jan 1, 1685 - pell

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A skin or hide, a term found occasionally in connection with furriers (OED). In 1354 the Beverley skinners were ordered not to mix lambskin (<i>agnorum pelles</i>) with budge fur (BTD41) and a Scarborough inventory of 1395 had a cloak <i>mixto cum pelle de bevyr</i> (SS45/4). In 1667-70 Isaac Blackborne of Leeds was fined 13s 4d for scouring hides <i>levand’ pelles</i>, or ‘fouling the water by washing his <i>lymed skins</i> where the people take water for preparing their victuals’ (Th26/135,144). In the inventory of a Selby fellmonger we have: 1685 40 <i>calfe skins, 4s; 3 doz. of pells at 4s, 12s</i> (YRS47/198).

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