A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

[Five puzzles.]

Take iij claterars.

B pkf.	A pie.
B kbk.	A iai (jay).
B xpmbn.	A woman.

Take iij lowrars. [Lowrar, one of frowning or lowering countenance.]

B bpf.	A ape.
B pwlf.	A owle.
B xpmbn.	A woman.

Take iij schrewys. [A shrew, one of sharp or biting disposition.]

B xbspf.	A waspe.
B xfskll.	A wesill.
B xpmbn.	A woman.

Take iij angry.

B ffrkfr.	A frier.
B ffpx.	A fox.
B xpmbn.	A woman.

Ther be iiij thyngs take gret betyng.

B stpkfksch.	A stockfisch. [Stockfish, a kind of fish dried for keeping, especially in the north. It was so hard that it required much beating, and soaking in water, to render it eatable. (See The Babees Book, &c., ed. Furnivall, Early English Text Society, pp. 155, 214, and Index.) The stock-fishmonger was a regular trade in London. (See Riley's Liber Albus, translation, pp. 325, 328.)]
B mklstpn.	A milston.
B fffdkrbfd.	A fedirbed.
B xopmbn.	A wooman.