1 gen 1632 anni - coal wain

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A wain or wagon used for transporting coal. 1584 <i>money and dewties ... to be paid to this corporacon for cole waynes coming thorowe Micklith barre,</i> York (YRS119/73). When Wetherby Bridge was in need of repair in 1614 the townsmen alluded to <i>the decay of the pavement … with the continuall travell of cole waines over the same </i>(YRS54/17). The wains are likely to have been coming into the town from the south, from the region around Garforth and Swillington where there were numerous coal-pits, and the burial register for Aberford suggests that these heavily-laden vehicles could be very dangerous: 1620 <i>Bryan Abbey of Bilton, slaine with a Coale wayne</i>: in 1632 Ralph Beane who was a servant of Peter Matterson died in exactly the same way, as did Robert Wilson in 1646 (PR). </br>A more explicit accident is recorded in Kirkburton parish in 1677 when Thomas Lockwood was buried. He was the son of Abraham Lockwood of Blackhouse, possibly a child, and he was <i>slain by a waine snowt which was full of coals falling one him</i> (PR). The meaning of ‘snout’ used in this way is not exactly clear but it is likely to have been a projecting part of the wain, possibly iron-bound. The metal toes of clogs were said to be snout-banded (EDD). See wain.</br>The inhabitants of Yarm in the North Riding were faced in 1624 with paying for repairs to their bridge. They were <i>supplied with cole out of the county of Durham</i> and alleged at the Quarter Sessions that <i>the shaking of that bridge with the heavy cartes loden with cole had been a principall cause of the decaie thereof </i>(NRQS3/52).

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