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 Abbas solus prandebit sapremus in refectorio habens vastellum de qua voce Walsius in Glossario. Si non sit Umbraculum aut Baldekinum (a Canopy) nescio quid significat; neque tamen conjecture possum, quare Umbraculum Vastellum diceretur; quære.—[W. K.]

But by the word Vastellus no doubt is meant the Wastel or Wassal Bowls, which as a piece of state was placed at the upper end of the table for the use of the Abbat, who drank out of that Plate a Health or Poculum Charitatis to the rest of the fraternity.—W. Kennett.

Newyears Day.

Hence the complement of wishing one Happy New yeare.

Wishing each other a happy-New-yeare.

Newyears Gifts.

Omens [see pp. 19, 25, 30].

Numa first invented the adoration of dead men's ghosts.

[Dogs Barking.]

Exta canum Triviæ.— [Fasti, i. 389.]

Mdm.—How they bark all night when the moone shines: e. g. from Bathe to Oxford: the dogges take their cue from Hamlet to Hamlet.