[183] This lady was one of the daughters and co-heirs of Sir Richard Walden, of this parish, Knt., and the Lady Margaret his wife, who both lie buried in this church [of Erith]. He was, as I take it, made Knight of the Bath in the 17th year of K. Henry VII., his estate being then certified to be 40_l._ per annum, being the son of Richard Walden, esq. Sir Richard and Elizabeth his wife both lie buried here. _MSS. Dering._
[185] Harman's dedication of his book to her was no doubt written in 1566, and his 2nd edition, in both states, published before the Countess's death.
[186] Of pilgrims, and of whoremongers, say Brand and Sir H. Ellis (referring to the _Hist. des Troubadours_, tom. i. p. 11,) in _Brand's Antiquities_, ed. 1841, i. 202. Chaucer makes him the patron of hospitality, saying of the Frankeleyn, in the Prologue to the _Canterbury Tales_, "Seynt Iulian he was in his contre." Mr Hazlitt, in his new edition of Brand, i. 303, notes that as early as the _Ancren Riwle_, ab. 1220 A.D., we have 'Surely they (the pilgrims) find St. Julian's inn, which wayfaring men diligently seek.'
Abraham men, those who feign madness, 3; one of them, named Stradlynge, 'the craftiest and moste dyssemblyngest knaue,' 47
---- Mortes, description of, 67; as chaste as Harman's 'Cowe,' 67
Awdeley's _Vacabondes_; Harman's references to, 20, 60
Bawdy baskets, description of, 65; a story of one who, with an upright man, spoiled a poor beggar of his money, 66
borsholders, 21, _n._, superior constables. See Halliwell's _Glossary_.
Canting, the language of vagabonds, 23; list of words, 82-4; specimen of, 84-6
Capcases, covers for caps, small bandboxes, 65
Capon hardy, 12. For 'capron hardy,' 'a notable whipster or twigger,' a bold or saucy young scamp. (See the Index to Caxton's _Book of Curtesye_, E. E. T. Soc., p. 54.)
Cheatours, card-sharpers enticing young men to their hosteries, win their money and depart, 7
clyme three tres with a ladder, to ascend the gallows, 31
Cole, false, 15. (See Mr R. Morris in _Notes and Queries_, Oct., 1869, on _Colfox_, &c.)
couch a hogshead, lie down and sleep, 77, 84
Counterfet Crankes, description of, 51; story of one that Harman watched, 51; how he was dressed, 51; his refusal to wash when hidden, 52; gives the name of Genings, 52; said he had been in Bethlehem Hospital, 52, which Harman found to be a lie, 53; in the middle of the day he goes into the fields and renews the blood on his face, 53; what money he received, 53; at night he goes to Newington, where he is given in charge, 54; the amount of his gains, 55; his escape, 55; his recapture, 56, _n._; his punishment, 57, _n._