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A28472	A world of errors discovered in The new world of words, or, General English dictionary, and in Nomothetes, or, The interpreter of law-words and terms by Tho. Blount ... Esq.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1673 (1673)	Wing B3345; ESTC R18536	22,640	22

since it is obvious to every common Reader that he has hinted that is in the softest phrase borrowed almost every Stone from the Law Dictionary to build up his Interpreter yet with very disingenuous arts and subtile disguises His Additional Centuries of words he might without so much as ever scratching his head have multiplied into Millenaries since he has by vertue of his Nomothetical power adopted many into the family of Law words which are absolute strangers to it As House Moer Palmer Paragraph Paranimph Parathalassia Patriarch Tillage Wife Zenodochium Zealot and such like But it may be objected The Law Dictionary too hath divers words that are not precisely Terms of the Law I grant it but say they are some way or other allied to the Law and not to be found in our common Dictionaries and whereto I add the Statute Record or Charter wherein I found them as my Warrant for their insertion one principal part of my design having been from the ruines of antiquity to retrieve as far as I was able ancient Law-Latine Saxon and Record-words almost utterly lost as Bescata Juncaria Tassum Putura Rasarium Sichetum a work of labor and may be of use but our Author found an easier way to the Wood. It is enacted in the Fourteenth year of His Majesties Reign That no person shall Print any Book or Copy or part of any which another by due entry of it in the Stationers I all or otherwise hath the right or priviledge solely to Print without the consent of the owner of such Book or Copy upon a Penalty therein mentioned however this evasion hath been industriously found out That if some little alteration be made in every Page be it but addition or substraction or the misusing or change of some words it will pass with a non obstante though such as practise it are dignified with the name of Land-Pirates To which title our Author hath undoubted right not for this Work onely but for other of like nature Thus then he shews his skill Where I put the Citation before the Exposition he puts it after Et e contra as in Scavage Waxshot Where I say As in the Case of the Burgesses of Derby He As in the matter concerning the Burgesses of Derby See Thrave of Corn. Where I say small he says little as in Grills and where I say called he writes nominated as in Candlemass Where I having cited an old Deed or Charter say at last Penes such a one he says in the custody of As in Assart Where I say The word is mentioned in such a Statute he says spoken of As in Pyker Where I say Most notoriously he more notedly Vide Term. Then for variety he sometimes puts my Citation into English and it is odds he makes nonsence of it by so doing as in Pax Ecclesiae Seneucia Again he sometimes abridges as in Eskippeson and sometimes wholly omits the Citation as in Leccator Orgallous Not reflecting that I had not at all inserted those words but for the authority of the Citations To some Words he adds others he alters As where I say Balenger seems to have been a kind of Barge or Water-Vessel he alters it thus subtilely A Boat or Barge to sail on the Water So in Blomary I onely cite the Statute of 27 Eliz. 19. He of this you may read at large 27 Eliz. 19. In which Statute the word is barely mentioned without any thing of it at large Lastly He hath an excellent way of mustering words up to a Century and filling up Paper by dividing one word into two as in Couratier and repeating the Exposition of Synonima's as Annats First-fruits and Primitiae Romefeoh Romepenny and Romescot Heinfare Henfare and Hinefare His principal Additions are certain Saxon words in Domesday Book said to be expounded by Mr. Agar and Printed in a Book called The Law of Conveyances The most part of which I rejected as full of Errors some of the Words being mistaken and more of the Expositions So that I concluded it either was not really Mr. Agars or else much abused by the ignorance of the Transcriber or Printer however our Author kindly entertained them to pass muster I was not willing to trouble my self or the Reader with any more of these absurdities though I can produce at least Two hundred besides misalphabets and false English in great abundance and none of them excused by any Errata I have onely to add That besides his own mistakes he brings most of the Authors he deals with even the Sages of the Law as Bracton Dyer Coke c. to be accessory to his Errors by quoting them falsly But I am willing to say somewhat in his excuse he was set on work by some Booksellers and enjoyned to make great expedition some of his hasty work having been Printed before the rest was written and much written before half digested If they had allowed their Compiler more time perhaps he could have done better