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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 of the Inner Temple Esquire PROV 27.5 Melior est manifesta correptio quam amor absconditus In the SAVOY Printed by T.N. for Abel Roper John Martin and Henry Herringman at the Sun in Fleetstreet over-against St. Dunstans Church at the Bell in St. Pauls Churchyard and at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange 1673. TO THE READER MVst this then be suffered A Gentleman for his divertisement writes a Book and this Book happens to be acceptable to the World and sell a Book-seller not interessed in the Copy instantly employs some Mercenary to jumble up another like Book out of this with some Alterations and Additions and give it a new Title and the first Author 's out-done and his Publisher half undone Thus it fared with my Glossographia the fruit of above Twenty years spare hours first published in 1656. Twelve Moneths had not passed but there appeared in Print this New World of Words or General English Dictionary extracted almost wholly out of mine and taking in its first Edition even a great part of my Preface onely some words were added and others altered to make it pass as the Authors legitimate off-spring In these Additions and Alterations he not seldom erred yet had not those Errors been continued with new supplies to a Second and third Impression so little was I concerned at the particular injury that these Notes in great part collected from his first Edition had never reproached his Theft to the World First therefore this gallant Peice faces it with a pompous Frontispiece wherein are sculped our two famous Universities the Pictures of Sir Francis Bacon Sir Henry Spelman Mr. Selden Camden and others of our most Learned Men of the last Age with a Scholar of each Vniversity in his Formalities And the Title Page affirms the work to be very necessary for strangers as well as our own Countreymen As if our Author intended the World should believe his Book to be the Fac totum of all Great Britains learning and himself the Parent of so immense a Production Soon after we find a Catalogue prefixed of the names of divers Learned Persons of this Age Eminent in or contributary to any of those Arts Sciences or faculties contained in the following Work Whereby the Author would at least obscurely insinuate that those Learned Persons had contributed to or assisted him in it thereby to advance its reputation but I believe nothing less having heard some of the cheif of them utterly disown both the Author and his Work Thus does the Book pride it self in vanity and outward form but when you come to the substance you will find Dr. Skinners Judgment both of it and the Author most true In one place he says Et pro more Authoris exponitur absurdissime In another Ridicule ut solet omnia In a third Ubi notare est miserimam Authoris ignorantiam c. What then will Strangers think of it what our own Countreymen They will say Canis festinans caecos parit catulos That such a Dictionary cannot be hudled up in Eight or ten Moneths nor without much industry and care though the Author be never so learned For we read of an Italian Dictionary that was Forty years in compiling by the joynt-labor of several Learned Men and that Sir Francis Bacon after he had written his Instauratio Magna did year by year for Twelve years revise and alter it before he would commit it to the Press All Writers may modestly claim the benefit of Humanum est Errare but certainly our Author has transgressed the bounds of that Indulgence For I did not read half his Book to pick up these with many more Exceptions What then would a more knowing Reader discover that should seriously peruse the whole Miserimam Authoris ignorantiam But that which cheifly incited me to this publication was in some measure to redeem the Terms of the Common Law of the Land from the scandal of a most Barbarous and Senceless Interpretation which too too often occurs through his Book though all other subjects have not scaped too without their share in his mistakes As first for Words of Ecclesiastical use How grosly hath he abused the two common words Candlemass and Ember-week Are we not like to have an accurate account of obsolete difficult or foreign words from him who stumbles so miserably at plain Ember-week There being a particular Devotion ordered for those weeks in the Liturgy of the Church of England But he still fancies himself under a Commonwealth and a Church without Bishops as appears in Sequestration Down Court of Peculiars Perhaps he hath been more versed in Military Affairs alass no his interpretation of Blunderbuss and Dag shews how little he is to be trusted with Weapons He hath also given a fair specimen of his skill in Sea-Terms by interpreting Balass and Jetson nay he hath shewn an extraordinary endeavor and dexterity in mistaking else he could never have erred in those things that are common in all Trading and Commerce as Gallon Pipe Cloue Weigh c. But to the Particulars in order as they lie A World of Errors DISCOVERED In the New World of WORDS OR General English DICTIONARY AMesse A Priests Hood or Cap which he weareth in the Quire Both the word itself is mistaken and the signification The word is Amice from amictus which is a Linnen Cloth with two long strings which the Priest puts about his Neck and ties the strings about his middle Amoctise To kill It has a more usual and proper signification viz. To grant Alien or give Land in Mortmain Ancient Demeasn a term in Common Law signifying a publick tribute by a Tenure whereby all Mannors belonging to the Crown in the days of Edgar or Saint Edward did hold There is nothing of a Publick Tribute nor of Edgar in the Point Ancient Demain is a Tenure whereby all the Crown-Mannors in the days of Edward the Confessor or William the Conqueror were held and the number of them particularly appears in Domesday under the title Terra Regis Balasse A Saxon word signifying Gravel laid in the bottom of a Ship to keep it upright He mistakes the word for Ballast which is a Dutch word nor does it signifie onely Gravel but any other ponderous substance Balasse hath a different signification Baronage A Tax or Subsidy of Aid to be levied for the King out of the Precincts of Baronies The word had never any such signification till now Rex Baronagium suum is taken for the King and all His Subjects or the whole Parliament representing them according to Selden in his Titles of Honor. Bastard Signifies in the Common Law one begotten out of Wedlock One may be begotten out of Wedlock yet be no Bastard by our Authors leave Beacon and Beads He derives

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