jan 1, 1411 - bastard bread
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Having the appearance of, resembling; an inferior or less proper kind of (OED). That meaning is implicit in a memorandum of the assize of bread in York: 1411-2 <i>that the basterd wastell and symnelles, the whilk sall have allowance ijs in the ferthyng iiijs in the halpeny less than the cokette </i>(SS120/167).
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