1 gen 1699 anni - breast

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A solid wall built to retain a bank of earth. 1600 <i>banckes, brestes, weares and clowes,</i> Beeston (DB129/4); 1699 <i>To Brest or Solid wharfeing, </i>Naburn Lock (YAJ66/188). When the same writer passed through Tadcaster, he commented on <i>a Stone Bridge Building of 9 arches all turned & keyd and halfe ye brest walling finished</i> (YAJ66/172). The causeys that lead up to bridges were substantial constructions and <i>breast</i> was the term used in 1687 for the raised sides, made of hewn stone (QS1). In 1700, the <i>breast wall against the river, along the way side at Apperley bridge end </i>[was]<i> washed down and decayed</i> (QS1/39/4).

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