A good name―what is called prestige―meant much in the Native world. They seemed to have made up, at some time, a joint appraisement of you, against which no one would afterwards go.

The verdict must be returned to the Court by the chancellor of the jury, in presence of the accused, and of the whole jury; and, being engrossed in the record, and read aloud, it is then sealed up, in terms of the regulations 1672, No. 9, and deposited with the clerk of Court, never to be opened again but by order of the judges. The verdict, when in writing, is authenticated by the subscriptions of the chancellor and clerk of the jury, and accompanied with a list of the names of the jurors, and a state of the vote of each individual, whether condemning or assoilzieing; Regulations 1672, No. 9.

The practice of collecting recipes in antidotaries, probably composed in monasteries, goes back to the High Middle Ages.

Had she been too much of a naïf, unwise to the cameras, she would have been swept out to sea on “Laguna Beach”: passed-out drunk, abused by a boyfriend or (at least) caught in a quotably stupid soliloquy.