fair; King John,
  or some other of our ancient kings, being at the palace of
  Eltham, in this neighbourhood, and having been out a
  hunting one day, rambled from his company to this place,
  then a mean hamlet; when entering a cottage to inquire
  his way, he was struck with the beauty of the mistress,
  whom he found alone; and having prevailed over her
  modesty, the husband returning suddenly, surprised them
  together; and threatening to kill them both, the king was
  obliged to discover himself, and to compound for his safety
  by a purse of gold, and a grant of the land from this
  place to Cuckold’s Point, besides making the husband
  master of the hamlet.  It is added that, in memory of this
  grant, and the occasion of it, this fair was established, for
  the sale of horns, and all sorts of goods made with that
  material.  A sermon is preached at Charlton church on
  the fair day.

Horn mad.  A person extremely jealous of his wife, is
  said to be horn mad.  Also a cuckold, who does not cut
  or breed his horns easily.

Horn work.  Cuckold-making.

HORNIFIED. Cuckolded.

Horse Buss.  A kiss with a loud smack; also a bite.

Horse COSER.  A dealer in horses:  vulgarly and corruptly
  pronounced horse Courser.  The verb to Cose was used by
  the Scots, in the sense of bartering or exchanging.

Horse godmother.  A large masculine woman, a
  gentlemanlike kind of a lady.

Horse ladder.  A piece of Wiltshire wit, which consists
  in sending some raw lad, or simpleton, to a neighbouring
  farm house, to borrow a horse ladder, in order to get up
  the horses, to finish a hay-mow.

Horse’s meal.  A meal without drinking.

Hosteler, i.e. oat stealer.  Hosteler was originally the
  name for an inn-keeper; inns being in old English styled
  hostels, from the French signifying the same.

Hot pot.  Ale and brandy made hot.

Hot stomach.  He has so hot a stomach, that he burns
  all the clothes off his back; said of one who pawns his
  clothes to purchase liquor.

House, or tenement, to let.  A widow’s weeds; also
  an atchievement marking the death of a husband, set up
  on the outside of a mansion:  both supposed to indicate
  that the dolorous widow wants a male comforter.

HOYDON.  A romping girl.

Hubble-bubble.  Confusion.  A hubble-bubble fellow;
  a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose
  words sound like water bubbling out of a bottle.  Also an
  instrument used for smoaking through water in the East
  Indies, called likewise a caloon, and hooker.