[74] 'E: thee or you.
[75] Malignant: The Parliamentary or Puritan party during the civil wars of Charles I. called those who adhered to the king "malignants."
[76] Tighe: this legend relates a conspiracy by which young Tighe was led into the thick of a fight and killed.
[77] Pusey horn: the Pusey family hold their estate not by a title deed, but by a horn, given, it is said, to William Pecote (perhaps an ancestor of the Puseys) by Canute, a Danish king of England in the eleventh century. The horn bears the following inscription: "I, King Canute, give William Pecote this horn to hold by thy land."
[78] Freeholders: landowners.
[79] Moated grange: a farm or estate surrounded by a broad deep ditch for defence in old times.
[80] Marianas: Mariana, a beautiful woman, one of the most lovable of Shakespeare's characters. See "Measure for Measure."
[81] West-countryman: a west of England man.
[82] Angular Saxon: a play on the words Anglo-Saxon.
[83] Adscriptus glebæ: attached to the soil.