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Appruator
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an official looking after the profit or interest of an
employer, a steward or bailiff. |
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Bakens
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?bricks baked in a kiln, dried or hardened. |
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Barehedde, barret
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a covered wagon, a cart-cover made of rawhide, and
also possibly a rawhide bag or trunk. |
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Blakechalk
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pale and bleached cloth. |
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Blanket
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undyed cloth or a thick, white cloth of average
quality. |
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Bockeram
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at this date, a fine linen or cotton fabric. |
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Brigander
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body armour, originally for foot soldiers made of
iron rings or plates sewn to canvas, linen or leather. |
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Chamelet
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a costly velvet, often a gold one. |
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Chevage, chivagium
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headpenny or chevage, a due paid by suitors at view
of frankpledge or law-hundred. |
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Conysaunce
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badges, pennons. |
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Correctors
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auditors. |
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Corsse
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a tunic. |
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Decrees
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bachelor of, licentiate of, degrees in canon law. |
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Dolwood
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see Tallwodde. |
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Doss
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a dooser, dorser, an ornamental cloth or hanging,
sometimes part of a vestment. |
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Dyaper worke
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a linen cloth, a linen fabric, often quite expensive,
with a characteristic design of lines crossing diamond
wise with the intervals filled up. |
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Fustian
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a coarse cloth made of cotton and flax, usually dyed
a dark colour. |
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'Fustyances'
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a coverlet of fustian, at this date not necessarily a
cloth of coarse or poor quality. |
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Feeding Days
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days on which it was the traditional responsibility of
the Dean to provide food and drink for the minor
clergy of the cathedral. |
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Grain, crimson in
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cloth dyed with kermes dye, which produced a
bright crimson or scarlet colour. |
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Grain, violet in
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cloth dyed (probably in-the-wool or in-the-yarn)
with woad and then redyed in the piece with kermes. |
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Grey
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an expensive grey squirrel fur forbidden to cloistered
clergy. |
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Grypege
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an ostrich egg |
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Hayle, hale
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a tent. |
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Hogshead
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a cask containing sixty-three gallons. |
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Jack
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a sleeveless tunic. |
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Kylderkyn
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a cask holding ½ barrel = 16 gallons ale or 18 gallons
of beer. |
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Liripipe
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a peak, similar to that found on modern academic
hoods. |
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Malmsey
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a strong, sweet wine. |
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Mayle
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mail, iron-clad. |
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Medley
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pied cloth, made of wools dyed and mingled before
being spun, and either of one colour or of different
shades or colours. |
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Musterdevelis
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a mixed grey woollen cloth. |
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Noble
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a gold coin worth 6s. 8d. |
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Pipe
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a large cask of more or less definite capacity,
equivalent to half a tun, or two hogsheads, or four
barrels. |
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Pollewodde
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pollarded or cut wood. |
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Potell
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half a gallon. |
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Procurator
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deputy or agent. |
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Pyle
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a pillow or cushion. |
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Quarter [qr.]
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(as measurement of volume), 8 bushels. |
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Replevin, writ of
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the legal process for the temporary restoration of
confiscated property pending a court hearing. |
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Roundlet, runlet
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a small cask of varying capacity. Large runlets appear
to have varied between twelve and eighteen and a
half gallons; small ones between a quart and three or
four gallons. |
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Salette
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scaletta, a cart-ladder; elsewhere, a helmet. |
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Staddles
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staddle-stones, or stathels, supports for a sack of
grain or stones placed beneath ricks and granaries to
raise them and keep rats out. |
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Standard
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a large packing case or chest. |
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Tallwodde, talwood
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wood cut to size. |
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Tercion
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a container holding 1/3 of a tun. |
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Virgate
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an osier bed. |
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Virge
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(in cloth) a yard; also 16½ ft. |
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Wodded black
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woaded black, the best way to produce black, dyeing
with woad in-the-wool and then re-dyeing in-the-piece with woad and other dyes to eventually
produce black. |
