1 jan 1593 ano - help-ale

Descrição:

A word found frequently in the records of the manor of Wakefield and neighbouring territories: 1433 ‘John Lech was charged in court with brewing <i>le helpale</i>’, Hartshead (WCR15/11); 1491 <i>Johannes Taillour et Johannes Godderd anno ult bras duo helpales contra stat</i>., Emley (MD225/1/217); 1593 ‘that no tenant ... shall do any <i>goose eating, pigge eating sive helpe ales</i> on the lord’s day’, Slaithwaite (DD/R/M). It may have been similar to a ‘church-ale’, a social occasion designed to raise funds either for the needy or the maintenance of the church although it was treated as an offence in all these local references. In a discussion of the word’s meaning it was suggested that the fines were really a licence to brew (WCR15/xv).

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