jan 1, 1487 - occupy

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To employ oneself in, to exercise a craft or trade. 1417 <i>if any man come fra other cites or tounes and will occupy here in this cite in girdelercrafte als a maister he sall pay at his first setting up of his shoppe xs,</i> York (SS120/182); 1428 <i>charged hym that he suld noght occupy in bying nor in selling,</i> York (SS85/4); 1487 <i>haith occupied within the Citie as a fraunchest man in his craft of glasier</i>, York (YRS103/3).

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