[216] _Fox_ was a cant term for a sword of English make. At Hounslow Heath there was a sword-blade manufactory:--"Nov 30 (1639). Benjamin Stone, blade maker, Hounslow Heath, to the Officers of the Ordnance. Will always be ready to deliver 1,000 swords of all fashions every month throughout the year, and will put in such security as the office shall desire. Has now ready at the Tower and in his own house 2,000 swords to deliver when the officers shall please."--Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1639-40, p. 134. [217] _Ticktacks_ was a game somewhat similar to backgammon. It is described in the _Compleat Gamester_, 1674. [218] The Pacification of Berwick took place in June, 1639. [219] Tobacco-pipefuls; but no doubt a pun was intended. For _Bermudas_ tobacco Nares quotes from _Clitus's Whimz_., p. 135, "Where being furnished with tinder, match, and a portion of decayed _Bermoodus_ they smoke it most terribly." [220] Our forefathers esteemed the March brewing; we the October. [221] To "build a sconce" means, I suppose, to fix a candle in a candle-stick. [222] This speech of Sir Richard's is very much in Shirley's style: cf. _Lady of Pleasure_ (I. 1). [223] Galley-foist was the name given to long many-oared barges, particularly the Lord Mayor's barge of state. Foist is also a term for a sharper; and gallifoist was intended to be pronounced here gullifoist. [224] An account of the way to play _Gleek_ is given in the _Compleat Gamester_, 1674. [225] Ambergrease was not uncommonly used for culinary purposes. [226] Father-in-law is often used by old writers for step-father. Perhaps "by a" is a correction for "to a." [227] Title, mark of distinction (Hamlet, I. 4, &c.). [228] A head-covering worn by women. "A night-rail (for a woman) pignon, pinon," Sherwood's Engl.-French Dict. 1650. [229] To be "in the suds" was an expression for to be "in the dumps." [230] Vid. Notes of the Commentators on _Henry V_., iii. 7 ("strait trossers"). [231] Regals were a kind of small portable organ: vide Nares. [232] Cf. a passage in Shirley's _Witty Fair One_ (IV. 2): "What makes so many scholars then come from Oxford or Cambridge like market-women with dorsers full of lamentable tragedies and ridiculous comedies which they might here vent to the players, but they will take no money for them?" [233] The Theorbo was a kind of lute. [234] On June 20, 1632, a royal proclamation was made "commanding the Gentry to keep their Residence in at their Mansions in the Country, and forbidding them to make their habitations in London and places adjoining." The text of the proclamation is in Rushworth's Historical Collections (1680), Pt. II. vol. i. p. 144. In a very interesting little volume of unpublished poems, temp. Charles I. (MS. 15,228, British Museum), there is an "Oade by occasion of his Maiesties Proclamatyon for Gentlemen to goe into the Country." It is too long to quote here in full, but I will give a few stanzas:--