Randolph Cholmondeley, Randolph Cholmondeley's Notebook (ca 1578 - ca 1580)

Date

1578ca 1580ca

Author

Randolph Cholmondeley

Transcription source

Bodleian Library MS Lat. misc. e. 114

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

law

Summary

A fragment of a legal glossary in his notebook, with entries for "Clergye", "Bridges", "burnynge", "butcher", "butter & Cheese", "Cattell", "Cheshire", "Clerke of the peace", "Comissioners", "Condyte", "Cimrard" (?), "Conspyracye", "Convocation", "Corne & grane", "Countye or shyre Court", "Customes", "Damages", "Dilapidacions", "Dist? of partes"?, "Distresse", "Dower", "Eares", "Egyptians", "Entre", "Escape", "Eschequer", "Eschetor", "Estretes", "Executors", and "fayres & markettes".

Extent

fols. 72v-78v

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword