1 gen 1696 anni - addle

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To earn. In 1551 the master craftsmen in Badsworth provided their workmen with tools <i>wherwith they dyd addyll and get their wages</i> (YRS114/38). When Peter Clarkson of Swillington wrote his will, in 1561, he sought to ensure that his children would be cared for until such time as they would <i>be able to adle ther lyving </i>(Th27/327). Examples occur regularly through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, for example: 1696 <i>Mr Mangy always paid me well and honestly, I have addled I believe three score pound of him and he hath paid me to a penny, </i>Leeds (Th9/221).

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