jan 1, 1540 - baldric

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A belt or strap, often made of leather, used to support a sword or, as here, to bear heavy weights, especially to suspend the clapper of a church bell. 1401-2 <i>In baudrikes factis de telis equorum cum basts emptis pro portagio lapidum</i>, York (SS35/23); 1520 <i>payd for a baldrege to the secund bell vjd</i>, York (CCW78); 1538 <i>for makyng iii bawdregs for the bells</i>, Sheriff Hutton (YAJ36/182). Note the spelling ‘bawtry’: 1540-1 <i>for helpyng off ij bawtrys off the belles, vijd,</i> York (CCW220).

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