jan 1, 1588 - thrave

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A measure of corn or hay, although the number of sheaves varied in different localities. 1298-9 ‘the suit ... about the thraves (<i>super trabis</i>)’, Bridlington (SS128/225); 1351 <i>Et in quadraginta thraues straminis empti pro emendacione grangie de Dewesbury, vjs viijd</i> (YAJ21/381); 1446 <i>Diversis thravis 10s 0d. Et carectata stramini pro co-opertura grangi?,</i> Beverley (ERAS6/78); 1552 <i>every threave of wheat conteynethe xxiiij sheaffes</i>, Whorlton (YRS114/39n); 1576 <i>Edward Dyson, baylyf ... had the custodye of certain threves of otes ... and did cause the same to be threshed</i>, South Crosland (WBL/116/2); 1588 <i>Item xx thrave of rye and three thrave of wheate</i>, Dalton (WBW/19).

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