Show hanged for smoking kingl the problems of black smoke and soot are not of recent origin iti coal was discovered by joseph of arimethea Arl Ari methea while out blackberry ing at glastonbury Glaston bury england in the year ile he found a black lump which he took back to the monastery but the abbot thinking it to bo be stone told him to throw it on the ore Sea coles were first burnt in london in 1228 1229 and by 1257 the smoke nuisance was so great in the big towns that I 1 elennor eleanor queen of henry III was wa s forced to leave Notting nottingham liam on on account of it by 1308 1300 it had become such a curse that a royal edlet edict forbade artificers artifice rs to use it in their furnaces and a man was exec executed buted for causing black I smoke 1 |