George HUGHES (HEWES HUE) of Newton Kyme [18451]

  General Notes:

John Hues is not proven to be the father of George, husband of Alison.

Will of George Hue
8 May 1549.
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I George Hue of the parish of Newton Kyme Perfect mynde and good remembrance 8th Maye the yere of our Lord God 1549 make my testament and last will in manner and forme foloying First I bequeathe my Soull to almighty God my maker and to his son Jesus Christe my Lord and redeemer in whom I put my hope and trust of salvation through the merits of his Blessed passon and my body to be buried in the church yard of the foresaid parishe More and I bequeathe my fooll title and interest of my farmold to Alison my wife and of that it shall please God to call for her Again I will that Nicholas my son Thomas and Anthony Doo enjoy it one after another according to their age for the terme of my fooll title and interest of the same And I bequeathe to Nicholas my son ij yowes and a little redd stott Also I bequeathe to John my son a colt fole of one yere old Also I bequeathe to Thomas my son ij yowes and a browne ox strike of a yere old And I bequeathe to Anthony my son a yowe and a lame and a browne stott of three years old And I bequeathe to Cecilie my daughter a tagged whus of ij yeres old And I bequeathe to Johanne my daughter a blake whus stirke And I bequeathe to Effame my daughter a ganed whus stirke And I bequeathe to Margaret my daughter too ginne hoggs And I bequeathe all my other gods both movable and immovable my debts paid to Alison my wife whom I make full executive of this my last will and witnesses and listers of the same Richard Chipplay George Cawood and John Empsy parishioners of the foresaid parishe and Sir John Vicars parson

Probate was granted at York to Alison Hue 23rd November 1549

John Chester Hughes Chapter 1 Pg 6
GLOSSARY TO THE WILL OF GEORGE HUE 1549

STOTT / STOT - probably what we should now call a cob. A stallion, but it could be used of a young bullock. The names of young animals are sometimes used indiscriminately. Chaucer in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales :
"This reve sat up-on a ful good stot,
That was all pomely grey, and highte Scot."
Prof. J.E. Rogers in his History of Agriculture supposes that a stot was a low-bred undersized stallion. R.P. Patterson notes a stot as a cob, a short-legged strong horse for heavy weights.
STIRKE Old English, Styrc - a bullock. It is derived from steer, a younger ox Anglo-Saxon. Steer. Anglo-Saxon, Styric with a vowel change from o to y.
HOGG British Dialect. a sheep up to the age of one year that has yet to be sheared. Noisy gives Norman Dialect Hogge, a six month's lamb, a pig.
GINNE may be "ginmer" - grinmer-hogs are cited the Oxford English Dictionary - a ewe of not more than one year old.
TAGGED To cut the tags of wool or hair from an animal. But it may come from Teg - a two year old sheep, or the fleece of a two year old sheep. Latham translates it as "fallow doe in second year". 1494.
GANED Could be YEANED, to bring forth young. Anglo-Saxon. Ge-eanian, to yean, to be with young.
WHUS This is a problem. There is the Old Saxon, Ohso, an ox. It could be a dialect derivation. The Anglo-Saxon for house is hus and we speak of house-cows, but a stirke is normally a steer, and in any case in one of the bequests Whus stands as an animal in its own right. You could have Ox on its own, and ox-steer. However we must not forget that before 1535 "milche bullock" was common, clearly a reference to a cow. Perhaps the most promising lead might be found in Norse legend, bearing in mind the Viking background. The Valkyries had a "helhiist" or death horse and it seems to me that horse is perhaps what we seek ?

George married Alison [18452] [MRIN: 6787].