1 gen 1622 anni - spruce

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The spruce fir is not a native tree but derives from Prussia, a state known in the Middle Ages as Pruce or Spruce. The wood was imported and probably used to make chests, coffers and the like, although such items may have been imported from Prussia. 1429 <i>lego Johanni de Kyrkby meum sprus kyst</i>, Kippax (Th22/246); 1433 <i>unum spruce coffre</i>, York (SS30/49); 1485 <i>una cista de spruse</i>, Ripon (SS64/368); 1500 ‘the … <i>sprewskyste</i> in the chamber’, Bradford (BAS2/171); 1519 <i>a spruce ark</i>, Roundhay (Th9/89). Less usual items include: 1528 <i>a chest with xv sprewes skynnes</i>, Hull (YAJ2/251); 1549 <i>one spruce counttar, a langsettill, a side burde</i>, Elland (Crossley42); 1622 <i>bo</i>[ug]<i>ht me 30 sprusedeale boards,</i> Brandsby (NYRO44/232).

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