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1

Jack and Gill were measures. "Wherefore," says Grumio, "be the Jacks fair within and the Gills fair without," meaning the leathern jacks clean within, and the metal gills polished without.

2

His character has suffered by antiquarian research, which tells us that the song was made on a Colonel Horner, intrusted by the last Abbot of Wells with a pie, containing the title-deeds of the abbey, which he was to deliver to Henry VIII., and that he abstracted one for his own purposes, whereupon the abbot was hanged.

3

The old name for pancakes. Slap-jacks is their present name in America.

4

The figure which struck the hour, as on the old clocks of St. Dunstan's, and of Carfax in Oxford.

5

Bron-rhuddyn = "breast-burnt," or "breast-scorched."

6

Dr. Jamieson has a note on King David II., brother, in his edition, of Barbour's Bruce; but does not quote the words of the charter so fully as they are here given.—The Bruce and Wallace, 4to., Edin. 1820, vol. i. p. 485.

7

See also p. 315.; and 1819, part i. p. 593.