jan 1, 1524 - morling

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Wool taken from the skin of a dead sheep. 1524 <i> where as our graunt ... is but wolle and wolle fells that ther be haddyd thereunto in the seid newe charter sherlyng and morlyng skynnes </i>, York (YRS106/101). The wording of this request repeats that of an Act of 1503-4, except that in the Act the word ‘shorling’ was used, defined in the OED as the skin of a recently shorn sheep, not a shearling.

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