jan 1, 1529 - widow

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Within the guild system of the medieval towns a widow ‘inherited’ her husband’s franchise and lost it only if she remarried: 1529 <i>agreyd that after the deceasse of all fraunchest men of this City then thayre wiffs to be as free as thaire husbands was so long as they kepe thaym sole unmaryed ... to occupy thayre husbonds crafts</i>, York (YRS106/127).

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