? Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.

• a', all.
• aboon, abune, above.
• abowthe, about.
• abye, abide, pay.
• acward stroke, 21, an unusual, out-of-the-way stroke, which could not be guarded against.
• ae, one.
• aftur the way, 11, upon the way.
• agayne, against.
• agone, ago.
• aik, oak.
• alane, alone.
• Alcaron, 414, the name of an imaginary deity, by metathesis from Alcoran. Ritson. The original reading is, however, Acoron.
• alkone, each one.
• al so mote, so may I.
• altherbest, best of all.
• amain, all, 292, at once.
• ance, once.
• anker, anchorite.
• a-row, in a row.
• Arthur-a-Bradley, 351, the title of a ballad.
• arwe, arrow;
• arwys, arrows.
• asay, tried.
• assoyld, absolved.
• avowÈ, founder, patron, protector.
• awayte me scathe, 80, lie in wait, or lay plots, to do me injury.
• awet, know.
• awkwarde stroke, 166, an unusual, out-of-the-way stroke.
• ayen, again.
• ayenst, against.
• ayont, beyond.
• ayre, by, 197, early.
• azon, 39, against, towards [them].

• bale, ruin, harm, mischief.
• ballup, 264, the front or flap of small clothes.
• banis, bane.
• barking, 336, leather-tanning.
• baylyes, 153, bailiffs, sheriff's officers.
• be, by.
• bearyng arow, 155, "an arrow that carries well;"
• see vol. vii.
• became, 184, came.
• bedene, 77, in a company, together.(?)
• bedyl, 153, beadle, the keeper of a prison.
• beforn, 41, before, first.
• beft, 203, beaten.
• begeck, give a, 198, make a mock of, expose to derision.
• beheste, 429, promise.
• behote, 99, promise;
• 96, promised.
• beir, noise, cry.
• belive, belyfe, quickly, at once.
• ben, in.
• benbow, 432, bent bow.
• bend, 405, turn of a forest.
• bescro, beshrew, curse.
• bestead, circumstanced, put to it.
• bewch, 159, bough.
• bigged, built.
• bigly, commodious, pleasant to live in.
• bil, pike or halbert.
• blate, sheepish, foolish.
• blowe bost, 55, make boast.
• blutter, 195, dirty.
• blyve, quickly.
• bocking, belching, flowing out.
• bode, bid.
• boltys, arrows, especially arrows with a blunt head.
• bone, boon.
• booting, 188, robbing adventure.
• borow, surety.
• borowe, redeem.
• boskyd, made ready.
• bote, help, use.
• bottys, shooting butts.
• boun, boune, make ready;
• bown'd, 193, went.
• boune, bowne, ready, ready to go;
• 244, going.
• bour, bower, chamber, dwelling.
• bowne, boon.
• boyt, both.
• braide at a, 145, suddenly, in a moment.
• braves, bravadoes.
• bree, brow.
• breeks, breeches.
• brenne, burn.
• brere, briar, thorn.
• breyde, a start, leap.
• breyde, started, leaped, stepped hastily.
• briddis, birds.
• broke, 91, use and enjoy.
• browthe, brought.
• browzt, brought.
• bruik, enjoy.
• bryk, breeches.
• buske, bush.
• buske, dress;
• 54, make ready to go, go.
• busshement, ambush.
• but, without;
• 193, but fail, without fail;
• but and, and also.
• bydene, 105, all together, forthwith, one after the other.(?)
• bystode, put into a plight, circumstanced.

• can, as an auxiliary, equivalent to did.
• can, know;
• coud, knew;
• can thanke, feel grateful, (savoir grÉ.)
• cankerdly, with ill humor.
• capull, horse.
• carefull, sorrowful.
• carpe, talk, narrate.
• carril, carel, churl.
• certyl, kirtle;
• 41, jacket or waistcoat.
• chaffar, chaffer, merchandise, commodity.
• charter of peace, deed of pardon, safe-warrant.
• chear well, 190, make good cheer, have a good prospect.
• chepe, v. buy;
• n. bargain.
• chere, face.
• cheys, choose.
• chitt, 258, worn?
• chiven, 405, craven?
• claw'd, 194, scratched, curried.
• clepyn, call.
• clipping, embracing.
• clouted, patched.
• cofer, trunk.
• cold, 259, could, used as an auxiliary of the perfect tense.
• cole, cowl.
• comet, cometh.
• commytted, 120, accounted.
• comyn belle, 13, town-bell.
• coost, cast.
• coresed, 62, harnessed. Halliwell. (A guess?)
• cote-a-pye, upper garment, short cloak.
• coud, could, used as an auxiliary of the perfect tense;
• coud his curtesye, 76, [showed that he] understood good manners.
• counsel, secret.
• covent, convent.
• cow, clip.
• cowed, could, knew.
• cowthe, could.
• crack, chat, talk.
• craftely, skilfully.
• creves, crevice.
• crouse, 192, merrily.
• curn, 191, quantity of.
• curtall fryer, 272, apparently the friar with the curtall (cur) dogs.
• curtes, courteous.
• cutters, swaggerers, riotous fellows.
• cypress, 411, gauze, crape.

