jan 1, 1652 - tag

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The tip of an animal’s tail, especially a white tip. 1543 <i>a blake stott with a tage of the tale</i>, Ardsley (Th19/96); 1652 <i>two quies, a brouneish black & a blacke with a tacke taile</i>, Gateforth (YRS47/158). It was regularly used as a name for oxen and cows: 1515 <i>an oxe called Takke</i>, South Otterington (YAJ36/438); 1543 <i>towe stottes the ane called Raven the other Tagge, </i>Castleford (Th19/87); 1558 <i>ij oxen called fedder & tagge,</i> Fairburn (Th27/194). In Wharfedale, by Ella Pontefract and Marie Hartley, the authors quote from the will of Anthony Craven, undated but probably 1617 (YRS28/32): <i>one oxe called Tagge to bring me forth to my burial</i>. In rural areas it may also explain the by-name: 1275 <i>Bateman Tagge</i>, Stanley (YRS29/155).

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