jan 1, 1588 - childer

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The usual dialect equivalent of children. 1393 <i>my body ... be for the butres at the charnell, by syde my childer,</i> York (SS4/185); 1490 <i>diverse childer of wekidnesse</i>, York (YRS103/60). The two words were used in conjunction in references to grandchildren: 1544 <i>to every one of my childer children vjs viijd</i>, Clint (SS104/45); 1588 <i>to every one of my childers children one ewe, one lambe</i>, Barwick (PR). Less commonly ‘childer’ was used twice: 1547 <i>I gyff to euery oyn of my childer childer oyn</i> [blank], Westerdale (YRS74/50).

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