Peter Heylyn, Observations on the History of the Reign of King Charles (1656)

Full Text

EEBO/TCP

Date

1656

Author

Peter Heylyn Note: 30/09/2005

Lexicon title

An Alphabetical Table. Containing the uncouth and unusuall Words which are found in our Author; those which are in a different Character, being used by him in a differing sense from that which commonly they carry

Book title

Observations On The Historie Of the Reign of King Charles

Publication place

London

Publisher

John Clarke

Transcription source

EEBO/TCP (Henry E. Huntington Library)

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

Summary

Includes a glossary of supposed hard words as found in Hamon L'Estrange's The Reign of King Charles (1655; Wing L1189), but many of them appear to be misspelled or invented to discredit L'Estrange

Extent

251-55

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Accalladoes

Wing

H1727