jan 1, 1654 - stone-getter

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Sometimes a man who mined iron-stone rather than one who worked in a quarry. <i>c</i>.1573 <i>our charges for our smythies came to the some of £40 10s 10d which we have discharged, viz. for smithy geare and to the stone geaters</i>, Honley (KayeCP); 1568 <i>For iren stone to the lorde of the so[i]le for everye lode Wyche ys 6 kettes 3d, and to the getteres for a lode 12d</i>, Esholt (BAS10/246). It was also used of a quarryman: 1651 <i>Richard Hanson, stone getter</i>, Halifax (WCR8/171); 1654 <i>given to the stone getters ... to drink ... and give them earnest for millstones, 5s</i> (HP).

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