• Close Rolls, Richard IIJuly 1388

escheator, that of her own will Joan took the habit of religion of the order of St. Gilbert of Sempyngham at Chikesonde, and that Margaret is her next heir, in which habit Joan has made her profession as appears by

• Lateran Regesta 931401

of enormous lesion, on clerks or ecclesiastical persons, wandering forth from his monastery, without licence, and even without his regular habit, entering monasteries of nuns or other forbidden places, carrying prohibited arms, disobeying his superiors or conspiring against them, erasing

• London tradesmen and their creditors(G. Unwin)

both ready money and credit might flow We find that a certain wealthy fishmonger named John Sterre was in the habit of advancing �2 to �5 in money to butchers, who no doubt needed short credit with which to buy

• Close Rolls, Richard IIMay 1393

servants to take over to foreign parts twenty dozen of red caps wherein shall be no grain, ten dozen of blue caps, ten dozen of russet caps, five dozen of black caps and five dozen of green caps, any command,

• Close Rolls, Richard IINovember 1397

basin with an ewer of silver, one 'surnape,' one towel of Paris, one napkin, one coat ( epitogium ) of blue furred with 'menevoire,' one of 'sanguyn' furred with 'menevoire,' one pair of spurs, one red 'worstede' bed with 'tester'

• Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/737Easter 1445

and his wife Isabel forcibly took and carried off from Westminster various goods of his, namely one beaver fur, one blue gown and one black hood worth 40s, to his damage of 100s. Pleading: TB and IB deny responsibility for

• Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/738Trinity 1445

from him 6 yards of cloth called 'musterdevillers', 29� yards of cloth called 'blue medley', 29� yards of green linen cloth and 11 7/8 yards of blue woollen cloth, and 5 yards of cloth called 'russet frieze' for �13 9s

• Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/803Hilary 1462

'potys', one mattress, one pair of linen sheets, two covers, one blanket, three blue muslin ('carde') curtains, one brass ('eneam') jar, one sword, one canopy ('celar') of blue Muslin, one book called 'Sir Eglamour', one pair of crimson stockings, one

• Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/820Trinity 1466

black fustian, a piece of white fustian, 2 pieces of black Brabant cloth, a dozen blue threads, 2 pieces of white fustian, 2 yards of blue sarsenet, 2 yards of green sarsenet, 2 yards of black sarsenet, 3 yards of

• Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/826Hilary 1468

and carried away goods and chattels worth �40, namely one green gown, a damask ('polomitam') gown, one blue gown lined with otter, another blue gown, two lined russet gowns, one defensive doublet, one cover, two blankets, a feather bed, one

• Roll A 221376–77

when a contract was made to land 20,000 tiles at Temple Bridge. C.C.R .. 1377-81, p. 345. Apparently a dull blue. A kind o f coarse woollen cloth, frieze. N.E.D . Sc . amice, an ecclesiastical hood. This appears to

• Mutilated roll of 1377–78

enemies in France during time of truce. The goods comprised 3 dozen russet caps at 10s the dozen, 2 dozen blue caps at 10s the dozen and 20 dozen red caps of a colour called " half greyn ," 8

• Roll A 321392–93

Middelburg, Holland. I.e. a traveller's cheque. N.E.D . a woollen fabric of varying texture, apparently of a grey or light blue colour. Murrey, murrey-coloured cloth. Medley. Communis narrator , common pleader or counter, sometimes called "common serjeant." This contention was

• Memorials1377

large pearls; and the other of murrey, 18 embroidered with large pearls, without any stones. Also,-one hat, 19 made of blue satin, embroidered with stones and pearls. Also,-two hats of beaver, embroidered with pearls. Also,-two coronets for the King's bacinet,

• IntroductionThe staff of the church

Wild, as we have noted elsewhere, was a generous benefactor to the church of St. Mary. His gift of a blue satin chasuble, ornamented with silver, is noted with other gifts at p. 31. In 1496-7 he gave on Christmas

• IntroductionThe pre-reformation furniture

shelf. -In the Inventory at p. 30 we read:- "Item, a frontell' for the schelffe standyng on the alter, of blue sarsenet with bryddes of golde" (golden birds). And some of the many altar-hangings in our Inventories without doubt refer

• Memorial XXXVIICharters of the Company (1326-1465)

660). Scarlet and pink were adopted as colours for the livery and clothing of the Company, 25th September 1568, and blue (for gowns) appears to have been asked from the Lord Mayor in October 1624. See the Protest of the

• Corporation MiscellaneaCommon Attornies Accounts, 1783-1822

Attornies' Accounts. 1783-1822. [Thin paper book bound in blue marbled carton. ] Accounts of John Waters and Thomas Stibbs, Common Attorneys for the Years 1783, 1784, 1785 and 1786. Disbursements as p r Receipts . 1783 Dec r 1 st

• Wills25 Edward III (1351-2)

Cross. Gutter Lane. Cf. "Wyltel," supra , p. 642. Troughs used in the tanning trade, called elsewhere alvei (or algei ) plumbati. See note supra , p. 163. A kind of short cloak. Blue cloth. Kirtle. A dark red colour.

• Wills43 Edward III (1369-70)

Bequests to the said church and ministers thereof. To Johanna his daughter a sum of money, and a bed of blue colour, viz., a coverlet with tester and a pair of sheets. To Hawysia his wife all his tenements in