jan 1, 1556 - shamble

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A table, counter or stall where goods for sale could be displayed. Recorded as <i>shamells</i> in 1357 in Bradford (CR). More particularly it was used of stalls where meat and fish were sold: 1429-30 ‘William <i>de Hotone</i> ... <i>fissher</i> ... a parcel of waste ... in a corner by <i>Fisschamyll</i>’, Richmond (YRS39/142); 1517 <i>declared by my lorde Maire that where he went to se the Flesshe Shamells ... Richard Coke sold unholsom flesshe</i>, York (YRS106/63); 1556 <i>a payne is sett that the baylye do see the fyshe shamells furnished with fyshe</i>, Wakefield (YRS74/22). The street in York now called the Shambles is recorded as <i>Marketskire alias Flesshamelles</i> in 1316 (PNER297).

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