At the same time, we must not forget to note two Dictionaries of a much earlier date, which are of high value.

The former of these is the _Promptorium Parvulorum_, completed in 1440, published by the Camden Society in 1865; which contains a rather large proportion of East Anglian words.

The second is the _Catholicon Anglicum_, dated 1483, ed.

S.J.Herrtage, E.E.T.S., 1881, which is distinctly Northern (possibly of Yorkshire origin).
We find in Skinner occasional mention of Lincolnshire words, with which he was evidently familiar.

Examples are: _boggle-boe_, a spectre; _bratt_, an apron; _buffet-stool_, a hassock; _bulkar_, explained by Peacock as "a wooden hutch in a workshop or a ship." The study of modern English Dialects began with the year 1674, when the celebrated John Ray, Fellow of the Royal Society, botanist, zoologist, and collector of local words and proverbs, issued his _Collection of English Words not generally used_; of which a second edition appeared in 1691.