ERRORS Discovered in the miscalled NOMOTHETES OR THE INTERPRETER OF OBSCURE LAW-WORDS and TERMS ACcessory Because Manslaughter is sudden and not presented Coke lib. 4. fol. 44. And under the same Title-word he says If a Man counsel a Woman to murther the child in her Womb and afterwards the child is born and there murthered by the Woman in the absence of him that so gave the counsel yet he is accessory by his counselling before the Birth of the Infant and countermanding it Dyer fol. 186. pl. 2. Here are no less than three gross mistakes in these few lines and Dyer vouched for Warranty Acre He concludes this word thus As was adjudged in the Exchequer in the Case between Sir Edw. Aston and Sir Jo. B. in the Statute made concerning sowing Flax. Wondering how this Statute came to be hauld in without any Coherence I found at last our Author who was in hast hath omitted two or three lines of the subsequent matter which should make it sence Ayde In the close of this word the Author hath this piece of nonsence The Civil in Suits between two allow a third to come in pro interesse Allay The reason of which Allay is with a better metal to augment the weight of the Silver or Gold I never heard of a better metal than Gold but hope he intended to have said baser Ancestor Antecessor The signification is well known but we make this difference that Ancestor is applied to a natural person as J.S. and his Ancestors the other to a Body Politick or Corporate as a Bishop and his Predecessors Coke on Littl. lib. 2. cap. 4. sect 103. To what the other relates does not appear however my Lord Coke is injuriously represented as the Author of this blundering lame expression Arabant Are they that held by tenure of Ploughing or Tilling Ground These Arabants were certainly a sort of excellent Plough-men Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra Boves Arsura Things relating to Coynage Arsura is the singular number and

Conies and Hares within certain of his Lands Nor does this mend the matter for though a man may have a Warren by Prescription yet Warren does not signifie a Prescription or Grant Wolfetchsod Sax. The condition of an Vtlary The Saxon word is Wulvesheved or Wulfesheofod Anglice Wolfeshead and Vtlary for Vtlaw Saint Wilfrids Needle A certain narrow hole in the Church of Wakeman in Yorkshire wherein womens honesties were in times past tryed There is no such Church as Wakeman in Yorkshire But Camden in his Britannia relates the same story of Rippon Church and the Cheif Magistrate of that Town being called the Wakeman our Author by a new Trope converts the Magistrates name into a Church Xerxes A King of Persia Who with an Army of Seventeen hundred thousand Men Thou Boy I never read his Army consisted of above Ten hundred thousand and so Thomasius and Goldman deliver it Other Authors say even there is a cipher too much and that his Army was made up of onely One hundred thousand men IN perusing this Dictionary you may find some words twice explicated and those too with different Interpretations where one must necessarily be false Such are Dancet and Dansette Dodkin and Dotkin Jotacism and Herbert twice Ockham and Okum Rere-County and Rier-County Varry and Verrey with divers others It seems our Authors memory also failed him or he did not understand them to be the same He calls his Book The New World of Words and in his Title Page tells us it contains the proper significations and Etymologies of all words derived from the Hebrew Arabick Syriack enumerating in all Eleven Languages yet descends to the needless Explication of many trivial words of the Old World as Beesom Barm Parsly Rosemary Bulhead Buzzard Capable Gloomy Indifference Industry Inferior Satisfaction Discern Expence Ruinous c. For example BEesom A thing to sweep with made sometimes of Broom and ordinarily so called though made of Birch Heath c. We are obliged to him for this Learned Exposition though he does not tell us whether it be derived from the Hebrew Arabick or Syriack c. To have made it at all fit to take up a room in his Book he might have said the Saxons called it a Besm and that in some parts of England it is otherwise called a Broom Barm Yest the flowing or overdecking of Beer If he had told us that this in the North of England is called Godsgood he had said something We will observe lastly what the Learned Dr. Skinner in his Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae says of this Authors English Dictionary which he often cites and seldom without reproof COllock An old Saxon word signifying a Pail without a handle Engl. Dict. Collock Authori Dict. Angl. apud quem solum occurrit exp qui antiquam Angl. Sax. vocem esse dicit sed apud Somnerum non occurrit Credo igitur Authorem hic ut ferè semper somniâsse Dr. Skinner Calsounds A kind of Linnen Drawers usually worn among the Turks Engl. Dict. Colsounds vox quae mihi in solo Dict. Angl. occurrit pro more Authoris exponitur absurdissimè ut ipsius verbis utar A kind of Linnen Drawers usually worn among the Turks