Show hanged for kingl the problems of black smoke and soot are not of recent origin coal was discovered by joseph of 0 Arl arimethea methea while out blackberry ing at glastonbury Glaston bury england in the year he found a blade black lump which he took back to th the monastery but the abbot thinking it to be stone told him it on the fire Sea coles were first burnt in london in 1223 1228 and by 1257 the smoke nuisance was so great in the big towns that eleanor queen of henry III was forced to leave nottingham on account of it by 1303 1306 it had become such a curse that a royal edict forbade artifice rs to use it in their furnaces and a man was executed for causing black smoke |