most of these Bargaynes, especially near the Sea, have since been subdivided into' lesser portions, and converted into modern dwellings.

BARTH, a sheltered place, or pasture for cattle and sheep.

BARTON, the demesne lands of a Manor, a Manor house, the out-houses belonging to a farm or mansion house, the court-yard.COWEL, and ASH.

BOLTED or TEMSED, that is, meal or flour sifted to make it finer.

BOON DAYS, a service anciently performed by

some tenants, in reaping the corn of their landlords at harvest,-and some, more especially in Wales, are still bound to give one, two, or more days' work for that purpose, when required,-which, in some places, are called, "Boon Days."-PHILLIPS.-In the County of York, Boon Days, are those days when Statute work on the Highways is performed.

BOTTLE of Hay, a quantity of hay or grass bundled up,

But I should wither in one day, and passe

To a botle of hay, that am a locke of grasse.
DONNE'S Juvenilia, p. 61.

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BOUGHT BREAD, a term which is used in the North of England, to signify the finer kind of bread purchased of the Baker, in opposition to that of a coarser quality which is baked at home. BRACKEN-DALES.-Bracken, or Braken, that is, Fern.-PHILLIPS says, Brake is the female fern. In the North of England it is pronounced breckin. Both the ferns delight to grow in barren, dry, and desert places, -to which HORACE bears testimony,

Neglectis urenda filix innascitur agris.

And SPENSER poetically adds,

In a canvas thin he was bedight,
And girded with a belt of twisted brake.

F. Q. ii. XI. 22.

In the South, it is called Brakes.

BUTTS, the place, in Archery, on which the mark to be shot at, is placed,—

He calls on Bacchus, and propounds the prize;
The groom his fellow groom at butts defies,
And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes.
DRYDEN.

BUTTS, or other conveniences, for the people to kneel upon at their prayers in Church. Quare, Bass, a kind of straw Cushion, a

hassock. This bequest occurs in the County of Devon, and the purchase of butts was to be made at Easter.

BUTTS of LAND, v. SELION of LAND.

BYERLEYS, a division or township,—in an account of the monies given to the poor of Dalton, in Lancashire, is a sum to the poor of three particular Byerleys within that parish. Rep. iii. p. 202.-Byrlaw or Burlaw, rural Laws so named, which are made and determined by consent of neighbours, who are elected and chosen by general acquiescence in the Courts, called " The Byrlaw Courts."-SKENE.

CHEAT BREAD, household bread, wheaten bread of the second sort. See, Manchet.

CHURCH MEASURE, v. LUG.

CLEW, or CLEUGH, a precipice, a rugged ascent, a cliff, a dam.

COBBS, loaves made of barley meal, so called in Oxfordshire.-Cobloaf, a bunn,—a crusty, uneven loaf. SHAKESPEARE applies the word contemptuously to personal appearance, where Ajax calls Thersites a "cobloaf."-Troilus and Cressida. Act. ii. Sc. i. COMMON HAM, a meadow, or piece of ground

over which the right of Common extends.

CROFT, a little close adjacent to a house,—

This have I learn'd,

Tending my flocks hard by, i' th' hilly crofts
That brow this bottom glade.

MILTON'S Comus.

CROWDE, a vulgar corruption of Crypt, the burying place under the church. This word is used in the Parish of St. Nicholas, in Bristol, and is not uncommon in the County of Somerset. Has it any reference to the expression of the Antients, when speaking of a dead person, " Abiit ad plures," he is gone to the many, or the crowd?-JAMIESON says, that Croud metaphorically implies, to groan, to complain.

CURTILAGE, a piece of void ground, a garden, yard, or field lying near, or belonging to, a

messuage.

DAGSWAIN, a rough coarse mantle, a sort of

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carpet, a carpet to lay on a table, such as we call," Turkey work."-TODD.

DALLOPS, patches of land in arable, where the plough has not reached, owing to some natural or accidental impediment.

Then down with the headlands, that groweth about,
Leave never a dallop, unmown and had out,-
TUSSER'S Five hundred Points, p. 171.

DAY'S MATH, is applied only to meadow or grass-lands, and averages about a Statute

acre, in other words, it is that quantity of

grass usually mown by one man in one day, for the purpose of making hay.-DUNCUMB. DOLE, a charitable gift or donation,—alsó, a small portion of land, in the form of a balk or ridge.

FARDING-DÉAL, or FERUNDEL of LAND, the fourth part of an acre. FARRENS, there is a tract of meadow containing about 160 acres, called "Laleham Borough or Burway," in the Parish of Chertsey, but in the Manor of Laleham, a village in Middlesex on the other side of the Thames. It pays no tythe or taxes of any kind to either Parish. The pasturage belongs exclusively to the Owners of estates within the Manor of Laleham, and is lett by them to the Occupiers of those estates, or to others, even living in other Parishes. This right is divided into about 300 parts, called Farrens," of which some are entitled to the feed of one horse, others of a cow and calf. A horse Farren will lett for 17. 17s. 6d. a year, that of a single cow for 17. 5s. They are often sold distinct from the estate