jan 1, 1568 - fustian

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Originally a kind of coarse cloth, made of cotton and flax. It is thought to take its name from a suburb of Cairo named Fostat. 1399-1400 <i>et j casula de nigro fustian</i>, Ripon (SS81/133); 1439 <i>unum dublett vocatum fustian Jak</i>, Thorner (Th33/48); 1556 <i>to Nicholas Carlile a fustian doblet</i>, Pontefract (Th27/82). The colours were varied: in the inventory of Richard Bishop of York were: <i>c</i>.1504 <i>tawny fusgyn … crayn colored fusgyn … chawkt fusgyn … blak fusgyn … qwyth fusgyn </i>(SS53/191). Fustian was used for bed clothes such as blankets and pillow cases and these were often in ‘pairs’: 1454 <i>unum par de lodicibus de fustian</i>, Whitkirk (Th33/58); 1485 <i>a pair of fustyannce</i>, Ripon (SS64/276); 1527 <i>on par of lyne sheites, on paire of fustcheandes</i>, Whitkirk (Th9/247); 1535 <i>twoo pilowes of downe coveryd with fustyan</i>, Stillingfleet (YRS45/131); 1568 <i>12 pare of Fustians wherof five pare Broken and sore worne</i>, Healaugh (YRS134/26).

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