jan 1, 1540 - bren

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Spellings of burn, burned and burnt. 1432 <i>in wax to be brent about me ij sereges</i>, Scarborough (SS30/22); 1507-8 <i>I bequethe a candyll of a pownd to be bryntt afore the sacrament in the same chyrch</i>, Wighill (SS53/274); 1514 <i>caried v or vj lodes off the seid tymber home ... and brynd hytt</i>, Moor Monkton (YRS41/169); <i>c</i>.1540 <i>the Woodde that they brenne their Leade is brought owte of ... Dirhamshir</i>, Swaledale (YAJ10/467). Such spellings are common in early minor place-names, e.g. 1308 <i>le Brendeleyhirst </i>(YRS36/182); 1337-8 <i>le Brenandriddingg</i> (YRS69/126).

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