MEN

Approved men who K were strong-armed; habente,s homines or rich men, men o:I' substance; pledges or bondsmen, who, by Saxon custom, were bound to answer for each other's good behavior. Cow- L e).1; Du Cange.. FAGGOT, A badge worn 1n popish times by persons who had recanted and abjured what was then adjudged to be heresy, as an emblem of what they had merited. Cowen. M [s. 483]