abills

1) A misunderstanding of the word 'Naples' in the phrase 'fustian of Naples'.

In 1498 Robert Calverley made several bequests to a priest who was to ‘sing’ for him in Calverley church. Among them were two sums of money, his dayly bedes or rosary, and a blake gown lined with fustian in abills. I have no doubt that this was ‘fustian of Naples’, apparently a kind of cotton velvet first referred to in 1465.

places Calverley
dates 1498

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