SILK BY THE SKEIN. LINING. WORSTED. SUNDRIES. 575 



period, 4$-. 6d. afterwards. I am persuaded that if there had 

 been entries of silk by the ounce, as there are of silk by the 

 skein, before and after the date which I have taken for my 

 dividing line, the result would be the same. 



The accounts contain other entries which it will be con- 

 venient to deal with here. The garments were lined, and the 

 lining article is occasionally given and priced under the name ; 

 in 1466 and 1486 at is. ; in 1533 at 9^. ; in 1546 at 8d. 

 This was the common object, it appears, with which buckram 

 was bought, as for instance in 1481, when black and green 

 material is purchased at $\d., $d. t and 6\d. In 1531 it costs 

 *]\d. for the same purpose. Perhaps the twill of 1558, at i s. 

 a yard, was bought for a similar end. 



In 1463 worsted is purchased at is. the yard, and at the 

 same time and place red worsted, ' for the banker in the hall,' 

 i.e. for the seat below the windows, at $%d. In 1524 an article 

 described as S. Onias' worsted is bought in Cambridge at 

 io^d. the yard. But in 1473 tne corporation of Norwich buys 

 damask worsted, purple and red, for cushions in the guildhall, 

 at 6j., and scarlet grained at $s. 



It is possible that * Tewke,' purchased at is. 8d. and i s. ^d. 

 by Howard, is lining. It is also purchased at is. $d. the 

 yard in 1493, and at is. i^d. in 1496. 'Crule' is bought at 

 i\d. an ounce in 1464, and of different colours at is. lod. the 

 pound in 1496. Sere ' cloth is at 8d. the yard in 1441 ; is. lod. 

 in 1443. 



I cannot guess what Pawlett canvas is in 1481, purchased at 

 the high price of 4^-. ^d. the yard, or Frysadoe, bought for a 

 sleeveless coat at 2s. 8d. the yard in 1533. -^ n J 57^ tne fellows 

 of King's College, Cambridge, purchased thirty-eight yards of 

 ' painted cloth ' for the provost's bedchamber at a little under 

 8d. the yard. This material is alluded to by Shakspeare. 



I have already commented on the various qualities of stuffs 

 which, sold by measure, go under the name of blanket, but there 

 are other entries of blankets for bedding called by this name or 

 by that of lodices. 



