Robert Brady, A Full and Clear Answer to a Book Written by William Petit (1681)
Date
1681
Author
Lexicon title
The Glossary
Book title
A Fvll and Clear Answer to a Book, Written By William Petit Esq., Printed in the Year 1680 By which it appears, That he hath Mistaken the Meaning of the Histories and Records he hath Cited, and Misapplyed them: And that he hath Added to, or Taken from them, or left Unrecited such Words and Matters as he thought would either Advance, or Destroy his Assertion: With a True Historical Account of the Famous Colloqvivm or Parliament, 49 Hen. III. And a Glossary, Expounding some few Words used frequently in our Antient Records, Laws and Historians
Publication place
London
Publisher
Samuel Lowndes
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- antiquities
- law
Summary
Lengthy articles on individual words or groups of words, including feudal law, knight's fees, tenure by knights, military-service, knights milites, fee-farm, frank-fee, feudatarii, fideles, folke-mote, liberi homines, liberi tenentes, sapientes, wites or witen, and vasallus
Extent
1-40 (second pagination, after page 252)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Spaientes, Wites, or Witen WHich mostly signifie Noblemen, or Great Lawyers. Wita in Somners Saxon Dictionary, is first turned Optimas, a Nobleman, and then Sapiens, a Wise Man. .... (p. 35)
sample: Spaientes, Wites, or Witen WHich mostly signifie Noblemen, or Great Lawyers. Wita in Somners Saxon Dictionary, is first turned Optimas, a Nobleman, and then Sapiens, a Wise Man. .... (p. 35)
Alston
XVIII.II.83
Wing
B4189
Catalog
Kennedy 8586
Other editions
1684: Wing B4194 (glossary enlarged in Introduction to Old English History [London: Samuel Lowndes, 1684] -- see LEME 866; Alston XVIII.II.125-25a)
