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Sallowmoor burning families

Also called the burning families · the charcoal families

Four charcoal-burning families, some ninety souls, who hold no land, pay the Woodmote for the cut and burn charcoal in the hangers from spring to autumn. They are the only people in the hangers at night.

Named with it

  • Charcoal-Burner Wat Hobbe

Ties

  • pay the Woodmote for the cut
  • kept off its roll by mutual preference

At the table

The best informants in the hanger country and the easiest to lose: they talk at the hearth to a stranger not out of either town, but stop for good if what they said reaches a verderer. They never burn in the two unridden combes.