1 gen 1608 anni - finding

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This verbal noun was used to mean providing for, or maintenance. 1484 <i>it is my will that he have his fynding with my Wyfe</i>, Lead (Th24/306); 1507 ‘the enfeoffment of certain lands for <i>the fyndyng of oure yonger childer</i>’, Farnley (YRS120/66). In 1608, in a maintenance case at the Quarter Sessions, the father of an illegitimate child <i>took alone upon him the finding of the child</i>, Malton (NRQS1/103). As with the verb ‘to find’ it could apply to providing fodder for domestic animals and meals for workmen: <i>c.</i>1540 <i>A Cater which shall fynde his horse at his charge, to have by yere for diete and fyndyng of his horse £6 13s iiijd</i>, Fountains Abbey (SS42/306).

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