1 gen 1603 anni - rale coal

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This obscure term occurs in the north of the county from the fifteenth century: 1457-8 <i>In exp. carr. ad Rale pro carbon’, vijs viijd</i>, Fountains Abbey (SS130/58); 1473 <i>Pro viij quarti et j bus. carbonum voc. ralycole</i>, York (SS35/81); 1485 <i>in carbonibus de Rale</i>, Ripon (SS64/374); 1603 <i>Everye tenant … shall everye yere lead me a loade of of coels from Raylye pitts</i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/23) . Similarly, in 1538, Leland stated that <i>Most of the Coale that be occupied about the Quartars of Richemount Toune be fetched from Rayle Pitts toward … Akeland</i> (YAJ10/476) and such references are confirmation that ‘Rale’ was a place. One editor suggested that the coal was brought south from Relly near Durham but it seems more likely that it came from Railey in the same county. Coal-mines were in operation there as early as 1385 according to Victor Watts, and in 1460 a week’s production at ‘Raly’ amounted to 1,800 corves (Si16).

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