[323] I have since discovered that budge is the same with “shanks,”
one of the many kinds of fur enumerated in the statute of the 24th
Hen. VIII.; that is, a very delicate white skin stripped from the legs
of a fine haired kid, and almost equal in value, as well as in
appearance, to ermine. It is not impossible that the name may have
been derived from the verb “budge,” as the legs are the instruments of
locomotion. See Minshew, in voce Furre. _Note to second edit.
Whitaker’s Craven._
[324] In the dialect of Craven, cornfactors or millers are called
badgers. Why is this?--the derivation in Mr. Carr’s work, “Horæ
Momenta Cravenæ,” Teut. Ratsen discurrere, seems to me very
far-fetched. I am inclined to think that millers obtained the name
from the colour of their clothes. T. Q. M.
[325] Mittons are gloves with no fingers, having only a place for the
thumb. They are much worn in Craven, and the Scotch shepherds, many of
whom are constantly there, earn a little money by the sale of them:
they knit them with common wood skewers. T. Q. M.
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