• dale, been at a, in low spirits?
• dame, 86, mother, i.e. Mary.
• deale, part.
• dee, die.
• dee, do;
• deen, done.
• deft, neat, trim.
• demed, judged.
• dere, harm.
• dere worthy, precious.
• derne, secret, privy, retired.
• devilkyns, 57, deuced.
• did of, doffed.
• doen him, betaken him.
• doe of, doff.
• doubt, doute, fear, danger.
• doyt, do.
• dree, bear, suffer, endure.
• dub, 196, pool.
• dule, lamentation.
• dung, struck down, put down.
• duzty, doughty, brave.
• dyght, 100, done.
• dyght, ready, made ready;
• dyghtande, 111, making ready, cooking.
• dysgrate, disgraced, degraded, fallen into poverty.

• eftsones, afterward, hereafter.
• eild, age.
• emys, uncles.
• ere, 86, before.
• erst, before.
• even, exactly.
• everyche, euerilkone, everichone, each, every one.
• exaltrÈ, axle-tree.
• eylde het the, requite (thee for) it.
• eyr, year.

• faem, foam, sea.
• fail, but, 193, without fail.
• faine, glad.
• falleth, 114, suiteth.
• falyf, fallen.
• fÁnatick, 414, madman.
• fang, strap.
• fare, way of proceeding;
• 114, fortune;
• for all his frendes fare, seems to mean, notwithstanding the penalties suffered by his friends for their bad shots.
• fare, go.
• farley, strange.
• fault, 367, misfortune.
• fay, faith.
• fayne, glad.
• fe, fee, property, wages, reward.
• feardest, 197, most frightened.
• federed, feathered.
• felischepe, 22, compact of friendship.
• fend, find.
• fende, defend.
• ferd, 10, fear;
• probably misspelt.
• fere, mate.
• ferly, wonderful, extraordinary.
• ferre dayes, 47, late in the day.
• ferre and frend bestad, 69, in the position of a stranger from a distance.
• fet, fetched.
• fet, fit, song.
• fetteled, made ready.
• finikin, fine.
• flaps, strokes, blows.
• fleych, flesh.
• flinders, fragments.
• flo, arrow.
• fone, foes.
• forbode godys, 30, gods forbott, 260, God's prohibition;
• over gods forbode, 157, on God's prohibition, God forbid.
• force, fors, matter.
• forebye, on one side.
• for god, before God.
• forlorne, lost, forsaken, alone.
• forsoyt, forsooth.
• forthynketh, repenteth.
• fostere, forester;
• fosters of the fe, 153, foresters in the King's pay.
• foryete, 72, forgotten.
• fothe, foot.
• foulys, fowls, birds.
• free, 272, gracious, bounteous.
• frend, foreign, strange;
• ferre and frend bestad, 69, in the position of a stranger from a distance.
• frese (said of bows), 82?
• fu', full.
• fynly, goodly.

• gang, go.
• gangna, go not.
• gar, make.
• gate, 162, 196, way.
• general, 290, perhaps the governor, Nottingham having once been a garrison town. Ritson.
• Rather, people;
• i.e. in public, with the rest of the world.
• ger, 27, gear, affair.
• gest, guest.
• geste, story.
• gie, give.
• gif, if.
• gillore, plenty.
• gin, if.
• gladdynge, entertaining.
• go, walk.
• god, 31, valuables.
• gods forbott, 260, God's prohibition, God forbid.
• golett, throat, the part of the dress or armor which covered the throat.
• gone, go;
• ride and go, ride and walk.
• gorney, journey.
• graff, 225, branch or sapling.
• gree, 64, satisfaction.
• greece, hart of, a fat hart.
• grithe, 16, peace, protection, security for a certain time.
• grome, groom;
• 45, a (common) man.

