1 gen 1624 anni - coble

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A sea-fishing boat with a flat bottom, characteristic of the north-east coast. 1527-8 <i>To the said Edmunde a coble called the Margarete</i>, Hornsea Beck (SS79/237); <i>c</i>.1540 <i>a close where the Cobles put in</i>, Sandsend (YRS80/109). In 1550 Robert Barmeton made a grant of land which included free fishing <i>infra mare voc. sex Coble-rights juxta Scarburgh</i> (YRS2/147) and in 1624 two shillings was paid <i>to Mathew Harker for attendinge with his Cobble to viewe the bridge</i> in Whitby (NRQS3/55). Such boats often had divided ownership and in 1542 John Stephanson bequeathed ‘a quarter of a coble to Richard Philipote’, Owthorne (YRS150/478).

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