Hordys—Gold Florens—Kilkenny

In that most curious volume, published by the Camden Society in 1843, viz., *Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler*, prosecuted for Sorcery in 1324, by *Richard de Ledrede, Bishop of Ossory*, p. 14., the bishop appears in court before Arnold Le Poer, Seneschal of Kilkenny, with the consecrated host in his hands, whereon the seneschal irreverently commands him to be placed at the bar, "cum suo *hordys* quern port at in manibus." I have not been able to find the word *hordys* in any dictionary or glossary to which I have access. Can you, or any of your correspondents, help me with an explanatio…