1 gen 1700 anni - wool-hedge

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A word found only in Leeds, where wool, like clothes more generally, was draped over a ‘hedge’ to dry. The evidence is not conclusive but it seems likely that the ‘hedge’ was made of rails. In the reeve’s account for Leeds of 1579-80 mention is made of several <i>woollrayles,</i> and a <i>woolhedge</i> leased to William <i>Beicrofte</i> (Th57/61). Subsequently, ‘wool hedge’ is on record in clothiers’ wills and manorial court records: 1588 <i>to my son William my great lyttinge lead, pair of tenters and my wollhedge and all my shope geare</i>, Leeds (Th1/382); 1650 <i>James Rider surrenders one peice of ground on Woodhouse Moore conteyning in length 32 yardes & in breadth 12 For a wooll hedge</i>; 1653 <i>Wm Taylor ... surrenders one Barne one Garth, two gardens two wooll hedges</i>, Leeds (Th9/63,68); 1700 <i>Linnen Cloathes ... laid out on certain Rails in a croft called the Woollhedge Croft ... to dry ... she told them ... a man had stolen some Cloaths off their Wooll hedge, </i>Rodley (QS1/39/4). See winterhedge.

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