1 gen 1666 anni - neat’s leather

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Top-quality leather, made of the hides of ‘neat’ or cattle. In the Act of 1558 it was ordered that ‘No shoe-maker shall make any shoes or boots of any neats-leather mingled, but only of itself’. That regulation was incorporated into the cordwaners’ ordinances: 1627 <i>their wares … to be of leather well tanned and curried … and stitched hard drawn with handleathers without mixing the overleather part of neats leather and part of calves leather</i>, Beverley (YRS84/79). In 1666 <i>shooes taken in Bridlington market were seased</i> and declared unlawful, <i>being not well tanned leather ... with calfe leather and neats horse leather mixt</i> (BCP227).

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