jan 1, 1542 - salt-house

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Either a place where salt was made or refined (OED) or, more usually, a building where it was stored. 1503 <i>To my wif a meise with one salt howse in Whitby</i>, York (SS53/213); 1528 <i>M John Langton for a salthows wiche paid at a terme vs now iijs iiijd</i>, Hull (YRS141/122); 1542 <i>To John Maister ... my salte house with the newe tymbre that I bought for it</i>, Whitby (YRS51/199). Salthouse Lane in Hull takes its name from such a building: 1465 ‘the decay of a tenement called<i> Salthous</i>’; 1465 <i>the Comon seuer in Salthouslane by yere ijs</i> (YRS141/119,122).

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