Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.
STARTUP
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Patronymica Britannica (1860)
STARTUP. 1. A kind of boot or legcovering ; a writer in Gent. Mag., June 182-1, says, "gaiters laced down before." Gerard 1 .egh, in his Accidence of Armorj'', mentions the startup as jjart of the habiliments of a Herald. In a compotus of the priory of Bicester, co. Oxon, dated 29. Edward III., among charges for saddlery and other horseman's gear, bought for the use of the Prior, are these entries ; "One pair of .sY«;f('.v, xxiid." and " in reparation of the Prior's startups vid." Dunkin's Oxfordshire, ii. 221, 222. Drayton (Eclogue ix.) says : —