jan 1, 1686 - safeguard

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An item of clothing, worn as a protection over other garments. It appears to have come into use in the Elizabethan period and was mainly for women: 1578 <i>an old safegarde forfayted by Jane Clark</i>, Beverley (YRS84/19); 1587 <i>unto Ann Hodgeson a workedaye savegarde</i>, South Cave (Kaner143); 1619 <i>To Jane Walmesley a safegard, one canvas sheet, one canvas smock, one petticoat, 2 cross cloths and 2 patletts, </i>Gisburn (CS3/36); <i>c.</i>1686 <i>two Savegards in Linning Left in the Cubbert</i>, Conistone (RW25). Items of clothing given to the poor in Bridlington in 1636 included nine <i>safegardes</i>, one to Matthew Man and eight to women (BCP160).

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