1 gen 1609 anni - capon

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A castrated cock, fattened for the dinner table, sometimes given by a tenant in part payment for his holding. 1297-8 <i>Et in putura porcorum, caponum et aucarum</i>, Bolton Priory (YRS154/84); 1445-6 <i>ij capon’ (ijs viijd) ... emptis</i>, York (SS192/33); 1570 <i>and also foure capons and hennes in the weke next before Christmas every yere</i>, Meltham (G-A); 1603 <i>one capon at the Feaste of Pentecoste yearlie</i>, Whitley (YDK69); 1609 <i>George Gatenby ... brought me a cocke for a capon</i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/237).

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