jan 1, 1551 - amber

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The translucent fossil resin, imported from the Baltic and much used in jewellery. 1392 <i>lego domino Briano de Stapleton unum par bedes del’aumbre</i>, Ingmanthorpe (SS4/179); 1434 <i>unum par precularium de aumbre</i>, Arncliffe (SS30/34); 1453 <i>1 pare awmber bedes,</i> Hull (YRS144/5); 1463 <i>1 lib’ awmbere</i>, Hull (YRS144/59); 1524 <i>a grete awmer bede, that hyngs by the Sacraments,</i> Sheriff Hutton (YAJ36/179); 1551 <i>one pare of awlmar beades with syluer gaudie</i>s, Warley (Crossley62). Note the following: 1389 <i>j payr bedys of lawmbyr</i>, York (SS4/129); 1401 <i>j par de lawmberbedes</i>, York (SS4/280).

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