1 gen 1673 anni - bark house

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Initially this was probably the building where bark was stored. It was the source of an early by-name: 1330 ‘Ralph <i>del Barkhous</i>’, East Ayton (YRS50/158). In 1395 a Whitby tenant took <i>unum croftum … juxta le barkehouse </i>(SS72/561), and in 1491 there was <i>un’ domu’ voc’ a Barkhous</i> at Hipperholme (MD225/1/216). The inventory of a Selby tanner who died in 1673 valued four loads of <i>bark in the bark house </i>at £6 13s 4d (YRS47/33). However, wills of the sixteenth century make it clear that leather was also stored in the bark house and other documents associate the building more closely with the tan-house itself. In 1551, for example, Robert Croft of Collingham willed that his son should <i>have and occupie his stoke of ledder in the barke howse </i>(Th19/288) and a Fountains Abbey lease of 1532 lists <i>seisterns, fattes, towbes and all odre vessels to the … barkhouse belonging for tanning </i>(YRS140/241).

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