• ha', hall.
• had, hold, keep.
• hail, wholly.
• halfendell, half.
• halke, 108, hollow?
• hambellet, ambleth.
• hame, home.
• han, have.
• hansell, 23, is the first money received in a new shop, or on any particular day. The passage seems to be corrupt.
• hantyd, haunted.
• harbengers, harbingers, servants that went on before their lords during a journey, to provide lodgings.
• harowed, despoiled.
• hart of greece, a fat hart.
• hase, neck.
• haud, hold.
• haulds, 195, things to take hold of.
• haunted, resorted frequently.
• hawt, aught.
• hayt, hath.
• he, 39, they.
• heal'd, concealed.
• hede, head.
• hee, high.
• hende, gentle, courteous.
• hent, took.
• heres, here is.
• het, it.
• het, eat.
• heynd, gentle, courteous.
• hight, called, are called.
• ho, hoo, who.
• hode, hood.
• holde, 61, retain.
• holy, wholly.
• hos, us.
• housbond, manager.
• howt, out;
• heyt war howte, 23, a corrupt passage?
• huckle-duckle, 424, a term for a loose woman.
• humming, heady.
• hye, in, aloft.
• hyght, promised, vowed.
• hynde, servant.
• hypped, hopped, hobbled.

• i-bonde, bound.
• i-chaunged, changed.
• i-federed, feathered.
• ilk, each;
• ilkone, each one.
• in fere, in company.
• inn, 34, abode, stand.
• i-nocked, nocked, notched.
• inow, enough.
• in same, together.
• intil, into, in.
• into, in.
• in twaine, apart.
• i-pyght, put.
• i-quyt, rewarded.
• i-sette, set.
• i-slawe, slain.
• ither, each other.
• i-wysse, surely.

• japes, jests, mocks.
• jobbing, 374, knocking together.

• kende, kent, knew.
• kep, catch;
• kep'd, kept, keepit, caught.
• kepe;
• non odur kepe I'll be, 15, I will be no other kind of retainer, I will have no other relations.
• kest, cast.
• kilt, tuck up.
• knave, servant (boy);
• knave bairn, male child.
• knop, a knob or swelling from a blow.
• kod, quoth.
• kyrtell, kirtle, waistcoat, jacket, or tunic.

• lad, lead.
• laigh, 196, low ground.
• lang, longer.
• lap, leaped.
• launde, an open place in a wood.
• launsgay, a kind of dart or javelin;
• (a compound of lance, and the Arabic zagaye, says Myrick, Antient Armour, &c.)
• lawhyng, laughing.
• layne, deception.
• leace, lying.
• leasynge, lying.
• leave, 395, dear.
• ledes man, conductor.
• lee licht, 171, lonely, sad light.
• leese, lose.
• lefe, dear, pleasant.
• lende, 113, dwell.
• lene, 58, grant;
• 59, lend.
• lengre, longer.
• lere, cheek.
• lere, learn.
• lese, lose.
• lest, desire.
• lesynge, lying.
• let, stop;
• letna, let not;
• lettyng, stopping.
• leugh, laughed.
• lever, rather.
• lewtÈ, loyalty.
• ley, lea.
• leythe, light.
• liflod, livelihood.
• ligge, 332, lay.
• lightilÉ, lyghtly, quickly.
• lin, stop.
• lin'd, 203, beaten.
• list, desire.
• list, pleased.
• lith, 170, joint, limb.
• lithe, hearken.
• liver, nimble.
• lizt, light.
• lokid on, 8, looked in at.
• longe of the, thy fault.
• longut, longed.
• lordeyne, sluggard, clown.
• lore, lost.
• lothely, with aversion, with hatred.
• lough, laughed.
• loused, lowsed, loosed.
• low, laughed.
• lowe, 167, a small hill.
• lown, rogue.
• lust, desire.
• lynde, lyne, linden, lime, tree in general.
• lynge, 10, a thin long grass or rush, heather.
• lyth, hearken.
• lyveray, an allowance of provisions or clothes given out to servants or retainers;
• 73, levy.
• lyzth, lies.

• male, portmanteau;
• 68, [the horse carrying] the portmanteau.
• maney, company.
• mar, more.
• marry, Mary;
• marry gep, apparently, Mary go up!
• masars, 75, cups, vessels.
• masterey, mastery, trial of skill, feat.
• mat, may.
• maun, must;
• maunna, may not.
• may, maid.
• maystry, trial of skill, feat.
• meal-pock, meal-bag.
• meatrif, abounding in provisions.
• mell, meddle.
• menyÈ, meynÈ, company.
• mete, measured.
• methe, meat.
• meyt, meythe, might.
• mickle, great.
• middle streame, 274, middle of the stream.
• misters, 203, sorts of.
• mo, more.
• molde, ground.
• mot, may.
• mote, meeting.
• mought, might.
• mow, mouth.
• muckle, much.
• mych, much.
• mylner, miller.
• mysaunter, misadventure, ill luck.
• myster, need.
• myzt, might.

