jan 1, 1520 - scaffold

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In early contexts the scaffold was probably a temporary platform, supported on poles or trestles, which gave workmen access to the higher sections of the building that they were working on. 1354-5 <i>Laur. Wrigth sublevante le skaffald in choro</i>, Ripon (SS81/94); 1360 <i>Pro flekes emptis pro skaffald</i>; 1371 <i>Et in cc de firspars pro le scaffold</i>, York (SS35/2,8); 1409 <i>Et aliis necessariis pro scafald</i>, Beverley (ERAS4/30); 1485-6 <i>tymber to mak the centres of the scaffyldes</i>, Sheffield (HS13/37); <i>c</i>.1520 <i>Johanni Henryson making scaffaldes</i>, Ripon (SS81/202). A more complicated framework of platforms and poles required substantial amounts of timber: 1399 <i>Item xviij magnæ arbores pro scaffaldyng, precii 60s</i>, York (SS35/19). Bridge building records have references from the fifteenth century: 1422 <i>schaffoldynges</i>, Catterick Bridge (NRQS3/33); 1485-6 the centres of the <i>scaffaldys</i>, Lady’s Bridge in Sheffield (HS1/59).

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