jan 1, 1459 - hoggaster
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These are not well documented terms, especially since they were sometimes abbreviated, a practice which makes it difficult to distinguish them from ‘hog’. Early references include: 1297 <i>Item ij hogastr’, precium xijd</i>, Bishop Thornton (YRS16/33); 1371 <i>Item octo hoggettes precii cujuslibet xvjd per majus centum</i>, Ripon (SS78/130); 1426 <i>multones et hogastros apud Brantingham</i>, Spaldington (SS26/11); 1459 <i>pro Cust. hogastrorum in Apylgarth</i>, Malham (SS130/88). Usually the animals referred to were young sheep but in the accounts of Bolton Priory the term could be used of either sheep or swine: 1303-4 <i>Oves: Multones ... Oves matrices ... Hogastri</i>: <i>Porci: De hogastris </i>(YRS154/160).
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