jan 1, 1504 - bolt cloth

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As a verb ‘to bolt’ meant to sift flour, using a fine-meshed cloth to separate the bran from the pure flour. 1378 <i>In iiij bultclathes emptis per subcelerarium ijs</i>, Bolton Priory (YRS154/568); 1395 <i>It. pro Tho. Lewis pro j bult-clath d’no Abbati, viijd</i>, Whitby (SS72/606); 1504 <i>Et de Johanne Rasyn a pece of bowte cloth, iijs iiijd</i>, York (SS129/112). The spelling ‘bolting-cloth’ is on record from the fifteenth century: 1452 <i>Pistrina Ebor. de pretio j bultyngtun viijd ... ij bultyng-clothes iiijd,</i> York (SS45/137); <i>c</i>.1505 <i>Item xxix yerdes off bowtyng cloth xld</i>, York (SS53/192).

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