Excerpts from [Galfridus Anglicus or Galfrisus Grammaticus]. Promptorium Parvulorum [A.k.a. Medulla Gramatice], ca. 1440 [earliest known printing 1499].  

Apparently from the Abby of Lynn.

From:

• Galfridus, Anglicus. Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum: Lexicon Anglo-Latinum Princeps. 3 vols. Works of the Camden Society; 1st Ser., No. 25, 54., ed. Albert Way. London: Sumptibus Societatis Camdenensis, 1843-1865.
• ________. Promptorium Parvulorum, 1499 English Linguistics, 1500-1800: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968.
• ________. The Promptorium Parvulorum. The First English-Latin Dictionary. Early English Text Society. Extra Series, No.102, ed. Anthony Lawson Mayhew. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1973.

[Note: The editorial notes here reflect early Victorian interpretations and should be viewed with caution.]

• AGGLOT, or an aglet to lace wyth alle. Aeus, actdus, (acula, P.) 
  �Agglet of a lace or poynt, fer. To agglet a poynt, or set on an agglet vpon a poynt or lace, ferrer. PALSG. Wyll you set none agglettes vpon your poyntes? enferrer voz esguylettes.� This word denotes properly the tag, but is often used to signify the lace to which it was attached. �Myn aglet, mon laeset, a point, la ferrure d�un lasset.� R. PYNSON, Good boke to lerne to speke French.
• ANKYL. Cavilla, verticillum.
• BARKYN lethyr. Frunio, tanno, tannio, C.F.
• BARKYNGE of lethyr (lethyr or ledyr, P.) Frunicio.
• BLEKE (blecke, P.) Atramentum.
  Horman says, �Wrytters ynke shulde be fyner than blatche, atramentum scriptorium lectius esset sutorio.� �Bleche for souters, attrament noyr.� PALSG. A.S. bl�c, atramentum.
• BLEKKYN wythe bleke (Blacken with blecke. P.) Atramento.
• BOTE for a mannys legge (bote or cokyr, H. coker, P.) Bota, ocrea.
  See BOTEW, and COKYR, botew. �Boote of lether, houseau.� PALSG..
• BOTEW. Coturnus, botula, crepita.
• (BRUSTYL of a swyne, K.P. Seta.)
• CHAUNCEMELE (chavncemely, K.) Subtelaris, C. P. CATH.
  Subtelaris, vnder the hele.� ORT. VOC. A similar explanation is given in the Catholicon, with this addition, �Sotular autem vel sotularis nihil aliud est, ut dicit Magister Bene. sed aliqui contrarium dicunt.�
• CHAUNCEPE, or schoynge horne (chaucepe, P.) Parcopollex, CATH.
  The Catholicon gives the following explanation, �Parcopollex, i. tramellum,� which is properly a thimble: chauncepe appears to be a -corruption of the French chaussepied.
• CLOWTE of a schoo, Pictasium, UG.
  �A clowte of yrne, crusta, crude ferrea, et cetera ubi plate.� CATH. ANG. In Norfolk the terms cleat and clout signify an iron plate �with which a shoe is strengthened. FORBY. Ang. Sax. cleot, clut, pittacium, lamina. Palsgrave gives the verb �to cloute, carreler, rateceller. I had nede go cloute my shoes, they be broken at the heles.�
• CLOWTER, or cobelere. Sartorius, rebroccator (pictaciarius, P.)
• CLOWTYD, as shoone, or o�er thyngys of ledyr. Pictaciatus, rebroccatus.
• CLOWTYNGE, or coblynge. Rebroccacio.
• (CLOWTYNGE of shone, K. Pictacio.)
• COBLER, Supra in CLOWTERE.
• COCUR, boote (cokyr bote, H.P.) Ocrea, coturnus, KYLW. C. F.
