jan 1, 1600 - crayer

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A small vessel which Peter Heath and others have found difficult to define (NHR3/60). It was used along the coast and on the inland waterways: 1543-4 <i>ther is too crayers of xxxvj tonne a pese nowe at the Citie of Yorke and hable to go to the see, and no moo; aither of the said crayers sallyth with vj men ... Truthe is that the watter of Owse is oftens tymes so lowe that the said crayers cannott passe from York to Hull</i> (YRS108/99). The early judgements of Hull’s Trinity House contain several informative references, proving that some of these craft were made by the Selby shipwrights: 1599 <i>for going to rig and fetch down a new crayer from Selby,</i> Hull (YRS116/14), and were sea-going: 1600 <i>John Read claimed wages against Richard Read, his brother, for a Newcastle voyage in the crayer Diamond </i>(YRS116/15). In 1471 a vessel called the <i>Crayer de Delff</i> was recorded in Hull (YRS144/146) and there were crayers on the Tyne in 1480 (R&J41). <i></br></i>crazed Broken or cracked, especially of pottery: 1528 <i>To the mending of one crasid chaliche</i>, Elloughton (SS79/248). The word could also be used though of people who were infirm, in poor health, or even insane: 1542 <i>somethinge crased in bodie but holl of mynde,</i> Skipton (SS106/127); 1561 <i>provysyon of coles and torves for the pore crased men of this Citie</i>, York (YRS112/4); 1572 <i>I, John Bramham, crasyd in bodye</i>, Barwick in Elmet (PR).

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