1 gen 1557 anni - quell

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Regional spellings of wheel, usually in the sense of spinning-wheel. 1542 <i>Item a spynnyng qweyll viijd</i>, Bedale (SS26/30); 1557 <i>to ... my maid all suche thinges as belonge to the quell</i>, Wakefield (Th27/177). Used also of a bell-wheel: 1522-3 <i>paid for mendyng of the grett bell qwhell viijd ob., </i>York (CCW88). John Daille of Attercliffe near Sheffield died in 1547 and the word ‘qwell’ was used several times in his will (TWH13/82-3). The editor T.W. Hall said in a footnote that <i>a qwell was a spring of water</i>; that is a ‘well’. He was aware that names and words which begin with ‘w’ were locally given an initial ‘q’ by clerks who were reporting what they heard, but I believe that his interpretation was mistaken and that ‘qwell’ in this instance was a spelling of ‘wheel’. It can be compared with spellings of spinning-wheel above, and the surname Wheelwright in the following example: 1379 Richard <i>Qwelwryght</i>, Halton West (PTWR). The testator’s reference to the <i>qwell which stands in Porter Felde Side</i> is confirmation that the reference was to a building which housed a grinding wheel. It should be noted therefore that ‘wheel’ in the Sheffield area had come by then to mean ‘mill’.

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