  The coarse half-boot used by rustics was called a cocur, and the term cocker is still used in the North Of England, but properly signifies gaiters or leggings, and even coarse stockings without feet, used as gaiters. In a MS. of the Medulla in the Editor�s possession, Culponeus is rendered �a carl stoghe,� (in the Ortus �a chorles shoo,�) �with this additional explanation, �vel a Cokyr, ut dicit Campus forum.� Piers Ploughman speaks of his �cokeres,� Vision, line 3915, and they may be seen in the curious drawing in a MS. of the Poem in the Library Trin. Call. Cant, an engraving from which is given in Shaw�s Dresses. Elyot gives �Carpatin�, ploughmen�s bootes made of vntanned lether, they maye be called cokers. Peronatus, he that weareth rawe lether shoen, boteux, or cokars lyke a ploughman.� Librarie, l542.
• CODE, sowters wex (coode, H.P.) Coresina (cerisina, P.)
  Among numerous substances, resin, grease, and herbs, mentioned in the curious directions for making a good �entreet,� or plaster to heal wounds, occurs �Spaynisch code.� Sloan. MS. 100, f. 17.
• COKYR, botew, supra. Cocurus,
• (COKYRMETE, K.H. Cenum, lutum, CATH.)
  This singular term was given most erroneously in the printed editions of the Promptorium; Pynson printed it Ckyrmete, Julian Notary Chyimete, and W. de Worde Chymette. it appears to relate to the kind of rustic boot called here a cocur, and cokyr; but the whimsical application of such a term to clay is wholly unaccountable.
• CORDWANE, ledyr (cordwale lethir, K.) Aluta.
  Chaucer, in the Rime of Sir Thopas, mentions �his shoon of cordewane;� and in the Boke for Travellers Caxton speaks of �hydes of kyen whereof men make lether; of fellis of gheet, or of the bukke make men good cordewan; of shepes fellis may be made the basenne� The kind of leather to which this name was applied was originally prepared at Corduba, and thence, according to Junius and Menage, received the appellation.
• CORDWANER. Alutarius.
• ELSYN� (elsyng, K.) Sibula.
  This word occurs in the gloss on Gautier de Bibelesworth, Arund. MS. 220, where a buckled girdle is described:
  �Een isy doyt le hardiloun (�e tunnge)
  Passer par tru de subiloun (a bore of an alsene).�
  An elsyne, acus,subula.� CATH. ANG. �Sibula, an elsyn, an alle, or a bodkyn.� ORTUS. In the Inventory of the goods of a merchant at Newcastle, A.D. 1571, occur �vj doss� elsen heftes, 12d. j clowte and � a c elson blades, viijs. viijd. xiij clowtes of taller nedles,� &c. Wills and Inv. published by the Surtees Society, i., 361. The term is derived from the French al�ne; �elson for cordwayners, alesne.� PALSG. In Yorkshire, and some other parts of England an awl is still called an elsen.
• GALACHE, or galoche, vndyr solynge of mannys fote (galegge, or galoch, s. vndirshone, K. vnderschoyinge, H.) Crepitum, crepita, C.F. obstringillus, CATH.
  Sunt obstringilli qui per plantas consuti sunt, et ex superiori parte cormigi� contrahuntur.� CATH. The galache was a sort of patten fastened to the foot by cross latchets, and worn by men as early as the time of Edw. III. Allusion is made to it by Chaucer.
  �Ne were worthy to unbocle his galoche.� Squire�s Tale, 10, 869.
  In the inventory of the effects of Hen. V. taken A.D. 1423, mention occurs of �j peir de galaqes faitz d�estreyn, iv d.;� but it is not easy to understand how straw should be a proper material for the purpose. See Rot. Parl. cv. 329. In Sir John Howard�s Household Book, A.D. 1465, p. 314, are named both galaches and pynsons, which last are in the Promptorium explained to be socks. See Household Expenses in England. This kind of shoe was occasionally an article of luxury and ostentatious display, which probably suggested the allusion that occurs in the Vision of Piers Ploughman, where one is described as coming eagerly, as if to be dubbed a knight,
  To geten hym gilte spores,
  Or galoches y-couped.� line 12,099.
