huffcap

If this shift serve not (neither doth the fox use always one track for fear of a snare), they will compound with some one of the town where the market is holden, who for a pot of "huffcap" or "merry-go-down," will not let to buy it for them, and that in his own name.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

"huffcap," till they be red as cocks and little wiser than their combs.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Neither did Romulus and Remus suck their she-wolf or shepherd’s wife Lupa with such eager and sharp devotion as these men hale at “huffcap, ” till they be red as cocks and little wiser than their combs.

Of Fairs and Markets. Chapter IV. [1577, Book II., Chapter 2; 1587, Book II., Chapter 18 1909

If this shift serve not (neither doth the fox use always one track for fear of a snare), they will compound with some one of the town where the market is holden, who for a pot of “huffcap” or “merry-go-down, ” will not let to buy it for them, and that in his own name.

Of Fairs and Markets. Chapter IV. [1577, Book II., Chapter 2; 1587, Book II., Chapter 18 1909

"Hastings was here before daybreak: but his men only got the sour beer; yours fight upon huffcap."

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

At a small table, apart from the revellers, but evidently listening with attention to all the news of the hour, sat a friar, gravely discussing a mighty tankard of huffcap, and ever and anon, as he lifted his head for the purpose of drinking, glancing a wanton eye at one of the tymbesteres.

The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Hastings was here before daybreak: but his men only got the sour beer; yours fight upon huffcap."

The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

a friar, gravely discussing a mighty tankard of huffcap, and ever and anon, as he lifted his head for the purpose of drinking, glancing a wanton eye at one of the tymbesteres.

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Garret Weasel," said the beldam, "you may take it for a favor, past your deservings, that Rob will see you alone at his hut even in day time: but it is as much as your life is worth to bring your huffcap brawlers to St. Jerome's at midnight.

Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872

"The York lozels have starved on stale beer, -- shall they beat huffcap and Lancaster?

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838