lieved, for tho' the Consecrated
Bread has all the accidents of Bread, yet they affirm, 'tis the Body of
Christ, and not of Bread but Flesh and Bones.]
[Footnote y: In the County-Court of Mary-Land, very few of the Justices
of the Peace can write or read.]
[Footnote z: 'Tis the Custom of the Planters to throw their own, or any
other Person's Hat, Wig, Shooes or Stockings in the Fire.]
[Footnote aa: Planters are usually call'd by the Name of _Oronooko_,
from their Planting _Oronooko-Tobacco_.]
[Footnote bb: Cockerouse, is a Man of Quality.]
[Footnote cc: Musmilleon Vines are what we call Musk milleon Plants.]
[Footnote dd: _AEthon_ is one of the Poetical Horses of the Sun.]
[Footnote ee: _Chinces_ are a sort of Vermin like our _Bugs_ in
_England_.]
[Footnote ff: Wild Turkies are very good Meat, and prodigiously large in
_Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote gg: Succahana is Water.]
[Footnote hh: A Goud grows upon an _Indian_ Vine, resembling a Bottle,
when ripe it is hollow; this the Planters make use of to drink water out
of.]
[Footnote ii: This Fellow was an Apothecary, and turned an Attorney at
Law.]
[Footnote kk: The _Yaws_ is the _Pox_.]
[Footnote ll: The chief of _Mary-Land_ containing about twenty-four
_Houses_.]
[Footnote mm: There is a Law in this Country, the Plaintiff may pay his
Debt in Country pay, which consists in the produce of his Plantation.]
[Footnote nn: The home ward bound fleet meets here.]
[Footnote oo: The Author does not intend by this any of the _English_
Gentlemen resident there.]
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FINIS.
GLOSSARY.
Cockerouse: a man of Quality.
Chinces: _chinches_,--bed-bugs.
Froes: women; _frau_ (German)
_vrouw_ (Dutch).
Hoe (at the): working in the field.
Lanctre-Looe: the game at cards of _loo_.
Night-rails: night cloathes.
Oast: host.
Oronooko: tobacco, also a nick-name, in those days, for a planter.
Pam: in _loo_ the knave or clubs generally, and sometimes
the knave of trumps, is agreed on as the
highest card, and called Pam.
Sot-weed: tobacco.
Sot-weed Factor: tobacco-agent or supercargo.
Succahana: water.
Tripple-Tree: gallows.
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