Peter Heylyn, Observations on the History of the Reign of King Charles (1656)
Date
1656
Author
Peter
Heylyn
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
An Alphabetical Table. Containing the uncouth and unusuall Words which are found in our Author; those which are in a different Character, being used by him in a differing sense from that which commonly they carry
Book title
Observations On The Historie Of the Reign of King Charles
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Clarke
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- hard words
- history
Summary
Includes a glossary of supposed hard words as found in Hamon L'Estrange's The Reign of King Charles (1655; Wing L1189), but many of them appear to be misspelled or invented to discredit L'Estrange
Extent
251-55
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Accalladoes
sample: Accalladoes
Wing
H1727
