jan 1, 1589 - nether stocks
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Stockings, elsewhere referred to as under stockings, and apparently worn with slops. 1577 <i>all my hosen as well sloppes as nether stockes</i>, Burton Constable (SS26/273); 1589 <i>a graye frisse jerkin and a peire of nether stockes</i>, South Cave (Kaner155).
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