jan 1, 1590 - sager

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The dialect equivalent of ‘sawyer’. <i>c.</i>1360 <i>pro duobus saghers 12d</i>, York (SS35/2). It was responsible for many by-names and the surnames Sagar and Sager, common in the Bradford/Colne area: 1317-25 <i>Philip Sarrator</i>, Stanley (YRS78/202); <i>Philip le Sagher</i>, Stanley (YRS109/61); 1379 <i>Willelmus Sagher, sagher</i>, Beamsley (PTWR); 1590 <i>the searchers of cowpers and the saigers shalbe called into this court</i>, York (YRS138/94).

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