3 Richard Newdigate II to Richard Newdigate I, 19 Sept., 30 Sept. 1674; Newdigate Papers, CR 136/B349, WARRO; the modern judgment is Vivienne M. Larminie, “The Life Style and Attitude of the Seventeenth Century Gentleman, with Special Reference to the Newdigates …” (thesis, Univ. of Birmingham, 1980), 238.
4 Bamford, ed., A Royalist’s Notebook, xiv.
5 Many examples of “gaffering” and “gammering” appear in the Dorset diary of John Richards, Ms. D320/F65, DORSO; the saga of Arthur Cryde is in an entry dated 15 Sept. 1692.