And the last, I heard of him was, that he was grown a Fudler, and Railer at strict men.
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1696, Richard Baxter, edited by Matthew Sylvester, Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times[1], London: T. Parkhurst, et al, Book 1, Part 1, p. 4:
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“Owd Roddle” is a broken-down village fuddler, in Smallbridge; perpetually racking his brains about “another gill.”
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1855, Edwin Waugh, Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities[1], London: Whittaker, page 113: