1 gen 1619 anni - fence month

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Coppice woods or ‘springs’ were felled at regular intervals, and the cycle differed from one region to another. Nevertheless such woods had to be enclosed to protect the new growth from grazing animals, especially from domestic stock. That period was known on the Fountains Abbey estate as the fence time and in 1520 Ralph Scayffe and his son Robert agreed ‘to keep the <i>sprynges</i> during the <i>fense tyme</i>’, Bishopside (YRS140/170). Similar restrictions applied to forest areas and a survey of Pickering for 1619-21 listed a tax that was charged on those <i>traveylinge over the foreste in fence moneth</i> (NRR1/20). It was an ancient custom: 1250 ‘common for oxen and cows ... except in the fence month (<i>in mense vetito</i>)’, Galtres (YRS12/29).

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