abbeystead

The right to allow cattle or other livestock into an area for the purpose of grazing, especially into woodland or forest, subject to an agreement and fixed payment.

places Sawley Bolton Priory Malham Bordley

sources YAS Record Series Bolton Priory Compotus Fountains Abbey Rentals, 15...

dates 1269 1321-1322 1499 1520

aglet

Originally, it is said, this was the metallic tag on the end of a lace which made it easier to thread through an eyelet.

places Beverley Wakefield

sources Guy Malyerd's will, 1487 Margerie Berre's will, 1544

dates 1486 1544

agone

An archaic form of ‘ago’.

places Quarmby

sources Quarter Session rolls 1662-...

dates 1677

air-box

A square wooden tube used to convey air into the face of a single drift, or into a sinking pit.

places Masham

sources Tyson, Mashamshire Collieries

dates 1736

air-gate

In west Yorkshire this was the name given in the nineteenth century to a passage driven through the coal for the purposes of ventilation.

air-pipe

Generally a pipe through which air might pass. In coal-mining it had to do with ventilation.

places Beeston

sources Benson & Neville, Yorkshire... Denison papers

dates 1651 1754

air-pit

The earliest use of this word for a ventilation duct is recorded in Westmorland.

places Beeston

sources Denison papers

dates 1754

alb

A tunic of white cloth, one of the vestments worn by priests.

places York Ackworth Sheriff Hutton

sources Richard Russell's will, 1435 Ralph Snaith's will, 1472/3 Yorkshire Archaeological Jo...

dates 1435 1472 1540

alchemy

spellings alcomy alkaymyne

Spellings of ‘alchemy’, used of a base alloy that resembled gold, and from which domestic items were commonly made.

places Whitby Harrogate Lepton London Sheffield Attercliffe

sources YAHS Record Series vol. 3 Alice Plumpton's will, [1636] Gamaliell Bingley's invento... Oxford English Dictionary Leader, Company of Cutlers Samuel Staniforth's invento... Abraham Shackleton's Diary

dates 1557 1636 1644 1677 1692 1707 1715

alder

spellings aller

A tree related to the birch which prospered in wet places [Latin alnetum for a place where alders grow].

places Barlby Pontefract Newtondale Brandsby

sources Selby Abbey Chartulary YAS Record Series vol. 1 Augmentation Office Misc Book North Riding Records NYRCO No. 44

dates 1289-1306 1424 1543 1616 1619-1621

ale

A festival at which ale was drunk.

places Sheriff Hutton Thurlstone York

sources Yorkshire Archaeological Jo... Adam Eyre's Diary 1641-1688 English Miscellanies Oxford English Dictionary

dates 1540 1544 1595 1648

ale-draper

A seller of ale; an ale-house keeper.

places York

sources Parish Registers

dates 1779

alegar

This was really ale allowed to acidify, a similar product to vinegar and often used instead of that word by dialect speakers.

places Snaith Wakefield

sources English Miscellanies John Brearley's Memorandum ...

dates 1680 1762

ale-pot

The usual vessel for holding ale, often noted as a brew-house item.

places Ripon Muncaster Fixby South Cave Pontefract Pickering

sources Ripon Cathedral Act Book 14... Richmond wills and inventories John Thornhill's inventory,... Bartholomew Bird's will, 1558 Elizabeth Birkebie's will, ... YAS Record Series

dates 1301 1459 1533 1558 1559 1567

ale rod

spellings ale stake ale wisp

In the early history of the alehouse, probably before signs were generally in use, a pole or rod was set up in front of a house to indicate that ale was sold there.

places Methley Coxwold

sources Thoresby Society Publications Quarter Sessions Records

dates 1465 1498 1613