1 gen 1670 anni - lime pit

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A solution of lime and water in a pit was used by tanners to facilitate the removal of hair from the hides, also causing them to swell in readiness for tanning. 1422 ‘took two pits called <i>lez lympittes, </i>late in the tenure of William Barker’, Bradford (CR); 1542 <i>Also so muche ledes in the lymme pytts as draweth xix marks, vjs viijd, </i>Beetham (SS26/29). In 1660 a Selby tanner had <i>13 hors skinnes in the lymes </i> (YRS47/170). Tanners who had no pits were quite often indicted for illegally using local wells. William Farrand of Kirkheaton was a persistent offender: in 1595 he was ordered to clean Ladywell and remove his quick lime <i>viva. calc. </i> and hides: in 1605 a by-law ordered him to <i>dresse the well called the Ladywell and take away his lyme and not occupie the same any more </i>(WBR/2). At Leeds manor court in 1670 Isaac Blackburne was fined 13s 4d ‘for fouling the waters at the common <i>stath </i> by washing his <i>lymed skins </i> where the people take water for preparing their victuals’ (Th26/144).

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