jan 1, 1558 - burnet

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A wool-dyed cloth of superior quality, originally dark-brown in colour (OED). 1234 <i>John Burnet</i>, Lofthouse (YRS67/25); 1346 <i>supertunicam meam de burneto cum capucio</i>, Easingwold (SS4/22); 1391 <i>j coopertorium de albo et de burneto</i>, Lockton (SS4/166); 1413-4 ‘And for 4 ells of cloth of burnet purchased for making one cape’, Selby (SAR124). It was a popular name for an ox, probably as a colour: 1545 <i>one yocke of oxen the one called Lemynge and the other Burnett,</i> Conisbrough (SS106/231); 1558 <i>to my sonne ... an ox called burnett with halfe the plowghe geare,</i> Burley (Th27/216); 1570 <i>two oxen called Meriman and Burnitt,</i> Sproatley (YAJ36/440).

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