Pokership

I am disposed to think that *Parkership* will turn out to be the right explanation, because almost every forest or chase contained a *fenced park*, in which the deer were confined; and the charge of the woods and park might be consigned to the same person; and the error in spelling the word was probably copied from one genealogist to another. Nevertheless, Mr. Corney’s conjecture may be right, as Forby (*Vocabulary*, vol. ii. p. 258.) mentions Poke-Day as the day on which the allowance of corn is made to the labourers, *who, in some places, receive a part of their wages in that form*. Now the…