jan 1, 1531 - kirk wark

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The fabric of a church building. Testators often made cash bequests for its repair or new projects, some of them under certain conditions: 1434 <i> To the kyrkewerke xls </i>, Ousefleet (SS30/41); 1444 <i> Also to the kirkwerk and for my beriall xls, </i> Hull (SS30/105); 1485 <i> To the werk of the college kirk of Ripon x marcs </i> (SS53/7); 1531 <i> Also I bequest to the kirkewarkes of Harwod vjs viijd and </i>[if]<i> thai make a rudloft within the space of iij yeres after my departing </i> (Th11/38). ‘Church’ started to be preferred to ‘kirk’ from the late fifteenth century: 1483 <i> I bequeath xs to be disposed ... to the chirch warkes of Sendale ... and amonges pore people </i>, Hullen Edge (Crossley201).

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