1 gen 1567 anni - pampilion

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The OED gives two meanings for ‘pampilion’, the first as a word for fur, although ultimately derived from an unidentified animal. This is on record from the fifteenth century when it was characteristically used for trimming garments. The second meaning offered is that it was the name of a coarse woollen fabric, possibly derived from one or other of two similar place-names in France and Spain. The evidence in this case dates from 1567. A definition offered by John Brierley, a cloth frizzer in Wakefield in 1761, throws light on its later meaning: </br> <i>A sort of hair cloath called pompilion in Yorkshire itt is made of that cow hair wich comes of salted hides. Itt is a sort of strong stapled hair and free from lime or dirt but calf hair has the finest staple to make cloath. Cloath on pompilion is made like wadding and is used for to lay shear boards with all in Yorkshire </i>(YRS155/101). </br> It was actually a traditional material in the West Riding and some of the points made by John Brearley appear in a much earlier reference. In 1538 complaints were made by a number of Wakefield men that <i>dyvers persons byeth nawtte herre of the tannerrs and sells it to Cendell men to blende it with woile and make cloth of it called pawmpillzon cloth </i>(WCR9/86). The complainants were saddlers who were objecting to hawkers selling <i>unlawfull ledder</i> so the inference may be that ‘pampilion’ was being used in some of the products, perhaps as wadding in saddles, although saddles were not actually mentioned. It seems possible though that ‘animal hair’ in these references may link the two quite distinct meanings offered in the OED. </br> That is not the first reference to this word in Yorkshire sources for it occurs as the specific element in a minor place-name more than two centuries earlier: <i>Pampellion Holme</i> was an enclosure held by the Earl of Surrey in 1316, located in Thornes which formed part of Wakefield parish (YRS63/15). It is explained by Smith as deriving from a nickname but I find no evidence for such a name locally. However, examples occur in other counties, notably in East Anglia: 1310 <i>John Pampiloun</i>, Suffolk (R&W); 1381 <i>William and John Pamphilonn</i>, High Easter in Essex (PT). This does not clear up the origin of the word which must be sought much earlier than has been thought.

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