1 gen 1640 anni - cross cloth

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In an ecclesiastical context this might be a cloth hanging before the rood but it was more commonly a piece of linen worn across the forehead by women. The earliest references are late in Elizabeth’s reign: 1592 <i>ij railes and a croscloth</i>, South Cave (Kaner169); 1619 <i>one apron, one croscloth and a band</i>, Gisburn (CS3/36); 1699 <i>some linnen close</i> [clothes], <i>viz a apron, a band, a quoife, a pinner and a cross cloth … in a box</i>, West Riding (QS1). The cloth known as Holland was <i>much used for mens bands … gentlewomens handkerchers and crosse-cloathes, </i>Elmswell (DW111).

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