' I am indebted to Mr. J. Cordy Jeaffreson for some strongly reasoned arguments, in private-correspondence, tending to Harriet's disculpation.

He rides a horse all day an' is as cordy as a Roman gladiator.

By J. CORDY JEAFFRESON, Author of "Novels and Novelists," "Crewe Else," etc., etc.

Cordy Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, i, 100-1 (Indictment reciting that John Johnson had had due notice in his parish church, yet had not sent his wain, etc., 1576).

Canterbury Visit., xxvi, 20, 21, 25, 31, etc. See J. Cordy Jeaffreson, A Book about the Clergy, ii, 58.

Wall, they tuk up another man, quicker 'n the fust, but he wa'n' nowhere near s' big 'n' cordy.