Gossiphood

"XV. Where Challenge may be for affinity to the party or to bis kinſman , or alley of the party, and how it may be pleaded, and ſor Goſſiphood."

"[…] while my Lord Storford had already approved himself too staunch a knight, too honourable a gentleman, and too graceful a courtier, for much surprise to await the Lady Mildred's second choice, either in the prattling gossiphood of the shire of Gloucester, or the more solemn discussions of the antechambers of Westminster."