Pokership

I am sorry to see that no progress has yet been made towards a satisfactory explanation of this office. I was in hopes that something better than mere conjecture would have been supplied from the peculiar facilities of "T.R.F." "W.H.C." (p. 323.) has done little more than refer to the same instruments as had been already adverted to by me in p. 269., with the new reading of *poulterer* for poker! With repect to "T.R.F.'s" conjecture, I should be more ready to accept it if he could produce a single example of the word *pawker*, in the sense of a hog-warden. The quotation from the Pipe-roll of J…