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- HABERDASHER
- A person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, ribbons, cottons and zips etc.
- HABERDASHERS
- A haberdasher was a person who sold small articles for sewing, such as buttons, ribbons, zips, and other notions. In English, haberdasher is another term for a men's outfitter. A haberdasher's shop or the items sold therein are called haberdashery.
- HANAPER
- A repository for the keeping of money. The clerk of the hanaper in chancery was the chancery official responsible for the receipt of fines for the issue, engrossment and ensealing of writs, patents and charters issued by the chancery.
- HANSARD
- A weapon maker of seller
- HARVEST HOME
- Celebration to mark the bringing in of the harvest. As the village and the surrounding areas were almost exclusively farming communities in those early days (and at least until the mid or even the late 1900’s), the annual Harvest Home festival was THE community event of the year and took place in the middle of the week, so the children would get a half day off school to mark the occasion.
- HEDDLE
- A heddle is an integral part of a loom. Each thread in the warp passes through a heddle, which is used to separate the warp threads for the passage of the weft. The typical heddle is made of cord or wire, and is suspended on a shaft of a loom. Each heddle has an eye in the center where the warp is threaded through. As there is one heddle for each thread of the warp, there can be near a thousand heddles used for fine or wide warps.
- HEDGE SCHOOL
- These schools began after the Penal Laws were enacted. School held literally in the hedges or the open. Students were Catholic children from the surrounding area.
- HEDGEBOOT
- The right to take timber for hedges.
- HEIR
- Person who succeeds, by the rules of law, to an estate upon the death of an ancestor; one with rights to inherit an estate.
- HEIR APPARENT
- By law a person whose right of inheritance is established, provided he or she outlives the ancestor, see also primogeniture.
- HERBERGER
- One sent on before to purvey lodgings for an army.
- HEREDITMENTS
- Real property capable of being inherited. Corporeal hereditaments are visible, tangible objects such as land and buildings, while incorporeal hereditaments are intangible rights which tend to be associated with the tangible objects.
- HERIOT
- The payment of a fine, by tradition his best beast, by an heir, usually an eldest son, on entering a holding after the death of the previous tenant.
- HIBERNIA
- Ireland
- HIBERNIA
- The Latin word for Ireland, possibly deriving from the word for winter but more likely from the name of an ancient tribe associated with Ireland.
- HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
- A document written entirely by the hand of the person whose signature it bears
- HOMAGE
-
Fulfilling of an express covenant, usually a fine
of some sort.
- HOMICIDE
- Latin: homicidium, Latin: homo human being + Latin: caedere to cut, kill refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English. Homicide is not always a punishable act under the criminal law, and is different than a murder from such formal legal point of view.
- HOSTLER
- Takes care of horses at an inn
- HOUSEBOOT
- The right to cut down timber for building.
- HUXTER
- A Huxter or Huckster is a retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker
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