In 6 Totnam. Name of a northern suburb of London. † Tottenham is turned French, a proverb used in reference to any unlikely or remarkable change.
1546. J. Heywood, Prov. (1867), 14. Their faces told toies, that Totnam was tournd frenche.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, IV. 60. Do what thou canst, the time wil come that Totnam French shal turn; The Gods and I will so prouide.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Middlesex (1662), II. 178.
