1 gen 1689 anni - range

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In early references the meaning is not absolutely clear but this was evidently an iron fireplace of some kind, the fore-runner of the ranges used for cooking which were frequent from the nineteenth century. 1423 <i>pro j longo brandyryn pour le range</i>, York (SS45/79); 1559 <i>to the same Edward one yron raunge standing abowte the fyre</i>, Aberford (Th27/260); <i>c</i>.1585 <i>The house betwixt the buttery and the kytching ... for making of a range in the same,</i> Fenton (YAJ36/332); 1613 <i>a range, tangs, reckon</i>, Cottingley (LRS1/7); 1632 <i>one iron range 20s</i>, Ripley (YRS55/115); 1669 <i>an iron range, gallowbalk and crooks</i>, Elmswell (DW243); 1678 <i>to Samuell Abbot my sonn the great range & the grat brasse pott</i>, Selby (YRS47/1). More explicit details are given in a deposition alleging wrongful distraint: 1689 <i>there being a range fixed in the chimney stead and a table that was nailed to the frame he the said John Hulley pulled up the range and John Loftus pulled the table in pieces and they carried the goodes away</i>, Wetherby (QS11/29/1).

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