jan 1, 1588 - flick

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The northern equivalent of flitch; the side of an animal, salted and cured. 1318-9 <i>Expense coquina … pro x baconibus … pro iiij flickes</i>, Bolton Priory (YRS154/463); 1462 <i>iiij bakon fliks, ij beffe fliks, </i>Wawne (SS30/261); 1541 <i>a bes </i>[sic]<i> flike and a bacon</i>, Leeds (Th19/48); 1588 <i>foure beif flickes</i>, Dalton (WBW/19). Note: 1472 <i>John Hode is a vacabound, and ... in a place that he come to he cut asmych bacon out of a flyk as was worth iijd, unlawefully,</i> Selby (SS85/25).

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