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bon vivant – a person who enjoys good food and drink, and other pleasures of life (French).

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wynd – a narrow space between houses

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quid pro quo – something for something (Latin); a fair exchange.

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the Great Bashaw – pasha, a Turkish lord

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cras tibi – Latin phrase seen in epitaphs, means “today me, tomorrow you”

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precentor – a person who leads a church choir

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Jacobean style – the second period of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style, named after King James I of England, (1603–1625).

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Assizes – sittings or sessions of the judges, which heard the most serious cases.

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sang froid – cold blood (French); the meaning is ‘composure, self-possession.’