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jan 1, 1615 - charcoal-burner

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Charcoal was a major woodland product from a very early date. 1470-1 <i>Et in ij skeppis carbonum vocatum charcoal empt. pro prædicto pane furniendo</i>, Ripon (SS81/216). Actually the word charcoal-burner features only occasionally in Yorkshire sources: 1615 <i>one charcoal burner of Kyrby Moresyd I gave him iijd ... covenanted he to burne for viid,</i> Brandsby (NYRO44/91).

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Date:

jan 1, 1615
Now
~ 410 years ago