Robin Hood / A collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life.

by Unknown

In a little treatise of “The Hors, the Shepe, and the Ghoos,” printed by Caxton, it is said—

“Thurgh all the londe of Brutes Albyon

For fetherd arowes as I reherce can

Ghoos is the best to make comparison

Excepte fethers of pecok and of swan.”

Pinder. The pinder is the pounder or pound-keeper; the petty officer of a manor, whose duty it is to impound all strange cattle straying upon the common, &c. {396}

Plucke-buffet, p. [75].

Polle, pull.

Poke, bag.

Preke, prick, a piece of wood in the centre of the target.