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  • 1633 Will. Three words to decipher

    Could someone help me with a 1633 Will I am transcribing? There are just three words I am stumped on.

    Here's an extract.
    1633.jpg

    It's the top line: three [something] of [something]. I have an idea on the first one but the second stumps me.

    On the bottom line it's the first name of the first person.

    To see the whoile Will and script used it's on Ancestry. The problem section is just over half way down.


    I'm sure it will be a doh! moment when you tell me it.

    Thanks for looking.
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    Phil
    historyhouse.co.uk
    Essex - family and local history.

  • #2
    "assays" of "woad"

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    • #3
      Whish word on the last line do you mean?

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      • #4
        Yes, three assays of wooad (wonder if this means wood or woodland?)
        Can't see a name on the bottom line but there is a Robert on the second line
        Anne

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        • #5
          Anne - it's definitely woad [as in the substance used to dye clothes blue]. There are references to the assay of woad consignments in Bristol for example [the assay itself being done by members of the dyer's craft]

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          • #6
            The name at the bottom is the one before what I read as William Good. It is also a Good but I just cannot get his first name.

            Yes I thought assayes. The other word I can also read as starting with cu. It goes on the read '8 tons 900lbs at 13 shillings the hundred'. At least I believe so.

            I can't find anything in the OED to help on any of the word possibilities.
            Last edited by keldon; 26-09-17, 16:44.
            Phil
            historyhouse.co.uk
            Essex - family and local history.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by keldon View Post
              The other word I can also read as starting with cu.
              I diasgree keldon - I really think it is written wooad

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              • #8
                I can now see similar words staring with a similar w so I think you right, thank you, but I am confused by three assayes. I can find nothing in the OED which can help. Any ideas? Do you think that means the way it was bundled together?
                Last edited by keldon; 26-09-17, 16:59.
                Phil
                historyhouse.co.uk
                Essex - family and local history.

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                • #9
                  Google assay woad and click on the followin result:

                  Medieval Merchant Venturers: Collected Studies
                  By E.M Carus-Wilson

                  Under the English cloth industry it mentions assays of woad

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                  • #10
                    Thanks for your help. I've found another one as well. I'll research more on it.
                    Last edited by keldon; 26-09-17, 17:07.
                    Phil
                    historyhouse.co.uk
                    Essex - family and local history.

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