The Order of the Lily (64 page)

Cockscomb:
The comb or crest of a cock incorporated into a hat worn by a jester or professional fool.

Compline:
The last of seven canonical bells that indicated mid-evening prayer.

Cordovan:
Expensive soft, smooth leather made in Córdoba, Spain.

Cotehardie:
A 14th to 16th-century unisex garmenttailored to fit the torso and arms, usually with a row of buttons down the front as well as down each fitted sleeve, from the elbow to the wrist.

Cuisses:
A piece of armour made to fit the thigh.

Device:
Coat of arms or heraldic emblem.

Demesne:
The central part of a manorial estate set apart for the lord's own use that provided for the needs of his household.

Ducat:
A gold coin used in medieval Europe.

Ephedra:
Shrubby, almost leafless plant found in dry regions

Falchion:
A short, single-edged sword with a cleaver-like curved blade.

Gamboised:
Quilted or padded – as in ‘gamboised chausses.' Sometimes, quilted in longitudinal folds or ridges so as to be pliable in one direction and more or less stiff in the other.

Garcon:
French word for boy.

Hawking
glove
:
Thick, sturdy glove used in falconry.

Hastilude:
A medieval term that refers to many kinds of martial or lance games.

Hose:
See chausses.

Jupon:
A tight-fitting garment, usually padded, and worn over armour from c1350–1410. Often used to display the wearer's device.

Kirtle:
A woman's gown.

Lapis
Lazuli:
Precious stone from ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations known as ‘stone from Heaven' or ‘sky stone' for its rich blue colour.

Lauds:
A service of morning prayer traditionally said or chanted at daybreak.

Liripipe:
The long tail of fabric hanging from a hood, wrapped scarf-like around the neck or wound around the head. Eventually this hood and wound liripipe became a fashion in itself called the ‘chaperon.'

Loveage:
A plant of the parsley family.

Lozenges:
A diamond pattern, often used in heraldic devices

Lungwort:
A bristly plant of the borage family, typically having white-spotted leaves and pink flowers that turn blue as they age.

Mandrake:
A Mediterranean plant of the nightshade family, with white or purple flowers and yellow berries. It has a forked root that supposedly resembles the human form and was formerly used in medicine and magic.

Mail:
Chain mail – interlinked rings of metal ‘knitted' together to form a protective covering. Sometimes used as a slang term for armour in general.

Matins:
The first of seven canonical bells that indicated the first or dawn prayer.

Mummer:
A silent or mime performer.

Nones:
The fifth of seven canonical bells that indicate afternoon prayer.

Palliasse
(or pallet):
Straw-filled mattress or small makeshift bed.

Pattens:
A wooden overshoe worn to protect the hose/chausses.

Peytral:
Horse armour designed to protect the horse's chest.

Perry:
A drink made from fermented pears.

Plague:
Pestilent: likely to spread and cause an epidemic.

Prime:
The second of seven canonical bells that indicated morning prayer.

Quintain/s:
A target (usually a shield) mounted on a moveable crossbar used in the medieval sport of ‘tilting' (jousting). The sport of tilting at a quintain.

Retainer:
Person/s attached to a noble household or owing it service.

Seneschal:
The steward or major-domo of a medieval great house.

Sext:
The fourth of the seven canonical bells that indicated noon prayer.

Shaffron:
Protective covering/armour for a horse's head.

Simples:
Herbs used in healing.

Solar:
A living or sitting room in an upper storey.

Surcote/
Surcotte:
Female: a full-length sleeveless outer gown with wide armhole openings worn over a chemise or gown. Male: a mid-calf length tunic, with slits front and back, sleeved or sleeveless. Worn by knights over their armour. The different spellings are to represent the Anglo French/French languages in use at the time.

Tablier:
Game board.

Terce:
The third of seven canonical bells that indicated mid-morning prayer.

Treadmill:
A large mill-type wheel used to operate a crane for lifting stone and operated by peasants walking within the wheel.

Tumbler:
An acrobat who tumbles.

Umble:
The numbles (or noumbles, nomblys, noubles) was the name given to the heart, liver, entrails, etc. of animals, especially of deer – what we now call ‘offal' or ‘lights'. The word became ‘umble' from which came ‘umble pie', the pie made from the lesser cuts.

Vespers:
The sixth of seven canonical hours that indicated late afternoon prayer.

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Catherine A Wilson

‘My grandmother was a wonderful storyteller and I count myself fortunate to have been able to spend time with her and my great uncles and aunts, who loved nothing more than a good pot of tea with added lashings of gossip. It is their legacy that fuelled my genealogical addiction as I strove to identify fact from fiction and then record the information for posterity. From this sprouted my love of history, the urge to research and write and, eventually, to develop my own stories.