1 gen 1690 anni - set on work

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To employ, give work to. This phrase was used in the earliest surviving Orders of the Hallamshire cutlers: 1590 <i>no person … shall … sett on worke in the said science or occupacon anye jurnyman … under the age of twentye yeres</i> (HCC3). It was part of the traditional language of the guilds, repeated at regular intervals: 1690 <i>No maker of knives, shears … or other cutlery wares … to employ or set on work any foreigner</i> (HCC11).

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