Chapter ROOMAUL to ROUNDEL of R by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

him, in respect to the memory of Verona, eleven cannon being fired, that the Towne and Country might take notice of the honour done them.”—Ft. St. Geo. Consn. In Notes and Exts. No. II. p. 15.

1716.—“All such as serve under the Honourable Company and the English Inhabitants, deserted their Employs; such as Cooks, Water bearers, Coolies, Palankeen-boys, Roundel men….”—In Wheeler, ii. 230.

1726.—“Whenever the magnates go on a journey they go not without a considerable train, being attended by their pipers, horn-blowers, and Rondel bearers, who keep them from the Sun with a Rondel (which is a kind of little round sunshade).”—Valentijn, Chor. 54.

” “Their Priests go like the rest clothed in yellow, but with the right arm and breast remaining uncovered. They also carry a rondel, or parasol, of a Tallipot (see TALIPOT) leaf….”—Ibid. v. (Ceylon), 408.

1754.—“Some years before our arrival in the country, they (the E. I. Co.) found such sumptuary laws so absolutely necessary, that they gave the strictest orders that none of these young gentlemen should be allowed even to hire a Roundel-boy, whose business it is to walk by his master, and defend him with his Roundel or Umbrella from the heat of the sun. A young fellow of humour, upon this last order coming over, altered the form of his Umbrella from a round to a square, called it a Squadredel instead of a Roundel, and insisted that no order yet in force forbad him the use of it.”—Ives, 21.

1785.—“He (Clive) enforced the Sumptuary laws by severe penalties, and gave the strictest orders that none of these young gentlemen should be allowed even to have a roundel- boy, whose business is to walk by his master, and defend him with his roundel or umbrella from the heat of the sun.”—Carraccioli, i. 283. This ignoble writer has evidently copied from Ives, and applied the passage (untruly, no doubt) to Clive.

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