1 gen 1621 anni - marl

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In regions where the soil was acid, our ancestors spread ‘marl’ or calcareous clay on new clearances. <i> c </i>.1323 ‘sufficient marl for marling the land from the marlpit formerly belonging to William son of Roold’, Burton Constable (YRS83/62). In 1510 William Amyas of Horbury granted land in Hartshead to the <i> Dean & Chanons of Seint Stephyn’s </i> in Westminster which he claimed to have <i> mended by reason of marling, to the valew of xiijs iiijd </i> (SS79/18): in 1582 John Kaye of Woodsome wrote: <i> I set xxx loades of m </i>[ar]<i> le in the Spring Inge banke </i>. He also <i> marlyd and stubbyd Ryshworth Yng and the Mylner Hill ... and made yt plowghable and sett in ytt of marle and Lyme xxxiij loods </i>(KayeCP). The proportion there was usually ten loads of marl to one of lime, but marling may not have been carried out on a regular basis, unlike liming. </br> John Kaye also recorded setting many <i> loods of Pomfrett marle </i> ... <i> in the Ladie Roods and thre Litle Clossis adioyning. </i> Pontefract is twenty miles from Woodsome and it draws attention to those places where marl could be extracted. In 1341 Roundhay Park had its <i> Merlepytte </i> (Th2/227) and in 1495 John Bradford possessed 3½ acres <i> in the feldes of Pomfrett nere the marl pyttes </i> (SS43/108). The practice was evidently much older: 1236 <i> Marleflatte </i>, Fyling (SS72/520); 1296 <i> Marleriding </i>, Acaster Malbis (YRS50/2). In 1570 there was <i> a field called marlepit felde </i> in Barwick in Elmet (Th17/98) and other minor place-names include: 1572 <i> Merled field </i>, Hipperholme (YRS39/54); 1621 <i> Marlepighell </i>, Whitley (WBD/9/34). Typically ‘marled’ soon became ‘marl[e]’ and the field name Marl Close is often the only reminder of a vanished practice.

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