jan 1, 1682 - bark

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The verb to bark was to treat a skin with bark, to tan it. 1476 <i>any of the saide leder not sufficiantly barked</i>, York (SS128/167). An ordinance at York in 1500 concerned the use of sheep skins in a variety of trades. It ordered that <i>no glover, pouchemaker, sadeler, ne shomaker of this citie wyrk no shep skynnes barked opon payn of … 20d </i>(SS186/219). The process is referred to in the will of a Whitby man: 1540 <i>one hundrethe markes to be taken of suche lether as is in my barkehouse and such lether as is not fullie barkit and redie merchaunteable at the tyme of my deathe I will that it be fully barket and wrought of the costes of myne executors</i> (SS106/110). In 1682 Mr Pilkington’s workmen were stripping bark in Bradley Wood when a body of armed men attacked them: the trespassers took away <i>the barke which was pilled </i>and then helped themselves to the men’s ladders and <i>pilled severall Barkes of the trees and carried the same away</i> (QS1).

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