jan 1, 1570 - house boot

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A liberty the tenant had to cut wood on the lord’s estate for building and repairing his house. 1240 ‘reasonable estover for burning, <i>husbote</i> and <i>heybote</i>’, Rawmarsh (YRS67/57); 1249 <i>Et homines de predicta villa debent habere in predicto bosco Husbote et Haybote</i>, Shipley (YRS12/18); 1488 <i>housbote et haybote</i>, Golcar (KM147). Examples occur regularly into the late sixteenth century: 1447 <i>housbote … pro edificacione novarum domorum</i>, Healaugh (YRS92/56); 1570 <i>sufficient howisboyte for the repeyring of his house</i>, Falhouse (YDK68).

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