Dear Frank
‘Leawans’ sounds to me like ‘allowance’. If you are using the 1981
Penguin edition of ‘The history of Myddle’, the editor, David Hey, defines
‘leawans’ as church-rates on p. 21 of the Introduction and also in note 17
on p.34.
Dave Leach
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> What is a 'leawan' as used constantly in Richard Gough's The History of
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> It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was
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