hind

1) A servant, a male farm worker.

1508 shall keipe with theme yerely at boorde ande bedde ... 4 menservaundes callide hynes to be waigede and hyrede by the seide abbot, Morker

1523 Item to every servaunte, hynde and made, viijd, Roxby

1539 evere of my hyne servauntes, as well women as men, Radcliffe

1586 his father who was servante or hynde to the priores and nunnes of the nunnrie, Moxby. Examples of the by-name include: 1316 William the Hyne, Emley.

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dates 1316 1508 1523 1539 1586

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