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Title: Records by Spade and Terrier
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Wickham, James Douglas C.*
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Publisher: Bath : Gregory
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ably over the various properties, and this wasthe origin of Bloomsmithy rents, such as are foundmentioned in most old deeds relating to the Manor of Haws-head. The Duke of Buccleuch some years ago, says ourinformant, in 1884, gave the tenants the option of buyingthem in. All took advantage of the concession, and they arenow extinguished. The old custom, on the other hand, toshed, lop, crop, top, and browse cattle upon the tender shootsof trees is still kept up in High Furness. This decree ofElizabeth doubtless in some measure abolished the bloom-smithies or forges in the north. A flourishing trade, however, still went on, and the iron-masters of the Weald of Sussex made large fortunes, builthandsome residences in the county, cast banded cannon forthe artillery, and gates and railings for cathedrals like St.Pauls, girders for bridges, and innumerable iron implements,especially fire-backs and andirons or dogs to carry the logsof wood on the old Sussex open fireplaces. f^>- PLATE XIV.
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