e Festyvall_,
fol. cxxviii. recto: "A croked countenance."

_Daying_, arbitration. Jewel's _Works_, i. 387. See Dr. Jelf's note,
_in loc._

_Dedeful_, operative? "This vertue is dedefull to all Chrysten
People."--_The Festyvall_, fol. clxxii. recto.

_Do_, to do forth; meaning, to proceed with, to go on with, occurs in
_The Festyvall_. fol. viii. verso.

_Domageable_, injurious. _The Festyvall_, fol. cxi. recto: "How
domageable it is to them which use for to saye in theyr bargens and
marchaundyses, makynge to the prejudyce--of their soules."

_Dyssclaunderer_, a calumniator. "To stone hym (Stephen) to deth as for
a dyssclaunderer."--_The Festyvall_, fol. lxx. verso.

_Enclense_, to make clean. _The Festyvall_, fol. lxxxviii. recto.

_Enforcement_, effort? Erasmus' _Enchiridion_, 1533, Rule IV. ch. xii.

{492} _Engrease_, to overfeed. "Riches, wherewithal they are fatted and
engreased like swine."--Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_, v. 615. edit.
1843.

_Ensignement_, ... (?) _The Festyvall_, fol. cliv. recto: "And whan all
the people come so togyder at this ensignement."

_Entrecounter_, to oppose. Brook's _Sermon_, 1553, quoted in Foxe's
_Acts and Monuments_, vol. viii. p. 782.

_Fele._ An application of this word may be quoted, partaking of a
Grecism, unless we mistake: "And whan the people _felte_ the smell
therof."--_The Festyvall_, fol. c. recto.

_Flytterynge_: "lyghtnynge, and not flytterynge."--_The Festyvall_,
fol. xliv. verso, edit. 1528.

NOVUS.

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Minor Notes.

_Inscriptions on Buildings._--The following inscriptions are taken from
buildings connected with the hospital of Spital-in-the-Street, co. Lincoln.

On the chapel:

"FVI A^O D[=N]I 1398 }
NON FVI 1594 } DOM DEI & PAVPERVM.
SVM 1616 }

QVI HANC DEVS HVNC DESTRVET."

On the wall of a cottage, formerly one of the alms-houses:

"DEO ET DIVITIBVS.
A^O D[=N]I 1620."

On the wall of a building now used as a barn, but formerly the Court-house,
in which the Quarter Sessions for the parts of Lindsey were formerly held,
before their transfer to Kirton in Lindsey:

"FIAT IVSTITIA.
1619."
"HAEC DOMVS
DIT, AMAT, PVNIT, CONSERVAT, HONORAT,
EQVITIAM, PACEM, CRIMINA, JVRA, BONOS."

L. L. L.

_Epitaphs._--The