-taking

Taking possession of a token of ownership e.g. the keys of a house.

Seker

Certain

Semblable

Similar

Sententially

As a judicial sentence

Sententiary

A person who has compiled a compendium of theological opinions.

Sepulture

A tomb

Servage

Bondage, serfdom

Sewer

A servant who lays the table, serves the meal etc.

Seyen

See

Shad

Shed

Shaveling

A tonsured monk

Shawm

A musical instrument resembling an oboe.

Shearman

A cloth-shearer

Sheave

To collect, gather up

Shent

Ruined, destroyed

Shew-bread

Special loaves of bread which were placed on a table in the Temple of Jerusalem every Sabbath and eaten by the priests at the end of the week. See Exod. xxv. 30.

Shone

Shoes

Shrift

Absolution

Shriuing

Confession

Shullen

Shall

Shulne

Shall

Siege

Seat

Silly

Innocent

Sink

A sewer or drain

Sith

Since

Sith that

Provided that

Sithe

Times

Sithen

So that

Sithence

Since

Skill

To be of importance

Slander-giving

Encouraging others to sin by bad example

Sle

Slay

Slean

Slay

Sleight

Deceitful

Slops

Baggy trousers

Slowen

Slain

Smaragd

An emerald

Snaffle

A horse bridle

Snuff

To take snuff = to take offence

Sod, Sodden

Boiled

Soldan

Sultan

Solicitor

An agent or deputy

Somoner, Somnor

A bailiff or court messenger

Sooth-deacon

A formally appointed deputy or representative

Soothfastness

Constancy in holding to the truth

Souter

A cobbler or shoemaker

Spiritualty

The clergy or hierarchy

Spouse-breach

Adultery

Spoushod

Marriage

Springall

A young man

Spurging

Oozing of matter, fæces etc. from the body

Spurn

Kick or trample underfoot

Staple

A, or the only, legally licensed market for wool for purchase by foreigners

Stellify

To place among the stars

Sternship

Haughtiness

Stied

Went (the word is principally used to describe Christ's ascension into heaven)

Stocks

The name of a market for meat and fish in the City of London

Stover

Fodder, animal food

Strumpet

A whore

Sturdy

Obstinate

Suffragan

An assistant or subordinate bishop

Suffrage

1) An assistant

2) Help, assistance of any kind

Sugge

To say

Sugget

A saying

Sumner

A bailiff of an ecclesiastical court, who summons people to attend

Sum-papal

A summary of papal edicts on a particular topic

Sumpter

A pack-horse

Supererogation

In works of supererogation: in Catholic theology, the performance of good works beyond what God commands or requires; this builds up a store of grace which the Church can dispense in the form of indulgences etc.

Supposition

An argument for a proposition

Supputation

A system of calculation

Sustentation

Provision of food, drink and other necessities

Sweuen

A false vision or fake miracle

Swinge

In phrase To bear the swinge = to have power or authority

Tallage

An arbitrary tax levied by special order

Tally for his own cates

To obtain food and other necessities on credit

Tarriance

Delay

Teende

Attend with

Temerarious

Rash, reckless

Tent

To clean a wound with a small roll of cloth

Tenths

Tithes

Tergiversation

Desertion or apostacy

Terrene

Of the earth in the sense (a) as opposed to heavenly or (b) peasant-like, low-class

The land of behest

The Promised Land

Thicker

A fuller (of cloth)

Thilke

This

Tho

Then

Thoore

Unharmed

Thrall

A slave

Thurify

To bless with incense

Tickle

Unstable, ready to fall at a touch

Tied his points

Fastened his laces

Tippet

A hood or hooded cloak

Tipstave

A court usher or bailiff

Tithed to death

Decimated (i.e. every tenth man killed)

Titiviller

The name of a demon in a morality play; hence, a scoundrel

To lie for the whetstone

To tell outrageous lies

To-brast

Completely destroy

To-broken

Destroyed, torn up

Tofore

In front of

Tollage

Money paid in tolls or taxes

Tonsure

A shaven patch on the top of the head

Tose

To card wool

Totquots

A papal dispensation allowing the holder to have any number of benefices

Towardness

Exceptional aptitude.

Toy

A trifle or bauble

Tractation

Written discussion or discourse

Train

A deception or fraud

Transumpt

A transcript or formal copy of a record or decree

Trauel

Labour

Travail

1) Labour

2) Suffering

Travell

Suffering

Traverse

A dispute or controversy

Travise

A dispute or controversy

Treen shoes

Wooden shoes, clogs

Trental

A series of thirty requiem masses

Trim-couched

Well-chosen to deceive

Trought

Truth

Tunably

Harmoniously

Uiker, Uicar

Vicar, in the sense of appointed representative

Unconning

Foolish

Unlefull

Unlawful

Unworshipped

Disrespected

Usance

Lending or borrowing at (usually usurious) interest

Utas

The eighth day after the specified feast day

Vail

An extra payment or profit, a perk

Vastation

Devastation, destruction

Vaumure

An outer fortification

Vaward

The vanguard

Verilich

Truly

Very

True, truly

Vilipend

To regard, or treat, a person as being vile or worthless

Vility

Vileness

Vineat

An ornamental border of vine leaves in a manuscript

Visor

A mask or outward show

Vitiate

To spoil or wear out

Void

To depart from

Waits

The members of a municipal band, employed by the city to play on public occasions

Walisch

Welsh

Wanyand

An imprecation or curse

Ward

A lock

Wast

Year, day and wast = "a prerogative whereby the sovereign was entitled to the profits for a year and a day of a tenement held by a person attainted of petty treason or felony, with the right of wasting the tenement" (OED)

Waster

A wooden sword used for fencing practice

Weed

A cloak or costume

Ween

Suppose, believe

Weet

 

Weet

To know

Wele

Prosperity

Wete, weten

1) to know

2) to ask of someone

Wheeler

A wheel-maker

Whirlpit

A whirlpool

Wild he, nild he

Whether he wanted or not

Will-works

Works performed by the human will, without divine grace

Wimble

An auger or gimlet

Wist

Knew

Wolden

Would

Wonnyer, Wonnier

Inhabitant

Woodness

Madness

Woodnesse

Madness, violent anger

Wot

Know

Wracke

Revenge

Wrakers

Those who wreak vengeance

Wreke

To work, do something

Wyllingly

Thankfully

Ybeden

Bade

Ybore

Born

Ych

I

Yeve

To give

Yift

A gift

Ylich

Equally

You-ward

Towards you

Yuill

Evil

Ywit

Know

Zif

Thus; or as phrase zif all = although