jan 1, 1548 - border

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The boundary or hedge of a wood. The value of the trees growing in such hedges could be assessed independently of the wood. In 1527, Richard Beaumont of Whitley Hall purchased <i>two greafes of wodde </i>and it was emphasised by the landowner Sir Godfrey Foljambe that the rights he had acquired lay <i>within the bordres of the said two greafes, after the boundary, as it hath ben accustomed</i>, Denby (WBD/3/32). A wood near Pontefract in 1543 was <i>of viij yeres grouth</i>, [and] <i>in the bordre</i> … <i>and som oother places were many fayre okes of sondrie ages</i> (YRS13/361). In 1548-9 the sale of woods in Shelf included ‘the <i>borders</i> pertaining to the same spring’ (YRS39/151). The following reference suggests that it was a much older term: 1390 ‘Sale … of all his wood … except all the margins (<i>bordurez</i>) of Halhyll’, Aislaby (YRS102/1).

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