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Folc-lanJs titled, Memoires pours fervir a l’Hijlolre de M. de Che-
|| valier de Folard. Ratijbone, 1753, 12 mo.
Folen^io. FOLC-LAND3, (Sax.) copy-hold lands fo called in
' 1 the time of the Saxons, as charter-lands were called
boc-lands, Kitch. 174. Falkland was terra vulgi or
popularis i the land of the vulgar people, who had no
certain eftate therein, but held the fame, under the
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mies ; and, reaching England, to macaroni clubs;
till, in the end, every thing inlipid, contemptible, and
ridiculous, in the character, drefs, or behaviour, of
both men and women, is now fummed up in the de-
fpicable appellation of a macaroni. Folengio died m
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FOLIA, among botanifts, particularly fignify the
rents and fervices accuftomed or agreed, at the will leaves of plants; thofe of flowers being exprefled by
only of their lord the thane ; and it was therefore not the word petals. See Leaf.
put in writing, but accounted pradium rujlicum et igno- FOLIAGE, a clutter or aflemblage of flowers,
bile. Spelm. of Feuds, c. 5. leaves, branches, &c.
FOLCMOTE, or Folkmote, (Sum. Folcgemot, Foliage, is particularly ufed for the reprefentations
i. e. conventus populi), is compounded of folk, populus, of fuch flowers, leaves, branches, rinds, &c. whether
and mote, ox gemote, convenire; and fignified originally, natural or artificial, as are ufed for enrichments on ca¬
ns Somner in his Saxon Didtionary informs us, a ge- pitals, friezes, pediments, &c.
neral aflembly of the people, to confider of and order
rtiatters of the commonwealth. And Sir Henry Spel-
man fays, the folcmote was a fort of annual parliament,
or convention of the bifhops, thanes, aldermen, and
freemen, upon every May-day yearly ; where the lay-
and to preferve the laws of the kingdom; and then
confulted of the common fafety. But Dr Brady infers
from the laws of the Saxon kings of England, that it
was an inferior court, held before the king’s reeve or
fleward, every month, to do folk right, or compofe
fmaller differences, from whence there lay appeal to the
ment within the faid city; and this word is ftill in ufe
among the Londoners, and denotes celebrem ex tota ci-
vitate conventum. Slow’s Survey. According to Ken-
net, the folcmote was a common-council of all the inha-
king’s nomination, anno 1315, 3 Edw. 1. After which
the city folkmote was fwallowed up in a fele& commit¬
tee or common-council, and the country folkmote in the
fheriff’s tourn and affifes.
paper-funnel, which put into the hole of the globe, as
the glafs as you can, fo that the amalgam, when
you pour it in, may not fplafh, and caufe the glafs to be
full of fpots; pour it in gently, and move it about, fo
The word folkmote was alfo ufed for any kind of po- that the amalgam may touch every where : if you find
pular or public meeting ; as of all the tenants at the the amalgam begin to be curdly and fixed, then hold it
court-leet, or court-baron, in which fignification it was of over a gentle fire, and it will eafily flow again; and if
a lefs extent. Paroch. Antiq.
FOLENGIO (Theophilus), of Mantua, known al¬
fo by the title of Merlin Coccaye, an Italian poet, re¬
markable for giving to a poem a name which has been
adopted ever fince for all trifling performances of the
fame fpecies, confifting of buffoonry, puns, anagrams,
wit without wifdom, and humour without good-fenfe.
His poem was called The Macaroni, from an Italian
you find the amalgam too thin, add a little more lead,
tin, and bifmuth to it- The finer and clearer your
globe is, the better will the looking-glafs be.
Dr Shaw obferves, that this operation has confider-
able advantages, as being performable in the cold ; and
that it is not attended with the danger of poifonous
fumes from arfenic, or other unwholefome matters, u-
fually employed for this purpofe: belides, how far it
cake of the fame name, which is fweet to the talie, but is applicable to the more commodious foliating of the
has not the lead alimentary virtue, on the contrary common looking-glafles, and other fpeculums, he
palls the appetite and cloys the ftomach. Thefe idle
poems, however, became the reigning tafte in Italy
and in France : they gave birth to macaroni acade-
Vol. VII. Part I.
thinks, may deferve to be confidered.
FOLIO, in merchants books, denotes a page, or
rather both the right and left hand pages, thefe being
S f ex-
Ff>li»
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FoK-r.
FOLIATING e/- Looking-glasses, the fpread-
ing the plates over, after they are poliflied, with quick-
filver, &c. in order to refledt the image. It is per¬
formed thus : A thin blotting paper is fpread on the
table, and fprinkled with fine chalk ; and then a fine
men were fworn to defend one another and the king, lamina or leaf of tin, called foil, is laid over the pa-
—a l:—a— . —a -1— per . Up0n this is poured mercury, which is to be dif-
tributed equally over the leaf with a hare’s-foot or
cotton : over this is laid a clean paper, and over that
the glafs-plate, which is prelfed down with the right-
hand, and the paper drawn gently out with the left:
this being done, the plate is covered with a thicker
fuperior courts; G/ofs. p. 48. Squire feems to think paper, and loaded with a greater weight, that the fu-
the folcmote not diftindt from the fhiremote, or common perfluous mercury may be driven out and the tin ad-
general meeting of the county. See his Angl. Sax. Gov. here more clofely to the glafs. When it is dried, the
155. n. weight is removed, and the looking-glafs is complete.
Manwood mentions folcmote as a court holden in Some add an ounce of marcafite, melted by the fire;
London, wherein all the folk and people of the city did and, left; the mercury Ihould evaporate in fmoke, they
complain of the mayor and aldermen, for mifgovern- pour it into cold water; and when cooled, fqueeze
through a cloth, or through leather.
Some add a quarter of an ounce of tin and Lad to
the marcafite, that the glafs may dry the fooner.
Foliating of Globe Looking-glajfes, is done as fol-
bitants of a city, town, or borough, convened often lows : Take five ounces of quickfilver and one ounce
by found of bell, to the Mote Hall, or Houfe; or it was of bifmuth ; of lead and tin, half an ounce each : firlt
applied to a larger congrefs of all the freemen within a put the lead and tin into fufion, then put in the bif-
county, called the fFire-mote, where formerly all knights muth ; and when you perceive that in fufion too, let
and military tenants did fealty to the king, and elefted it Hand till it is almoft cold, and pour the quickfilver
the annual flienff on the ill of Oftober; till this popu- into it: after this, take the glafs-globe, which muflj
lar eleftion,to avoid tumults and riots, devolved to the be very clean, and the infide free from dull: make :