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Revels

dancing, masking, etc., formerly used in princes' courts, the inns of Court, and noblemen's houses, commonly performed by night; there was an officer to order and supervise them, who was entitled the Master of the Revels.

Pyke, paik

Pyke, paik, a foot-passenger; a person employed as a night-watch in a village, and as a runner or messenger on the business of the revenue, Indian.

Public-House Closing Act, 1864

Vict. c. 64), an 'adoptive' Act whereby public-houses and refreshment houses, till then allowed to be open all night, were closed in boroughs and Improvement Act districts between 1 and 4 A.M. The Act has been repealed,

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Owlers

Owlers, persons who carried wool, etc., to the seaside by night, in order that it might be shipped off contrary to law, Jac. Law Dict.

Day

pay money on any certain day, I discharge the obligation if I pay it before twelve o'clock at night; after which the following day commences. If anything is to be done within a certain time, of, from,

Maiden rents

given to the lord for his omitting the custom of mercheta, whereby he was to have the first night's lodgings with his tenant's wife; but it seems more probably to have been a fine for licence to

Lodging houses, common

235, as 'meaning a house (other than a public assistance institution), provided for the purpose of accommodating by night poor persons, not being members of the same family, who resort thereto and are allowed to occupy one

Lights of vehicles

propelled mechanically. Briefly, the Act deals as follows:- S. 1. Obligatory lights to be carried by vehicles at night. S. 2. Restrictions on the number and nature of lamps to be carried. S. 3. Conditions regulating the

Levant et couchant

o another that they have lain down and risen to feed; supposed to be a day and a night, Termes de la Ley.

Knights of the bath

IV. and revived by George I. They are so called from the ceremony formerly observed of bathing the night before their creation, Dugd. Antiq. Of Warw. 531.

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