1 gen 1611 anni - drape

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It was used particularly for cows which no longer produced milk and for ewes that had missed breeding. The OED has examples from 1611, all of them in the north of England, but the term was in widespread use across Yorkshire from much earlier.: 1418 <i> Item, de drapes abstratis xxxij, precium capitis xiiijd,</i> Welwick (SS116/25); 1458-9 <i> Apud Apylgarth draps, viijd </i> (SS130/88). The latter is one of several references in the records of Fountains Abbey, and ‘Applegarth’ referred to a sheep pasture of that name in Malham. </b> Those examples seem likely to have referred to sheep but more usually ‘drapes’ were cattle. A new cattle fair was announced in York in 1502, to be held in Fishergate, away from the places where horses and sheep were put up for sale. The animals included M <i>all maner nowte as fatte nowte, drapez or yong stote</i> (YRS103/174). The 1559 inventory of Cuthbert Clarkson of Marske in Swaledale separated the cows from the sheep and listed <i>2 new calved kye, 3 whies,</i> and <i> 1 drape cow praysed </I>[valued]<i> to 20s</i> (YRS152/107). Similarly in the seventeenth century we find: 1628 <i> one whyte drape cowe,</i> Pudsey (LRS1/77); <i> 1657 tow drape kyen £5,</i> Hambleton (YRS47/109). I suspect that the word was not always recognised by transcribers: 1666 <i>1 draxe cow and 3 spained calfies, £4, </i> Brayton (YRS47/75). </b>

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