1 ene 1558 año - labourer

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One who does physical labour as a service or for a livelihood. The meaning may have changed little over the centuries but it cannot be presumed that labourers formerly had lowly status. In 1550 William Windle of Thorner, <i>laborer </i>, left money towards church repairs and road maintenance, made several bequests of yews, lambs and wethers, gave <i>too yerdes of clothe and a half </i>to Elizabeth Windle for a petticoat, and left his farmhold to his wife (Th19/249): in 1558 the gift that Lionel Nailler of Wakefield, <i>laborer </i>, made to his wife was <i>all my landes and hows’s </i> (Th27/259). As a group in York, the labourers were ready to defend their rights: in 1505 they<i> presented a bill of diverse wrongs don unto theym by the wryghtez, emong which ... that the wryghts wold not suffer theym to set in a stancon with a lappe, mayk a bede, a shelffe, a forme, a stole, naile a burde, a dore, a yate, a wyndowe </i>. The mayor and council upheld their claim (YRS106/15).

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