1 gen 1639 anni - malt

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This word occurs in the 1639 apprenticeship indenture of Anthony Armitage of Thickhollins, a document in which his master granted him the dressing <i> or malting of two oxe hides per annum </i> for two of the last years of his term (G-A). The verb ‘to malt’ usually referred to the process in which barley or other grain was initially steeped in vats but tanners may have compared this with the tanning process, in which hides were placed in pits or vats. However, the example quoted remains an isolated use of the word in a tanning context.

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