reverà a Fran. Gal. Calcons Subligaculum Femoralia interiora Dr. Skinner Chestoul Poppy Engl. Dict. Chestoul in Dict. Angl. mendosè pro Chesbowles vel Cheesebowles Dr. Skinner Corsary French A Courrier Engl. Dict. Credo autem si Author hanc vocem unquam legit vel fando audivit quod valdè dubito ipsum in ejus expositione errare Dr. Skinner Cosh or Cotterel old word A Cottage Engl. Dict. Cosh Authori Dict. Angl. apud quem solum vox occurrit dicit esse idem cum Cotterel ridiculè ut solet omnia Dr. Skinner A Dag A Pistol so called from the Dacians who first used them Engl. Dict. Dag Vox quae hoc sensu in solo Dict. Angl. occurrit ubi notare est miserrimam Authoris ignorantiam qui tormentum bellicum manuarium minus a Pistol exponit dictum putat A Dacis qui primi hoc armorum genere usi sunt imo ultimi omnium Europae populorum Dr. Skinner Fosset A little long Coffer or Chest from the Latin word Fossa a Ditch Engl. Dict. Fosset Vox quae mihi in solo Dict. Angl. occurrit Exponitur autem Cista Capsa Author deducit a Lat. Fossa imperitè ut solet omnia Credo potius ortum ab Ital. Forciere idem signante Higginio autem Adr Junii interpreti Cista dicitur Forset a quo proculdubio haec vox orta est Dr. Skinner Goule Old Word Vsury from the Latin word Gula i. e. The Throat Engl. Dict. Goule Vox quae mihi in solo Dict. Angl. occurrie Author exponit usuram deflectit a Lat. Gula Ego nihil nec de voce ipsa quod unquam revera extiterit nec de Etymo credo Dr. Skinner A Marrow French A Companion or Fellow also a Beggarly Rascal Engl. Dict. Author malè ut solet omnia exponit Socium item mendicum vilem A Beggarly Rascal Priori enim sensu nusquam gentium occurrit c. Dr. Skinner Rigols A certain Musical Instrument called a Clericord comes from the French Regalliadir i. e. to rejoyce for Regaillardir Engl. Dict. Rigols Vox quae mihi in solo Dict. Angl. occurrit exponitur instrumentum musicum quod alio nomine Clavichordium A Clavicord dicitur Author somniando ut solet suaviter deducit a Fr. Gal. Regalliadir exhilarari Sanè si talis vox sit quod nullus credo mallem deducere a Fr. Gal. Se Rigoler deridere lascivire Vel quod magis placet a Lat. Lyricola Dr. Skinner Once more to the READER I Had no sooner travelled over the New World of Words but I stumbled upon a late Book entituled Nomothetes or an Interpreter of obscure Law Words and Terms which obliged me to the trouble of another perambulation My Nomolexicon or Law Dictionary being the product of many years pains was published in Trinity Term 1670. and within the space of Five Terms after this Interpreter was wholly both Written and Printed This Author it seems made choice of the Title Nomothetes that it might gingle with Nomolexicon but the more Learned in the Greek Tongue than my self affirm the word improper for an Interpreter and to signifie onely a Legislator or Law-giver and how fit he is to assume that title will soon appear He dedicates his Book with much confidence to a learned and very honorable Person to whom certainly he ought to have written at least in true Grammar In his Preface he says I have also gleaned after the Book entituled The Law Dictionary wherein are many good things which I have hinted as every ingenious Reader will discern but withal have added some Centuries of Words therein totally omitted Though I did not expect or desire any commendations from this Gentleman yet he was in some sort obliged to it for the credit of his own Work

is often found in Domesday where as a Learned Expositor says Videtur esse examinatio per ignum The tryal of money after it was coyned Assault Assultus est in personam aut locum Vel equo aut manchinis aut quacunque alia re Our Author had done well to have interpreted this uncouth word manchinis Assise of Mortdancestor This the Civilians call Judicium Possessiorum adipiscendi The Civilians disclaim the word Possessiorum and so does Priscian too Attainted One Attaint was in former times upon his confession constrained to abjure the Realm and therefore was sometimes called Abjuration And for this is cited Stam. Pl. Cor. fol. 182. but abusively Autum Reginae The Queens Silver Then let Argentum Reginae be the Queens Gold But it is a good stumble that never Horses Bachelor Baccalaurei a bacillo nominati sunt qui● primi studit authoritatem quae per exhibitionem baculi concedebatur jam consecuti fuissent c. This studit is a quarrelsome word and will certainly break Priscians Head Balenger Seems to be a kind of Barge or Boat to sail upon the Water This may very well be true for I never heard of any such to sail upon the Land And note those words to sail upon the Water are added to what the Law Dictionary says Bane He which is the cause of another mans is said then to be Labane a Malefactor If our Author write no better sence it will be the Bane of his Interpreter and I think the Banes may very lawfully be forbidden Baron Barons by Letters Patent or Creation say our Antiquaries were first about the time of Henry the Sixth It may well be suspected our Author