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Breech No. 2
Carriers of Breeches [Pevironolia Girle?] Rider
Point a Trussing Point Carrigia Gold: Rider Ligulus
Bunhook are Breeches Enod & Goldman
a Truss or breech worn next the hair in Swimmer/Gold
Lies Trussed Cingitur Gold
1554 When Sir Thos. Wyatt was in the Scaffold he Put off his Gown & untrussed his Points and after he Plucked off his doublet & waistcoat Stave
The Lower Garment & th Doublet were no doubt trussed together by the Point
1595 there is nothing so vaine, & you yourself tell can ask to bag a Breech of a Bare arst man Heiwood Part 1 Ch 9 who had the worse end of the [Staffe?] (Quothd) now
shall the Mayster wear a Breeche, or none, say you? do Part 2 Ch 3
The breechless Maister
The maister weareth Breech, then I Protest
The maister is either a Girle a Boy or a beast &c Epigrams No 196
1571 The Truss was so short that the breech which reachd to about [need]
thigh appear very Plein Q Elizabeths visit to Low Hunsdon vertue
shirt strings strings wherewith the Slops are tyed up Ossolieri Florio
Hose Garters
1530 {Payre of Hose from the Knee upwards Dornychausse }
{Payre of slop hoses Braiettes } Palsgrave
{Breech of Hosen Braiette Braie }
Breached Hose or Else the Breeches of an Hose Superior Brechiarum Pars Pudenda & [Fomora Obtegene] Higgins]
Neather Coif } Neather Breache This was a kinde of Breeches that men wore in the Cold weather under their Long coates in Old tymes & were called neather Coifes or Nether Breeches
Stropyll Latin Femorale [Brompt?]
a breech Latin Subligar Subligaculum Foemorale Brecha withall 1594
Breeches veron in his dictionariolum puerorum 1552 has breeches in the Plural number See Bracha vell Bracha Bracharum also under [Foemoretia] Breeches, des brayes [Reiizonic Genizzoma] &c
Subligaculum a Breech F brayes &c
Breeches slops or Long hose [Braccosi?] }
Breeches with stockings carved to them [Foemini Gurcha?] } Reder.1.
Truss a Trusse whereunto a mans hose is tied & Succingulum Examies Reder }
a trusse or Breech worne next the Bare as in swimming L Subligar Reder} 1589
chauses a la } close or streight Venetians tyed below the knee: Priestes
Bigotte } Breeches Colgrave
venetian Large Venetians having Cod Peices & gatherd or full of Stuff at the knees [Cotyr Braguesque]
chausses a la Gigotte very close Venetians old fashiond Venetian Cotyr
Hoegner to Puff out as sarcenet in a Breech cut after The surfs Fashion to hang forth Loose to it bagging Flagging or befrumpled as an overwide garment Cotyr Garg
chausse a Breeke or Breech in which Sence it is most Commonly Plural Coty
Chausse a la gargues que Gregges or Gallogaskins Cotyr
Chausse a [queue de merlu] Round breeches with Short [Carning] having in the Seat a Peice like a Fishes Tail worn by old men scholars & such Niggardly or needy Persons Cotyr
I have somewhere seen an account of an archer who being mocked by an enemy who showed his Posterior in derision revenged himself by nailing the breech of the sender to his backside with an arrow