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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "History" 2009.06.27 (07) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div>On 28/06/2009, at 11:49 AM, Tom (Mc Rae) wrote: </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
One
was set up outside a church in Edinburgh's High Street, probably after
1603 for market produce to be weighed prior to selling at the market
adjacent to St Giles High Church.</div></span></blockquote><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On
reflection I can't help wondering if those devices were introduced to
Scotland much earlier  when the Flemish weavers came and set up their
communities.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Such weavers would have required a weighing device for their wool purchases.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Had the device come from England it would probably have been called a  steelyard or steleyaird.</div>
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<div><div style=""><div style=""><div>Regards</div><div>Tom Mc Rae</div><div>Brisbane</div><div>AUSTRALIA</div><div>"Oh wad some power the Giftie gie us,</div><div>Tae see oorsels as ithers see us</div><div>Robert Burns</div>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "History" 2009.06.27 (04) [EN]</span><br><span class="gI"><br></span><div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" id=":13x" class="ii gt">
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<div><font size="4">Thanks for all these interesting
explanations on "Steelyard", dear Reinhard & Tom! So "Steel-yard" was
originally an English word and means something like "Stell-Balken" or
"Eisen-Balken" either for the beam itself or for the iron counterweights. (Being
a lay person, I like things simple and I like the idea that *one* explanation is
"true" :-)) And the "Easterlings", after first taking "steelyard" as a
Fremdwort and writing it "Stiliard", later translated it naively into
"Stahlhof", mistaking the true meaning. I love this. Maybe the word was so old
they couldn't make out the true etymology even then?</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Hartlich</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Marlou </font></div>
<div><font size="4">(Hamborg/Holsteen)</font></div></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Pat Reynolds</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk">pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "History" 2009.06.26 (05) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>><br>
Subject: Etymology<br><br>In 1988,<br>
remnants of the Steelyard's trading house were discovered, and a plaque now commemorates the site.<br></div>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The excavation was by the Museum of London Archaeology Service, and the
finds are in the Museum of London (including a carved stone eagle).
 The deeds to cannon street station include its sale from the Hanse.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Eagle and deed were both exhibited at an exhibition on the Hanse in the
about 20 years ago at Hamburg and Rostock - interested parties might be
able to find the catalogue via a library.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I have fond memories of this exhibition, as I couriered the objects
back from Rostock, just after the Berlin Wall had fallen (but before
the decision for reunification had been taken).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Cheers,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Pat</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
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-- <br>
Pat Reynolds<br>
<br>
It may look messy now ...<br>
    ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).</font><br><span class="gI"><br></span><br>
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