Charles Mainwearing, The Middlewich Stool (1599)
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Date
1599
Transcription source
Palatinate of Chester: Exchequer of Chester: Pleadings CHES 15/21, Public Record Office
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- forestry
- law
Summary
A legal case at Middlewich, Cheshire, in which defendants, plaintiffs, and witnesses disagree about the meaning of the word "stool," being either a tree three-feet or under, or a stump of a cut-down tree
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: "those of trees which be in length one, two or three yards or thereabouts and beane cropps are comonly called stubbs and stubb trees, and not stoles" (quoted by Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000]: 91-92)
sample: "those of trees which be in length one, two or three yards or thereabouts and beane cropps are comonly called stubbs and stubb trees, and not stoles" (quoted by Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000]: 91-92)
