jan 1, 1558 - kendalman

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The fabric was associated with merchants known as kendalmen. 1394-5 ‘John of <i> Kendale </i> 1 pack of 12 pieces of strait cloths’, Pontefract, Howden and Selby (YRS64/39); 1546 <i> Also it is agreyd that all Kendelmen bryngyng any Kendell clothe to this Citie to be sold shall bryng the same to the said Comon Hall payng for every pakk iiijd for howse room </i>(YRS108/140). A kendalman was just as much a seller of kendal cloth as he was a man from Kendal. In that context it should be said that ‘kendalman’ occurs early enough as both a by-name and vocabulary item for it not to refer directly to the town: 1379 <i> Walter Kendalman, </i>Rosgill (PTWe); 1471 <i> pelegiagium cujusdam Kendaleman </i> – <i> quodam viro de Kendale debet xviijs, </i> Ripon (SS64/151); 1492<i> Item that Kendale men that bryngeth wollen cloth to this Citie ... that they from hensforth sell in grose in theyre innes and loggyngs and by retaill in the said Thurseday market, and not to go hawkyng and sell in any other place </i>(YRS103/91); 1523 <i> Henry Hebbeson, Kendall man </i> (SS116/277); 1546 <i> aswell the inhabitantes of the said towne as Kendalmen and strangers </i>, Skipton (SS92/243). I suspect that ‘kendalman’ may have still been used as a by-name as late as 1550 when John Browne of Wakefield acknowledged a debt of 20s that he owed <i> vnto John Kendallman </i> (Th19/244). Wills provide evidence of the close links between Kendal and the growing textile towns in Yorkshire. In 1511 Richard Baines of Leeds referred to his <i> fermhold in Kendale </i> (Th1/98n); in 1517 Richard Fairbank of Halifax bequeathed 3s. 4d. to his<i> fader at Kendall </i> and asked that masses be said <i> at a chappell in Kendall, as I was borne </i> (Clay44). In 1558 James Kitson of Wortley noted that money was owed to him by Robert and Rowland Brigges <i> of Kendall </i> (Th27/217) and in 1537 Thomas Stansfeld of Sowerby mentioned <i> xs. nowe in the handes of Thomas Wilson of Kendall </i> (Clay108). Several of these families were evidently closely related. In 1543 Richard Birkhede of Halifax spoke of his <i> costes to and fro to Kendall … four seuerall tymes </i> (Clay181): in 1538 William Holmes referred to relatives in Sedbergh and made bequests to <i> Henry Birkhed </i> of Halifax and his <i> god childe, doughter to Edmunde Farbanke </i>(Clay116). The route followed by the merchants and their families was responsible for the place-name Kendalman’s Ford which is on the river Ribble, between Giggleswick and Settle. The river-crossing is shown on early maps and it is usual for local writers to describe it as ‘ancient’ without drawing attention to the significance of the term ‘kendalman’. Note: 1539 <i> Item I bequeathe to John my sonne a Kendill colt, </i> Spofforth (Th19/2).

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