Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs - libri usati

LEICESTERSHIRE WORDS, PHRASES, AND PROVERBS. COLLECTED BY THE LATE AETHUR BENONIEVANS - 1881 - CONTENTS. - lIST OF WORKS REFERRED TO .. . . . . I EFACI, . . . . . . ... . . . P. 4 OR . . . vii . . . xxviii .. xxxi ... 1 . .. 21 ... 33 ... 38 ... 49 ... 53 ... 87 .. . 296 . . . 290 WORRS REFERRED TO IN THIS VOLUME. AINSWORTH. Thesaurus linguae Latins Compendiarius. Ed. Morell. London, 1783. 4to. BAKER. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, by Anne Elizabeth Baker. London, J. Russell Smith. Abel and Sons and Mark Dorman, Northampton. 1854. 2 vols., 8vo. I have made extensive use of this excellent Glossary, which I have cited throughout under the abbreviation Bk. BEAUMON AN T D FLETUHE D R ra . matic Works. BLOUXT.. cc Fragments Antiquitatis, or Jocular Tenures. Republished by W. Carew Hazlitt. Reeves and Turner, 1874. Large 8vo. Notices of Leicestershire tenures and customs will be found in this edition, which is alphabetically arranged, under the following titles Beaumanor, Brodgate . lege Bradgate Park, Hallaton, Houghton, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicester, Merdeselde lege Merdefelde, now Marefield, Ratby, Rothley, Sheepshead, Skeffington, and Thurcaston. The first of these entries is one of Mr. Hazlitts additions to Blounts work. BRAND. Popular Antiquities. Ed. Ellis. 3 vols., 8vo. Bohn, 1853. BURTON. The Anatomy of Melancholy, C., by Democritus Junior. Oxford, printed for Henry Cripps, 1628. 3rd ed. Fo. BURTON. The description of Leicestershire containing, Matters of Antiquity, History, Armoury, and Genealogy. By the late William Burton, Esq. 2nd ed. Lynn, 1777. CAMDEN. Britannia. Ed. Cough. 1806. 2 vols., fo. CHAPMAN. Translations of Homer, Resiod, C., by George Chapman. Ed. R.Hooper. Smiths Library of Old Authors. 5 vols., small 4to. London, 1857-8. CHAUUER. Canterbury Tales. The edition I have used is that by Wright, published in the Percy Soc. Series. Vols. 24, 25, 26. CLEASBY. An Icelandic - English Dictionary, based on the MS. collections of the late Richard Cleasby, enlarged and completed by Gudbrand Vigfusson, M. A. Oxford, 1874. 4to. CLEAVELAND. Poems by John Cleaveland, with Additions never before printed. Printed for W. Shears at the Bible in Covent-Garden and in the New-Exchange at the Black Beare, 1659. 12mo. J. Cleaveland Revived Poems, Orations, Epistles, and other of his ... V111 TIIE DIALECT OF LEICESTERSIIIRE. Genuine Incomparable Pieces, C. London, Printed for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhill. 1662. 3rd ed. 12mo. Cleaveland, born 1613 at Loughborough, was educated at Hinckley. Died 1659. COLLYER. The life that now is, by R. Collyer. Boston, U. S., 1872. avo. COTQRAVE . A French and English Dictionary, composed by Mr. Randle Cotgrave, C., by James Howell, Esq. 1673. Fo. DEAUON. On the choice of a Wife, illustrated by many curious examples in the history of the Frugals-Henry, Stephen, Ralph, and John, - history of Licentia-history of Fidelio and Mary-and the wedding hymn also, directions for the improvement of the mind and religion - business and servants - company - conversation-amusements, C., calcrilated for the instruction and improvement of young men and young women in the most essential concerns of life. By the late Rev. Samuel Deacon, author of the Young Convert, Prudens and Evangelicus, C., c. Third revised edition. London and Leicester, Printed and sold by J. F. Winks, High St. 1841. 12mo. Vide Introd. Literature. DIXIE. SirViloughby Dixie, Bart...