1 gen 1693 anni - cistern

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A tank or reservoir; a large vessel or container for holding liquids, often made of lead. 1430 <i>unam sisternam plumbeam, unum brewlede</i>, Ripon (SS30/12); 1461 <i>a cesterne, the ledes with other brewing vessel</i>, Mirfield (SS30/256); 1481 <i>De j sestryn xvjs viijd,</i> York (SS45/261); 1533 <i>a cisterne of leede</i>, Wilberfoss (SS106/41); 1600 <i>Of a Sestron of Lead wich sometimes stood att the kittchinge door & a pype of Lead by wich water was conuayed to the sestron</i>, Settrington (YRS126/87). In tanyards they held the water or the liquor in which hides were steeped: 1532 <i>with also seisterns, fattes, towbes and all odre vessels to the seid barkhouse belonging for tannyng</i>, Fountains Abbey (YRS140/241); 1627-8 <i>all the tubbes and seasterans in the tanhouse</i>, Bilton (SS110/102). In the inventory of William Moxon, tanner, in 1693, were <i>eight cistrons of leather</i> valued at £180, Selby (YRS47/119). Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby wrote in his memorandum book: 1612 <i>Ceastrons make</i> [sic] <i>of bricke or stone and playstered within will hould water well</i> (NYRO44/33).

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