Patrico, a priest.
Patricos kinchen, a pygge. [A satirical hit at the church, PATRICO meaning a parson or priest, and [KINCHEN] his little boy or girl.]
Pek, meat.
Poppelars, porrage.
Prat, a buttocke. [This word has its equivalent in modern slang.]
Pratling chete, a toung.
Prauncer, a horse.
Prigger of prauncers be horse-stealers, for to prigge signifieth in their language to steale, and a PRAUNCER is a horse, so being put together, the matter was playn. [Thus writes old Thomas Harman, who concludes his description of this order of “pryggers,” by very quietly saying, “I had the best gelding stolen out of my pasture, that I had amongst others, whyle this book was first a-printing.”]
Prygges, dronken tinkers, or beastly people.