1 gen 1656 anni - gardener

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In wills of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the word ‘gardener’ was used as an alternative to ‘tutor’, a meaning that appears to have gone unnoticed. It may have been widely used, but the evidence at the moment is confined to Yorkshire. It is possible, I suppose, that ‘gardener’ had come to be confused with guardian, because of a similarity in the pronunciation: 1545 <i>I will that Christofer Felde, marcar, shall have the guardinaige of George Kaye, myne eldest sone,</i> Wakefield (Th19/151). However, it would not be surprising if the ‘gardener’ was thought of as a person who would ‘cultivate’ and protect a child. In 1574, Nicholas Heslett of Slaidburn referred to George Beesley as <i>gardinar</i> to his child (CS2/15) and, in 1579, John Spenselay of Grinton named three people who he wished to be <i>gardeners and tutors</i> of his children (YRS152/225). In 1588 the will of Robert Mylner of Pudsey left <i>Tuicon of children to wife Mary and when she mariethe then ... they shall chuse suche gardiners as God shall put them in mynd</i> (YRS50/171). In 1592 Robert Hobson of Stainton made his <i>twoe bretheren in lawe</i> ... <i>gardeyners unto</i> his son Robert (YAJ20/14). Another explicit reference is found in the will of Robert Wilson of Selby, in 1656:</br><i>I give to Benjamin Wilson, my sonne, £20, which is in the hands of Thomas Hembrough, Thomas Palmer and Richard Linlay … for his education and bringing of him up … and I desire that Thomas Hembrough wilbe his tutore or gardenar, to take care of him and of his futer good </i>(YRS47/194).

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