1 gen 1692 anni - stithy

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An anvil: a word with an Old Norse origin which is on record from <i>a</i>.1295 (OED). Examples are frequent in Yorkshire from the fourteenth century: 1374 <i>lego Willielmo consanguineo meo unum magnum stythy </i>[a great stithy], York (SS4/92); 1445 <i>Johanni Ulron, unum stethy de ferro</i>, York (SS30/116); 1510 <i>2 stythes … all oder smithy gere</i>, Ecclesfield (PR); 1600 <i>all my geare and toyles in the smythye except my stythye</i>, Cottingley (LRS2/1). The will of Hugh Sponer of Sheffield in 1539 suggests that some cutlers had much of their capital tied up in anvils for he made bequests of six <i>stethies</i> and they were all in the separate ‘occupation’ of local men (TWH13/66-7). The anvils used by different kinds of smith had a variety of names and some of these are dealt with under bighorn, bolster, crooked stithy, cutting-stithy, and sparrow-hawk: additional names found in the Hallamshire cutlery trade include: 1692 <i>7 box Stythies</i>; 1701 <i>one sow metle stithy</i> (FBH121-7).

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