jan 1, 1539 - nawt hair
Description:
Hair from the hides of cattle had a variety of uses, not all of them legal. A complaint by the saddlers of Wakefield in 1539 was that <i>dyvers persons byeth nawtte herre </i>[hair]<i> of the tannerrs and sells it to Cendell </i>[Kendal]<i> men to blend it with woile and make cloth of it callyd pawmpillzon cloth </i>(WCR9/86).Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1539
Now
~ 486 years ago