For information on Chester, my main sources were John Barratt – The Great Siege of Chester (2003), Simon Ward – Chester – A History (2009) and CP Lewis and AT Thacker – A History of the County of Chester (2003).
Of particular help for information on Newark was Stuart B Jennings’ These Uncertaine Tymes – Newark and the Civilian Experience of the Civil Wars 1640-1660 (2009).
Glossary
Awning - Staring
Bonesore- Tired, weary
Canker blossom - An insult, derives from a term for an infectious skin disease
Clot-pole - Idiot
Corviser - Shoemaker
Fou drunk - Very drunk, mad drunk
Gallas - A Cheshire dialect word used to describe someone who is always getting int scrapes
Goody good een - A familiar greeting
Heckle-tempered - Short-tempered
Mithered - Bothered
Pribbling - Drooling
Scranny - Thin, scraggy
Slype - A covered walkway way between a cathedral transept and the chapter house
Tosspot - Drunkard
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