[164] Profession.
[165] The plague.
[166] The legal meaning of "hamlet" in England is a village without a church of its own: ecclesiastically, therefore, it belongs to the parish of some other village.
[167] All Protestant sects other than the Established Church of England.
[168] A groat equals fourpence, about eight cents. It is not coined now.
[169] A farthing equals one quarter of a penny.
[170] About ten miles down the Thames.
[171] The t is silent in this word.
[172] Hard-tack, pilot bread.
[173] Old form for "rode."