1 gen 1695 anni - gald

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A rate or tax. The spelling ‘gaud’ was noted by Wright, who said that it was a Lancashire word, obsolete at the time he was writing: Angus Winchester records it in Farleton in that county in 1587, as a payment for turf dug in the township by men from Hornby (AW128). However, the word must have been current over a much wider area, for I find it regularly in different parts of Yorkshire from Elizabeth’s reign. In 1597 it is found in the typical context <i>galdes, taxes and layes</i>’ (MD247), but sometimes the tax is specified, as in <i>the king’s gaudes</i> in 1638 (YAJ5/391) and <i>constable gauldes</i> and <i>bridge galds</i> in 1674 (QS1/13). In 1695, Richard Wigglesworth of Conistone recorded payment <i>For a bridge gawld ...at Skipton</i> (RW47). The word is of uncertain etymology but may be connected to ‘gale’, which was a royalty on a plot of land, paid by free miners in the Forest of Dean.

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