[245.] An arse wispe, penicillum, -li, vel anitergium. Withals. From a passage in William of Malmesbury’s autograph De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum it would seem that water was the earlier cleanser.
[246.] In the MS. this line was omitted by the copier, and inserted in red under the next line by the corrector, who has underscored all the chief words of the text in red, besides touching up the capital and other letters.
[247.] See the ‘Warderober,’ p. 37, and the ‘office of Warderobe of Robes,’ in H. Ord. p. 39.
þo lorde schalle shyft hys gowne at nyȝt,
Syttand on foteshete tyl he be dyȝt.
The Boke of Curtasye, l. 487-8.
[249.] Morter ... a kind of Lamp or Wax-taper. Mortarium (in old Latin records) a Mortar, Taper, or Light set in Churches, to burn over the Graves or Shrines of the Dead. Phillips.
[250.] Perchers, the Paris-Candles formerly us’d in England; also the bigger sort of Candles, especially of Wax, which were commonly set upon the Altars. Phil.
[250a.] Dogs. The nuisance that the number of Dogs must have been may be judged of by the following payments in the Church-Wardens’ Accounts of St Margaret’s, Westminster, in Nichols, p. 34-5.