[This is a quaint abbreviation of the words objectiones et solutiones, being frequently so contracted in the margins of books of controversial divinity to mark the transitions from the one to the other. Hence Butler (Hudibras, III. ii. 1237.) has coined the name of ob and sollers for scholastic disputants:
"But first, o' th' first: the Isle of Wight
Will rise up, if you should deny't;
Where Henderson, and the other masses,
Were sent to cap texts and put cases:
To pass for deep and learned scholars,
Although but paltry ob and sollers:
As if th' unseasonable fools,
Had been a coursing in the schools.">[
Fystens or Fifteenths.—Can you inform me what is the meaning of the word "fystens." In looking over an old corporation chamber book some years ago I found the following entries, of which I made extracts: