Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragmans
Literary usage of Ragmans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"(sv Ragman, 2). ragmans rew, a rhapsody, rigmarole ; ' A ragmans rewe ... So do
we call a long jeste that ..."
2. The History of England: As Well Ecclesiastical as Civil. By Mr. De Rapin by Rapin de Thoyras (Paul), M. Rapin de Thoyras (1728)
"... Blank-Bonds which were called ragmans, had been filled up, not only with the
Sums Richard had been ..."
3. A manual for the genealogist, topographer, antiquary and legal professor by Richard Sims (1856)
"... its application to the Rolls here in question implies that they are the record
of the separate ragmans, or sealed instruments of homage and fealty, ..."
4. Selections from the Confessio Amantis by John Gower (1903)
"... is necessary to refer to compositions such as we find in the Bodleian
MSS., Fairfax 16, and Bodley 638, under the narne of ' Ragman (or ragmans) Rolle. ..."
5. The History of Great Britain: From the First Invasion of it by the Romans by Robert Henry, Malcolm Laing (1805)
"... commanding all the blank bonds, called ragmans, which had been extorted by
Richard and his favourites, to be committed to the flames'". ..."
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