Mr. TODD is very copious in his explanation of the word Stang.

STOOP, or STULP, a short stout post, put down to mark a boundary, or driven into the ground for any purpose,

"Bridge-Warde Within, so called of London Bridge, which bridge is a principal part of that Warde, and beginneth at the Stulpes on the South end by Southwarke, &c."-STow's London, p. 167.

This explanation of that honest old Chronicler is confirmed by the Will of Sir GEORGE BARNES, Knight and Alderman, who, in 1557, gave "two little messuages or tenements, at the farthest end of London Bridge, adjoining to the Great Stoop there, on the West side, and lying in the parish of St. Olave, in the Borough of Southwark," to the intent that the rents thereof should be bestowed in bread to the poor, and for the repairs of the Church.

It is Sir GEORGE Barnes, who is represented on his knees in HOLBEIN's celebrated Picture in the Hall of Bridewell, as receiving from King EDWARD the Sixth the Royal Charter, by which he gave up and

I erected his Palace of Bridewell into an
Hospital and Workhouse.

Whan mark'd the ground, whan plac'd the stoop,

They made a proclamation,

That sic as for the prize had hope,

Soud tak the middle station.

NICOL's Poems, ii. 15.

TACK, grass or clover for horses and cattle, hired by the week, month, or quarter. TEASEL, or TEAZEL, the Fuller's thistle, a kind of hard burr which is used by Clothworker's in raising the nap upon woollen cloth. TEMSE, a small sieve.-Temse-Bread, bread made of flour better sifted than usual.

Some mixeth to miller the rye with the wheat
Tems loaf, on his table, to have for to eat.
TUSSER'S Five hundred Points, p. 17.

TENSTREE, or TENSTREYE, several small sums given to charitable uses at Shiffnal, in Shropshire, are charged with the payment of 10s. for the Tenstree rent.-Rep. iv. p. 256.-Quære, Tenth-stress, a sum in aid of the levy of Tenths.

TOFT, a place where a messuage hath stood, a

messuage inferior to a farm house,. and

superior to a mere cottage,—a cottage, with a croft, or other small portion of land, annexed to it.

TREEN PLATES, or PLATTERS, wooden dishes,trenchers, thrifty articles not quite disused in remote Counties,

Treen dishes be homely, and yet not to lack,
Where stone is no laster, take tankard and jack.
TUSSER'S Five hundred Points, p. 260:

WALK-MILL SILVER, a fine in lieu of fulling cloth at the Lord's Walk (or Fulling) Mill. Walk was used to express a similar repetition of Sound in the Smithy,—

You idle knaves, what are you loytring now?
No hammers walking?

Play of Lord Cromwell.

WALL SCOT, a tax, for preserving the banks or walls of the river Thames, in the parish of Plumstead.

WAND of LAND, a rod, or rood.-Wang, signifies a field.-PHILLIPS.

WARPING, a process of flooding the land, in order to render it productive, in the West Riding of the County of York.

WHITTLE, properly THWITTLE, a knife. A

farm at Softley, in the Parish of Peniston, in the County of York, pays yearly to GODFREY BOSVILLE, Esq., of Gunthwaite, a Whittle.-BECKWITH.-In OCCLEVE's picture of CHAUCER, he is represented with a knife hanging from a button on his breast, probably a Sheffield Whittle.- GOUGH'S Sep. Mon. vol. i. p. clix.

WICH, or WYCH, a salt spring, or salt work. WICK, a fixed abode, or residence, a village, a bay.

WIG, a species of cake, so called.

WINDLE, a basket, a bushel,-the tenants of

two Farms are obliged to supply the Master

of the School of Newton-with-Scales, in the

County Palatine of Lancaster, with 12 loads each of oatmeal, at 35s. the load of 240 lbs., to be delivered at the School-house,-and six windles of wheat, at 220 lbs. each, for 30s. per windle, to be delivered at the Mill. -Rep. xi. p. 268.

To windle is to make up straw or hay into bottles.-"Drivers of straw and hay will take notice, that the Kemple of straw must consist of forty Windlens; and that each Windlen, at an average, must weigh

six pounds trone, so that the Kemple must weigh fifteen stones trone."-JAMIESON. WITHEYS, any low place where willows grow. KENNET.

WOODLAND MEASURE, v. LUG.-Wood Measure, in the County of Hereford, bears a proportion to the Statute measure, as 49 to 30%, but it is generally understood as 8 are to 5.

WORTHINE, a quantity of land, so called in the Manor of Kingsland, in the County of Hereford, the tenants of such lands have been styled "Worthies."-DUNCumb. YARD LAND, is a quantity of land, which is various according to the place, from 15 to 40 acres. Ten acres of land, according to the old custom, make a Ferdell or Ferundel (Fardingdeal), and four Ferdells make a Yard Land. The fourth part of an acre, in some places, is called a Yard of Land, and half an acre is a Selion.

YARD of LAND, a yard of land, in the County of Somerset, is a quarter of an acre. YEOMEN BREWERS.-There are no such persons at present,—but it is understood, that there formerly were persons known by