1 gen 1693 anni - quarrel

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Early alternative spellings of ‘quarry’, a place where stone is excavated. <i>c</i>.1290 ‘<i>torfgravyng, qwarel</i> with opening up <i>(apercione)</i> the land’, Ilkley (YRS69/126); 1316 ‘3 selions under <i>le Aldequarel</i>’, Richmond (YRS102/92); 1379 <i>Thomas de Wharell</i>, Sherburn in Elmet (PTWR); 1422 the wherelle of Sedbury ... or ... any other qwerelle, Catterick (NRQS3); 1425 <i>pro xij carect. petrarum a le quarel,</i> Ripon (SS81/153); 1500 <i>North Hall wharellys</i>, Leeds (Th57/25).; 1581 <i>payd to John Shotley for gettinge slayt at Carlton Quarrell</i>, Stockeld (YRS161/36). This word, along with a local variant spelling, occurs in the masons’ contract for the rebuilding of Catterick Bridge in 1422: one of the clauses granted the masons <i>free entre and issue … to the qwerelle of Rysedale berkes, </i>and then, using the alternative regional form,<i> to the wherelle of Sedbury </i>(NRQS3/34). The two spelling were used in minor place-names such as Quarry Hill, Almondbury: 1634 <i>Wharrel alias Querrellhill</i> (DD/R/3/14) and Quarry Gap near Bradford: 1693 <i>Quarrell gapp</i> (DBB/5/C12). When Mr Armytage was building or repairing Kirklees Hall, in 1609, he wrote to Mr Beaumont of Whitley Hall saying that he was <i>destitute of much stone</i> and desired <i>such like as your quarrell affordeth</i> (WBC/32). ‘Quarrel’ survived as a dialect word but it is interesting to note that in 1672 a Quarter Sessions clerk crossed out the final ‘ll’ in the words <i>John Blackburn’s quarrell</i> and substituted the letter ‘y’ (QS1). The diarist Abraham Shackleton of Keighley wrote in 1794 that he <i>helped to delve at the wharls</i> - a spelling almost identical with one in Westmorland in the EDD where a reference to a quarry was qualified with the words ‘or wharle as we call it’ (1825).

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