LEWNES, or LUNES, levies ?-a benefaction of 40s. is payable to the parish of Walsall, to ease the poor inhabitants of their lewnes and assessments.-Rep. ix. p. 585.-This word seems peculiar to the County of Staf ford, as it occurs in the same sense at Kingsley.-Rep. xiii. p. 420.

LUG, a pole to measure land with. In measuring, it is the same with a Perch or Rod, or, as some call it, Lugg. By the Statute of the 35th of ELIZABETH, this measure is a length of 16 feet, but in some Counties it consists of 18 feet, and is called Woodland measure,-in some places of 21 feet, termed Church measure, and in others, of 24 feet, under the name of Forest measure. -PHILLIPS.

And eke that ample pitt, yet far renown'd
For the large leape which DEBON did compell
COULIN to make, being eight lugs of grownd,
Into the which returning backe he fell.

SPENSER'S F. Q. b. II. c. x. xi.

A Lugg, in Herefordshire, is 49 square yards of Coppice wood.

MANCHET, the finest white bread.

The manchet fine, on highe estates bestowe,
The coarser cheate, the baser sorte must proove.

NARES.

An estate in the parish of Hedsor, in the County of Buckingham, called "Lambert Farm," was formerly holden under the Manor, by the service of bringing in the first dish at the Lord's table, on St. Stephen's day, and presenting him with two hens, a cock, a gallon of ale, and two manchets of white bread.-BECKWITH'S Fragmenta Antiquitatis, p. 444.

NORDEN, in his Speculum Britanniæ, p. 25, describes Heston, in the County of Middlesex, as 66 a most fertyle place of wheate, yet not so much to be commended for the quantitie, as for the qualitie, for the wheat is most pure, accompted the purest in manie shires. And, therefore, Queene ELIZABETH hath the most part of her provision from that place for Manchet for Her Highnes's own diet, as is reported."

MASLIN, or MISCELIN, a provincial word, implying bread made of mingled corn, as wheat with rye.

MEESE, meadows?—an annual rent issuing out

of a certain toft or meese place, is payable to the poor of Shiffnal, in Shropshire.

MET, a measure, a strike or four pecks,-20

mets or 40 bushels of coals are directed to

be given to 20 poor widows of Bridlington. -Rep. ix. p. 732.

MOTTOWS, the rent of a parcel of meadow ground, in two parcels or mottows, is to be appropriated to the poor of Bradley, in the County of Stafford.-Rep. xi. p. 529.Quare, from Motte, a clod, a turf of earth, a little hill, also a Butt to shoot at.-Cor

GRAVE.

MUNCORN, or MANGCORN, corn of several kinds mixed,-as, wheat and rye. It is generally pronounced Mung Corn, and occurs in old records. The word is in common use, both in Shropshire and Staffordshire, and some parts of Worcestershire, among the poorer people, to denominate an inferior kind of bread.

Nook of LAND, two Ferdells of land make a Nook, and four Nooks make a Yard Land, v. YARD LAND.

ODD-MARK, in Hereford, one third of the arable

land of a farm ;-thus, if a farm comprised 150 acres, under tillage, it was divided according to the old mode of husbandry, into three equal parts;-one under fallow, an

other under wheat, and a third under Lent grain ;-the Odd-Mark particularly applies to the fallow, as under preparation for wheat.-DUNCUMB.

PARROCK, a Paddock, a small inclosure,-the diminutive of Park,-a field adjoining to, or surrounding a house.

PIDDLE of GROUND, a corruption of Pightel. PIGHTEL, or PICLE, a small parcel of land in

closed with a hedge, which, in some parts of England, is called a " Pingle,”—a small meadow near a house.

PINGLE, a small croft, or Picle, that is, á field, -which, in Lancashire, is called a "Pingot."

PROCTOR, a person appointed to beg, or collect

alms for Leprous or bed-ridden persons, who could not go out for themselves. By an Act of EDWARD the First such persons were allowed to appoint these Proctors, or Procurators, provided not more than two were appointed for one Lazar House. But by an Act of the 39th of ELIZABETH, such "Proctors, Procurers, or Patent gatherers, for goals, prisons, or hospitals," were declared Rogues and Vagabonds. Hence they were excepted against in the Regulations

of WATTS'S Almshouses at Rochester; and
not to be received as Travellers,-

You're best get a clap-dish, and say
You are a Proctor to some Spital-house.

Archæologia, vol. xviii. p. 9.

PULVERING DAYS, any days when the Community assemble to let to farm the Town Lands, but the contract was always confirmed on a particular day, as at Southwold on the 6th of December, being St. Nicholas's day.

PYKE of LAND, the same as PIGHTEL, or PICLE. QUILLET of LAND, a small parcel of land.-An

annuity, issuing out of a barn and Quillet of land, is payable to the Poor of Great Torrington.-Rep. xi. p. 67.-Quillet, a subtilty, which seems to have originated among the Schoolmen of the Middle ages, by whom it was called a "Quidlibet." DOUCE.

-crack the lawyer's voice,

That he may never more false title plead,
Nor sound his quillets shrilly,-

Timon of Athens.

RAVEL BREAD, bread of a middle sort, between white and brown. This term is in use in

Kent. It is in some places called, “ Black