jan 1, 1598 - sameron

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A word noted only in Yorkshire sources. It was a cloth, defined by Meriton as ‘between Linnen and Hempen, not altogether so coarse as the one nor fine as the other’. 1525 <i>a paire of sheittes of sameron, a codwer</i>, Saxton (Th9/184); 1535 <i>Item lx pare shetes lynnyn Samaron and harden ... tenne Tabilclothes, lynnyn and Sameron,</i> Stillingfleet (YRS45/127); 1567 <i>Item 11 payre of sameron shetes</i>, Fixby (YRS134/16); 1598 <i>Item samoran yearne £6 0 0</i>, Knaresborough (YRS134/61). The spelling varied in the sixteenth century: 1544 <i>one pare of shettes samerell ... and a samerell towel</i>, Pontefract (Th19/106); 1559 <i>a payre of sameroll shettes</i>, Pontefract (Th27/291); 1581 <i>for workyn xxxiij yerdes of samarant iijs</i>, Stockeld (YRS161/45).

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