jan 1, 1541 - alliance

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An alliance was a group of people united by kinship or friendship. The term alerts us to the close-knit social groups which existed within the wider community, certainly from the Tudor period: 1534 <i>Sir Nicholas is a man of great possessionz and hath so many of his consanguinyte and alians within the seyd counte</i> (YRS70/19). ‘Ally’ as a noun could have the same sense: 1535 <i>tenauntes and inhabytantes … being of there alye and affinyte</i>, Burton in Lonsdale (YRS70/9) possibly a back formation from the verb: <i>c</i>.1541 <i>Wylliam Knevet ys a man of great substance and greatly fryndyd, akyn and alyed … in the sayd countie of Yorke</i>, Esholt (YRS70/55). In the will of Robert Hirste of Leeds an interesting distinction is made: 1499 <i>To Elizabeth Jopis my alyance for hir good service v marke. To Alison Forster my servaunt for hir service … xs</i> (SS53/162).

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