  The term �y-couped� seems to imply the extravagant fashion of the long-peaked toe: �Milieus, a coppid shoo.� ORTUS. In the reign of Edward IV. a statute was passed, by which the higher classes alone were permitted to wear shoes, �galoges,� or boots, with a peak longer than 2 inches (Rot. Parl. v. 505, 566; Stat, of Realm, II. 415) but, from certain allusions in ancient romance, it would seem that the fashion was, by the usage of a much earlier period, permitted to none under the degree of a knight. See Sir Degore, 700; Torrent of Portugal, 1193, &c. The curious drawings in Cott. MS. Julius, E. iv. (t. Hen. VI.), one of which, representing King John, has been given in Shaw�s Dresses, exhibit the galache in its most extravagant form. �Solea, a shoe called a galage or paten, whiche bathe nothynge on the fete, but onely lachettes.� ELYOT. �Gallozza, a kind of wooden patins, startops, gallages, or stilts. Cospi, wooden pattins, or pantofles, shoes with wooden soles, startups or galages,� &c. FLORIO. �Galoche, a woodden shoe or patten made all of a peece, without any latchet or ty of leather, and worne by the poore clowne in winter.� COTG. See Spenser, Sheph. Cal. Febr. and Sept. In the Wardrobe Book of Prince Henry, A.D. 1607, are mentioned �1 pair of golossians, 6s. 16 gold buckles with pendants and toungs to buckle a pair of golosses.� Arch�ol. xi. 93.
• (GALLOCHE, supra in GALACHE. Callopedium, P.)
• HELE of �e fote. Talus, calcaneus.
• LACHET of a schoo. Tenea, UG. V. in T.
• LESTE, sowtarys forme. Formula, CATH. formipedia, DICC. calopodia, C. F.
• ORGONE. Organum.
  The precise period when the use of the organ was introduced into Britain has not been ascertained; it is supposed to have been first used in France in 757. Compare Ann. Fr. breves; Ann. Francorum; and Eginh. Ann. Pepini; which concur in naming that year as the date of the introduction. Eginhard also mentions the arrival in France of a priest from Venice, who was able to construct organs, in 826; but the instrument does not appear to have been generally used in Western Europe before the Xth cent. At that period Elphegus, Bp. Winchester, constructed an organ, the melodious sounds of which are highly commended in the verses of Wolstan. In the time of Edgar, St. Dunstan, who died 988, caused �organa� to be constructed for the church of Glastonbury, according to Joh. Glaston. and in that of Malmesbury, where he bestowed �organa, ubi per ereas fistulas musicis mensuris elaborates dudum conceptas follig vomit anxius auras.� W. Malmesb. Life of Aldhelm, Bp. Shirburn, founder of Malmesbury Abbey. Numerous curious particulars are recorded respecting the use of organs in England, as at St. Alban�s, in Cott. MS. Nero, D. VII.; and Croyland, where there were � organa soleunia in introitu eccte.cie supertua situate,� as well as smaller organs in the choir. Portable instruments, called frequently regals, were much in use, and representations occur in many illuminations and sculptures. A very curious representation of the organ exists in Eadwine�s Psalter, Trin. Coil. Camb. R. 17 i. and has been copied in Strutt�s Horda, I. p1. 33. Organs were imported from Flanders, as appears by the Louth accounts, about the year 1500, Arch�ol. x. 91; the price of a pair suitable to be set up in the rood-loft of that noble church being �13. 6s. 8d. It appears that the usual term, a pair of organs, has reference to the double bellows whereby continuous sound was produced; or, according to Douce, to their being formed with a double row of pipes. See O�Connor�s curious observations on the early use of organs and psalmody in the Irish church, Hib. Script. iv. 153.
• OVYR LETHYR of a schoo (ouer�ledyr, H.) Impedia, DICC. et KYLW.
• PECYN, or set peeys to a thynge, or clowtyn. Repecio,reb(r)occo, sarcto, CATH. reficio.
• REVVLYN. Aporio, C.S.
• PIKE, of a schoo. Liripium, DICC. (liripipium, P.)
