this is the only word I can't fathom on a Will Inventory.
Line reads: "a Churn, 2 Looms 3 ***** & some Dearyweare.
Frustrated!
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Mitch
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Thread: Single word please
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28-12-2018, 7:52 PM #1
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Single word please
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28-12-2018, 8:14 PM #2
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Kit(t) - a number of meanings, but the most likely one here is probably a wooden vessel, especially a milking pail with a cover and one or two 'ears'.
Source: Joseph Wright's Dialect Dictionary - this non-link goes to the page where 'kit' is found: https://
archive.org/details/cu31924088038405/page/n469
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28-12-2018, 8:18 PM #3
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Thank you Arthur, much appreciated.
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29-12-2018, 9:16 PM #4
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Another one please. Text before reads: "do pay and allow her my said wife Mary or her assigns the sum of Six Shillings "something" and every week? for and during the term of her natural life"
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29-12-2018, 10:56 PM #5
Weekly and every week.
I think wills were often a bit tautologous!Sue Mackay
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30-12-2018, 4:02 PM #6
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Thanks Sue.
I thought it said Weekly and every Week, but then it just seemed too obvious - doubted myself too much!
Mitch
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31-12-2018, 2:42 PM #7
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31-12-2018, 10:53 PM #8
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A phrase added in left side of 1726 Will:
The text around reads "to my loveing Wife Jone for her natural life yt (text above inserted) She paying my funerall charges and expenses"
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01-01-2019, 7:55 AM #9
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I shal dysease of - I shall decease of - now seems possible, though it doesn't read well in the context of the Will, but then this Will doesn't seem overly well written!
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01-01-2019, 10:02 AM #10
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It might be 'yt I shal Dy Sezd of', ie 'that I shall die seized of'. (I might not have transcribed it entirely accurately, as the letters are a bit squashed together.)
This would require there to be something before 'to my loveing Wife' detailing some property or other asset, and this phrase would mean, in effect, 'that I own at my death'.
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