jan 1, 1453 - freestone

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Fine-grained stone that can be worked easily by the masons. 1367 ‘providing him with … stones called <i>frestanes</i>’, York (YRS148/122); 1409 <i>et pro frestane empto de custodibus fabricæ Beatæ Mariæ</i>, Beverley (ERAS4/32); 1453 <i>ad fabricam unius honestæ fenestræ de frestone et vitro</i>, Hull (SS30/166). The glossary in <i>The Fabric Rolls of York Minster</i> quotes <i>firstan</i> (1399) and <i>fyrestane</i> (1415) as examples but these might be ‘firestone’ in the sense of stone resistant to fire (SS35/342).

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