1 Jan 1556 Jahr - quickfall

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I have found no reference to this word in dictionaries although it occurs repeatedly in early Yorkshire documents: 1391 ‘making 18 acres of ditch with <i>whykfall</i> around the said wood’, Wakefield (WYAS691); 1457-8 <i>Wmo Plumland pro colleccione de qwycfall ijd</i>, Fountains Abbey (SS130/48); 1474 <i>quod nullus eor’ succid’ aliq’ boscu vel Whicfall infra dominum</i>, Kirkheaton (DD/SR/213/24); 1488 <i>Agreed that … the fermours opyn ther yatts </i>[gates]<i> of thare furmolds … that no hurt be don upon the whikfall belonging to the same</i>, York (YRS103/38). It was said by J.T. Fowler to refer to the haws that fall from hedgerows in winter, or perhaps to the hedge itself (SS130/265). Since the Fountains Abbey accounts refer to collecting quickfall and transporting it he speculated that the haws may have been for the propagation of quicksets. In several examples though the sense of ‘hedge’ is clear, although there may occasionally have been confusion with ‘quickset’, as in a 1488 reference to a <i>hege of whiksall</i> [sic] <i>late set … with whitethorn</i> in York (SS186/198) or <i>a whiksatt hedge</i> in Kirkham in 1556 (YRS114/82).

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