THOMAS KYTSON AND WILTSHIRE CLOTHMEN, 1529 -1539 45 
The shypping by the grace of God to the Colde mart 
anno domini 1535 
A fardell** no f in the James of Bargyng master under 
God Thomas Wattes 
Item 32 whites no 2 de Richard Battes 
Item 8 penystones de J[ohn] G[ranthams] wrappers 
A fardell no C in the Mary Gabriell master under God 
John Clarke 
Item 32 whites no 4 de Gytfray Whi[t]ackers 
Item 7 penystones de J[ohn] G[ranthams] wrappers 
A fardell no p in the James of Barkyn master under 
God Thomas Wattes 
Item 6 whites no 2 de Richard Battes 
Item 6 whites no 4 de Gyffray Whi[t]ackers 
Item 10 whites no 1 de J[ohn] Clevelodes seconds 
Item 10 whites de Thomas Harefordes 
Item 7 penistones de John G[ranhams] 
A fardell no 7f in the Owsse of London master under 
God Robert Archar 
Item 32 Castell comes no 6 de William Stumpes 
Item 7 penytones of John Granthams 
A fardell no Zs in the Mary Thomas of London 
master Richard Rede 
Item 8 Castell comes no 7 de John Hidges 
Item 10 whites no 2 de Richard Battes 
Item 2 whites no 4 de Gyffray Wh[i]tackers 
Item 1 white no 1 de J[ohn] C[levelodes] thrids 
wrappers 
Item 1 penystones de John Granthams 
The number of the fardell was always given in code; 
the codes for numbers 3, 6, 8, 13 and 14 being 
illustrated.” Prior to making up the fardells each 
batch of clothman’s cloths was allocated a number, 
and here the numbers 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7 corresponded 
to the cloths of John Clevelod, Richard Batte, 
Geoffrey Whitacker, William Stumpe and John 
Hedges respectively.’ Professor Carus-Wilson has 
stated that Kytson’s ‘cloths were carefully graded 
and described by numbers ranging from 1 to 19”,*! 
but this is not the case. The numbers related to the 
clothman, and were allocated afresh for each 
shipping. If a clothman supplied different grades, 
as did John Clevelode, the grades were usually al! 
allocated the same number. Here the clerks noted 
that John Clevelod’s 10 seconds and 1 ‘thrid’ (third) 
were both given the same identification number ‘1’. 
Occasionally, as shown in Appendix 1 in the 
extracts from Kytson’s ‘Boke’ for the whites 
exported to the Synxten mart in 1537, a clothman’s 
whites might have two numbers allocated but these 
were for different grades, e.g. 
no 4 of John Smeths fine’ and ‘no 7 of John Smeth 
C[oarse], 
‘no 19 of T[homas] Bayles’ and ‘no 23 of Baleys fine’ 
‘no 1 of Richard Battes’ and ‘no 41 of Richard Battes 
for store. 
For the shipping to this Cold mart Kytson used 
13 different ships to carry 23 fardells of cloth. 
Wiltshire cloths were included in 13 fardells carried 
in 11 of the ships. It is also recorded that 11 of the 
ships also carried 121 blocks of Cornish tin as shown 
in Table 5. Each block was allocated a separate 
number which was recorded by the clerk, Nicholas 
Lunne, who also noted “Total sum 121 blockes tynne 
Cornysshe to the Cold Marte A° 1535, freght fre’. 
Ship and 
home port 
Master’s name 
Cornish 
Table 5. Kytson’s ex- 
ports to the Cold Mart 
1535 
Fardell 
numbers 
Richard Holmes 
Trinite of London 
John Sowle 
1,9 
Phe) 
John Leche 
Catherine of Calais 
James of Barking Thomas Wattes 
Richard Rede 
John Baptist of Lee 
Cristopher of Maidstone Symond Barnes 
Source: CUL Hengrave 
Hall MS.78/2. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
4 
5 
0 
0 12, 14* 
0 
* indicates the fardells 
that contained Wiltshire 
1 
Wolsey of London Robert Gage 
cloth 
