Comte: m. A Count, an Earle. As soone as the auncient Frankes had woon Gallia from the Romanes, their kings appointed some of their principall followers, (by the names of Comtes) to be the Gouernours, and Judges of Prouinces; and others (by the same title) of good townes; giuing them withall the territories thereof, to be held of them as Fiefs; and so they became both Officers, and vassals; yet were they neither but at the will of their Soueraigne, or, at most, not longer than during their owne liues; But within a while they found means to make their Fiefs hereditarie; and afterwards procured their gouernments to bee annexed vnto their Fiefs; and at length (taking aduantage of the misfortunes, weakenesse, or facilitie of their Princes) incroached on the Soueraigntie of them both: (In all which time the Earles of Prouinces were no whit inferior vnto Dukes; hauing as large dominions as they, and Earles of townes vnder them as well as they; besides that, the Gouernours of diuers Prouinces (as Normandie, Britaine, and others) were as often called Earles, as Dukes.) Being at this height, and thereupon growing emulators, and sometimes th' enemies, of kings, they on the other side tooke a course, at first by the Parliament, (setled at Paris) to abridge part of the royalties; and afterwards by Escheats, Confiscations, or mariages, to reunite vnto the Crowne the whole Estates, of as many of them, (whether Earles, or Dukes) as yet acknowledged any dependancie on them by Homage, or other-*wise; (The rest, either at first (as Lorraine, and Savoy) hauing vsurped an absolute Soueraigntie; or since by mischances (as Burgundie, and Flanders, by the imprisonment of Francis the first) being alienated from the Crowne;) And creating other Earles, haue graunted them only a iurisdiction, or soueraigntie (if so they will haue it) thats wholly controllable by the Parliaments, and subiect vnto themselues. Comte d'Estable. Was in old time the title of the Maister of the Horse; and hence (doe some persuade themselues) was the name of Connestable deriued. Comte du Palais. Was the title of the Lord High Steward of the Kings house; now tearmed, Le Grand Maistre de France, & de la maison du Roy.
Comté: m. A Countie, Shire; Earledome: (In France it is to haue foure Baronnies, and euerie Baronnie the estates of, at the least, tenne Gentlemen, belonging to it: ¶Nicot. But by an Edict, made in the yere 1579, and grounded on a decree of the Priuie Councell the tenth of March 1578 (though confirmed onely in the Parliament of Britaine) it was enacted, That an Earledome should consist of two Baronnies, and at the least three Chastellenies (which countervaile one Baronnie) or of one Baronnie, and six Chastellenies; all vnited together, and held, by one homage, of the King.)
Con. A womans &c.
Conare: m. A kernell (resembling a Pine-apple) that stickes to th' outside of the braine.
Concassé: m. ée: f. Squashed, or burst into peeces.
Concasser. To squash, dash, bruise, or burst in peeces.
Concathenation: f. A concathenation; chaining, or linking of things together.
Concathenature. The same.
Concathené: m. ée: f. Concathenated; chained, or linked together.
Concathener. To concathenate; to linke, or chaine, to tie, as with linkes, or chaines, together.
Concavé: m. ée: f. Hollowed, made concaue.
Concavité: f. A concauitie; hollow bowing, or boughtie hollownesse. La concavité des cieux. The round firmament, or cope of heauen.
Concedé: m. ée: f. Granted, consented, or yeelded vnto.
Conceder. To grant, consent vnto; beleeue.
Concentrer. To ioyne in one center.
Concentrique: com. Hauing one, and the same center.
Concept: m. as Conception. Conceptacle: m. A conceptacle; any hollow thing, which is apt to receiue, hold, or containe.
Conception: f. A conceit; also, sence, apprehension, iudgement, vnderstanding; also, the conception, or conceiuing, of women with child; whence; La conception nostre Dame. The conception of our Ladie; a solemne holy-day kept by the Church of Rome on the eight of December.
Concerner. To concerne, touch, import; appertaine, or belong vnto.
Concert de Musique. A consort of Musicke.
Concerté. Consorted, accorded, agreed together.
Concerter. To consort, or agree, together.
Concession. A concession, grant, or granting; a leaue, permission, sufferance.
Conceu: m. euë: f. Conceiued; apprehended, gathered, vnderstood; also, conceiued, or a breeding in the wombe.
Concevoir. To conceiue, apprehend, vnderstand; also, a female to conceiue, or breed yong (bones) in her womb.
Conchambrier: m. A chamber-fellow, a comerade.
Conche: f. A kind of bason, or open vessell resembling a bason; as Coquille; also, as the Latine Concha, the shell of a muscle, cockle, &c; also, order, equipage, or furniture; whence; Estre bien en conche, ou en bonne conche. To be well clothed, handsomely attired, in good fashion or order, in fit equipage or array.
Conches. certaine receptacles for sea-water (as in Amezeau.) Conchier. To beshite, bedung, besquatter, beray.
Conchilion: m. Any shell-fish, or scaled fish, with whose bloud purple is died; but especially one (bearing scales) which yeelds a reddish-purple, or scarlet colour.
Concierge: m. A house-keeper; he that keepes a great mans house, or lookes to the stuffe that is therein; also, a Keeper, Goaler, Warder of a prison; also, a principall, rector, chiefe maister, or gouernor of a publique exercise, or schoole.
Conciergerie: f. The name of the common goale belonging to Paris; hence, also, a prison, or goale.
Concile: m. A Councell; an assemblie, Session, or sitting of councellors; also, a (generall) Councell (for Church matters.)
Conciliabule. A Conuenticle; a small, or priuate assemblie.
Conciliateur: m. A reconciler, peace-maker, procurer of fauour, and goodwill for, or betwixt others.
Conciliation: f. A conciliation, a reconcilement, or procuring of fauour; an attone-making; an agreement, reconciliation, vnion, league of friendship made among such as were foes.
Conciliatrice: f. A conciliatrix, reconciliatrix; a woman that reconciles those that were enemies.
Concilié: m. ée: f. Attoned, vnited, accorded, agreed, or made friends with; reconciled vnto.
Concilier. To attone, reconcile, accord, or make friends
