1 gen 1468 anni - feehouse

Descrizione:

A building where cattle were housed. 1395 <i>Expensæ circa Fehows</i>, Whitby (SS72/618). The possible meanings of this word were discussed by Canon Atkinson in a lengthy footnote and he appeared to favour the meaning ‘treasury’. He noted also that the word gave rise to a by-name, and that point was taken up later by William Brown, the editor of the <i>Guisbrough Chartulary</i>. Two examples that he quoted were an undated reference to <i>Robert de Fehus</i>, probably from the thirteenth century, and 1321 <i>William del Fehous</i>, Lofthouse: in 1468 a tenement in Hawnby had both a <i>fehous</i> and a <i>helmehous</i>. Brown considered these to be references to cow-houses (SS89/164n). The same word occurred in Mirfield in 1463 (DD/SR/213/24) and several times in the records of Fountains Abbey, where the meaning is explicit: 1537 <i>Robert Brown shall kepe yerely at the said Dare-house, loige and feahowse callyd Burthwaytt … two bulles, thre score kye and twentye and vij of their folowers</i>, Bouthwaite (SS42/277). Feasegate in York is considered to derive from this word. See feeman, feemanlike, follower.

Aggiunto al nastro di tempo:

Data: