1 gen 1608 anni - slate-stone

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The thin ‘flags’ of sandstone used as a roofing material in many parts of Yorkshire. 1298-9 <i>Pro sparstan, sclatstan et aliis ad camaram </i>(<i>sic</i>)<i> de Rither</i>, Bolton Priory (YRS154/91); 1395 <i>Item pro boring 1m sclatstane 20d</i>, Whitby (SS72/617). The most explicit information and the link with Slater as a surname is found in the fabric rolls and chamberlains’ rolls for Ripon: 1392-3 <i>Et in sal. Simonis Sklater cooperantis et ponentis lapides de sklate et pro coopertura cujusdem domus ... cum sklatestane</i> (SS81/116); 1475-6 <i>uno plaustr. tegularum vocatarum Sclatestane 2s 6d</i> ... <i>et vad. Ricardi Sclater tegentis super magnas cameras</i> (SS81/246); 1511-2 <i>Rogero Sclayter 6d tegenti super cameram ... per unum diem, Sclaytston 4d ad idem opus ac del mose 1d, </i>Ripon (SS81/267). Only certain quarries had the right kind of stone: 1399 ‘three acres at <i>Stondelfs</i>’; 1400 ‘three acres at <i>Sclaftonedelffe</i>’ [sic], Rastrick (YRS65/121) and the slates required preparation before they could be used: 1608 <i>Robert Davyson for slating, dressing, holeinge, latting & pynnynge each roode vijs iiijd,</i> Brandsby (NYRO44/45).

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