jan 1, 1590 - ameall

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Possibly spellings of amyl; that is starch, finest flour (OED). In 1581 the inventory of Brian Pagam of North Anston had items in the kitchen such as <i>malt, pease </i>and<i> owtes,</i> together with <i>one meate</i> [met] <i>of Ameall</i> (G-A). The other example that I have noted is in a contemporary commonplace book where it is one of several ingredients in a concoction <i>for the Scowringe for a cocke, </i>called<i> bread </i>by the writer: <i>c</i>.1590 <i>the third weeke halfe wheate and halfe Amel, </i>Almondbury (DD/RA/f/4). Amelcorn was apparently a kind of inferior wheat (OED).

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