Hog Howards
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Township officers at one time elected in New York, whose duty was to catch hogs running at large, and put rings in their noses.
17 Wend. (N. Y.) 522.
HOGHENHYNE (from Saxon hogh, house, and hine, servant).
A domestic servant
Among the Saxons, a stranger guest was, the first night of his stay, called un-~ cuth, or unknown; the second, gust, guest; the third, hoghenhyne; and the entertainer was responsible for his acts as for those of his own servant.
Bracton, 124b; Du Cange, "Agenhine"; Spelman, "Homehine."