jan 1, 1629 - strum

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A strum was a wicker-work basket, used in the brew-house to keep the malt in the vat. 1394-5 <i>It. pro strom pro le brewhous, iiijd</i>, Whitby (SS72/606); 1446-58 <i>pro cirpis ... et pro factura le stromes</i>, Fountains Abbey (SS130/202); 1616 <i>2 men … was whitinge</i> [sic for whitlinge?] <i>streight saughe wodd to make trellesses, strums, maundes, baskets or it may be rydles and sives</i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/115); 1629 <i>makers of Baskets, Bottells, Seves, Temses, Strumps and Kitts</i>, Beverley (YRS84/81). In 1617 Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby made the following entry in his memorandum book: <i>Gray the strumme maker of Haxbie Henry Jackson overtooke him on the forest beyond Sutton … with a great burthin of streight Yonge sawghes which he confessed he had gotten in Spellow Wood</i> (NYRO44/135).

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