| 1625 | Item paid to the dog-killer for killing of dogs | 0. 9. 8. |
| 1625 | Item paid to the dog-killer more for killing 14 dozen and 10 dogs in time of visitacion | 1. 9. 8. |
| 1625 | Item paid to the dog-killer for killing of 24 dozen of dogs | 1. 8. |
See the old French satire on the Lady and her Dogs, in Rel. Ant. i. 155. [Corrigenda]
[251.] The Boke of Curtasye (l. 519-20) lets the (chief) usher who puts the lord to bed, go his way, and says
Ȝomon vssher be-fore þe dore
In vtter chambur lies on þe flore.
Footnote 252 contains supplementary notes for some items in this stanza, lines 991-994. Note that there is no independent Footnote 260 (“hey hove”), and that “bilgres” was not marked. Note numbers as originally printed are shown in parentheses.
[252.] See note at end. Mr Gillett, of the Vicarage, Runham, Filby, Norwich, sends me these notes on the herbs for this Bathe Medicinable: —253 (2): “Yardehok = Mallow, some species. They are all more or less mucilaginous and emollient. If Yarde = Virga; then it is Marshmallow, or Malva Sylvestris; if yarde = erde, earth; then the rotundifolia. —254 (3): Paritory is Pellitory of the wall, parietaria. Wall pellitory abounds in nitrate of potass. There are two other pellitories: ‘P. of Spain’—this is Pyrethrum, which the Spanish corrupted into pelitre, and we corrupted pelitre into pellitory. The other, bastard-pellitory, is Achillea Ptarmica. —255 (4): Brown fennelle = probably Peucedanum officinale, Hog’s fennel, a dangerous plant; certainly not Anethum Graveolens, which is always dill, dyle, dile, &c. —259 (8): Rybbewort, Plantago lanceolata, mucilaginous. —260 (9): Heyhove = Glechoma hederacea, bitter and aromatic, abounding in a principle like camphor. —261 (10): Heyriff = harif = Galium Aparine, and allied species. They were formerly considered good for scorbutic diseases, when applied externally. Lately, in France, they have been administered internally against epilepsy. —263 (12): Bresewort; if = brisewort or bruisewort, it would be Sambucus Ebulus, but this seems most unlikely. —265: Brokelempk = brooklime. Veronica Beccabunga, formerly considered as an anti-scorbutic applied externally. It is very inert. If a person fed on it, it might do some good, i.e. about a quarter of the good that the same quantity of water-cress would do. —267: Bilgres, probably = henbane, hyoscysmus niger. Compare Dutch [Du. Bilsen, Hexham,] and German Bilse. Bil = byle = boil, modern. It was formerly applied externally, with marsh-mallow and other mucilaginous and emollient plants, to ulcers, boils, &c. It might do great good if the tumours were unbroken, but is awfully dangerous. So is Peucedanum officinale. My Latin names are those of Smith: English Flora. Babington has re-named them, and Bentham again altered them. I like my mumpsimus better than their sumpsimus.”
[253.] ‘The common Mallowe, or the tawle wilde Mallow, and the common Hockes’ of Lyte’s Dodoens, 1578, p. 581, Malua sylvestris, as distinguished from the Malua sativa, or “Rosa vltramarina, that is to say, the Beyondesea Rose, in Frenche, Maulue de iardin or cultiuée ... in English, Holyhockes, and great tame Mallow, or great Mallowes of the Garden.” The “Dwarffe Mallowe ... is called Malua syluestris pumila.”
[254.] Peritory, parietaria, vrseolaris, vel astericum. Withals.
[255.] ? The sweet Fennel, Anethum Graveolens, formerly much used in medicine (Thomson). The gigantic fennel is (Ferula) Assafœtida.