1 gen 1624 anni - pale

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‘Pale’ would have been used initially for the vertical pieces of wood in the fence of a medieval deer park, but it then came to mean the fence itself. 1505 <i>beilded a palle betwixte the said Parke and woode</i>, Healaugh (YRS92/198); 1524 <i>all the wode within the new payle that is newlye theyr made, as it is set and founded</i>, Moor Monkton (YRS50/125). Interesting details are found in documents relating to a recently created park near Leeds, described in 1600 as <i>all that parke or grounde inclosed with a Paille … commonly called Beeston parke</i>. A lease of 1597 reserved to the landlord <i>libertie to sett stayes or Proppes and to repayre the Pale … at all times</i>: the land on the outside of the pale, which made such maintenance possible, was referred to in 1589 as <i>le paile walke</i> (DB129/4). </br> The term pale-board seems likely to have developed as a result of the changed meaning of ‘pale’: 1489 <i>shall not take payle boordes upon payne of 3s 4d</i> (CHT126); 1528 <i>Item to a slede man for carryng of payll bordes, ijd</i>, York (CCW131); 1624 <i>take no Pallbordes out of the Pall of Hunesworthe Parke</i> (DD/SR/1/6/14). The transcription of a document in Latin is evidence that the practice was an ancient one: 1315 ‘Richard del Bothem, pale setter in Stanley wood, 12d for not making an adequate paling’ (YRS57/99).

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