• nae, not.
• nar, nor, than.
• ner, never.
• ner, were it not.
• ner; they ner, thine ear.
• nere, nearer.
• next way, nearest way.
• nicked, notched, cut, slashed.
• niddart, 403, assailed.
• nip, bit;
• curn nips of sticks, 191, bundle of small sticks.
• nipped, pinched.
• nombles, numbles, [the eatable] entrails.
• nouther, neither.

• odur, other.
• ohon, interjection of grief, alas.
• okerer, usurer.
• oltrance, outrance, utterance.
• on, one.
• onfere, together.
• on lyve, alive.
• onslepe, asleep.
• onys, once.
• or, before.
• os, us.
• ought, owed.
• out-horne, a horn blown to summon people to assist in capturing a fugitive.
• over all, everywhere.
• owthe, out.
• owtlay, outlaw.
• oysyd, used, followed.

• passe, extent, bounds, limits, district;
• as the pas de Calais. Ritson.
• partakers, persons to take one's part.
• pawage, pauage, pavag, toll for the privilege of passing over the territory of another.
• pay, satisfaction.
• peces, 75, vessels;
• unless it be gold pieces.
• pinder, pounder, pound-keeper.
• pine, pain.
• plucke, stroke, blow;
• 423, bout;
• plucke-buffet, 118, is explained by the context.
• prece, prese, crowd;
• prees, 65, press (of battle).
• preced, pressed.
• preke, the pin in the centre of a target.
• president, precedent.
• prest, 29, fast, zealously.
• prest, quick, in a hurry;
• prestly, quickly.
• pricke-wande, a rod set up as a mark. The prick is the peg in the centre of a target.
• prycker, 425, a galloping horse.
• pryffe, 430, prove.
• pryme, six in the morning.
• pudding-prick, a skewer to fasten a pudding-bag.
• put at the stane, throw the stone as a trial of strength;
• putting-stane, the stone used in this exercise.
• pyne, suffering;
• goddes pyne, Christ's passion.

• quequer, quiver.
• queyt, qwyte, reward.

• raked, 196, proceeded leisurely, sauntered.
• raking, 259, 275, walking hastily, running.
• rawe, row.
• ray, prepare.
• raye, 84, striped cloth. "Cloth not coloured or dyed. It is mentioned in many old statutes in contradistinction to cloth of colour." Ritson.
• reachles, reckless, careless.
• red, advice.
• red, rid.
• reddely, quickly.
• reede, advise.
• renne, run.
• reuth, pity.
• reve, rob, take by force.
• revere, river.
• reves, bailiffs, receivers.
• rewth, pity.
• ripe, rip.
• ripe, 190, search;
• 202, cleanse.
• rode, rood, cross.
• rout, 191, blow.
• rowed, rolled.
• rowte, company.
• rue, 377, to cause to rue.
• rung, staff.
• ryall, royal.
• ryghtwys, righteous, just.

• sad, 82, firm, resolute.
• sall, shall;
• salna, shall not.
• salued, greeted.
• same, in, together.
• sanchothis, 41? (The meaning is that the arrow went between the legs.)
• sawtene, sought.
• scaith, scathe, hurt, harm.
• schet, schette, shot.
• schrewde, sharp.
• sclo, slay.
• scouth, 195, room, range.
• screffe, sheriff.
• se, see, protect.
• seal, 396, Gude seal, God seal, forbid?
• seke, search;
• 20, he was not to seke, he did not require to be looked for.
• seker, sure, resolute.
• selerer, cellarer, the officer of a convent that furnished provisions.
• semblaunte, countenance.
• sete, set.
• sets, 348, suits.
• shawe, 1, 94, 160, grove, wood.
• shende, injure, blame.
• shete, shoot;
• shet, shot.
• sheyne, bright.
• shone, shoen, shoes.
• shope, created.
• shot-window, a projecting window.
• shradd, 160, (spelt also shard,) an opening in a wood.
• shrewed, 63, cursed, precious!
• shroggs, 164, shrubs, twigs.
• shryve, sheriff.
• shuldis, shouldst.
• silly, simple.
• sith, since.
• slack, low ground, valley.
• slade, valley, ravine, strip of greensward between two woods.
• slawe, slain.
• slist, sliced.
• slon, slay;
• slone, slain.
• somers, sumpter horses.
• sorowe tyme, iv Table of Contents: changed "Landsdale" to "Lands-dale" (13. By Lands-dale hey ho)

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  "Ay," quoth the sheriff, and scratch'd his head,
  "I thought he would have been here;
  I thought he would, but tho' he's bold,75
  He durst not now appear."
  

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