jan 1, 1609 - collock

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A pail or bucket, usually made of wood, and listed in inventories with other ‘wood vessel’. 1549 <i>a kytte, a collocke</i>, Rawmarsh (TWH16/78); 1588 <i>three standes, thre collockes, one flasket, two kittes, five tubbes</i>, Dalton (WBW/19); 1609 <i>knopps, collockes, kymlinges, piggens, dishes and cans</i>, Bowland (CS3/27). Roger Couper was making <i>collokes</i> in Sowerby in 1337 (WYAS689) and ‘Bochecollock’ or collock-mender occurred as a by-name from the thirteenth century: 1241-52 <i>Symon Bothocolock</i> [sic], Broughton (YRS39/38); 1315 <i>Adam Botchecollok</i>, Upperthong (YRS57/80). The fact that there are references to an <i>Adam Bochecollock</i> near Skipton in 1315 (YRS154/380) may point to an itinerant workman, similar to a tinker. </br>One other meaning of collock seems to have escaped attention. In many early wills it was clearly a small silver object, perhaps a casket: 1391 <i>j pecia argenti vocata collok</i>, Scarborough (SS4/157); 1419 <i>lego unum collokke de argento eidem Johanni, </i>Halsham (SS4/396); 1444 <i>Item lego eidem j collok argenteum pond. viij unc. ixd,</i> Beverley (SS30/101).

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