  �A pyke of a scho, or of a staffe, rostrum.� CATH. ANG. Lliripipium usually denotes the hood with a long appendage, which, as Knyghton describes it, was twisted around the head; but here it seems to be synonymous with poleine, or cracowe, the proper appellation whereby the singular long-peaked shoe, which was in fashion during the early part of the XVth cent., was known. These terms are supposed to be derived from the fashion having been introduced from Poland, and Cracow, its metropolis, possibly by some of the suite of Anne of Bohemia, Queen of Ric. II. Will. Malmsb. however, states that among the effeminate habits of the times of Rufus, �usus catceorum cam arcuatis aculeis inventus:� the pouleines were also much in vogue in France during the reign of Charles V. and forbidden in 1340 and 1365. The monk of Evesham, in the Life of Rich. II. ed. Hearne, p. 53, relates the indignity that was shown in the diocese of Oxford to the messenger of Abp. Courtenay, in 1384, when he was compelled to eat the prelate�s mandate, seal and all; but in retaliation the Archbishop�s adherents �sciderunt cracowys de sotularilius ailiquorum de familia Epi. Oxon. et ipsoe cracowis edere cogerunt.� In a treatise on the virtues of plants, written about the same time, the seed, or cod, of the Cassia fistula is described as of the �gretnesse of a saucestre, and shap most lyk �e pyk of a crakow sho.� Arund. MS. 42, f. 60, v^o. At the period when the Promptorium was compiled such peaked shoes were worn of an extravagant length, and the fashion was restricted by the statutes of apparel, during the reign of Edw. IV. when the length of �pykes of shoen or boteux� was cut down to two inches. See Parl. Rolls, V. 505, 566; Stat, of Realm. Although no early sumptuary statute is found whereby the use of such shoes was restricted to knights or persons of estate, they are mentioned repeatedly, as if accounted specially a part of knightly equipment. Thus in the description of the comely attire of Sir Degore, it is said, �His shone was croked as a knighte.� v. 700. This Romance is supposed to have been written early in the XIIIth cent. The young Torrent of Portugal is described as craving knighthood from the King of Provens, who bids him engage in a feat of arms, �and wyn the shone,� v. 1117; having acquitted himself manfully, becomes at �myd-mete,� and presents himself at the deis in his squire�s habit, �withoute couped shone,� to claim the guerdon; v. 1193. Compare this passage with Vis, of Piers Ph v. 12,099, where a description occurs of one who comes, as if to a just, after the manner of a knight who comes to be dubbed, to win his gilt spurs, �or galoches y-couped.� �Milieus, a coppid shoo.� ORTUS. Ang.-Sax. cop, apex. A large number of poleine shoes, with the wooden pattens which were warn with them during the XVth cent., in accordance with the fashion represented in the drawing in Cott. MS. Julius E. IV. designated as King John, and given in Shaw�s Dresses, were discovered in London, Nov. 1843, and are in the possession of Mr. C. R. Smith, F.S.A.
• PYNSONE.3 Tenella, cancer, C.F.. et KYLW. cancellulus, KYLW. (manualis, C.F., H.P.)
  �A pynson, pedribriomita, a pes, et brios, mensura, et mitos, gutta; quasi calceus guttatus� CATH. ANG. �Pedibomita, Anglice a pynson.� ORTUS. �Baillez may mes cafignouns, take me my pynsouns.� Harl. MS. 219, f. 151, v^o. � Pynson sho, caffignon.� PALSG. Master Stanbridge renders calceolus �a pynson,� and Elyot gives � Calceamesa, a pynson showe, or socke ;� to which Gouldman adds another synonym, �a pinson or pump, calceamen,� &c. Duwes, in his Introductorie, composed to teach the Princess Mary the French tongue, gives �womens raiments�the pynson showes, les eschapins.� The derivation of this term is very obscure; it denotes, possibly, the pumps, on high unsoled shoes of thin leather, which were commonly worn with pattens about the time when the Promptorium was compiled. A large collection of these, recently discovered in London, are in the possession of C. R. Smith, Esq. F.S.A. Pinsons are mentioned in the Howard Household Book, p. 314.
• PINSONE, sokke. Pedipomita.
• SHAPYNG KNYFE, of sowtare: Ansorium, -ij; CATH.
• SCHYPPE, boote: Barca, -ce; Carabus, -bi
• SCHYN of a legge: Crus, -ris; CATH.
• SCHOO, mannys foote hyllynge: Sotularis; Calceus
• SCHO for byschopys: Sandalium
• SCHO, clowte: lampedium, -ij: limpedium
• SCHODE, as men: calciatus, -a, -um.
• SOKKE: Soccus, -i; CATH.