jan 1, 1634 - casing

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Dried cow’s dung which was used for fuel. 1569 <i>no one to take cassyngs from the Carre or any other field</i>, Acomb (YRS131/29); 1591 <i>an old bushel skepp, a syle, cassens, turves</i>, South Cave (Kaner165); 1633 <i>no inhabitant shall collect any Casons</i>, Aldborough (YAJ35/210). The casings were evidently stored in outhouses in the farmyard, probably on overhead balks: 1634 <i>1 horseheck and a manger with skelbouthes with the casinlyers and the wood that the cattle-meat lies on</i>, Elmswell (DW235). ‘Case’ seems to have been an occasional alternative form: 1607 <i>Richard Atkinson</i> [presented] <i>for his wife gathering cases</i>, Calton (DDMa).

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