1 gen 1664 anni - huckster

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A retailer of small goods or even a hawker, a term on record from <i>c</i>.1200. 1377 <i>Coletta Hukster</i>, York (PTY). The by-name or surname occurs several times in the city in 1394, always with reference to women dealing in cloth, e.g. ‘Of <i>Alice Hukester</i> for 6 ells of <i>meld 1d</i>’ (YRS64/50). In 1411-2 there was concern there over <i>hukesters of brede</i> (SS120/167) and in 1479 the ordinances of the bakers made mention of <i>bredes in covert wise broght to the housez of the hukesters ... to be solde</i> (SS120/171). Similarly, in Beverley in 1596 ‘no foreigner was to leave any bread with any huckster for sale in the town’ after a certain hour (YRS84/66). The term remained in active use: 1642 <i>Wee buy our Molten tallowe att Malton of the Hucksters and tripe-wives</i>, Elmswell (DW31); 1664 <i>Jane Simpson, huckster, having chirryes to sell Dorothy ... bought of her a pound</i>, Newcastle (SS40/125).

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