jan 1, 1590 - guttertrees

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This may have been a word for two pieces of timber placed over a ditch as a bridge. The practice is referred to frequently in the Methley court rolls from the 1400s but noted in English only in the sixteenth century: 1509-10 <i>John Storrs ... shall cause two trees called guttertrees to be ... put down between the Parke & Whityeardmoke</i> (SS35/193); 1590 ‘shall place two beams (<i>in English a paire of guttertrees</i>) in the Common lane’ (SS35/240).

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