[159] These are terms used in several modern Acts of Parliament, for that composition which is paid in the City of London to cause the attendance, which formerly every householder was obliged to give in person, to watch in his respective ward. See Stowe, ed. 1720, ii. 393.
[160] Brother's, 1618, '23, '33.
[161] The ancient name for a pistol. So in "Arden of Feversham," 1592—
"Or dare abide the noise the dagge will make."
Again, ibid.—
"I'll leave you at your dag's discharge."
And—
"My dagge was levelled at his hart."
So also in "Jack Drum's Entertainment," 1601, v.—
"Whilst he would show me how to hold the dagge."