jan 1, 1587 - grease cake

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A cake or compressed lump of animal fat. Possibly the <i>swyne greise </i>noted in South Cave in 1587 (Kaner141), stored for making sheep salve, greasing wool, lubricating wheels, etc: 1578 <i>Item fourteen bacon flickes, six greace cakes liijs</i>, Faxfleet (Kaner98); 1582 <i>j kimnell, grease cackes with other implementes</i>, South Cave (Kaner118). There are similar uses of ‘cake’ much earlier: 1528 <i>ij cakes of wax, on cake weyng ciiij quartrons xxli</i>, York (SS79/267).

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