In the Transactions of the London Philological Society, for 1909, J. Hodgkin printed an article of great importance for lexicography. He there assembled and studied all the known copies of the list of phrases which appears in the Book of St. Albans (1486) under the heading: “The Compaynys of beestys and fowlys.” This, he believed, was an accidentally imperfect title: he thought that the latest editions of the work, which added the words with others, gave the intention of the series, which was, he decided, best described by the title, “Proper Terms,” which he found in B. Mus. Eg. MS. 1995, a copy dated by him c. 1452. Previously, the list was taken as giving “technical” terms for companies.