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  1. John R. McNair, “An Early ‘Hard Word’ List: Stephen Batman's ‘A Note of Saxon Wordes,”Neophilologus 68 (1984), 317–19. See also Johan Kerling, “English Old-Word Glossaries 1553–1594,”Neophilologus 63 (1979), 136–47.

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  2. For a discussion of these versions and a list of manuscripts, see Hubert Hall, ed.,The Red Book of the Exchequer, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores [Rolls Series], 99 (London, 1896), III, ccclvi–ccclxv and 1032– 40. For other texts of the glossary printed in the Rolls Series and elsewhere, see the Plan and Bibliography volume of theMiddle English Dictionary (Ann Arbor, 1952-), pp. 51–52.

  3. William Lambarde'sArchaionomia, sive De priscis Anglorum legibus libri (London, 1568) includes a Latin translation of most of the Anglo-Saxon laws along with a selective glossary.

  4. I am using the French text from British Library MS. Cotton Galba E. iv printed with a commentary by Max Förster in “Ein englisch-französisches Rechtsglossar,”Beiträge zur romanischen und englischen Philologie: Festgabe für Wendelin Foerster (Halle, 1902; rpt. Tübingen, 1977), pp. 205–12.

  5. This glossary is printed by George Thomas Clark, “The Custumary of the Manor and Soke of Rothley, in the County of Leicester,”Archaeologia 47 (1882), 126–29.

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  6. London, Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS. 508, ff. 200–02.

  7. The only Old English text Batman is known to have owned is a short list of land holdings added to an insular Latin manuscript of the Gospels. See N. R. Ker,Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), art. 303.

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Berkhout, C.T. Stephen Batman and theExpositio Vocabulorum . Neophilologus 69, 476–478 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02001060

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