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1516 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 13 A Schoppe burde w^th ij Trestils, xij d.

1524–5 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 328 Paid for a shopp borde in partriches shopp in Estchepe, vj s viij d.

1606 Returne from Pernassus i. iii. sig. B3 When al these bookes of exhortations and Catechismes, lie moulding on thy shopbourd.

1653 J. Rogers Ohel or Beth-Shemesh ii. iii. 284 The honest Tradesman is content his Wares should be carried to the street-door from the dim shop-board.

1705 J. Dunton Life & Errors iii. 87 He may starve behind his Shop-Board, for want of Subsistance.

1785 Whole Proc. King's Comm. Peace (City of London & County of Middlesex) No. 1. i. 12/2 I found the note on Saturday evening between three o'clock and five, on the shop-board.

1830 Museum of Foreign Lit. Jan. 78/2 Could officers be appointed for the purification of the shop-boards of our literature-venders, the intellectual health of the British population would be materially benefited.

1861 G. A. Sala Dutch Pict. xxi. 233 On every merchant's shopboard similar heaps..are tumbling out of similar sacks.

1912 T. Holmes London's Underworld xi. 190 When one by one the women have made their bargains, we notice that the shopboard is depleted of its heap of scrags and odds and ends.

2013 R. D. Kendall in P. I. Kaufman Leadership & Elizabethan Culture x. 167 Only in the newly emerging retail shops of the city did the peripatetic board of the peddler become the permanent shop board lowered each morning by the shop's apprentices to display the merchant's wares.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 34^v A Phrase nowe there is which belongeth to your Shoppe boorde, that is to make loue, and when I shall heare of what fashion it is made, if I like the pattorne, you shal cut me a partlet.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. E2 One seeing all sortes of his shreddes, would thinke he had robd a taylors shop boord.

1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. G^v (stage direct.) Enter Hodge at his shop boord, Rafe, Firk, Hans, and a boy at work.

1655 W. Gostelow Charls Stuart & Oliver Cromwel United sig. G6^v From a Tailers shop-board, or Weavers loom, we have those now will extract Learning enough, to stand 3 hours in a Pulpit.

1715 J. Browne & W. Oldisworth State Tracts I. 237 As he was thus continuing at his Work, Rantering the Seams of an Old Farmer's New Doublet, with his Boy upon the Shop-board by him, mending an Old Riding pair of Trowsers for the Clark of the Parish.

1762 S. Foote Orators i. 44 One day as I was sitting cross-legged on my shop board,..I felt the spirit within me, moving.

1844 E. Sue Wandering Jew I. iv. 23 The old soldier..was stitching away as coolly as a tailor on his shop-board.

1864 ‘Holme Lee’ Silver Age I. ii. 114 We went often to the workshop of a clumsy young cobbler, where I sat on the shop-board amongst the leather.

1974 Hist. Childhood Q. Fall 259 A long-shanked, slip-shod tailor, who worked for Lowdham Mill, slid nimbly from his shop-board.

2012 Bristol Post (Nexis) 25 Feb. 29 The postmaster was a tailor who used to sit at his work on the shop board in one window while his wife, on the other side, sold gingerbread and sweets.