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"ref": "1902, Sussex Record Society - Volume 42, page 282",
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"ref": "1981, David Postles, Sheffield in 1581, page 20",
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"ref": "1910, Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, page 174",
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"ref": "1941, Louth (England). St. James's Church, Reginald Charles Dudding, The First Churchwardens' Book of Louth, 1500-1524, page 171",
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"ref": "1974, John Smythe, Bristol Record Society, John Angus, The Ledger of John Smythe, 1538-1550, page 148",
"text": "Itm. the 12 day of June 1545 he sent me a reckenyng by my sarvant Henry Setterfford of 25 seme Wellsche bordes at 6d the seame & of a brode yerd 3 qrs. of muster clothe at 4s the yerd & of a yerd of white kersy at 20d & 2 yerdes ½ Bristowe frise at 12d the yerd & of a yerd & I qr. russett kersy at 14d the yerd & for 4 yerdes 3 qr. grey frize at 6d the yerd.",
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"ref": "1854, Elijah Ridings, The Village Muse, Containing the Complete Poetical Works of E. Ridings, page 419",
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"ref": "1877, John Cheap the Chapman's Library, page 7",
"text": "and when she dies, I'm to pay for the yerding of her honestly, and a' the o'ercome is to be my ain; and by that time I'll be as rich es e'er my father was before me.",
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"ref": "1923, George Forrest Browne, Echt-Forbes Family Charters 1345-1727, page 50",
"text": "Forbes took him at the kirk of Forbes and struck off his head and caused yerd him behind the kirk, and sett his grave about with tippet stones, where it remains as yet ( 1580 ) to testifie the same.",
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"ref": "1960, Victor Gaffney, The Lordship of Strathavon: Tomintoul Under the Gordons, page 63",
"text": "Spalding recounts the incident: Alexander Gordon of Dunkyntie and George Gordon his eldest son, with some servants,being at the hunts in Glenelg o at the head of Strathaven, were upon the 19th August cruelly murdered by certain highland limmars, likeas the laird and his son in their defence slew three of thir lowns, but craftily they presently yerded two of them in a hole, and the third they left lying above the ground,",
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"ref": "1991, Emrys Jones, The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, page 73",
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"ref": "1857, Oud John, A Yewud Chap's Trip to Manchister to see Prince Halbert, page 12",
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"ref": "1860, Bobby Shuttle, Bobby Shuttle un his Woife Sayroh's Visit to Manchester, page 34",
"text": "Missis, says one, dunnot be so cuttin - yoar as keen as yoar mestur. Un, to be comfortable neaw; han yoa yerd th' news?",
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"ref": "1885, Benjamin Brierley, Ben Brierley's Works: Ab-o'th', page 71",
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"ref": "1900, M. E. Francis, A Daughter of the Soil, page 328",
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