Hi Martyn, To clog was to fasten a clog or heavy block of wood to; to fetter or confine by this means. [OED] I can't find anything likely for ploged yet. I tried plugged which means to stop but not really in the sense that fits the context. Cheers, Liz in Melbourne On Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:08 AM, mjcl [SMTP:mjcl@btinternet.com] wrote: > The following is from the Jury's presentment at Quarter Sessions for the west part of Sussex held at Horsham on 5th October, 1696. I have shown the whole presentment. > > "Imprs We present Clement Poe of Sellsey in the said County yeoman > for keeping a certaine Mastife dogg which that don greate damage > on Alice the wife of Thomas Crowther of Selsey aforesaid and very > likely to do other damage to the Kings Leige People by beeing > suffered to goe Loose unMusselled clogged or Ploged:/" > > Anyone any ideas as to the meaning of " clogged " and " Ploged"? > > regards > > Martyn > > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > To contact the list administrator: > OLD-ENGLISH-admin@rootsweb.com