1 gen 1686 anni - aster

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A piece of timber used in house-building. A word which awaits a satisfactory explanation and for which the evidence is not yet complete. It was quoted by Harrison and Hutton, but without explanation: 1582 <i>woode for his hous towe parre of long syles tow astres and & </i>[sic]<i> endforke</i> (HH7). I believe there are earlier examples: 1501-2 <i>ij payre forkes ij ribbes with walplates and aftre</i> [sic], Pickering (NRR2/206). The word occurred several times in this latter piece, in similar contexts, and always transcribed as <i>aftre</i> or <i>after.</i> Also to be considered are several entries in a Bridlington document where I suspect the spelling should have been <i>an aystre</i>: 1537 <i>for a naystre & iiij spars viijd</i> (BCP21). In the timber accounts for a house in Conistone built for Richard Wigglesworth is: 1686-9 <i>80 sparres & 5 eastree pieces & 2 balkes</i> (RW33). Arthur Raistrick used these accounts in <i>Old Yorkshire Dales</i> but had <i>eastres pieces</i> which he did not explain. In the Hull Customs Accounts for 1489-90, one cargo included <i>20 M esteriis</i> which the editor took to be ‘estrich boards’ (YRS44/212,239).

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