laystal-stuff

Updated: May 2, 2025

Again, the brickmakers all about London, do mix sea-coal ashes, or laystal-stuff, as we call it, with the clay of which they make bricks, and by that shift save eight chaldrons of coals out of eleven, in proportion to what other people use to burn them with, and these ashes they call spanish.

Daniel Defoe - The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)