jan 1, 1678 - bribe
Description:
A word found occasionally in clothiers’ inventories from the seventeenth century. It is a short length of cloth, sometimes a piece cut off because it is damaged (EDD). 1618 <i>one brybe of unmilned cloth, beinge fyve yeards, ixs</i>, Cottingley (LRS1/49); 1678 <i>For one bribe And Wooll, £3</i>, Barnoldswick (YRS118/58).Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1678
Now
~ 347 years ago