1 Jan 1417 Jahr - stick-eel

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The ‘stick’ was a quantity of eels, although in later references ‘stick-eels’ may have been the smaller fish (OED). Quantities of eels were often part of tenancy agreements: 1417 <i>pro ij mesuagiis cum uno crofto duobus bovatis terre ... viij centenis anguillarum vocatis stykell vel xvjs</i>, Stork, Beverley (SS108/323).

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