jan 1, 1592 - folding board

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Probably a board or table with leaves, as contrasted with one set on trestles. 1490 <i>De j tabula cum ij les trestes … De alia tabula faldyn</i>, York (SS53/56); 1527 <i>on folding borde</i>, Whitkirk (HAH220); 1558 <i>a chayre, a greate counter, a falden borde and a pare of bedstockes</i>, Pontefract (Th27/152); 1592 <i>one foulding or leaved table standing now at my house</i>, Stainton (YAJ20/14).

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