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"Cable" is from the Semitic root kebel, to cord, and is the same in all nautical uses. "Hawser" once written halser is from the Baltic stock, the rope used for halsing or hauling along; while "painter," the small rope by which a boat is temporarily fastened, is Irish, from painter, a snare. "Sheet" is Italian, from scotta; "brace" French, and "stay" English.
"Had Kebel been a dweller within the borough," said the burgesses, "he would have got his acquittal from the oaths of his neighbours, as our liberty is." The scandal at last moved the convent itself to action. The monks were divided in opinion, but the saner part determined that their tenants "should enjoy equal liberty" with the townsmen.
In the opinion of his neighbours Kebel seems to have been guiltless of the robbery with which he had been charged; but he was "of the cellarer's fee," and subject to the feudal jurisdiction of his court. The duel went against him and he was hung just without the gates. The taunts of the townsmen woke the farmers to a sense of their wrong.
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