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LOITERING

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A criminal charge of vagrancy. Wasting time being idle. … [Read more...]

LOLLARDS

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A body of primitive Wes leyans, who assumed importance about the time of John Wycliffe, (1360,) and were very successful in disseminating evangelical truth; but, being implicated (apparently against their will) in the insurrection of the villeins in 1381, the statute Be Hceretico Comburen do (2 Hen. IV. c. 15) was passed against them, for their suppression. However, they were … [Read more...]

LOMBARDS

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A name given to the merchants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe. … [Read more...]

LODGINGS

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Habitation in another's house; apartments in another's house, furnished or unfurnished, occupied for habitation; the occupier being termed a "lodger." … [Read more...]

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