jan 1, 1523 - skift

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This is a dialect form of ‘shift’, that is to move. It was used in an undated document, possibly from the late eighteenth century: <i>An Account of Money disburst on Skifting the Old Coal pitts out of James Holden and Broadbent Close by the Farmers booning July 12,</i> Tong (Mss4c/20). In early wills the meaning was ‘shared’: 1479 <i>it is my will that my silver spones be skift betwixt my doughters</i>, Flinton (SS45/253); 1523 <i>I will that my cosynge Matilde childer have to be skifted amongst them xl wedders, xl yowes, xl hogges</i>, Linton (SS53/84).

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