jan 1, 1557 - portas

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A portable breviary, that is the book which in the Roman Catholic church contained the ‘Divine Office’ for each day, and had to be ready to hand for those in orders. 1439 ‘one portiforium <i>Anglice a portus</i>’, Southowram (Clay8); 1454 <i>I witt Robert my son the old Portos</i>, Bossall (SS30/176); 1459 <i>a Graile, a Manuell, a litel Portose the which ... Sir Thomas toke with hym always when he rode,</i> Wiverton (SS30/227); 1497 <i>an old portous noited, price xvjs</i>, Wakefield (YAJ15/93); 1520 <i>a printyd portews by the gyft of Mr Rawson</i>, Mount Grace (YAJ18/296); 1541 <i>I bequith to the new chapel one greate portesse</i>, Fewston (SS104/34); 1557 <i>to Wathe churche a Almere, a vestement and a portys</i> (SS26/97). Unusual spellings may have been influenced by the Latin word: 1351 <i>lego unum portiforium ecclesiæ parochiali de Kyrkeby super Moram</i> (SS4/64); 1454 <i>my Portatyve which I say opon my selfe</i>, Bossall (SS30/175).

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