1 gen 1637 anni - ulnage

Descrizione:

These are the usual spellings in Yorkshire records of alnage or aulnage which was measurement of cloth by the ell: the alnager or ulnager was an official acting on behalf of the monarch whose job it was affix a leaden seal to a cloth which confirmed its measurements and value. The statute of cloths in 1350 required all cloths to <i>be measured by the King’s aulneger. </i>The term may be older than that for a ‘List of Ulnagers’ dates from 1327 (YRS64/115). In The History of the Huddersfield Woollen Industry (1935) are details from rolls surviving from 1469-70: ‘Robert Nevyl of Almondesbury, subsidy and ulnage of 160 cloths sealed there. 60s’ (Crump29) and <i>ulnage of cloth</i> is referred to in York in 1474-5 (SS129/65). In 1558 Michael Wentworth bequeathed to his sons his <i>right in thoffice or ferme of the Alnyger in the Countie of Yorke ... the profites to be towards their finding during their minorities</i> (SS116/245). In 1637 a Northallerton aulnager was fined for extortion, having taken money from clothiers using a counterfeit warrant. The editor noted that he was styled <i>ulnator</i> in the Latin entry (NRQS4/73n).

Aggiunto al nastro di tempo:

Data: