jan 1, 1559 - quere

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A regional spelling for choir or quire, that part of a church reserved for the choristers: 1487 <i>singing solemplye in the high qwere of the said church</i>, York (YRS103/24); 1491 <i>my body to be beried in the Lady qwer of my parissh chirch of Allerton Mauleverer</i> (YDK119); 1555 <i>sitting in the quere</i>, Glaisdale (YAJ37/167); 1559 <i>nere the altar in the qwere at Mydelham</i> (SS26/128).

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