Grummett

The following use of the word whose definition is sought by "Σ" occurs in a description of the *members* or adjuncts of the Cinque Port of Hastings in 1229:— "Servicia inde debita domino regi xxi. naves, et in qualibet nave xxi. homines, cum uno garcione qui dicitur *gromet*." In quoting this passage in a paper "On the Seals of the Cinque Ports," in the *Sussex Archæological Collections* (Vol. i. p. 16.), I applied the following illustration:— "*Gromet* seems to be a diminutive of '*grome*', a serving-man, whence the modern groom. The provincialism *grummet*, much used in Sussex to designate a…