Wood John â, [118].
Woodcocks brought, [131].
Woodhall, [46].
Wood-knives, [65], [153], [158], [173], [248].
What a Wood-knife was has not been ascertained, nor does the word occur in any Glossary. They were possibly knives used in hunting. With a single exception, when 40s. were paid for one with a girdle, these entries refer to presents of wood-knives from the Abbot of Reading. "Query, if a Wood-knife was that short sharp-hanger, couteau de chasse, used in hunting, and with which Sir Tristrem, and other scientific sportsmen dissected their spoil with anatomical precision?" M.
Woodstock Park, to the Comptroller and Keepers of, [244].
----, [50], [154], [156], bis, [157], bis, [159], [241], [242], [243], sæpe, [244], [245], bis.
Woodstock, for repairs at, [248].
Woolwich, paid to a French Friar that undertook to stop the breach at, [53].
This entry seems to be of a payment of 7l. to a French Friar, who undertook to repair a breach in the walls of Woolwich.