1 gen 1636 anni - rating dub

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A pool of water in which the hemp and flax were left to putrefy in order that the fibres might be more easily separated from the stems. 1600 <i>and one hempe pitt for to rayt hempe in</i>, Malham (RMM24); 1611 <i>makeinge a rating dubb in the syke</i>, Airton (DDMa); 1636 <i>land at the towne end of Kylnsey and 1 rating dubbe </i>(MD247). Such pools were necessary because it was forbidden by law from the reign of Henry VIII to place the stems in any running water: in 1607 a number of North Riding men were indicted <i>for watering or rating their hemp ... in the brook or watercourse called Kyle Water,</i> Easingwold (NRQS1/85-6). There is early evidence for this process in an undated Monk Bretton charter of the thirteenth century: ‘Grant by Adam de Byri ... of land in ... Hepworth ... following the causeway ... to the great water of <i>Rachet</i> and thence to <i>Retingpolsnappe</i>’ (YRS66/208). See MHW125-35.

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