consulted none of our Antiquaries herein for the first Baron by Creation was in the second of Richard the Second Berwick Spelman thinks it may be Manerium majus ad minus pertinens This is a great injury to that learned Author who says the direct contrary as you may read in his Glossarium verbo Berenuica Besca Hence perhaps Vna bescata fodient terrae inclusa Mon. Angl. pag 2. fol. 642. Here is a like false citation imposed upon another worthy Author though the words lay fair in the Law Dictionary Botting Is a term of art used in Greys Inn whereby they intend private arguing of Cases I have heard of Botting of Barly in the Countrey But what our Author aimed at is Bolting and some Bolts are soon shot Breve Quia breviter paucis verbis intentionem proferens exponit Bracton lib. 5. Nor must learned Bracton scape without having false Latine imposed upon him Bullenger The common Petition that some Commissioners issued to Cities for the preparing Boats and Bullengers may be repealed Our Author had a fair Copy from whence he transcribed this viz. The Law Dictionary but his hast has shuffled it into nonsence Burse or Colibti A word used in Domesday Colibti is not to be found there unless with a dash on the b for Coliberti and how Burse and Colibti come to be Synonima is beyond a common skill to imagine Buzecatle Bursecaples or Botsecals the same with Boatswain or Mariner It is much our Author should not write one of these three words true but coyn such as were never before heard of Buzzard had been a more allowable mistake The true word is Buscarl or Buzecarl Carucata A Plough Land Skene de verbo signif deriveth it from the French Charon a Plough There is no such French word as Charon nor is it so in Skene de verborum signif but charrow which is neerer the true French word charrne a Plough then Charon Cepi corpus Is a Return made by the Sheriff that upon a Capias Exigend or other Process when he hath taken the body of the party F.N.B. fol. 26. Here the redundant word when does much perplex the sence and make it unintelligible Clerk Subdiaconi Cantoni Acolythi This Cantoni is a pretty word and deserves a particular interpretation Clerk of the Ax This word and the explication our Author took in hast out of the Law Dictionary never looking upon the Errata of that Book where he might have found it an acknowledged mistake for Clerk of the Acts and explicated accordingly Clerk of the Pleas Is an Officer in the Exchequer in whose Official the Officers of the Court ought to sue If any Action did lie for writing nonsence our Author would find no Plea for himself Collation of a Benefice Towards the later end of this Interpretation you shall find as little sence as in the former Commendam When a Parson is made a Bishop there is a Cession of his Benefice by the Commotion Our Author is very unhappy in his variations for Commotion marrs the matter Common Fine And for this Common Fine the Lord must prescribe and cannot prescribe for it without prescription as appears in Godfreys Case in 11 Rep. Thus my Lord Coke is again brought in to patronize nonsence Commotes Signifies in Wales a part of a shire as a Cantred or Hundred 28 Hen. 8. cap. 3. It is written Commoiths 4 Hen. 4. cap. 17. And is used for a gathering made upon the people This last is Com●rth a word of different signification from Commote and ought not to be confounded with it Count But Countors by Horns Mirror of Just lib. 2. cap. des Loyers are such Serjeants skilful in the Law which serve the common people to defend their Actions in Judicature for their Fee whose duty if it be as is there described and were observed Men might have much more comfort of the Law than they have This our Author transcribed from Cowels Interpreter and is one of those irreverent reflections upon the Common Law and Lawyers of this Land which among other mistakes in points derogatory to the supream Power of the Crown of England and Fundamental Constitutions of Parliaments caused that Book to be prohibited by the Kings Proclamation bearing date the 25th day of March 8 Jac. Anno 1610. Yet our Author in his Preface takes the boldness to say That the Ground-work upon which he builds is Cowels Interpreter an excellent Book both as to its matter and composure and did not deserve that severe arraignment that it hath of late suffered Courratier A French word signifying a Horse Courser 2 Inst fol. 719. Courratier Is a Hors-courser but our Author hath found a new way of dividing one word into two to make up his Centuries Cuth otherwise Uncuth Privatus vel extraneus Cuth signifies known and Uncuth unknown yet here they are both coupled in one yoke as Synonima Custos Brevium There is also a Custos Brevium retulorum in the Kings Bench who Fileth there and Warrants of Attorney This is of the same complexion with the rest Demurrer West calleth that likewise a Demurrer in Chancery when there is question made Whether a Parties Answer to a Bill of Complaint c. be defective or not and thereof Reference made to any of the Bench for